French (FREN)

FREN 1010 - Communicating in French I

3 Credits

Introduction to French language and culture: reading, writing, speaking, listening. The course emphasizes the acquisition of communicative skills.

Attributes: MLIC Language

FREN 1020 - Communicating in French II

3 Credits

Continuation of FREN 1010. Expansion of oral and written communication skills in areas of immediate needs, personal interests and daily life.

Attributes: Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), MLIC Language

FREN 1930 - Special Topics

1-3 Credits

FREN 1980 - Independent Study

1-3 Credits (Repeatable for credit)

FREN 2010 - Intermediate French Language & Culture

3 Credits

Continued practice in and development of all language skills, enabling the student to function in an increased number of areas. Materials and discussion relating to French culture.

Prerequisite(s): (FREN 1020, French Waiver per Advisor with a minimum score of 1020, or LP French Placement with a minimum score of 3)

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), MLIC Language

FREN 2220 - French Culture & Civilization

3 Credits

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS)

FREN 2590 - Women Writers, Conflict, and Social Change in the French-speaking World.

3 Credits

Taught in English. This course will focus on major contemporary women writers from across the French-speaking world. Students consider how cultural, political and social conflicts uniquely affect women in various geographical areas such as France, Western and Northern Africa, the Caribbean, French Polynesia, Canada. On conflicts such as migration, anticolonial environmental activism, gender and tradition, reproductive rights, transmission of slavery and its memory, we learn how women use their voice to deconstruct dominant socio-cultural perceptions and put their voice in the service of social change.

Attributes: French Minor Elective, French Major Elective, UUC:Aesthetics, Hist & Culture, UUC:Global Interdependence

FREN 2930 - Special Topics

1-3 Credits (Repeatable for credit)

FREN 2980 - Independent Study

3 Credits (Repeatable for credit)

FREN 3010 - Discovering the French-Speaking World

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: Students discover varied aspects of the French-speaking world, both locally and internationally, while raising their proficiency in French to a level at which they can communicate with increasing ease and accuracy. Emphasis on oral expression and listening comprehension, reinforced by writing skills.

Prerequisite(s): (FREN 2010, French Waiver per Advisor with a minimum score of 2010, LP French Placement with a minimum score of 4, or 0 Course from FREN 3000-3999)

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), Foreign Service Elective, MLIC Language, UUC:Oral & Visual Comm

FREN 3020 - Text, Voice, & Self-Expression

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: Students expand their knowledge of modern French and Francophone literature, art, and music, while developing their reading strategies and the skills needed to analyze and write about text. Emphasis on reading comprehension, written proficiency, and grammatical accuracy.

Prerequisite(s): (FREN 2010, French Waiver per Advisor with a minimum score of 2010, LP French Placement with a minimum score of 4, or 0 Course from FREN 3000-3999); CORE 1900

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), Foreign Service Elective, MLIC Language, UUC:Writing Intensive

FREN 3030 - 21st-Century France

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: Students extend their knowledge of contemporary French and Francophone cultures, while strengthening their communication skills and ability to talk about unfamiliar and abstract topics. Special focus on current issues. Emphasis on oral expression and listening comprehension.

Prerequisite(s): (FREN 2010, French Waiver per Advisor with a minimum score of 2010, LP French Placement with a minimum score of 4, or 0 Course from FREN 3000-3999)

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), Foreign Service Elective, International Studies-Arts, International Studies-Europe

FREN 3040 - Society, Nation & the Arts in Pre-Revolutionary France

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: Through studying important historical figures, concepts, and literary movements of French civilization from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution, students learn to write extended analyses on abstract topics. Emphasis on mastering various writing styles.

Prerequisite(s): (FREN 2010, French Waiver per Advisor with a minimum score of 2010, LP French Placement with a minimum score of 4, or 0 Course from FREN 3000-3999); CORE 1900

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), International Studies, International Studies-General, UUC:Writing Intensive

FREN 3910 - Internship

1-6 Credits (Repeatable for credit)

Prerequisite(s): (CORE 1000 or UUC Ignite Seminar Waiver with a minimum score of S); CORE 1500^*

^* Concurrent enrollment allowed.

