CRN |
94290 |
Distribution |
D / * (FLLC) |
Course
No. |
FREN 201 |
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Title |
Intermediate
French I |
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Professor |
Marina van Zuylen |
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Schedule |
Mon Wed Fr 11:30 am - 12:50 pm LC 206 |
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 |
94291 |
Distribution |
D / * (FLLC) |
Course
No. |
FREN 202 |
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Title |
Intermediate
French II |
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Professor |
Odile Chilton |
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Schedule |
Mon Tu Th 8:50 am - 9:50 am LC 210 |
For students
with three to four years of high school French or who have 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 |
94293 |
Distribution |
D / * (FLLC) |
Course
No. |
FREN 215 |
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Title |
French
Through Translation |
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Professor |
Odile Chilton |
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Schedule |
Mon Th 10:00 am - 11:20 am LC 210 |
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 |
94292 |
Distribution |
B/D / * (FLLC) |
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 OLIN 301 |
This course is primarily intended to help students
fine-tune their command of spoken and written French. It focuses on a wide and
diverse selection of writings (short works of fiction, poems, philosophical
essays, political analysis, newspaper editorials or magazine articles, etc.)
loosely organized around a single theme. The readings provide a rich ground for
cultural investigation, intellectual exchange, in-class debates, in-depth
examination of stylistics and, of course, vocabulary acquisition. Students are
encouraged to write on a regular basis and expected to participate fully to
class discussion and debates. A general review of grammar is also conducted
throughout the course.
CRN |
94294 |
Distribution |
B/D / * (FLLC) |
Course
No. |
FREN 327 |
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Title |
Genealogy
of French Morals |
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Professor |
Marina van Zuylen |
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Schedule |
Wed 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm OLIN
309 Fr 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm OLIN
309 |
Cross-listed: Human Rights
If we act morally, the French moralists believed,
it is because we know we are being watched.
If we believe in fidelity, it is because we are afraid of being
betrayed. If we weep at our friend's
funeral, it is because we are afraid nobody will weep at our own. Like the onion, we are all skin, all mask,
and no core. What we call our identity
is the face we present to others; perpetually on stage, we modulate our
behavior according to fear, ambition, and hypocrisy. This cynical portrayal of humanity, at the core of the
seventeenth century tradition of moralistes,
began a trend of thinking that would permeate much of French literature and
philosophy, a tradition that would view with suspicion the altruistic roots of
our moral behavior. Readings will be
excerpted from short selections of major French literary texts. Pascal (Pensées),
La Fontaine (Fables), Molière (Misanthrope), Laclos (Liaisons dangereuses), Rousseau (Vicaire savoyard), Balzac (Père Goriot), Proust (Un Amour de Swann), Gide (L'Immoraliste), Céline (Mort à crédit), de Beauvoir (Mémoires d'une jeune fille bien rangée),
and Sarraute (L'Usage de la parole). The class is aimed for students who have
taken classes such as French Film or Intermediate French and wish to improve
their writing and oral skills while being introduced to French literary
studies. Conducted in French.