Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 5

Description: ELEMENTARY FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE I ***** Introductory French. Concentration on all four language skills. Supplemented by work in the Language Resource Center. Section 4 is an intensive course (3 weeks) running from late July to mid-August. ***** Enrollment limited to 20. ***** Prerequisite(s): No prior knowledge of French. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 5

Prerequisite(s): FREN 101

Description: ELEMENTARY FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE II Continuation of FREN 101. Prerequisite(s): FREN 101, placement exam, or permission of instructor. Credit may not be received for both FREN 223 and FREN 102.

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: IN THE MATRIX: ON HUMAN BONDAGE AND LIBERATION ***** Using the film "The Matrix" as a point of reference, this course presents celebrated explorations of servitude and emancipation -- from religious mysticism to Marxism and artistic modernism. Texts by Lao Tzu, Farid ud-Din Attar, Plato, Freud, Marx, Baudelaire, J.S. Mill, Proust, de Beauvoir, Malcolm X, Marcuse, Baudrillard. Course taught in English. ***** Enrollment limited to 15 first-year students only, except by permission of the instructor. ***** Also offered as FSEM 127. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Wood

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: NO HAPPY ENDINGS: TRAGEDY IN LITERATURE AND FILM ***** Tragedy stages the sufferings and fall of a hero. It excites pity and fear. Why, then, do we take pleasure in tragedy? This course explores the importance of tragedy in Western culture through a reading of plays by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Racine, and Ibsen. Films include works by Robinson and Schlondorff. ***** Also offered as FSEM 131. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Shea.

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: INTERMEDIATE FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE I 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). Prerequisite(s): FREN 102, placement exam, or permission of instructor. Credit may not be received for both FREN 225 and FREN 201.

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: INTERMEDIATE FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE II ***** Continuation of FREN 201. Prerequisite(s): FREN 201, placement exam, or permission of instructor. Credit may not be received for both FREN 226 and FREN 202.

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisite(s): FREN 201

Description: CULTURE, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ***** Three-week intensive course taught in May in Grenoble, France. Open to any students interested in French language in cultural and/or scientific context. Proficiency-based instruction. Requires separate registration with the Office of International programs. See http://lang.rice.edu/CSL/study_Abroad/Fren214.pdf ***** Enrollment limited to 20. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 201 or 202, or placement test and permission of instructor required. ***** Instructor(s): Crull.

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO THE NOVEL WRITTEN IN FRENCH ***** Taught in translation. Study of the novel from the 17th century to the present in France, Africa and the Caribbean. Includes explorations of personhood, sexuality, modern capitalism and imperialism. Texts by Mme de Lafayette, Marquis de Sade, Balzac, Flaubert, Proust, Colette, Sartre, Conde', Cheihk Hamidou Kane, Robbe'-Grillet. Taught in English. ***** Also offered HUMA 220. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Wood.

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PROBLEMS IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH SOCIETY ***** 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 offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Fette

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED FRENCH FOR WRITTEN & ORAL COMMUNICATION ***** Aimed at developing competence in oral and written expression, with the special emphasis on stylistic variations, lexical nuances, and complex grammatical structures. Drawing on literary and journalistic sources, students will practice different styles of writing. Besides working on an individual project, students will create a collective story of their own invention. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): FREN 202

Description: MAJOR LITERARY WORKS AND ARTIFACTS OF PRE-REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE ***** Study of French culture, literature, and artifacts from the Middle Ages until the Revolution. Course conducted entirely in French. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or placement exam or AP credit or permission of instructor. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Nelson-Campbell.

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): FREN 202

Description: MAJOR LITERARY WORKS AND ARTIFACTS OF POST-REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE: THE ROMANTIC LEGACY ***** Fall Semester: Study of 19th- and 20th-century fiction through the special lens of the Romantic imagination. Readings from Chateaubriand, Desbordes-Valmore, Claire de Duras, Musset, Hugo, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Proust, Prevert, and the new novelists. Emphasis on discussion and close textual analysis, all in French. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or placement exam or AP credit or permission of instructor. ***** Spring Semester: French literature and cinema- from romanticism to postmodernity. The rise of capitalism, imperialism, globalization; romantic love and artistic ecstasy as attempts to deal with the "death of God"; can we distinguish "great works" from mere entertainment or "cultural constructions?" ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or placement exam or AP credit or permission of the instructor. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Wood.

