2006-2007 Undergraduate Courses in French
| AUTUMN | WINTER | SPRING |
|---|---|---|
| 10100 Beginning Elementary French I | 10100 Beginning Elementary French I | 10200 Beginning Elementary French II |
| 10200 Beginning Elementary French II | 10200 Beginning Elementary French II | 10200 Beginning Elementary French II |
| 10300 Beginning Elementary French II | 10300 Beginning Elementary French II | 20100 Language, History, and Culture I |
| 20100 Language, History, and Culture I | 20100 Language, History, and Culture I | 20200 Language, History, and Culture II |
| 20200 Language, History, and Culture II | 20200 Language, History, and Culture II | 20300 Language, History, and Culture III |
| 20300 Language, History, and Culture III | 20300 Language, History, and Culture III | 20400 Cours de Perfectionnement |
| 20400 Cours de Perfectionnement | 20400 Cours de Perfectionnement | 20500 Ecrire en français |
| 20600 Phonétique et phonologie | 20500 Ecrire en français | 20700 Renaissance, Baroque, Classicisme |
| 20900 Littérature à l'Age des Lumières | 20800 Littérature à l'Age des Lumières | 21500 La Stylistique |
| 21400 La Question de la subjectivité | 21801 Auteurs et publics dans les textes médiévaux | 22301 French Existentialism |
| 22101 L'Ecriture du quotidien | 22701 L'Effet Napoléon: culture et littérature au XIXe siècle | 23201 Racine's Phèdre: Text, Sources, Translations |
| 29700 Readings in Special Topics | 24301 Le Règne des passions dans la littérature du XVIIe siècle | 24000 Fiction and Moral Life |
| 29700 Readings in Special Topics | 24101 La Découverte du Nouveau Monde Au XVIe Siècle | |
| 29900 B.A. Paper Preparation: French | 24800 M.A. Exam | |
| 29700 Readings in Special Topics |
Some 30000 and 40000-level courses in French (FREN) are open to advanced undergraduates in Romance Languages with consent of instructor. Please contact the department for further information.
Language
These courses must be taken for a quality grade.
*10100-10200-10300. Beginning Elementary French I, II, III.*Must be taken for a quality grade. This three-quarter sequence is designed for beginning and beginning-intermediate students in French. Its aim is providing students with a solid foundation in the basic patterns of spoken and written French (e.g., grammar, vocabulary, phonetics, sociocultural norms) to develop their speaking, listening, writing, and reading skills to the level required to demonstrate competency on the French examination. Although the three classes constitute a sequence leading to the French competency examination, there is enough review and recycling at every level for students to enter the sequence at whatever level is appropriate for them. Staff. Summer (complete sequence offered); Autumn, Winter, Spring.
- 10100. FREN 10100 is designed for students who have no previous knowledge of French, and for those who need an in-depth review of the basic patterns of the language.
- *10200.*PQ: FREN 10100 or placement. FREN 10200 offers a rapid review of the basic patterns of the language and expands on the material presented in FREN 10100.
- *10300.*PQ: FREN 10200 or placement. FREN 10300 expands on the material presented in FREN 10200, reviewing and elaborating the basic patterns of the language as needed to prepare students for the French competency examination.
10201-10301. Continuing Elementary French II, III. PQ: Placement. Must be taken for a quality grade. This sequence has the same objectives as FREN 10100-10200-10300, but it is reserved for students with enough knowledge of the language to permit a more rapid assimilation of its foundational linguistic and phonetic patterns. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
*20100-20200-20300. Language, History, and Culture I, II, III.*PQ: FREN 10300 or placement. Must be taken for a quality grade. In this intermediate-level sequence, students review and extend their knowledge of all basic patterns (e.g., grammar, vocabulary, phonetics, sociocultural norms) of the language. They develop their oral and written skills in describing, narrating, and presenting arguments. They are exposed to texts and audio-visual material that provide them with a deeper understanding of French literature, culture, and contemporary society. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring. (This complete sequence is also offered to participants in the Paris language program in Autumn Quarter.)
