Fall 2005

All courses above French 10-20 are taught in French, unless otherwise indicated. For hours, sections and locations, consult BOCA . The accompanying websites will be opened at the start of the semester. If you want to see a sample syllabus, go to the Full Catalog

Course Number	Instructor	Description and links	Prerequisites
Primarily for Undergraduates
FR0010	Shoggy Waryn	BASIC FRENCH: A two-semester course. Five meetings a week for oral practice. One hour of work outside of class is expected every day (grammar/writing, oral practice, reading). An accelerated track enables qualified students to go directly to FR 50 after FR 20. See the explanation of year courses on page 32 of the CAB. Enrollment limited to 20.>>WebCT Website	See the instructor for placement. Written permission required
FR0030	Virginia Krause	INTERMEDIATE FRENCH I: A semi-intensive elementary review with emphasis on all four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing). Class activities include drills, small group activities, and skits. Class materials include an audio CD, videos, a French film, short stories, and various other authentic documents. Four meetings per week plus a 50-minute conversation section with TAs. >>WebCT Website	FR20 or placement. (Previous experience with French is required to take this class)
FR0040	Lewis Seifert	INTERMEDIATE FRENCH II: . Continuation of FR 30 but may be taken separately. A four-skill language course that stresses oral interaction in class (three meetings per week plus one 50-minute conversation section). Materials include audio activities, film, and a contemporary novel. Short compositions with systematic grammar practice. >>WebCT Website	FR 30, FR 20 with written permission, or placement
FR0050	Shoggy Waryn	WRITING AND SPEAKING FRENCH I: Prerequisite for FR 60. A four-skill language course that stresses oral interaction in class (three meetings plus one conversation section). Materials include audio CD, film, press articles, and literary excerpts, as well as a multimedia exploration of Paris: "Dans un Quartier de Paris". Writing is organized around specific tasks and systematic grammar practice. >>WebCT Website	FR 20 accelerated track (with permission), FR 40, or placement.
FR0060	Youenn Kervennic	WRITING AND SPEAKING FRENCH II: Prerequisite for study in French-speaking countries. Continuation of FR 50. Class time is devoted mainly to conversation and discussion practice. Writing instruction and assignments focus on essays, commentaries, and to a lesser degree, on story writing. Apart from reading assignments for discussion (press articles and literary excerpts), students select two novels to read. >>WebCT website	FR 50, FR 52 or placement
FR0075	Réda Bensmaia	LITERATURE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT: Lost in Translation: Les voyageurs français en Amérique de Chateaubriand à Baudrillard. What characterizes American culture? What does America stand for politically, culturally? These are some of the vexing questions major French writers asked themselves when they visited America. In this course we will study networks of ideas and images which have shaped the dominant representations and myths of America in novels and essays by French writers, thinkers, travelers during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Two short papers and an oral exam. >>WebCT website	FR 60 or placement
For Undergraduates and Graduates General prerequisite for all 100-level courses except 151: one course from among French 50, 52, 60, 75, or 76.

