91483

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: 20

91484

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: 20

91485

FREN 220 French through Film

Odile Chilton

M . W . .

1:30 -2:50 pm

OLINLC 206

FLLC

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. Conducted in French. Class size: 20

91486

FREN 240 The Quest for Authenticity: Topics in French Literature

Marina van Zuylen

. T . Th .

11:50 -1:10 pm

OLINLC 210

FLLC

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. Class size: 20

91862

FREN / LIT 315 Proust: In Search of Lost Time

Eric Trudel

M . W . .

1:30 -2:50 pm

OLIN 306

ELIT

See Literature section for description.

91487

FREN 329 Autobiography and its Discontents

Eric Trudel

. T . Th .

3:10 -4:30 pm

OLINLC 210

FLLC

Cross-listed: Literature This course will deal with questions such as “What does it mean to write one’s life?” and “How does one write the self?” and, in doing so, will examine the ongoing debates about the status of autobiography – and its recent developments – in 20^th and 21^st Century French literature and literary criticism. We will begin with a consideration of the problem of confession, and appraise the renewal of forms and genres – such as “autofiction” – by which “the language of an adventure” is entrusted to “the adventure of language” (Serge Doubrovsky). The argument that autobiography in fact names a mode of reading will also be considered when we address the question of memory and writing. Readings include works by Christine Angot, Roland Barthes, François Bon, André Breton, Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux, André Gide, HervéGuibert, Michel Leiris, Georges Perec, Georges Perros, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Nathalie Sarraute. Additional readings by literary critics such as Georges Gusdorf, Phillipe Lejeune, Paul de Man, Serge Doubrovsky, and Régine Robin, among others. Taught in French. Class size: 15

91927

ARTH 221 Romanesque & Gothic Art and Architecture

Katherine Boivin

. T . Th .

11:50 – 1:10 pm

OLIN 102

AART

91664

HIST 2391 Reason and Passions

Alice Stroup

. T . Th .

11:50 -1:10 pm

OLIN 205

HIST

91489

LIT 204C Comparative Literature III

Marina van Zuylen

. T . Th .

3:10 -4:30 pm

OLIN 201

ELIT

91533

LIT 2031 Ten Plays that Shook the World

Justus Rosenberg

M . W . .

10:10 - 11:30 am

OLIN 101

ELIT

91853

LIT 315 Proust: In Search of Lost Time

Eric Trudel

M . W . .

1:30 -2:50 pm

OLIN 309

ELIT

91545

LIT 3228 Cosmopolitanism, Secularism, and Modernity in North African Fiction

Nuruddin Farah

. T . . .

3:10 -5:30 pm

OLINLC 208

FLLC