French (FREN)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.
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Classes
FREN 1220
Course Description
FREN 1210-1220 is a two-semester sequence. FREN 1220 is the second half of the sequence designed to provide a thorough grounding in French language and an introduction to intercultural competence. French ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Morrill Hall 106
Instructors
Torea, T
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 1210, or SAT II 410-480, or LPF 37-44. At the end of FREN 1220, students who score lower than 56 on the LPF take 1230, those with 56 or higher may enter the 2000-level sequence.
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Morrill Hall 106
Instructors
Torea, T
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 1210, or SAT II 410-480, or LPF 37-44. At the end of FREN 1220, students who score lower than 56 on the LPF take 1230, those with 56 or higher may enter the 2000-level sequence.
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- TWRF White Hall B02
Instructors
Jeudy, M
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- TWRF Uris Hall 260
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Huelster, N
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- TWRF Uris Hall 394
Instructors
Frost, J
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- TWRF Goldwin Smith Hall 350
Instructors
Cash, C
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- TWRF Goldwin Smith Hall 181
Instructors
LeBlanc, R
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TWRF White Hall B02
Instructors
Torea, T
FREN 1230
Course Description
FREN 1230 is an all-skills course designed to improve pronunciation, oral communication, and reading ability; to establish a groundwork for correct writing; and to provide a substantial grammar review. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWRF Uris Hall 394
Instructors
Glidja, F
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 1220 or an LPF score 45-55 or SAT II 490-590. Recommended courses after Fren 1230: FREN 2060 or 2090.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWRF Uris Hall 394
Instructors
Glidja, F
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 1220 or an LPF score 45-55 or SAT II 490-590. Recommended courses after Fren 1230: FREN 2060 or 2090.
FREN 2060
Course Description
This intermediate language course is designed for students who want to focus on their reading and writing skills. Following the notion of reading in order to write, particular attention is paid to the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 158
Instructors
Luks, J
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 1230, LPF score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 2090 for credit.
FREN 2090
Course Description
This intermediate-level course is designed for students who want to focus on their speaking and writing skills. Emphasis is placed on strengthening of grammar skills, expansion of vocabulary and discourse ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Lincoln Hall 117
Instructors
Glidja, F
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 1230, LPF score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680. Recommended courses after FREN 2090: FREN 2100, 2190, or 2210. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 2060 for credit.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Glidja, F
Vu, Y
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 1230, LPF score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680. Recommended courses after FREN 2090: FREN 2100, 2190, or 2210. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 2060 for credit.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF White Hall B02
Instructors
Guimiot, V
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 1230, LPF score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680. Recommended courses after FREN 2090: FREN 2100, 2190, or 2210. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 2060 for credit.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF White Hall B02
Instructors
Pasquer Brochard, R
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 1230, LPF score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680. Recommended courses after FREN 2090: FREN 2100, 2190, or 2210. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 2060 for credit.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 158
Instructors
LoBello, S
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 1230, LPF score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680. Recommended courses after FREN 2090: FREN 2100, 2190, or 2210. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 2060 for credit.
FREN 2091
Course Description
This one-credit course is focused on oral communication in French; to take this course students must be concurrently enrolled in FREN 2090. Because the course is designed especially to encourage students ... view course details
FREN 2095
Course Description
This course emphasizes conversation based on short stories, poems, a play, a novel, cartoons, newspaper articles, short videos, and oral presentations by students. The goals of improving grammatical accuracy ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Tissot, D
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2060 or 2090, or CASE Q+. May be taken concurrently with FREN 2310, Recommended course after FREN 2095: FREN 2310.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall 498
Instructors
Finielz, E
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2060 or 2090, or CASE Q+. May be taken concurrently with FREN 2310, Recommended course after FREN 2095: FREN 2310.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Tissot, D
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2060 or 2090, or CASE Q+. May be taken concurrently with FREN 2310, Recommended course after FREN 2095: FREN 2310.
FREN 2100
Course Description
Reducing your foreign accent improves your ability to communicate in two ways: learning to distinguish and to produce clearly the full inventory of sounds in French increases both your ability to understand ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Alkire, T
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2060 or 2090 or higher, CASE Q+. This course can not serve to fulfill the language requirement.
FREN 2310
Course Description
This course, designed to follow FREN 2095 (formerly 2190), introduces students to an array of literary and visual material from the French and Francophone world. It aims to develop students' proficiency ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Tissot, D
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2095 (formerly 2190) or CASE Q+.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 104
Instructors
Vallois, M
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2095 (formerly 2190) or CASE Q+.
