CRN

94290

Distribution

D  / * (FLLC)

Course No.

FREN 201

Title

Intermediate French I

Professor

Marina van Zuylen

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

Title

Intermediate French II

Professor

Odile Chilton

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

Title

French Through Translation

Professor

Odile Chilton

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

Title

Advanced Composition and Conversation

Professor

Eric Trudel

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

Title

Genealogy of French Morals

Professor

Marina van Zuylen

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.