French

Effective: Fall 2019
Certificate of Achievement Program Map
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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.

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  1. Review this program map to get an overview of the required courses
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Program Description
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.

What can I do with this major?
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.

Learning and Career Pathway
  • Communication, Language & Media

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= Critical Course = Prerequisite for Other Courses = Prerequisite Required = Required for Major GE = General Education
Students who have studied 2 or more years of French in High School may start at FRNC 1B or FRNC 2A level. To request a higher placement, please contact Professor Parrish at cparrish@chabotcollege.edu.
If a student places out of any core course(s) and is not awarded units for that course, the student will need to take additional units to compensate for the course/units required to reach 18 total units in the major (Title 5 regulations). Course substitutions are made at the discretion of the local college and may or may not be delineated in the local degree.

Semester 1

5 units

FRNC 1A
Beginning French

5 units
Introduction to the French-speaking cultures of the world featuring the study and practice of the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) of French. Following an immersion instruction format, the class is entirely taught in the target world language of the selected course. May not receive credit if FRNC 1A1 and/or 1A2 have been completed.
Course Details:
  1. Strongly Recommended: ENGL 1A
Terms Offered: Spring, Fall, Summer

Semester 2

5 units

FRNC 1B
Elementary French

5 units
Further study of French-speaking cultures of the world featuring the acquisition of the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) of French begun in French 1A. Following an immersion instruction format, the class is entirely taught in the target world language of the selected course. May not receive credit if FRNC 1B1 and/or 1B2 have been completed.
Course Details:
  1. Prerequisite: FRNC 1A
    2. or
Terms Offered: Summer, Fall, Spring

Semester 3

4 units

FRNC 2A
Intermediate French

4 units
Review of grammar; reading of works of modern authors; practice in conversation and composition. Following an immersion instruction format, the class is entirely taught in the target world language of the selected course.
Course Details:
  1. Prerequisite: FRNC 1B
    2. or
  2. Prerequisite: FRNC 1B2
Terms Offered: Spring, Fall

Semester 4

4 units

FRNC 2B
Advanced French

4 units
Reading of Francophone authors; advanced review of grammar; emphasis on speaking and composition. Following an immersion instruction format, the class is entirely taught in the target world language of the selected course.
Course Details:
  1. Prerequisite: FRNC 2A
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring

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:

HUMN 50
The Artful Life

3 units
A broad range of the arts, from a variety of historical periods and cultures, will be examined as expression and integration of self. Explore creativity as process, product, and attitude toward life. Study the artist as seeker of authenticity and the relationship between art and artist. Students will learn how to respond critically as well as to articulate their experience of great works of the human imagination. Explore foundational principles and theories in the various humanities disciplines.
Course Details:

HIS 2
History of Western Civilization Since 1600

3 units
History of the Modern Western World from the end of the medieval period to the present. The course develops the western world, (Europe and the Americas), as these societies develop modern ways of thinking and producing, and tracks the rise of the modern nation-state. Interaction with other civilizations, and globalization will be studied.
Course Details:

ARTH 5
Art History - Renaissance to Modern-Day

3 units
History of Western art covering Early Renaissance, High Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Modernism and Contemporary developments. (Formerly ART 5; may not receive credit if ART 5 has been completed.)
Course Details:
  • Transfers to CSU

    • PHIL 65
    Introduction to Philosophy: Theory of Knowledge

    3 units
    This class explores and critically analyzes fundamental questions about knowledge. Key questions include: What is knowledge? How is knowledge acquired? How do I know that I am not living in a computer simulation? Theories about knowledge, truth, and justification will be explored, including: rationalism, empiricism, pragmatism, and skepticism. This class traces the history of epistemological ideas from Plato, Aristotle, and the Buddha, to Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, and Gettier.
    Course Details:
    1. Strongly Recommended: ENGL 1

    PHIL 70
    Social and Political Philosophy

    3 units
    This social and political philosophy class explores and critically analyzes fundamental questions related to society, politics, and ethics. Essential to this course is the study of government and its citizenry. Key questions include: What makes a government legitimate? What rights and liberties should be protected? Is there an ideal size and form of government? Political ideologies like liberalism, conservatism, and socialism will be explored and applied to contemporary issues including: free speech, privacy, and welfare. This class traces the history of social and political ideas from Plato, Aristotle, Confucius, and Lao Tzu to Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, Arendt, Rawls, and more.
    Course Details:
    Total Units: 18 units
    This program map is not a guarantee of course availability or financial aid applicability.