Basic Intensive French

 

Course Number: FREN 106

CRN Number: 11210

Class cap: 22

Credits: 8

 

Professor:

Odile Chilton and Eric Trudel

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon Tue Wed Thurs Fri   8:50 AM – 9:50 AM Olin Languages Center 208

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Mon Tue Wed Thurs Fri   10:10 AM – 11:10 AM Olin Languages Center 208

 

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit  

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 extra credits). Students will also meet an extra hour a week in small conversation groups with the French tutor. Students must consult with Prof. Odile Chilton before on-line registration

 

French Intermediate III

 

Course Number: FREN 203

CRN Number: 11211

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Odile Chilton

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon Tue  Thurs    10:10 AM – 11:10 AM Olin Languages Center 210

 

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit  

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

 

French Conversation and Composition

 

Course Number: FREN 270

CRN Number: 11212

Class cap: 20

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Gabriella Lindsay

 

Schedule/Location:

  Wed  Fri   11:50 AM – 1:10 PM Olin Languages Center 210

 

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit  

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.

 

Madame Bovary’s Afterlife

 

Course Number: FREN 321

CRN Number: 11213

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Marina van Zuylen

 

Schedule/Location:

  Wed     4:00 PM – 6:20 PM Olin 309

 

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit  

 

Crosslists:

Literature

This seminar is a deep read of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1856). It will address the complexities of translation (we will compare Karl Marx's daughter Eleanor Marx's 1886 version to Lydia Davis' (2011). We will Flaubert's struggle with censorship (the novel was put on trial in 1857), and the way the book revolutionized fiction and inspired Modernism. Through Flaubert's obsession with Cervantes' Don Quixote, we will examine how novels have been the objects of suspicion and elation. Could Madame Bovary be about the dangers of reading and yet redemptive to its own readers? We will watch film adaptations as well as read Posy Simmons' brilliant graphic novel (and Anne Fontaine's film adaptation) Gemma Bovery. Taught in French.

 

Romanesque & Gothic Art & Architecture

 

Course Number: ARTH 120

CRN Number: 11105

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Katherine Boivin

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    10:10 AM – 11:30 AM Fisher Studio Arts ANNEX

 

Distributional Area:

AA  Analysis of Art   

 

Crosslists:

French Studies; Medieval Studies

 

Bread & Wine: France, 1315-1825

 

Course Number: HIST 146

CRN Number: 11251

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Tabetha Ewing

 

Schedule/Location:

  Wed  Fri   3:30 PM – 4:50 PM Olin 201

 

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis  

 

Crosslists:

French Studies

 

Contagion

 

Course Number: HIST 381

CRN Number: 11313

Class cap: 12

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Tabetha Ewing

 

Schedule/Location:

    Fri   12:30 PM – 2:50 PM Reem Kayden Center 101

 

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

 

Crosslists:

French Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Human Rights

 

Equal in Paris? Race, Identity, and Belonging in Post-War French Thought

 

Course Number: HR 394

CRN Number: 11323

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Adam Shatz

 

Schedule/Location:

  Wed     9:10 AM – 11:30 AM Olin 302

 

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

 

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; French Studies; Global & International Studies

 

The Rebel: How the Literature and Philosophy of Albert Camus Can Teach Us to Live, Love and Die

 

Course Number: HR 398

CRN Number: 11327

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Thomas Williams

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      12:30 PM – 2:50 PM Olin 301

 

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value  

 

Crosslists:

French Studies

 

Kings and Queens in European History and Literature

 

Course Number: LIT 212

CRN Number: 11394

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Karen Sullivan

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    1:30 PM – 2:50 PM Aspinwall 302

 

Distributional Area:

LA  Literary Analysis in English   

 

Crosslists:

French Studies; Medieval Studies

 

Far from Paris: Voices and Visions from Africa and the Caribbean

 

Course Number: LIT 262

CRN Number: 11392

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Gabriella Lindsay

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    5:10 PM – 6:30 PM Olin 204

 

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit  

 

Crosslists:

French Studies; Human Rights; Middle Eastern Studies