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Undergraduate Course Descriptions: 2001-2002
FREN W3405y or W3406y - Advanced Grammar and Composition, I and II
Designed to give students an enhanced appreciation and command of the stylistics of written language. Introduction to the mechanics of writing through a progression of morphology and grammar exercises designed to help students move beyond the sentence level and discover the rules that govern texts. Composition exercises include sentence combining, describing, comparing, and contrasting as well as examining cohesive links in written texts.
FREN W3421y - Introduction To French And Francophone Studies, II
Required for the major in French and Francophone Studies, this course is also open to non-majors. Universalism vs. exceptionalism, tradition vs. modernity, integration and exclusion, racial, gender, regional,and national identities are considered in this introduction to the contemporary French-speaking world in Europe, the Americas, and Africa. Authors include: Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sedar Senghor, Frantz Fanon, Maryse Condé.
FREN W3506y - Cultural Studies: French Novels On Screen
Dominique Jullien
A comparative study of some major French and Francophone novels and their screen adaptations. Titles include Flaubert's Madame Bovary (2 film adaptations: Renoir 1934, Chabrol 1991), Balzac's Le Colonel Chabert (film adaptation by Y. Angelo, 1994), Marcel Proust's Le Temps retrouvé (film adaptation by Raul Ruiz, 1999) and Euzhan Palcy's Rue Cases-Nègres (film adaptation by J. Zobel, 1985). In French. Films are shown at Maison Française, in French with English subtitles.
FREN W3602y - Leaders Of The French Enlightenment
Gita May
The Enlightenment movement through major works by Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau.
FREN W3670y - Dada/Surrealism
Sylvèçre Lotringer
Dada and Surrealist theories and texts.
FREN C3996y - Senior Tutorial In French Literature
Recommended for seniors majoring or concentrating in French and open to other qualified students. Preparation of a senior essay. In consultation with a staff member designated by the Departmental Representative, the student develops a topic within the areas of French language, literature, or intellectual history. May be done at Reid Hall. Confers eligibility for Departmental Honors.
FREN W3405x or W3406x - Advanced Grammar and Composition I and II
Required of all French majors. Designed to give students an enhanced appreciation and command of the stylistics of written language. Introduction to the mechanics of writing through a progression of morphology and grammar exercises designed to help students move beyond the sentence level and discover the rules that govern texts. Composition exercises include sentence combining, describing, comparing, and contrasting as well as examining cohesive links in written texts. Daily assignments.
FREN W3420x - Introduction To French And Francophone Studies, I
K. Glover
Required for the major in French and Francophone Studies. These courses are also open to non-majors. Conceptions of culture and civilization in France from the Enlightenment to the Exposition Coloniale of 1931; emphasis on the issue of universalism vs. relativism and the ideological foundations of French colonialism. Authors and texts include: selections from the Encyclopédie, Diderot, the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen, selections from the Code Napoléon, Chateaubriand, Tocqueville, Segalen, Drumont.
FREN W3503x - Cultural Studies: The Artist In The Novel
Dominique Jullien
The portrait of the artist in French prose fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries; a survey of the major issues of art theory seen through works that include an artist as their main character.
FREN W3543x - Reading French Poets (19th-20th Centuries)
Henri Mitterand
We will read and analyze some of the most beautiful romantic, symbolist, surrealist and contemporary poems. The course will bring together the evolution of poetic feelings and forms of verse, and will endeavor to give students a taste for reading, listening to, and even possibly creating poems in French.
FREN W3610x - The French Novel Before The Revolution
Gita May
The development of the novel from the classical period to the French Revolution: the epistolary form, the memoir-novel, techniques of illusion, characterization, and narration. Authors include Madame de Lafayette, Montesquieu, Prévost, Rousseau, Diderot, and Laclos.
FREN W3995x - Senior Seminar
Antoine Compagnon
Required of all French majors. Usually taken by majors during the fall term of their senior year. Critical discussion of a few major literary works along with some classic commentaries on those works. Students critically assess and practice diverse methods of literary analysis.
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