FRENCH

FRENCH

CRN	92338	Distribution	D
Course No.	FREN 201
Title	Intermediate French I
Professor	Odile Chilton
Schedule	Mon Tu Th 8:50 am - 9:50 am LC 208

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	92339	Distribution	D
Course No.	FREN 215
Title	French Translation
Professor	Odile Chilton
Schedule	Mon 10:00 am - 11:20 am LC 208 Th 10:00 am - 11:20 am OLIN 309

Intended to help students fine-tune their command of French and develop a good sense for the most appropriate ways of communicating ideas and facts in French, this course emphasizes translation both as an exercise as well as a craft in its own right. The course will also address grammatical, lexical and stylistic issues. Translation will be practiced from English into French, and vice versa, with a variety of texts drawn from different genres (literary and journalistic). Toward the end of the semester, students will be encouraged to embark on independent projects.

CRN	92335	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	FREN 270
Title	Advanced Composition and Conversation
Professor	Eric Trudel
Schedule	Mon Wed 11:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 303

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	92329	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	FREN 305
Title	Contemporary French Thought
Professor	Catherine Liu
Schedule	Tu Th 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN 101

This course introduces students to the major schools of twentieth-century French thought. The syllabus will draw from a selection of texts that have had particular significance for philosophy, psychoanalysis, linguistics, literary theory, and sociology. Close readings from Saussure, Barthes, Breton, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Deleuze, Lyotard, Bourdieu. For those students less proficient in French, it will be possible to work on shorter texts excerpted from larger works (i.e., Derrida's Grammatologie, Deleuze's Anti-Oedipe, or Lacan's Écrits). More advanced students will have the option of concentrating more extensively on authors of their choice. Seminar will be in English, with an additional mandatory hour in French for French speaking students.

CRN	92098	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	FREN 314
Title	The 20th Century French Novel as a Vehicle for Ideas and Experimentation
Professor	Justus Rosenberg
Schedule	Tu 10:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 101

The novel, because of the flexibility of its form, is a privileged mirror of social and literary changes. Sartre wrote that any literary technique reflects metaphysical concerns. We will read famous novels by Proust, Mauriac, Gide, Sartre, Camus, Duras and Robbe-Grillet and see how these writers articulate pressing ideologies and develop innovative forms. Active student participation (through class discussion and oral presentations) is expected. Conducted in French.

CRN	92334	Distribution	D
Course No.	FREN 334
Title	French Cinema
Professor	Eric Trudel
Schedule	Mon 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm LC 208 Screening: Tu 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm OLIN 102

This course aims at introducing students both to the rich history of French cinema, and to cinematic language and film analysis. The films to be screened will paint a global portrait of the subject, encompassing more than a century of French cinema, from the pioneers of the late 1890s to the avant-garde of the 1920s, from poetic realism and social realism of the 1930s-1940s to the famous "qualité française" of the 1950s, and from the groundbreaking New Wave of the 1960s to today's new auteurs. In examining these movements, genres and aesthetics, we will shed light on the close and ever evolving links between cinema and other art forms, such as literature, poetry and theatre. We will discuss the medium's various influences, as well as the importance theoretical studies and film criticism have had in defining it and shaping its development throughout the 20th century. We will also look at the way French history, events, society, culture and even language have been approached and represented in these films. Finally-and perhaps most importantly-, we will examine each film in itself, thoroughly analysing their filmic text (narrative structure, stylistic choices, screenwriting, montage, themes, texture, etc.) Among the filmmakers whose works will be studied, in part or in whole : the Lumière Brothers, Méliès, Gance, Cocteau, Dulac, Vigo, Clair, Carné, Renoir, Tati, Varda, Bresson, Malle, Truffaut, Godard, Resnais, Duras, Demy, Blier, Téchiné, Assayas and Kassovitz. Requires supplementary readings. Conducted in French.