Attributes: UUC:Reflection-in-Action

FREN 3930 - Special Topics

1-3 Credits (Repeatable for credit)

Prerequisite(s): (FREN 2010, French Waiver per Advisor with a minimum score of 2010, LP French Placement with a minimum score of 4, or 0 Course from FREN 3000-3999)

FREN 3980 - Independent Study

1-3 Credits (Repeatable for credit)

FREN 4110 - Language & Linguistics

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN ENGLISH: An introduction to the basic concepts and application of linguistic studies. Presentation and discussion of three main aspects of language: linguistic structures, language as a social dimension, and language as a mirror of cognitive processes.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: French Minor Elective, French Major Elective, Foreign Service Elective, MLIC Linguistics

FREN 4120 - French Phonetics

1-3 Credits

Students will learn how to correct and enhance their oral production. Classes will focus on listening and repeating sounds (phonemes) and intonation patterns. In addition, students will learn the workings of the International Phonetic Alphabet. The course will be taught in French.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), Foreign Service Elective, Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4160 - French for the Professional

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: For students interested in developing the proficiency needed in business-oriented activities.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), French Minor Elective, French Major Elective, Foreign Service Elective, International Studies, Literature BA Requirement(CAS), Literature BS Requirement(CAS), MLIC Language, Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4170 - French and the Sciences

3 Credits

Students in this course will extend their knowledge of scientific advances and issues in contemporary French and Francophone cultures, while strengthening their communication skills and ability to talk and write about unfamiliar and abstract topics. In 'French and the Sciences' we will study current issues in science and technology, including scientific, medical, and technological research being done in France and other Francophone countries. We will also discuss health issues, particularly in French-speaking Africa, as well as other global issues. Taught in French.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: BHS-Humanities, Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), French Minor Elective, French Major Elective, Foreign Service Elective, International Studies, International Studies-Europe, Grad Pol Sci Skills, UUC:Global Interdependence

FREN 4180 - French and International Relations: Global Simulation

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: This performance-based course culminates in a global simulation project of international conferences. First, you will immerse yourself in the world of International Relations through the Francophone world’s lens; become familiar with key events, institutions and actors of International Relations; acquire cultural/linguistic skills to function effectively in international settings.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), French Minor Elective, French Major Elective, Foreign Service Elective, Global Citizenship (CAS), International Studies, International Studies-Africa, International Studies-Europe, Literature BA Requirement(CAS), Literature BS Requirement(CAS), Grad Pol Sci Skills, UUC:Global Interdependence

FREN 4200 - Perceiving Others: US & France

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: The study of French and American cultures' perceptions of each other and frequent cultural misunderstandings, placed in the perspective of their development in history and of current events. Taught in French.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), French Major Elective, Foreign Service Elective, Literature BA Requirement(CAS), Literature BS Requirement(CAS), Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4210 - Translation & Comparative Stylistics - French/English

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH: Offers translation practice of readings from French and American literature, journalistic and scholarly articles. Allows students to use skills developed in other French language, culture and literature courses, yet provides closer focus on comparative analysis of French and English at various linguistic levels. Common translation techniques are learned and practiced.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), French Minor Elective, French Major Elective, Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4220 - French and Francophone Media : Qu’est-ce qui se passe ?

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: This course will introduce students to a variety of French and Francophone media with an emphasis on national and regional variations. It will expand students’ knowledge and understanding of Francophone societies and cultures throughout the world through analysis of media coverage of current and recent events. Conducted in French.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), French Minor Elective, French Major Elective, Foreign Service Elective, Literature BA Requirement(CAS), Literature BS Requirement(CAS), Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4230 - French Masterpieces: Survey of French Literature

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: A basic study of France's rich literary tradition - from the Middle Ages to the present time - and an introduction to the vocabulary of literary analysis (irony, metaphor, etc.). Special attention devoted to the improvement of French language skills.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), French Major Elective, Literature BA Requirement(CAS), Literature BS Requirement(CAS), Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4240 - French Cuisine: Culture, Text, and Context

3 Credits

This course will use writing about food as a window into how French literature across the centuries broaches such topics as social class, politics, memory, and identity. We will consider how food often functions as a symbol of cultural concerns as well as its role in the economy. The course will map some of these issues across different genres, including fiction, drama, didactic texts, and cookbooks and will assess the similarities and differences in the way in which these genres handle the cultural, social, political, and economic issues that permeate the topic of food preparation and consumption. Taught in French.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), French Minor Elective, French Major Elective, Literature BA Requirement(CAS), Literature BS Requirement(CAS), MLIC Elective, Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4250 - The World of New Media: Friend ou Faux?

