CRN	13166	Distribution	D
Course No.	FREN 106
Title	Basic Intensive French
Professor	Odile Chilton / Eric Trudel
Schedule	Mon Tu Wed Th Fr 8:50 am - 9:50 am LC 120 Mon Tu Wed Th Fr 11:30 am - 12:30 pm LC 120

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	13402	Distribution	D
Course No.	FREN 202
Title	Intermediate French II
Professor	Odile Chilton
Schedule	Mon Tu Th 10:00 am - 11:00 am OLIN 107 .

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	13214	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	FREN 270
Title	Advanced Composition and Conversation
Professor	Catherine Liu
Schedule	Tu Th 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN 310

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	13409	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	FREN 329
Title	Autobiography and its Discontents
Professor	Catherine Liu
Schedule	Wed 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm OLIN 306

This course will deal with the question "What is it to write a life?" and in doing so, follow the debates about the status of autobiography in French literary criticism and French literary history - as a literary form or historical and/or anthropological document. The argument that in fact autobiography names a mode of reading will also be considered when we address the question of memory and writing. We will begin with a consideration of the problem of confession, and deal with the question of writing. In addition to readings from St. Augustine, Montaigne Rousseau, Saint-Simon, we will read from the works of Michel Leiris, Marguerite Duras, Marie Cardinale as well as literary critics like Phillipe Lejeune, Paul de Man.

CRN	13211	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	FREN 332
Title	Poetic Objects: Poetry and Painting in the 20th Century
Professor	Eric Trudel
Schedule	Wed 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm LC 208 .

Throughout the 20th century, painting and poetry enjoyed what one might call a profoundly intimate and complex connection. Painters and poets evolved in the same circles, working side by side in various avant-garde movements. The sheer number of critical and theoretical texts on these art forms, of poems expressing common aesthetical ideas and concerns, of links between both forms of expression is simply astounding. One needs only to evoke Apollinaire's works on cubism, Aragon's texts on collage, Éluard's poems dedicated to Ernst and Chirico, or even Ponge's fascination with the "Atelier contemporain" ("Contemporary Workshop"). In examining a selection of writings ( both poems and writing on arts), we will see that the vision carried by poets in their works about painters and their art is certainly the reflection of an on-going dialogue between painting and poetry, as well as, in some cases, a conscious emulation of the pictorial realm, when faced with meaning in crisis (Apollinaire's calligrammes or Michaux's alphabets). Concurrently, we will come to understand how these texts and this very vision become another thinking space in themselves, from which language, representation, lyricism and metaphor can be considered differently and from which each poet conceives of a new poetics. Moreover, these works will also tell us much about the very difficulty of writing about the visible and of translating it into something legible. Is this dialogue with art's "silent language" (Paulhan spoke of the contagious silence of pictorial forms) simply an illusion? And if literature could become a thinking tool about painting, to what extent can aesthetic help us read poetry? Among the works to be studied in this course: texts and poems by Apollinaire, Aragon, Artaud, Bonnefoy, Breton, Éluard, Jaccottet, Leiris, Michaux, Paulhan, Ponge, Reverdy and Valéry.