Course	FREN 106 Basic Intensive French
Professor	Odile Chilton / Eric Trudel
CRN	18063
Schedule	M T W Th Fr 9:20 - 10:20 am Olin L.C. 208 M T W Th Fr 1:30 - 2:30 pm Olin L.C. 208
Distribution	Foreign Language, Literature, and 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	18064
Schedule	Tu Wed Th 10:30 - 11:30 am Olin L.C. 208
Distribution	Foreign Language, Literature, and 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 232 Survey Francophone Literature / Tales of Childhood
Professor	Marie-Helene Koffi-Tessio
CRN	18109
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am Olin 107
Distribution	Foreign Language, Literature, and Culture

This course focuses on the ways the adult world, and society at large, are seen from a child’s perspective. We will study the specifics of that type of literature—writers turning towards the past and reminiscing, and adults writing from the point of view of a child--and discuss what those strategies imply. Our main focus will be on the following aspects: reconstruction of the past as utopia or ‘dystopia’; ritual(s) of passage to adulthood; social and historical satires. Texts include works of celebrated 20th Century African and Caribbean francophone writers Camara Laye, Maryse Condé, and Joseph Zobel.

Course	FREN 270 Advanced Composition & Conversation
Professor	Marie-Helene Koffi-Tessio
CRN	18065
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm Olin L.C. 210
Distribution	Foreign Language, Literature, and Culture

This course is primarily intended to help students fine-tune their command of spoken and written French. It focuses on a wide and diverse selection of writings (short works of fiction, poems, philosophical essays, political analysis, newspaper editorials or magazine articles, etc.) loosely organized around a single theme. The readings provide a rich ground for cultural investigation, intellectual exchange, in-class debates, in-depth examination of stylistics and, of course, vocabulary acquisition. Students are encouraged to write on a regular basis and expected to participate fully to class discussion and debates. A general review of grammar is also conducted throughout the course.

Course	FREN 337 The Novel in Crisis: French Twentieth-Century Fiction
Professor	Eric Trudel
CRN	18066
Schedule	Mon 9:30 - 11:50 am Olin 301
Distribution	Foreign Language, Literature, and Culture

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 Gide, Bataille, Céline, Sartre, Camus, des Forêts, Duras, Robbe-Grillet, Perec, and Toussaint. Secondary readings in English. Taught in French.