CRN	14020	Distribution	D
Course No.	FREN 106
Title	Basic Intensive French
Professor	Odile Chilton / Eric Trudel
Schedule	M T W Th Fr 8:50 am - 9:50 am LC 206 M T W Th Fr 11:30 am - 12:30 pm LC 206

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	14420	Distribution	D
Course No.	FREN 202
Title	Intermediate French II
Professor	Eric Trudel
Schedule	Tu Th 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm OLIN 303 Wed 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm OLIN 305

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	14219	Distribution	D
Course No.	FREN 220
Title	French Through Film
Professor	Odile Chilton
Schedule	Mon Th 10:00 am - 11:20 am LC 208

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'auteur" (Melies, Renoir, Truffaut). 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.

CRN	14231	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	FREN 295
Title	Readings: Contemporary French Thought
Professor	Marina van Zuylen
Schedule	Wed Fr 11:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 310

By focusing on seminal texts from the major schools of twentieth-century French thought, this course will draw from a selection of shorter works that have had particular significance for philosophy, psychoanalysis, linguistics, literary theory, and sociology. The class is designed both for students who have completed successfully intermediate French and for those with a more advanced mastery of the language. Less fluent students will read closely from shorter texts excerpted from larger works (i.e., Derrida's Grammatologie, Deleuze's Anti-Oedipe, Lacan's Écrits), while more advanced students will have the option of concentrating more extensively on authors and texts of their choice. Readings include Saussure, Barthes, Sartre, Kristeva, Cixous, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Deleuze, Lyotard, Blanchot.

Pre-requisite: French 202, or the equivalent.

CRN	14232	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	FREN 337
Title	The Novel in Crisis: French Twentieth-Century Fiction
Professor	Eric Trudel
Schedule	Mon 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm OLIN 301

This course offers an introduction to major novels of 20th Century France. From Proust’s and Gide’s self-reflective narrations, through Celine’s violence, Sartre’s Existentialism, Camus' Absurde, all the way to the formal experiments of the New Novel and Oulipo, the evolution of the French Novel reflects the fate of a disintegrating genre, where mimesis is rejected. Through close readings and scrutiny of the socio-historical context, we will pay special attention to the figure of the solitary anti-hero, emphasize the ambiguity of political commitment, while incorporating relevant aesthetic theories. Texts includes works of Proust, Gide, Céline, Sartre, Camus, Duras, des Forêts, Robbe-Grillet and Perec. Secondary readings in English. Taught in French.