- 20100. PQ: FREN 10300 or placement. FREN 20100 is designed as a general review and extension of all basic patterns of the language for intermediate students. Students explore selected aspects of contemporary French society through a variety of texts and audio-visual materials.
- *20200.*PQ: FREN 20100 or placement. FREN 20200 is specifically designed to help students develop their descriptive and narrative skills through a variety of texts, audio-visual materials and activities.
- *20300.*PQ: FREN 20200 or placement. FREN 20300 is specifically designed to help students develop their skills in understanding and producing written and spoken arguments in French through readings and debates on various issues of relevance in contemporary French society.
20400/30400. Cours de perfectionnement. PQ: FREN 20300 or placement. This course is designed to help students attain high levels in reading, writing, speaking, and listening through readings and debates on various issues of relevance in contemporary French society with emphasis on summarizing textual and oral documents. Staff. Winter. (This class is also offered to participants in the Paris language program in Summer and Autumn Quarters.)
20500/30500. Ecrire en français. PQ: FREN 20300 or placement. Enrollment in Paris study abroad program for Summer and Autumn Quarters. This course is strongly recommended for students in the academic year Paris program. The goal of this course is to help students achieve mastery of composition and style through the acquisition of numerous writing techniques. Using a variety of literary and nonliterary texts as models, students examine the linguistic structures and organization of several types of written French discourse and are guided in the acquisition of the rules underlying each discourse type. Staff. Spring. (This class is also offered to participants in the Paris language program in Summer and Autumn Quarters.)
20600/30600. Phonétique et phonologie. PQ: FREN 20300 or placement. This course involves a systematic study of the French phonological system, placing equal emphasis on the recognition and the production of French sounds in context. Students also examine the relationships between the French sound system and French orthographic norms and grammatical distinctions. Classroom exercises and homework include examining authentic spoken discourse representing a variety of discourse styles and activities to promote the acquisition of spoken proficiency. Staff. Autumn. (This class is also offered to participants in the Paris language program in Summer Quarter and Autumn Quarter.)
Literature and Culture
All literature courses are conducted in French unless otherwise indicated. French majors do all work in French. With prior consent of the instructor, non-majors may write in English.
20700. Renaissance, Baroque, Classicisme. PQ: FREN 20300 or consent of instructor. Introduction á la littérature française I. This course is designed to give a historical overview of French literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. There are close readings and discussions from representative works of this period. Among the authors studied are Rabelais, Ronsard, Montaigne, Descartes, Pascal, Corneille, Racine, Molière, La Fontaine, and Mme. de La. D. Delogu. Autumn.
20800. Littérature à l'Age des Lumières. PQ: FREN 20300 or consent of instructor. This course presents major literary and dramatic works of the eighteenth century such as those by Montesquieu, Prévost, Marivaux, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, and Beaumarchais. The class includes close readings and discussions. J-C. Bonnet. Winter.
20900. Littérature à l'Age des Révolutions. PQ: FREN 20300 or consent of instructor. This course presents such authors as Chateaubriand, Mme. de Stael, Balzac, Musset, George Sand, Flaubert, Baudelaire, and Zola. Subjects treated might include the rise of and crisis of romanticism, the heroic model, and a critique of bourgeois society. The class includes close readings and discussions. Offered 2006-07, not offered 2007-08.
21500/31500. La Stylistique. PQ: FREN 20400 or consent of instructor. This course concentrates on linguistic and literary problems of textual analysis. It examines literary and stylistic techniques in poetry and prose with concentration on the explication de texte method of literary study. A. James. Spring.
21801. Auteurs et publics dans les textes médiévaux. Dans ce cours nous examinerons quelques exemplaires des genres canoniques du Moyen Age (les hagiographies, les chansons de geste, les romans), surtout en ce qui concerne les rapports entres les textes, leurs auteurs (anonymes ou célèbres), et leurs publics (universels ou restreints). Comment est-ce que ces rapports s'articulent dans chaque texte? quel est le rôle du lecteur? Undergraduates admitted with permission of instructor. D. Delogu. Winter.
