Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: ELEMENTARY FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE I

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 5

Description: Introductory French. Concentration on all four language skills. Credit may not be received for both FREN 222 and FREN 101.

Long Title: ELEMENTARY FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE II

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 5

Description: Continuation of FREN 101. Credit may not be received for both FREN 223 and FREN 102. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Results of Placement Test or FREN 101 or FREN 222 or Permission of Instructor. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 102 if student has credit for FREN 262.

Long Title: INTERMEDIATE FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE I

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Communication based course. Focuses on the functional use of the language through linguistic, sociocultural and situational contexts. Develops all four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing). Credit may not be received for both FREN 225 and FREN 201. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Results of Placement Test or FREN 102 or Premission of Instructor. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 201 if student has credit for FREN 263.

Long Title: INTERMEDIATE FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE II

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Continuation of FREN 201. Credit may not be received for both FREN 226 and FREN 202. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Results of Placement Test or FREN 201 or Permission of Instructor. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 202 if student has credit for FREN 264.

Long Title: CONTEMPORARY FRENCH SOCIETY

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course aims to give students an understanding of French Civilization through exploration of the social, cultural, and political issues that define France today. Course taught in English.

Long Title: AP/OTH CREDIT FRENCH LANGUAGE

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Transfer

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course provides credit for students who have successfully completed approved examinations, such as Advanced Placement exams. This credit counts toward the total credit hours required for graduation. Credit may not be received for both FREN 222 and FREN 101.

Long Title: FIRST YEAR FRENCH II

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 6

Prerequisite(s): FREN 101 OR FREN 161 OR FREN 222 or permission of department

Description: Development of sociolinguistic and sociocultural knowledge in French to communicate and interact with speakers of French at a low-intermediate level of competence. The course is based on a student-centered, critical-thinking approach to language analysis/acquisition. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 262 if student has credit for FREN 102.

Long Title: INTERMEDIATE FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE II

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): FREN 102 OR FREN 262 or placement test or permission of department

Description: Development of sociolinguistic and sociocultural knowledge in French to communicate and interact with speakers of French at an intermediate level of competence. The course is based on a student-centered, critical-thinking approach to language analysis/acquisition. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 263 if student has credit for FREN 201.

Long Title: INTERMEDIATE FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE III

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): FREN 201 OR FREN 263 or permission of department

Description: Development of sociolinguistic and sociocultural knowledge in French to communicate and interact with speakers of French at an upper-intermediate level of competence. The course is based on a student-centered, critical-thinking approach to language analysis/acquisition. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 264 if student has credit for FREN 202.

Long Title: FRENCH LANGUAGE PLACEMENT TEST

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Score to Course Translation

Credit Hours: 0

Description: Students who took the French Placement Test and place into FREN 300 are allowed to register for any 300 level French course. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: ADVANCED GRAMMAR AND ITS LITERARY AND CULTURAL APPLICATIONS

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Offered every semester, this course is an integrated study of literary and cultural texts as a springboard for advanced level refinements of grammar. Recommended Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or Placement Test

Long Title: WRITING WORKSHOP

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course, offered annually and required of all majors, builds naturally on FREN 301. It emphasizes composition and exposition through the practice of such genres as narration, description, portrait, essay, and commentaire compose. Formerly FREN 336. Recommended Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or Placement Test Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 302 if student has credit for FREN 336.

Long Title: LITERARY AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS: THE ART OF READING

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to the unique critical skills necessary for reading and analysis across the arts and social sciences. Recommended Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or placement test.

Long Title: MAJOR LITERARY WORKS AND ARTIFACTS OF PRE-REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of French culture, literature, and artifacts from the Middle Ages until the Revolution. Recommended Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or placement test.

