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
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
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
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
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
91325 |
HIST 327 The French
Revolution |
Alice Stroup |
M . . . . |
1:30 -3:50 pm |
OLIN 308 |
|
91544 |
HUM 206 European
Studies Seminar |
Gregory Moynahan / Joseph Luzzi |
. T . Th . |
10:10 - 11:30
am |
OLIN 102 |
FLCL |
91255 |
LIT 2031 Ten Plays
that Shook the World |
Justus Rosenberg |
M . W . . |
10:10 - 11:30
am |
OLIN 301 |
ELIT |
GERMAN STUDIES (all German
language classes)
91722 |
HIST 141 A Haunted Union: Twentieth-Century
Germany and the Unifications
of Europe |
Gregory Moynahan |
. T . Th . |
1:30 -2:50 pm |
RKC 115 |
HIST |
91544 |
HUM 206 European
Studies Seminar |
Gregory Moynahan / Joseph Luzzi |
. T . Th . |
10:10 - 11:30
am |
OLIN 102 |
FLCL |