French (FREN)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

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. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  3171 FREN 1220   SEM 101

    • MTRF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Leroy, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: FREN 1210 or Language Placement test in French (LPF) score of 37-44 or Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) II 410-480. At the end of FREN 1220, students who score lower than 56 on the LPF take FREN 1230; those with 56 or higher may enter the 2000-level sequence.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  3172 FREN 1220   SEM 102

    • MTRF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Ruyer, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: FREN 1210 or Language Placement test in French (LPF) score of 37-44 or Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) II 410-480. At the end of FREN 1220, students who score lower than 56 on the LPF take FREN 1230; those with 56 or higher may enter the 2000-level sequence.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4920 FREN 1220   SEM 103

    • MTRF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Finielz, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: FREN 1210 or Language Placement test in French (LPF) score of 37-44 or Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) II 410-480. At the end of FREN 1220, students who score lower than 56 on the LPF take FREN 1230; those with 56 or higher may enter the 2000-level sequence.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  3173 FREN 1220   SEM 104

    • MTRF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Finielz, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: FREN 1210 or Language Placement test in French (LPF) score of 37-44 or Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) II 410-480. At the end of FREN 1220, students who score lower than 56 on the LPF take FREN 1230; those with 56 or higher may enter the 2000-level sequence.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  3174 FREN 1220   SEM 105

    • MTRF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Torea, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: FREN 1210 or Language Placement test in French (LPF) score of 37-44 or Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) II 410-480. At the end of FREN 1220, students who score lower than 56 on the LPF take FREN 1230; those with 56 or higher may enter the 2000-level sequence.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4685 FREN 1220   SEM 106

    • MTRF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Finielz, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: FREN 1210 or Language Placement test in French (LPF) score of 37-44 or Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) II 410-480. At the end of FREN 1220, students who score lower than 56 on the LPF take FREN 1230; those with 56 or higher may enter the 2000-level sequence.

FREN 1230

FREN 1230 is an all-skills course designed to improve oral communication, listening comprehension, and reading ability, to establish a groundwork for correct writing, and to provide a substantial grammar ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  3154 FREN 1230   SEM 101

    • MWRF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Epperson, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: FREN 1220 or an Language Placement test in French (LPF) score 45-55 or Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) II 490-590. Recommended courses after Fren 1230: FREN 2070, 2080 or 2090.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  3155 FREN 1230   SEM 102

    • MWRF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Epperson, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: FREN 1220 or an Language Placement test in French (LPF) score 45-55 or Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) II 490-590. Recommended courses after Fren 1230: FREN 2070, 2080 or 2090.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9084 FREN 1230   SEM 104

    • MWRF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Gibbs, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: FREN 1220 or an Language Placement test in French (LPF) score 45-55 or Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) II 490-590. Recommended courses after Fren 1230: FREN 2070, 2080 or 2090.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 11596 FREN 1230   SEM 105

    • MWRF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Epperson, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: FREN 1220 or an Language Placement test in French (LPF) score 45-55 or Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) II 490-590. Recommended courses after Fren 1230: FREN 2070, 2080 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. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  4825 FREN 2090   SEM 101

    • MWF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Haillot, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: FREN 1230, Language Placement test in French (LPF) score 56-64, or Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) II 600-680; or Advanced Placement (AP) French language 4 or Cornell Advanced Standing Exam (CASE) Q. Recommended courses after FREN 2090: FREN 2095. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 2070 or 2080 for credit.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  3157 FREN 2090   SEM 102

    • MWF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Rebhi, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: FREN 1230, Language Placement test in French (LPF) score 56-64, or Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) II 600-680; or Advanced Placement (AP) French language 4 or Cornell Advanced Standing Exam (CASE) Q. Recommended courses after FREN 2090: FREN 2095. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 2070 or 2080 for credit.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  3158 FREN 2090   SEM 103

    • MWF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Glidja, F

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: FREN 1230, Language Placement test in French (LPF) score 56-64, or Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) II 600-680; or Advanced Placement (AP) French language 4 or Cornell Advanced Standing Exam (CASE) Q. Recommended courses after FREN 2090: FREN 2095. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 2070 or 2080 for credit.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  3159 FREN 2090   SEM 104

    • MWF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Glidja, F

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: FREN 1230, Language Placement test in French (LPF) score 56-64, or Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) II 600-680; or Advanced Placement (AP) French language 4 or Cornell Advanced Standing Exam (CASE) Q. Recommended courses after FREN 2090: FREN 2095. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 2070 or 2080 for credit.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5798 FREN 2090   SEM 105

    • MWF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Glidja, F

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: FREN 1230, Language Placement test in French (LPF) score 56-64, or Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) II 600-680; or Advanced Placement (AP) French language 4 or Cornell Advanced Standing Exam (CASE) Q. Recommended courses after FREN 2090: FREN 2095. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 2070 or 2080 for credit.

