French (A.A.)
Department website: https://www.cerritos.edu/fl/french.htm
ASSOCIATE OF ART
The Cerritos College Associate Degree in French for transfer has been identified within its global linguistic Francophonie. French is spoken natively by more than 100 million people in the world (the Francophones). More important, French is the official administrative or/and business language in over 35 countries in Europe, Africa, the Americas, in the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean. The Associate Degree in French enables students to become proficient in the second international language, understand the linguistics of a Romance Language, as well as the cultural/ethnic/religious differences. The students can have access to a broader hiring market within any field. This extremely high popularity of French outside France makes the students better connected to our global society.
Program Student Learning Outcomes
- Students gain the ability to understand, analyze and evaluate French literature.
- Students speak fluent French in professional, educational, and cultural settings.
- Students identify historical, cultural, and social facts and comment them in fluent French.
- Students have knowledge of Romance Linguistics: evolution of French from Latin, language phenomenon, phrase constituents, word order, and semantic analysis.
- Students know how to recognize language units into complex constituents whether writing essays or speaking French.
- Students use more complex grammatical structures, including the use of the subjunctive, conditional, and verbal agreement in the past.
Program Requirements
| Code Number | Course Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Required Core | ||
| FREN 101 | Elementary French | 5.0 |
| FREN 102 | Elementary French | 5.0 |
| FREN 201 | Intermediate French | 5.0 |
| FREN 202 | Intermediate French | 4.0 |
| FREN 203 | Intermediate French Advanced Level I | 4.0 |
| FREN 285 | Romance Linguistics | 3.0 |
| Total Units | 26 | |
ASSOCIATE OF ARTS DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
Complete the following:
- Major requirements,
- the General Education requirements, and
- electives to achieve a minimum of 60 units.