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Undergraduate French Courses: Spring 2003
FRE 2220 Reading and Conversation
MTWR 9:05-9:55 am (Staff) RBB 332
Completes University language requirement for
baccalaureate degree. May not be taken by native
speakers. Rapid review of basic French structures
and introduction of some of the finer points of
French grammar. May not be taken concurrently
with FRE 1120 and/or 1121.
Prerequisite: FRE2200 or equivalent.
FRE 3420 French Grammar & Composition I
Section 1 MWF 12:20-1:10 Prof. LeBlanc DIF 212
Section 2 MWF 1:25-2:15 Prof. Gerato DIF 234
Prerequisite FRE 2200 or its equivalent.
An in-depth study of French grammar emphasizing
some subtleties of written expression.
FRE 3421 French Grammar
& Composition II
MWF 2:30-3:20 Prof. Allaire DIF 212
Prerequisite FRE 3420 or its equivalent.
Further study of the subtleties of written expression in the French language.
FRE 4422 Advanced French Composition
MWF 12:20-1:10 Prof. Allaire DIF 102
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.
FRE 4780 Phonetics: Theory and Application
TR 2:00-3:15 Prof. Spacagna DIF 114
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.
FRT 3140 French Literature in Translation
MWF 2:30-3:20 Prof. Walters DIF 234
Women and Love (France, 1160-1700)
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. Syllabus
FRW 3101 Survey of French Literature: 18th - 20th Centuries
TR 9:30-10:45 Prof. Boutin DIF 116
Prerequisite: FRE 2220; FRE 3420 or 3421; FRW 3100 or permission of
instructor. An introduction to the study of modern French
literature by reading and discussing works representative
of the various schools and movements. (Spring semester only.)
Readings include Voltaire’s Candide, Mérimée’s Carmen and
Camus’s L’Etranger.
FRW 4433 17th and 18th -Century Literature
TR 9:30-10:45 Prof. Spacagna DIF 102
Le 17e siècle (1610-1715) est aussi celui de la
littérature classique. Le nouvel humanisme devient
essentiellement une peinture et une analyse de “l’honnête homme.”
Après l’avènement de Louis XIV, le Roi Soleil, en 1643, le pays
connaît une période de stabilité politique relative. Le Roi a
des goûts fastueux, la danse, le théâtre et les spectacles
occupent une place privilégiée à la cour et en ville.
Nous lirons une ou deux oeuvres des grands dramaturges:
Corneille, Molière et Racine. Le courant de la préciosité,
dont Molière se moque, né dans les salons au début du
siècle, en réaction contre le manque de raffinement
du langage et des mœurs à la cour d’Henri IV,
influencera Madame de La Fayette qui publiera le
premier roman d’analyse français: La Princesse de
Clèves. Le 18e siècle (1715-1799) est connu sous le nom d’Age
des Lumières. Les “philosophes” brassent des idées nouvelles
et remettent en question l’ordre établi par la religion et la
royauté, préparant ainsi la future révolution de 1789. Le
rationalisme (l’esprit critique) et la sensibilité sont
les deux polarités qui s’opposent ou se complètent. Dans
ce cours, nous nous limiterons à la lecture d’œuvres
romanesques (conte et roman), au théâtre de sentiments
de Marivaux ainsi qu’au théâtre de Beaumarchais, l’agent
secret du gouvernement qui fournira en 1775 des armes
aux insurgés américains.
FRW 4770 Black Literature of French Expression
TR 12:30-1:45 Prof. Spacagna DIF 202
La Francophonie est un vaste ensemble mondial de langue
française qui inclut l’Hexagone (la France), les
autres pays de langue française (Belgique, Suisse,
Afrique de l’ouest, etc.) et ceux qui considèrent
le français comme deuxième langue nationale après
l’anglais (le Nigeria) ainsi que les communautés
de personnes éduquées pratiquant le français (Liban,
Vietnam, Ile Maurice; Seychelles, etc.), en tout
62 pays.
Ce cours est une initiation à la très riche
littérature negro-africaine francophone (Antilles,
Afrique et Madagascar). Les œuvres étudiées sont
toutes du XXe siècle. Elles comporteront 5 genres:
essai, poésie, roman, théâtre, et conte. Certains
concepts littéraires, comme la négritude,
le réalisme merveilleux, la créolité, etc.,
ainsi que certaines préoccupations particulières
des auteurs francophones étudiés (problèmes
linguistiques, quête de l’identité, oraliture,
exotisme, eurocentrisme, errance, déracinement,
nouveau baroque, etc.), seront examinés en détail.
Les auteurs au programme incluront entre autres
Aimé Césaire, Patrick Chamoiseau, Maryse Condé,
René Depestre, Kourouma, Ahmadou, et Laye,
Camara.
FRE 4930-01 Immigration in France
TR 3:35-4:50 Prof. Hargreaves DIF 102
Immigration and National Identity in France
Immigration is one of the most hotly debated
issues in contemporary France. The Islamic
headscarf affair, the rise of the extreme-right
National Front and the reform of nationality and
citizenship laws are just some of the issues,
which have emerged in the last twenty years. In
exploring these developments, this course examines
the ways in which immigration and ethnicity have
been helping to reshape the contours of French
society. Working within an inter-disciplinary and
comparative framework, students are invited to consider
how far France can be said to display a distinctive
profile in the field of ethnic relations compared
with other countries such as the United States and
Great Britain. After a theoretical and historical
introduction, the course focuses on the post-war
period, and in particular on the 1980s and 1990s,
when minorities originating in Third World,
especially Islamic, countries, have been at the
center of key debates in French politics, society
and culture. Among the topics covered are minority
ethnic settlement, multiculturalism, nationality
and citizenship, racism, extreme-right politics
and anti-discrimination policy. The course is
taught in English and may be taken by students
without a reading knowledge of French.
FRE 4930-02 Femmes et Francophonie: Littérature et Film
MWF 2:30-3:20. Prof. Brahimi. 202 DIF.
This course explores the status and experiences of women in
French-speaking North and Sub-Saharan Africa as expressed
in their own terms through literature and film. The influence
of patriarchal traditions, the legacy of colonialism and the
challenges and opportunities of an increasingly globalized
world for women in francophone Africa are examined in key
novels and feature films. The course is taught in French by
Professor Denise Brahimi, of the Université de Paris VII,
who is the author of numerous books and articles on a wide
range of regions and periods in French and Francophone
cultures, with particular interests in women writers of
North and Sub-Saharan Africa. She is Visiting Professor
in the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and
Francophone Studies for Spring 2003.
FOW 4540 Franco-American Culture Wars
MWF 1:25-2:15 Prof. Cloonan Dif 112
Prerequisite: HUM 2250: 18th Century, Romanticism to Postmodernism,
or permission of the instructor.
Through the study of
literary texts and examples
selected from the visual arts this
course will trace a shift in the cultural
balance of power between the United States
and France. The course begins with an
examination of the nineteenth-century
American sense of inferiority before France’s
achievements in literature and painting, and then
will trace how a variety of aesthetic developments
and political events will precipitate the slow
decline of French preeminence and the inexorable
rise of twentieth-century American dominance in
the cultural as well as political realms. Readings
include Henry James, Gertrude Stein, Hemingway,
Beauvoir, Sartre, Baldwin,
Sollers, Echnoz, and Auster.
LIN 4930 Second Language Acquisition and the Noun
Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy (NPAH)
MWF 3:35-4:50 Prof. Mitchell
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