Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: THE FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT / LE SIECLE DES LUMIERES

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 OR FREN 312 or placement test or permission of instructor

Description: This course will focus on French representations of the Orient and the Pacific in the eighteenth century. Readings include novels, travel journals and essays by Montesquieu, Rousseau, Diderot, and Bougainville, among others. We will conclude the course by turning to the nineteenth century and the paintings of Gauguin and Delacroix.