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Courses
Syllabi are for course approval and reference only. Students will receive up-to-date syllabi when their courses begin.

Students enroll in one French language course and a course on French civilization and culture. The courses are not taught simultaneously. The culture and civilization courses are taught in the first half of the program. Students then move on to their language course in the last half.

All courses are conducted in French. Each course carries four Boston University credits. Students must register for a total of eight credits.

Track I: Intermediate Language and Civilization

Required Course
CAS LF 261 French Civilization
Prerequisite: CAS LF 112, second-semester college French, or the equivalent. Seminar exploring French culture and civilization. Course readings are drawn from the French and European press as well as a French history text. Readings focus on French cultural and social trends, as well as France’s differences and particularities with regards to the rest of Europe. Visits to historical and cultural sites in and around Grenoble. Taught in the first half of the program. 4 cr. Syllabus

Language Courses
Students enroll in one of the following courses.

CAS LF 211 Third-Semester French
Prerequisite: CAS LF 112, second-semester college French, or the equivalent. Reinforces and extends skills in grammar and conversation. Selected literary readings, with class discussions. 4 cr.

CAS LF 212 Fourth-Semester French
Prerequisite: CAS LF 211, third-semester college French, or the equivalent. Continuation of CAS LF 211. Grammar review, conversation, and composition. Selections from contemporary literature, with discussions in class. 4 cr.

CAS LF 303 Composition & Conversation I
Prerequisite: CAS LF 212, fourth-semester college French, or the equivalent. Development of spoken and written French. Includes grammar review, writing, pronunciation, comprehension, conversation, and vocabulary building. 4 cr.

Track II: Advanced Language and Culture

Required Course
CAS FR 342 French Culture
Prerequisite: CAS LF 303, fifth-semester college French, or the equivalent. Focuses on French identity and its relationship to French literature. Selected readings drawn from seventeenth to twentieth century literary texts. Visits to historical and cultural sites in and around Grenoble. Taught in the first half of the program.

Language Courses
Students enroll in one of the following courses.

CAS LF 304 Composition & Conversation II
Prerequisite: CAS LF 303, fifth-semester college French, or the equivalent. Continuation of CAS LF 303. Includes grammar review, writing, pronunciation, comprehension, conversation, and vocabulary building. 4 cr.

CAS LF 306 Advanced Oral Expression
Prerequisite: CAS LF 303, fifth-semester college French, or the equivalent. Problems of articulation and intonation; special attention given to corrective phonetics. Readings of poetic and dramatic texts with emphasis on diction. 4 cr.

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Faculty

Culture and civilization courses are taught by the Boston University summer program director and faculty from the Université de Grenoble. Language courses are taught by full-time language faculty at the CUEF.

Marie-Eve Scheibling, MA and CAPES, University of Grenoble. She is an Adjunct Preceptor and former Overall Coordinator of the French Language Program in the Department of Foreign Languages at Boston University.

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