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.
- 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.
- 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 4:10 p.m.-5:25 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:
Emily E Paull
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Kaitlyn M Matrassi
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Instructor:
Zachary Desjardins-Mooney
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Anna P Langewiesche
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Instructor:
Noah M Mintz
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.
- 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.
- TRF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Pascale Crepon
CULPA: 10
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- 4 points
ACCELERATED ELEM FRENCH
Prerequisites: The instructor's permission
This course covers in one semester the material normally presented in Elementary French I and II. This course is especially recommended for students who already know another Romance language.
- MTWR 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Instructor:
Pascale Hubert-Leibler
CULPA: 12
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- 8 points
ELEM FR ONLINE 1 PROF/GRAD ST
ELEM FR ONLINE-1 PROF/GRAD ST
- T 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sophie Queuniet
CULPA: 7
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- 4 points
INTERMEDIATE FRENCH I
Prerequisites: two terms of college French or two years of secondary school French. Equivalent to
FREN UN2101
.
$15.00= Language Resource Fee, $15.00 = Materials Fee
Equivalent to
French UN2101
. Prepares students for advanced French language and cultures, focusing on developing correct usage through explanations and practice. Gaining a deeper understanding of the French language through readings of poems and short stories, students practice a variety of communication tasks, as they are engaged in ever more complex forms of discourse. Daily assignments, quizzes, laboratory work, and screening of video materials.
- MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- TRF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
- MTWR 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
- TWR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- TRF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- MTWR 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- MWR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
- MWR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
- 4 points
INTERMEDIATE FRENCH II
Prerequisites: three terms of college French or three years of secondary school French.
$15.00= Language Resource Fee, $15.00 = Materials Fee
Equivalent to
FREN UN2102
. Continues to prepare students for advanced French language and culture with an emphasis on developing highly accurate speaking, reading, and writing skills. Students examine complex topics, using the French language in diverse contexts, and read and actively discuss a wide variety of texts from France and the French speaking world. Daily assignments, quizzes, and screening of video materials.
- TRF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MTWR 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
- MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- TRF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexandra Borer
CULPA: 4 Info - 4 points
ACCELERATED INTER FREN I + II
- TWR noon-2 a.m.
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Instructor:
Vincent Aurora
CULPA: 55
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- 6 points
RAPID READING AND TRANSLATION
Primarily for graduate students in other departments who have some background in French and who wish to meet the French reading requirement for the Ph.D. degree, or for scholars whose research involves references in the French language. Intensive reading and translation, both prepared and at sight, in works drawn from literature, criticism, philosophy, and history. Brief review of grammar; vocabulary exercises.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher B Wood
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.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- 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.
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Noni D Carter
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THIRD-YEAR CONVERSATION FR I
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 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sophie Queuniet
CULPA: 7
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- 2 points
FREN LANG,SOC,CULTRE THRU FILM
Prerequisites: FREN UN2102
French socio-political issues and language through the prism of film. Especially designed for non-majors wishing to further develop their French language skills and learn about French culture. Each module includes assignments targeting the four language competencies: reading, writing, speaking and oral comprehension, as well as cultural understanding.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Heidi Holst-Knudsen
CULPA: 20
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- 3 points
FREN LANG,SOC,CULTRE THRU PARIS
Prerequisites: 2 years of college French
Paris may be referred to as the capital of modernity, as
the
city of romance and pleasure, as the center of social and political powers, or as a privileged stage for crises and revolutions. Analyzing and researching the meanings of these diverse representations would expose students to key aspects of French and Francophone political, social, and cultural history.
This is a proposal for a course intended for students who, having completed their language requirement in French, would like to better their knowledge of French language and society.
It would offer students the opportunity to study representations of Paris over the centuries as a way to practice writing, reading, and conversation in French and as a way to deepen their understanding of French and Francophone cultures.
