17042 |
FREN 106
Basic Intensive French |
Odile
Chilton Eric
Trudel |
M
T W
Th F 8:50am-9:50am M
T W
Th F 10:10am-11:10am |
OLINLC 208 |
FL |
FLLC |
(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 (with an extra hour of tutorial with the French assistant), using
a variety of pedagogical methods, and will be followed by a four‑week
stay at the Institut de Touraine (
17043 |
FREN 203
Intermediate French III |
Odile
Chilton |
M
T
Th 10:10am-11:10am |
OLINLC 210 |
FL |
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 the week for workshops. Class
size: 22
17044 |
FREN 221
Intro to French Thought |
Matthew
Amos |
T Th 3:10pm-4:30pm |
OLINLC 118 |
FL |
FLLC |
Selecting from
short seminal literary, historical, and philosophical texts, this class will
trace some of the major intellectual conflicts that have shaped la pensée française from
Montaigne to Deleuze. Authors will often
be paired to encourage students to think dialectically. Among the
topics studied: humanism/anti-humanism (Montaigne and Rabelais), the mind/body
question (Descartes and Racine), enlightenment/anti-enlightenment (Voltaire and
Rousseau), the French Revolution (Siéyès and Olympe de Gouge), Napoleon (Stendhal and Le Mémorial de St Hélène), Romanticism (George Sand
and Madame de Staël), modernity and its enemies
(Baudelaire and Haussman), literature and science
(Balzac and Zola), fin-de-siècle music (Debussy and Maeterlinck), , the
creative process (Bergson and Proust), Feminism/anti-feminism (Cixous and Irigaray), semiotics
(Saussure and Barthes), deconstruction and la nouvelle histoire (Derrida
and Furet), and post-structuralism (Deleuze and Guattari). Taught in French. Class
size: 18
17045 |
FREN 270
Advanced Composition/Converstn |
Marina
van Zuylen |
T Th 1:30pm-2:50pm |
OLINLC 206 |
FL |
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 in
class discussion and debates. A general review of grammar is also conducted
throughout the course. Class size: 22
17046 |
FREN 324
survey of 20th & 21st Century French Poetry |
Eric
Trudel |
M 1:30pm-3:50pm |
OLINLC 208 |
FL |
FLLC |
Cross-listed: Literature This course surveys major trends
in modern and contemporary French poetry, and documents the evolution and –
some would argue – exhaustion of poetic language from Rimbaud and Mallarmé’s
perplexing legacy to Surrealism’s celebration of the “image,” from Ponge’s
disgusted rejection of the lyrical “magma,” or du Bouchet’s minimalist poetry
all the way to contemporary playful experiments or attempts to disfigure a
literary form often considered “inadmissible.” This course, while providing
students with the opportunity to practice close reading, intends to examine the
precarious nature of modern French verse, consider the many accounts of a “crise de vers” (a “crisis”) in 20th and
21st century poetry (for its outcome is not inevitably negative), and study the
fate of a rather emaciated and breathless
lyrical “I.” Works by Alferi,
Albiach, Apollinaire, Aragon, Bonnefoy, Breton, Cadiot, Cendrars, Char,
Collobert, Éluard, Fourcade, Guillevic, Hocquard, Jaccottet, Michaux, Perros,
Prigent, Ponge, Portugal, Roche, Roubaud, Tarkos and many others. Conducted in French. Class size: 18