FREN 3220
Course Description
No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 124
Instructors
Greenberg, M
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Additional Information
Prerequisite: FREN 2180, FREN 2310, or CASE Q++ placement, or permission of instructor.
FREN 3400
Course Description
This course is conceived as a critical introduction to a cultural and political debate that appeared in the years of Mitterrand's France and reached its climax in the last decade. It will focus on a French ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 204
Instructors
Molinie, M
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2310 or CASE Q++, or permission of instructor.
FREN 3530
Course Description
This course will explore the classical, medieval, and early modern sources for our notions of monsters, including strange beasts, wild men, demons, witches, and cyborgs. What do these figures tell us ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3530, FGSS 3530
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Klarman Hall KG42
Instructors
Long, K
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Additional Information
Conducted in English.
FREN 3531
Course Description
This course will explore the classical, medieval, and early modern sources for our notions of monsters, including strange beasts, wild men, demons, witches, and cyborgs. What do these figures tell us ... view course details
FREN 3765
Course Description
This course traces the exchanges between spectacular entertainments and avant-garde art that shaped late nineteenth-century European visual culture, and gave rise to collective spectatorship transgressing ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 3765, VISST 3765
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G22
Instructors
Meixner, L
FREN 3780
Course Description
When Jean-Jacques Rousseau introduced the concept of the "general will" in his classic text The Social Contract, he made what was then an unprecedented and scandalous claim: that the people as a whole, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3780, GOVT 3786
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
McNulty, T
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Additional Information
Conducted in English.
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FREN 4200
Course Description
Guided independent study of special topics. view course details
FREN 4290
Course Description
Consult director of undergraduate studies for more information. view course details
FREN 4300
Course Description
Consult director of undergraduate studies for more information. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
Instructors
Howie, C
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Additional Information
Year-long course. R grade given at end of the fall semester and final letter grade at end of the spring semester. Open to juniors and seniors. Consult the director of honors program for more information.
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FREN 4350
Course Description
What kinds of poetry might be usefully characterized as "postcolonial" and what are the stakes of such a designation? How common, variable, translatable are values deemed "postcolonial" for particular ... view course details
FREN 4712
Course Description
No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Klarman Hall KG42
Instructors
Vallois, M
FREN 4850
Course Description
In this course, we will consider a range of films that depict the role of women in armed conflict and revolution in North Africa. We will begin by considering the Algerian War of Independence, and the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 6850
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Uris Hall 254
Instructors
Flood, M
FREN 4860
Course Description
Is Charles Baudelaire's work "modern," "modernist," "anti-" or "post-modern?"Â In this seminar, I am trying to show that Baudelaire's poetic and critical writings reflect on the inner exhaustion of modernity, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 6860
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R McGraw Hall 215
Instructors
Dubreuil, L
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Additional Information
Conducted in French.
FREN 4930
Course Description
The purpose of this seminar is to explore the realm of "Fantastic" in its multiple dimensions. Which are its borders? Which narrative devices does it display in order to create an atmosphere of anxiety, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 6930
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Uris Hall 302
Instructors
Molinie, M
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Additional Information
Conducted in French.
FREN 6300
Course Description
Designed for those with little or no background in French. Aims primarily to develop skill in reading French. Covers grammar basics, extensive vocabulary, and strategies for reading in a foreign language. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Alkire, T
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Additional Information
Course limited to graduate students only.
FREN 6350
Course Description
What kinds of poetry might be usefully characterized as "postcolonial" and what are the stakes of such a designation? How common, variable, translatable are values deemed "postcolonial" for particular ... view course details
FREN 6400
Course Description
Guided independent study for graduate students. view course details
FREN 6850
Course Description
In this course, we will consider a range of films that depict the role of women in armed conflict and revolution in North Africa. We will begin by considering the Algerian War of Independence, and the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 4850
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Uris Hall 254
Instructors
Flood, M
FREN 6860
Course Description
Is Charles Baudelaire's work "modern," "modernist," "anti-" or "post-modern?"Â In this seminar, I am trying to show that Baudelaire's poetic and critical writings reflect on the inner exhaustion of modernity, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 4860
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R McGraw Hall 215
Instructors
Dubreuil, L
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Additional Information
Conducted in French.
FREN 6930
Course Description
The purpose of this seminar is to explore the realm of "Fantastic" in its multiple dimensions. Which are its borders? Which narrative devices does it display in order to create an atmosphere of anxiety, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 4930
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Uris Hall 302
Instructors
Molinie, M