LANGUAGE ELEMENTARY FRENCH INTERMEDIATE FRENCH FRENCH 111-2 FRENCH 121-2 MTWTh 9:00-9:50AM (Nguyen) MTWTh 9:00-9:50AM MTWTh 10:00-10:50AM (Mohamed) MTWTh 10:00-10:50AM MTWTh 11:00-11:50AM (Passos) MTWTh 11:00-11:50 AM MTWTh 12:00-12:50PM (Tall) MTWTh 12:00-12:50AM MTWTh 1:00-1:50PM (Marciano) MTWTh 1:00-1:50AM (Raymond) (Tasevska) (Cotton) (Cappella) (Derosier) INTENSIVE INTERMEDIATE FRENCH INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY FRENCH FRENCH 115-2 FRENCH 125-3 MTWTh 10:00-10:50AM (Dempster) MTWTh 10:00-10:50AM (Viot-Southard) MTWTh 11:00-11:50AM (Dempster) MTWTh 11:00-11:50AM (Viot-Southard) MTWTh 1:00-1:50PM (Nguyen) MTWTh 2:00-2:50PM (Dempster)
202 WRITING WORKSHOP PROFESSOR SCARAMPI MWF 10-10:50AM This course is designed to develop and improve writing skills through a variety of classroom activities: discussion, writing, editing. Students will learn how to write a college-level analytical paper. Selected grammar points will be discussed in class, and course content will be provided by a novel and two films. Homework will include short writing exercises and compositions as well as the preparation of grammar exercises related to the writing objectives. This course serves as prerequisite for most other 200 and 300-level French classes.
203 ORAL WORKSHOP PROFESSOR PENT MWF 12-12:50PM & 1-1:50PM This course is designed to build fluency in speaking and understanding French. Classes will concentrate on increasing listening comprehension through viewing of videos and films, building vocabulary and idiom use, and enhancing oral communication skills. One group project based on a play.
210 READING LITERATURES IN FRENCH: REVOLT PROFESSOR GARRAWAY TTH 2:00-3:20PM This course introduces students to short literary works in French in three genres-- novels, poetry, and theater, -- that explore the theme of revolt. Against whom or what does one revolt in modern French literature, and toward what ends? Is revolt an exceptional, deviant, or nihilistic reflex or an essential precondition of modern notions of individuality, freedom, commitment, pleasure, social progress, or even authorship? To what extent does literature provide a privileged vehicle for revolt as the exception to the real? We situate our study in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, an era of great social, political, and cultural change. Through readings of short works by authors such as Hugo, Baudelaire, Camus, Duras, and Césaire, we explore the meanings attached to various forms of revolt---socio-political, moral, ethical, irrational, existential, and aesthetic-- while also considering their ambiguities and paradoxes. Taught in French.
211 READING CULTURES IN FRENCH: GETTING MEDIEVAL? LITERATURE, COMICS, AND NATION IN MODERN FRANCE PROFESSOR DEROSIER MWF 10:00-10:50AM This course is an introduction to French culture through an exploration of the facts and fictions behind French nationalism, unity, and identity. How did a nearly-forgotten eleventh-century poem, rediscovered in the nineteenth century, become a standard for French literary, cultural, and ethno-racial identities? This quarter we will explore how medieval literature gets repurposed and reread with the rise of modern nationalism and colonialism. The medieval, we will see, is not only far more present than we imagine, it is perhaps even a product of modernity. If the very framing of the Middle Ages has always been a product of imagined rupture between the past and present, paired with a constant re-writing of the very idea of the Middle Ages, how can we read contemporary depictions of medieval life as a reflection on our national, ethnic, and racial identities? If we approach the Middle Ages less as a space of difference, can that help us analyze our present? Conducted entirely in French, the course is designed to increase students ability to speak, read, and write in French, and improve their aural comprehension.
271 INTRODUCING THE NOVEL PROFESSOR LICOPS MWF 3:00-3:50PM This course will cover novels from the 18th to the 20th century through the study of five novels and novellas. In our discussion of these texts, we will focus on the representations of otherness (through the figure of the stranger or the outsider) and the role of difference, especially in terms of race/ethnicity, class and gender, in shaping the French imaginaire and literary canon. In so doing, we will study examples of several major literary developments in the history of French-language literature, from the philosophical and epistolary novel in the 18th century, to Romanticism, Realism, and the Fantastic in the 19th century, and the roman beur and migrant Québécois literature in the 20th century. We will discuss the differences between these texts, and study how these differences relate to the relation between narrative and changing historical and cultural contexts, as well as to differences in narrative techniques and other literary structures. The course will privilege the analysis of style, form, language, and theme. We will also develop the techniques of close reading and detailed critical analysis through class discussion and presentations, the creative/reflective assignment, the analytical essay, and the final examination.