3 Credits

This course explores the origins of new media in the francophone world while taking an in-depth and critical look at the historical, societal, and political implications of an ever-evolving paradigm of information sharing. Taught in French.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: International Studies, International Studies-Europe, International Studies-General, Grad Pol Sci Skills, UUC:Creative Expression

FREN 4290 - Conflict and Social Change: Women Writers in French

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: This course will focus on major contemporary women writers from across the French-speaking world. Students consider how cultural, political and social conflicts uniquely affect women in various geographical areas such as France, Western and Northern Africa, the Caribbean, French Polynesia, Canada. On conflicts such as migration, anticolonial environmental activism, gender and tradition, reproductive rights, transmission of slavery and its memory, we learn how women use their voice to deconstruct dominant socio-cultural perceptions and put their voice in the service of social change.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

FREN 4300 - Masculin/Feminin

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: This course examines the themes of love and marriage in 18th and 19th century French literature, through developing a critical approach to the concept of gender - the social construction of male and female social roles and 'natures.' Authors studied may include: Montesquieu, Graffigny, Balzac, Sand.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), French Major Elective, Literature BA Requirement(CAS), Literature BS Requirement(CAS), Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4315 - Performing Texts: Performativity and Gender in French Literature

3 Credits

This course explores the performative aspect of gender and the Arts in French and Francophone Literature while taking an in-depth and critical look at the historical and societal implications of the theoretical principals of performance. Taught in French.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: International Studies, International Studies-Europe, International Studies-General, Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4320 - French Short Story

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: The study of themes, techniques and perspectives as seen in a diversity of French short stories. Texts may include selections from as early as the Medieval fabliaux through contemporary writings by Michel Tournier and J.M.G. Le Clézio.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), French Major Elective, Literature BA Requirement(CAS), Literature BS Requirement(CAS), Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4340 - 18th-Century French Prose

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: A course on society, literature, art and revolution in 18th-century France. A focus on how the concepts of society and social change are articulated in the novels and essays of writers such as Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Olympe de Gouges, Condorcet.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

FREN 4350 - Studies in 19th-Century Novel

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: The development of the novel in 19th-century France, as seen in representative works of the period from Romanticism to Naturalism. Authors studied may include: Chateaubriand, Hugo, Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), French Major Elective, Literature BA Requirement(CAS), Literature BS Requirement(CAS), Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4360 - Paris in 19th-Century Literature

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: Paris in the 19th century was a city in transition - politically, economically, culturally. This course deals with some of the great writers of the period who, as visionaries of their time, were able to grasp the true meaning underlying the ever-changing Parisian panorama. Texts include works by Hugo, Balzac, Gautier, Murger.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

FREN 4370 - Literature of the Fantastic

3 Credits

This course examines a literary genre known as the conte fantastique (fantastic short story) that emerged in 19th- century France and whose legacy is still seen in today's literature, cinema, and art. Fantastic tales by well-known authors such as Balzac, Gautier, Maupassant, Merimee and German writer Hoffmann are analyzed from a theoretic perspective and for the underlying questions of identity, universal values and the unconscious that they contain. Taught in French.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), French Major Elective, Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4380 - Hugo and the Misérables

3 Credits

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), French Major Elective, Global Citizenship (CAS), Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4390 - Studies in 20th Century Prose

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: Examines the new directions taken by French fiction in the 20th century. Beginning with Proust, through the Existentialists and the post-war nouveau roman, ending with an evaluation of recent literary trends in the light of the concepts of modernity and post-modernity.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), French Major Elective, Literature BA Requirement(CAS), Literature BS Requirement(CAS), Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4410 - French Poetry: Origins to 18th Century

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: Marie de France, Fabliaux, Christine de Pizan, DuBellay, Ronsard, Malherbe, LaFontaine, and Moliere.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), Literature BA Requirement(CAS), Literature BS Requirement(CAS), Medieval (Major) - Literature, Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4420 - French Poetry: Romantic to Baudelaire

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: An examination of the Romantic period as a moment of explosive creative activity in poetry and art during a time of profound social and economic change. Selections may include works by Lamartine, Vigny, Hugo, Musset, Gautier, Nerval, Baudelaire.

