ELEMENTARY FRENCH I
The aim of the beginning French sequence (French 1101 and French 1102) is to help you to develop an active command of the language. Emphasis is placed on acquiring the four language skills--listening, speaking, reading and writing--within a cultural context, in order to achieve basic communicative proficiency.
- MTWR 8:50 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
- MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
- TRF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- TRF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Eric T Matheis
CULPA: 4
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Instructor:
Pauline Guedj
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Eric T Matheis
CULPA: 4
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Iziar de Miguel
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Instructor:
Marie-Helene Koffi-Tessio
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
ELEMENTARY FRENCH II
The aim of the beginning French sequence (French 1101 and French 1102) is to help you to develop an active command of the language. Emphasis is placed on acquiring the four language skills--listening, speaking, reading and writing--within a cultural context, in order to achieve basic communicative proficiency.
- TRF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- MTWR 8:50 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
- MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
- MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
- TRF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- MWR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Pauline Guedj
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Instructor:
Bryan Pirolli
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INTERMEDIATE FRENCH I
This course will further your awareness and understanding of the French language, culture and literature, provide a comprehensive review of fundamental grammar points while introducing more advanced ones, as well as improve your mastery of oral, reading, and writing skills. By the end of the course, you will be able to read short to medium-length literary and non-literary texts, and analyze and comment on varied documents and topics, both orally and in writing.
- TRF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- TRF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nadrah S Mohammed
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Instructor:
Sophie Queuniet
CULPA: 7
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Alexandre Bournery
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Benjamin M Olivennes
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
INTERMEDIATE FRENCH II
Prerequisites: FREN UN2121 Intermediate Conversation is a suggested, not required, corequisite Prepares students for advanced French language and culture. Develops skills in speaking, reading, and writing French. Emphasizes cross-cultural awareness through the study of short stories, films, and passages from novels. Fosters the ability to write about and discuss a variety of topics using relatively complex structures.
- MTWR 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
- TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- TRF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- MWR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
- MWR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
- TRF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Pascale Crepon
CULPA: 10
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Instructor:
Samuel A Clack
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Instructor:
Pascale Crepon
CULPA: 10
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Instructor:
Heidi Holst-Knudsen
CULPA: 20
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Instructor:
Hayet Sellami
CULPA: 3
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Indra Avens
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Instructor:
Marguerite J Van Cook
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ACCELERATED INTER FREN I + II
- TRF 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Samuel Skippon
CULPA: 13
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- 6 points
RAPID READING AND TRANSLATION
The course focuses on reading comprehension and translation into English and includes a grammar and vocabulary overview. It also addresses the differences between English and French syntax and raises questions of idiomatic versus literal translations.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sophie Queuniet
CULPA: 7
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- 3 points
INTERMED CONVERSATN FRENCH I
We will be working on pronunciation, vocabulary acquisition, listening comprehension, and oral expression. Activities will include listening comprehension exercises, skits, debates, and oral presentations, as well as discussions of films, songs, short films, plays, news, articles, short stories or other short written documents. Although grammar will not be the focus of the course, some exercises will occasionally aim at reviewing particular points. The themes and topics covered will be chosen according to students’ interests.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Pauline Guedj
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Instructor:
Marie-Helene Koffi-Tessio
CULPA: 1 Info - 2 points
INTERMED CONVERSATN FRENCH II
INTERM.FRENCH CONVERSATION II
We will be working on pronunciation, vocabulary, listening comprehension, and oral expression. Activities will include listening comprehension exercises, skits, debates, and oral presentations, as well as discussions of films, songs, short films, news, articles, short stories or other short written documents. Although grammar will not be the focus of the course, some exercises will occasionally aim at reviewing particular points.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Laurence Marie
CULPA: 3 Info - 2 points
INTERMED CONVERSATN FRENCH II
We will be working on pronunciation, vocabulary, listening comprehension, and oral expression. Activities will include listening comprehension exercises, skits, debates, and oral presentations, as well as discussions of films, songs, short films, news, articles, short stories or other short written documents. Although grammar will not be the focus of the course, some exercises will occasionally aim at reviewing particular points.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Wesley Gunter
