Courses - Fall 2023
FREN103
Intensive Elementary French
Credits:
4
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Must have appropriate World Language Placement Test (WLPT) score.
Restriction: Must not have completed FREN102; and must not be a native/fluent speaker of French.
Credit only granted for: FREN102 or FREN103.
Covers speaking, reading, writing, listening, and culture of French-speaking world.
FREN203
Intensive Intermediate French
Credits:
4
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: FREN103; or must have appropriate Foreign Language Placement Test (FLPT) score.
Restriction: Must not be a native/fluent speaker of French.
Credit only granted for: FREN201 or FREN203.
Covers speaking, reading, writing, listening, and culture of French-speaking world.
FREN204
French Grammar and Composition
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: FREN201 or FREN203; or must have appropriate World Language Placement Test (WLPT) score.
Restriction: Not open to native/fluent speakers of French.
Intensive study of French grammar and composition.
FREN250
Introduction to Cultural and Textual Analysis
Prerequisite: FREN204; or students who have taken courses with comparable content may contact the department.
Restriction: Must not be a native/fluent speaker of French.
Credit only granted for: FREN250 or FREN250H.
Introduction to cultural and textual analysis of selected readings from various genres in French literature. Taught in French.
Jointly offered with FREN 250H.
FREN250H
Introduction to Cultural and Textual Analysis
Prerequisite: FREN204; or students who have taken courses with comparable content may contact the department.
Restriction: Must not be a native/fluent speaker of French.
Credit only granted for: FREN250 or FREN250H.
Introduction to cultural and textual analysis of selected readings from various genres in French literature. Taught in French.
For general honors students only. Jointly offered with FREN 250.
FREN301
Composition and Style
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: FREN250; or students who have taken courses with comparable content may contact the department.
Restriction: Must not be a native/fluent speaker of French.
Grammatical analysis, elements of style; range of written genres.
FREN302
Introduction to Translation
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: FREN301; or students who have taken courses with comparable content may contact the department.
Hands-on practice in translation to include a variety of formats and texts (for example, advertising, legal, technical, literary, journalistic, media...) into French and/or English. Includes an extensive overview of translation techniques, theories and approaches. Taught mainly in French.
FREN312
France Today
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: FREN301; or students who have taken courses with comparable content may contact the department.
Restriction: Must not be a native/fluent speaker of French.
Analysis and discussion of current events and institutions using various French media resources.
FREN351
From Romanticism to the Age of Modernism and Beyond
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: FREN301; or students who have taken courses with comparable content may contact the department.
A survey of the chief authors and major movements of French literature from Pre-Romanticism to the present.
Jointly offered with FREN 351H.
FREN351H
From Romanticism to the Age of Modernism and Beyond
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: FREN301; or students who have taken courses with comparable content may contact the department.
A survey of the chief authors and major movements of French literature from Pre-Romanticism to the present.
Cross-listed with FREN351.
FREN386
Experiential Learning
Credits:
3 - 6
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Prerequisite: Permission of ARHU-School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures department.
Restriction: Junior standing or higher.
FREN387
Critical Writing on France and the French-Speaking World
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: FREN301.
Restriction: Not open to Native speakers.
Intensive writing course based on focused study of issues and concerns drawn from French and Francophone literatures, films, and cultures. Elements of style, review of grammar. Taught in French.
Paris: Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy.
FREN399
Directed Study in French
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg
Supervised work under professor of student's choice with permission of instructor. Contact department for details.
FREN423
Women and French Cinema
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with: CINE423.
Credit only granted for: FREN423, CINE423 or FILM423.
Formerly: FILM423.
Cultural identity, social boundaries and gender roles in French film as well as introduction to film textual analysis and diverse film theories (semiotics, film and psychoanalysis, feminist film theory, structuralism, narratology, spectatorship and cultural studies). Taught in French.
FREN495H
Honors Thesis Research
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Restriction: Must be admitted to the departmental honors program.
The writing of a paper under the direction of a professor in this department and an oral examination. Required to fulfill the departmental honors requirement.
FREN499M
Special Topics in French Studies; Borders, Exile, and War in the Mashrek: Representations in Literature, Film, and Media of the Francophone Middle East
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with ARAB499F. Credit only granted for FREN499M or ARAB499F.
Explores selected films and francophone texts in translation from various genres (plays, essays, novels, poetry) with a focus on the concepts of borders, exile, and war from and on the Middle East. Taught in English.
Explores selected films and francophone texts in translation from various genres (plays, essays, novels, poetry) with a focus on the concepts of borders, exile, and war from and on the Middle East. Taught in English.
FREN649A
Special Topic in Eighteenth Century French Literature; Science and Fiction in the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Approach to the French Enlightenment
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Explores selected texts from various genres (plays, essays, novels, poetry) with a focus on the emerging environmental crisis. Students will review the major theoreticians of the French Environmental Humanities while examining how 18th-century science, fictions, and sci-fi imagined new relationships between humans and non-humans.
FREN699O
Seminar; A Literary History of Algeria: 1900-2000
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
FREN709
College Teaching of French
Credits:
1
Grad Meth:
S-F
Restricted to FRIT and FRMS graduate students unless permission granted by instructor.
FREN798
Master's Independent Study
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
FREN799
Master's Thesis Research
Credits:
1 - 6
Grad Meth:
S-F
FREN889
Doctoral Independent Study
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
FREN898
Pre-Candidacy Research
Credits:
1 - 8
Grad Meth:
Reg
FREN899
Doctoral Dissertation Research
Credits:
6
Grad Meth:
S-F
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