Intermediate French I

 

Course Number: FREN 201

CRN Number: 91975

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Odile Chilton

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon Tue  Thurs    8:50 AM9:50 AM Olin Languages Center 120

 

Distributional Area:

FL  Foreign Languages and Lit   

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.

 

Intermediate French II

 

Course Number: FREN 202

CRN Number: 91976

Class cap: 18

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Gabriella Lindsay

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue Wed  Fri   11:50 AM12:50 PM Olin Languages Center 120

 

Distributional Area:

FL  Foreign Languages and Lit   

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.

 

French Through Film

 

Course Number: FREN 220

CRN Number: 91977

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Odile Chilton

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     10:10 AM11:30 AM Olin Languages Center 120

 

Distributional Area:

FL  Foreign Languages and Lit   

In this intermediate course we will explore major themes of French culture and civilization through the study of individual films ranging from the silent era to the present and covering a wide variety of genres. We will examine the interaction between the French and their cinema in terms of historical circumstances, aesthetic ambitions, and self-representation. Conducted in French.

 

The Quest for Authenticity: Topics in Literature in French

 

Course Number: FREN 240

CRN Number: 91978

Class cap: 18

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Gabriella Lindsay

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    1:30 PM2:50 PM Olin Languages Center 120

 

Distributional Area:

FL  Foreign Languages and Lit  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

Literature

Serving as an overview of modern and contemporary literature in French, from the 18th century to our days, this class will focus on short texts (poems, plays, essays, letters, short stories) that reflect the fragile relationship between selfhood and authenticity. From Rousseau’s ambitious program of autobiography to Ndiaye’s project of paranoid self-portraiture, literature in French has staged with relish the classic tension between art, artifice, and authenticity and the ways in which this tension relates to forms of politics, power and postcoloniality. This has not only inaugurated an intensely individual and unstable relationship to the notion of truth, but has implicated the reader in this destabilizing process. This class will explore how the quest for authenticity has led to radical reevaluations of literary style. Readings from Rousseau, Lamartine, Hugo, Balzac, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Édouard, Ponge, Sartre, Camus, Ernaux, Chamoiseau, Condé, Ndiaye, and others. Taught in French. By addressing the ways in which notions of authenticity interact with questions of otherness, politics, and ethics, this course fills the Difference and Justice requirement.

 

Absolutely Modern: French Poetry from Baudelaire to the Present

 

Course Number: FREN 346

CRN Number: 91979

Class cap: 16

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Eric Trudel

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon       3:10 PM5:30 PM Aspinwall 302

 

Distributional Area:

FL  Foreign Languages and Lit   

 

Crosslists:

Literature

This course surveys some of the major trends and figures in modern and contemporary French poetry, from the mid-nineteenth to the 21st century. Will be considered, in turn, Charles Baudelaire’s “disfiguration” of poetry into prose; Mallarmé’s determination to “cede the initiative to words;” Guillaume Apollinaire’s embrace of the “Spirit of the New;” André Breton’s surrealist tactics; Césaire’s revolutionary lyricism; Francis Ponge’s materialism; Anne-Marie Albiach’s minimalism; and Emmanuel Hocquard’s littéralisme. We will also study radical experiments by the likes of Pierre Alferi, Olivier Cadiot and Anne Portugal who, more recently, have attempted to reinvigorate a genre often deemed to have become “inadmissible.” Throughout the semester, our aim will be to retrace the legacy of the lyrical tradition over the course of  a century and a half, as we compare many competing accounts of an ongoing “crise de vers” (a “crisis of verse”) and interrogate the fate of a progressively emaciated “I”. Close reading will be at the core of this seminar; students will be asked to engage regularly in translation.  Works by Alferi, Baudelaire, Apollinaire, Aragon, Bonnefoy, Breton, Cadiot, Cendrars, Char, Doppelt, Éluard, Fourcade, Foglia, Guillevic, Hocquard, Jaccottet, Mallarmé, Michaux, Perros, Prigent, Ponge, Portugal, Rimbaud, Roche, and Valéry, among others. Taught in French. 

 

European Painting/Age of Revolution

 

Course Number: ARTH 257

CRN Number: 91860

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Laurie Dahlberg

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    1:30 PM2:50 PM Fisher Studio Arts ANNEX

 

Distributional Area:

AA  Analysis of Art   

 

Crosslists:

French Studies; Victorian Studies

 

Inventing Modernity: Commune, Renaissance, and Reformation in Western Europe, 1291-1806

 

Course Number: HIST 184

CRN Number: 92449

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Gregory Moynahan

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon   Thurs    1:30 PM2:50 PM Olin 201

 

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

 

Crosslists:

French Studies; German Studies; Italian Studies

 

Black Modernisms

 

Course Number: HIST 2271

CRN Number: 92050

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Tabetha Ewing

 

Schedule/Location:

  Wed  Fri   3:30 PM4:50 PM Olin 305

 

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; French Studies; Human Rights

 

Proust: In Search of Lost Time

 

Course Number: LIT 215

CRN Number: 92457

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Êric Trudel

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    1:30 PM – 2:50 AM Olin 101

 

Distributional Area:

LA  Literary Analysis in English   

 

Crosslists:

French Studies

 

Beyond the Work Ethic: The Uses and Misuses of Idleness

 

Course Number: LIT 3013

CRN Number: 92154

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Marina van Zuylen

 

Schedule/Location:

    Fri   12:30 PM2:50 PM Olin 301

 

Distributional Area:

LA  Literary Analysis in English   

 

Crosslists:

French Studies

 

From Structuralism to Deconstruction

 

Course Number: PHIL 323

CRN Number: 92095

Class cap: 16

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Robert Weston

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon       3:10 PM5:30 PM Olin 304

 

Distributional Area:

MBV  Meaning, Being, Value   

 

Crosslists:

French Studies; Human Rights