Revised 08/2025

FRE 101 - Beginning French I (4 CR.)

Course Description

Introduces cultural awareness, listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills and emphasizes basic French sentence structure. Classes may be conducted in target language. Part I of II. This is a UCGS transfer course. Lecture 4 hours per week.

General Course Purpose

FRE 101 students will start to develop competence in listening, speaking, reading, and writing (including handwriting) in the standard target language while gaining an awareness of the culture, heritage, and civic values of the cultures studied.

Course Prerequisites/Corequisites

None.

Course Objectives

  • Written Communication
    • Use rehearsed material to develop, convey, and exchange comprehensible ideas in the target
  • Professional Readiness
    • Collaborate with others and use the target language and cultural behaviors to communicate appropriately in personal and professional settings at a basic level.
  • Interpersonal Skills
    • Ask predictable questions and respond to
    • Recognize and produce comprehensible words and phrases in simple
    • Communicate on topics relating to basic personal information, family, school, and
    • Shows awareness of most obvious cultural differences, as well as awareness of basic information of the countries that use the target language.
  • Interpretive Skills
    • Demonstrate emerging evidence of the ability to make inferences on background and prior
    • Comprehend texts with key words, cognates, and predictable words that are highly
    • Rely primarily on vocabulary to derive meaning from
    • Use skills, such as skimming, scanning, recognizing cognates, predicting meaning based on context, and/or recognizing linguistic roots to comprehend texts.
    • Demonstrate ability to comprehend spoken French and respond to questions applying critical thinking skills.
  • Presentational Skills
    • Present simple, basic information on very familiar topics orally and in writing using practiced or familiar words, simple sentences, and phrases.
    • Create oral and written messages in contexts relating to basic biographical
    • Produce understandable words and phrases both orally and in writing in frequently practiced questions and
  • Intercultural Communication
    • Show awareness of the most obvious cultural differences of the countries that speak the target
    • Identify products and practices to help students understand perspectives in native and other

Major Topics to Be Included

  • Basic greetings and numbers
  • Family and people descriptions
  • Likes and dislikes
  • Weather and seasons
  • Daily and weekend activities,
  • Food
  • Communities