Info - 2 points
THIRD-YEAR CONVERSATION FR II
Prerequisites: completion of the language requirement in French or the equivalent. Conversation on contemporary French subjects based on readings in current popular French periodicals.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexandra Borer
CULPA: 4 Info - 2 points
ADVANCED TRANSLATION WORKSHOP
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sophie Queuniet
CULPA: 7
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- 3 points
FRENCH LANGUAGE THRU THEATER
FREN. LANG. THRU THEATER
The course is taught in French and focuses on learning the French language via the study of theatre (through plays, scenes, theories, lecture/workshops by guests, as well as performing a series of activities). The course offers students the opportunity to have a better grasp of the variety of French theatres within the culture; and to perform the language through the body and mind. Its goal is to both introduce students to theatre and to explore how it challenges us physically and emotionally, as well as in intellectual, moral, and aesthetic ways. No previous acting experience is necessary but a desire to “get up and move” and possibly even go see plays as a class project is encouraged.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Pascale Crepon
CULPA: 10
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- 3 points
Lang. Culture, Society: La culture pop
French Lang. : La culture
The host of the daily radio show
Popopop
on the public radio
France Inter
routinely introduces his guests by asking them “what is pop culture?”/“qu’est ce que la culture pop?” The answers are at least as diverse as the guests’ cultural, social, and generational backgrounds. Keeping the complexity and variety of the possible answers to this question in mind, students in this class will be introduced to French pop culture or
La culture pop française
both in its specificity and in contrast to
American pop culture
. In this French language class, critical thinking applied to mass media such as music, movies, ads, and newspapers, as well as literature ranging from
les BD
(comics and graphic novels) to
les polars (detective fiction),
and as well as to Social Media (blogs, podcasts, influencers, etc.) w ill enable students to better grasp some of the forces shaping culture in French society, equipping them with knowledge and concepts that are helpful to understanding dominant cultural trends and their impact on contemporary French Society. Exposing students to such a wide variety of materials will be intellectually compelling and will also expose them to a variety of language registers.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Alexandra Borer
CULPA: 4 Info - 3 points
FRENCH THRU CURRENT EVENTS
The course will offer students an understanding of fundamental underlying concepts that structure French society and that are necessary to grasp if one wants to follow current events in France. This course could be of interest not only to CC students but also to students enrolled at SIPA or Teacher’s College.
Moreover, this course would allow for a comparative approach to how same events are covered in US, or other foreign media, and in France.
Given that this course will deal with current events, the readings will depend entirely on how the news unfolds. Students will be given an introduction to the various media outlets available to them: the press, television and online sources. As the course unfolds, I will adapt the choice of sources that best follow events as they happen. 2022 for example, will be the year France assumes the presidency of the European Union. It will also be the year of the presidential elections. For such events, I will propose specific institutional sources. On the other hand, events that could not be anticipated will require some form of guidance in terms of sources.
In spite of the obvious unpredictability of the specific content of this course, certain key concepts necessary to understand current events in France will be presented. These may vary slightly from one semester to another, but would include, without being limited to: the structure of government and public institutions, political parties, unions and “associations”, social benefits and “the welfare state”, public vs. private sector, “Paris is France”, universalism, secularism and “
laïcité
”, cultural exceptionalism, the figure of the intellectual, national identity, immigration, geography of France and demographics, relation to Europe, geopolitics, globalization and sovereignty. Of course, the choice of themes and concepts in a given semester would be influenced by dominant topics in the French news.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Samuel Skippon
CULPA: 13
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- 3 points
THIRD-YEAR GRAMMAR & COMP
Prerequisites: FREN UN3405 must be taken before FREN UN3333/4 unless the student has an AP score of 5 or the director of undergraduate studies permission. The goal of FREN UN3405 is to help students improve their grammar and perfect their writing and reading skills, especially as a preparation for taking literature or civilization courses, or spending a semester in a francophone country. Through the study of two full-length works of literature and a number of short texts representative of different genres, periods, and styles, they will become more aware of stylistic nuances, and will be introduced to the vocabulary and methods of literary analysis. Working on the advanced grammar points covered in this course will further strengthen their mastery of French syntax. They will also be practicing writing through a variety of exercises, including pastiches and creative pieces, as well as typically French forms of academic writing such as “résumé,” “explication de texte,” and “dissertation.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Laurence Marie
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
INTRO TO FRENCH & FRANCOPHONE HISTORY
INTRO FREN FRANCOPHONE HI
This class provides an introduction to the history of France and of the francophone world since the Middle Ages. It initiates students to the major events and themes that have shaped politics, society, and culture in France and its former colonies, paying special attention to questions of identity and diversity in a national and imperial context. Modules include a combination of lecture and seminar-style discussion of documents (in French).
