2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Sep 16, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Basic French Language Proficiency Certificate

Location(s): Brookings Main Campus, Online, SDBOR System Certificate


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Program Coordinator/Contact

Marie-Pierre Caquot Baggett, Professor of French
School of American and Global Studies
Lincoln Hall 319, Box 2212
605-688-4278

Program Information

The Basic French Language Proficiency Certificate provides students a language certificate that marks their achievements in acquiring the French language at the basic level. The certificate includes elementary and intermediate language study, with a focus on developing all modes of language production: speaking, listening, writing, and reading in an everyday context. The certificate may be completed as a stand-alone program and may be taken by any student regardless of major. The Basic French Language Proficiency Certificate is particularly relevant for majors in business, engineering, agriculture, health care, and education.

Course Delivery Format

Courses are delivered face-to-face on-campus and online.

Student Learning Outcomes


At the completion of the certificate in Basic French Language Proficiency students will be able to:

  • Demonstrate ability up to the intermediate low proficiency level in oral and written French.
  • Demonstrate introductory awareness of and respect for differences in cultural perspectives, behavior, and languages (the “3 Ps”: perspectives, practices, products).

Total Required Credits: 14