Long Title: MAJOR LITERARY WORKS AND ARTIFACTS OF POST-REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of those writers and painters, literary movements and cultural upheavals, that make of the 19th- and 20th-centuries such a rich unfolding of art and event in the broader history of France. Recommended Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or Placement Test

Long Title: MAJOR LITERARY WORKS AND ARTIFACTS OF THE FRANCOPHONE WORLD

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will explore the artistic, historical, and philosophical textures of French cultures outside Europe, focusing especially on Africa North and South of the Sahara, the Caribbean, North America, and on the evolution of the concept of "francophonie" since World War II. Recommended Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or placement test.

Long Title: STRUCTURE OF FRENCH

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The primary objective of this course is to present contemporary French as a dynamic linguistic system shaped by historical, cognitive and sociological developments. Beyond the specific consideration of French, this course is concerned with the historical, psychological, and sociological dimensions that enter into the description of any language. Taught in French. Cross-list: LING 318. Recommended Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or placement test.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO FRENCH SOCIETY AND CULTURE

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course provides grounding in social, political, cultural, and economic aspects of contemporary France. The course will focus on themes such as youth culture, Europeanization, immigration, and gender debates. Recommended Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or placement test.

Long Title: FROM EXISTENTIALISM TO CYBERPUNK

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Films and novels. Investigations of human consciousness, subjectivity and identity -- from Sartre's existentialism of the "absurd", through Robbe-Grillet's "anti-humanism", to the cyberpunk science-fictional studies of "post-humanity", genetic manipulation, environmental collapse and post-religious mysticism, by contemporary figures like Dantec and Houellebecq. Recommended Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or Placement Test

Long Title: FROM DECOLONIZATION TO GLOBALIZATION

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Taught in English. Novels, and films, from North and West Africa, and the immigrant population in France, from 1960 to 2010. Emphasis on the tensions between narratives of political emancipation, modernity, secularism, and religious fundamentalism and mysticism. Extra reading for graduate students in theories of colonialism, postcolonialism, globalization. Cross-list: POLI 324, RELI 476, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 524. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Any 200 level course or above in English or French, or HUMA 101 or HUMA 102, or a FWIS course. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 324 if student has credit for FREN 524.

Long Title: FRENCH PHONETICS

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Acquisition of French phonetic system through intensive class and laboratory practice. Contrast analysis of the French and English phonetic systems. Minimal use of technical terminology. Recommended Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or placement test.

Long Title: PROVINCES OF FRANCE

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3 OR 4

Description: Overview of the amazing diversity in the history, languages, economic bases, traditions, and cultures of the original provinces in order to arrive at a better understanding of France as it exists today. For an additional credit hour, students may participate in a two week on site visit to Anjou, and Poitou. Recommended Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or Placement Test

Long Title: MODERN SHORT STORY: TOWARDS AN ETHICS OF FICTION

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of great modern short fiction with emphasis on reading as an ethical enterprise. Selected critical essays complement works from Melville to Maupassant, Flaubert to Kafka to O'Connor as we talk about alienation and solitude, death and violence and the vicissitudes of family. Does not count toward French major. Cross-list: ENGL 355. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Any 200-level course or above in English or French Studies, or HUMA 101 or 102.

Long Title: TRANSLATION AS INTERPRETATION: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH POETS OF THE MODERN AGE

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course dedicated, to reading closely some of the great poets of the modern period - from Hugo to Baudelaire to Prevert - and, to the art of translation as a tool for reflecting on the subtleties of the French language and the special shape of the poetic. Recommended Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or placement test.

Long Title: WOMEN, SEXUALITY, AND THE LITERARY

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to women writers and to women as objects of representation in fiction and in poetry since the Revolution. Special attention to the body and to sexuality as these impinge both on writer and represented. Cross-list: SWGS 412. Recommended Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or Placement Test.

Long Title: 19TH CENTURY FRENCH TALES OF THE FANTASTIC

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The 19th century in France was not just the era of the realist novel but also of realism's uncomfortable "other" - the fantastic tale. This will be a discussion course devoted to works by Merimee, Maupassant, Nodier, Gautier, Balzac, and Flaubert - stories "behind the story" of the 19th century. Recommended Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or placement test.