This course is part of a two-course sequence and is a core requirement the French and Francophone Studies major.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Eleanor L Grabowski
Info - 3 points
Intro French & Francophone Literature
Intro French Francophone
This class offers a survey of major works of French and francophone literature from the Middle Ages to the present. Emphasis will be placed on formal and stylistic elements of the works read and on developing the critical skills necessary for literary analysis. Works will be placed in their historical context.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Laetitia M Ndiaye
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
Jewish Identities in France
Jewish identities in Fran
France is seen as both a haven for the Jews, celebrated as the first Western European nation to grant them equal rights, and as a uniquely dangerous place, infamous for a latent antisemitism that periodically explodes in violent ways. Today, the country is home to the largest Jewish population in Europe and the third largest in the world. It has also become internationally known for its concept of laïcité, a form of secularism perceived as hostile toward the public expression of religion. These seeming contradictions spark questions about the experience of Jews in France that are the central subject of this course. After a brief historical survey of key moments in the history of French Jewry, we will explore questions of French and Jewish identities. Questions under consideration include: what does it mean to be French and Jewish at the same time? How do Jews relate to dominant French culture and to other minorities? How does France’s dual status as a republic and an empire complicate these questions? What is particular about the Jewish experience in France compared to other Western European and North American countries with significant Jewish populations? We will approach these questions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including history, philosophy, sociology, literature and film. Our discussions will draw on the rich tradition of French literary and philosophical works about Jewish identity as well as recent texts and films.
Readings and discussion will be in French.
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Katherine Raichlen
Info - 3 points
SENIOR TUTORIAL IN LITERATURE
Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. Required for majors wishing to be considered for departmental honors. This course may also be taken at Reid Hall. Recommended for seniors majoring or concentrating in French and open to other qualified students. Preparation of a senior essay. In consultation with a staff member designated by the director of undergraduate studies, the student develops a topic withing the areas of French language, literature, or intellectual history.
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Instructor:
Joanna R Stalnaker
CULPA: 18
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- 3 points
Cosmology medieval Literature
Cosmology in Medieval Lit
This course is about the interactions on the page between texts and images and the way they together represent and frame aspects of the world so as to situate them in relation to the reader and make them
perceptible and intelligible
in their eyes. This world includes, as in the miniature above, people, land, and sky, and the multiple connections between them. Pages such as this reveal the intermediality of medieval “literature” and the plasticity of the medieval “world-view,” thanks to the complex ways they mediate these interconnections.
Students in this class will be invited to engage with premodern curiosity about the cosmos and explore how different ideas of it are conveyed by developments in book design, from the exquisite Latin manuscripts of the Carolingian period to the illuminated vernacular ones of the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries.
The pages we will study over the semester are drawn from a number of interconnected textual clusters that respectively foreground the cosmos as a locus of transformation (Ovid’s
Metamorphoses
and the French
Moralized Ovid
); as understood relative to gender and sexuality (Guillaume de Lorris’s
Romance of the Rose
and Machaut’s
Fountain of Love
); and as an object of learning (Alan of Lille’s
Anticlaudianus
and Christine de Pizan’s
Path of Long Study
). These works range in date from early imperial Rome to fifteenth-century France; the majority are composed in early forms of French, others in various forms of Latin. All are literary works, by accomplished poets, which both address cosmological themes and also inspire fine illuminated manuscripts. You will have the opportunity to examine original manuscripts of all of them, several of them in person.
Alongside these core works, the syllabus will include extracts of philosophical, scientific and mythographic works on cosmology and astronomy. Its current outline is flexible so that students can propose texts or extracts of texts from other traditions for comparative study alongside the ones prescribed.
All texts will be made available in modern English translation but a part of each class will be devoted to working on them in the original languages; French Department majors/graduate students are encouraged to read and write in French. There will be frequent opportunities to engage with original manuscripts, online and in person in the manuscript room of Columbia’s
The Politics of Memory. Remembrance, Eth
This seminar will explore the multidimensional interplay between collective memory, politics, and history in France since 1945. We will examine the process of memorializing key historical events and periods – the Vichy regime, the Algerian War, the slave trade – and the critical role they played in shaping and dividing French collective identity. This exploration will focus on multiple forms of narratives – official history, victims’ accounts, literary fiction – and will examine the tensions and contradictions that oppose them. The seminar will discuss the political uses of memory, the influence of commemorations on French collective identity, and the role played by contested monuments, statues and other “
lieux de mémoire
” (“sites of memory”). We will ask how these claims on historical consciousness play out in the legal space through an exploration of French “memorial laws”, which criminalize genocide denial and recognize slave trade as a crime against humanity. These reflections will pave the way to retracing the genesis of the “
devoir de mémoire
” (“duty to remember”), a notion that attempts to confer an ethical dimension to collective memory. The seminar will examine the multiple uses of the French injunction to remember – as a response to narratives of denial, as an act of justice towards the victims, and as an antidote to the recurrence of mass crimes and persecutions. We will examine how amnesty is used to reconcile conflicting collective memories and will evaluate the claim that the transmission
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Emmanuel Kattan
Info - 3 points
FRENCH FOR DIPLOMATS
This course deals with French foreign policy. It is designed for students who have a good French level (the whole course is taught is French, so there are minimal requirements) and are interested by international relations and France. It aims at improving students knowledge of French diplomacy : the vision and values it carries, its history, its logic, its strenghts, its weaknesses, the interrogations and challenges it faces. Though it is not a language course (there will be no grammar), it will also shapren students mastering of French (especially useful for those considering an exchange at Sciences Po, or wanting to work in places such as the United nations where it is useful to master some French diplomatic vocabulary).
