11118 |
FREN 106 Basic Intensive French |
Odile Chilton / Eric Trudel |
M T W Th F |
9:00 - 10:00 am |
OLINLC 210 |
FLLC |
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11:40 - 12:40 pm |
OLINLC 210 |
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(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). Students must consult with Profs. Odile Chilton or Eric Trudel
before on-line registration.
11119 |
FREN 203 Intermediate French III |
Odile Chilton |
M T . Th . |
10:30 - 11:30 am |
OLINLC 206 |
FLLC |
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.
11526 |
FREN 238
Survey of French Literature: The Middle Ages & The Renaissance |
Karen Sullivan |
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4:00 -5:20 pm |
ASP 302 |
FLLC |
Cross-listed:
Medieval Studies This course will introduce students to the major texts of French literature
between the late eleventh and sixteenth centuries. We will read the Chanson de Roland, the famous epic
account of the battle between Charlemagne’s army and the forces of Muslim
Spain; the early Arthurian romances about Lancelot and Guinevere and Tristan
and Iseut; the Breton lais of Marie de France; the lyric poetry of the Old
Provençal troubadours and the Old French trouvères; the last will and testament
of the poet-thief François Villon; the mock epic Gargantua of the humanist and renegade monk François Rabelais; and
the nouvelles (or tales) of
Marguerite de Navarre, the sister to the Renaissance king François I. Texts
will be read in French, but class discussion will be in English, papers may be
in English or in French.
11122 |
FREN 270 Advanced Composition / Conversation |
Marina van Zuylen |
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10:30 - 11:50 am |
OLINLC 208 |
FLLC |
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.
11120 |
FREN 336 French Modernity, Memory, and the Poetics of History |
Eric Trudel |
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1:30 -3:50 pm |
OLIN 303 |
FLLC |
To
what extend can literature "give voice" – to quote Michelet –
"to the silences of History"? And how does memory shape history and
literature? These are the questions this course will investigate in the context
of 19th and 20th-century France. "Modernity"
implies an embrace of the new, and a violent (if at time painful) rupture with
tradition. Must literature bear witness to a past that is increasingly
perceived as a catastrophe? Our goal will be to define a "poetics" of
history, one that is tied to a new experience of time, in which the past
weighs, as Marx famously put it, "like a nightmare on the brain of the
living." Readings (and screenings) include Michelet, Baudelaire,
Chateaubriand, Flaubert, Hugo, Barthes, Duras, Gracq, Perec, Marker, Modiano,
Resnais, Salvayre, Simon and Volodine. Taught in French.