• FRE 3244 Intermediate French Conversation
• FRE 3420 French Grammar & Composition
• FRE 3421 French Grammar & Composition II
• FRE 4422 Advanced Grammar and Composition
• FRE 4780 Phonetics: Theoretical and Applied
• FRE 4930 Business French II
• FRT 3140 Masterworks: Women In Love
• FOW 4540 Franco-American Cultural Wars
• FRW 3101 Survey of French Literature: 18th through 20th Centuries
• FRW 5593 Studies In 18th Century Literature
• FRW 5595r Studies in 19th Century Literature

Prerequisites: FRE 2220 and either 3420 or 3421. Through readings about contemporary issues facing French society -- such as the evolving role of women, unemployment, immigration, economic change in the new Europe and urban renewal -- this course aims at developing oral communication skills in a broad cultural context.

Prerequisite FRE 2200 or its equivalent. An in-depth study of French grammar emphasizing some subtleties of written expression.

Prerequisite FRE 3420 or its equivalent. Further study of the subtleties of written expression in the French language.

Prerequisite FRE 3421 or equivalent. This course, intended for students with a thorough grounding in French grammar, aims at developing writing ability through the reading of a variety of sophisticated French prose works and the composition of essays based on these model texts.

Prerequisites FRE 3244 and 3421 or equivalent. Study of the International Phonetic Alphabet and its application to French with practice in reproducing accurately French sounds and intonation patterns.

This is a continuation of FRE 3440 Commercial French. One need not have taken FRE 3440 to enroll in this course. We will be using Le nouveau French for Business, Le français des affairs. Haiter/Didier, 1994. We will cover chapters 8-14. Ch. 8: La Poste-France Télécom, Ch. 9: Les assurances, 10: La publicité, 11: Import-export-Duanes, 12: La Bourse, 13: Les Impôts -- Les syndicats, 14: Chambres de Commerce & d'Industrie -- L'économie.

Love has always been an ambiguous emotion for women. On the one hand it is a passion having the potential to realize their deepest aspirations, on the other, it is a feeling leading to their subjugation in personal and societal relationships. The reservations toward love expressed by writers such as Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, and Annie Ernaux, reservations that we may think of as typically modern, have their precedents in earlier periods of French literature. In this course we will turn our attention to depictions of the joys and the dangers of this universal emotion from the Middle Ages through the seventeenth century, with an emphasis on women's experience as expressed by women writers.

Through an examination of literature and the visual arts this course will trace a shift in the cultural balance of power between the United States and France. We begin with a look at the nineteenth-century American sense of inferiority in the face of France's achievements in the fiction and painting; then we will follow the slow decline of France's dominance in these areas, a decline that will be largely due to changing aesthetic developments and political reversals in France and in Europe in general. During this period of crisis on the continent, the United States will accelerate its rise to predominance in both the artistic and political realms. Assignments will consist of three five pages essays and a final. The course can be used to fulfill the Gordon Rule requirement.

This course will introduce you to a selection of well-known works of French Literature and their cultural contexts.  Most of the readings chosen exemplify the modern appeal of the exotic.  From the development of colonialism in the eighteenth-century to colonization in the mid-twentieth-century, modern French writers have explored their encounters with different cultures in their writings.

This course will be taught in French.  By reading, writing and participating in French, you will therefore increase your comprehension and oral proficiency in the language.  Although there will be a few key lectures in this class, most of the time we will discuss the readings in French.  It is essential that you do the assigned readings and come to class prepared to discuss them.

Le cours FRW 5593 du 18^e siècle offert pendant le semestre du printemps 2001 portera essentiellement sur les romans et les contes inscrits sur la liste des ouvrages dont la lecture est exigée pour passer le diplôme M.A. à F.S.U. (M.A. readling list). Nous étudierons entre autres, les particularités, la fonction, et l'efficacité des romans à la première personne, des romans épistolaires et du genre conte. Le cours sera organisé comme un séminaire c'est à dire que les étudiants participeront activement à l'analyse serrée des textes et selon les oeuvres qu'ils auront choisies, ils présenteront aux participant un rapport sur les études critiques les plus récentes, disponibles sur l'internet ou à la bibliothèque. Dans la mesure du possible, et selon le temps disponible, des passerelles seront jetées vers les art et la musique.

Liste des ouvrages qui seront étudiés:

• Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Paul et Viriginie

• Diderot, Jacques le Fataliste

• Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

• Montesquieu, Lettres persanes

• Prevost, Manon Lescault

• Rousseau, Julie ou la Nouvelle Heloise

• Voltaire, Contes

Open to advanced undergraduates in French (register under FRW 4460). Why are so many of the protagonists of 19th century French literature nostalgic for an absent mother? This course will examine why a relation to the maternal was a crucial determinant of French Romantic culture and the gender ideology that underwrites it. We will focus on the aesthetic, historical and psychological factors that account for the preoccupation with an imaginary mother figure in representative 19th-century novels and poetry. Primary readings:

• Rousseau, Les Confessions I (excerpts)

• Stendhal, Le Rouge et le Noir

• Balzac, Le Lys dans la vallée

• Sand, François le Champi

• Flaubert, Madame Bovary

• Maupassant, Contes (excerpts)