Course:

FREN 201  Intermediate French I

Professor:

Odile Chilton  

CRN:

90211

Schedule:

Mon Tue  Thurs    8:50 AM - 9:50 AM Olin Languages Center 120

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit

Class cap:

20

Credits:

4

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.

 

Course:

FREN 202  Intermediate French II

Professor:

Gabriella Lindsay  

CRN:

90527

Schedule:

Mon Wed  Fri    12:10 PM - 1:10 PM Olin Languages Center 118

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit

Class cap:

20

Credits:

4

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.

 

Course:

FREN 220  French Through Film

Professor:

Odile Chilton  

CRN:

90212

Schedule:

Mon  Wed     10:20 AM - 11:40 AM Olin Languages Center 120

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit

Class cap:

20

Credits:

4

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. The class is taught in French.

 

Course:

FREN 222  Introduction to Francophone Literature

Professor:

Gabriella Lindsay  

CRN:

90528

Schedule:

Mon  Wed     3:50 PM - 5:10 PM Olin Languages Center 206

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit

Class cap:

15

Credits:

4

Many of the most celebrated literary texts written in French in the 20th and 21st centuries were produced by writers from or with roots in countries outside France. These works are often categorized as ‘Francophone’ literature - a term that highlights their disputed status in relation to the established canon of ‘French’ literature. By introducing you to these texts, this course will allow you to explore the global and political dimension of the French language and will give you the opportunity to read and discuss a wide range of texts by writers from a variety of backgrounds. We will investigate the connections between language, literature and colonialism as well as the role of writers in the anti-colonial and postcolonial contexts. Questions around cultural, racial and gendered identities, as well the relationship between literature and politics will anchor the course. The class is taught in French.

 

Course:

FREN 336  The French Novel and the Poetics of Memory

Professor:

Eric Trudel  

CRN:

90213

Schedule:

Mon       2:00 PM - 4:20 PM Reem Kayden Center 102

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit

Class cap:

18

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Human Rights; Literature

How can literature "give voice" – to borrow the words of 19th century French historian Jules Michelet – "to the silences of History"? This course provides a broad overview of French fiction since World War II, and does so by focusing on 1) novels that address or revisit specific historical events or moments (such as the Occupation, the Shoah, France's colonial past, the Algerian War, and May 68), and 2) texts that bear witness to an intimate past, one that may escape the historical record but still very much weighs, as Marx famously put it, "like a nightmare on the brain of the living." As we reconsider the relationship between fiction, history and memory, we will review changing conceptions of the novel, will ask ourselves what are the "uses" and duties of literature, and investigate what remains of literature's responsibility after the age of commitment (Sartre). Authors will include Albert Camus, Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux, Laurent Mauvignier, Patrick Modiano, Georges Perec, Lydie Salvayre, Leïla Sebbar, Éric Vuillard and Alice Zeniter. The class is taught in French, with secondary (historical and theoretical) readings in English and French.

 

 

Course:

ARTH 257 Art in the Age of Revolution: European Painting 1750-1850

Professor:

Laurie Dahlberg  

CRN:

90474

Schedule:

 Tue  Thurs    10:20 AM - 11:40 AM Campus Center WEIS

Distributional Area:

AA Analysis of Art

Class cap:

20

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  French Studies

 

Course:

LIT 315  Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time"

Professor:

Eric Trudel 

CRN:

90276

Schedule:

 Tue  Thurs    3:50 PM - 5:10 PM Olin Language Center 115

Distributional Area:

LA Literary Analysis in English

Class cap:

20

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  French Studies