French (FREN)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

FREN 1210

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6162 FREN 1210   LEC 001

  • 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.

  •  6163 FREN 1210   LEC 002

  • 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.

  •  6164 FREN 1210   DIS 201

  •  6165 FREN 1210   DIS 202

  •  6166 FREN 1210   DIS 203

  •  6167 FREN 1210   DIS 204

  •  6168 FREN 1210   DIS 205

  •  6169 FREN 1210   DIS 206

  •  6170 FREN 1210   DIS 207

FREN 1230

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6171 FREN 1230   SEM 101

  • Prerequisite: French 1220 or an LPFscore 45-55 or SAT II 490-590. Recommended courses after French 1230: French 2060 or 2090.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6172 FREN 1230   SEM 102

  • Prerequisite: French 1220 or an LPFscore 45-55 or SAT II 490-590. Recommended courses after French 1230: French 2060 or 2090.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6173 FREN 1230   SEM 103

  • Prerequisite: French 1220 or an LPFscore 45-55 or SAT II 490-590. Recommended courses after French 1230: French 2060 or 2090.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6174 FREN 1230   SEM 104

  • Prerequisite: French 1220 or an LPFscore 45-55 or SAT II 490-590. Recommended courses after French 1230: French 2060 or 2090.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6175 FREN 1230   SEM 105

  • Prerequisite: French 1220 or an LPFscore 45-55 or SAT II 490-590. Recommended courses after French 1230: French 2060 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. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6632 FREN 2090   SEM 101

    • MWF Uris Hall 260
    • Pasquer Brochard, R

  • Prerequisite: French 1230, LPF Score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680. Recommended courses after French 2090: French 2095, 2100, or 2310. Students who have taken French 2090 are not eligible to take French 2060 for credit.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6633 FREN 2090   SEM 102

  • Prerequisite: French 1230, LPF Score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680. Recommended courses after French 2090: French 2095, 2100, or 2310. Students who have taken French 2090 are not eligible to take French 2060 for credit.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6634 FREN 2090   SEM 103

  • Prerequisite: French 1230, LPF Score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680. Recommended courses after French 2090: French 2095, 2100, or 2310. Students who have taken French 2090 are not eligible to take French 2060 for credit.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6635 FREN 2090   SEM 104

  • Prerequisite: French 1230, LPF Score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680. Recommended courses after French 2090: French 2095, 2100, or 2310. Students who have taken French 2090 are not eligible to take French 2060 for credit.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6636 FREN 2090   SEM 105

  • Prerequisite: French 1230, LPF Score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680. Recommended courses after French 2090: French 2095, 2100, or 2310. Students who have taken French 2090 are not eligible to take French 2060 for credit.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6637 FREN 2090   SEM 106

  • Prerequisite: French 1230, LPF Score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680. Recommended courses after French 2090: French 2095, 2100, or 2310. Students who have taken French 2090 are not eligible to take French 2060 for credit.

FREN 2091

This one-credit course is focused on oral communication in French; to take this course students must be concurrently enrolled in FREN 2090.  Because the course is designed especially to encourage students ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit GradeNoAud

  • 17260 FREN 2091   SEM 101

    • TBA
    • Finielz, E

  • Must be concurrently enrolled in FREN 2090.

FREN 2095

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16498 FREN 2095   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2060 or 2090, or CASE Q+. Recommended courses after FREN 2095: FREN 2310.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16499 FREN 2095   SEM 102

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2060 or 2090, or CASE Q+. Recommended courses after FREN 2095: FREN 2310.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16500 FREN 2095   SEM 103

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2060 or 2090, or CASE Q+. Recommended courses after FREN 2095: FREN 2310.

FREN 2180

This course provides students with the opportunity to increase their proficiency in oral and written French through one of three possible avenues: Composition and Conversation; French through Film; and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18436 FREN 2180   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2095 (formerly 2190) or CASE Q++, FREN 2310 may also be taken concurrently with FREN 2180. Students who have taken FREN 3050 are not eligible to take FREN 2180 for credit.

FREN 2270

This course will consider the Château of Versailles as an index of modern French civilization from its political and aesthetic origins at the court of Louis XIV to the present. The course will examine ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16508 FREN 2270   LEC 001

FREN 2310

This course, designed to follow FREN 2095 (formerly 2190), introduces students to an array of literary and visual material from the French and Francophone world.  It aims to develop students' proficiency ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9281 FREN 2310   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2095 (formerly 2190) or CASE Q+ or permission of instructor.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9282 FREN 2310   SEM 102

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2095 (formerly 2190) or CASE Q+ or permission of instructor.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16510 FREN 2310   SEM 103

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2095 (formerly 2190) or CASE Q+ or permission of instructor.

FREN 2320

This course will introduce students to some of the key cinematic and cultural movements in France in the twentieth century.  From Renoir's masterpiece La Grande Illusion (1937) and its depiction of shifting ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16504 FREN 2320   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2095 (formerly 2190) or CASE Q+, or permission of instructor.

