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1.50 Credits
Boucquey This course aims to intensively upgrade oral and written skills at the advanced level, and is organized around a series of cultural readings as well as current events topics relating to France and the francophone world. Students will be exposed to various discursive modes and stylistic forms. French-language plays, newscasts, television programs, film clips, and websites, as well as newspaper and magazine articles will serve as the subject material for the speaking-and writing- intensive course. Prerequisite: French 44. Offered every spring semester.
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1.50 Credits
Rachlin As France struggles to meet the challenges of both European integration and the globalization of its economy, immigration is today being perceived as a "problem." France's "problem" with immigration cannhowever, be viewed simply as a knee-jerk response to the country's endemic economic crisis. It is rather the symptom of a deeper social, political, and cultural crisis besetting France at the fin-de-siècle: an identity crisis which this course attempts to diagnose. Prerequisite: French 44 or equivalent. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Krauss This course will concentrate on three aspects of the role of women in French film in order to define the relationship between women as icons (larger-thanlife images in the collective fantasy of a certain "Frenchness"), women as subjects, and, finally, womenas creators of film. Appropriate readings in French will be assigned. Prerequisite: French 44 or equivalent. Offered every fall semester.
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1.50 Credits
Aitel, M. Shelton The course will examine contemporary Francophone cultures as expressed in the world of theatre, and the exploration of identity and agency in Francophone postcolonial societies. Authors studied will include today's major French-language dramatists, such as Aiméand Ina Césaire, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Sony Lab'ou Tansi,Bernard Dadié, Alek Baylee, Kateb Yacine, Cheik Aliou N'dao, Michel Tremblay, Antonine Maillet, among others. Prerequisite: French 44 or equivalent. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
M. Shelton This course will examine works by writers and filmmakers from French-speaking countries of Africa and the Caribbean. Special emphasis will be placed on questions of identity, the impact of colonialism, social and cultural values as well as the nature of aesthetic creation. Prerequisite: French 44 or equivalent. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
M. Shelton A study of selected writers from the 18th century to the present who have questioned dominant social values and literary conventions. The literary text will also be examined in the historical and cultural context. Offered every fall semester.
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1.50 Credits
Rachlin Survey of French literature from the medieval age to contemporary fiction as seen through exemplary love stories. The transformation of the traditional love story from Tristan et Iseult and Manon Lescaut, to more transgressive love stories such as Ma Mère by Georges Bataille or Le corps lesbien by Monique Wittig. Explanations of why these love stories are often paradigmatic stories of social integration for the male heroes and stories of social exclusion for the female characters. Authors include Racine, Chateaubriand, Balzac, Flaubert, Yourcenar and Duras. Prerequisite: French 44 or equivalent. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Staff A study of the major trends in the French novel from the 17th century to the present. Particular attention will be given to the social and intellectual factors that influenced the evolution of the tradition of the novel in France. Prerequisite: French 44 or equivalent. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
M Kim. This course examines Korean history, politics, culture, and society through analysis of their representation in contemporary Korean cinema. This course will follow the history of Korea chronologically from Yi Dynasty to the present focusing on the topics such as Confucianism, Colonial period, nationalism, Korean War, national division, military government, and democratic movements. The focus of the class will be equally distributed between the films themselves and the historical time and people captured on these films. Knowledge of Korean is not required. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Boucquey, Haskell This course will examine major plays of the French theatrical canon from a performance perspective. The role of the characters as actors inside their play will be central to our investigation. Textual analysis as well as performance of selected scenes constitute the focus of the course. Prerequisite: French 44 or equivalent. Offered every other year.
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