French (FREN)Arts and Sciences
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    FREN 1220
    
        
  
 
  Course Description
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
- Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. 
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                Credits and Grading Basis4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades) 
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        Meeting Pattern- M Morrill Hall 106
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Tissot, D 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction 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. 
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        Meeting Pattern- M Morrill Hall 106
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Tissot, D 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction 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. 
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        Meeting Pattern- TWRF White Hall B02
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Tissot, D 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person 
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        Meeting Pattern- TWRF White Hall B02
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Torea, T 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person 
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        Meeting Pattern- TWRF White Hall B04
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Tien, S 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person 
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        Meeting Pattern- TWRF Uris Hall 394
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Picheta, A 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person 
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        Meeting Pattern- TWRF White Hall B04
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Picheta, A 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person 
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        Meeting Pattern- TWRF White Hall B04
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Kwong, K 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person 
    
    FREN 1230
    
        
  
 
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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
- Regular Academic Session. 
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                Credits and Grading Basis4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades) 
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        Meeting Pattern- TWRF Uris Hall 394
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Torea, T 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction 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. 
- Regular Academic Session. 
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        Meeting Pattern- TWRF Uris Hall 394
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Torea, T 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction 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
    
        
  
 
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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
- Regular Academic Session. 
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                Credits and Grading Basis4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades) 
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        Meeting Pattern- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 181
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Glidja, F 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction 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
    
        
  
 
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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. 
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        Meeting Pattern- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall G20
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Caswell, P 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction 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. 
- Regular Academic Session. 
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        Meeting Pattern- MWF Lincoln Hall 117
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Gibbs, R 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction 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. 
- Regular Academic Session. 
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        Meeting Pattern- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 181
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Glidja, F 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction 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. 
- Regular Academic Session. 
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        Meeting Pattern- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 181
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Glidja, F 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction 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
    
        
  
 
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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
- Regular Academic Session. 
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        Meeting Pattern- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 158
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Menard, C 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction 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. 
- Regular Academic Session. 
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        Meeting Pattern- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 158
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Menard, C 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction 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
    
        
  
 
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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. 
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        Meeting Pattern- TR White Hall 104
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Finielz, E 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction 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
    
        
  
 
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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
- Regular Academic Session. 
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        Meeting Pattern- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 158
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Menard, C 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction 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
    
        
  
 
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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
- Regular Academic Session. 
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        Meeting Pattern- MWF McGraw Hall 366
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Schoene, A 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction 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
    
        
  
 
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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
- Regular Academic Session. 
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                Credits and Grading Basis1 Credit Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades) 
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    Section TopicTopic: Intro to Comparative Politics 
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        Meeting Pattern- T White Hall 106
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Gerzso, T 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person Conducted in French. Must be concurrently enrolled in GOVT 1313. Instructor Consent Required (Add) 
    
    FREN 3160
    
        
  
 
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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
- Regular Academic Session. 
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        Meeting Pattern- MWF McGraw Hall 145
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Alkire, T 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person Prerequisites: FREN 2310 
    
    FREN 3400
    
        
  
 
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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. 
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        Meeting Pattern- TR McGraw Hall 145
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Molinie, M 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person Prerequisites: FREN 2310 or CASE Q++, or permission of instructor. 
    
    FREN 3660
    
        
  
 
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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
- Regular Academic Session. 
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        Meeting Pattern- MWF White Hall 104
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Kherbi, S 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person Prerequisites: FREN 2310 or CASE Q++; or permission of instructor. 
    
    FREN 4030
    
        
  
 
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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
- Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 6030 
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        Meeting Pattern- MW Uris Hall 498
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Kherbi, S 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person 
    
    FREN 4200
    
        
  
 
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Guided independent study of special topics. view course details
- Regular Academic Session. 
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                Credits and Grading Basis2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades) 
- Regular Academic Session. 
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                Credits and Grading Basis2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades) 
    
    FREN 4225
    
        
  
 
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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
- Regular Academic Session. 
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                Credits and Grading Basis4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades) 
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        Meeting Pattern- TR White Hall 104
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Molinie, M 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person Prerequisites: FREN 2310 or CASE Q++, or permission of instructor. 
    
    FREN 4300
    
        
  
 
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Consult director of undergraduate studies for more information. view course details
- Regular Academic Session. 
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                Credits and Grading Basis4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades) 
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- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- McNulty, T 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction 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. Instructor Consent Required (Add) 
- Regular Academic Session. 
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                Credits and Grading Basis4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades) 
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        Meeting Pattern
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Molinie, M 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction 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. Instructor Consent Required (Add) 
    
    FREN 4350
    
        
  
 
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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
- Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4290, COML 6350, ENGL 4981, ENGL 6850, FREN 6350, SPAN 4350, SPAN 6350 
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                Credits and Grading Basis4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades) 
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        Meeting Pattern- T Uris Hall 494
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Monroe, J 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person Enrollment limited to: 15 students. 
    
    FREN 6030
    
        
  
 
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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
- Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 4030 
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                Credits and Grading Basis4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades) 
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        Class Number & Section Details
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        Meeting Pattern- MW Uris Hall 498
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Kherbi, S 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person Conducted in French. 
    
    FREN 6300
    
        
  
 
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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. 
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                Credits and Grading Basis3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades) 
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        Meeting Pattern- MWF McGraw Hall 145
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Alkire, T 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person Course limited to graduate students only. 
    
    FREN 6350
    
        
  
 
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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
- Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4290, COML 6350, ENGL 4981, ENGL 6850, FREN 4350, SPAN 4350, SPAN 6350 
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                Credits and Grading Basis4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades) 
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        Meeting Pattern- T Uris Hall 494
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- Monroe, J 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person 
    
    FREN 6400
    
        
  
 
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Guided independent study for graduate students. view course details
- Regular Academic Session. 
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                Credits and Grading Basis2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades) 
- Regular Academic Session. 
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    FREN 6580
    
        
  
 
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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
- Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6784 
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                Credits and Grading Basis4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades) 
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        Meeting Pattern- T McGraw Hall 365
- Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
- Instructors- McNulty, T 
 
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    Additional InformationInstruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person Conducted in English. 
