French (FREN) 301

Composition française (Revision 1)

FREN 301 course cover

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Delivery Mode: Individualized study

Credits: 3

Area of Study: Humanities

Prerequisite: FREN 362

Precluded Course: FREN 401 (FREN 301 may not be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained for FREN 401.)

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences

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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 301, 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

Limouzy, Pierre and Jacques Bourgeacq. 1990. Manuel de composition française, 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.

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.

Challenge Evaluation

To receive credit for the FREN 301 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 percent 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

Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice. Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized-study counterparts.

Opened in Revision 1 October 31, 2014.