301 ADVANCED GRAMMAR THROUGH FRENCH MEDIA PROFESSOR VIOT-SOUTHARD MWF 1:00-1:50PM Advanced Grammar Through French Media is designed for students who are interested in news media and journalism. The purpose of this course is to study, understand and practice grammar in context. A variety of authentic documents, from newspapers articles to radio interviews, will illustrate and enliven specific grammar points. French 301 will help students master the finer points of French Grammar while preparing them to communicate competently (in writing and orally) in informal and formal situations.
302 ADVANCED COMPOSITION PROFESSOR REY MWF 12:00-12:50PM This course is designed to develop and improve writing skills through a variety of classroom activities: discussion, writing, editing. Students will learn how to write a college-level analytical paper. Selected grammar points will be discussed in class, and course content will be provided by a novel and two films. Homework will include short writing exercises and compositions as well as the preparation of grammar exercises related to the writing objectives. This course serves as prerequisite for most other 200 and 300-level French classes.
303 ADVANCED CONVERSATION PROFESSOR PENT MWF 3:00-3:50PM The goal of this course is the development of oral proficiency through speech functions, conversational routines and patterns, so as to build confidence in the practice of the French language. In order to achieve this goal, emphasis will be put on extensive examination of French press and French television news, French movies, the reading of a book related to the author studied this quarter, and spontaneous expression through dialogues and discussion, and even debates. Special emphasis will be placed on group work and culturally appropriate usage. The students will participate actively in the choice of the materials.
305 FRENCH PHONETICS PROFESSOR SCARAMPI MWF 1:00-1:50PM This course is designed to help you improve the pronunciation, intonation, and fluency of your spoken French, as well as to give you an overall understanding of the phonetic system of the contemporary French language.
310 THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE OUT OF BOUNDS PROFESSOR DAVIS MWF 2:00-2:50PM This course studies French narratives of travel and discovery, both real and fictional, including the Quest for the Holy Grail, crusade Chronicles, the travels of Marco Polo and early French accounts of colonialism in Brazil and Canada.
TAUGHT IN ENGLISH FRENCH 374 PROUST PROFESSOR DURHAM TTH 11-12:20PM This course will be devoted to an intense engagement with one of the major figures in the history of literature, Marcel Proust, and to his In Search of Lost Time, which remains a crucial text in the development of modern thought. The focus will be on four volumes of the Search: Swann s Way, Within a Budding Grove, Sodom and Gomorrah, and Time Regained. We will explore Proust s reinvention of the novel as a form in relation to a number of Proustian problems and themes: his analyses of desire, perversion and sexuality; his reflections on the nature of time and memory; and his exploration of the relationship of art to life. We will also consider Proust s powers as a satirist and critic of ideology, who mercilessly dismantled the individual and collective illusions of his contemporaries.
384 WOMEN WRITING IN FRENCH PROFESSOR WINSTON TTH 12:30-1:50PM This introduction to women s writing extends from Beauvoir s groundbreaking 1949 essay, Le Deuxième Sexe to the last years of the 20th century and Linda Lê s riveting engagement with a childhood trauma. Central to our concerns are three overlapping forms of feminist thought and writing that emerged in postwar France-- existentialist psychoanalytic and marxist, and their shared view, articulated by Beauvoir, that one is not born a woman, but becomes one. Our questions include: how does a given author conceptualize woman and becoming woman? What are the implications of that process for women s lived existence? How does that understanding of the social construction of gender shape an author s conception of the political potential of writing? In addition to the literary works with which we begin, we will read numerous critical writings related to these concerns by authors including Cixous and Wittig.
397 STUDIES IN LITERARY CULTURE: DEBORD AND THE SITUATIONISTS PROFESSOR WINSTON TTH 3:30-4:50PM This is a course on Guy Debord s analysis of and response to the modern consumer society he saw struggling, already in the 50s and 60s, to extend its culture globally. Debord was deeply concerned with the relations he believed society was installing within human beings, between human beings, and between human beings and things. He was as deeply concerned by the transformations taking place in the cultural sphere, where he believed culture itself, the period s emotional and aesthetic response to the conditions and relations of everyday life, was being appropriated in the service of the emerging consumer society. Debord considered himself at war with society and saw his entire life as a strategy in that war. With others in the group he helped found in 1957, the International Situationists (IS), he developed a radical understanding of the relation between art and culture and of the role intellectuals and artists might play in the cultural revolution he aimed to provoke. Debord was a prolific composer of tracts, articles, reviews, books, memoirs, and films. We focus on him but also read pieces by others in the IS, including Raoul Vaneigem, and René Viénet.