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Course Outlines

Fall 2025 - FREN 102 OL01

Elementary French II (3)

Class Number: 4907

Delivery Method: Online

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Online

  • Prerequisites:

    FREN 101, FREN 120, or FREN 121 or consult with a French advisor.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Elementary French II is a carefully sequenced and highly interactive presentation of French language and culture in a media-rich course environment. To successfully take this course, students should be motivated with a sincere desire to learn about French language and francophone cultures, and be comfortable with computer technologies. This course continues on where FREN 101 left off to develop new pathways. Students with credit for FREN 122 may not take this course for further credit. Breadth-Humanities.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

By the end of this course, you will be able to have longer, more detailed conversations on topics like your childhood memories, your past, brief anecdotes using two different past tense forms, order in a French restaurant, and learn basics table etiquette, make comparisons, future plans in a recent or not recent future, wants and wishes, asking for directions and for reserving a room, organizing a travel plan in the future. You will be able to link sentences to avoid repetition. You will also learn about the lives of several historical figures in the French-speaking world, about French media, news, food, music, geographic and cultural diversity of the French-speaking world and Québécois and Francophone identity. 

Grading

  • Weekly homework in MindTap 50%
  • Oral assignments (x4) 20%
  • Written tests (x4) 30%

Materials

REQUIRED READING NOTES:

Your personalized Course Material list, including digital and physical textbooks, are available through the SFU Bookstore website by simply entering your Computing ID at: shop.sfu.ca/course-materials/my-personalized-course-materials.

Department Undergraduate Notes:

 

Registrar Notes:

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS

At SFU, you are expected to act honestly and responsibly in all your academic work. Cheating, plagiarism, or any other form of academic dishonesty harms your own learning, undermines the efforts of your classmates who pursue their studies honestly, and goes against the core values of the university.

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RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATION

Students with a faith background who may need accommodations during the term are encouraged to assess their needs as soon as possible and review the Multifaith religious accommodations website. The page outlines ways they begin working toward an accommodation and ensure solutions can be reached in a timely fashion.