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French coursesFall Semester Courses
French 103(Fall) and 104 (Spring): Intermediate French With Lab. This two-semester sequence provides a review of basic structures and practice of the skills needed for communication in speaking and writing. The basic text and literary and cultural readings are supplemented by resources in the language laboratory, including radio dramas, films, audio and videotapes and lectures on French and Francophone culture. Designed for students with two or more years of high school French who wish to improve their grasp of basic skills and enlarge their working vocabulary. Prerequisite: French 101, 102 or the equivalent. To view information about the textbook used for Intermediate French, Interaction, visit the publisher's website. French 201: Advanced French This course has a dual focus: linguistic and cultural. Students will spend only a small part of their time reviewing important grammar points, but much more time on other areas of language such as vocabulary building, idiomatic usage, oral expression, and writing. The thematic focus of the course is contemporary France. Students will learn about the social and political institutions in France, and about current cultural practices. Films, radio, web-sites, cartoons, popular music, newspapers, and magazines will be employed to expand the study of French society and language. Students completing French 200 usually enroll in French 202 in the spring semester. Offered in fall semester. French 247: Special Topics French 425: Seminar French 489: Independent Study For senior students specially qualified. Offered on demand.
Spring Semester Courses
French 103 (Fall) and 104 (Spring): Intermediate French With Lab. This two-semester sequence provides a review of basic structures and practice of the skills needed for communication in speaking and writing. The basic text and literary and cultural readings are supplemented by resources in the language laboratory, including radio dramas, films, audio and videotapes and lectures on French and Francophone culture. Designed for students with two or more years of high school French who wish to improve their grasp of basic skills and enlarge their working vocabulary. Prerequisite: French 101, 102 or the equivalent. To view information about the textbook used for Intermediate French, Interaction, visit the publisher's website. French 202: La France contemporaine French 248: Special Topics French 426: L'invitation au voyage Literary travels from Paris to Peru, Egypt to the Emerald Isle, all in the company of writers such as Montesquieu, Flora Tristan, Nicolas Bouvier, Fatou Diome, and others. Why is travel a source of information? An education? Does the experience of writers confirm your own? Assignments will both critical and creative in nature. Films related to the course theme will be shown. French 490: Independent Study For senior students specially qualified. Offered on demand. French 497-498: Honors Students who wish to be considered for honors in French must register for French 497 in the fall or French 498 in the spring. A proposal for the honors project should be submitted to the department prior to the final examination period of the semester preceding the one in which the project is to be carried out. A grade point average of 3.5 in all major courses is required and a grade of 4.0 must be earned in the honors course for the student to be recommended for honors at graduation. The honors course carries one unit of academic credit and is taken in addition to the nine or ten units that constitute the basic major.
The following courses are offered on an occasional basis: French 227: Current French Writing and Culture literature and other art and media (film, music, television, etc.) created within the past seven to ten years. Open to students having completed French 202 or the equivalent. Also offered through European Studies. French 235: Paris The subject of this course is culture and history of Paris. Students examine not only low the city appears in literature and film, but also how the urban space grew and changed across more than two millennia since the first inhabitants settled on the ile de la Cite. Maps, painting, sketches and other historical documents are consulted. Students work on a variety of other texts as well: prose fiction (a detective novel and novellas), lyrics (poetry and popular song), films, writing and classroom discussions are in French. French 263: School Days Through memoires, fiction, children's literature and film, this course offers a glimpse of childhood and adolescent experience of school and an opportunity to study education in France and the French-speaking world. Open to students having completed French 202 or the equivalent. Also offered through European Studies French 402: Modern French Theater Authors may include Claudel, Giraudoux, Anouilh, Sartre, Camus, Beckett, Ionesco and Genet. The nature of dramatic experience, the comparative importance of language and action and the theater of images are emphasized. French 403: Modern Prose Fiction in France This course examines the themes, techniques, and socio-political contexts of the twentieth-century novel. Choice of authors will vary from year to year, but have included Mauriac, Gide, Proust, Sartre, Camus, Malraux, Robbe-Grillet, Tournier, Modiano, Duras, and others. French 404: French Film This course combines an historical view of the French cinema, an introduction to the techniques of film anlaysis, and an examination of the major issues in film theory. Topics include the pioneers of cinema, the "classical" films of the 1930s and '40s, the films of the "nouvelle vague" in the '50s and '60s, and recent trends in film production. The work of filmmakers such as Renoir, Clouzot, Truffaut, Beineix, Godard, and Resnais will be studied. French 410: Francophone Literature and Culture This course introduces students to the major works of French-speaking authors from diverse areas of the world and investigates the themes and motivations of this literary and cultural expression. Representative works from Africa are L'Enfant Noir, Une Vie de Boy, L'Enfant de sable; from the Caribbean: Chronique des sept misères, Moi Tituba soricère noire, Éloge de la créolité; ; and from Canada: Maria Chapdelaine, Salut Galarneau. Also offered through Canadian Studies and Caribbean and Latin American Studies. French 413: The Theater of the Classical Age This course studies selected plays of Corneille, Moliere, Racine, Marivaux, and Beaumarchais. It will examine dramatic theory and the characteristics of Classical and Baroque theatre, as well as the cultural milieu and arts in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. French 417: 19th Century French Novel This course will focus on the novels in the major movements of nineteenth-century French literature: Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism. It will examine literary texts not only as works of art, but also in relation to the social and political contexts out of which they grew. Course content may vary from time to time, but emphasis is placed on Chateaubriand, Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert and Zola. French 425: Fashioning Identity (Seminar) Short works from Racine to the present. This course will explore the development of French national identity through reading a series of short works (plays, novellas, short novels, some poetry) from the 17th century to the present. Writers to be discussed include: Flaubert, Racine, Molière, La Fontaine, Balzac, Baudelaire, Maupassant, Gide, and Robbe-Grillet. It is highly recommended that students signing up for this course have spent at least one semester in France. French 426: Culture and Identity (Seminar) French 428: French Women Writers This course offers the opportunity to study and appreciate the contribution to literature and thought, including feminist theory, by women writers from France and French- speaking countries. Works by writers such as George Sand, Colette, Beauvoir, Weil, Djebar and Conde are considered, along with films by Varda, Denis and others. Also offered through European Studies
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