FREN Courses for Spring 2024
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FREN 102 01 - Beginning French II
Course: |
FREN 102 - 01 |
Title: |
Beginning French II |
Credit Hours: |
1 |
Description: |
Systematic training in all the language skills, with special emphasis on communication, self-expression, and cultural insights. Classes are supplemented by regular assignments in a variety of video, audio, print, and Web-based materials to give students practice using authentic French accurately and expressively. Three meetings weekly. |
Prerequisite(s): |
FREN 101, an equivalent departmental placement score, or by permission of the instructor. |
Notes: |
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Instructors: |
Hélène Effie Bilis |
Meeting Time(s): |
Green Hall 330 Classroom - TF 11:20 AM - 12:35 PM
Founders 120 Lecture Hall - W 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM |
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FREN 102 02 - Beginning French II
Course: |
FREN 102 - 02 |
Title: |
Beginning French II |
Credit Hours: |
1 |
Description: |
Systematic training in all the language skills, with special emphasis on communication, self-expression, and cultural insights. Classes are supplemented by regular assignments in a variety of video, audio, print, and Web-based materials to give students practice using authentic French accurately and expressively. Three meetings weekly. |
Prerequisite(s): |
FREN 101, an equivalent departmental placement score, or by permission of the instructor. |
Notes: |
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Instructors: |
Elisabeth Buzay |
Meeting Time(s): |
Green Hall 136C Classroom - MR 9:55 AM - 11:10 AM
Founders 120 Lecture Hall - W 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM |
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FREN 102 03 - Beginning French II
Course: |
FREN 102 - 03 |
Title: |
Beginning French II |
Credit Hours: |
1 |
Description: |
Systematic training in all the language skills, with special emphasis on communication, self-expression, and cultural insights. Classes are supplemented by regular assignments in a variety of video, audio, print, and Web-based materials to give students practice using authentic French accurately and expressively. Three meetings weekly. |
Prerequisite(s): |
FREN 101, an equivalent departmental placement score, or by permission of the instructor. |
Notes: |
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Instructors: |
Elisabeth Buzay |
Meeting Time(s): |
Green Hall 136C Classroom - MR 11:20 AM - 12:35 PM
Founders 120 Lecture Hall - W 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM |
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FREN 202 02 - French Language, Literatures, and Cultures
Course: |
FREN 202 - 02 |
Title: |
French Language, Literatures, and Cultures |
Credit Hours: |
1 |
Description: |
Reading, writing, and speaking skills and critical thinking are developed through analysis and discussion of cultural and literary texts. Issues of cultural diversity, globalization and identity are considered. Thorough grammar review. Three meetings weekly. |
Prerequisite(s): |
FREN 201, an equivalent departmental placement score, or by permission of the instructor. |
Notes: |
A student takes FREN 202 without having completed FREN 201 must elect one of the following courses in order to complete the language requirement - FREN 205, FREN 206, FREN 207, FREN 208, FREN 209. Completion of FREN 202 allows first-year students to qualify for international study after two further courses in French - a unit of FREN 205, FREN 206, FREN 207, FREN 208, or FREN 209; and a unit of FREN 210 or above. |
Distribution(s): |
Foreign Language
Language and Literature |
Instructors: |
Marie-Cecile Ganne-Schiermeier |
Meeting Time(s): |
Green Hall 130 Classroom - MR 11:20 AM - 12:35 PM
Green Hall 130 Classroom - W 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM |
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FREN 202 03 - French Language, Literatures, and Cultures
Course: |
FREN 202 - 03 |
Title: |
French Language, Literatures, and Cultures |
Credit Hours: |
1 |
Description: |
Reading, writing, and speaking skills and critical thinking are developed through analysis and discussion of cultural and literary texts. Issues of cultural diversity, globalization and identity are considered. Thorough grammar review. Three meetings weekly. |
Prerequisite(s): |
FREN 201, an equivalent departmental placement score, or by permission of the instructor. |
Notes: |
A student takes FREN 202 without having completed FREN 201 must elect one of the following courses in order to complete the language requirement - FREN 205, FREN 206, FREN 207, FREN 208, FREN 209. Completion of FREN 202 allows first-year students to qualify for international study after two further courses in French - a unit of FREN 205, FREN 206, FREN 207, FREN 208, or FREN 209; and a unit of FREN 210 or above. |
Distribution(s): |
Foreign Language
Language and Literature |
Instructors: |
Jennifer Carr |
Meeting Time(s): |
Founders 307 Classroom - TF 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Founders 307 Classroom - W 8:30 AM - 9:20 AM |
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FREN 202 04 - French Language, Literatures, and Cultures
Course: |
FREN 202 - 04 |
Title: |
French Language, Literatures, and Cultures |
Credit Hours: |
1 |
Description: |
Reading, writing, and speaking skills and critical thinking are developed through analysis and discussion of cultural and literary texts. Issues of cultural diversity, globalization and identity are considered. Thorough grammar review. Three meetings weekly. |