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: STRUCTURE OF FRENCH ***** 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. ***** Also offered as LING 318. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or placement exam or AP credit or permission of instructor. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Achard.

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE WOMEN WRITERS ***** An examination of selected French and Francophone women writers from the Middle Ages to the present. We will pay particular attention to the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, sexuality and class as they emerge in the literary text. ***** Also offered as WGST 319. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Huffer

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FRENCH PHONETICS ***** Contrastive analysis of the French sound system including key areas as diction and articulation of French speech with emphasis on class as well as laboratory practice. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or placement exam or AP credit or permission of instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Achard.

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WRITING WORKSHOP ***** The course will focus on the practice of writing as a discursive discipline. It will also closely examine, from both a stylistic and rhetorical point of view, creative and critical prose by Barthes, Djebar, Sarraute, and others. Required of majors. Open to non-majors if space is available. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 or 312 or placement exam or AP credit or permission of instructor. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Shea

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EXOTICISM IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT ***** 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. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 or 312 or placement exam or AP credit or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Shea

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CULTURE & COMMUNICATION: PARIS ***** Overview of the history of Paris both as a city and a capital and as a cultural, intellectual, and economic center through a study of texts, music, and films. Equal emphasis will be placed on language skills and content. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or placement exam or AP credit or permission of instructor. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Nelson-Campbell

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CULTURE & COMMUNICATION: PROVINCES OF FRANCE ***** 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. Includes texts, music, and films. Equal emphasis will be placed on language skills and content. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or placement exam or AP credit or permission of instructor. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Nelson-Campbell

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MODERN AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN SHORT FICTION ***** Discussion course with emphasis on close reading as we talk about alienation and the modern period, about death, violence, and sexuality, and about the "ethics" of fiction generally. Selected critical essays will complement readings from Melville, Flaubert, Mann, Maupassant, Gogol, Chekhov, Gilman, Kafka, O'Connor, Carver, and Garcia-Marquez. ***** Also offered as ENGL 355. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Harter.

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: QUEBEC, P.Q., CANADA ***** 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, while simultaneously fostering the oral and written practice of French. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or placement exam or AP credit or permission of instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Aresu

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: IMAGES OF CONTEMPORARY FRANCE ***** The course will deal with the sociopolitical and intellectual history of post-war France. We will cover the advent of the Fifth Republic, decolonization, May '68 and political dissent, modernization and the postmodern condition, and France and the construction of Europe. Texts by Borne, Edmiston, and Dumenil. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN311 or 312 or placement exam or AP credit, or permission of instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Goux

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TRANSLATION ***** Exploration of the theory and practice of translation. Includes translation of modern texts from and into English. ***** Prerequisite(s): Placement exam, or AP credit, or permission of instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SPECIAL TOPICS ***** Topics may vary. Please consult with the department for additional information. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FRENCH CINEMA: PARIS-HOLLYWOOD ***** Introduction to French cinema. We will study the development of French cinema, with particular attention to the relationship between French film and Hollywood. Films include works by Renoir, Bresson, Cluzot, Truffaut, Godard, Tati, Varda, Kieslowski. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Shea

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE LITERARY AND HISTORICAL IMAGE OF THE MEDIEVAL WOMAN ***** Comparison and contrast of the presentation of the medieval woman in literature with extant evidence of historical women from contemporary documents and records. ***** Also offered as MDST 410 and WGST 410. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 or 312 or AP credit or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Nelson-Campbell

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF MIDDLE AGES: SAINTS AND SINNERS ***** 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. ***** Also offered as MDST 414. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 or 312 or AP Credit or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Nelson-Campbell

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: COURTLY LOVE IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE ***** 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. ***** Also offered as MDST 415. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 or 312 or AP credit or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Nelson-Campbell

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES: KING ARTHUR ***** 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. ***** Also offered as MDST 436. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 or 312 or AP credit or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Nelson-Campbell

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MODERN FRENCH PAINTERS AND THEIR WRITERS ***** Fascinated by painting, modern and contemporary writers have produced significant literary commentaries that reveal affinities with painters whose artistic "questioning" they shared. In this course we will study some of the encounters between these painters and thier writers. Among them: Picasso (commented by Apollinaire, Cocteau, Breton, Soller), Braque (commented by Ponge, Paulhan, Malraux, Saint John Perse), and others. ***** Prerequisite: Fren 311 or 312 or AP credit or permission of the instructor. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Goux.

