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This workshop gives students the opportunity to explore through reading, research and writing assignments an array of creative nonfiction forms, including memoir, travel writing, food and nature writing, and social essays. Assignments help students strengthen their ability to create the self as character, a first-person narrator who leads the reader into the world of personal experiences and research. The course explores narrative structure, description, characterization, dialogue, and tension, all key elements in making writing spirited and appealing. The workshop also includes guest speakers and field exercises in Paris. May be taken twice for credit.

Emphasizing the basic linguistic structures and verb tenses, this course has been structured for true beginners of French. Using visual stimuli (advertisements, comics, photographs, etc.), students will learn to identify and describe places, people and things as well as more abstract spatial, temporal (hour, day, season), and emotional (feelings, thoughts and opinions) ideas. Readings from short texts and everyday encounters (Métro, bank, stores, markets and cafés, etc.) will further help students to quickly become self-sufficient through basic language skills.

Only visiting summer students should register in this course. To ensure that participants are placed in the appropriate level, all visiting students in the Immersion Program take an online placement test.
The course has an extra course fee of 100 euros.

Only visiting summer students should register in this course. To ensure that participants are placed in the appropriate level, all visiting students in the Immersion Program take an online placement test.
The course has an extra course fee of 100 euros.

Having completed FR 1200 or FR1300, AUP returning students can earn elective credit toward graduation by registering FR 2005I FRENCH IMMERSION: INTERMEDIATE I.

Beginning with a review of basic French Grammatical Structures, this course moves on to cover more complex forms such as the pluperfect, the conditional and the subjunctive. Students will be able to talk about the past, make hypotheses and express their opinions and emotions. Special attention is paid to increasing students’ ability to understand spoken French and to converse on a number of topics pertaining to different times and places. Learning objectives for this Intermediate B1 level course are:

- study familiar situations encountered in work, school, and leisure
- learn to formulate sentences about personal interests, express ideas and opinions, and interact with other French speakers
- ability to handle situations likely to arise when living in France
The course has an extra course fee of 100 euros.