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Undergraduate Course Descriptions: 2002-2003
FREN W3506 - Cultural Studies: Society in the Novel, 19th-20th Centuries
Henri Mitterand
FREN W3601 - Rousseau and the Enlightenment
Gita May
Prerequisite: FREN W3333-W3334 or the permission of the departmental representative or the instructor. The development of Rousseau's thought and art in his major works, with special attention to his relationship with such contemporaries as Voltaire and Diderot and to his impact on the Revolution and Romanticism.
FREN W3666 - Molière
Pierre Force
Prerequisite FREN W3333-W3334 or the permission of the departmental representative or the instructor. Most of Molière's major plays, including Tartuffe, Don Juan, and Le Misanthrope. Key concepts, such as naturalness and convention, value and exchange, as well as the relationship between ethics and comedy, and the notion of comic character.
FREN W3553 Mallarmé et Baudelaire
Sylvère Lotringer
FREN W4995 French for Diplomats
Pascale Hubert-Leibler
FREN W3421 - Introduction to French and Francophone Studies, II
Kaiama Glover
Prerequisites: completion of the French language requirement or the equivalent, or permission of the director of undergraduate studies or the instructor. 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 W3131 - Third-year Conversation
Prerequisites: completion of the language requirement in French or the equivalent. Conversation on contemporary French subjects based on readings in current popular French periodicals.
FREN W3333 - Major Literary Works to 1800
Prerequisites: completion of the language requirement in French or the equivalent. Reading and discussion of major works from the Middle Ages to 1800.
FREN W3334 - Major Literary Works since 1800
Prerequisites: completion of the language requirement in French or the equivalent. Reading and discussion of major works from 1800 to the present.
FREN W3405 & W3406 - Advanced Grammar and Composition, I and II
Required of all French majors. Designed to give students an enhanced appreciation and command of the 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.
FREN W3420 - Introduction to French and Francophone Studies, I
Madeleine Dobie
Prerequisites: completion of the French language requirement, or the equivalent, or permission of the director of undergraduate studies or the instructor. Conceptions of culture and civilization in France from the Enlightenment to the Exposition Coloniale of 1931. Emphasizes 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 W3995 - Senior Seminar
Antoine Compagnon
Prerequisites: Completion of FREN W3333-W3334 and W3405-W3406, or the director of undergraduate studies or the instructor. 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.
FREN 3505 - Age of Classicism
Gita May
The individual and society, customs and manners, philosophy and religionin the Age of Louis XIV. Authors include Descartes, Pascal, LaRochefoucauld, La Bruyère, Madame de Lafayette, and Madame de Sévigné.
CLFR W3640 - Cannibalism
Maryse Condé
Caribbean intellectuals advocated literary cannibalism as a way of appropriating the techniques and power of the European and making use of them for their counterparts.
FREN W1221 & W1222 - Intermediate Conversation I and II
Conducted in French. Practice in conversational French, with emphasis on comprehension, pronunciation, and idiomatic usage. Recommended parallel: French W1201-W1202.
FREN W3131 - Third-year Conversation
Prerequisites: completion of the language requirement in French or the equivalent. Conversation on contemporary French subjects based on readings in current popular French periodicals.
FREN W3333 - Major Literary Works to 1800
Prerequisites: completion of the language requirement in French or the equivalent. Reading and discussion of major works from the Middle Ages to 1800.
FREN W3334 - Major Literary Works since 1800
Prerequisites: completion of the language requirement in French or the equivalent. Reading and discussion of major works from 1800 to the present.
FREN W3405 & W3406 - Advanced Grammar and Composition, I and II
Required of all French majors. Designed to give students an enhanced appreciation and command of the 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.
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