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Undergraduate Course Descriptions: 2007-2008
For class times and locations, visit the Directory of Classes.
FREN W3333 Major Literary Works To 1800. 3 pts., E. Martin, D. Leonard.
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., V. Debaene, L. Gabaston.
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 W3506 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 W3551 The Scientific Imagination in Early Modern France. 3 pts., D. Leonard.
A study of the role of the imagination and literary forms in 17th-and 18th-century French natural philosophy, with a particular focus on creative cosmologies and speculative anthropology. Authors include Descartes, Cyrano de Bergerac, Fontenelle, Diderot, Condillac and La Mettrie.
FREN W3638 Painting and Aesthetic Thought in France. 3 pts., E. Martin.
An investigation of French aesthetic thought from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries with a focus on the relations between literature and painting. Authors include Poussin, De Piles, Du Bos, Diderot, Baudelaire, Proust, Merleau-Ponty and Derrida. Prerequisites: FREN W3333-W3334 or permission.
FREN W3995 Senior Seminar. 3 pts.,A. 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 W3996 Senior Tutorial. 3 pts., M. Dobie.
FREN W3333 Major Literary Works To 1800. 3 pts., E. Martin, D. Leonard.
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., TBA
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 W3421 Intro to French and Francophone Studies II. 3 pts., Kaiama Glover.
Universalism vs. exceptionalism, tradition vs. modernity, integration and exclusion, racial, gender, regional and national identities will be considered in this introduction to the contemporary French speaking world in Europe, the Americas and Africa.
FREN W3504 Cultural Studies: Islam and/in France. 3 pts., Madeleine Dobie.
Examination of encounters and relations between France and Muslim regions, and of the experience of Muslims in France, focussing on key periods of contact from the Middle Ages to contemporary times.
Course draws on historical and sociological texts as well as novels, poetry, and visual media including painting and film.
FREN W3546 Religion and Culture in Early Modern France. 3 pts., Eva Martin.
An animation of the conflicts – social, political, literary and artistic – following the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth and seventeenth-century France. Films and paintings will be studied alongside texts by authors such as Erasme, Marguerite de Navarre, d’Aubigné, Montaigne, de Sales, Arnauld, Pascal, Molière and Mme de La Fayette. Prerequisites: FREN W3333-W3334 or permission.
FREN W3548 The French Poetic Tradition. 3 pts., Daniel Leonard.
A selective survey of French poetry from the Middle-Ages to the present, with particular emphasis on the relationship between the senses, poetic form and meaning: from medieval allegories to concrete poetry, this class investigates how various poets and movements have defined and reinvented poetry by attempting to embrace, elevate or erase the material mediation of perception and language. Close readings of short poems, accompanied by relevant excerpts from poetic manifestos and philosophical texts.
FREN W3830 French Film. 3 pts., Phil Watts.
A study of landmarks of French cinema from its origins to the 1970s. We will pay particular attention to the relation between cinema and social and political events in France. We will study films by Jean Vigo, Jean Renoir, Rene Clair, Alain Resnais, Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.
For class times and locations, visit the Directory of Classes.
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