FREN 2860

In the turbulent and violent years from 1789 to 1815, France experienced virtually every form of government known to the modern world. This course explores the rapidly changing political landscape of this ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 2860

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17571 FREN 2860   LEC 001

  • 17572 FREN 2860   DIS 201

  • 17573 FREN 2860   DIS 202

  • 17574 FREN 2860   DIS 203

  • 17575 FREN 2860   DIS 204

  • 17576 FREN 2860   DIS 205

  • 17577 FREN 2860   DIS 206

FREN 3120

Part theory, part textual analysis, and part creative writing, this course aims to help students develop a richer, more nuanced understanding and command of both the spoken and written language.  As students ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6646 FREN 3120   SEM 101

  • Prerequisite: French 2180 (formerly 3010) or 2181 (formerly 3050), or CASE Q++. Students who have taken French 3130 are not eligible to take French 3120 for credit.

FREN 3560

Psychoanalysis considers the human being not as an object of treatment, but as a subject who is called upon to elaborate an unconscious knowledge about what is disrupting her life, through analysis of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16506 FREN 3560   LEC 001

FREN 3590

This interdisciplinary class provides a sound introduction to the rich literature and culture of Haiti, from the late 18th Century-when the island was a French colony called Saint-Domingue- to the contemporary ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16520 FREN 3590   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2310, or CASE Q++.

FREN 3610

Discusses French Impressionist art as the product of nineteenth-century public life. By relating Impressionism to state culture, we trace subversive themes such as criminality, café-concert and brothel ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 3760VISST 3662

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16467 FREN 3610   LEC 001

FREN 3710

The class is an introduction to reading and interpreting women's stories as they are represented, written, at times erased before being recovered in French and Francophone history and cultures. The course ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16523 FREN 3710   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2310 or CASE Q++, or permission of instructor.

FREN 3840

The Second World War and the Occupation of France by German forces had a traumatic impact on the nation's identity.  We will examine the way France has tried to deal with this conflicted period through ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3891

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16524 FREN 3840   SEM 101

FREN 4190

Guided independent study of special topics. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6715 FREN 4190   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Dubreuil, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6716 FREN 4190   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Greenberg, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8021 FREN 4190   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Howie, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8022 FREN 4190   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Long, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8665 FREN 4190   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Vallois, M

FREN 4290

Consult director of undergraduate studies for more information. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6647 FREN 4290   RSC 701

    • TBA
    • Howie, C

  • Year-long course. R grade given at end of the semester and final letter grade at end of the spring. Open to juniors and seniors.

FREN 4367

A detailed exploration of the poetic, dramatic and political writings of the great Martinican poet and statesman in their multifarious contexts, influences and dialogues, including: "Black Paris" of the ... view course details

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  • 17866 FREN 4367   SEM 101

FREN 4540

How does philosophy respond to widespread and continuous disaster? The Wars of Religion in France and throughout Europe offer the context of continual violence, trauma, and social upheaval, and the Essais ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 6540

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16528 FREN 4540   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2180 (formerly 3010), 2181 (formerly 3050) or 2310, or CASE Q++, or permission of instructor.

FREN 4665

How many layers of French history does the highly controversial slogan Je suis Charlie unearth?  Over the last three decades, France has experienced a huge debate on memory that has put into question its ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 6655

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16525 FREN 4665   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2310, or CASE Q++, or permission of instructor.

FREN 4761

Seminar topics rotate each semester. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4761ARTH 6761VISST 4761

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 17343 FREN 4761   SEM 101

FREN 4870

The 19th century has been the century of the novel all over Europe, and especially in France.  This class provides an opportunity to read (in the original) several narrative masterworks.  We will study ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16532 FREN 4870   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2310, or CASE Q++, or permission of instructor.

FREN 6367

A detailed exploration of the poetic, dramatic and political writings of the great Martinican poet and statesman in their multifarious contexts, influences and dialogues, including: "Black Paris" of the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17868 FREN 6367   SEM 101

FREN 6390

Guided independent study for graduate students. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6717 FREN 6390   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Dubreuil, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6718 FREN 6390   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Greenberg, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8023 FREN 6390   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Howie, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8024 FREN 6390   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Long, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8666 FREN 6390   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Vallois, M

FREN 6540

How does philosophy respond to widespread and continuous disaster? The Wars of Religion in France and throughout Europe offer the context of continual violence, trauma, and social upheaval, and the Essais ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 4540

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16527 FREN 6540   SEM 101

FREN 6620

This course brings together two bodies of writing, very close in the space and time of their production, that nonetheless have come to seem very far from one another in their critical and scholarly afterlives.  ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MEDVL 6620

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16529 FREN 6620   SEM 101

FREN 6655

How many layers of French history does the highly controversial slogan Je suis Charlie unearth?  Over the last three decades, France has experienced a huge debate on memory that has put into question its ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 4665

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16530 FREN 6655   SEM 101