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91212 |
FREN 201 Intermediate
French I |
Odile Chilton |
M T . Th . |
8:50 -9:50 am |
OLINLC 118 |
FLLC |
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.
Students will meet in small groups, with the French tutor for one
extra hour per week. Class size: 22
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91213 |
FREN 202 Intermediate
French II |
Odile Chilton |
M T . Th . |
10:10 - 11:10
am |
OLINLC 118 |
FLLC |
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. Students will meet in small groups, with the French tutor for one extra
hour per week. Class size: 22
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91214 |
FREN 215 French
Translation |
Odile Chilton |
M . W . . |
1:30 -2:50 pm |
OLINLC 118 |
FLLC |
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. Class
size: 22
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91215 |
FREN 221 Introduction
to French Thought: From Montaigne to Deleuze |
Marina van Zuylen |
. T . Th . |
10:10 - 11:30
am |
OLINLC 120 |
FLLC |
Selecting from short seminal literary,
historical, and philosophical texts, this class will trace some of the major
intellectual conflicts that have shaped la pense
franaise from Montaigne to Deleuze. Authors will often be paired to
encourage students to think dialectically. Among the topics studied:
humanism/anti-humanism (Montaigne and Rabelais), the mind/body question
(Descartes and Racine), enlightenment/anti-enlightenment (Voltaire and
Rousseau), the French Revolution (Siys and Olympe de Gouge), Napoleon (Stendhal and Le Mmorial de St Hlne), Romanticism (George Sand
and Madame de Stal), modernity and its enemies
(Baudelaire and Haussman), literature and science
(Balzac and Zola), fin-de-sicle music (Debussy and Maeterlinck), , the
creative process (Bergson and Proust), Feminism/anti-feminism (Cixous and Irigaray), semiotics
(Saussure and Barthes), deconstruction and la nouvelle histoire (Derrida
and Furet), and post-structuralism (Deleuze and Guattari). Taught in French. Class
size: 18
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91217 |
FREN 343 The
Invention of the Avant-garde in France |
Eric Trudel |
. T . . . |
1:30 -3:50 pm |
OLINLC 118 |
FLLC |
In My Heart Laid Bare, Charles
Baudelaire, considering the growing reference in his days to the avant-garde
or the vanguard of literature, mocked the Frenchmens passionate
predilection for military metaphors, and wryly concluded: in this country,
every metaphor wears a moustache. Indeed, a good deal of the modern history of
French literature, from Arthur Rimbaud in the late 19th Century to
Guy Debord and the Situationists
in the 1960s, seems inseparable from that of the Avant-Garde,
its repeated radical attempts to embrace the new and as Rimbaud famously
put it to change life. This course aims to retrace the genealogy of this
notion and sketch the history of its burning ambition. A constant preoccupation
for community and group poetics, the uneasy rapport of the aesthetic and the
political, and a paradoxical understanding of the Present, of Time and History
will also be examined. The class is taught in
French, with secondary readings in English (Adorno,
Burger, Compagnon, Poggioli,
Foster, etc.). Class size: 18