Materials for the course would include major literary texts as well as paintings, movies and popular songs, but also museum websites, local newspapers and local ads, brochures from retail and food malls, restaurant menus, postcards... such variety can be utilitarian and intellectually compelling at the same time. It would allow students not only to study language registers and vocabulary contextualization but also work on finding patterns and making connections.
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Instructor:
Alexandra Borer
CULPA: 4 Info - 3 points
INTRO TO LITERARY STUDIES I
MAJOR LITERARY WORKS TO 1800
Prerequisites:
FREN UN3405
Advanced Grammar and Composition or an AP score of 5 or the instructor's permission.
Reading and discussion of major works from the Middle Ages to 1750.
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Benjamin M Olivennes
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
INTRO TO LITERARY STUDIES II
MAJOR LITERARY WORKS SINC 1800
Prerequisites:
FREN UN3405
Advanced Grammar and Composition or an AP score of 5 or the instructor's permission.
Reading and discussion of major works from 1750 to the present.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
David Haziza
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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 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Samuel Skippon
CULPA: 13
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Instructor:
Pascale Crepon
CULPA: 10
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Instructor:
Laurence Marie
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
INTRO-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES I
Prerequisites:
FREN UN3405
Advanced Grammar and Composition or an AP score of 5 or the director of undergraduate studies' permission.
Examines conceptions of culture and civilization in France from the Enlightenment to the Exposition Coloniale of 1931, with an emphasis on the historical development and ideological foundations of French colonialism. Authors and texts include: the Encyclop├ędie; the D├ęclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen; the Code noir; Diderot; Chateaubriand; Tocqueville; Claire de Duras; Renan; Gobineau; Gauguin; Drumont.
FRENCH CULTURAL WORKSHOP
Prerequisites: completion of
FREN W2202
.
Designed (though not exclusively) for students contemplating a stay at Reid Hall, this course will foster a comparison of the French and American cultures with readings from sociological sources and emphasis on in-class discussion in an attempt to comprehend and avoid common causes of cross-cultural communication.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Vincent Aurora
CULPA: 55
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- 3 points
French Civilization through Graphic Nove
GRAPHIC NOVELS & CINEMA
Prerequisites: FREN UN3405 or DUS permission
In France and Belgium, the
bande dessinées
[comic strips] and graphic novels are recognized as the ‘Ninth Art’, after cinema and visual arts. Popular and celebrated, the
bande dessinées
have their own museum in Angoulême, France. The medium has quickly evolved from its 19th-century roots in caricature to become a reflection of Francophone identity, history, and artistry.
While studies tend to focus on France and Belgium, this course moves beyond Europe into the history of France and its colonial empire. This is reflected in graphic novels from "Tintin au Congo"– which is still at the core of controversies about the representations of Africa and Africans by European colonizers – to "Le Chat du Rabbin" – which narrates the history of the Algerian colonization. After reading the graphic novels, students will watch and analyze several cinematographic adaptations. Thanks to a fellowship from the Center for Teaching and Learning, students will have the opportunity to write and design their own digital graphic novel.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elsa Stephan
CULPA: 3
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- 3 points
"""Blanchite"" Thinking Whiteness in Fre
Prerequisites: FREN UN3405 or
What are the stakes of the emergence, in French, of a vocabulary to discuss racial formations adapted from US academic and activist discourse? How does the neutrality and invisibility associated with whiteness relate historically to French Republican universalism? How has the lack of a language to critically address whiteness, in particular, affected French and Francophone thought, politics and literature? This class examines the conceptualization and representations of racial whiteness in the French language and in French and Francophone literatures. Foregrounding a republican universalist rebuttal of identity politics and a post-WWII
denunciation of scientifically defined “race”, France has long perplexed foreign observers with such particularities as its restrictions on ethnic statistics and religious symbols. Yet a public debate on the meaning and implications of language used to discuss racial formations is currently underway. This class will reflect on the historical and contemporary significance of this shift in language in three ways. First, by interpreting current discussions of racial identities and whiteness; Second, by gaining a contextual understanding of how language addressing race in French has been shaped through the related histories of colonization, revolution, and migration. Finally by analyzing literary representations of racialized and racializing identities in French and Francophone literature.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Aline C Rogg
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SENIOR SEMINAR
Prerequisites: completion of either
FREN UN3333-FREN UN3334
or
FREN UN3420-FREN UN3421
, and
FREN UN3405
, or the director of undergraduate studies' or the instructor's permission.