22101. L'Ecriture du quotidien Au XXe siècle. This course will examine the ways in which 20th-century French writers represent aspects of everyday life, while also investigating the very notion of the "everyday." Authors studied will include Proust, Aragon, Barthes, Blanchot, and Queneau. We will also consider sociological approaches to the everyday (Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau). By reading theoretical accounts alongside literary treatments and transformations of the everyday, we will aim to shed light on the literary enterprise of representation and to understand its specificity. The course will be taught in French, and all readings will be in French. Qualified undergraduates admitted with permission of instructor. A. James. Autumn.
22301. French Existentialism. A comparative study of religious and atheist existentialism in 20th-century France, focusing on Gabriel Marcel and Jean-Paul Sartre. The language of instruction will be English and all texts will be available in English. French majors and graduate students in French will be required to read the texts in the original. T. Pavel. Spring.
22701. L'Effet Napoléon: Culture et littérature au XIXe siècle. Napoleon's impact on nineteenth-century French thought, culture and politics was unparalleled: guarantor of the Revolution, its betrayer, glorious hero, promethean victim, conqueror, solitary prisoner. The grandeur of his rise and fall struck the imagination of the Romantics. As a leader, he well understood the role of opinion and imagination and sought to mobilize and control the literary, artistic and historical expression. This course will explore various aspects of the relationship between Napoleon and French culture and French self-apprehension. Readings will include works by Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Mme de Stael, Balzac, Hugo, as well documents and works by lesser known authors. Readings and discussions in French; written work in French or English. R. Morrissey. Winter.
23201. Racine's Phèdre: Text, Sources, Translations. Racine's Phèdre is considered the apex of French Classical tragedy. We will read the play closely for its dramatic and poetic structures as well as its philosophical, psychological, and moral themes. We will consider Racine's principal ancient sources, Euripides and Seneca, placing all three major versions of the tragedy in their intellectual and aesthetic contexts. We will study the major twentieth-century translations of Phèdre(Wilbur, Hughes) in light of translation theory and practice. Textual study will be complemented by scene study performance. The class is in English, but texts will be available in French, and a French-language discussion group will be held weekly. Students wishing to take the course for French credit must do all written work in French. Comparative Literature students will read one tragedy in the original language (French, Latin, or Greek). L. Norman & David Wray. Spring.
24000. Fiction and Moral Life. This course examines the moral concerns present in a representative selection of ancient and modern literary texts. We read the works of authors such as Heliodorus, Defoe, Kleist, Camus, Tolstoy, Melville, and Su Tong, as well as philosophical works by Plato, Kant, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. Classes conducted in English. T. Pavel. Spring.
24101. La Découverte du Nouveau Monde Au XVIe Siècle. On associera aux textes français sur l'Amérique et les horizons lointains (André Thevet, Jean de Léry, Montaigne), leurs sources espagnoles (Colomb, Gomara, Las Casas) et leurs prolongements anthropologiques jusqu'à Diderot et Lévi-Strauss. F. Lestringant. Spring.
24301. Le Règne des passions dans la littérature du XVIIe siècle. A study of the vision of human passions, as reflected in 17th-century literature. We will discuss influential passages from Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, and Pascal's Pensées, a selection of narratives from L'Astrée by Honoré d'Urfé, as well as The Ill-Advised Curiosity by Cervantes, The Princess of Clèves by Mme de La Fayette, King Lear by Shakespeare, Rodogune by Corneille and Britannucus by Racine. The course will be taught in French and the French texts will be read in the original language. T. Pavel. Winter.
29700. Readings in Special Topics. PQ: FREN 10300 or 20300, depending upon the requirements of the program for which credit is sought. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. Directed readings in special topics not covered by courses offered as part of the program in French. Because registration in FREN 29700 is subject to departmental approval, the subjects treated and work completed for the course must be chosen in consultation with the instructor no later than the end of the preceding quarter. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
29900. B.A. Paper Preparation: French. PQ: Consent of B.A. adviser. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. This course offers a structure for students writing their B.A. papers. Students work with a faculty member of their choice who directs their paper and supervises their writing. Winter.