French Courses

Winter 2024▲

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Elementary French II

FREN 112 - Leva, James R.

Emphasis on listening comprehension and speaking, with gradual introduction of reading and writing.

Elementary French II

FREN 112 - Kamara, Mohamed

Emphasis on listening comprehension and speaking, with gradual introduction of reading and writing.

Intermediate French II

FREN 162 - Roney, Kristina M.

Extensive grammar review with practical application of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in the classroom. The course acquaints students with French life and culture.

Conversation et composition: Cours avancé

FREN 261 - Roney, Kristina M.

Further development of conversational skills and beginning work in free composition, with systematic grammar review and word study in various relevant cultural contexts.

Civilisation et culture françaises: La France d'aujourd'hui

FREN 282 - McCormick, Stephen P.

A study of modern France. This course examines the economic, political, social and intellectual issues which shape contemporary French life. Readings, discussions and papers in French for further development of communication skills.

Séminaire avancé: Les géographies de l'imaginaire: la cartographie et le voyage entre le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance

FREN 397C - McCormick, Stephen P.

This seminar is a sustained and in-depth exploration of medieval and Renaissance cartography and travel. We will explore what it means to draw maps in the Middle Ages and how cartographic contours are shaped more by imagination and ideology than direct observation. We will read a variety of primary sources written in French including books of marvelous beasts and monsters, early travel accounts of Europeans in the Far East, and literary texts that explore lands reachable only through imagination. A primary outcome of this course is to investigate how the medieval cartographic imagination set the stage for colonial expansion, exploitation and inequality along racial lines, and the European justification for global hegemony. Supplementary texts, in the form of critical

Fall 2023▲

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Elementary French I

FREN 111 - Leva, James R.

Emphasis on listening comprehension and speaking, with gradual introduction of reading and writing.

Elementary French I

FREN 111 - Kamara, Mohamed

Emphasis on listening comprehension and speaking, with gradual introduction of reading and writing.

Intermediate French I

FREN 161 - Roney, Kristina M.

Extensive grammar review with acquisition of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in the classroom. The course acquaints students with French life and culture.

Intermediate French I

FREN 161 - Kuettner, Paul R. (Dick)

Extensive grammar review with acquisition of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in the classroom. The course acquaints students with French life and culture.

Advanced Intermediate French

FREN 164 - McCormick, Stephen P.

Emphasis on reading and composition skills, with extensive practice in speaking and listening through class discussion. Some grammar review.

Histoire des idées

FREN 283 - Kamara, Mohamed

This course retraces the evolution of thought in France across centuries through the examination of intellectual, cultural and artistic movements. Readings, discussions and paper in French for further development of communication skills.

Atélier avancé de langue, littérature et culture: French for Business and Journalism

FREN 295A - Roney, Kristina M.

Geared toward acquiring the necessary vocabulary and culture competencies to understand contemporary French and Francophone business culture and quotidian media through readings, film, and an individual simulated job search. Learn how to write a résumé, cover letter, and general business correspondence in French as well as develop job interview skills and strategies. The final product is a complete job candidate portfolio.

La France moderne: Jeunesse, Rébellions, et Nouveaux Langages dans la Littérature et Culture Francophones

FREN 342C - Radulescu, Domnica V.

In this course we will explore the themes of youth, rebellion, anarchy and resistance to societal convention of class, gender, sexual orientation in Francophone literary works across genres, from poetry to theater to prose, to creative fiction and non-fiction about youth, as well as in popular culture both in France and in Francophone countries such as Canada, Belgium, the Maghreb. We will also look at the transformation of the language and the creation of new languages that reflect the new realities of our world and of the youth that are building new worlds in diverse French speaking spaces today

Directed Individual Study: Francophone Environmental Literature

FREN 403B - Radulescu, Domnica V.

Nature and content of course to be determined by students' needs and by instructors acquainted with their earlier preparation and performance.

Directed Individual Study: Regards Sur L' Afrique

FREN 403C - Kamara, Mohamed

For millennia, the continent of Africa and its peoples have been in various forms of contact with the rest of the world. This course focuses on the idea and reality of Africa engendered by that contact. What has Africa and Africans meant to Africans and non-Africans alike? How have these meanings been constructed and re/presented? Through our close reading and discussion of mostly primary sources (including films), we shall try to map out an evolution of ideas and knowledge structures vis-à-vis the continent and its peoples. The vast majority of our sources are in the form of essays and anthropological texts and come from the eighteenth century through the twentieth.

Spring 2023▲

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Spring Term Topics in French Civilization: Exploring European Policy, Business, and Culture

FREN 285A - Roney, Kristina M.

A study of significant aspects of culture and civilization through direct experience abroad in France and/or Francophone countries.