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3.00 Credits
Explores the complex and evolving cultural and historical contexts of medieval and Renaissance French. Introduces the masterpieces of French medieval and Renaissance literature, including the Chanson de Roland and Arthurian romance. Also focuses on the work of Marie de France, Guillaume de Lorris, and Jean de Meun, Christine de Pisan, Machaut, Villon, Louise Labe, and the poets of the Pliade, Rabelais, and Montaigne.
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3.00 Credits
Readings of plays by Corneille, Moliere, and Racine introduce students to theatre's role as a mirror of the multifarious tensions shaping modern Western experience. Taught in English with English translations. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts.
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3.00 Credits
Close readings of farces and comedies of Moliere in context with selected comedies by Corneille, Rotrou, and Cyrano de Bergerac and selected satires by Boileau and La Fontaine. Themes include comedy as a form of social criticism and the sociocultural significance of such episodes of Moliere's career as the scandalous quarrels of L'Ecole des Femmes and Tartuffe.
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Studies fiction, essays, theatre, and philosophical tales. Emphasizes the Enlightenment in France through the texts of its major representatives: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Marivaux, Diderot, and Rousseau. Prereqs., FREN 3100, 3110, and 3120, or instructor consent.
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3.00 Credits
Close readings of texts by Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Marivaux, and Beaumarchais. Focuses on the evolution of literary genres and the influence of philosophy, politics, and social change on belles lettres.
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Examines fiction, poetry, and theatre in 19th century France. Focuses on developing and changing literary styles and subject matter throughout the century in historical, philosophical, and social context.
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Close readings of plays from the turn of the century to the contemporary period introduce the principal themes and techniques of modernist and postmodernist French theatre. Students are encouraged to consider problems commonly evoked by these texts, and to compare the positions that each text takes on such problems as the status and uses of language, the function and limits of the theatre, and the dialectic of appearance and reality.
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3.00 Credits
Close readings of novels from the 1930s to the contemporary period introduce the principal themes and techniques of the modernist and postmodernist French novel. Students are encouraged to analyze a variety of questions commonly evoked in these texts, such as the problem of representation, the uses and abuses of writing, the relation of fiction and history, and the status of the subject in the world.
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Covers various topics in the French and some other Francophone cinemas (Belgian, Swiss, Quebecois) from 1895 to the present. Focuses on periods, schools, themes, and directors from Melies to Duras, and the critical approaches by which they are studied. Varies from year to year. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours on different topics. Prereqs., junior standing and 6 hours in French literature, other literature, or film studies.
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3.00 Credits
Presents current methodology and techniques for teaching foreign language for proficiency. Areas of study include ACTFL guidelines, National Standards, assessment, classroom activities, curriculum, and syllabus design. Prereqs., FREN 3100, 3110 or 3120, an additional course above FREN 3060, and admission to the teacher certification program or instructor consent. Restricted to juniors/seniors.
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