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Undergraduate Course Descriptions: 2003-2004
FREN W1101 & W1102 - Elementary French I & II
Enrollment limited to 20. The course is designed to help students understand, speak, read, and write the French language. Students learn to provide information about their opinions and feelings, their families, their immediate environment, and their daily activities. They are introduced to both the structure of the French language and the cultural features of some French-speaking communities. Daily assignments, laboratory work, and screening of video materials.
FREN W1201 & 1202 - Intermediate French I & II
Enrollment limited to 20. Recommended companion course: W1221-W1222. Prepares students for advanced French language and culture. Develops skills in speaking, reading, and writing French. Emphasizes cross-cultural awareness through the study of short stories, films, and passages from novels. Fosters the ability to write about and discuss a variety of topics using relatively complex structures.
FREN W1221 & W1222 - Intermediate Conversation I & II
Enrollment limited to 15. 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
Enrollment limited to 15. 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
Paul Creamer, James Helgeson
Enrollment limited to 20. 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
Joanna Augustyn, Joanna Stalnaker
Enrollment limited to 20. 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 & II
Enrollment limited to 15. 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.
CLFR W3690 - Writing/Rewriting the Caribbean
Madeleine Dobie
Prerequisites: permission of the director of undergraduate studies or the instructor. Study of canonical francophone, anglophone and hispanophone works that represent the Caribbean, and of the recurrent rewriting of these texts by twentieth-century Caribbean writers [in English].
FREN W3420 - 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 W3506 - Cultural Studies: the Age of Proust
Dominique Jullien
Prerequisite: FREN W3333-W3334 or the permission of the director of undergraduate studies or the instructor. Selected readings from Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, in the context of the historical, political, social and cultural events of the time.
FREN W3560 - Flaubert
Sylvère Lotringer
Prerequisite: FREN W3333-W3334 or the permission of the director of undergraduate studies or the instructor. A close reading of Flaubert's tales and novels, especially Madame Bovary and Bouvard et Pécuchet as a way of bringing out issues on modernity in literature (Roland Barthes) and post-modernity in philosophy (Deleuze).
FREN W3602 - Leaders of the French Enlightenment
Gita May
Prerequisites: FREN W3333-W3334 or the permission of the director of undergraduate studies or the instructor. The movement of the Enlightenment through the study of major works by Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau.
FREN W3676 - Structuralism - Post-Structuralism
Sylvère Lotringer
Prerequisite Fren W3333-W3334 or the permission of the director of undergraduate studies or the instructor. The extension of structuralist theory from Saussure (linguistics) to Jakobson (poetics), Lévi-Strauss (anthropology) and Barthes. Beyond structuralism: Derrida, Lacan, Kristeva, and others.
FREN W1101 & W1102 - Elementary French I & II
Enrollment limited to 20. The course is designed to help students understand, speak, read, and write the French language. Students learn to provide information about their opinions and feelings, their families, their immediate environment, and their daily activities. They are introduced to both the structure of the French language and the cultural features of some French-speaking communities. Daily assignments, laboratory work, and screening of video materials.
FREN W1201 & 1202 - Intermediate French I & II
Enrollment limited to 20. Recommended companion course: W1221-W1222. Prepares students for advanced French language and culture. Develops skills in speaking, reading, and writing French. Emphasizes cross-cultural awareness through the study of short stories, films, and passages from novels. Fosters the ability to write about and discuss a variety of topics using relatively complex structures.
FREN W1221 & W1222 - Intermediate Conversation I & II
Enrollment limited to 15. 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
Enrollment limited to 15. 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
Paul Creamer, Zeina Hakim
Enrollment limited to 20. 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
James Helgeson, Joanna Stalnaker
Enrollment limited to 20. 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 & II
Enrollment limited to 15. 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 - Intro to French and Francophone Studies I
Madeleine Dobie
Prerequisites: completion of the language requirement in French or the equivalent, or the permission of the director of undergraduate studies or the instructor. Examines conceptions of culture and civilization in France from the Enlightenment to the Exposition Coloniale of 1931, with an emphasis on the historical development and ideological foundations of French colonialism. Authors and texts include: the Encyclopédie; the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen; the Code noir; Diderot; Chateaubriand; Tocqueville; Claire de Duras; Renan; Gobineau; Gauguin; Drumont.
FREN W3610 - The French Novel before the Revolution
Gita May
Prerequisites: FREN W3333-W3334 or the permission of the director of undergraduate studies or the instructor. 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 W3548 - The French Poetic Tradition
James Helgeson
Prerequisites: FREN W3333-W3334 or the permission of the director of undergraduate studies or the instructor. This course offers a general overview of the history of poetry in French from the Middle-Ages to the present. Particular emphasis will be put on the relationships betweeen poetry and the other arts (e.g. music, painting) and on the techniques of close reading.
FREN W3506 - 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), Joseph Zobel's Rue Cases-Nègres (film adaptation by Euzhan Palcy, 1985). Films are shown at the Maison Française, in French with English subtitles.
FREN W3995 - Senior Seminar
Pierre Force
Prerequisites: Completion of FREN W3333-W3334 and W3405-W3406, or the permission of 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.
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