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3.00 Credits
This course is designed for students who want to understand contemporary events and issues in France. The course includes a review of essential historical events that have shaped modern France, in particular the legacy of the French Revolution, the colonial empire, WWII and the French-Algerian War. These events have shaped all contemporary debates (i.e. the recent law regarding wearing religious symbols in schools, the October 2005 suburb riots, recent immigration laws, and many other topics). The course also studies the place of France in relationship with the United States and the European community. Some units focus on the production of French culture and various intellectual/artistic movements through a variety of up-to-date authentic materials: newspaper articles, films, ATV news, websites. The course is ideal for students planning to spend time in France, for students who want to include the study of France in various disciplines, from a cultural rather than an intermediary-advanced level. Taught in French. Prerequisite: French 204 or equivalent or permission of instructor. (4 credits) Fourth Year Courses
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3.00 Credits
This course category encompasses the study of cultures and literatures from the French-speaking regions and countries outside of France. It includes such courses as: The French-speaking Caribbean islands: Ha ti, Guadeloupe, and Martinique. This course examines the cultural particularities of the region (music, religion, arts, society, economics, history) and studies the historical differences between the three islands as well as their specific relationship to France. Prerequisite: French 306 or permission of the instructor. This course counts towards a minor concentration in Latin American studies. Alternate years. (4 credits) Voix du Nord. This course studies the contemporary political and cultural situation of Belgium and the province of Quebec through their literature. It ties literary texts to their cultural and historical context, especially to the problematics of language and identity as they are expressed through various media. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
Surveys of cultural issues in France. The themes studied include definitions of nation, culture, tradition and modernity and change in social, cultural, aesthetic and intellectual structures as well as immigration and diversity in France. It includes courses such as Literature and Cinema of Immigration in France. Prerequisite: French 306, or permission of instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
This category introduces students to French or Francophone cinema, dealing with history, theory, and condition of production of this media. Prerequisite: a 300 level course or permission of instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) It includes such courses as: West and Equatorial African Cinema. Introduction to the history and socio-economic contexts of African cinema (colonial and post-colonial). The focus is on the rich corpus of films by African directors from Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, Cameroon and Congo, and on theoretical and critical writings about films and authors. Prerequisite: a 300 level course or permission of instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) French cinema. A survey of French cinema from the thirties to the present. The course examines the style and themes in French cinema from Realism to Nouvelle Vague to Post-Modernism. The course is conducted in English with the possibility of receiving credit for a concentration in French if the reading and writing is done in French. Prerequisite for French credit: a 300 level course or permission of instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) North Africa/France: Representations of Both Sides of the Mediterranean Through Cinema. Survey of the historical and soci-economic contexts of North African Cinema (in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia). The course examines representations of the colonial period (with texts, paintings, photographs, and critical material on orientalism and early cinema in the region), the French-Algerian war from various perspectives, and the national/post-colonial film production in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia. The course also includes films by and about North Africans in France. Materials for the course includes films as well as theoretical and critical materials about the regional cinema and film directors. Prerequisites: a 300 level course or permission of instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) French and African Cinema in Dialogue The course is an introduction to the historical relationship between France and Africa from the birth of cinema to today. It is also an introduction to the emergence of cinema as an industry in African countries. Becoming knowledgeable about both industries will help students understand current debates in France about the place of history, of colonialism, immigration, and cultural production of French and African filmmakers such as Jean Rouch, René Vautier, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Ousmane Sembene, Djibril Diop Mambety, , Jean- Pierre Bekolo, Agnès varda and Claire Denis. Connections between their esthetic, political, social, and cultural work will be examined. The coursework includes journal-writing, sequence analysis and several short essays. Prerequisites: when taught in French, a 300 level course or permission of instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
