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Classes
FREN 1210
Course Description
FREN 1210-FREN 1220 is a two-semester sequence. FREN 1210 is the first half of the 1210-1220 sequence designed to provide a thorough grounding in French language and an introduction to intercultural ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- M Morrill Hall 106
Instructors
Waldron, C
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Students must enroll in one lecture and one discussion. This course is intended for students with no experience in French. Students who have previously studied French must have an LPF score lower than 37, or SAT II lower than 410.
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- M Morrill Hall 106
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Waldron, C
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Students must enroll in one lecture and one discussion. This course is intended for students with no experience in French. Students who have previously studied French must have an LPF score lower than 37, or SAT II lower than 410.
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- TWRF Goldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Karczewski, J
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- TWRF White Hall B06
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Vu, Y
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- TWRF Goldwin Smith Hall 164
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L'Esperance, M
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- TWRF White Hall B02
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Staff
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- TWRF White Hall B02
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Torea, T
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- TWRF Uris Hall 254
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Waldron, C
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- TWRF White Hall 114
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Turner, A
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- TWRF White Hall B04
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Torea, T
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FREN 1230
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- MWRF Uris Hall 260
Instructors
Guimiot, V
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Prerequisite: French 1220 or an LPFscore 45-55 or SAT II 490-590. Recommended courses after French 1230: French 2060 or 2090.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- MWRF White Hall B06
Instructors
Glidja, F
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Prerequisite: French 1220 or an LPFscore 45-55 or SAT II 490-590. Recommended courses after French 1230: French 2060 or 2090.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- MWRF White Hall B06
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Glidja, F
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Prerequisite: French 1220 or an LPFscore 45-55 or SAT II 490-590. Recommended courses after French 1230: French 2060 or 2090.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- MWRF White Hall B04
Instructors
Schoene, A
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Prerequisite: French 1220 or an LPFscore 45-55 or SAT II 490-590. Recommended courses after French 1230: French 2060 or 2090.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- MWRF White Hall B04
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Glidja, F
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Prerequisite: French 1220 or an LPFscore 45-55 or SAT II 490-590. Recommended courses after French 1230: French 2060 or 2090.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- MWRF Stimson Hall G01
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Alkire, T
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Prerequisite: French 1220 or an LPFscore 45-55 or SAT II 490-590. Recommended courses after French 1230: French 2060 or 2090.
FREN 1302
Course Description
If you could look inside your own body, would you be puzzled, fascinated, utterly disgusted? When dissection became legal in the Renaissance, scientists and writers set out to explore the intricacies ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall 302
Instructors
Chavaroche, O
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FREN 2060
Course Description
This intermediate language course is designed for students who want to focus on their reading and writing skills. Following the notion of reading in order to write, particular attention is paid to the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- MWF Statler Hall 453
Instructors
Luks, J
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Prerequisite: French 1230, LPF score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680. Recommended courses after French 2060: French 2100, or 2210. Students who have taken French 2060 are not eligible to take French 2090 for credit.
FREN 2090
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- MWF Uris Hall 302
Instructors
Lenoble, A
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Additional Information
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Prerequisite: French 1230, LPF Score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680. Recommended courses after French 2090: French 2100, 2190, or 2210. Students who have taken French 2090 are not eliglble to take French 2060 for credit.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- MWF Malott Hall 230
Instructors
Finielz, E
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Prerequisite: French 1230, LPF Score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680. Recommended courses after French 2090: French 2100, 2190, or 2210. Students who have taken French 2090 are not eliglble to take French 2060 for credit.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- MWF Malott Hall 205
Instructors
Le Men, S
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Prerequisite: French 1230, LPF Score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680. Recommended courses after French 2090: French 2100, 2190, or 2210. Students who have taken French 2090 are not eliglble to take French 2060 for credit.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- MWF Uris Hall 394
Instructors
Wender, Y
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Prerequisite: French 1230, LPF Score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680. Recommended courses after French 2090: French 2100, 2190, or 2210. Students who have taken French 2090 are not eliglble to take French 2060 for credit.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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- MWF Uris Hall 204
Instructors
Le Men, S
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Prerequisite: French 1230, LPF Score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680. Recommended courses after French 2090: French 2100, 2190, or 2210. Students who have taken French 2090 are not eliglble to take French 2060 for credit.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- MWF White Hall B06
Instructors
LoBello, S
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Additional Information
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Prerequisite: French 1230, LPF Score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680. Recommended courses after French 2090: French 2100, 2190, or 2210. Students who have taken French 2090 are not eliglble to take French 2060 for credit.
