Course	FREN 106 Basic Intensive French
Professor	Odile Chilton / Eric Trudel
CRN	17426
Schedule	M T W Th F 9:20- 10:20 am Olin LC 208 M T W Th F 1:30-2:30 pm Olin LC 208
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 variety 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 (successful completion of the course in France carries 4 additional credits).

Course	FREN 203 Intermediate French III
Professor	Odile Chilton
CRN	17427
Schedule	Mon Tu Th 10:30- 11:30 am Olin LC 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. Students will meet the French tutor for one extra hour during week for workshops.

Course	FREN 252 Autrement dit: Paroles de Femme
Professor	Marina van Zuylen
CRN	17454
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 – 2:50 pm Olin 302
Distribution	OLD: B/D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature & Culture

Cross-listed: Gender & Sexuality Studies

This course introduces students to the diversity of French women’s voices in literature and cinema in the 20^th century. Readings of contemporary women writers will include works by Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Maryse Condé, Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux, Anne Hébert, Catherine Millet, Amélie Nothomb and Nathalie Sarraute. Movies by Chantal Ackerman, Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis, Marguerite Duras and Agnès Varda will be shown and discussed. Conducted in French. Four years of French required.

Course	FREN 335 Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé
Professor	Eric Trudel
CRN	17428
Schedule	Mon 9:30- 11:50 am Olin 301
Distribution	OLD: B/D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature & Culture

A poetic revolution was brought to the theory and practices of 19^th century French poetry by three of its most illustrious figures: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Mallarmé. As Victor Hugo’s age of lyric romanticism came to an end, these poets took full measure of a modern subjectivity in crisis by making it a crisis of form, with increasing disenchantment, irony, self-reflexivity, and obscurity. Their challenge to figurative language ultimately brought poetry dangerously close to silence, madness or death. We will, through a succession of close readings, assess the range of this poetic revolution, one that constantly questioned the limits of literature and the very possibility of meaning. Taught in French. Primary texts in French, secondary sources in English. Readings include Les Fleurs du Mal and Le Spleen de Paris (Baudelaire), Illuminations and Une Saison en enfer (Rimbaud), Poesies (Mallarmé).