Intermediate French I |
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Course
Number: FREN 201 |
CRN Number: 91975 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits:
4 |
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Professor: |
Odile Chilton |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Tue Thurs
8:50 AM – 9:50 AM 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.
Intermediate French II |
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Course
Number: FREN 202 |
CRN Number: 91976 |
Class cap: 18 |
Credits:
4 |
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Professor: |
Gabriella Lindsay |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Wed Fri 11:50 AM – 12:50
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.
French Through Film |
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Course
Number: FREN 220 |
CRN Number: 91977 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits:
4 |
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Professor: |
Odile Chilton |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed 10:10 AM
– 11:30 AM Olin Languages Center 120 |
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Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign
Languages and Lit |
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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 |
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Course
Number: FREN 240 |
CRN Number: 91978 |
Class cap: 18 |
Credits:
4 |
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Professor: |
Gabriella Lindsay |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs 1:30 PM
– 2:50 PM Olin Languages Center 120 |
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Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign
Languages and Lit D+J
Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
Literature
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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 |
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Course
Number: FREN 346 |
CRN Number: 91979 |
Class cap: 16 |
Credits:
4 |
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Professor: |
Eric Trudel |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon 3:10 PM
– 5:30 PM Aspinwall 302 |
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Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign
Languages and Lit |
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Crosslists: |
Literature
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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 |
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Course
Number: ARTH 257 |
CRN Number: 91860 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits:
4 |
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Professor: |
Laurie Dahlberg |
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Schedule/Location: |
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: |
French
Studies; Victorian Studies |
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Inventing Modernity: Commune, Renaissance, and Reformation
in Western Europe, 1291-1806 |
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Course
Number: HIST 184 |
CRN Number: 92449 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits:
4 |
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Professor: |
Gregory Moynahan |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Thurs 1:30 PM
– 2:50 PM Olin 201 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical
Analysis |
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Crosslists: |
French
Studies; German Studies; Italian Studies |
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Black Modernisms |
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Course
Number: HIST 2271 |
CRN Number: 92050 |
Class cap: 15 |
Credits:
4 |
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Professor: |
Tabetha Ewing |
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Schedule/Location: |
Wed Fri 3:30 PM
– 4:50 PM Olin 305 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical
Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
Africana
Studies; French Studies; Human Rights |
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Proust: In Search of Lost Time |
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Course
Number: LIT 215 |
CRN Number: 92457 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits:
4 |
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Professor: |
Êric Trudel |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs 1:30 PM
– 2:50 AM Olin 101 |
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Distributional Area: |
LA Literary
Analysis in English |
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Crosslists: |
French
Studies |
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Beyond the Work Ethic: The Uses and Misuses of Idleness |
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Course
Number: LIT 3013 |
CRN Number: 92154 |
Class cap: 15 |
Credits:
4 |
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Professor: |
Marina van Zuylen |
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Schedule/Location: |
Fri 12:30 PM
– 2:50 PM Olin 301 |
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Distributional Area: |
LA Literary
Analysis in English |
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Crosslists: |
French
Studies |
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From Structuralism to Deconstruction |
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Course
Number: PHIL 323 |
CRN Number: 92095 |
Class cap: 16 |
Credits:
4 |
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Professor: |
Robert Weston |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon 3:10 PM
– 5:30 PM Olin 304 |
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Distributional Area: |
MBV Meaning,
Being, Value |
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Crosslists: |
French
Studies; Human Rights |
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