The course studies the arts of France (art, architecture, music and literature) in their historical and intellectual settings. Topics and historical periods studied vary by semester. Prerequisite: a 300 level course or permission of instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) 411 CHALLENGES OF MODERNITY AND LITERATURE (Same as Humanities and Media and Cultural Studies 411) Introduction to the study and the context of French literary and artistic masterpieces from the 12th to the 21st century, with special focus on their ties with contemporary "mentalités" and events. The significance of specifiworks for audiences of their time will be extended to the study of their influence in subsequent centuries, including the 20th/21st. Particular attention will be paid also to our own representation and use of these past centuries in diverse contemporary media, such as films and advertisements. The thematic emphasis of the class, as well as the historical period, may vary by semester. Prerequisite: French 306 or permission of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
This category of courses introduces students to texts (including films) that engage students to focus on questions of identity(national, sexual, racial, and class identity) through the study of literature and film. Prerequisite: French 306 or permission of instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) It includes such courses as: Culture and Identity Through French, African, Caribbean, and North American Cinema Identity, Difference, and Pluralism in Contemporary France Women Writing in French
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3.00 Credits
This category of courses includes courses that prepare students to read textual and/or visual materials through various theoretical lenses. Courses include Feminist French Theory, French Intellectuals in/and the World ( crosslisted with Humanities, Media and Cultural Studies), or courses dealing with particular literary, cultural, or critical theories. Prerequisite: French 306 when courses are offered in French or permission of the instructor. Offered occasionally. (4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
Courses on the novel, theatre, poetry, and short stories, are offered in this category. Courses may be surveys of the development of a genre across the centuries or they may focus on a particular period. A course on 17thcentury French Theatre was last offered in Spring 2003 and a course on French Theatre across the centuries was offered in Fall 2006. Prerequisite: French 306 or permission of the instructor. Offered occasionally. (4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
This course category encompasses the study of literature in various literary periods and/or movements. Such courses alternate every year and include: Seventeenth Century Classicism: Forerunners, Devotees and Deviants This course studies the literature of the 17th century in France. It focuses on the literary diversity of the so-called "classical period." Without neglecting the great works and authors of Classicism, it explores also the libertineand baroque currents of the time and the final questioning of the "classics" at the dawn of the 18th century. Thereading list includes authors such as Descartes, Cyrano de Bergerac, Corneille, Pascal, Molière, Racine, Perrault, etc. In a traditionally all-male French literary culture, it explores also the unique and asserting movement of the "Précieuses" as well as the birth of the French novel through the artistic creativity of women. PrerequisiteFrench 306 or permission of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) Literature and Culture of the Enlightenment This course traces the literary and philosophical works that move France from the age of Versailles to the Revolution and the Terror at the end of the eighteenth century. Topics include the relationship between the individual and society, the rise of print culture and the novel, the philosophes and the salonnières, tolerance, atheism, libertines, the epistolary novel, and the Revolution. Readings include works by Prévost, Rousseau, Laclos, Diderot, Riccoboni, Graffigny, Voltaire, and Marivaux. Prerequisite: French 306 or permission of instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) Nineteenth Century Literature This course examines the prominent literary genres of the century, most importantly the novel, but also poetry and drama. These are studied in conjunction with the cultural and esthetic movements in which they were produced: romanticism, realism, naturalism, symbolism, and decadence. Novelists studied may include Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Sand, Maupassant, Zola, and Huysmans. Poets may include Musset, Vigny, Lamartine, Hugo, Desbordes-Valmore, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud. Playwrights may include Hugo, Musset, Feydeau, and Jarry. Prerequisite: French 306 or permission of instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) Twentieth Century Literature Representative texts and cultural movements from the twentieth century are presented with their cultural background. Topics studied include Surrealism, Existentialism, the nouveau roman, the poetry of Négritude, and the works of major authors (Marcel Proust, André Gide, Jean Anouilh, Colette, Jean-Paul Sartre, Léopold SedarSenghor, Nathalie Sarraute, Jean Genêt, Albert Camus, among others) and contemporary male and female authors from France and French-speaking cultures (Calixthe Beyala, Le la Sebbar, Annie Ernaux, Michel Tournier, Nancy Huston). Prerequisite: French 306 or permission of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
This category of courses includes courses offered by faculty outside the French and Francophone studies department that focus on topics relevant to French Studies. Examples include courses on Literature of Decolonization, European Immigration. It can also include courses taught by faculty in the French and Francophone Studies department on topics relevant to French studies but created primarily for other departments and programs. (4 credits)
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