Prerequisite(s): FREN 3030; FREN 3040

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), French Major Elective, Literature BA Requirement(CAS), Literature BS Requirement(CAS), Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4510 - Early Modern French Theatre: Comedy, Tragedy and Mystery

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: Students in this course will explore the nature of tragedy and comedy and will acquire a critical awareness of the representation of dramatic personages through the study of French theatre from the Middle Ages through the seventeenth century.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), French Major Elective, Literature BA Requirement(CAS), Literature BS Requirement(CAS), Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4520 - French Drama: 18th Century to Romantics

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: A course on theater and theatricality for Neo-Classicism to the Romantics, focusing both on the themes of the family romance and on the creation of the Artist. Texts include works by Marivaux, Beaumarchais, Hugo, Musset, Vigny.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

FREN 4610 - French Cinema

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: A history of French Cinema by movements and authors. MClias, Bunuel, Vigo, Gance, Renoir, Clouzot, Cocteau, Tati, Truffaut, Godard, Rohmer, Kurys, Berri, Chatiliez, Tavernier. Taught in French.

Prerequisite(s): 9 Credits from FREN3000-3999

Attributes: Film Studies, Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), Film & Media - Critical Study, French Minor Elective, French Major Elective, International Studies-Arts, International Studies-Europe, Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4630 - Themes in French Literature

3 Credits (Repeatable for credit)

TAUGHT IN FRENCH:

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), French Minor Elective, French Major Elective, International Studies-Arts, International Studies-Europe, Literature BA Requirement(CAS), Literature BS Requirement(CAS), Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4640 - Studies in Francophone Literature

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: An overview of Francophone literature of Africa and the Caribbean, focusing on themes of imperialism, de-colonization, and négritude as seen in the works of authors such as Césaire, Senghor, Bâ, Schwarz-Bart.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), French Major Elective, Literature BA Requirement(CAS), Literature BS Requirement(CAS), Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4650 - French Cinema II 1980's-1990's

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: A look at French cinema since 1980 as indicative of a French identity and value crisis. Examines new genres: Cinema du look, Memory films, heritage films, postmodern parody and satire. Directors studied include young directors (Besson, Crax), older directors (Truffaut, Malle), women (Varda, Kurys), minority (Kassowitz) and foreign directors (Kiesllowksi).

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), French Minor Elective, French Major Elective, Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4660 - Nation, Identity, Culture

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: This course promotes an understanding of the dynamics at play in contemporary French culture by examining how the State has shaped society from the Revolution of 1789 to now. Through various texts and films, students explore the shifting notions of Nation, Identity and Culture during their period.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

FREN 4670 - Postcolonialism and Violence, Issues of Representation in Francophone Culture, Literature and Film

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: After examining socio-political conditions that produced violence in individual francophone cultures and countries, we will analyze ways in which texts (novels, plays, life narratives and testimonies) and films arouse horror, discomfort, denial or connection in readers and spectators.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), French Minor Elective, French Major Elective, Foreign Service Elective, Global Citizenship (CAS), International Studies-Africa, International Studies-Arts, International Studies-War, Literature BA Requirement(CAS), Literature BS Requirement(CAS), Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4680 - Voices of Empowerment in Contemporary France

3 Credits

Students in this course will develop their understanding of cultural issues and challenges in Contemporary France and the Francophone World, while strengthening their communication skills and ability to talk and write about complex social and cultural issues. Students will become familiar with issues in culture and politics, and current debates and challenges that are taking place. Students will read from a variety of essays, articles, literary texts, and from online French news sources. We will develop listening comprehension as we watch broadcasts in French and documentaries. We identify how diverse groups attempt to reframe their position in relation to dominant models of (national) identity. We analyze the strategies they develop when trying to have their voices heard and legitimized. Students develop their skills in understanding complex issues, communicating information, and making and defending an argument (a cause), while simultaneously improving their written and spoken French.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: International Studies, International Studies-Europe, Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4690 - Gender and Sexual Revolution in Contemporary France

