French (FREN)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2018-2019.

FREN 1108

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18043 FREN 1108   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

FREN 1210

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

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

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5862 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.

  •  5863 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.

  •  5864 FREN 1210   DIS 201

  •  5865 FREN 1210   DIS 202

  •  5866 FREN 1210   DIS 203

  •  5867 FREN 1210   DIS 204

  •  5868 FREN 1210   DIS 205

  •  5869 FREN 1210   DIS 206

  •  5870 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

  •  5871 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

  •  5872 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

  •  5873 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

  •  5874 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

  •  6288 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

  •  6289 FREN 2090   SEM 102

  • 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

  •  6290 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

  •  6291 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

  •  6292 FREN 2090   SEM 105

    • MWF Uris Hall 254
    • Rosenstock-Murav, P

  • 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

  • 16153 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.

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

  •  8446 FREN 2091   SEM 101

  • Must be concurrently enrolled in FREN 2060, 2090, or 2095

FREN 2092

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 16152 FREN 2092   SEM 101

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

  •  8377 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

  •  8378 FREN 2095   SEM 102

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

FREN 2180

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8529 FREN 2180   SEM 101

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

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

  •  8067 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

  •  8068 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 3020

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: International Relations

  • 17625 FREN 3020   SEM 101

    • TBA
    • Chia, C

  • Conducted in French. Must be concurrently enrolled in GOVT 1817.

FREN 3240

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16183 FREN 3240   LEC 001

  • Conducted in English

FREN 3350

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16184 FREN 3350   SEM 101

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

FREN 3460

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

  • 16185 FREN 3460   SEM 101

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

FREN 3695

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17648 FREN 3695   SEM 101

  • Conducted in French.

FREN 4190

Guided independent study of special topics. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6351 FREN 4190   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Dubreuil, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6352 FREN 4190   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Greenberg, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7485 FREN 4190   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Long, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7486 FREN 4190   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Traverso, E

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7862 FREN 4190   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Vallois, M

FREN 4230

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 6230

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16186 FREN 4230   LEC 001

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

  •  6298 FREN 4290   RSC 701

    • TBA
    • Dubreuil, L

  • 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.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  9703 FREN 4290   RSC 702

    • TBA
    • Greenberg, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  9704 FREN 4290   RSC 703

    • TBA
    • Long, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  9705 FREN 4290   RSC 704

    • TBA
    • Traverso, E

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  9706 FREN 4290   RSC 705

    • TBA
    • Vallois, M

FREN 4525

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

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  • 16201 FREN 4525   SEM 101

FREN 4540

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

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16188 FREN 4540   SEM 101

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

FREN 4695

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17649 FREN 4695   SEM 101

  • Conducted in French.

FREN 6230

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 4230

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16187 FREN 6230   LEC 001

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

  •  6353 FREN 6390   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Dubreuil, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6354 FREN 6390   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Greenberg, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7487 FREN 6390   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Long, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7488 FREN 6390   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Traverso, E

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7863 FREN 6390   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Vallois, M

FREN 6525

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 16205 FREN 6525   SEM 101

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

  • 16189 FREN 6540   SEM 101

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