Course	FREN 201 Intermediate French I
Professor	Odile Chilton
CRN	90202
Schedule	Mon Tu Th 9:20 - 10:20 am OLINLC 206
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, Culture

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
Professor	Marina van Zuylen
CRN	90203
Schedule	Mon Wed Fr 10:30 – 11:30 am OLINLC 208
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, Culture

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 215 French Translation
Professor	Odile Chilton
CRN	90204
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am OLINLC 210
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, Culture

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.

Course	FREN 240 The Quest for Authenticity: Survey Of French Literature II
Professor	Eric Trudel
CRN	90206
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 – 11:50 am OLINLC 120
Distribution	OLD: B/D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, Culture

Serving as an overview of modern French literature, this class will focus on short texts (poems, plays, essays, letters, short stories) that reflect the fragile relationship between selfhood and authenticity. From Rousseau’s ambitious program of autobiography to Sartre’s belief that we are inveterate embellishers when it comes to telling our own story, French literature has staged with relish the classic tension between art, artifice, and authenticity. This has not only inaugurated an intensely individual and unstable relationship to the notion of truth, but has implicated the reader in this destabilizing process. This class will explore how the quest for authenticity has led to radical reevaluations of literary style. Readings from Rousseau, Stendhal, Flaubert, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Proust, Gide, Sartre, Duras, Sarraute, Ernaux. Taught in French.

Prerequisites: two years of college French (successful completion of the Intermediate) or permission by instructor.

Course	FREN 270 Advanced Composition and Conversation
Professor	Eric Trudel
CRN	90205
Schedule	Mon Wed 9:00 – 10:20 am OLIN 310
Distribution	OLD: B/D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, Culture

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 305 Contemporary French Thought
Professor	Marina van Zuylen
CRN	90207
Schedule	Fr 1:30 -2:50 pm OLINLC 208 Wed 3:00 -4:20 pm OLINLC 208
Distribution	OLD: B/D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, Culture

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 conducted in French.