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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(Letter grades only)
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- M Morrill Hall 106
Instructors
Torea, T
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Additional Information
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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Torea, T
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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 Uris Hall 394
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Le Provot, M
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- TWRF Uris Hall 254
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Kohlbry, M
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- TWRF Uris Hall 394
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Turner, A
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- TWRF Stocking Hall 201
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Rosenstock-Murav, P
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- TWRF White Hall B14
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Thompson, H
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- TWRF Uris Hall 260
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Glidja, F
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- TWRF White Hall B02
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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(Letter grades only)
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- MWRF Fernow Hall G01
Instructors
Glidja, F
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Additional Information
Prerequisite: French 1220 or an LPF score 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(Letter grades only)
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- MWRF Fernow Hall G01
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Glidja, F
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Additional Information
Prerequisite: French 1220 or an LPF score 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(Letter grades only)
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- MWRF Goldwin Smith Hall 160
Instructors
Sieffert, A
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Additional Information
Prerequisite: French 1220 or an LPF score 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(Letter grades only)
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- MWRF Goldwin Smith Hall 160
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Sieffert, A
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Additional Information
Prerequisite: French 1220 or an LPF score 45-55 or SAT II 490-590. Recommended courses after French 1230: French 2060 or 2090.
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(Letter grades only)
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall 260
Instructors
Tissot, D
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Additional Information
Prerequisite: French 1230, LPF Score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680, or AP French language 4, or CASE Q. Recommended courses after French 2090: French 2092, 2095, or 2310. Students who have taken French 2090 are not eligible to take French 2060 for credit.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MWF White Hall B02
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Jeudy, M
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Prerequisite: French 1230, LPF Score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680, or AP French language 4, or CASE Q. Recommended courses after French 2090: French 2092, 2095, or 2310. Students who have taken French 2090 are not eligible to take French 2060 for credit.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MWF White Hall B02
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LeBlanc, R
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Prerequisite: French 1230, LPF Score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680, or AP French language 4, or CASE Q. Recommended courses after French 2090: French 2092, 2095, or 2310. Students who have taken French 2090 are not eligible to take French 2060 for credit.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MWF Bradfield Hall 110
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Karczewski, J
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Prerequisite: French 1230, LPF Score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680, or AP French language 4, or CASE Q. Recommended courses after French 2090: French 2092, 2095, or 2310. Students who have taken French 2090 are not eligible to take French 2060 for credit.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Menard, C
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Additional Information
Prerequisite: French 1230, LPF Score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680, or AP French language 4, or CASE Q. Recommended courses after French 2090: French 2092, 2095, or 2310. Students who have taken French 2090 are not eligible to take French 2060 for credit.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Menard, C
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Additional Information
Prerequisite: French 1230, LPF Score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680, or AP French language 4, or CASE Q. Recommended courses after French 2090: French 2092, 2095, or 2310. Students who have taken French 2090 are not eligible to take French 2060 for credit.
FREN 2091
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 350
Instructors
Guimiot, V
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Additional Information
Must be concurrently enrolled in FREN 2090.
FREN 2095
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(Letter grades only)
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- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 348
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Waldron, C
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2060 or 2090, or CASE Q+. Recommended courses after FREN 2095: FREN 2310.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall G19
Instructors
Guimiot, V
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2060 or 2090, or CASE Q+. Recommended courses after FREN 2095: FREN 2310.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall G19
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Waldron, C
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2060 or 2090, or CASE Q+. Recommended courses after FREN 2095: FREN 2310.
FREN 2180
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 348
Instructors
Waldron, C
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2095 or CASE Q++, FREN 2310 may also be taken concurrently with FREN 2180.
FREN 2280
Course Description
Since roughly the middle of the nineteenth century, it has become important for some of us, in some parts of the world, to identify ourselves according to categories such as gender and sexuality, categories ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 2290, ITAL 2280, LGBT 2290
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW White Hall 110
Instructors
Howie, C
FREN 2310
Course Description
This course, designed to follow FREN 2095, 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(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Vallois, M
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2095 or CASE Q++ or permission of instructor. Recommended courses after FREN 2310; any 3000- level literature, or cultural courses.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MWF McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Schoene, A
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2095 or CASE Q++ or permission of instructor. Recommended courses after FREN 2310; any 3000- level literature, or cultural courses.