3 Credits

In this course, students will gain an understanding of the socio-political environment in France surrounding feminist and queer movements. We will examine how key French literary and theoretical texts have helped challenge existing notions of gender and how they have shaped new perspectives on social understanding of feminism, gender, and queer identity in France.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: Women's & Gender Studies

FREN 4700 - Love and Honor in Early Modern France

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: This course explores the evolution of the concept of honor, as well as the depiction and expression of romantic love, in French literature throughout the Early Modern period. The heroic figure is examined, as well as amorous relationships, particularly in terms of gender and power.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), French Major Elective, Literature BA Requirement(CAS), Literature BS Requirement(CAS), Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4710 - Women and Writing in Early Modern France

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: An examination of the role of women in early modern French literature through a study of French literary works by and about women from the 15th through the 17th century. Writers to be studied will include Christine de Pizan, Marguerite de Navarre, Ronsard, Labé, Racine, and Molière.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

FREN 4850 - Seminar on Molière

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: In this course students study several of Molière's plays, focusing on his great comedies of character in which he ridiculed vice or intemperance through his caricature of the personage who is its incarnation. Students analyze Molière's comic theatre as a form of ethical inquiry that entertains and instructs its audience.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), French Major Elective, Literature BA Requirement(CAS), Literature BS Requirement(CAS), Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4870 - Exoticism in French Literature

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: A cultural critique of French novels from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, including works by Montesquieu, Mme de Duras, Chateaubriand, Balzac, Loti, Levi-Strauss. Discussion of the evolution of exoticism as a genre and representations of exotic in 'other' cultures.

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

Attributes: Foreign Language BA Req (CAS), Foreign Language BS Req (CAS), French Minor Elective, French Major Elective, Global Citizenship (CAS), Literature BA Requirement(CAS), Literature BS Requirement(CAS), Grad Pol Sci Skills

FREN 4910 - Internship

1-6 Credits (Repeatable for credit)

Prerequisite(s): CORE 1500^*; (CORE 1000 or UUC Ignite Seminar Waiver with a minimum score of S)

^* Concurrent enrollment allowed.

Attributes: UUC:Reflection-in-Action

FREN 4930 - Special Topics

1-3 Credits (Repeatable for credit)

Prerequisite(s): 3 Courses from FREN 3000-3999

FREN 4980 - Advanced Independent Study

1-3 Credits (Repeatable for credit)

FREN 5010 - French for Reading & Translation

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN ENGLISH: This course is designed to enable students with little or no background in French to read and translate modern French prose with a dictionary; the course is primarily for graduate students seeking reading knowledge of French for research purposes. Does not count toward MA in French.

FREN 5030 - Advanced Oral Proficiency

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: This course aims at upgrading oral proficiency in spoken French to a level at which advanced/superior level functions (on the ACTFL scale) can be handled successfully and with a high level of accuracy. Use of multi-media equipment serves to develop comprehension and the ability to communicate in extended discourse.

FREN 5040 - Methods & Techniques for Teaching French

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: A practical approach to teaching methods and technologies, focusing on how different strategies can serve to increase students' skills in French. Principles of language acquisition, a history of foreign language methodologies, current approaches to language learning and evaluation of language performance with respect to the 'Proficiency' movement are some of the topics studied.

Attributes: French Graduate Elective

FREN 5060 - Studies in Contemporary French Culture

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: An update on France and France's place in the greater European Community as seen from a diversity of perspectives. This course will examine current trends in society, politics, economy, education, cultural values and their impact on the way of life in France today.

FREN 5070 - Studies in Francophone Culture

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: An analysis of the culture, history and cultural content of selected literary texts of a French-speaking country (such as Canada) or a group of French-speaking countries (such as Francophone West Africa). The 'politics' of writing and identity are discussed.

FREN 5100 - Critical Writing, Oral Expression & Research

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: Taking as a point of departure a specific theme in French literature or culture, this course aims at expanding expository and critical expression in French. Students will strengthen their ability to analyze texts and will develop strategies for carrying out research in French and Francophone studies.

