French (FREN)Arts and Sciences
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Classes
FREN 1108
Course Description
No description available. view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3343
Instructors
Long, K
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FREN 1210
Course Description
FREN 1210-FREN 1220 is a two-semester sequence. FREN 1210 is the first half of the sequence designed to provide a thorough grounding in French language and an introduction to intercultural competence. ... 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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Morrill Hall 106
Instructors
Menard, C
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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
Instructors
Menard, C
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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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- TWRF Uris Hall 394
Instructors
Blake, K
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- TWRF Goldwin Smith Hall 122
Instructors
Caswell, P
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- TWRF Uris Hall 394
Instructors
Gibbs, R
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- TWRF McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Kwong, K
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- TWRF Uris Hall 394
Instructors
Menard, C
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- TWRF Uris Hall 204
Instructors
Le, V
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- TWRF Uris Hall 394
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Zappa, J
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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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWRF Uris Hall 260
Instructors
Greer, B
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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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWRF White Hall B04
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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWRF White Hall 114
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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWRF White Hall 114
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.
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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Lincoln Hall 107
Instructors
Torea, T
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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 Lincoln Hall 107
Instructors
Torea, T
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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 Lincoln Hall B08
Instructors
Legendre, L
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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 Uris Hall G88
Instructors
Hughes, H
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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 Uris Hall 254
Instructors
Rosenstock-Murav, P
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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 McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Finielz, E
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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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Hall 260
Instructors
Finielz, E
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Additional Information
Must be concurrently enrolled in FREN 2060, 2090, or 2095
FREN 2092
Course Description
Reducing your foreign accent improves your ability to communicate in two ways: learning to distinguish and to produce clearly the full inventory of sounds in French increases both your ability to understand ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 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
Alkire, T
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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 348
Instructors
Tabeling, B
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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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Tabeling, B
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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
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(Letter grades only)
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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
Prerequisites: FREN 2095 or CASE Q++, FREN 2310 may also be taken concurrently with FREN 2180.
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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Tabeling, B
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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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Pasquer Brochard, R
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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 3020
Course Description
This 1-credit optional course aims to expand the students' vocabulary, and advance their speaking and reading skills as well as enhance their knowledge and deepen their cultural understanding by supplementing ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
FREN 3240
Course Description
This course will survey the great classics of France (Literature, Art, Architecture) from the Middle-Ages to Modernity. We will read such texts as "The Song of Roland," Montaigne's "Essays" plays be Moliere ... 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 Goldwin Smith Hall 162
Instructors
Greenberg, M
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Additional Information
Conducted in English
FREN 3350
Course Description
In addition to considering formal questions relating to the development of the novel in French, this course examines problems such as the appearance of narrative and historical consciousness, the representation ... 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 145
Instructors
Vallois, M
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2310, or CASE Q++, or permission of instructor.
FREN 3460
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 Uris Hall 302
Instructors
Traverso, E
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2310 or CASE Q++, or permission of instructor.
FREN 3695
Course Description
This course proposes the study of the black African in Western literature and painting from the ancient world to the present. We will concentrate on the major representations of what has been perceived ... 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
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 350
Instructors
Mangeon, A
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Additional Information
Conducted in French.
FREN 4190
Course Description
Guided independent study of special topics. view course details
FREN 4230
Course Description
This course proposes the analysis of the sexual politics of some canonical and less canonical French fictions of the revolutionary period (1789-1848). We will read them in the larger context of the new ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 6230
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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 McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Vallois, M
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 4525
Course Description
Communism merged multiple theories, events and experiences. It's complexity does not lie exclusively in the discrepancies that separate the communist idea from its historical embodiments; it lies in the ... view course details
FREN 4540
Course Description
The Wars of Religion in France and throughout Europe offer the context of continual violence, trauma, and social upheaval, and the Essais of Michel de Montaigne respond to this context by elaborating a ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 6540
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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 Uris Hall 394
Instructors
Long, K
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2310, or CASE Q++, or permission of instructor.
FREN 4695
Course Description
This class will study the major literary texts that deal with the slave trade and with the realities of slavery from the beginnings of the slave trade to its abolition and up to contemporary ... 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
- MWF Caldwell Hall 250
Instructors
Mangeon, A
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Additional Information
Conducted in French.
FREN 6230
Course Description
This course proposes the analysis of the sexual politics of some canonical and less canonical French fictions of the revolutionary period (1789-1848). We will read them in the larger context of the new ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 4230
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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 McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Vallois, M
FREN 6390
Course Description
Guided independent study for graduate students. view course details
FREN 6525
Course Description
Communism merged multiple theories, events and experiences. It's complexity does not lie exclusively in the discrepancies that separate the communist idea from its historical embodiments; it lies in the ... view course details
FREN 6540
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 4540
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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 Uris Hall 394
Instructors
Long, K
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Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2310, or CASE Q++, or permission of instructor.