Courses

This course examines advanced topics in foundations design including design, analysis and construction of shallow and deep foundations. Deep foundations include driven piles, drilled shafts, micropiles, and auger cast in place piles. The course will cover bearing/axial capacity, settlement, pile group effects, and lateral capacity of the various foundation types. Additional topics include subsurface exploration and analysis of pile behavior using wave equation analysis.

Includes an emphasis on business and employee fraud with techniques for the prevention, detection, measurement, and investigation of fraud.

Continued development of oral skills; themes of current interest are presented for discussion. This course is designed for those who desire a more practical and intensive approach to conversational French.

Intensive conversation with practice using various levels of the spoken language from slang to formal speech. Emphasis on the sounds and idioms of French. The course meets one hour per week with the instructor and one hour per week for a lab session, often with a native speaker. The content of this course will vary over four consecutive semesters. This course may be repeated for a maximum of four credits.

A study of commercial language used in French language business transactions and correspondence.

In this task-based course, we will use departments of a company (human resources, production, sales, finance, and administration) to examine business practices. Students will gain real-world practical French experience through company web sites, the business press, case studies, and exchanges with francophone professionals.

Extensive review of grammatical structures, idiom patterns, and common difficulties of the French language.

Advanced French Grammar provides a deeper understanding of the basic principles guiding French grammar, in part by introducing new grammar rules, but primarily by reviewing and explaining in depth the grammar rules that were learned on the 100 level and reinforced in FR 201 Intermediate French I and FR 202 Intermediate French II.

A study of advanced grammar, reading and composition. Extensive writing practice in French using literary and/or periodical texts as points of departure and models of style.

A logical continuation of the second-year course. Further attention is given to oral- aural and reading-writing skills. Problems of grammar are approached at a high level. Syntactic constructions and rules, and the study of some idiomatic usage of the language are also included.