CRN

15091

Distribution

D

Course No.

FREN 106

Title

Basic Intensive French

Professor

Odile Chilton / Marina van Zuylen

Schedule

Mon Tu Wed Th Fri 8:50 am - 9:50 am LC 210
Mon Tu Wed Th Fri 11:30 am - 12:30 pm LC 210

8 credits. This course is designed for students who wish to acquire a strong grasp of the French language and culture in the shortest time possible. Students with little or no previous experience of French will complete the equivalent of three semesters of college-level French. The semester course meets ten hours a week, using the French in Action video series as well as other pedagogical methods, and will be followed by a four-week stay at the Institut de Touraine (Tours, France). There the students will continue daily intensive study of the French language and culture while living with French families.



CRN

15294

Distribution

D

Course No.

FREN 202

Title

Intermediate French II

Professor

Odile Chilton

Schedule

Mon Tu Th 10:00 am - 11:00 am LC 210
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.



CRN

15482

Distribution

D

Course No.

FREN 270

Title

Advanced French Composition

Professor

Mark Cohen

Schedule

Mon Wed 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm ALBEE 102
Intended to help students fine-tune their command of spoken and written French, this course focuses on short works of fiction around which students are encouraged both to write short weekly papers and to discuss these with the rest of the class. 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: Daudet, Constant, YourcenarSand, Stendhal, Flaubert, Proust, Gide, Sartre, Camus, Robbe-Grillet. Short reviews of grammar will also be conducted throughout the course.



CRN

15286

Distribution

B/D

Course No.

FREN 320

Title

Le Théâtre FranH ais du Vingtième Siècle

Professor

Justus Rosenberg

Schedule

Tu 10:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 307
A critical analysis of representative 20th century French comedies and tragedies from Jarry's Ubu roi, the first revolt against bourgeois morality and prevalent theater values, to Genet's Les Bonnes and the theater of cruelty. Beckett's Ah, les beaux jours and Ionesco's La Cantatrice chauve represent the theater of the absurd; poetic drama, affirming the power of language in the theater, is represented by Giraudoux's La Guerre de Troie; Cocteau's La Machine infernale is an example of surrealism; Sartre's Huit-clos and Anouilh's Antigone are examples of existentialism. Prerequisite: two years of French.



CRN

15479

Distribution

B/D

Course No.

FREN 327

Title

A Genealogy of French Morals

Professor

Marina van Zuylen

Schedule

Tu Th 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm LC 210
If we act morally, the French moralists believed, it is because we know we are being watched. If we believe in fidelity, it is because we are afraid of being betrayed. If we weep at our friend's funeral, it is because we are afraid nobody will weep at our own. Like the onion, we are all skin, all mask, and no core. What we call our identity is the face we present to others; perpetually on stage, we modulate our behavior according to fear, ambition, and hypocrisy. This cynical portrayal of humanity, at the core of the seventeenth century tradition of moralistes, began a trend of thinking that would permeate much of French literature and philosophy, a tradition that would view with suspicion the altruistic roots of our moral behavior. Readings will be excerpted from short selections of major French literary texts. Pascal (Pensées), La Fontaine (Fables), Molière (Misanthrope), Laclos (Liaisons dangereuses), Rousseau (Vicaire savoyard), Balzac (Père Goriot), Proust (Un Amour de Swann), Gide (L'Immoraliste), Céline (Mort à crédit), de Beauvoir (Mémoires d'une jeune fille bien rangée), and Sarraute (L'Usage de la parole). The class is aimed for students who have taken classes such as French Film or Intermediate French and wish to improve their writing and oral skills while being introduced to French literary studies. Conducted in French.