Attributes: French Graduate Elective

FREN 5200 - Perceiving Others: US & France

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: This course examines how the French are perceived by Americans, and how Americans are perceived by the French. Its focus is on points at which observation, on one hand, and imagination and/or value judgment, on the other, meet, in such perceptions. These meeting points are called stereotypes: a projected, generalizing reading of one culture onto another.

Attributes: French Graduate Elective

FREN 5220 - French and Francophone Media

3 Credits

Attributes: French Graduate Elective

FREN 5240 - French Cuisine: Culture, Text, and Context

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: This course will use writing about food as a window into how French literature across the centuries broaches such topics as social class, politics, memory, and identity. We will consider how food often functions as a symbol of cultural concerns as well as its role in the economy. The course will map some of these issues across different genres, including fiction, drama, didactic texts, and cookbooks and will assess the similarities and differences in the way in which these genres handle the cultural, social, political, and economic issues that permeate the topic of food preparation and consumption.

Attributes: French Graduate Elective

FREN 5290 - Women and Global Issues

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: In this class, we will explore how globalization is bringing to the fore issues that are affecting and shaping women’s lives throughout the world. Through essays, various literary pieces and films, we will examine how dichotomies that are usually identified in feminist discourse take on a renewed life as increased interconnectedness that comes with globalization shapes religious, economic, cultural and political issues. Cross-listed with WGST 5290.

Attributes: French Graduate Elective

FREN 5330 - French "Moralists"

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: This course attempts to define the 'moralist' and analyze the work of representative writers from the Renaissance through the 17th century in light of this definition. An introductory overview of thought and attitudes marking the Middle Ages is followed by the study of texts by Montaigne, Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyere and Madame de Lafayette.

FREN 5340 - Age of Enlightenment

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: A study of the 18th-century French 'philosophes' and their notion of society and the ideal citizen, followed by a look at the darker side of the Enlightenment, and in particular the 'anti-societies' envisioned by Sade. Included is an examination of the role of Enlightenment ideology in the French Revolution.

Attributes: French Graduate Elective

FREN 5350 - Studies in 19th Century French Novel

3 Credits

This course examines the emergence of the novel as a genre in France. Both literary technique as well as the socio-cultural factors present at the time of the work's creation will be considered. To be studied are selected works by Chateaubriand, Hugo, Balzac, Sand, Stendhal, Flaubert, Zola. Offered occasionally.

Attributes: French Graduate Elective

FREN 5370 - Literature of the Fantastic

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: This course examines a literary genre known as the conte fantastique (fantastic short story) that emerged in 19th century France and whose legacy is still seen in today's literature, cinema and art. Fantastic tales by well-known authors such as Balzac, Gautier, Maupassant, Merimee and German writer Hoffmann are analyzed from a theoretic perspective and for the underlying questions of identity, universal values and the unconscious that they contain.

Attributes: French Graduate Elective

FREN 5380 - Hugo and the Misérables

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: Victor Hugo, celebrated poet, playwright, novelist, was also one of the most socially and politically engaged writers of his time. This course examines Hugo's deep commitment to society's misérables and the global implications of his monumental undertaking to sensitize readers to problems of misery, poverty, and social justice in our own time. At the same time, students develop a critical eye for identifying what kind of critical strategies enable Hugo to inspire audiences throughout the world to identify with his ideas and to appropriate the spirit of his work for the development of their own initiatives, from art and film production to causes involving political reform and social justice.

Attributes: French Graduate Elective

FREN 5390 - Studies in 20th Century French Prose

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: An examination of the new directions taken by French fiction in light of the development of the notions of modernism and post-modernism. Representative texts ranging from the narrative innovations of Proust through the Existential writing of Camus and Sartre, to the rise of the 'Nouveau roman' of Duras and Robbe-Grillet, to recent contributions by Perec and Toussaint.

Attributes: French Graduate Elective

FREN 5410 - Early Modern French Poetry

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: Eustache Deschamps described poetry as 'natural music.' This course will explore the ways in which the 'music' of poetry intensifies its meaning. We will trace the evolution of French poetry from its medieval origins through the seventeenth century. We will explore poetic techniques, devices, and forms.

