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Undergraduate Course Descriptions: 2006-2007
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FREN W3333 Major Literary Works To 1800 3 pts. J. Helgeson, J. Stalnaker.
Prerequisites: FREN 3405 (Advanced Grammar and Composition) or an AP score of 5 or the permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20. Reading and discussion of major works from the Middle Ages to 1800.
FREN W3334 Major Literary Works Since 1800 3 pts. E. Martin, V. Debaene.
Prerequisites: FREN 3405 (Advanced Grammar and Composition) or an AP score of 5 or the permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20. Reading and discussion of major works from 1800 to the present.
FREN W3420 Introduction To French and Francophone Studies I 3 pts. E. Saada,.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites: FREN 3405 (Advanced Grammar and Composition) or an AP score of 5 or the permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies. 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 W3498 French Cultural Workshop 3 pts. V. Aurora. Prerequisites: Completion of 1202 Designed (though not exclusively) for students contemplating a stay at Reid Hall, this course will foster a comparison of the French and American cultures with readings from sociological sources and emphasis on in-class discussion in an attempt to comprehend and avoid common causes of cross-cultural communication.
FREN W3505 Cultural Diversity In Contemporary France 3 pts. M. Dobie. The multicultural composition of contemporary France considered through the lens of literary works, films, and historical/anthropological studies. Topics include the history of migration, suburban youth culture, the creation of migrant 'lieux de memoire', and the 2005 riots.
FREN W3535 The Sublime In France From the Renaissance To Romanticism 3 pts. E. Martin. Prerequisites: FREN W3333-W3334 or the permission of the director of undergraduate studies or the instructor. A study of the sublime in French literature, visual arts, and aesthetic theory from Montaigne to Baudelaire, with a view to understanding how the notion of sublimity evolved over time and expressed the changing preoccupations of the culture at large.
FREN W3578 Proust 3 pt. S. Lotringer
FREN W3603 (Section 001) Sexual Enlightenment 3 pts. J. Stalnaker. Prerequisites: Fren W3333-W3334 or the instructor's permission This course explores the relationship between sex and knowledge in literary and philosophical works of the French Enlightenment. Authors include Montesquieu, Crébillon, Buffon, Condillac, Diderot, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Laclos and Sade. The course fulfills the pre-1800 requirement for the French major.
FREN W3995 Senior Seminar 3 pts. E. Ladenson. 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 W3200y Advanced Translation Workshop 3 pts. J. Helgeson. A practical introduction to translation from French to English (and vice versa), to translation theory and to comparative stylistics. The course will emphasize stylictic issues through close reading and frequent individual and group work on both prose and poetry.
FREN W3421y Introduction To French and Francophone Studies II 3 pts. K. Glover. Prerequisites: FREN W 1202 or the equivalent, or the Director of Undergraduate Studies' permission. 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 W3502 Religion, Literature and the Arts in Early Modern France, 3 pts, E. Martin.
Prerequisites: FREN W3333-W3334 or the permission of the director of undergraduate studies or instructor. A study of Counter-Reformation culture in seventeenth-century France, as expressed in painting, architecture, theater, music film, poetry and prose.
FREN W 3552 Women and Sex on Stage, 3 pts, J. Stalnaker.
This course explores the representation of women and sexual politics on the French stage during the Old Regime and the French Revolution. Authors include Molière, Marivaux, Beaumarchais, Gouges and Sade. Emphasis will be placed not only on reading and interpretation, but also on acting and mise en scène. The course fulfills the pre-1800 requirement for the French major. Prerequisites: French 3333 and 3334 or permission of the instructor.
W3553 Mallarme, 3 pts, S. Lotringer.
FREN W3760 French Literary Theory After 1968, 3 pts, C. Weber.
Prerequisites: The permission of the director of undergraduate studies or the instructor. An introduction to the major intellectual currents in post-1968 France, where a range of influential thinkers (Situationists, psychoanalysts, poststructuralists, and feminists) began to reformulate the very bases of both the self and society
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