FREN 2091
Course Description
No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit GradeNoAud(Graded(GRI))
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Class Number & Section Details
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Goul, P
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Additional Information
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Students must be concurrently enrolled into FREN 2090. Enrollment will be on a first come, first serve basis.
FREN 2190
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF White Hall 114
Instructors
Tissot, D
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Additional Information
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Prerequisite: French 2060 or 2090, or CASE Q+. May be taken concurrently with 2210. Recommended courses after French 2190: French 2210, 3010, or 3050.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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- MWF White Hall 114
Instructors
Tissot, D
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Additional Information
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Prerequisite: French 2060 or 2090, or CASE Q+. May be taken concurrently with 2210. Recommended courses after French 2190: French 2210, 3010, or 3050.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- MWF White Hall B06
Instructors
Allar, N
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Prerequisite: French 2060 or 2090, or CASE Q+. May be taken concurrently with 2210. Recommended courses after French 2190: French 2210, 3010, or 3050.
FREN 2310
Course Description
This course, designed to follow FREN 2190, 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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Vallois, M
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Prerequisite: FREN 2190 or CASE Q++ or permission of instructor.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MWF McGraw Hall 366
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Goul, P
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FREN 3010
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF White Hall 114
Instructors
Tissot, D
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Additional Information
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Prerequisite: French 2190 or CASE Q++. Recommended courses after French 3010: French 2210, 3120 or above. May be taken concurrently with French 2210. Students who have taken French 3050 are not Eligible to take French 3010 for credit.
FREN 3120
Course Description
This course on stylistics, and its application to textual analysis and translation, aims to help students develop a richer, more nuanced and idiomatic command of both the spoken and written language. Systematic ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Stimson Hall G01
Instructors
Alkire, T
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Additional Information
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Prerequisite: French 3010 or 3050, or CASE Q++. Students who have taken French 3130 are not eligible to take French 3120 for credit.
FREN 3130
Course Description
This course prepares students for interacting at an advanced level of proficiency in both speaking and writing. Students will increase their vocabulary and knowledge of idiomatic French, while discussing ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall 254
Instructors
Torea, T
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Additional Information
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Prerequisites: FREN 3010, or FREN 3050, or CASE placement, or permission of instructor. Students who have taken FREN 3120 are not eligible to take FREN 3130 for credit.
FREN 3490
Course Description
In this course, we will ask how literature helps us to formulate ethical questions, i.e., question for which there is no single, objectively correct answer. Why literature as opposed to philosophy or ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3531, ITAL 3490, ROMS 3490
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall G88
Instructors
Migiel, M
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FREN 3540
Course Description
In the age of smartphones and Facebook, the competing claims made on our attention only seem to be multiplying. This course is an opportunity to think about and to enact certain practices of attentiveness ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: RELST 3540
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Morrill Hall 111
Instructors
Howie, C
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Conducted in English.
FREN 3730
Course Description
This course will examine the various forms religious violence takes on: war, massacre, pillage, and torture - and consider the symbolic meanings invested in these forms of violence in the context of the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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- MW Uris Hall G88
Instructors
Long, K
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FREN 3870
Course Description
This course offers an introduction to Romanticism, as it develops in France and beyod, from the late 18th century to the early 1860s. While the focus will be on literture, we will also consider other ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Dubreuil, L
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FREN 4155
Course Description
In this course we will encounter, imagine and re-imagine lots of different bodies and bodily experiences with writers, artists and filmmakers in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco who have resisted bodily oppression ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 6155
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M McGraw Hall 366
Instructors
Flood, M
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FREN 4190
Course Description
Guided independent study of special topics. view course details
FREN 4290
Course Description
Consult director of undergraduate studies for more information. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
FREN 4350
Course Description
What kinds of poetry might be usefully characterized as "postcolonial" and what are the stakes of such a designation? How common, variable, translatable are values deemed "postcolonial" for particular ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4290, COML 6350, ENGL 4840, ENGL 6850, FREN 6350, SPAN 4350, SPAN 6350
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall 181
Instructors
Monroe, J
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Limited to 15 students.
