The College Catalogue

Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced Courses

101 {1101} c. Elementary French I. Every fall. Fall 2012. Jay Ketner.

A study of the basic forms, structures, and vocabulary. Emphasis on listening comprehension and spoken French. Three class hours per week and one weekly conversation session with assistant, plus regular language laboratory assignments. Primarily open to first- and second-year students who have had two years or less of high school French. A limited number of spaces are available for juniors and seniors.

102 {1102} c. Elementary French II. Every spring. Spring 2013. Katherine Dauge-Roth.

A continuation of French 101. A study of the basic forms, structures, and vocabulary. Emphasis on listening comprehension and spoken French. During the second semester, more stress is placed on reading and writing. Three class hours per week and one weekly conversation session with assistant, plus regular language laboratory assignments.

Prerequisite: French 101 or the equivalent.

203 {2203} c. Intermediate French I. Every fall. Fall 2012. Katherine Dauge-Roth and Hanétha Vété-Congolo.

A review of basic grammar, which is integrated into more complex patterns of written and spoken French. Short compositions and class discussions require active use of students’ acquired knowledge of French. Three class hours per week and one weekly conversation session with teaching fellow.

Prerequisite: French 102 or placement.

204 {2204} c. Intermediate French II. Every spring. Spring 2013. Charlotte Daniels, Jay Ketner, and Hanétha Vété-Congolo.

Continued development of oral and written skills; course focus shifts from grammar to reading. Short readings from French literature form the basis for the expansion of vocabulary and analytical skills. Active use of French in class discussions and conversation sessions with French assistants. Three class hours per week and one weekly conversation session with teaching fellow.

Prerequisite: French 203 or placement.

205 {2305} c. Advanced French through Film. Every fall. Fall 2012. Charlotte Daniels and Katherine Dauge-Roth.

An introduction to film analysis. Conversation and composition based on a variety of contemporary French and Francophone films. Grammar review and frequent short papers. Emphasis on student participation including short presentations and a variety of oral activities. Three hours per week plus one weekly viewing session for films and weekly conversation session with teaching fellow.

Prerequisite: French 204 or placement.

207 {2407} c - ESD, IP. Francophone Cultures. Every fall. Fall 2012. Jay Ketner.

An introduction to the cultures of various French-speaking regions outside of France. Examines the history, politics, customs, cinema, literature, and the arts of the Francophone world, principally Africa and the Caribbean. (Same as Africana Studies 207 {2407} and Latin American Studies 206 {2407}.)

Prerequisite: French 205 or higher, or permission of the instructor.

208 {2408} c - ESD, IP. Contemporary France through the Media. Every spring. Spring 2013. Charlotte Daniels.

An introduction to contemporary France through newspapers, magazines, television, music, and film. Emphasis is on enhancing communicative proficiency in French and increasing cultural understanding prior to study abroad in France.

Prerequisite: French 205 or higher, or permission of the instructor.

209 {2409} c - IP. Introduction to the Study and Criticism of Medieval and Early Modern French Literature. Every fall. Fall 2012. Charlotte Daniels.

An introduction to the literary tradition of France from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution. Students are introduced to major authors and literary movements in their cultural and historical contexts.

Prerequisite: French 205 or higher, or permission of the instructor.

210 {2410} c - IP. Introduction to the Study and Criticism of Modern French Literature. Every spring. Spring 2013. William VanderWolk.

Introduces students to the literary tradition of France from 1789 to the present. Focus on major authors and literary movements in historical and cultural context.

Prerequisite: French 205 or higher, or permission of the instructor.

211 {2411} c - ESD, IP. Introduction to the Study and Criticism of Francophone Literature. Every spring. Spring 2013. Hanétha Vété-Congolo.

Introduces students to the literary tradition of the contemporary Francophone world. Focuses on major authors and literary movements in historical and cultural context. (Same as Africana Studies 209 {2411} and Latin American Studies 213 {2211}.)

Prerequisite: French 205 or higher, or permission of the instructor.

309–329 {3000–3999}. Topics in French and Francophone Literature. Every year. The Department.

Designed to provide students who have a basic knowledge of literature in French the opportunity to study more closely an author, a genre, or a period.

[312 {3205} c. Urban Fictions in Québec Literature: The City as a Space of (Quiet) Revolution.]

[316 {3204} c. French Theater Production.]

[317 {3209} c. Childhood Memories: Reflections on Self and Home in the Postcolonial Francophone Caribbean. (Same as Africana Studies 317 {3317} and Latin American Studies 317 {3217}.)]

321 {3202} c. Resistance, Revolt, and Revolution. Fall 2012. William VanderWolk.

Examines historical images of revolt in France, as seen in literature and film from 1789 to 1968. Also short readings in political, historical, and philosophical texts. Authors to be studied include Hugo, Zola, Sartre, Vercors, Triolet and Aragon.

Prerequisite: Two of the following: French 207 (same as Africana Studies 207 and Latin American Studies 206) or 208; French 209, 210, or 211; one 300-level course in French; or permission of the instructor.

322 {3201} c. Voices of Women, Voices of the People. Fall 2012. Hanétha Vété-Congolo.

Focuses on texts written by women from former West African and Caribbean French colonies. Themes treated—womanhood, colonization, slavery, individual and collective identity, relationships between men and women, independence, tradition, modernism, and alienation—are approached from historical, anthropological, political, social, and ideological perspectives. Readings by Mariama Bâ, Aminata Sow Fall (Sénégal); Maryse Condé, Gisèle Pineau, Simone Schwartz-Bart (Guadeloupe); Ina Césaire, Suzanne Dracius (Martinique); and Marie Chauvet and Jan J. Dominique (Haïti). (Same as Africana Studies 321 {3201}, Gender and Women’s Studies 323 {3323}, and Latin American Studies 322 {3222}.)

Prerequisite: Two of the following: French 207 (same as Africana Studies 207 and Latin American Studies 206) or 208; French 209, 210, or 211; one 300-level course in French; or permission of the instructor.

[323 {3203} c. Murder, Monsters, and Mayhem: The fait divers in Literature and Film.]

326 {3206} c. Body Language: Writing Corporeality in France. Spring 2013. Katherine Dauge-Roth.

Analysis of texts and images from early modern literary, philosophical, medical, ecclesiastical, and artistic sources from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, as well as of modern film, Web, and textual media, allows students to explore the conflicting roles of early modern bodies through several themes: birth and death, medicine and hygiene, gender and sexuality, social class, race, monstrosity, Catholic and Protestant visions of the body, the royal body, the body politic. Thoughtful comparison and examination of the meanings of the body today encouraged throughout. Conducted in French.

Prerequisite: Two of the following: French 207 or 208, French 209 or 210, one 300-level course in French; or permission of the instructor.

[327 {3207} c. Love, Letters, and Lies.]

328 {3208} c. Wanderings and Displacements: Shifting Identities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature. Spring 2013. Jay Ketner.

Examines mass migration of people and groups in nineteenth-century French literature in order to understand identity in relation to movement and shifts. Through motifs of arrival and departure, nomadism and sedentarism, flânerie, and travel, studies the effects of mass migration and profound social changes on both individual subjects and larger groups. Authors may include Balzac, Stendhal, Lamartine, Mallarmé, Baudelaire, Gide, Colette.

Prerequisite: Two of the following: French 207 (same as Africana Studies 207 and Latin American Studies 206) or 208; French 209, 210, or 211; one 300-level course in French; or permission of the instructor.

[351 {3299} c. Senior Seminar for French Majors.]

401–404 {4000–4003} c. Independent Study and Honors in French. The Department.

405 {4029} c. Collaborative Study in French. The Department.