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Thibault Lavaud-Vavasseur
Info - 3 points
Fin-de-siecle_Europe
This reading-intense seminar will explore key primary sources and historiography of the period 1880-1910: decades of cultural transition and innovation;
décadence
and modernism; beginnings and 'fins,’ explorations into the subconscious and mass behaviors. Simultaneity and duality will be our guiding concepts. We will focus on Paris as an epicenter of artistic exchange, Vienna as a cultural heartland of fin-de-siècle Europe, and Eastern Europe as a hotbed of radical mass politics. We will investigate key philosophical, social and political phenomena of an epoch described as “the crucible of modernity:” shifting ways of seeing, working and consuming; an era of sexual experimentation (bachelor, dandy, New Woman); conceptions of the self (Freud’s concept of the subconscious) and the society (crowd, mass politics, revolution, empire, nation-building). We will work with a premise that culture and politics should be studied in a transnational context (i.e. 19th century forms of statehood and economic life) and in a cross-disciplinary way, considering how literary texts were shaped alongside works in other spheres: visual arts, architecture, science, philosophy, early cinema, sexuality, social and political life. By underscoring the overarching themes of decline and rebirth, this course engages with shifting ways of thinking about the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.
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Instructor:
Malgorzata Mazurek
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
RESEARCH SEMINAR IN HIST
This seminar is a step-by-step introduction to scholarly research in the field of History and Literature. In the course of the seminar, students will carry out the initial research and draft the prospectus for their MA thesis.
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Instructor:
Malgorzata Mazurek
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
History & Literature Seminar
Memoires nat et internat
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Mondialisations
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Black Americans and Paris
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Soeur de Shakespeare
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Artistes face au marche
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Philosophie de l'art
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Religion, Revolition, Rep
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Antiquite de la Renaissan
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Musil, Rilke, Schnitzler
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Corps, action, emotion
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
France dans WWII
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Politique de la visibilit
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Pratiq d'influence 20-21
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Platoniciens et neo-plato
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Creation radio contempora
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Histoire de l'empire com
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Deleuze et ses films
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Sociologie du film
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Allers & retours Histoir
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Antiquite de la Renaissan
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Religion, Revolition, Rep
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Musil, Rilke, Schnitzler
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Platoniciens et neo-plato
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Corps, action, emotion
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Deleuze et ses films
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Sociologie du film
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Soeur de Shakespeare
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
France dans WWII
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Politique de la visibilit
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Artistes face au marche
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Philosophie de l'art
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Creation radio contempora
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Histoire de l'empire com
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Litterature et morale XVI
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Pratiq d'influence 20-21
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Allers & retours Histoir
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Soeur de Shakespeare
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Artistes face au marche
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
History & Literature Seminar
Histoire de l'empire com
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Instructor:
Christine Valero
Info - 1-6 points
French Lecture Series
Course Description
Students curate, organize and attend a series of lectures open to all members of the French department, including graduate students, faculty and undergraduate majors/concentrators. Working with a faculty member, they invite two speakers each semester, collaborate on the scheduling and organization of talks, introduce guests and lead the discussion.
The lecture series exposes graduate students to new work in the field, including new methodologies and emerging areas of research and teaching. By giving students the opportunity to select speakers, it actively engages them in the cultural and intellectual life of the department. Students benefit from observing the different possible formats and styles of academic talks. By organizing and scheduling events, preparing speaker introductions and moderating questions and discussion, they also develop important professional skills.
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Instructor:
Aubrey A Gabel
CULPA: 2 Info - 1 points
THE HERMENEUTIC TRADITION
A historical and conceptual study of what it is to think historically, with a focus on the hermeneutic tradition. Authors include Erasmus, Spinoza, Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger, Collingwood, Gadamer, and Habermas.
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Pierre Force
CULPA: 12 h-index: 11 Info - 4 points