Required of all French and French & Francophone Studies majors. Usually taken by majors during the fall term of their senior year. Critical discussion of a few major literary works along with some classic commentaries on those works. Students critically assess and practice diverse methods of literary analysis.
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Antoine M Compagnon
CULPA: 3 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:
Thomas Dodman
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
PRACTICUM IN FR LANG PEDAGOGY
Designed for new Teaching Fellows. An introduction to the conceptual and practical tools of French language pedagogy.
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Pascale Hubert-Leibler
CULPA: 12
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- 3 points
Communism or Democracy? A French Debate
COMMUNISM OR DEMOCRACY?
In the last three decades of the 20th century, i.e. roughly in the wake of the 68 insurrections and the final collapse of the Soviet regime and the end of the Cold War, a lively debate took place in France as in other countries, but with specific character, which involved a number of prominent philosophers, writers and political theorists, usually (but not always) classified on the left: Castoriadis, Lefort, Lyotard, Blanchot, Derrida, Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe, Abensour, Rancière, Poulantzas, Foucault, Gauchet, and others. It took place in certain academic seminars and in prestigious or less well-known journals (such as "Esprit" or “Révoltes Logiques”). It left profound traces on contemporary political philosophy and philosophy in general. Its originality came from the fact that, while continuing the critique of "totalitarianism" from the previous decades, particularly under the influence of the democratic insurrections in the Socialist countries (notably the "Solidarnosc" movement in Poland) and the reception of Solzhenitsyn’s work, it was also trying to renew on a radical basis the idea of communism as libertarian and egalitarian invention. As a consequence, it proposed diverse insights into the vexed question of the articulation of communism and democracy, which could be compared with the current debates about "assembly" movements and post-capitalist democracy.
The class will read a number of texts from this debate, organizing them in the form of dialogues among the protagonists and trying to identify their points of heresy, in three successive clusters: “
Politics of Human Rights”
, “
Radical democracy and Gramsci’s legacy
” “
Communism without Community”
. Some transnational comparisons will be suggested.
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Etienne Balibar
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Francophone Romance Love, Sex, Intimacy
The forms of domination and violence that have characterized the phenomenon of empire have always been interwoven with desire and various forms of intimacy. Personal relationships have been vectors of colonial power as well as sites of resistance. In this course we consider various ways in which love, desire and intimacy have emerged as questions in the French colonial context. The course covers a broad historical and geographic span stretching from the age of plantation slavery to the era of decolonization and from the Caribbean and Louisiana to Vietnam and Africa. We consider both the transmission of categories and practices across colonial contexts and historical transitions and regional specificities. The course methodology is interdisciplinary, drawing on insights from history, sociology and law. The primary lens is, however, be that of literature, a medium in which the personal dimensions of empire have often found expression. We consider how recurrent themes and figures of colonial desire and intimacy have taken shape across different genres and registers of writing.
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Madeleine Dobie
CULPA: 14
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- 3 points
DISCOVERING EXISTENCE
A study of the theme of human existence confronted with the infinite universe of modern science (Descartes, Pascal), with the proliferation of existence (Sartre), with the absurd (Camus), with the other (Levinas).
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Souleymane B Diagne
CULPA: 4
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- 3 points
AFRICAN LIT & PHILOSOPHY
Negritude: Literature and Philosophy. The movement of Negritude started in the 1930’s in Paris by African and Caribbean francophone writers was at once a literary and a philosophical project. The literature of Negritude will then be studied in this seminar as literature and as philosophy.
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Souleymane B Diagne
CULPA: 4
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- 3 points