Long Title: QUEBEC, P.Q., CANADA

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A group project, the class will attempt to define Quebec's unique status through student-selected topics such as immigration, plurilingualism, national sovereignty, cultural production, and the like. The course will cover literature and visual texts (fine arts, cinema) as well as historical and political ones. It will also offer a practicum in French writing. Recommended Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or placement test.

Long Title: TRANSLATION

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Exploration of the theory and practice of translation. Includes translation of modern texts from and into English. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 5

Description: Topics may vary. Please consult with the department for additional information. Taught in French. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: BEGINNINGS OF THE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE OF FRANCE

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course includes and external history of the French language, an examination of hagiographic literature and the chanson de geste in their cultural and artistic contexts, as well as bibliographic component to acquaint the students with library tools available for research emphasizing medieval resources but not excluding those for later periods. Student will acquire a reading knowledge of Old French. Course taught in French. Cross-list: MDEM 404. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO CINEMA IN FRENCH

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction To Cinema In French -- In France and the French-speaking world (especially Africa): both the canon of "auteurs" of "high culture" and commercial "mere entertainment." Discussion of this distinction, and introduction to critical and theoretical discourse in film studies. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor

Long Title: NOVELS AND FILMS

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Comparison between French novels from the 16th to the 20th centuries and movies that have been based on them, in some cases more than one movie based on a given novel. The class will read each novel in question and then examine how the director perceived it when making the film. For example, La Reine Margot, Tous les Matins du Monde, Liaisons Dangereuses, Madame Bovary, Cyrano de Bergerac, Hiroshima mon amour. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor

Long Title: THE LEGACY OF COURTLY LITERATURE

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will address the various ways that courtly literature has evolved into modern times and stages through which the themes have passed. We will study courtly themes in literature (French, English, Spanish, German, Italian), film, art, and music from the Middle Ages to modern times. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor.

Long Title: SAINTS AND SINNERS

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of medieval French works that depict saints and sinners with the goal of assessing the cultural structure that sets the limits of these labels. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor

Long Title: COURTLY LOVE IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of the Occitan and Old French poetry that served as the source of the kind of love that came to be called "Amour courtois" in the nineteenth century. Cross-list: MDEM 425, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 515. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 415 if student has credit for FREN 515.

Long Title: LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES: KING ARTHUR

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of the origins of the legend of King Arthur and reasons for its popularity, particularly in literature of the French Middle Ages but also in other medieval literatures of Western Europe. Includes discussion of the legend's influence in diverse areas even in modern times. Cross-list: MDEM 436. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor

Long Title: SOCIETY AND SPECTACLE/SPECTACL OF SOCIETY

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Literature and culture of the 17th and 18th centuries. It is organized around the concepts of spectacle and spectacularity. Various discourses and modes of expression (theatre, iconography, festivals....) are used to analyze the staging of people and power and the ideological stakes of their re-presentations today in film and literary adaptations. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor

Long Title: WOMEN IN FRANCE

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course studies women in education, the workplace, politics, and in social and cultural institutions in French society. The class explores the history of the French women's movement and analyzes French concepts of gender and feminism in comparison to American models. Cross-list: SWGS 424.

Long Title: 17TH CENTURY

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Thematic approach to examining the main political, religious, philosophical, and literary discourses of the golden age of absolutism. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor

Long Title: THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY AND THE ANGLO-NORMAN WORLD

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course focuses on the most important secular work from the middle ages - a 230 foot long embroidery depicting the Battle of Hastings. This is a team-taught course that will examine both visual narrative of the tapestry and literary narrative in works such as the "Chanson de Roland," and the "Lais" and "Fables of Marie de France." Cross-list: HART 433, MDEM 433, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 533. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 433 if student has credit for FREN 533.

