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

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 (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 Prof. Odile Chilton before on-line registration. Class size: 22

17043

FREN 203

Intermediate French III

Odile Chilton

M T Th 10:10am-11:10am

OLINLC 210

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

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

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

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

17230

LIT 3013

BEYOND THE WORK ETHIC: THE USES AND MISUSES OF IDLENESS

Marina van Zuylen

W 1:30pm-3:50pm

OLIN 101

ELIT

Cross-listed: French Studies Class size: 15

17331

WRIT 325

Translating "Illuminations"

Wyatt Mason

W 1:30pm-3:50pm

HAC SEMINAR

PART

Cross-listed: French Studies Class size: 10