Prerequisite(s): |
FREN 201, an equivalent departmental placement score, or by permission of the instructor. |
Notes: |
A student takes FREN 202 without having completed FREN 201 must elect one of the following courses in order to complete the language requirement - FREN 205, FREN 206, FREN 207, FREN 208, FREN 209. Completion of FREN 202 allows first-year students to qualify for international study after two further courses in French - a unit of FREN 205, FREN 206, FREN 207, FREN 208, or FREN 209; and a unit of FREN 210 or above. |
Distribution(s): |
Foreign Language
Language and Literature |
Instructors: |
Jennifer Carr |
Meeting Time(s): |
Founders 307 Classroom - TF 9:55 AM - 11:10 AM
Founders 307 Classroom - W 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM |
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FREN 206 02 - Intermediate Spoken French
Course: |
FREN 206 - 02 |
Title: |
Intermediate Spoken French |
Credit Hours: |
1 |
Description: |
This course develops the skills of listening and speaking in French, with special emphasis on pronunciation and attention to the related skills of reading, writing, and grammatical accuracy. Participants will practice conversation through discussion of a wide variety of materials, including websites, magazine articles, short stories and films. |
Prerequisite(s): |
FREN 202, or an equivalent departmental placement score. |
Notes: |
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Distribution(s): |
Foreign Language - Above Intermediate
Language and Literature |
Instructors: |
Marie-Cecile Ganne-Schiermeier |
Meeting Time(s): |
Green Hall 130 Classroom - MR 9:55 AM - 11:10 AM |
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FREN 206 01 - Intermediate Spoken French
Course: |
FREN 206 - 01 |
Title: |
Intermediate Spoken French |
Credit Hours: |
1 |
Description: |
This course develops the skills of listening and speaking in French, with special emphasis on pronunciation and attention to the related skills of reading, writing, and grammatical accuracy. Participants will practice conversation through discussion of a wide variety of materials, including websites, magazine articles, short stories and films. |
Prerequisite(s): |
FREN 202, or an equivalent departmental placement score. |
Notes: |
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Distribution(s): |
Foreign Language - Above Intermediate
Language and Literature |
Instructors: |
Venita Datta |
Meeting Time(s): |
Founders 319 Classroom - TF 11:20 AM - 12:35 PM |
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FREN 212 01 - From Classicism to Present Day: French Literature & Culture Through the Centuries
Course: |
FREN 212 - 01 |
Title: |
From Classicism to Present Day: French Literature & Culture Through the Centuries |
Credit Hours: |
1 |
Description: |
Major authors from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, studied in their historical and cultural contexts, with emphasis on close reading, critical analysis, and writing in French. Literary generations and movements, from the philosopher-writers of the Enlightenment through the nineteenth-century innovations of the romantic and realist writers, to groundbreaking twentieth-century experiments in prose, poetry and theater, and the painful disillusionment of the Second World War. A key course for appreciating and understanding the materials in all our courses and one that prepares students to study abroad. |
Prerequisite(s): |
At least one unit of FREN 205, FREN 206, FREN 207, FREN 208, FREN 209 or above, or an equivalent departmental placement score. |
Notes: |
Any course FREN 210 or above satisfies the requirement for study abroad. Majors should consult with a member of the French Department to determine which course best suits their needs. |
Distribution(s): |
Foreign Language - Above Intermediate
Language and Literature |
Instructors: |
Jennifer Carr |
Meeting Time(s): |
Green Hall 330 Classroom - TF 12:45 PM - 2:00 PM |
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FREN 220 01 - Decoding the French
Course: |
FREN 220 - 01 |
Title: |
Decoding the French |
Credit Hours: |
1 |
Description: |
This course offers students analytical tools for interpreting French history, society, and culture. The first part of the course focuses on the approaches that social science disciplines (history, anthropology, sociology) and theoretical frameworks (semiotics, Marxism, structuralism, cultural history, queer theory) have used to analyze French social phenomena. Short excerpts of texts by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Pierre Bourdieu, Roland Barthes, Algirdas Julien Greimas, Natalie Zemon-Davis, Michel Foucault, Lynn Hunt, Pierre Nora, Robert Darnton, Joan Scott and others will orient our discussions. In the second part of the course, students use these different approaches to examine the ways in which terms such as “nation,” “class,” “secularism,” and “gender” take on distinct meanings in the French context. |
Prerequisite(s): |
At least one unit of FREN 205, FREN 206, FREN 207, FREN 208, FREN 209 or above, or an equivalent departmental placement score. |
Notes: |
Ann E. Maurer '51 Speaking Intensive Course. |
Distribution(s): |
Foreign Language - Above Intermediate
Social and Behavioral Analysis
Language and Literature |
Instructors: |
Scott Gunther |
Meeting Time(s): |
Pendleton East 251 Seminar Room - MR 2:20 PM - 3:35 PM |
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FREN 228 01 - The Paris of Balzac and Zola
Course: |
FREN 228 - 01 |
Title: |
The Paris of Balzac and Zola |
Credit Hours: |
1 |
