Course:

FREN 106  Basic Intensive French

Professor:

Odile Chilton  

CRN:

15522

Schedule/Location:

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

AND

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

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit  

Credits: 8

 

Class cap: 22

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.

 

Course:

FREN 203  French Intermediate III

Professor:

Gabriella Lindsay  

CRN:

15523

Schedule/Location:

Mon Wed Thurs     8:50 AM – 9:50 AM Olin 305

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 18

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

 

Course:

FREN 270  Advanced Composition & Conversation

Professor:

Marina van Zuylen  

CRN:

15524

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    3:30 PM – 4:50 PM Olin Languages Center 210

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 18

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.

 

Course:

FREN 306  Representing Violence: The Algerian War and its Afterlives

Professor:

Gabriella Lindsay  

CRN:

15546

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      3:30 PM – 5:50 PM Olin 305

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 15

Crosslists: Africana Studies; Human Rights; Middle Eastern Studies

How do aesthetic works deepen or destabilize political or social discourses on violence? Is this their role? Are some forms, media, or genres more legitimate or effective than others to do this work? Does beauty or taste matter or should we privilege political and historical interpretations? In this class, we will explore these questions by focusing on works that treat the Algerian War (1954-1962) and its afterlives in France. The cultural and psychic effects of this violent history have only recently been the subject of wide discussion in academic and public spheres. We will examine these themes in a wide range of literary and filmic materials, from the late nineteen fifties to the contemporary period. We will read both highly celebrated texts, as well as works of popular culture, in order to consider how the Algerian War functions in the French imaginary. We will explore the insights and limitations of literature and art in representing violence and suffering and reflect on some of the ways literary and filmic representations are connected to the social, political and historical dynamics of modern and contemporary life. Conducted in French.

 

 

Course:

ARTH 258  European Painting 1850-1900

Professor:

Laurie Dahlberg  

CRN:

15501

Schedule/Location:

  Wed  Fri   11:50 AM – 1:10 PM Olin 102

Distributional Area:

AA Analysis of Art  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 22

Crosslists: French Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies

 

Course:

HIST 184  Inventing Modernity: Commune, Renaissance, and Reformation in Western Europe, 1291-1806

Professor:

Gregory Moynahan  

CRN:

15603

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    8:30 AM – 9:50 AM Olin 205

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 22

Crosslists: French Studies; German  Studies; Italian Studies