FR0102	Sanda Golopentia	EARLY FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE: Histoire de la langue française. We will examine the language interface between Gaulois, Francs, Vikings, and Romans; the voluntarism of French courts, grammarians, of the French Revolution or French feminists; the status and particularities of French in the European, American, and African francophone areas; French conversation, French orthography, jeux de mots, pub, and langage des jeunes. >>WebCT website
FR0105	Pierre Saint-Amand	STUDIES IN FRENCH LITERATURE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY:The Age of Voltaire: Culture, Pensée, Société. A presentation of various aspects of the eighteenth century through its most representative texts. This course examines the period in its diversity, from its preoccupation with philosophy to its discovery of sensibility, from the development of libertinism to the affirmation of women and claim of liberty. Authors to be read include Montesquieu, Rousseau, Sedaine, Beaumarchais, Diderot, and Françoise de Graffigny.
FR0107	Réda Bensmaia	STUDIES IN FRENCH LITERATURE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: Nations of Writers. Does a writer belong to a "Nation"? How does literature contribute to the emergence and consolidation of a new Nation? These are two of the kinds of questions which will guide our reading of major contemporary French and Francophone writers. Works or excerpts of works by Bouraoui, Sebbar, Memmi, Derrida, Farés, Khatibi, Djebar, Béji, Cixous, Roumain and others. Two short papers and an oral exam. >>WebCT website
FR0110	Michel-André Bossy	MEDIEVAL FRENCH-SPEAKING CULTURES: Contes et nouvelles du Moyen Age. Storytelling in medieval French courts, villages, and towns. Works read (in modern French translation) include love tales, fables, chivalric adventures, comic escapades, earthy anecdotes, stories of warfare and politics. Class discussions investigate the tales and consider how medieval listeners and readers responded to them. Brief lectures on questions of cultural context. >> WebCT Website
FR0112	Sanda Golopentia	STUDIES IN THE FRENCH THEATER: L'impromptu. What is an impromptu and when did it appear as a theatrical genre? What are the personal/professional circumstances in the life of a playwright that are addressed in impromptus? We will answer such questions while discussing clusters of impromptus; impromptu plays; plays incorporating impromptu components; and impromptu films. Readings from Molière, Marivaux, Rostand, Giraudoux, Ionesco, Beckett, Obaldia and Duras.
FR0131	Lewis Seifert	SPECIAL TOPICS IN FRENCH STUDIES I: Contes et identités francophones. How do folktales define national and ethnic identities in France, Sénégal, the Caribbean, Louisiana, and Canada? How have the study and rewriting of these traditions redefined such identities? We will consider these questions by studying tale-types from all of the above regions, tales specific to each, and literary reworkings of folktales by writers, including d?Aulnoy, Perrault, Pourrat, Diop, and Chamoiseau. >>WebCT Website
FR0132	Pierre Saint-Amand	SPECIAL TOPICS IN FRENCH STUDIES II: French Lovers: Séduction et libertinage sous l'Ancien Régime. Examines how the practice of seduction dominates the culture of relationships, of conversation, and especially of amorous games in the libertine literature of the 17th and 18th centuries. The course investigates the interplay of the moral codes with the demands for pleasures, the battlefield of the sexes in the life of the aristocrats of the Old Regime. Readings in Molière, Mme de Lafayette, Crébillon fils, Denon, Gresset, and Laclos.
FR0141	Gretchen Schultz	FRENCH CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION: War, Culture, Politics. Armed conflict in and involving France, from World War I to the war in Iraq. We will consider the socio-political climates giving rise to armed conflict, as well as the cultural products (journalism, memoirs, film, novels) resulting from the experience of war. Issues include colonialism, nationalism, collaboration, resistance, civil rights, international relations, and the politics of gender in wartime.>>WebCT website
FR0151	Youenn Kervennic	ADVANCED WRITTEN AND ORAL FRENCH. Travels and Travelers. Follows FR 60 in the sequence of language courses. Development of oral skills via presentations, debates, conversation, and discussions based on the many facets of the main topic: "Travels and Travelers." Writing activities: essays, e-mails, journals, etc. May be repeated for credit. >>WebCT website
FR0198	Staff	SENIOR THESIS: Independent study in an area of special interest to the student, with close guidance of a member of the staff, and leading to a major paper. Required of candidates for honors, and recommended for all senior concentrators. Section numbers vary by instructor. Please see the registration staff for the correct section number to use when registering for this course.
Primarily for Graduates
FR0211	Virginia Krause	STUDIES IN FRENCH LITERATURE OF THE RENAISSANCE: Le roman français à la Renaissance. An exploration of the Renaissance?s chivalric, sentimental, and humanist novel. Topics include France's first "best-seller", the birth of the psychological novel, suspense, allegory, and the invention of the modern book. Readings will include Rabelais, Helisenne de Crenne, Bakhtine. >>WebCT Website
FR0217	Gretchen Schultz	STUDIES IN FRENCH LITERATURE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: Sexualités décadentes. A study of fin-de-siècle literature and ideology. Topics include: degeneration and the new sciences of sexology and criminology; representations of homosexuality, prostitution, and the femme fatale; and masculinity in crisis. Texts by Huysmans, Nordau, Rachilde, Zola, Lorrain, Verlaine, Krafft-Ebing, Lombroso. Secondary sources in literary criticism and contemporary theories of sexuality. >>WebCT Website
FR0291 FR0292	Staff	READING AND RESEARCH: Work with individual students in connection with special readings, problems of research, or preparation of theses. Section numbers vary by instructor. Please see the registration staff for the correct section number to use when registering for this course.
FR0299	Staff	THESIS PREPARATION (No Course Credit) For graduate students who have met the tuition requirement and are paying the registration fee to continue active enrollment while preparing a thesis.

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