French (FREN) 401

Overview

Ce cours poursuit l'apprentissage de systèmes syntactiques et l'enrichissement du lexique. Il a pour but le perfectionnement de l'art de la composition.

Outline

Unité 1: Le présent et le passé composé

Unité 2: L'imparfait et le passé composé

Unité 3: Le passé composé, le passé simple, l'imparfait et le plus-que-parfait

Unité 4: Composition française: Description d'une maison

Unité 5: Les adjectifs

Unité 6: Composition française: Description d'un monument

Unité 7: Les prépositions

Unité 8: Composition française: La nature

Unité 9: Composition française: Le portrait

Unité 10: Le subjonctif

Unité 11: Composition française: La narration

Unité 12: La mise in relief

Unité 13: Composition française: Le dialogue littéraire

Unité 14: Les pronoms relatifs

Unité 15: Composition française: La correspondance

Unité 16: Composition française: La dissertation morale

Unité 17: Composition française: La dissertation littéraire

Appendice 1: Le système verbal: Aspect, point de vue et localisation

Appendice 2: Le système verbal: Les temps du présent et du passé

Appendice 3: Les articles

Appendice 4: Les adjectifs et les compléments déterminatifs

Appendice 5: Les prépositions

Appendice 6: Le subjonctif

Appendice 7: Le mode infinitif

Appendice 8: Le mode participe et la voix passive

Appendice 9: Les pronoms interrogatifs, relatifs et démonstratifs

Appendice 10: La mise en relief

Evaluation

To receive credit for FREN 401, you must achieve a course composite grade of at least “D” (50 percent) and a grade of at least 50 percent on the final examination. The weighting of the course assignments is as follows:

7 Tutor-marked Exercises	3 Essays	1 Written Exam	Total
25%	25%	50%	100%

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.

Course Materials

Textbook

Other Materials

The course materials also include a student manual, a written exercise manual, and an answer key.

Challenge for Credit Course Overview

The Challenge for Credit process allows students to demonstrate that they have acquired a command of the general subject matter, knowledge, intellectual and/or other skills that would normally be found in a university level course.

Full information for the Challenge for Credit can be found in the Undergraduate Calendar.

• Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Policy
• Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Procedures

Challenge Evaluation

To receive credit for the FREN 401 challenge registration, you must write a Final Examination and achieve a grade of at least “D” (50 percent) on the examination. There will also be TWO assignments (Compositions). You must achieve a grade of at least 50 per cent on each written assignment as well to pass the challenge examination.

Essay 1	Essay 2	Exam	Total
15%	15%	70%	100%

Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Course Registration Form

• Challenge for Credit Form