Course	FREN 106 Basic Intensive French
Professor	Odile Chilton / Eric Trudel
CRN	15158
Schedule	M T W Th F 8:50 -9:50 am Olin L.C. 206 M T W Th F 11:30 - 12:30 pm Olin L.C. 206
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture

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 a vareity of 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.

Course	FREN 203 Intermediate French III
Professor	Odile Chilton
CRN	15494
Schedule	M T Th 10:00 - 11:00 am Olin L.C. 206
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture

In this continuation of the study of 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.

Course	FREN 240 Survey of French Literature (1750-1990): The Quest for Authenticity
Professor	Marina Van Zuylen
CRN	15165
Schedule	Wed 3:00 -4:20 pm OLIN 202 Fr 1:30 – 2:50 pm OLIN 202
Distribution	OLD: B/D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture

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.

Course	FREN 316 Marcel Proust’s ‘ À la recherche du temps perdu’
Professor	Eric Trudel
CRN	15160
Schedule	Mon 1:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 101
Distribution	OLD: B/D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture

Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu is about an elaborate, internal journey, at the end of which the narrator discovers the unifying pattern of his life both as a writer and human being. Famed for its style and its distinctive view of love, sex and cruelty, reading, language and memory, Proust's epic broke new ground in the invention of a genre that lies between fiction and autobiography. Through a semester devoted to the close reading of Du côté de chez Swann and Le temps retrouvé in their entirety and several key-excerpts taken from all the other volumes, we will try to understand the complex nature of Proust's masterpiece and, among other things, examine the ways by which it accounts for the temporality and new rhythms of modernity. We will also question the narrative and stylistic function of homosexuality, discuss the significance of the massive social disruption brought about by the Great War and see how the arts are represented and why they are seminal to the narration. Additional readings will include philosophy, art criticism and literary theory. The course is taught in French.