Long Title: WRITING WORKSHOP

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FREN 436 is a more advanced version of FREN 336. Additional requirements include more extensive grammar and syntax reviews, one to two pages on each written paper and two more translations.

Long Title: VISUAL CULTURE OF MEDIEVAL PILGRIMAGE

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3 TO 4

Description: This seminar explores the rich visual culture associated with medieval pilgrimage between the 4th and 15th centuries. The experience of pilgrimage was shaped by symbols, images, and places encountered along the routes to sites of sacred significance, especially the Jerusalem, Rome, Santiago, and Canterbury. We will examine the theological, practical, visual, and experiential aspects of pilgrimage in Western Europe and the Holy Land as understood through material culture. Instructor Permission Required.Cross-list: HART 437, MDEM 437. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or Permission of Instructor.

Long Title: NATIONAL IDENTITY AND PUBLIC MEMORY IN FRENCH SOCIETY

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course identifies events, symbols, and shared experiences which constitute collective French Memory and examines how public memory has shaped national identity in contemporary France. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor

Long Title: READING CLOSELY THE GREAT POETS OF THE 19TH CENTURY

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of the poetry and prose poetry of the 19th century from the Romantic period to the Symbolist era, through such writers as Desbordes-Valmore, Lamartine, Musset, Vigny, Hugo, Nerval, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Mallarme. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor

Long Title: FRANCE - AMERICA: IMAGE AND EXCHANGE

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This undergraduate course analyzes French and American culture and identity through transatlantic encounters. We study French intellectuals (Tocqueville, Beauvoir, Baudrillard) who traveled to the US, and images of America in French novels, comic strips, films. We also examine American gazes toward the French. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor

Long Title: IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP IN CONTEMPORARY FRANCE

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3 OR 4

Description: This course examines the impact of immigration on contemporary French society and analyzes debates over citizenship, integration, and multiculturalism. Variable credit 3-4 credits, the fourth credit is for those who will do the study abroad segment at the end, pending funding. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor

Long Title: FROM NOSTALGIA TO HYSTERIA: BALZAC, STENDHAL, FLAUBERT, ZOLA

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of 19th-century fiction through its discourses of displacement: its depiction of nostalgia and of "homelessness" in the first half of the century and of the crowd, the flaneur, and hysteria in the second. Readings in lyric, short fiction, the novel, and in critical theory. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 555. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 455 if student has credit for FREN 555.

Long Title: THE BATTLES OF ALGIERS: FROM CHARLES X TO THE "ARAB SPRINGS"

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Historical, literary, and visual materials form the 19th century to the present will illustrate the global perception of a war that left an indelible inscription in contemporary debates on democracy and reform. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor.

Long Title: EVOLUTION OF THE LYRIC FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE PRESENT

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Evolution of the French lyric from the Renaissance to the present, with special emphasis on the (post) modern period. The course also examines the relationship between poetry and painting through theoretical texts by Baudelaire, Marin, Derrida and others. Representative figures: Nerval, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Eluard, Saint-John Perse, Cesaire, Segalen, Ponge, Char, Bonnefoy, and Brossard. Undergraduate version of FREN 562, with shorter reading list and research paper. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 562. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 462 if student has credit for FREN 562.

Long Title: HISTORY AND CULTURE OF MODERN QUEBEC

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: On the history and culture of Quebec from the 18th century to the present, the seminar also examines issues of language and cultural identity. It will include such figures as Hemon, Carrier, Godbout, Maillet, and Hebert (literature); Pellan, Riopelle, and Bordous (art); and Jutra and Arcand (cinema). Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor

Long Title: POETICS AND POLITICS OF FRANCOPHONIE

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar focuses on various literary, artistic, and political expressions of "francohonie" as both legitimated and contested concept. It encompasses a plurality of geo-cultural areas: sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb, and the Caribbean, and Quebec. It also examines how notions of postcolonialism and transnationalism intersect discourses of postmodernity. Undergraduate version of FREN 574 with shorter reading list and research paper. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 574. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 474 if student has credit for FREN 574.