FREN 4370
Course Description
This course will examine some of the major texts of the French canon (principally but not exclusively 19th century) to analyze the role of "desire" in its various forms in some of the most noteworthy novels ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G88
Instructors
Greenberg, M
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FREN 4415
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4415, COML 6415, FREN 6415, GERST 4411, GERST 6411, GOVT 4786, GOVT 6786, HIST 4233, HIST 6233, JWST 4410, JWST 6415, ROMS 4410, ROMS 6410
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T White Hall 104
Instructors
Traverso, E
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FREN 4435
Course Description
The fall of "real socialism" in 1990 put an end to the experience of twentieth century Marxism. Its ideas, debates and controversies could be viewed-historicized and revisited-in a different light. The ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4416, COML 6416, FREN 6435, GERST 4431, GERST 6431, GOVT 4696, GOVT 6696, HIST 4234, HIST 6234, ROMS 4430, ROMS 6430
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R White Hall 114
Instructors
Traverso, E
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FREN 4680
Course Description
This course examines the work of the three greatest playwrights of the 17th century (Corneile, Molière, Racine). We will attempt to answer the questions: Why was theater the privileged form of representation ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 6680
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- W Uris Hall 260
Instructors
Greenberg, M
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FREN 4770
Course Description
This class focuses on artistic and literary creation in France, from the 1980s to the present. We will consider pop or rap songs, novels, bande dessinée, theater plays, movies, paintings, sculptures, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M McGraw Hall 366
Instructors
Dubreuil, L
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FREN 6155
Course Description
In this course we will encounter, imagine and re-imagine lots of different bodies and bodily experiences with writers, artists and filmmakers in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco who have resisted bodily oppression ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 4155
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M McGraw Hall 366
Instructors
Flood, M
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FREN 6290
Course Description
While literary histories have for a long time undervalued women's works in the literary canon, it has been also common to continue to hold the belief that, with the passing of time, women have progressively ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Hall 498
Instructors
Vallois, M
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FREN 6350
Course Description
What kinds of poetry might be usefully characterized as "postcolonial" and what are the stakes of such a designation? What relation do specific poetic features have to geopolitical, cultural, historical, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4290, COML 6350, ENGL 4840, ENGL 6850, FREN 4350, SPAN 4350, SPAN 6350
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Goldwin Smith Hall 181
Instructors
Monroe, J
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Additional Information
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Limited to 15 students.
FREN 6390
Course Description
Guided independent study for graduate students. view course details
FREN 6415
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4415, COML 6415, FREN 4415, GERST 4411, GERST 6411, GOVT 4786, GOVT 6786, HIST 4233, HIST 6233, JWST 4410, JWST 6415, ROMS 4410, ROMS 6410
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T White Hall 104
Instructors
Traverso, E
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Additional Information
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FREN 6435
Course Description
The fall of "real socialism" in 1990 put an end to the experience of twentieth century Marxism. Its ideas, debates and controversies could be viewed-historicized and revisited-in a different light. The ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4416, COML 6416, FREN 4435, GERST 4431, GERST 6431, GOVT 4696, GOVT 6696, HIST 4234, HIST 6234, ROMS 4430, ROMS 6430
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R White Hall 114
Instructors
Traverso, E
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Additional Information
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FREN 6680
Course Description
This course examines the work of the three greatest playwrights of the 17th century (Corneille, Molière, Racine). We will attempt to answer the questions: Why was theater the privileged form of representation ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 4680
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Hall 260
Instructors
Greenberg, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: