Course	FREN 201 Intermediate French I
Professor	Odile Chilton
CRN	97082
Schedule	M T Th 9:20 - 10:20 am OLINLC 208
Distribution	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	Marie-Helene Koffi-Tessio
CRN	97890
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 – 2:20 pm OLINLC 208
Distribution	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 217 Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time
Professor	Eric Trudel
CRN	97070
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 205
Distribution	Literature in English

Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is about an elaborate, internal journey, at the end of which the narrator discovers the unifying pattern of his life both as a writer and human being. Famed for its style and its distinctive view of love, sex and cruelty, reading, language and memory, Proust's epic broke new ground in the invention of a genre that lies between fiction and autobiography. Through a semester devoted to the close reading of Swann’s Way and Time Regained in their entirety and several substantial key-excerpts taken from all the other volumes, we will try to understand the complex nature of Proust's masterpiece and, among other things, examine the ways by which it accounts for the temporality and new rhythms of modernity.  We will also question the narrative and stylistic function of homosexuality, discuss the significance of the massive social disruption brought about by the Great War and see how the arts are represented and why they are seminal to the narration. Additional readings will include philosophy, art criticism and literary theory. Taught in English.

Course	FREN 220 Film:French New Wave
Professor	Odile Chilton
CRN	97083
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm OLINLC 208
Distribution	Foreign Language, Literature & Culture

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 240 Travel, Discovery and Self-Discovery in French and Francophone  Literature.
Professor	Marie-Helene Koffi-Tessio
CRN	97084
Schedule	Tu 10:30 – 11:50 am OLIN 310 Th 10:30 – 11:50 am OLIN 305
Distribution	Foreign Language, Literature & Culture

This course will focus on the theme of travel and discovery in  French and Francophone literary texts. For each work, we will study  the specific meaning(s) and representation(s) of traveling-- allegorical, imaginary or real--and the impact it has on the  protagonist's life and on us as readers. We will also work on  approaches to literary texts and acquire pertinent vocabulary to  discuss them. The corpus for this course will be composed of prose  and poetry from different centuries."

Course	FREN 305 Contemporary French Thought
Professor	Eric Trudel
CRN	97086
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 301
Distribution	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, Lévinas, Nancy and Rancière. 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 is taught in French. No online registration.