Long Title: NOVEL APPROACHES TO THE ART OF CLOSE READING: BALZAC, STENDHAL, FLAUBERT, ZOLA

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Undergraduate version of FREN 576. It will involve two medium-length papers rather than the single seminar paper required for graduate students. Reading quantity will be modified as necessary to accommodate undergraduate needs. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 576. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 476 if student has credit for FREN 576.

Long Title: THE CARIBBEAN IN FRENCH

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This is the undergraduate senior version of the graduate level seminar FREN/ARCR 578. Both the course's reading list and the length of the research are adjusted to accommodate undergraduate needs. Cross-list: ARCR 478, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 578. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 478 if student has credit for FREN 578.

Long Title: DISCOURSES OF DISSIDENCE

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Undergraduate version of FREN 582, with shorter reading list and senior level research paper. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 582. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 482 if student has credit for FREN 582.

Long Title: LITERATURE, ART AND COLONIALITY

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: This is the undergraduate senior version of the graduate level seminar FREN/HART 587. Both the course's reading list and the length of the research are adjusted to accommodate undergraduate needs. Cross-list: HART 487, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 587. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 487 if student has credit for FREN 587.

Long Title: THE NOVEL IN FRENCH: 18TH CENTURY TO POST-COLONIALISM

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Form and themes of the novel as problematic engagements with the evolution of art, capitalism, the family and gender, the sacred, subjectivity and imperialism. Authors include: the Marquis de Sade, Balzac, Flaubert, Proust, Colette, Sartre, Robbe-Grillet, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Camara Laye. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor

Long Title: THE FRENCH AVANT-GARDE: SYMBOLISM, DADAISM, SURREALISM, CONTEMPORARY CINEMA

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Short texts and films by Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarme, Jarry, Apollinaire, Breton, Artaud, Bataille, Robbe-Grillet, Catherine Breillat, Virginie Despentes. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics may vary. Please consult department for additional information. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: TEACHING COLLEGE FRENCH (PRACTC)

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of pedagogical principles applicable to the teaching of French. Includes practice teaching and performance reviews, design of pedagogical activities and peer observation.

Long Title: THE LITERARY AND HISTORICAL IMAGE OF THE MEDIEVAL WOMAN

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Comparison and contrast of the presentation of the medieval woman in literature with extant evidence of historical women from contemporary documents and records.

Long Title: COURTLY LOVE IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 OR FREN 312

Description: Study of the Occitan and Old French poetry that served as the source of the kind of love that came to be called "Amour courtois" in the nineteenth century. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 415. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 515 if student has credit for FREN 415.

Long Title: FROM DECOLONIZATION TO GLOBALIZATION

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Taught in English. Novels, and films, from North and West Africa, and the immigrant population in France, from 1960 to 2010. Emphasis on the tensions between narratives of political emancipation, modernity, secularism, and religious fundamentalism and mysticism. Extra reading for graduate students in theories of colonialism, postcolonialism, globalization. Cross-list: RELI 604, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 324. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 524 if student has credit for FREN 324.

Long Title: THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY AND THE ANGLO-NORMAN WORLD

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course focuses on the most important secular work from the middle ages - a 230 foot long embroidery depicting the Battle of Hastings. This is a team-taught course that will examine both visual narrative of the tapestry and literary narrative in works such as the "Chanson de Roland," and the "Lais" and "Fables of Marie de France." All graduates will meet on a regular basis outside of the weekly class to discuss readings; must keep an annotated bibliography of all additional readings; will be assigned to lead a discussion on topic of their research; and must complete a substantial research paper. Cross-list: HART 533, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 433. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 533 if student has credit for FREN 433.

