French (FREN)Arts and Sciences

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

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

  •  6095 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.

  •  6096 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.

  •  6097 FREN 1220   DIS 201

  •  6098 FREN 1220   DIS 202

  •  6100 FREN 1220   DIS 204

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  •  6101 FREN 1220   DIS 205

  •  9064 FREN 1220   DIS 206

  • 16021 FREN 1220   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

  •  6075 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

  •  6076 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 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

  • 16022 FREN 2090   SEM 101

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6078 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

  •  6079 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

  •  6080 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

  •  6081 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

  •  8270 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

  •  9625 FREN 2091   SEM 101

    • TBA
    • Guimiot, V

  • Must be concurrently enrolled in FREN 2090.

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

  •  6092 FREN 2092   SEM 101

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

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

  •  6082 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

  •  6083 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

  •  7972 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 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

  • 16448 FREN 2180   SEM 101

  • 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.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18552 FREN 2180   SEM 102

  • 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.

FREN 2270

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16024 FREN 2270   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

  •  8545 FREN 2310   SEM 101

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

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8546 FREN 2310   SEM 102

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

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

  • 16023 FREN 2320   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2095 or CASE Q++ or permission of instructor.

FREN 3020

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Intro to Comparative Politics

  • 18625 FREN 3020   SEM 101

  • Students must be concurrently enrolled into GOVT 1313

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

  •  8547 FREN 3400   SEM 101

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

FREN 3770

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MEDVL 3760RELST 3770

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16025 FREN 3770   LEC 001

FREN 3850

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16029 FREN 3850   SEM 101

  • Prerequisites: FREN 2310 or permission of instructor.

FREN 3960

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16034 FREN 3960   SEM 101

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

FREN 4060

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4227COML 6227FREN 6060

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16027 FREN 4060   SEM 101

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

  •  6093 FREN 4200   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Dubreuil, L

  • Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7418 FREN 4200   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Greenberg, M

  • Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7419 FREN 4200   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Howie, C

  • Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7727 FREN 4200   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Long, K

  • Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7728 FREN 4200   IND 605

    • TBA
    • McNulty, T

  • Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9079 FREN 4200   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Molinie, M

  • Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

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

  •  6074 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 4550

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 6550

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 16039 FREN 4550   SEM 101

FREN 6060

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4227COML 6227FREN 4060

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16030 FREN 6060   SEM 001

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

  •  9076 FREN 6300   SEM 101

  • Course limited to graduate students only.

FREN 6320

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6766

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16041 FREN 6320   SEM 101

FREN 6341

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

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Syllabi: none
  • 17211 FREN 6341   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

  •  6077 FREN 6400   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Dubreuil, L

  • Permission of instructor required.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7386 FREN 6400   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Greenberg, M

  • Permission of instructor required.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7387 FREN 6400   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Howie, C

  • Permission of instructor required.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7729 FREN 6400   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Long, K

  • Permission of instructor required.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7730 FREN 6400   IND 605

    • TBA
    • McNulty, T

  • Permission of instructor required.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9077 FREN 6400   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Molinie, M

  • Permission of instructor required.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18639 FREN 6400   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Traverso, E

FREN 6550

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 4550

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 16040 FREN 6550   SEM 101