The Courses

(All courses carry 3 or 4 credits unless otherwise noted. Staffing logistics may necessitate the omission of some of the following courses and the addition of others.)

Note on Elementary and Intermediate French: No more than six credits may be earned for any combination of courses at the Elementary level (FRENCHST 110 through 126). Students wishing to study French and who have completed three years of a sequence in this language in Grades 9 through 12 will be placed in FRENCHST 230. Students who meet the above criterion may not normally take FRENCHST 110, 120, or 126 for credit, and must arrange to meet with the department advisor if they wish to do so. Students who believe their abilities warrant credit at a higher level (placement in 240 or above) may establish this by taking a placement exam.

110 Elementary French I

120 Elementary French II

126 Intensive Elementary French 6 cr

230 Intermediate French I

Please note that there are four different tracks at the Fourth Semester level. Each track emphasizes different skills: 240 is a Four Skills course designed for students planning to continue beyond the fourth semester level and perhaps major or minor in French. 244-249 offer readings in different fields. 246 is the 6-credit intensive course. Any 240-level course will fulfill the foreign language requirement of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts.

240 Intermediate French II

244 Intermediate French: Fiction

246 Intensive Intermediate French 6 cr

247 Intermediate French: Social Sciences

248 Intermediate French: Math and Science

250 Language and Literature

260 Phonetics and Phonemics

272 Conversation

273 Advanced Conversation

280 Love and Sex in French Culture (AL) 4 cr

285 Language Suite Conversation
(both sem) 2 cr with additional 1-cr Honors option

290B Knights and Narratives: Medieval French Literature in Translation (AL)

297A Rethinking the Americas

303 Writing on Language

325 Great Works Theater Essays (Taught in Paris)

345 Introduction to Medieval Studies (I)

350 French Film (AT) 4 cr

353 Francophone African and Caribbean Film (ATG) 4 cr

371 Advanced Grammar

384 Themes in French Intellectual and Literary History

386 French Civilization: Origins to 1945 (HS)

387 Contemporary France

388 Francophone Civilization Outside of France

389 Québec Civilization

397P Introduction to Critical and Textual Analysis

401 Literary Movements I

402 Literary Movements II

409 Women in Modern French Society: The Novelist and Her Fictions

411 Introduction to Medieval French Literature

424 Renaissance Prose (AL)

433 French Classicism 1660-1700

441 French Enlightenment

444 18th Century Theater and Novel

455 19th Century Novel

456 Fictions of the Grail in Literature and Film (AL)

465 20th Century Novel

467 20th Century Poetry

469 20th Century Theater

473 Advanced Composition

474 Translation

475 Business French

481 Techniques of Consecutive Interpretation (2nd sem)

482 Techniques of Simultaneous Interpretation (1st sem)

491A Auteur and Film Theory

494SI Senior Seminar

497F French Women Writers

497G Global Markets, Global Culture

497S 17th Century Tragic and Comic Theater

497T Intensive Grammar and Composition (2nd sem) 6 cr

497V Women Writers of Francophone Africa and the Caribbean

511 Introduction to Medieval French Studies

564 Literature of Africa and the Caribbean

572 Basic Methods of Teaching Language (1st sem)

573 Advanced Methods of Teaching Language (2nd sem)

584 French Canadian Literature

590I L’esprit du 17ième siècle

590R Renaissance Lyric: Petrarchan Poetry in Italy and France

597A The Colonial Other

597B Paris in the American Experience