Long Title: NATIONAL IDENTITY AND PUBLIC MEMORY IN FRENCH SOCIETY

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course identifies events, symbols, and shared experiences which constitute collective French memory and examines how public memory has shaped national identity in contemporary France. Graduate students will write a 25-page research paper on topic of their choice related to themes of the course.

Long Title: FRANCE-AMERICA: IMAGE AND EXCHANGE

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course analyzes French and American culture and identity through transatlantic encounters. We study intellectual's observations of American life (Tocqueville, Beauvoir, Baudrillard) and images of America in French novels, comic strips, films. We also examine American gazes toward the French. The course introduces students to interdisciplinary study of intercultural exchange and representation.

Long Title: LYRICAL SELF

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course on 19th century French poetry both in its formal development and as a set of lyrical inventions that will re-write the pastoral drama of the self that precedes it. Emphasis on Hugo and especially Baudelaire; supplementary readings in criticism and theory; occasional experiments in translation. Taught in French.

Long Title: FROM NOSTALGIA TO HYSTERIA: BALZAC, STENDHAL, FLAUBERT, ZOLA

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of 19th-century fiction through its discourses of displacement: its depiction of nostalgia and of "homelessness" in the first half of the century and of the crowd, the flaneur, and hysteria in the second. Readings in lyric, short fiction, the novel, and in critical theory. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 455. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 555 if student has credit for FREN 455.

Long Title: EVOLUTION OF THE LYRIC FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE PRESENT

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of the situation of the writing subject and strategies of representation in the modern lyric using Bonnefoy's "La presence ed l'image" as a point of departure. Includes Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Lautreamont, Breton, Perse, and Bonnefoy. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 462. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 562 if student has credit for FREN 462.

Long Title: LITERATURE, ART AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of selected works in literature and art through the lens of psychoanalysis, and of psychoanalysis through the lens of literary and visual art.

Long Title: SURREALIST AND AVANT-GARDE NARRATIVES

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The avant-garde and the logic of capitalism. The post- romantic precursors and the rise of a sacred and transgressive Art (Baudelaire, Mallarme, Rimbaud, Lautreamont, de Nerval). Ecstasy beyond the constructed subject: Breton, Artaud, Bataille, Aragon.

Long Title: THE NARRATIVES AND THE OTHER ARTS

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The seminar will focus on the aesthetic and ideological interplay between literature and the other arts. Figures and topics will include: neoclassical poetry and painting; Segalen, and Gauguin's Tahiti; Baudelaire's art criticism; Delacroix, Chasseriau, Fromentin, Djebar, and French Orientalism; Cocteau, or the poet as film-maker, Simon and the Baroque; Robbe-Grillet, Duras, and the cinema; Ben Jelloun and Giacometti.

Long Title: PROUST

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Extensive close textual readings and broad-ranging meditations on the meaning of "A la recherche du temps perdu" in terms of the history of artistic modernism and social modernity. Taught alternately in French and English.

Long Title: POETICS AND POLITICS OF FRANCOPHONIE

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The seminar focuses on various literary, artistic, and political expressions of "francophonie" as both legitimated and contested concept. It encompasses a plurality of geo-cultural areas: sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb, and the Caribbean, and Quebec. It also examines how notions of postcolonialism and transnationalism intersect discourses of postmodernity. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 474. Recommended Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 or FREN 312 or permission of instructor. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 574 if student has credit for FREN 474.

Long Title: NOVEL APPROACHES TO THE ART OF CLOSE READING: BALZAC, STENDHAL, FLAUBERT, ZOLA

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Four exemplary novels - Balzac's "Le Pere Goriot," Stendhal's "Le rouge et le noir," Flaubert's "Madame Bovary," and Zola's "Nana" - will provide the core of this course as we reflect on the realist novel as a form, on the preoccupations of the 19th century, and on the art of reading closely. Taught in English. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 476. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 576 if student has credit for FREN 476.

