French (FREN)Arts and Sciences
Showing 25 results.
Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.
Last Updated
- Schedule of Classes - June 18, 2017 7:14PM EDT
- Course Catalog - June 14, 2017 7:15PM EDT
Classes
FREN 1220
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- M Morrill Hall 106
Instructors
Torea, T
-
Additional Information
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.
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- M Morrill Hall 106
Instructors
Torea, T
-
Additional Information
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.
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TWRF White Hall B02
Instructors
Kohlbry, M
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TWRF White Hall B02
Instructors
Thompson, H
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TWRF White Hall 114
Instructors
Rosenstock-Murav, P
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TWRF Uris Hall 394
Instructors
Torea, T
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TWRF Uris Hall 394
Instructors
Glidja, F
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TWRF Uris Hall 394
Instructors
Glidja, F
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.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWRF Uris Hall 394
Instructors
Frost, J
-
Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 1220 or an LPF score 45-55 or SAT II 490-590. Recommended courses after Fren 1230: FREN 2060 or 2090.
Regular Academic Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWRF White Hall B04
Instructors
Glidja, F
-
Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 1220 or an LPF score 45-55 or SAT II 490-590. Recommended courses after Fren 1230: FREN 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.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall G20
Instructors
Jeudy, M
Regular Academic Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWF White Hall B06
Instructors
Karczewski, J
-
Additional Information
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.
Regular Academic Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 164
Instructors
LeBlanc, R
-
Additional Information
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.
Regular Academic Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWF McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Menard, C
-
Additional Information
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.
Regular Academic Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 164
Instructors
LoBello, S
-
Additional Information
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.
Regular Academic Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 162
Instructors
LoBello, S
-
Additional Information
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
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
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.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWF McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Alkire, T
-
Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2060 or 2090 or higher, CASE Q+. This course can not serve to fulfill the language requirement.
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.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWF McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Tissot, D
-
Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2060 or 2090, or CASE Q+. May be taken concurrently with FREN 2310, Recommended course after FREN 2095: FREN 2310.
Regular Academic Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall 260
Instructors
Le Provot, M
-
Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2060 or 2090, or CASE Q+. May be taken concurrently with FREN 2310, Recommended course after FREN 2095: FREN 2310.
Regular Academic Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall 260
Instructors
Le Provot, M
-
Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2060 or 2090, or CASE Q+. May be taken concurrently with FREN 2310, Recommended course 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.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 181
Instructors
Guimiot, V
-
Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2095 or CASE Q++. FREN 2310 may also be taken concurrently with FREN 2180. Students who have taken FREN 2181 are not eligible to take FREN 2180 for credit.
Regular Academic Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TR Klarman Hall KG42
Instructors
Torea, T
-
Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2095 or CASE Q++. FREN 2310 may also be taken concurrently with FREN 2180. Students who have taken FREN 2181 are not eligible to take FREN 2180 for credit.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
FREN 2270
Course Description
This course will consider the Château of Versailles as an index of modern French civilization from its political and aesthetic origins at the court of Louis XIV to the present. The course will examine ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TR Klarman Hall KG42
Instructors
Greenberg, M
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.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall G88
Instructors
Guimiot, V
-
Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2095 (formerly 2190) or CASE Q++.
Regular Academic Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall 204
Instructors
Huelster, N
-
Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2095 (formerly 2190) or CASE Q++.
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.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWF McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Menard, C
-
Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2095 or CASE Q++ or permission of instructor.
FREN 3020
Course Description
No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
-
Section Topic
Topic: Intro to Comparative Politics
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- F White Hall B06
Instructors
Patana, P
-
Additional Information
Students must be concurrently enrolled into GOVT 1313
FREN 3400
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TR McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Molinie, M
-
Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2310 or CASE Q++, or permission of instructor.
FREN 3770
Course Description
Practice makes perfect, the old saying goes, but the nature of that connection remains opaque. This course, conducted in English and intended as a sequel to FREN 3540 - On Paying Attention, gives students ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: MEDVL 3760, RELST 3770
-
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- W Morrill Hall 110
Instructors
Howie, C
-
Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
FREN 3850
Course Description
In the XIX century, both literature and medicine shaped the birth of the idea of the psyche. A new medical discipline like psychiatry (at that time called "alienism") considered the pathologies of the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TR McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Molinie, M
-
Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2310 or permission of instructor.
FREN 3960
Course Description
This course focuses on the dialogues between French and Francophone intellectuals by exploring some of the main philosophical currents and concepts of French 20th-century thought alongside their rereading ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWF McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Tissot, D
-
Additional Information
Prerequisites: FREN 2310, CASE Q++, or permission of instructor.
FREN 4060
Course Description
This interdisciplinary seminar would like to offer new hypotheses on the ways literature is understood and experienced by a reader's mind. Our methodology, while non-reductionist, will take into account ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4227, COML 6227, FREN 6060
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- T McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Dubreuil, L
FREN 4200
Course Description
Guided independent study of special topics. view course details
FREN 4300
Course Description
Consult director of undergraduate studies for more information. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- TBA
Instructors
Howie, C
-
Additional Information
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.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
FREN 4550
Course Description
Why does Rabelais remain in such disrepute? Using Mikhail Bakhtin and Julia Kristeva as our guides, we will examine the embodied nature of his work both as a refusal of religious interpretation of earthly ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 6550
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- R Uris Hall 438
Instructors
Long, K
FREN 6060
Course Description
This interdisciplinary seminar would like to offer new hypotheses on the ways literature is understood and experienced by a reader's mind. Our methodology, while non-reductionist, will take into account ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4227, COML 6227, FREN 4060
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- T McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Dubreuil, L
FREN 6300
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session.
-
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- MWF McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Alkire, T
-
Additional Information
Course limited to graduate students only.
FREN 6320
Course Description
This seminar will explore major works of avant-garde literature from the interwar and immediate postwar periods, with the work of George Bataille and his major collaborators and sometime antagonists (André ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6766
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 124
Instructors
McNulty, T
FREN 6341
Course Description
The rise of cinema and mechanized representational technologies has provided an informative backdrop for a century long reflection on aesthetics and the excesses of affect, sentiment, and corporeality ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6341, ENGL 6341, PMA 6441, VISST 6341
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- M A D White House 201
Instructors
Murray, T
FREN 6400
Course Description
Guided independent study for graduate students. view course details
FREN 6550
Course Description
Why does Rabelais remain in such disrepute? Using Mikhail Bakhtin and Julia Kristeva as our guides, we will examine the embodied nature of his work both as a refusal of religious interpretation of earthly ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 4550
-
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
-
Class Number & Section Details
-
Meeting Pattern
- R Uris Hall 438
Instructors
Long, K