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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
This course explores different types of visual encounters during the 17th century, by considering Early Modern experiences and ways of meeting and seeing others, works of art, spaces. Readings include tragic drama (Hardy, Corneille, Racine), comical histories (Cyrano de Bergerac), galant novels (Madame de Lafayette), treaties of civility, pictorial theory (Le Brun, De Piles), travel literature as well as historical and theoretical texts on the gaze and social behavior (Foucault, Marin, Sontag, Mondzain, Goffman).
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on the preparation of a student-led production of L'Illusion comique, a French play of the 17th century, and concludes with a performance in French at the end of the semester. To react to the challenges we will face in staging L'Illusion comique, we will examine the diversity of performance theories and practices in the 17th century through the close readings of a given set of plays (Racine, Moliere, Rotrou, Tristan l'Hermitte), as well as the main trends in the contemporary staging of classical plays, through video versions of recent performances.
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4.00 Credits
The vampire took on a prominent and lasting iconic form -- ironically, as the ever metamorphosing Dracula -- in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel. But the vampire began its sweep through French literature well before its fin-de-siecle apotheosis in Britain. We'll ponder the aesthetic and political uses of the nineteenth-century vampire as it corresponds to cultural fears and desires, as it figures in Baudelaire, Nodier, Balzac, Gautier, Maupassant, Rachilde, Stoker, Coppola, and theory.
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4.00 Credits
As we read nineteenth-century French texts (e.g.: Balzac, Tristan, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Zola, Rachilde, David-Neel), we'll focus on the figure of the flaneur (strolling observer) and the power of his gaze to construct Realism and cultivate Naturalism. Correlatively, as we read the flaneur, we'll look for the absent or invisible flaneuse, and the even more elusive fugueuse (runaway woman). Writing assignments will include both critical essays and creative writing in the mode of what we read.
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4.00 Credits
Examines how geographies or cultural landscapes are shaped, represented, and symbolized through various contemporary artistic media (literature, cinema, theater) and various tropes (the modern city, the feminine and hybrid body, the island, home, displacement, and memory). Explores where the postcolonial world and artistic expression meet to give new meaning to the notion of imaginary. Works by L. Trouillot, Gary Victor, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Fanta Regina Nacro, Daniel Boukman, Ananda Devi, Schwarz-Bart, others.
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4.00 Credits
Through works of prominent Francophone authors from various origins who discuss their own comprehension - fictionalized, poetic or autobiographic - of being French and/or African, Cuban, Eastern European, etc., we explore the plural foundations of contemporary France and the question of French cultural, national or social identity to examine, question, deconstruct issues namely of territoriality, boundaries, nomadism, exile, ethnicity, citizenship, notions of Republic, national or continental sentiment.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the multifaceted and polyphonic presence on the literary landscape of French expression, of women writers from North Africa, Egypt and Lebanon, whose writings are a continued dialogue between feminist and gender theory, western feminine literature, the defense of the cultural particularities of their regions, and transnationalism. Works by Assia Djebar, Zahia Rahmani, Maissa Bey, Leila Marouane, Venus Khoury-Gata, Andree Chedid, Soumya Ammar Khodja, Evelyne Accad, Therese Aouad-Basbous.
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4.00 Credits
Comprehensive review of French grammar and intensive vocabulary building combined with a focus on French and francophone literature and culture. Students will also fine-tune their oral language skills through a more advanced study of pronunciation, grammar and discourse strategies, while discussing and debating topics of current interest.
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4.00 Credits
Course in French language and culture designed to enhance facility in all language skills. Complete grammar review, vocabulary building, emphasizing idiomatic subtleties and issues of linguistic register and stylistics in oral and written communication.
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4.00 Credits
Advanced course in French language and literature designed to develop near-native fluency in written and oral expression. Consolidating grammatical structures, vocabulary building, and stylistic exercises. The course will focus on improving communication skills - written and oral - that enhance the ability to shape students' convictions, state and defend opinions, form arguments, hypothesize, negotiate and persuade others.
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