Long Title: CONTEMPORARY FRENCH THOUGHT: TOWARD A SYMBOLIC ECONOMY

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The seminar examines the history, political writings, literature and the arts of the French Caribbean from the beginning of colonization to the present. It will include figures such as Saint-John Perse, Roumain, Cesaire, Fanon, Depestre, Schwarz-Bart, Warner-Vieyra, Glissant, Conde, Chamoiseau, Laferriere, as well as the Caribbean arts and film. Taught in English. Additional work is required at the graduate level. Cross-list: ARCR 578, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 478. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 578 if student has credit for FREN 478.

Long Title: MARX, BATAILLE, BAUDRILLARD, POSTMODERNITY

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Taught in English. Exploration of the shift from a Marxist political economy of class struggle, through Bataille's "general economy" (economic activity as a "cosmic phenomenon") to Baudrillard's "indetermination of the code" and "simulation" in postmodernity. Texts by Marx, Mauss, Bataille, Athusser, Ernest Mandel, and Baudrillard.

Long Title: GILLES DELEUZE

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course provides an advanced introduction to Deleuze's work, from the earliest writings to the final period. Emphasis: Deleuze's relation to the philosophical tradition, his differences from and similarities to other French "postructuralists," and the uses to which his work has been put by others. Taught in English.

Long Title: GILLES DELEUZE II

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Continuation of FREN 580.

Long Title: DISCOURSES OF DISSIDENCE

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 OR FREN 312

Description: Seminar centers on dissidence as a concept and a practice, both ideological and esthetic. Covers a selection of figures, genres, media, and movements of "French" expression from Montaigne to present. Limited enrollment to 12. Open to seniors with approval from instructor. Also open with texts in English to non majors. Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 482. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 582 if student has credit for FREN 482.

Long Title: TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY NOVEL IN FRENCH

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The novel as response to the vicissitudes of capitalism, colonialism and post-colonialism, globalization, the death of God and the subject, the end of Art and History: Proust, Celine, Sartre, Robbe-Grillet, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Marguerite Duras, Michel Houellebecq, Maryse Conde, Camara Laye, Maurice G. Dantec. Taught in English.

Long Title: LITERATURE, ART AND COLONIALITY

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: How do concepts like coloniality, exoticism, primitivism, the modern baroque apply to texts and artifacts produced at the crossroads of (post)colonial and transnational encounters? Focus on Orientalists, Matisse, Djebar, Simon, Boudjedra, Borduas, Atlan, Khadda, and Glissant. Taught in English. Choice of reading materials and assignments in either English or French. Cross-list: HART 587, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 487. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 587 if student has credit for FREN 487.

Long Title: CONSCIOUSNESS, CONSTRUCTIONISM, THE SUBJECT AND THE SOUL

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Taught in English. Is the subject a "construction"? Is consciousness a neurological event? Philosophy, religion and aesthetics in the face of cultural critique, cognitive science and post structuralism. (Mostly) short readings from Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Bataille, Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, cognitive science, philosophy of mind.

Long Title: DERRIDA

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Taught in English. Background in, and differences from, Saussure, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Husserl, Hegel, Bataille, Foucault, Lacan, Marx. Contributions to globalization and postcolonial theory, identity politics, theology/secularism debates and comparative religious studies. Myths re "postmodernism" (in philosophy of science), "relativism," death of the subject," "theory" and "cultural studies."

Long Title: FRENCH RELIGIOUS THOUGHT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Taught in English. Texts by Bergson, Bataille, Maritain, Levinas, Jean-Luc Marion, Michel Henry, Derrida, Deleuze. Being, identity, difference, ego, ecstasy, essence, immanence and transcendence, God (and "death" of), "return of" religion, infinite, ontotheology, self, other, phallogocentrism, subject (and "death of"), totality. Cross-list: RELI 575.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SUMMER GRADUATE RESEARCH

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 12

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: THESIS RESEARCH PH.D.

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.