French (FREN)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2019-2020.

FREN 1220

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

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5432 FREN 1220   LEC 001

    • M Morrill Hall 106
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Tissot, D

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    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.

  •  5433 FREN 1220   LEC 002

    • M Morrill Hall 106
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Tissot, D

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    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.

  •  5434 FREN 1220   DIS 201

    • TWRF White Hall B02
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Tissot, D

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  5435 FREN 1220   DIS 202

    • TWRF White Hall B02
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Torea, T

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  8170 FREN 1220   DIS 203

    • TWRF White Hall B04
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Tien, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  5436 FREN 1220   DIS 204

    • TWRF Uris Hall 394
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Picheta, A

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  5437 FREN 1220   DIS 205

    • TWRF White Hall B04
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Picheta, A

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  7665 FREN 1220   DIS 206

    • TWRF White Hall B04
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Kwong, K

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FREN 1230

FREN 1230 is an all-skills course designed to improve oral communication, listening comprehension, and reading ability; to establish a groundwork for correct writing; and to provide a substantial grammar ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5414 FREN 1230   SEM 101

    • TWRF Uris Hall 394
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Torea, T

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Prerequisites: FREN 1220 or an LPF score 45-55 or SAT II 490-590. Recommended courses after Fren 1230: FREN 2080 or 2090.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5415 FREN 1230   SEM 102

    • TWRF Uris Hall 394
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Torea, T

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Prerequisites: FREN 1220 or an LPF score 45-55 or SAT II 490-590. Recommended courses after Fren 1230: FREN 2080 or 2090.

FREN 2080

This intermediate conversation and composition French course is designed for students interested in business fields such as Hospitality, Business Management, and Marketing, those looking for an internship ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16378 FREN 2080   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Prerequisites: FREN 1230, LPF score 56-64; SAT II 600-680; AP French language 4 or CASE Q. Students who have taken FREN 2080 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 Stdnt Opt

  •  7878 FREN 2090   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Prerequisites: FREN 1230, LPF score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680; or AP French language 4 or CASE Q. Recommended courses after FREN 2090: FREN 2095. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 2080 for credit.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5417 FREN 2090   SEM 102

    • MWF Lincoln Hall 117
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Gibbs, R

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Prerequisites: FREN 1230, LPF score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680; or AP French language 4 or CASE Q. Recommended courses after FREN 2090: FREN 2095. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 2080 for credit.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5418 FREN 2090   SEM 103

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Prerequisites: FREN 1230, LPF score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680; or AP French language 4 or CASE Q. Recommended courses after FREN 2090: FREN 2095. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 2080 for credit.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5419 FREN 2090   SEM 104

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Prerequisites: FREN 1230, LPF score 56-64, or SAT II 600-680; or AP French language 4 or CASE Q. Recommended courses after FREN 2090: FREN 2095. Students who have taken FREN 2090 are not eligible to take FREN 2080 for credit.

FREN 2095

This advanced-intermediate course is highly recommended for students planning to study abroad as it aims to develop the writing and speaking skills needed to function in a French speaking university ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5421 FREN 2095   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Prerequisites: FREN 2080 or 2090, or CASE Q+. Recommended course after FREN 2095: FREN 2180, FREN 2310 or FREN 2320.

Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5422 FREN 2095   SEM 102

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Prerequisites: FREN 2080 or 2090, or CASE Q+. Recommended course after FREN 2095: FREN 2180, FREN 2310 or FREN 2320.

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

  •  7374 FREN 2310   SEM 101

    • TR White Hall 104
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Finielz, E

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Prerequisites: FREN 2095 or CASE Q++. Recommended courses after FREN 2310: any 3000 level literature or culture course

FREN 2320

This course designed to follow FREN 2095, introduces students to key cinematic techniques used in analysis of films and to major movements in the twentieth century French cinema.  Students will view a ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8771 FREN 2320   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Prerequisites: FREN 2095 or CASE Q++ or permission of instructor. Recommended courses after FREN 2320: any 3000 level literature or culture course

FREN 2600

Some celebrate the Enlightenment for its foundational precepts of liberty, reason, and progress, whereas others criticize it for entrenching exclusionary principles and promoting a totalizing worldview. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17112 FREN 2600   SEM 101

    • MWF McGraw Hall 366
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Schoene, A

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Prerequisites: FREN 2095 or CASE Q++, or permission of instructor. Recommended courses after FREN 2600; any 3000 level literature course

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: Intro to Comparative Politics

  • 19256 FREN 3020   SEM 101

    • T White Hall 106
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Gerzso, T

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Conducted in French. Must be concurrently enrolled in GOVT 1313.

FREN 3160

In this course, both seminar and workshop, students discuss writing about translation, mostly in French, and practice translating from French to English.  The theoretical texts studied represent a variety ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8171 FREN 3160   SEM 101

    • MWF McGraw Hall 145
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Alkire, T

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Prerequisites: FREN 2310

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

  •  7376 FREN 3400   SEM 101

    • TR McGraw Hall 145
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Molinie, M

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Prerequisites: FREN 2310 or CASE Q++, or permission of instructor.

FREN 3660

This course focuses on after life, survival, death, memory narratives, liminal spaces, memorial traces and indigenous memory, by writers and visual artists from the Francophone world presented through ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17847 FREN 3660   SEM 101

    • MWF White Hall 104
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Kherbi, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Prerequisites: FREN 2310 or CASE Q++; or permission of instructor.

FREN 4030

Assia Djebar famously described the Algeria of the 1990s – immersed in the décennie noire's civil war – as a "blank territory" where violence "immured" an entire Nation "in an untranslatability exacerbated ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 6030

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17845 FREN 4030   SEM 101

    • MW Uris Hall 498
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Kherbi, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FREN 4200

Guided independent study of special topics. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5430 FREN 4200   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6628 FREN 4200   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Molinie, M

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

FREN 4225

From 1857 up to 1870, a series of bodily seizures erupted in Morzine, a village in the Alps. They affected first adolescent girls, and then many women and some men. The crisis was attributed successively ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16379 FREN 4225   SEM 101

    • TR White Hall 104
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Molinie, M

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Prerequisites: FREN 2310 or CASE Q++, or 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 Stdnt Opt

  •  5413 FREN 4300   RSC 701

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    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.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8174 FREN 4300   RSC 702

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Molinie, M

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    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
  • 17905 FREN 4350   SEM 101

    • T Uris Hall 494
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Monroe, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Enrollment limited to: 15 students.

FREN 6030

Assia Djebar famously described the Algeria of the 1990s – immersed in the décennie noire's civil war – as a "blank territory" where violence "immured" an entire Nation "in an untranslatability exacerbated ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 4030

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17846 FREN 6030   SEM 101

    • MW Uris Hall 498
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Kherbi, S

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    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

  •  7666 FREN 6300   SEM 101

    • MWF McGraw Hall 145
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Alkire, T

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    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
  • 18171 FREN 6350   SEM 101

    • T Uris Hall 494
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Monroe, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

FREN 6400

Guided independent study for graduate students. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5416 FREN 6400   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Permission of instructor required.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6602 FREN 6400   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Molinie, M

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Permission of instructor required.

FREN 6580

This seminar will offer a critical examination of the literature of perversion (sadism, masochism, fetishism), with readings drawn from major texts of the libertine or S/M traditions (Sade, Sacher-Masoch, ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6784

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17127 FREN 6580   SEM 101

    • T McGraw Hall 365
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • McNulty, T

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Conducted in English.