Conversational Fluency

3 units

This course, meeting as one of two in the Washington University Summer Program in Dakar, Senegal, will focus on teaching the skills necessary for oral fluency in French. It will draw its content from a teaching collection of short stories from around the French-speaking world (Gaasch, James, ed. Diversité: La nouvelle francophone), as well as from specificially Senegalese texts (Birago Diop, Les Contes d'Amadou Koumba, and newspaper articles as appropriate). Prerequisites: French 201 or equivalent; enrollment in the WU Summer Program in Dakar.