French (FREN)Arts and Sciences

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

FREN 1220

FREN 1210-1220 is a two-semester sequence. FREN 1220 is the second half of the sequence designed to provide a thorough grounding in French language and an introduction to intercultural competence. French ... view course details

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

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5296 FREN 1220   LEC 001

  • Prerequisites: FREN 1210, or SAT II 410-480, or LPF 37-44. At the end of FREN 1220, students who score lower than 56 on the LPF take 1230, those with 56 or higher may enter the 2000-level sequence.

  •  5297 FREN 1220   LEC 002

  • Prerequisites: FREN 1210, or SAT II 410-480, or LPF 37-44. At the end of FREN 1220, students who score lower than 56 on the LPF take 1230, those with 56 or higher may enter the 2000-level sequence.

  •  5298 FREN 1220   DIS 201

  •  5299 FREN 1220   DIS 202

  •  5300 FREN 1220   DIS 203

  •  5301 FREN 1220   DIS 204

  •  5302 FREN 1220   DIS 205

  • 16161 FREN 1220   DIS 206

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

  •  5273 FREN 1230   SEM 101

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5274 FREN 1230   SEM 102

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

FREN 2060

This intermediate language course is designed for students who want to focus on their reading and writing skills. Following the notion of reading in order to write, particular attention is paid to the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16165 FREN 2060   LEC 001

  • Prerequisites: FREN 1230, LPF score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 2090 for credit.

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

  •  5277 FREN 2090   SEM 102

  • Prerequisites: FREN 1230, LPF score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680. Recommended courses after FREN 2090: FREN 2100, 2190, or 2210. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 2060 for credit.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5278 FREN 2090   SEM 103

  • Prerequisites: FREN 1230, LPF score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680. Recommended courses after FREN 2090: FREN 2100, 2190, or 2210. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 2060 for credit.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5279 FREN 2090   SEM 104

  • Prerequisites: FREN 1230, LPF score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680. Recommended courses after FREN 2090: FREN 2100, 2190, or 2210. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 2060 for credit.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5280 FREN 2090   SEM 105

  • Prerequisites: FREN 1230, LPF score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680. Recommended courses after FREN 2090: FREN 2100, 2190, or 2210. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 2060 for credit.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7650 FREN 2090   SEM 106

  • Prerequisites: FREN 1230, LPF score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680. Recommended courses after FREN 2090: FREN 2100, 2190, or 2210. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 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

  • 17211 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

  •  5281 FREN 2095   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2060 or 2090, or CASE Q+. May be taken concurrently with FREN 2310, Recommended course after FREN 2095: FREN 2310.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5282 FREN 2095   SEM 102

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2060 or 2090, or CASE Q+. May be taken concurrently with FREN 2310, Recommended course after FREN 2095: FREN 2310.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7323 FREN 2095   SEM 103

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2060 or 2090, or CASE Q+. May be taken concurrently with FREN 2310, Recommended course after FREN 2095: FREN 2310.

FREN 2100

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

  •  5293 FREN 2100   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2060 or 2090 or higher, CASE Q+. This course can not serve to fulfill the language requirement.

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

  •  8172 FREN 2310   SEM 101

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8173 FREN 2310   SEM 102

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

FREN 3220

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18625 FREN 3220   SEM 101

  • Prerequisite: FREN 2180, FREN 2310, or CASE Q++ placement, or permission of instructor.

FREN 3400

This course is conceived as a critical introduction to a cultural and political debate that appeared in the years of Mitterrand's France and reached its climax in the last decade.  It will focus on a French ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8177 FREN 3400   SEM 101

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

FREN 3530

This course will explore the classical, medieval, and early modern sources for our notions of monsters, including strange beasts, wild men, demons, witches, and cyborgs.  What do these figures tell us ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3530FGSS 3530

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16166 FREN 3530   LEC 001

  • Conducted in English.

