Phillips Exeter Academy

Modern Languages

Selected Topics in Chinese
Modern Languages

For advanced students of the language, this course features topics typically taught in college. The topics for this course vary from year to year and are dependent upon the interests and backgrounds of the students...

Elementary French
Modern Languages

This sequence of courses is offered fall (FRE110), winter (FRE120) and spring (FRE130). This sequence of three courses introduces students to spoken and written French. Considerable oral practice and frequent written exercises lead students to familiarity...

Transition French 1
Modern Languages

For students who have had one or two years of French in junior high school and/or one year in high school, this course rapidly reviews pronunciation and basic grammar and accelerates students in the speaking, reading and writing programs. The course normally...

Transition French 2
Modern Languages

This course completes the review of basic structures and broadens the speaking, reading and writing programs. This course normally promotes to French 210 in the spring...

Intermediate French
Modern Languages

This sequence of courses is offered fall (FRE210), fall and winter (FRE220) and winter and spring (FRE230). This sequence continues the study of spoken and written French begun in French 110/120/130 or French 12T/13T. Fundamental forms and structures are...

Advanced French
Modern Languages

This sequence provides a systematic review of French. Exercises are supplemented with extensive written work. Vocabulary and grammatical structures are developed through reading, discussion, and writing about literary works by such authors as Jean Anouilh,...

Col/Post-col Francophone Lit
Modern Languages

This course will explore conflicting attitudes about history, politics, culture, and identity explicit and implicit in colonial and post-colonial francophone literary production. Topics may include négritude, oralité, engagement, moeurs, désillusion,...

Accelerated Chinese II
Modern Languages

This sequence of courses is offered fall (CHI111), winter (CHI221) and spring (CHI231). This three-term sequence presents the material of the first two years of the Mandarin Chinese program and promotes to CHI 310 in the fall. This course is designed for...

Accelerated Chinese III
Modern Languages

This sequence of courses is offered fall (CHI111), winter (CHI221) and spring (CHI231). This three-term sequence presents the material of the first two years of the Mandarin Chinese program and promotes to CHI 310 in the fall. This course is designed for...

Advanced Chinese
Modern Languages

This sequence of courses is offered fall (CHI310), winter (CHI320) and spring (CHI400). In this course stream students step beyond the basic phase of language acquisition and come to realize their autonomy in self-expression. Students use higher-level grammar...