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Delivery mode: Individualized study with audio component.
Credits: 6 - Humanities
Prerequisite: FREN 201 or equivalent.
Centre: Centre for Language and Literature
FREN 362 has a Challenge for Credit option.
Course website
French 362 is designed to follow French 201 or a full first-year university French course. This course continues the study of French grammar, expansion of vocabulary, and the study of short stories selected from francophone literature. The student will improve both written and spoken French through conversation, comprehension, grammar, and composition.
Unit 1: Collage 1, Grammaire française 1 (le présent de l'indicatif, l'impératif) Le récit de fiction 1
Unit 2: Collage 1, Grammaire française 2 (le no m, l'adjectif ) Le récit de fiction 1
Unit 3: Collage 2, Grammaire française 3 (les temps du passé) Le récit de fiction 1
Unit 4: Collage 2
Unit 5: Grammaire française 4 (les déterminants) Le récit de fiction 2
Unit 6: Collage 3, Grammaire française 5 (le futur, le conditionnel) Le récit de fiction 2
Unit 7: Collage 3
Unit 8: Collage 4, Grammaire française 6 (le subjonctif) Le récit de fiction 3
Unit 9: Collage 4, Grammaire française 7 (l'adverbe, le comparatif et le superlatif) Le récit de fiction 3
Unit 10: Collage 5, Grammaire française 8 (la négation)
Unit 11: Collage 5, Le récit de fiction 4
Unit 12: Collage 6, Grammaire française 9 (le participe présent, le participe passé, le passif) Le récit de fiction 4
Unit 13: Collage 6, Grammaire française 10a (l'interrogation)
Unit 14: Review
Unit 15: Exam Week
Unit 16: Collage 7, Grammaire française10b (le discours indirect) Grammaire française 11 (les pronoms personnels) Le récit de fiction 5
Unit 17: Collage 7, Grammaire française 12 (les pronoms relatifs) Le récit de fiction 5
Unit 18: Collage 8
Unit 19: Collage 8, Grammaire française 13 (les pronoms possessifs, les pronoms démonstratifs) Le récit de fiction 6
Unit 20: Collage 9, Grammaire française 14 (les verbes pronominaux) Le récit de fiction 6
Unit 21: Collage 9
Unit 22: Collage 10, Grammaire française 15 (l'infinitif) Le récit de fiction 7
Unit 23: Collage 10, Grammaire française 16 (les verbes impersonnels, les mots indéfinis) Le récit de fiction 7
Unit 24: Collage 11
Unit 25: Collage 11, Grammaire française 17 (les prépositions, les conjonctions) Le récit de fiction 8
Unit 26: Collage 12, Grammaire française 18 (les verbes semi-auxiliaires, savoir et connaître) Le récit de fiction 8
Unit 27: Collage 12, Grammaire française 19 (les temps littéraires)
Unit 28: Review
Unit 29: Review
Unit 30: Examination Week
To receive credit for FREN 362, you must achieve a course composite grade of at least “D” (50 percent) and a grade of at least 50 percent on each of the written examinations. The weighting of the course assignments is as follows:
| 9 Tutor-marked Written Exercises | 10% |
| 6 Tutor-marked Oral Exercises | 10% |
| 4 Essays | 10% |
| Midterm Oral Exam | 10% |
| Midterm Written Exam | 25% |
| Final Oral Exam | 10% |
| Final Written Exam | 25% |
| Total | 100% |
To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.
Baker, Lucia F., et al. Collage: Variétés culturelles, 5th edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001.
Ollivier, Jacqueline and Martin Beaudoin. Grammaire française, 3rd edition. Toronto: Nelson, 2004.
Beaudoin, Pauline and Lucie Forget. Le récit de fiction: 15 textes â découvrir. Sainte-Foy, QC: Les éditions Le Griffon d'argile, 1993.
The course materials also include a study guide and a student manual.