In this course, we examine how one France's best-known poets and art critics captures the dynamic of an ever more complex world not unlike our own.
Tues., Thurs., 11:00-12:15
In this course, students explore different areas of the French-speaking world while raising their fluency in French. Course objectives include broadening vocabulary, improving accuracy, expanding ability to report and building comprehension through diverse activities including contact with French speakers, interviews, and discussion of French film, art, French-speaking Africa and the European Union. Prerequisite: FREN 210 or by placement.
Tues., Thurs. 9:30-10:45
Inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann (author of “The Nutcracker”), the “fantastic” short story became all the rage in 19th-century France. Besides their entertaining appeal, however, the “contes fantastiques” offer a unique insight into the French psyche in France following the Revolution. In this course, we investigate what lies below the surface of these texts and the fundamental questions of identity, beauty and the unconscious that these enticing tales pose.
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French graduate students receive practice-centered training for teaching college-level French. The focus of the course is on discussion and application of pedagogical concepts to curriculum development, approaches to teaching, incorporation of technology into instruction and evaluation techniques. Students work with the Director of French Graduate Studies and the individual French faculty members who coordinate the different levels of language instruction. 0 cr. Meeting times to be arranged.
Discover how poetry and the arts intermingle in 19th-century France, from Romanticism to the beginnings of Modernism. In this course, we will study some of the most well-known French writers of poetry and poetic prose and the interconnections between their work and different modes of artistic expression: Chateaubriand, Lamartine, Hugo, Gautier, Nerval, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarmé.
Tues, Thurs. 11:00-12:15
Tues., Thurs. 9:30-10:45
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French for the Professional broadens students’ proficiency in French for working in an international environment. The course is organized by theme. For each topic, students expand their comprehension of the subject and their skills and fluency needed for success. Topics include: understanding and communicating in a French business setting; types of French companies; kinds of jobs; applying for a job and preparing a c-v; letter writing, memos and professional e-mail; cultural differences in product development and marketing; business and cultural trends in the European Union.
Students may opt to prepare for the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industrie (CCIP) Certificat de français professionnel or the Diplômes de français des affaires. 3 cr. + required lab. MWF, 12:00-12:50; lab time to be arranged.
The novel was one of great literary inventions to come out of 19th-century France. Unencumbered by the rules and models of other literary genres such as theatre and poetry, the novel was a perfect vehicle for conveying to a growing and very avid middle-class readership all the complexities and drama of the rapidly emerging modern world. In this course, we explore the dynamism of this era as seen in some of the great masterpieces of all time by authors such as Balzac, Flaubert and Hugo. 3 cr. W, 4:00-6:30pm.