FREN 5420 - Studies in 19th-Century French Poetry

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: A study of poetic expression in France during the 'Romantic' period and its aftermath. Representative works are examined from the point of view of theme and poetic technique, but also from the perspective of the greater artistic and historical context of the time. Examples from Lamartine, Hugo, Vigny, Musset, Gautier, Baudelaire.

Attributes: French Graduate Elective

FREN 5510 - Early Modern French Theatre

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: Following an introductory overview of Medieval and Renaissance theater, this course focuses on the 17th century and its three 'greats' of French drama: Corneille, Racine, Moliere. Play analysis and discussion will take into consideration literary trends of the period (preciosite, realism, and classicism), as well as modern literary criticism. Offered occasionally.

Attributes: French Graduate Elective

FREN 5540 - Studies in 20th Century French Theatre

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: A study of the major trends in 20th-century French theater, from the influence of the Surrealist movement and Existentialism to the Theater of the Absurd of the Post-War period and its Kafkaian undertones. Offered occasionally.

Attributes: French Graduate Elective

FREN 5550 - Writers of Memory

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: Personal memory, family memory, cultural memory, Holocaust memory, colonial memory, anthropological memory, genetic memory, etc. What surfaces today in French literature (as well as in other domains, such as cinema and art) is a resurgence of multiple forms of memory, often read as challenging the longstanding predominance of historical memory. This course explores the reasons for the surge of memory narratives, as well the various kinds of memory that they conjure up and the various forms that they take in current French literature.

Attributes: French Graduate Elective

FREN 5610 - French Cinema

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: A history of French cinema by themes and authors. Examined are the major current directions, including the influence of Surrealism and the Post-Modern, problems in realism and cinematographic genres, the relation of cinema to French politics. Films are shown and discussed. Offered occasionally.

Attributes: French Graduate Elective

FREN 5630 - Studies in Francophone Literature

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: An over-view of Francophone literature of Africa and the Caribbean, focusing on imperialism, de-colonization and 'negritude' as seen in the works of Cesaire, Senghor, Ba, Schwartz-Bart. Offered occasionally.

Attributes: French Graduate Elective

FREN 5650 - French Cinema II: 1980-Present - From "Cinema du look" to new social realism.

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: This course complements FREN 5610- French Cinema. It examines new developments in French cinema from the 1980s to the present, in the light of French cinematographic tradition, and provides analytical and critical tools to understand such developments. The course is taught in French.

Attributes: French Graduate Elective

FREN 5660 - Nation, Identity and Culture

3 Credits

Attributes: French Graduate Elective

FREN 5670 - Postcolonialism and Violence

3 Credits

Attributes: French Graduate Elective

FREN 5700 - Love & Honor Early Mod France

3 Credits

Attributes: French Graduate Elective

FREN 5710 - Women and Writing in Early Modern France

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: This course introduces students to the role of women in early modern French literature as symbol/image and as writer, through a study of French literary works by and about women. Writers to be studies will include Christine de Pizan, Marguerite de Navarre, Ronsard, Lave, Racine, and Moliere.

Attributes: French Graduate Elective, Women's & Gender Studies

FREN 5850 - Seminar on Moliere

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: This seminar endeavors, through a thorough analysis of Moliere's plays, to recapture the time, the life and the literary theories of one of the world's best playwrights. Video cassettes make it possible to first view the plays, then analyze them in light of Aristotelian and modern criticism. Offered occasionally.

Attributes: French Graduate Elective

FREN 5860 - The World of Baudelaire

3 Credits

TAUGHT IN FRENCH: The study of Baudelaire-poet, art critic, 'man of his time'-as a pivotal figure in the transition from 'Romanticism' to the 'modern' era in France.

Attributes: French Graduate Elective

FREN 5870 - Exoticism in French Literature

3 Credits

Attributes: French Graduate Elective

FREN 5930 - Special Topics

3 Credits (Repeatable for credit)

Attributes: French Graduate Elective

FREN 5970 - Research Topics

1-3 Credits (Repeatable for credit)

FREN 5980 - Graduate Independent Study in French

1-3 Credits (Repeatable for credit)