FREN 3531

This course will explore the classical, medieval, and early modern sources for our notions of monsters, including strange beasts, wild men, demons, witches, and cyborgs.  What do these figures tell us ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18816 FREN 3531   SEM 101

    • TBA
    • Long, K

FREN 3765

This course traces the exchanges between spectacular entertainments and avant-garde art that shaped late nineteenth-century European visual culture, and gave rise to collective spectatorship transgressing ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 3765VISST 3765

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16390 FREN 3765   LEC 001

FREN 3780

When Jean-Jacques Rousseau introduced the concept of the "general will" in his classic text The Social Contract, he made what was then an unprecedented and scandalous claim: that the people as a whole, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3780GOVT 3786

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16170 FREN 3780   SEM 101

  • Conducted in English.

FREN 4200

Guided independent study of special topics. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5294 FREN 4200   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Dubreuil, L

  • Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6721 FREN 4200   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Greenberg, M

  • Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6722 FREN 4200   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Long, K

  • Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7049 FREN 4200   IND 604

    • TBA
    • McNulty, T

  • Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7050 FREN 4200   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Molinie, M

  • Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16182 FREN 4200   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Vallois, M

  • Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

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

  •  8448 FREN 4290   RSC 701

    • TBA
    • Howie, C

FREN 4300

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5272 FREN 4300   RSC 701

    • TBA
    • Howie, C

  • Year-long course. R grade given at end of the fall semester and final letter grade at end of the spring semester. Open to juniors and seniors. Consult the director of honors program for more information.

FREN 4350

What kinds of poetry might be usefully characterized as "postcolonial" and what are the stakes of such a designation? How common, variable, translatable are values deemed "postcolonial" for particular ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17416 FREN 4350   SEM 101

FREN 4712

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18715 FREN 4712   SEM 101

FREN 4850

In this course, we will consider a range of films that depict the role of women in armed conflict and revolution in North Africa.  We will begin by considering the Algerian War of Independence, and the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 6850

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16175 FREN 4850   SEM 101

FREN 4860

Is Charles Baudelaire's work "modern," "modernist," "anti-" or "post-modern?"  In this seminar, I am trying to show that Baudelaire's poetic and critical writings reflect on the inner exhaustion of modernity, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 6860

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16176 FREN 4860   SEM 101

  • Conducted in French.

FREN 4930

The purpose of this seminar is to explore the realm of "Fantastic" in its multiple dimensions.  Which are its borders?  Which narrative devices does it display in order to create an atmosphere of anxiety, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 6930

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16177 FREN 4930   SEM 101

  • Conducted in French.

FREN 6300

Designed for those with little or no background in French. Aims primarily to develop skill in reading French. Covers grammar basics, extensive vocabulary, and strategies for reading in a foreign language. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16179 FREN 6300   SEM 101

  • Course limited to graduate students only.

FREN 6350

What kinds of poetry might be usefully characterized as "postcolonial" and what are the stakes of such a designation? How common, variable, translatable are values deemed "postcolonial" for particular ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17425 FREN 6350   SEM 101

FREN 6400

Guided independent study for graduate students. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5275 FREN 6400   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Dubreuil, L

  • Permission of instructor required.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6689 FREN 6400   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Greenberg, M

  • Permission of instructor required.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6690 FREN 6400   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Long, K

  • Permission of instructor required.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7051 FREN 6400   IND 604

    • TBA
    • McNulty, T

  • Permission of instructor required.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7052 FREN 6400   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Molinie, M

  • Permission of instructor required.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16180 FREN 6400   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Vallois, M

  • Permission of instructor required.

FREN 6850

In this course, we will consider a range of films that depict the role of women in armed conflict and revolution in North Africa.  We will begin by considering the Algerian War of Independence, and the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 4850

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16181 FREN 6850   SEM 101

FREN 6860

Is Charles Baudelaire's work "modern," "modernist," "anti-" or "post-modern?"  In this seminar, I am trying to show that Baudelaire's poetic and critical writings reflect on the inner exhaustion of modernity, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 4860

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16183 FREN 6860   SEM 101

  • Conducted in French.

FREN 6930

The purpose of this seminar is to explore the realm of "Fantastic" in its multiple dimensions.  Which are its borders?  Which narrative devices does it display in order to create an atmosphere of anxiety, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 4930

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16178 FREN 6930   SEM 101