2022-2023 Course List

Study of current vocabulary, terminology, and practices used in the business world. Study of developments affecting the French business, industrial, and agricultural communities.

Study of France's position in the European Economic Community and of the development of French business law with an emphasis on the obligations and rights of business people, the classification and organization of the various types of companies, the emission of contracts, and other documents.

Practice in descriptive, narrative, and expository writing. Acquisition of vocabulary and advanced grammatical structures.

Practice in advanced conversational skills.

In-depth study of different aspects of contemporary French civilization.

In-depth study of an author, genre, movement, theme, or period.

Study of the major authors, works, and movements of two successive centuries of French literature.

Study of the major authors, works, and movements of two successive centuries of French literature.

Study of the major authors, works, and movements of two successive centuries of French literature.

Topics will vary. Study for credit must be approved by the department prior to departure.

Visits to the major churches, cathedrals, castles, monuments, museums, and neighborhoods in and around Paris.

Methods and tools of literary research.

Topics will vary.

Topics will vary. May be repeated.

Topics will vary. May be repeated.

Topics will vary. May be repeated.

Topics will vary. Study for credit must be approved by the department prior to departure.

First Year Seminar supports the development of student success skills, such as reading, writing and speaking; helps students gain intellectual confidence; builds in the expectation of academic success; and provides assistance in making the transition to the University.

Goal Areas:

GE-12

An introduction to Geography and its themes of study. The course will familiarize students with where places are located in the world together with their cultural and physical features. Students will be tasked to think critically and diversely about various cultures and features of the modern world.

Goal Areas:

GE-08, GE-10

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

An introduction to the science of understanding earth's physical environment, with focus on the processes that drive fundamental earth systems. Includes investigation of natural hazards, earth-sun relationships, climate and climate change, weather, flora and fauna, soil, landforms, and surfaces processes driven by rivers, glaciers, wind, rock decay, gravity. North American and world-wide examples are used to demonstrate spatial distribution and interrelationships. Some coverage of human-environmental relations.

Goal Areas:

GE-03, GE-10

Cultural aspects of interactions between people and their environment focusing on spatial patterns of population, agriculture, politics, language, religion, industrialization, and urbanization. Emphasis is placed on the processes that create the cultural landscape and on management of land and natural resources.

Goal Areas:

GE-05, GE-08

Diverse Cultures:

Purple