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 AM – 9:50 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 AM – 12:50 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 AM – 11:30 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 PM – 2:50 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 18^th 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 PM – 5:30 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 21^st 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 PM – 2:50 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 PM – 2:50 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 PM – 4:50 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 PM – 2:50 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 PM – 5:30 PM Olin 304
	Distributional Area:		MBV  Meaning, Being, Value
	Crosslists:		French Studies; Human Rights