French (FREN)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2018-2019.

FREN 1220

FREN 1210-1220 is a two-semester sequence. This is the second half of the sequence designed to provide a thorough grounding in French language and an introduction to intercultural competence. French is ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5505 FREN 1220   LEC 001

  • 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.

  •  5506 FREN 1220   LEC 002

  • 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.

  •  5507 FREN 1220   DIS 201

  •  5508 FREN 1220   DIS 202

  •  8579 FREN 1220   DIS 203

  •  5509 FREN 1220   DIS 204

  •  5510 FREN 1220   DIS 205

  •  7828 FREN 1220   DIS 206

  •  8072 FREN 1220   DIS 207

FREN 1230

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5486 FREN 1230   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 1220 or an LPF score 45-55 or SAT II 490-590. Recommended courses after Fren 1230: FREN 2060 or 2090.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5487 FREN 1230   SEM 102

  • Prerequisites: FREN 1220 or an LPF score 45-55 or SAT II 490-590. Recommended courses after Fren 1230: FREN 2060 or 2090.

FREN 2090

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8073 FREN 2090   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 1230, LPF score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680; or AP French language 4 or CASE Q. Recommended courses after FREN 2090: FREN 2095, or 2310. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 2060 for credit.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5489 FREN 2090   SEM 102

  • Prerequisites: FREN 1230, LPF score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680; or AP French language 4 or CASE Q. Recommended courses after FREN 2090: FREN 2095, or 2310. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 2060 for credit.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5490 FREN 2090   SEM 103

  • Prerequisites: FREN 1230, LPF score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680; or AP French language 4 or CASE Q. Recommended courses after FREN 2090: FREN 2095, or 2310. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 2060 for credit.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5491 FREN 2090   SEM 104

  • Prerequisites: FREN 1230, LPF score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680; or AP French language 4 or CASE Q. Recommended courses after FREN 2090: FREN 2095, or 2310. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 2060 for credit.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5492 FREN 2090   SEM 105

  • Prerequisites: FREN 1230, LPF score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680; or AP French language 4 or CASE Q. Recommended courses after FREN 2090: FREN 2095, or 2310. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 2060 for credit.

FREN 2091

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit GradeNoAud

  • 16619 FREN 2091   SEM 101

FREN 2095

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5493 FREN 2095   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2060 or 2090, or CASE Q+. Recommended course after FREN 2095: FREN 2310.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5494 FREN 2095   SEM 102

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2060 or 2090, or CASE Q+. Recommended course after FREN 2095: FREN 2310.

FREN 2180

In this course, furthering oral communication skills and writing skills is emphasized.  A comprehensive review of fundamental and advanced grammatical structures is integrated with short stories, literary ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8134 FREN 2180   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2095 or CASE Q++. FREN 2310 may also be taken concurrently with FREN 2180.

FREN 2310

This course, designed to follow FREN 2095, introduces students to an array of literary and visual material from the French and Francophone world.  It aims to develop students' proficiency in critical writing ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7519 FREN 2310   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2095 or CASE Q++. Recommended courses after FREN 2180: any 3000 level literature or culture course

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7520 FREN 2310   SEM 102

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2095 or CASE Q++. Recommended courses after FREN 2180: any 3000 level literature or culture course

FREN 2320

This course will introduce students to some of the key cinematic and cultural movements in France in the twentieth century.  From Renoir's masterpiece La Grande Illusion (1937) and its depiction of shifting ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16195 FREN 2320   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2095 or CASE Q++ or permission of instructor. Recommended courses after FREN 2320: any 3000 level literature or culture course

FREN 2350

The course provides a survey of the book from ca. 1100 to 1500, with emphasis on the development of the book in Western Europe, especially France, Germany, Italy, the Low Countries, and Spain.  It focuses ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 2350ITAL 2350MEDVL 2350

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16620 FREN 2350   SEM 101

FREN 3020

This 1-credit optional course aims to expand the students' vocabulary, and advance their speaking and reading skills as well as enhance their knowledge and deepen their cultural understanding by supplementing ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Introduction to Comparative Government & Politics

  • 18574 FREN 3020   SEM 101

    • TBA
    • Patana, P

  • Conducted in French. Must be concurrently enrolled in GOVT 1313. Instructor consent required.

FREN 3160

In this course, both seminar and workshop, students discuss writing about translation, mostly in French, and practice translating from French to English.  The theoretical texts studied represent a variety ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8580 FREN 3160   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2310

FREN 3400

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7521 FREN 3400   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2310 or CASE Q++, or permission of instructor.