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 17TH CENTURY ***** Thematic approach to examining the main political, religious, philosophical, and literary discourses of the golden age of absolutism. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 or placement exam or AP credit or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FRENCH FEMINIST THEORY ***** The purpose of this course is to gain a broad understanding of the important problems of contemporary feminist theories in French. We will focus on the interrelated issues of gender, sexuality, race, ethics, language, and power by exploring in depth primary texts in feminist theory. ***** Also offered as WGST 434. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Huffer

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 OR FREN 312

Description: TOPICS IN 19TH CENTURY LYRIC ***** 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. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 or 312 or placement exam or AP credit or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005 ***** Instructor(s): Harter

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: IMMIGRATION & CITIZENSHIP IN CONTEMPORARY FRANCE ***** This course examines the impact of immigration on contemporary French society and analyzes debates over citizenship, integration, and multiculturalism. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 or 312 or placement exam or AP credit or permission of the instructor. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Fette

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MASTERPIECES OF FRENCH THEATER, FROM CORNEILLE TO SARTRE ***** The course will cover literary, aesthetic, and historical developments in French theater, from the 17th to the 20th centuries (Corneille, Racine, Moliere, Beaumarchais, Hugo, Musset, Feydeau, Rostand, Giraudoux, Anouilh, and Sartre). ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WOMEN AND WOMEN'S VOICES IN FRENCH LITERATURE ***** Examination of the ways in which women have been represented in fiction, by themselves and by others, since the early modern period. Readings from Mme de Lafayette, Graffigny, Baudelaire, Sand, Villers de I'Isle-Adam, Beauvoir, Duras, and Wittig, with emphasis on the constitution of "the feminine" in literary texts as a cultural, historical, and social artifact. ***** Also offered as WGST 412. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 or 312 or AP credit or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Harter.

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 OR FREN 312

Description: POSTMODERN BREAK IN FRENCH PHILOSOPHY ***** A study of the questioning of philosophical modernity (starting with Descartes and the Enlightenment philosophers) by structuralist and poststructuralist thinkers and theorists of the postmodern condition. Among contemporary authors studied will be Lacan, Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, and others. ***** Prerequisite(s): 311 or 312 or placement exam or AP credit or permission of instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor: Goux

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HISTORY AND CULTURE OF MODERN QUEBEC ***** On the history and culture of Quebec from the 18th century to the present, the seminar also examines issues of language cultural identity. It will include such figures as Hemon, Carrier, Godbout, Maillet, and Hebert (literature); Pellan, Riopelle, and Bourduas (art); and Jutra and Areand (cinema). ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor: Aresu

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: JEAN COCTEAU: POET, NOVELIST, FILM-MAKER ***** Poet, novelist, playwriter, essayist, painter, Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) a protean creator, was also the first French writer to become a famous film-maker. During his career, J. Cocteau was close to most of the avant-garde movements of this time: Cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism. The goal of this course is to discover the various aspects of this multi-faceted work, where cinema and poetry meet under the sign of Orpheus. ***** Enrollment limited to 20. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 or 312 or placement exam or AP ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Goux

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DISCOURSES OF DISSIDENCE ***** The seminar reflects on the concept of dissidence-a political, but esthetic and epistemological one as well, through several literary and artistic figures, as well as genres and periods, from Francois Villon to the present (Montaigne, La Rouchefoucauld, Rousseau, de Gouges, Rimbaud, Gaugin, Breton, Genet, Magritte, Ducharme, Godard, Jelloun, Arcand). ***** Enrollment limited to 12. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 or 312 or AP credit or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor: Aresu

