French
Intermediate French I |
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Professor:
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Odile Chilton
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Course
Number: |
FREN 201 |
CRN Number: |
90091 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon Tue Thurs
8:50 AM - 9:50 AM Olin
Languages Center 208 |
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Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit |
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For students with three to four years of high school French
or who have acquired a solid knowledge of elementary grammar. In this course,
designed as an introduction to contemporary 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 in small groups with the French tutor for one extra hour per week. |
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Intermediate French II |
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Professor:
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Gabriella Lindsay
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Course
Number: |
FREN 202 |
CRN Number: |
90092 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue Thurs
Fri
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Olin
Languages Center 120 |
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Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit |
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For students with three to four years of high school French
or who have acquired a solid knowledge of elementary grammar. In this course,
designed as an introduction to contemporary 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 in small groups, with the
French tutor for one extra hour per week. |
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French Through Translation |
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Professor:
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Odile Chilton
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Course
Number: |
FREN 215 |
CRN Number: |
90093 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon Wed 10:10 AM
- 11:30 AM Olin Languages Center 210 |
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Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit |
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Intended to help students fine-tune their command of French
and develop a good sense for the most appropriate ways of communicating ideas
and facts in French, this course emphasizes translation both as an exercise
as well as a craft in its own right. The course will also address
grammatical, lexical and stylistic issues. Translation will be practiced from
English into French, and vice versa, with a variety of texts drawn from
different genres (literary and journalistic). Toward the end of the semester,
students will be encouraged to embark on independent projects. |
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Life as Theater, Theater as Life:
Performing French Plays from Beckett to the Present |
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Professor:
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Gabriella Lindsay
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Course
Number: |
FREN 262 |
CRN Number: |
90094 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue Thurs 5:10 PM
- 6:30 PM Fisher Performing Arts Center
STUDIO NO. |
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Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit |
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Crosslists: |
Theater and Performance |
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“We must believe in a sense of life renewed by the theater”
Antonin Artaud wrote in his 1938 collection of essays, "Le Théâtre et
son double". Through acting exercises, improvisations and the study of
plays and essays, this class will explore what this ‘life renewed by the
theater' can look, feel and sound like in French. From the absurdist plays of
Jean Tardieu, the minimalism of Samuel Backett, and the anti-characters of
Nathalie Sarraute to the postcolonial 'writing back' of Aimé Césaire and the
psychological probing of Marie NDiaye, we will explore a wide range of
themes, styles, and voices. Assignments will consist of acting exercises,
scene studies, in-class performances and written reflections, and will work
to strengthen students' spoken and written expression and comprehension in
French. Playwrights to be studied may include Samuel Beckett, Marguerite
Duras, Jean Tardieu, Jean-Genet, Aimé Césaire, Nathalie Sarraute, Eugene
Ionesco, Wajdi Mouawad, Bernard-Marie Koltès, Marie NDiaye, Yasmina Reza. Course
will be conducted in French and students should be roughly at the
intermediate level or above (if you have any questions about your level,
please contact the instructor). No previous acting or theatre experience is
necessary. |
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“La Beauté est dans la rue”: When
Literature Takes to the Streets |
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Professor:
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Eric Trudel |
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Course
Number: |
FREN 347 |
CRN Number: |
90095 |
Class cap: |
15 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon 3:10 PM
- 5:30 PM Olin Languages Center 118 |
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Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit |
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According to Balzac, the street lends itself to a
"gastronomy of the eyes;" like Poe, Baudelaire sees it as the quintessential
territory of the "man of the crowds," the artist dedicated to
modern life. Apollinaire sings its industrial "swank" as if to
rejuvenate poetry and Breton, along with other Surrealists (and later on the
Situationists), claims that it should be explored as the "only region of
valid experience." Perec, meanwhile, hopes to practice a way to
"see more flatly" simply by describing it. The Parisian street –
simultaneously a place of exchange, chance encounters, perambulation, idleness,
flirting, exclusion, revolution and emancipation – continues to fascinate
writers. This course aims to examine "la rue" – and, by extension,
urban space – in its various literary representations, from the 19th century
through May 68 and up to the present day. While our investigation will
emphasize the formal innovations and the generic ambiguities that this
singular location gives rise to, we will also systematically approach the
street as a contested space in the aesthetic, philosophical and political
realms. Writers on the syllabus include: Apollinaire, Aragon, Balzac,
Baudelaire, Breton, Chauvier, Clerc, Debord, Divry, Kaplan, Modiano, Queneau,
Perec, Réda, Sebbar, and Zola. Taught in French. |
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Cross-listed Courses:
Romanesque & Gothic Art & Architecture |
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Professor:
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Katherine Boivin |
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Course
Number: |
ARTH 120 |
CRN Number: |
90569 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue
Thurs 1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Fisher Studio Arts ANNEX |
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Distributional Area: |
AA Analysis of Art |
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Crosslists: |
Architecture; French Studies; Medieval Studies |
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Painters of Modern Life: European
Modernism 1850-1900 |
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Professor:
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Laurie Dahlberg
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Course Number: |
ARTH 258 |
CRN Number: |
90068 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue Thurs 1:30 PM
- 2:50 PM Olin 102 |
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Distributional Area: |
AA Analysis of Art |
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Crosslists: |
French Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; German Studies |
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A Political History of Common Sense |
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Professor:
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Tabetha Ewing
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Course
Number: |
HIST 231 |
CRN Number: |
90336 |
Class cap: |
18 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue Thurs 5:10 PM
- 6:30 PM Olin 203 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical Analysis |
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Crosslists: |
Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies; French Studies;
Human Rights |
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French Existentialism in Fiction |
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Professor:
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Eric Trudel |
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Course
Number: |
LIT 120 |
CRN Number: |
90273 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue Thurs 1:30 PM
- 2:50 PM Olin 202 |
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Distributional Area: |
LA Literary Analysis in English |
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Crosslists: |
French Studies |
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