FREN 3465

This class offers a critical presentation of French cinema as an art form, from the late 1930s to the 2000s. A particular emphasis will be seen on "modern cinema," i.e. the "Nouvelle vague" movement and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17637 FREN 3465   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2310 or CASE Q++. or permission of instructor.

FREN 3520

This course will offer an historical overview of responses to bodily and cognitive difference.  What was the status of the monster, the freak, the abnormal, the (dis)abled, and how are all of these concepts ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 3520

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8581 FREN 3520   SEM 101

FREN 3531

Monsters have preoccupied France for a long time. Their stories reveal a great deal about French notions of difference, expressed in the form of gender, race, species, social class, religion, and culture. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16196 FREN 3531   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2180, FREN 2310, or CASE Q++

FREN 3560

Psychoanalysis considers the human being not as an object of treatment, but as a subject who is called upon to elaborate an unconscious knowledge about what is disrupting her life, through analysis of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17614 FREN 3560   LEC 001

FREN 3720

Vichy, the Holocaust, the Algerian War, and May 68 are crucial events that continuously resurge in France, where they are reinterpreted through the prism of the present. Far from being monolithic, this ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16622 FREN 3720   SEM 101

FREN 3850

In the XIX century, both literature and medicine shaped the birth of the idea of the psyche.  A new medical discipline like psychiatry (at that time called "alienism") considered the pathologies of the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16198 FREN 3850   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2310 or permission of instructor.

FREN 4200

Guided independent study of special topics. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5503 FREN 4200   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Dubreuil, L

  • Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6731 FREN 4200   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Greenberg, M

  • Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6732 FREN 4200   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Long, K

  • Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6987 FREN 4200   IND 604

    • TBA
    • McNulty, T

  • Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6988 FREN 4200   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Molinie, M

  • Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7831 FREN 4200   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Vallois, M

  • Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

FREN 4300

Consult director of undergraduate studies for more information. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5485 FREN 4300   RSC 701

    • TBA
    • Dubreuil, L

  • 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.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8585 FREN 4300   RSC 702

    • TBA
    • Greenberg, M

  • 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.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8586 FREN 4300   RSC 703

    • TBA
    • Long, K

  • 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.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8587 FREN 4300   RSC 704

    • TBA
    • McNulty, T

  • 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.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8588 FREN 4300   RSC 705

    • TBA
    • Molinie, M

  • 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.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8589 FREN 4300   RSC 706

    • TBA
    • Vallois, M

  • 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.

FREN 4368

This seminar will focus on the writings of the polymorphous Martinican poet and thinker, Édouard Glissant (1928-2011).  We will attend to the historical context of French colonialism, particularly in the ... view course details

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  • 17499 FREN 4368   SEM 001

FREN 4415

There is an astonishing discrepancy between our perception of the Holocaust as a central event of the twentieth century and its marginal place in postwar culture.  It is during those years, nevertheless, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16633 FREN 4415   SEM 101

FREN 4720

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18535 FREN 4720   SEM 101

FREN 6180

This interdisciplinary seminar would like to offer new hypotheses on the ways poetry is understood and experienced by a reader's mind. Our methodology, while non-reductionist, will take into account the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6226

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16200 FREN 6180   SEM 101

FREN 6240

This seminar will study the problem of transmission in psychoanalysis, with an emphasis on its stakes for political history and theory. Freud's Moses and Monotheism addresses the unconscious and intersubjective ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6778GOVT 6246

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16201 FREN 6240   SEM 101

FREN 6300

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7829 FREN 6300   SEM 101

  • Course limited to graduate students only.

FREN 6368

This seminar will focus on the writings of the polymorphous Martinican poet and thinker, Édouard Glissant (1928-2011).  We will attend to the historical context of French colonialism, particularly in the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17506 FREN 6368   SEM 001

FREN 6400

Guided independent study for graduate students. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5488 FREN 6400   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Dubreuil, L

  • Permission of instructor required.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6705 FREN 6400   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Greenberg, M

  • Permission of instructor required.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6706 FREN 6400   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Long, K

  • Permission of instructor required.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6989 FREN 6400   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Aching, G

  • Permission of instructor required.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6990 FREN 6400   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Molinie, M

  • Permission of instructor required.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7830 FREN 6400   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Vallois, M

  • Permission of instructor required.

FREN 6415

There is an astonishing discrepancy between our perception of the Holocaust as a central event of the twentieth century and its marginal place in postwar culture.  It is during those years, nevertheless, ... view course details

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  • 17951 FREN 6415   SEM 101

FREN 6880

"Absolutism" is a political and cultural concept more resonant in its abstraction than most. It nevertheless appears capable of generating a proliferation of both conscious and unconscious associations ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16204 FREN 6880   SEM 101