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TWENTIETH-CENTURY NOVEL IN FRENCH ***** This course will explore the construction of the modern self in a variety of French and Francophone novels of the twentieth century. Topics will include the relationship between the self and narrative form; the role of memory; violence and representation; and the construction of gender, sexuality, nationality and race. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 or 312 or AP credit or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Huffer

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PROBLEMATICS OF FRENCH NINETEENTH-CENTURY FICTION ***** Transformations of the formal characteristics of fiction in France as problematic engagements with the evolution of art, capitalism, the family, the sacred, subjectivity, etc. Texts: Balzac: "Le pere Goriot," "La fille aux yeux d'or;" Stendhal: "la chartreuse de Parme;" Flaubert: "L'Education sentimentale; Maupassant: "Boule de Suif;" Zola: "Germinal." ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 or 312 or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Wood.

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: THESIS RESEARCH (M.A.) ***** No description. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Special Topics ***** Topics may vary. Please consult department for additional information. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005.

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BEGINNINGS OF THE LANGUAGE & LITERATURE OF FRANCE ***** This course includes an 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 a bibliographic component to acquaint the students with library tools available for research emphasizing medieval resources, but not excluding those for later periods. Students will acquire a reading knowledge of Old French. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Nelson-Campbell

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE LITERARY AND HISTORICAL IMAGE OF THE MEDIEVAL WOMAN ***** Comparison and contrast of the presentation of the medieval woman in literature with extant evidence of historical women from contemporary documents and records. ***** Also offered as MDST 411. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Nelson-Campbell

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: COURTLY LOVE IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE ***** 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. ***** Also offered as MDST 425. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Nelson-Campbell

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FRENCH FEMINIST THEORY ***** The purpose of this course is to gain a broad understanding of the important problems of contemporary feminist theories in French. We will focus on the interrelated issues of gender, sexuality, race, ethics, language, and power by exploring in depth primary texts in feminist theory. Course will be offered in translation. ***** Course not offered in 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Huffer

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WHY SADE? ***** Why read Sade today? Has the myth of the divine Marquis run its course? Readings by Sade, Diderot, Rousseau, Laclos, Bataille, Blanchot, Klossowski, and Beauvoir. Films include Quills, Marat/Sade and L'Age d'or. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Shea Repeatable for Credit.

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENTS ***** What is Enlightenment? Does it define a period, an idea, a group of writers? Was there one Enlightenment or many? What is specific to the French Enlightenment? Readings include key eighteenth-century texts and major attempts to define Enlightenment (Casirer, Gay, Habermas, Roche, Gordon). ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Shea

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: NATIONAL IDENTITY & PUBLIC MEMORY IN FRENCH SOCIETY ***** 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. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Fette

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FROM NOSTALGIA TO HYSTERIA: BALZAC, STENDHAL, FLAUBERT, ZOLA ***** 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. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Harter

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MASTERPIECES OF FRENCH THEATER FROM CORNEILLE TO SARTRE ***** The course will cover literary, aesthetic, and historical developments in French theater, from the 17th to the 20th centuries (Corneille, Racine, Moliere, Beaumarchais, Hugo, Musset, Feydeau, Rostand, Giraudoux, Anouilh, and Sartre. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MODERN FRENCH SEXUALITIES ***** This course will explore the representation of sexuality in French novels and films from the early 20th century to the present. Primary readings will be supplemented by medical, philosophical, juridical, and psychoanalytic contributions to debates about sexuality in the modern period. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Huffer

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LITERATURE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS ***** Exploration of the ways in which literature and psychoanalysis have seemed most fruitfully to inform each other. Readings in primary literature as well as in Freud, Lacan, Cixous, Lacoue-Labarthes, Silverman, Jameson, Felman, and Bersani. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Harter

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SURREALIST AND AVANT-GARDE NARRATIVES ***** 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. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Wood

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE NARRATIVE & THE OTHER ARTS ***** 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; Diderot's galen, and Gauguin's Tahiti; Baudelaire's art criticism; Delacroix, Chass-riau, 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. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Aresu

