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Given our location in France, AUP students need
to attain a higher level of integration of French language, life and
culture than a typical college student studying French in the US.
AUP students are required to demonstrate not only intermediate
language proficiency (French Language courses through FR 2035 French
for Communication and Culture), but also evidence of their ability
to engage in intellectual and cultural activity in the French
language (FrenchBridge). Students holding the French
Baccalauréat diploma are exempted from this requirement.
All new students who have not completed 18
credits of university-level French must take a placement test at
Orientation. Either by means of exemption or completion of the
necessary French language sequence, students must demonstrate a
proficiency level equivalent to that obtained in FR 2035 French for
Communication and Culture. A minimum grade of “C” is necessary in
each course to fulfill the requirement (up to 18 credit hours).
Then a student must take either an upper-level
course taught in French, or exercise the FrenchBridge passerelle
option. Only students holding the French Baccalauréat diploma
are exempted from this requirement.
The FrenchBridge requirement is met by
completing one of the following:
a 3000-level course with an FS-listing or cross-listing or
approved FR-listing; or
a passerelle component in a passerelle-designated
course.
La passerelle
Faculty from across the disciplines interested
in enhancing their courses with French include a passerelle
option in their syllabi. The passerelle option takes the form
of supplementary reading, writing, viewing, translating and/or field
research in French.
To satisfy the passerelle requirement, a
student must:
read in French a minimum of 100 pages or the equivalent* and include
material from the reading in a formal course assignment; or,
write in French a
minimum of 10 pages or the equivalent; or,
view a minimum of 20 hours of
francophone material (film, documentaries, theatre), or
the equivalent, and include such material in a formal course
assignment; or,
translate from French into
English a minimum of 15 pages or the equivalent; or,
conduct field research in
French (interviewing, transcribing, etc.) for a minimum
of 10 hours or the equivalent and include such research in a formal
course assignment.
*Passerelle proposals could also mix and
match the various French components and assignments to produce
equivalent requirements.
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