FREN 2070

Medical French

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.

This course is specifically designed for premed students and students at large with an interest in medical related topics who wish to be better equipped with language skills that will enable them to convey more empathy and multicultural sensitivity while communicating with diverse patient populations throughout the Francophone world.  This course aims as well to prepare students to engage in global health equity and promote awareness of language barriers in today's medical field, both domestically and abroad. This is a mid-intermediate level course, and as such, it will continue to develop and reinforce writing, reading, speaking, listening and presentational skills via an array of communicative tasks based on real-life situations.

When Offered Spring.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: FREN 1230, LPF score 56-64, SAT II 600-680, or AP French language 4, or CASE Q.
Forbidden Overlaps Forbidden Overlap: due to an overlap in content, students will receive credit for only one course in the following group: FREN 2070, FREN 2080, FREN 2090.

Distribution Category (FL-AG)
Course Attribute (CU-CEL)
Language Requirement Satisfies Option 1.

Comments Recommended courses after FREN 2070: FREN 2092 or FREN 2095.

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