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CRN |
93305 |
Distribution |
D |
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Course
No. |
FREN 201 A |
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Title |
Intermediate
French I |
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Professor |
Odile Chilton |
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Schedule |
Mon Tu Th 8:50 am - 9:50 am LC 206 |
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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.
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CRN |
93827 |
Distribution |
D |
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Course
No. |
FREN 201 B |
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Title |
Intermediate
French I |
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Professor |
Marina van Zuylen |
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Schedule |
Wed Fri 11:30 am – 12:50 pm LC 208 |
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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.
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CRN |
93306 |
Distribution |
D |
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Course
No. |
FREN 215 |
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Title |
French
Translation |
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Professor |
Odile Chilton |
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Schedule |
Mon Th 10:00 am - 11:20 am LC 206 |
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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.
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CRN |
93310 |
Distribution |
B/D |
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Course
No. |
FREN 270 |
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Title |
Advanced
Composition and Conversation |
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Professor |
Eric Trudel |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 10:00 am - 11:20 am LC 208 |
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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.
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CRN |
93435 |
Distribution |
B/D |
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Course
No. |
FREN / LIT 3030 |
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Title |
French
Society |
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Professor |
Justus Rosenberg |
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Schedule |
Tu 10:30 am – 12:50 pm LC 206 |
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Cross-listed: Literature
See Literature section for description.
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CRN |
93327 |
Distribution |
B/D |
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Course
No. |
FREN 335 |
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Title |
Baudelaire,
Rimbaud, Mallarmé |
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Professor |
Eric Trudel |
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Schedule |
Mon 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm LC
120 |
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A poetic revolution was brought to the theory and
practices of 19th century French poetry by three of its most
illustrious figures: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Mallarmé. As Victor Hugo’s age of
lyric romanticism came to an end, these poets took full measure of a modern
subjectivity in crisis by making it a crisis of form, with increasing
disenchantment, irony, self-reflexivity, and obscurity. Their challenge to
figurative language ultimately brought poetry dangerously close to silence,
madness or death. We will, through a succession of close readings, assess the
range of this poetic revolution, one that constantly questioned the limits of
literature and the very possibility of meaning. Taught in French. Primary texts in French, secondary sources in
English. Readings include Les Fleurs du
Mal and Le Spleen de Paris (Baudelaire), Illuminations and Une Saison
en enfer (Rimbaud), Poesies
(Mallarmé).