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.
• MWR 8 p.m.-9:15 p.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.
• MWR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• MWR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TRF 7 a.m.-8:15 a.m.
• TRF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Alexandra Borer
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Samuel Skippon
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Eric T Matheis
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Joo Kyung Lee
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• Instructor: Eric T Matheis
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Alexandre Bournery
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• Instructor: Alexandra Borer
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Sophia Mo
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• Instructor: Laetitia M Ndiaye
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Alexandre Bournery
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• Instructor: Sarah J Sasson
  CULPA: 9 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 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TRF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Pascale Crepon
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Pascale Hubert-Leibler
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

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.

• MWR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MTWR 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• MTWR 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• MWR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• MWR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• MWR 7:10 a.m.-8:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Marie-Helene Koffi-Tessio
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Kaitlyn Matrassi
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• Instructor: Noah M Mintz
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Sophie Queuniet
  CULPA: 7 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.

• TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MTWR 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• TRF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TRF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine M Manansala
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Andre L Pettman
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• Instructor: Heidi Holst-Knudsen
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Nadrah S Mohammed
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• 4 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 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Zachary Desjardins-Mooney
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• 3 points

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.

• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Eric T Matheis
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 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.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Heidi Holst-Knudsen
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: David Haziza
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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.

• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Alexandra Borer
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO LITERARY STUDIES I

Prerequisites: FREN UN3405 Advanced Grammar and Composition or an AP score of 5 or the instructors permission. Reading and discussion of major works from the Middle Ages to 1750.

• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Albes
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 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 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Samuel Skippon
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Pascale Crepon
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Marie-Helene Koffi-Tessio
  CULPA: 1 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 Encyclopédie; the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen; the Code noir; Diderot; Chateaubriand; Tocqueville; Claire de Duras; Renan; Gobineau; Gauguin; Drumont.

• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Tommaso Manfredini
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• 3 points

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 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 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.

• Instructor: Eliza Zingesser
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 3 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

• Instructor: Pascale Hubert-Leibler
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 1 points

PRACTICUM IN FR LANG PEDAGOGY

Designed for new Teaching Fellows. An introduction to the conceptual and practical tools of French language pedagogy.

• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Pascale Hubert-Leibler
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

The Caribbean Digital

The Internet is analogous in important ways to the Caribbean itself as dynamic and fluid cultural space: it is generated from disparate places and by disparate peoples; it challenges fundamentally the geographical and physical barriers that disrupt or disallow connection; and it places others in relentless relation. This class will both introduce students to the digital humanities and to the French-speaking Caribbean as a generative geo-cultural space for exploring the potential of the Internet to confront and disrupt many of the structures of dominance that have traditionally silenced marginalized voices. It will provide an introduction to several of the formats and tools that have facilitated such engagements, along with immediate critical reflection and discussion about their value to the academy. Since information technology has become one of the key ways in which the peoples of the French-speaking Caribbean and its diasporas both communicate with one another and gain access to global conversations, alongside this exploration of digital tools, in general, this class will consider how the Internet enables people in marginalized spaces to engage with crucial social problems and to express their intellectual and political perspectives.

• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

Pandemics in Francophone Literature and

Pandemics in Fr. Lit. &

In this course we explore the history of epidemics and medical confinement in France and some of its colonies/former colonies, from the 1720 plague in Marseille to recent outbreaks of Ebola and COVID-19. We consider how disease, contagion, quarantine and confinement have been understood and represented, drawing on contemporary and later sources that include medical treatises, news media, personal accounts, fictional works, films and visual depictions such as paintings, illustrations and cartoons. Though we focus on disease and representation in the French and ‘francophone’ context, the course also has a comparative dimension: we turn to other historical contexts and texts associated with them when these connections are illuminating. The course is organized around a series of five case studies centering on different contagious diseases and their historical context. We will see that each of these pandemics raises its own moral, political, social and historiographical questions, though there are also connecting threads that traverse historical periods, including the linkage between epidemics and the othering of certain population groups; the intersection of colonialism, revolution and warfare with disease and the introduction of new medical protocols, and the gradual emergence of biopolitics as a framework for the relationship of individual to state.    Discourses about contagious disease have always had a ‘literary’ dimension, making regular use of metaphor and allegory. This course explores the intersections of history and literature, considering not only these recurrent tropes but also how writers and, to a lesser extent, film-makers have explored the experiential, ethical and political aspects of illness and contagion. Without making general claims about the specificity of literature, we approach literary texts as sites that condense and catalyze philosophical and political reflection and debate. The course examines chapters in the history of disease and medicine but it also has a historiographical component as we consider how representations of epidemics have changed over time and to what extent the historical study of illness, medicine and public health helps us to think about the present.

• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

QUESTIONS IN AFRICA LITERATURE

• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Souleymane B Diagne
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 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.

• 1 points

M.A. ESSAY DIRECTION

• 6 points

RABELAIS AND MONTAIGNE

• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Antoine M Compagnon
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

The Question of the Other/other in Conte

The seminar will focus on an anthology of major philosophical texts from the second half of the 20th century, which address the issue of the Other (l’autre/Autrui) as an ontological and anthropological problem. They range from Sartre and Lacan to Levinas and Derrida through de Beauvoir, Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Irigaray and Fanon. Together, they construct a theoretical conversation which arguably redefined the dilemmas of identity and difference tracing back to the very beginnings of Western philosophy.

• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Etienne Balibar
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• 3 points