Program Map

French - Certificate of Achievement

Program Map

French - Certificate of Achievement

Certificate of Achievement
Fall 2025
  • Communication, Language & Media

This program map from the 2024-2025 catalog year represents one possible pathway to complete this program. Your pathway may vary depending on your transfer plans and also previous college credit, including AP Test scores, concurrent enrollment courses and high school articulated courses.

I'm ready to get started. What do I do next?

  1. Review this program map to get an overview of the required courses
  2. Meet with a counselor to develop your customized student education plan www.chabotcollege.edu/counseling
  3. Use DegreeWorks, an online student education planning tool, to track your progress toward graduation www.chabotcollege.edu/admissions/degreeworks
This certificate will provide you with skills to communicate efficiently in oral and written French in your everyday personal or professional life, and open opportunities to participate in your community and beyond. You will develop an extensive cultural knowledge of the French-speaking world, which includes 220 million French speakers. French is the 2nd learned foreign language after English and 6th spoken language in the world.
Graduates with this degree will be prepared to: work in the fields of education, interpretation/translation, hospitality/tourism, banking/finance, government/immigration, sales/customer service, and other relevant fields; seek work for international French-speaking companies with offices in the USA, Canada, Europe and Africa; use Chabot French language course units for: AA in French degree; Certificate of Achievement in Entrepreneurship; and UC and CSU transfer requirements.

Critical Course Prerequisite for Other Courses Prerequisite Required Required for Major GE General Education

Semester 1
 
5 units
FRNC 1A
Beginning French (Active)
5.0
Semester 2
 
5 units
FRNC 1B
Elementary French (Active)
5.0
Semester 3
 
4 units
FRNC 2A
Intermediate French (Active)
4.0
Semester 4
 
4 units
FRNC 2B
Advanced French (Active)
4.0
Other (specify)
 

Advanced students starting French language courses at the 1B or 2A level must complete a minimum of 16 units in the major to earn the Certificate of Achievement . Advanced students may use courses from the Options list to meet the total major units required. 

Allowable course substitutions in place of lower level language courses are below:

15 units
HUMN 50
The Artful Life (Historical)
3.0
HIS 2
History of Western Civilization Since 1600 (Active)
3.0
ARTH 5
Art History - Renaissance to Modern-Day (Historical)
3.0
PHIL 65
Introduction to Philosophy: Theory of Knowledge (Active)
3.0
PHIL 70
Social and Political Philosophy (Active)
3.0
Total Units: 18.0