FREN 2320
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MWF McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Menard, C
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2095 or CASE Q++. Recommended courses after FREN 2320: any 3000 level literature or culture course.
FREN 2860
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 2860
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Baker Laboratory 135
Instructors
Friedland, P
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- W Uris Hall 260
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Staff
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- W Stimson Hall 105
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Staff
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- T Uris Hall 312
Instructors
Staff
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- W Sibley Hall 318
Instructors
Staff
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- W Rockefeller Hall B16
Instructors
Staff
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FREN 3480
Course Description
The concept of "intellectual" - the writer or scholar who takes a political commitment - was born in France at the end of the nineteenth century. From the Dreyfus Affaire to the recent polemics on French ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR McGraw Hall 215
Instructors
Traverso, E
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2310 or permission of instructor.
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(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Morrill Hall 106
Instructors
Howie, C
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Additional Information
Conducted in English.
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FREN 3560
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: COML 3781, COML 6783, FGSS 3651, FREN 6561, GERST 3561, ROMS 3560, STS 3651
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall 202
Instructors
McNulty, T
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Uris Hall 262
Instructors
McNulty, T
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Additional Information
Must enroll in 1 of the 2 Friday sections.
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Klarman Hall KG42
Instructors
McNulty, T
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Additional Information
Must enroll in 1 of the 2 Friday sections.
FREN 3920
Course Description
The concept of totalitarianism depicts the twentieth century as an age of wars and genocide. Its history, nevertheless, reveals a multiplicity of scholarly and political uses. The aim of this course ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 3920
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Traverso, E
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Additional Information
Conducted in English.
FREN 3950
Course Description
A set of francophone feminist theorists has often been referred to as representative of "French Feminism." These theorists have systematically been a crucial reference in the making of American feminism ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 3950
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 181
Instructors
Tissot, D
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2310 or CASE Q++, or permission of instructor.
FREN 4160
Course Description
In this course we will examine the often convoluted meanings and uses of the "body" in seventeenth-century literature and ideology. From the "glorious body" of the king, the tormented body of possessed ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 6160
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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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
Conducted in French.
FREN 4190
Course Description
Guided independent study of special topics. view course details
FREN 4245
Course Description
This seminar is designed as an introduction to the later work and thought of Michel Foucault. With a focus on the seminars that Foucault gave at the Collège de France from 1976 to 1984, this course will ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 6245, ITAL 4260, ITAL 6260, ROMS 4265, ROMS 6265
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall G20
Instructors
Campbell, T
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Additional Information
Conducted in English.
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 4726
Course Description
Punitive Society examines the phenomena of mass incarceration and the death penalty as represented in philosophy, law, literature and film. We will address the genealogy of punishment, the absence of ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 4726
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Uris Hall 260
Instructors
Rubenstein, D
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Additional Information
Government seniors and juniors given preference. This course fulfills the government senior seminar requirement.
FREN 4745
Course Description
The course will propose a parallel reading of some of the most famous texts of romantic literature with texts less known in order to develop and challenge both the canon of literary history but also to ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Klarman Hall KG42
Instructors
Vallois, M
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Additional Information
Conducted in French
FREN 6160
Course Description
In this course we will examine the often convoluted meanings and uses of the "body" in seventeenth-century literature and ideology. From the "glorious body" of the king, the tormented body of possessed ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 4160
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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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
Conducted in French.
FREN 6245
Course Description
This seminar is designed as an introduction to the later work and thought of Michel Foucault. With a focus on the seminars that Foucault gave at the Collège de France from 1976 to 1984, this course will ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 4245, ITAL 4260, ITAL 6260, ROMS 4265, ROMS 6265
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall G20
Instructors
Campbell, T
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Additional Information
Conducted in English.
FREN 6390
Course Description
Guided independent study for graduate students. view course details
FREN 6521
Course Description
This seminar will offer an historical overview of responses to bodily and cognitive difference. What was the status of the monster, the freak, the abnormal, the (dis)abled, and how are all of these concepts ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Stimson Hall 119
Instructors
Long, K
FREN 6561
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: COML 3781, COML 6783, FGSS 3651, FREN 3560, GERST 3561, ROMS 3560, STS 3651
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall 202
Instructors
McNulty, T
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Additional Information
Instructor will lead a separate discussion section specifically for graduate students.