Description: |
An examination of the rapid modernization and urbanization (haussmannization) of Paris in the Nineteenth Century and the changes it brought to the life of Parisians. Two authors fond of Paris: Balzac, the eternal Parisian wanderer, and Zola, the social scientist, will be the focus of this course. Balzac witnesses the birth of the bourgeoisie and of the power of money; Zola evokes the monsters they engender. In this class we will discuss the modernization of Paris in the XIX Century and its effects on the life of Parisians. We will study a novel by Balzac, Ferragus, in which the author emphasizes the “monstrosity” of the French Capital, which is a theater of a struggle between the new and the old. In Ferragus, Balzac contrasts the old and dirty streets and neighborhoods of Paris, where shady, destitute characters roam, and the new polished “quartiers” where the bourgeoisie and the Bank have just established their bearings. Inequalities abound and extremes between the social classes become prevalent. We will also study excerpts from César Birotteau, a novel about financial speculation and the evolution of commerce in the early 1830’s. Advertising and marketing, two factors of success evoked by Balzac in Histoire de la grandeur et décadence de César Birotteau dominate the retail market in Zola‘s Au bonheur des dames. In the latter novel, Zola recalls the birth of the large department stores and explores their successes. The availability of goods, mass consumption and cost cutting are part of the new trade strategies and symbolize the modern activity that Zola describes in Au Bonheur des dames. Zola’s goal in his Histoire naturelle et sociale d’ une famille sous le Second Empire was to portray his century as a century of conquest and action which witnessed the transformation of Paris from an unsanitary medieval town into a modern urban city. In La Curée, he recreates the commercial Paris of the “Grands Boulevards” as well as the bourgeois Paris riddled with speculation and corruption. Gold and pleasure are the two driving forces of the century. |
Prerequisite(s): |
At least one unit of FREN 206, FREN 207, FREN 208, FREN 209 or above, or an equivalent departmental placement score. |
Notes: |
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Distribution(s): |
Visual Arts, Music, Theater, Film and Video
Language and Literature |
Instructors: |
Marie-Paule Tranvouez |
Meeting Time(s): |
Green Hall 330 Classroom - TF 2:10 PM - 3:25 PM |
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FREN 324 01 - The Belle Epoque and the Emergence of Modern France
Course: |
FREN 324 - 01 |
Title: |
The Belle Epoque and the Emergence of Modern France |
Credit Hours: |
1 |
Description: |
The term belle époque (1880-1914) evokes images of Parisian boulevards, bustling cafés, glittering shop windows, and Montmartre cabarets, all symbols of modern consumer culture. No emblem of the era is as iconic as the Eiffel Tower, constructed for the World's Fair of 1889 as a tribute to French technology and progress. During the years preceding World War I, Paris was the center of the European avant-garde-indeed, the capital of modernity. While cultural ebullience is its hallmark, this period also witnessed the definitive establishment of a republican regime, the expansion of an overseas empire, and the integration of the countryside into national life. Drawing on historical documents and literary texts as well as films, posters, and songs, this interdisciplinary course examines French culture, politics, and society during the era that ushered France into the modern age. |
Prerequisite(s): |
FREN 210, FREN 211, or FREN 212; and one additional unit, FREN 213 or above. |
Notes: |
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Distribution(s): |
Historical Studies
Language and Literature |
Instructors: |
Venita Datta |
Meeting Time(s): |
Founders 319 Classroom - TF 9:55 AM - 11:10 AM |
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FREN 336 01 - Calderwood Seminar in Public Writing: Feminisms in the Wake of the Global #MeToo Movement (in English)
Course: |
FREN 336 - 01 |
Title: |
Calderwood Seminar in Public Writing: Feminisms in the Wake of the Global #MeToo Movement (in English) |
Credit Hours: |
1 |
Description: |
From Hollywood’s casting couches, to the Copenhagen City Hall and the highest echelons of the French media establishment, to the feminists in Mexico and Argentina and the demands of those in Japan, Iran, and Egypt, the #MeToo movement has raised a global wave of protests against sexual abuse. The expression of women’s voices has been undeniably transformed since the hashtag's emergence, but the aims and results of the movement, and the consequences faced by those accused, have varied from place to place. Students will consider #MeToo from a comparative and multilingual perspective, analyzing texts and media from around the globe, in a collective effort to grasp how culture, language, and nation condition the international struggle for women’s rights. |
Prerequisite(s): |
At least one Language & Literature course at the 200-level in any modern language department or by permission of the instructor. |
Notes: |
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Distribution(s): |
Language and Literature |
Cross Listed Courses: |
WGST 336 01 - Calderwood Seminar in Public Writing: Feminisms in the Wake of the Global #MeToo Movement (in English)
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Instructors: |
Hélène Effie Bilis |
Meeting Time(s): |
Green Hall 136A Seminar Classroom - T 12:45 PM - 3:25 PM |
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