The ideal foreign language business course would be a cooperative effort between the business school and the foreign language department, prepare students for any of the five proficiency levels in the French Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris test, be designed for the American working in France, and have a balanced international trade perspective. Certain inherent weaknesses can limit its success, including flawed or obsolete texts, blind adherence to the text design, and traditional foreign language teachers' lack of preparedness for business language instruction. Syllabus redesign can occur in three ways: greatly reduced emphasis on certain areas, such as geography, insurance, postal and telephone services, taxes, and the subway, political parties, news media, and culture not clearly related to business practices; more extensive coverage in other areas, including advertising, marketing, banking (systems, practices, and vocabulary), bureaucracy and its role, public and business community mentalities, the European Community, customs duties, the economic orientations of the union of the Right and the Socialists, the relationship of capitalism and legislation, and written and oral practice; and additions to the syllabus, including consumer behavior, labor-management relations, and the French labor movement. Appropriate ancillary materials are plentiful but must be sought out. (MSE)