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE POSTMODERN BREAK IN FRENCH PHILOSOPHY ***** Study of the questioning of philosophical modernity (starting with Descartes and the Enlightenment philosophers) by structuralist and poststructuralist thinkers and theorists of the postmodern condition. Emphasis on the conflict between humanism and anti-humanism. Includes Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, Levinas, Castoriadis, and others. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Goux

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FRENCH PHILOSOPHY ***** Survey of moral philosophy from Descartes to today, exploring the relationship between the individual and society, the problem of freedom and values, questions of universality, humanism, the important moments of the constitution and deconstitution of the subject. Includes Philosophy of Descartes, Rousseau, Condorcet, Comte, Guyau, Durkheim, Fouillee, Bergson, Sartre, Foucault, and others. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Goux Repeatable for Credit.

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: VERSIONS OF OEDIPUS ***** Through the myth, the tragedies, the complex, the Greek figure of king Oedipus has haunted our literary imagination, troubled our philosophical thought, and nourished our psychoanalytical investigation. This seminar explores this well-known figure in French modern playwrights who revisited this tragic character, as well as in the various philosophical and theoretical interpretations of the myth and its ramifications. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Goux

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PROUST ***** 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. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Wood

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ESTHETICS AND POLITICS OF FRANCOPHONIE ***** The seminar focuses on various expressions of "francophone" as a both legitimated and contested construct of cultural and political identity. Encompassing a plurality of geo-cultural areas, topics range from "Legitime defense" to negritude, postcolonialism, antilleanity, creoleness, quebecitude, and transnationalism. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Aresu

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CONTEMPORARY FRENCH THOUGHT: TOWARD A SYMBOLIC ECONOMY ***** Exploration of the idea of a "symbolic economy" that transforms notions of production, exchange, and consumption in anthropology, semiotics, psychoanalysis, and literature. Includes Mauss and Levi-Strauss (on "exchange of goods,words, and women"), later developments of Bataille, Lacan, Baudrillard, Irigaray, and the theory and practice of "economic criticism" (e.g., Balzac, Zola, Gide). ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Goux

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MARX, BATAILLE, BAUDRILLARD, POSTMODERNITY ***** 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 "indertermination of the code" and "simulation" in postmodernity. Texts by Marx, Mauss, Bataille, Athusser, Ernest Mandel, and Baudrillard. ***** Instructor(s): Wood

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GILLES DELEUZE ***** 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. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Wood

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CONTEMPORARY FRENCH THEORY: THE CASE OF GILLES DELEUZE ***** Continuation of FREN 580. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Wood

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DISCOURSES OF DISSIDENCE ***** The seminar reflects on the concept of dissidence-a political, but esthetic and epistemological one as well, through several literary and artistic figures, as well as genres and periods, from Francois Villon to the present (Montaigne, La Rochefoucauld, Rousseau, de Gouges, Rimbaud, Gauguin, Breton, Genet, Magritte, Ducharme, Godard, Jelloun, Arcand). ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Aresu

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AESTHETIC THEORIES OF MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM ***** Exploration of such artistic and literary movements as Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, "Refus Global," "Lettrisme," "Situationnisme," "Oulipo," "Tel Quel," and "Les Perpendiculaires." How does one define the "avant-gardes?" ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Goux Repeatable for Credit.

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: NOVEL FROM BELLE EPOQUE TO1950 ***** Survey of the evolution of the novel and the vicissitudes of the modern subject and identity. Includes Proust, Gide, Malraux, Drieu la Rochelle, de Beauvoir, Sartre, Genet, Camus, and Sarraute. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Wood

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AESTHETICS OF THE FRAGMENTARY ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Huffer

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 20TH CENTURY NOVEL IN FRENCH ***** This course will explore the construction of the modern self in a variety of French and Francophone novels of the twentieth century. Topics include relationship between the self and narrative form; the role of memory; violence and representation; and the construction of gender, sexuality, nationality and race. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Huffer

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY ***** Permission of instructor. ***** Course offered Fall 2004 and Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 12

Description: SUMMER GRADUATE RESEARCH Repeatable for Credit.

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: THESIS RESEARCH PH.D. ***** Course offered Fall 2004 and Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.