French (FREN)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

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

  •  6134 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.

  •  6135 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.

  •  6136 FREN 1210   DIS 201

  •  6137 FREN 1210   DIS 202

  •  6138 FREN 1210   DIS 203

  •  6139 FREN 1210   DIS 204

  •  6140 FREN 1210   DIS 205

  •  6141 FREN 1210   DIS 206

  •  6142 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

  •  6143 FREN 1230   SEM 101

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6144 FREN 1230   SEM 102

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6145 FREN 1230   SEM 103

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6146 FREN 1230   SEM 104

  • 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

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

  •  6591 FREN 2090   SEM 101

  • 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.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6593 FREN 2090   SEM 103

  • 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.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6594 FREN 2090   SEM 104

  • 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.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6595 FREN 2090   SEM 105

  • 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.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6596 FREN 2090   SEM 106

  • 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.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16948 FREN 2090   SEM 107

  • 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

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

  •  9616 FREN 2091   SEM 101

  • 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

  •  9297 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

  •  9298 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

  •  9299 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

  • 10035 FREN 2180   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2095 or CASE Q++, FREN 2310 may also be taken concurrently with FREN 2180.

FREN 2280

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 2290ITAL 2280LGBT 2290

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16615 FREN 2280   LEC 001

FREN 2310

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8732 FREN 2310   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2095 or CASE Q++ or permission of instructor. Recommended courses after FREN 2310; any 3000- level literature, or cultural courses.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8733 FREN 2310   SEM 102

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2095 or CASE Q++ or permission of instructor. Recommended courses after FREN 2310; any 3000- level literature, or cultural courses.

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

  • 16958 FREN 2320   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2095 or CASE Q++. Recommended courses after FREN 2320: any 3000 level literature or culture course.

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

  •  9775 FREN 2860   LEC 001

  •  9776 FREN 2860   DIS 201

  •  9777 FREN 2860   DIS 202

  •  9778 FREN 2860   DIS 203

  •  9779 FREN 2860   DIS 204

  •  9780 FREN 2860   DIS 205

FREN 3480

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16400 FREN 3480   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2310 or permission of instructor.

FREN 3540

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: RELST 3540

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16401 FREN 3540   SEM 101

  • Conducted in English.

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
  •  9303 FREN 3560   LEC 001

  • 16949 FREN 3560   DIS 201

  • Must enroll in 1 of the 2 Friday sections.

  • 16950 FREN 3560   DIS 202

  • Must enroll in 1 of the 2 Friday sections.

FREN 3920

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 3920

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16442 FREN 3920   SEM 101

  • Conducted in English.

FREN 3950

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 3950

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16424 FREN 3950   LEC 001

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

FREN 4160

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 6160

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16426 FREN 4160   LEC 001

  • Conducted in French.

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

  •  6664 FREN 4190   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Greenberg, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6665 FREN 4190   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Howie, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7918 FREN 4190   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Long, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7919 FREN 4190   IND 604

    • TBA
    • McNulty, T

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8417 FREN 4190   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Traverso, E

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16428 FREN 4190   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Vallois, M

FREN 4245

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 16432 FREN 4245   LEC 001

  • Conducted in English.

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

  •  6603 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 4726

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 4726

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17308 FREN 4726   SEM 101

  • Government seniors and juniors given preference. This course fulfills the government senior seminar requirement.

FREN 4745

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16671 FREN 4745   SEM 101

  • Conducted in French

FREN 6160

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 4160

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16427 FREN 6160   LEC 001

  • Conducted in French.

FREN 6245

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 16496 FREN 6245   LEC 001

  • Conducted in English.

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

  •  6666 FREN 6390   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Greenberg, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6667 FREN 6390   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Howie, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7920 FREN 6390   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Long, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7921 FREN 6390   IND 604

    • TBA
    • McNulty, T

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8418 FREN 6390   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Traverso, E

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16437 FREN 6390   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Vallois, M

FREN 6521

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18314 FREN 6521   LEC 001

FREN 6561

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
  • 17521 FREN 6561   LEC 001

  • Instructor will lead a separate discussion section specifically for graduate students.

  • 17527 FREN 6561   DIS 201