Course no. FREN 103
Title Intermediate French
Professor Odile Chilton
Schedule Mo Tu Th 9:20 am-10:20 am Lang Ctr 118
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CRN 93147

A course designed for students who have completed Basic French or two years of high-school French. The emphasis will be placed on building vocabulary and reinforcing familiarity with grammar. Through the reading of short texts, students will be encouraged to express themselves with confidence and accuracy on a variety of topics both in speaking and in writing.



Course no. FREN 220
Title French Through Film
Professor Odile Chilton
Schedule Mo Tu Th 10:30 am-11:30 am Lang Ctr 118

screening once a week at a time tba

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CRN 93149

In this intermediate course we will explore major themes of French culture and civilization through the study of films from the "cinéma pionnier" to the "cinéma d'auteu" (Melies, Renoir, Truffaut, Kassowitz). We will pay special attention to the evolution of cinematographic narration to see how on the one hand our perception of time and space has influenced films and on the other how films have influenced our vision of the world. Students should have completed French 104, 106 or at least four years of high-school French.



Course no. FREN 270
Title Advanced French Composition and Conversation
Professor André Aciman
Schedule Mon Wed 11:00 am-12:20 pm Lang Ctr 210
Distrib. B/D
CRN 93148

Intended to help students fine-tune their command of spoken and written French, this course focuses on short works of fiction about which students are encouraged both to write short papers and to which they will devote class discussions. The atmosphere is warm and intimate, and the reading is intended to provide students with the very best shorter works by nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors: Constant, Sand, Stendhal, Flaubert, Maupassant, Proust, Gide, Sartre, Camus, Robbe-Grillet. Short reviews of grammar will also accompany the course.



Course no. FREN 303
Title Topics in French Literature, Part I
Professor André Aciman
Schedule Mon Wed 3:00 pm-4:20 pm Lang Ctr 118
Distrib. B/D
CRN 93150

This is the first in a two-part series of courses designed to introduce students of French to masterpieces of French literature. The course is designed to give students a solid grounding in the history and development of French literature and ideas from the Middle Ages to the middle of the eighteenth century. This course will focus on the romance of Tristan and Iseult, the poems of Marie de France, the birth of Humanism (Marguerite de Navarre, Rabelais and Montaigne), poets of the Pléiade, French Classicism (Racine, Molière), the crisis in French thought (Descartes, Pascal), and the rise of the Enlightenment with Bayle, Voltaire and Diderot. Open to students with at least two years of French.



Course no. FREN 318
Title Introduction to African Literature in French
Professor Emmanuel Dongala
Schedule Wed 3:00 pm-5:00 pm Olin 310
Distrib. B/D
CRN 93459

Cross-listed: AADS
This seminar is designed for students who wish to discover African literature written in French through the reading of the original French texts. The course will examine the formal structures of the texts and wherever appropriate will discuss the political, social and historical context of their production. The reading will cover a wide range of writers, from the n�gritude movement to present day writers, including the emerging women writers. Although some short stories and short extracts of some texts will be read, students are expected to read three full length novels per semester. The course is conducted in French.



Course no. FREN 407
Title La Condition Humaine en Poésie
Professor Justus Rosenberg
Schedule Mon 1:20 pm-3:20 pm Olin 306
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CRN 93151

Designed for students desirous to develop a deeper awareness and appreciation of French poetry and to enable them to discourse and write about it with clarity, accuracy and critical understanding. The method used is that of the "explication de textes" which accords equal importance to grammatical structure, nuances of vocabulary, stylistic devices, tonal, visual and tactile associations, and the relationship between language and thought. Discussed and analyzed are nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets--such as Baudelaire, Hugo, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Prévert, Eluard, Aragon, Reverdy, Ponge, Michaux, Char, Desnos, Bonnefoy, Senghor and Césaire--who strive for a more direct relationship with things, matter, inner demons and daily reality. Conducted entirely in French. Prerequisite: reasonable fluency in French.