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FREN 201 Intermediate French I |
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Professor |
Odile Chilton |
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CRN |
95082 |
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Schedule |
Mon Tu Th 9:20 -10:20 am OLINLC 210 |
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Distribution |
OLD: D |
NEW: FOREIGN
LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE
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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.
Course |
FREN 202 Intermediate French II |
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Professor |
Odile Chilton |
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CRN |
95083 |
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Schedule |
Mon Tu Th 10:30 -11:30 am OLINLC 118 |
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Distribution |
OLD: D |
NEW: FOREIGN
LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE
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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.
Course |
FREN 220 French through Film |
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Professor |
Odile Chilton |
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CRN |
95084 |
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Schedule |
Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm OLINLC 118 |
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Distribution |
OLD: D |
NEW: FOREIGN
LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE
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In this
intermediate course we will explore major themes of French culture and
civilization through the study of
individual films ranging from the silent era to the present and covering a wide
variety of genres. We will examine the interaction between the French and their
cinema in terms of historical circumstances, aesthetic ambitions, and
self-representation.
Course |
FREN 270 Advanced Composition and Conversation |
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Professor |
Marina van Zuylen |
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CRN |
95085 |
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Schedule |
Wed 3:00 -4:20 pm OLINLC 206 Fr 1:30 -2:50 pm OLINLC 210 |
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Distribution |
OLD: B/D |
NEW: FOREIGN
LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE
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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.
Course |
FREN / LIT 3211 Modern French Plays |
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Professor |
Justus Rosenberg |
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CRN |
95440 |
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Schedule |
Mon Wed 4:30 – 5:50 pm ASP 302 |
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Distribution |
OLD: D |
NEW: FOREIGN
LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE
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Related interest: Theater
A study of plays, “revolutionary” in their own
right, misleadingly referred to as The Theater of the Absurd or of Cruelty.
Their authors bring to the stage, in unusual forms, images and symbols, works
that are simultaneously realistic in their depiction of human motives and
values, expressionistic or surrealistic in their episodic structure, explicit
of implicit in their ideology. No projecting back at its spectators a
comforting image of a social milieu with which they are familiar; no
articulation of sentiments and beliefs to which they can all subscribe; no
systematic simplification of every issue to give them the satisfying impression
of having understood the point or message of the play. What they offer is more
challenging, appeals as much, if not more, to our mind as to our emotions and
aesthetic sensibilities. Aware of this we read, discuss, write and time
permitting, conduct a workshop, on: Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Endgame;
Ionesco’s Rhinoceros and The Bald Soprano; Genet’s The Maids;
Sartre’s The Devil and the God Almighty; Adamov’s Professor Taranne;
Arrabla’s The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria. Students with an
adequate command of French are encouraged to read in the original text and
discuss it in French during a weekly tutorial for two extra credits.
Course |
FREN 338 Reading for the Plot: Hugo, Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Zola |
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Professor |
Marina van Zuylen |
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CRN |
95086 |
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Schedule |
Th 4:00 -6:20 pm OLIN 310 |
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Distribution |
OLD: D |
NEW: FOREIGN
LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE
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Cross-listed: Literature
This course addresses
the complicated relationship nineteenth-century French novelists entertained
with the notion of literary entertainment. While they welcomed the feuilleton
format (publishing their novels in cliff-hanging installments), novelists often
resisted the hostile take-over of a public begging them to surrender stylistic
experimentation for plot, aestheticism for entertainment. This conflict of interest figures
prominently in the novels studied in the course (i.e., Stendhal’s Le Rouge
et le noir, Balzac’s Illusions
perdues, Flaubert’s Education
sentimentale, Zola’s L’Œuvre, Huysmans’ A Rebours ). In addition to
primary readings, we will read secondary material about plot (Aristotle,
Lukacs, Barthes, Brooks, D.A. Miller), resistance to pleasure in art (Plato,
Augustine, Baudelaire, Adorno), and mimesis (Auerbach, Genette, Derrida,
Prendergast). Students will be expected
to have read Illusions perdues over
the summer. Students will be
able to purchase the long novels in English and in French and will have the
possibility to read one with the other.
Taught in French.