FRENCH

CRN	90336	Distribution	D
Course No.	FREN 201
Title	Intermediate French I
Professor	Odile Chilton
Schedule	Mon Tu Th 8:50 am - 9:50 am LC 120

For students who have completed three to five years of high-school French or who have already acquired a solid knowledge of elementary grammar. In this course, designed as an introduction to contemporary French civilization and culture, students will be able to reinforce their skills in grammar, composition and spoken proficiency, through the use of short texts, newspaper and magazine articles, as well as video.

CRN	90341	Distribution	D
Course No.	FREN 220
Title	French Film
Professor	Odile Chilton
Schedule	Mon Th 10:00 am - 11:20 am LC 120

In this intermediate course we will explore major themes of French culture and civilization through the study of films from the "cinéma pionnier" to the "cinéma d'auteur" (Melies, Renoir, Truffaut). We will pay special attention to the evolution of cinematographic narration to see how on the one hand our perception of time and space has influenced films and on the other how films have influenced our vision of the world. Students should have completed French 104, 106 or at least four years of high-school French.

CRN	90342	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	FREN 231
Title	Literary Scandals: Baudelaire, Flaubert, and the Aesthetics of Resistance
Professor	Marina van Zuylen
Schedule	Tu Th 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm LC 210

Using as its backdrop the succès de scandale of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal and Flaubert's Madame Bovary, this class will scrutinize the various incarnations of the public in the two authors' major works. We will use excerpts from both men's highly publicized trials to connect censorship and literary production (Flaubert argued that it was the style indirect libre that ought to have been on trial, not him). Both authors saw their works as both resisting and yielding to the public's desire for entertainment. How could they stick to a view of "pure art" while eager to portray accurately the raw texture of modern life? Among the works: Flaubert: Madame Bovary, L'Education sentimentale, Trois Contes, and excerpts from the Correspondences; Baudelaire: Les Fleurs du mal, Le Spleen de Paris and Le Peintre de la vie moderne. In French.

CRN	90450	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	FREN 270
Title	Advanced Composition & Conversation
Professor	Mark Cohen
Schedule	Mon Wed 11:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 306

Intended to help students fine-tune their command of spoken and written French, this course focuses on short works of fiction around which students are encouraged both to write short weekly papers and to discuss these with the rest of the class. The atmosphere is warm and intimate, and the reading is intended to provide students with the very best shorter works by nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors: Daudet, Constant, YourcenarSand, Stendhal, Flaubert, Proust, Gide, Sartre, Camus, Robbe-Grillet. Short reviews of grammar will also be conducted throughout the course.

CRN	90076	Distribution	D
Course No.	FREN 353
Title	African Women Representations by African Women Writers
Professor	Emmanuel Dongala
Schedule	Wed 3:00 pm - 5:20 pm OLIN 305

Cross-listed: Gender Studies

Because there were practically no African women writers before 1980, the main representations of women in African literature were those presented by male writers. The prevailing image was that of the African woman as a creature confined to maternity, trapped into submission to men and with no power nor say within her society. However, since 1980 many women writers have emerged and given us their vision. In this course, we will read several short stories and a few novels written by female writers of francophone Africa. We will discover the great diversity of themes their writings cover, their frankness, and sometimes their unexpected stances. We will find out that what finally emerges from these female writings is that there is no one stereotypical representation of the African woman but multiple images, often contradictory. The texts will be read in the original French and the course will be conducted in French.