FREN 2095

This advanced-intermediate course is highly recommended for students planning to study abroad as it aims to develop the writing and speaking skills needed to function in a French speaking university ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  3160 FREN 2095   SEM 101

    • MWF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Menard, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: FREN 2070, 2080 or 2090, or Cornell Advanced Standing Exam (CASE) Q+. Recommended course after FREN 2095: FREN 2180, FREN 2310 or FREN 2320.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  3161 FREN 2095   SEM 102

    • MWF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Menard, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: FREN 2070, 2080 or 2090, or Cornell Advanced Standing Exam (CASE) Q+. Recommended course after FREN 2095: FREN 2180, FREN 2310 or FREN 2320.

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 through a variety of topics ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 10961 FREN 2180   SEM 101

    • MWF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Torea, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisites: FREN 2095, Cornell Advanced Standing Exam (CASE) Q++, or equivalent.

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. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4494 FREN 2310   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Choinet, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisites: FREN 2095 or Cornell Advanced Standing Exam (CASE) Q++. Recommended courses after FREN 2310: any 3000 level literature or culture course

FREN 2320

This course designed to follow FREN 2095, introduces students to key cinematic techniques used in analysis of films and to major movements in the twentieth century French cinema.  Students will view a ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5161 FREN 2320   SEM 101

    • MWF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Menard, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: FREN 2095 or Cornell Advanced Standing Exam (CASE) Q++ or permission of instructor. Recommended courses after FREN 2320: any 3000 level literature or culture course.

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. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5799 FREN 3160   SEM 101

    • MWF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Alkire, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisites: FREN 2310 or Cornell Advanced Standing Exam (CASE) Q++ placement.

FREN 3210

This course is designed to teach ways of reading and understanding works created from the Romantic period to the present day, in their cultural context. A range of texts from various genres is presented, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9091 FREN 3210   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Terhmina, I

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: FREN 2310, or Cornell Advanced Standing Exam (CASE) Q++ placement.

FREN 3295

Modern capitalism is intimately connected to the ethics of play. Through French and Francophone literature, this course explores a host of capitalist players and the vexed moral questions they raise from ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 11356 FREN 3295   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Terhmina, I

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: FREN 2310 or permission of instructor required.

FREN 3485

Beginning in the early days of silent cinema, a rich tradition of what are called "city films," combines technological innovation with the exploration of specific urban spaces. Students in this class will ... view course details

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  •  9112 FREN 3485   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Keller, P

      Lawless, C

    • M
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Keller, P

      Lawless, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Conducted in English.

FREN 3780

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3780GOVT 3786

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10439 FREN 3780   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Conducted in English.

FREN 4200

Guided independent study of special topics. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3169 FREN 4200   IND 601

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Torea, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4005 FREN 4200   IND 602

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Terhmina, I

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 11332 FREN 4200   IND 603

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Alkire, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

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

  •  3153 FREN 4300   RSC 701

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: Directed Research

    Year-long course. R grade given at end of the fall semester and final letter grade at end of the spring semester. Open to seniors and juniors. Consult the director of honors program for more information.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4921 FREN 4300   RSC 702

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Terhmina, I

  • Instruction Mode: Directed Research

    Year-long course. R grade given at end of the fall semester and final letter grade at end of the spring semester. Open to seniors and juniors. Consult the director of honors program for more information.

FREN 4334

The seminar will explore relations between the tangible effects of climate on urban, infrastructural, and ecological landscapes in the Caribbean and lived experiences of climate as mediated through literature, ... view course details

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  • 11214 FREN 4334   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

FREN 6250

How does psychoanalysis conceive the human, and what does it offer humanity at the crossroads where we find ourselves today? These questions animate the work of Haitian-Quebecois psychoanalyst Willy Apollon, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6250

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9705 FREN 6250   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Conducted in English.

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

  •  5583 FREN 6300   SEM 101

    • MWF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Alkire, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

FREN 6334

The seminar will explore relations between the tangible effects of climate on urban, infrastructural, and ecological landscapes in the Caribbean and lived experiences of climate as mediated through literature, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 11216 FREN 6334   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  •  3156 FREN 6400   IND 601

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3980 FREN 6400   IND 602

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Terhmina, I

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies