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4.00 Credits
Designed for students working or traveling for business in French-speaking countries. Through audiovisual materials, the Internet, and the French press, students become familiar with the current business and economic climate in France and find out about practices, customs, and "intangibles" that make French businesses different from their American counterparts. Those enrolled may take the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry exams and obtain an official diploma attesting to their proficiency in French.
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4.00 Credits
An advanced French language course, where students will explore Haitian culture in the classroom and in the community: in class through a variety of texts and media, in their community engagement as a vehicle for greater linguistic fluency and better cultural understanding. Students will be placed with community organizations within the Greater Boston area to teach French to Haitian-American children. Introduces students to some methodology for teaching a foreign language.
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4.00 Credits
We focus on famous French playwrights of both the 17th century (Moliere, Corneille, Racine) and the 20th-21st centuries (Ionesco, Sartre, Koltes, Badiou, Largarce, N'Diaye). We will consider the close relationship between classicism and modernity and see how drama explores the major cultural and political trends of each period. Special emphasis paid to pronunciation as well as the ideological power of images through theatrical workshops. The final project consists of an excerpt to be performed.
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4.00 Credits
Designed to introduce students to cultural issues expressed in the works of some leading Francophone writers and through art and films while helping them acquire greater skills and confidence in both oral and written expression. Discussions will focus on issues of identity, exile, tradition and modernity, rural/urban culture.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the concept of a "French identity" from the principles of the Enlightenment to the contemporary debates and political controversies about national identity. Through the exploration of historical, literary, sociological and philosophical texts, as well as film and multimedia resources, we will focus on individuals, symbolic places, ideological discourses and narratives that have contributed to the formation and questioning of a French national identity.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines contemporary narratives set in Paris. Students explore writers' and filmmakers' perceptions of Paris and analyze the different ways in which the Parisian experience is presented. By reading and viewing stories about Paris, students gain insights into methods of narration and integrate various techniques into their own writing and speaking. They also develop a sophisticated understanding of how the French language is evolving, especially in its spoken form.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to Quebec literature and cinema from the 1950s to the present. This course is designed to hone students' reading, writing, and analytical skills through the exploration of short novels, plays, and films. Students will examine questions regarding language use and attitudes toward language; history; and social change.
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4.00 Credits
Readings and discussion of texts of various genres representative of central trends in French literature from the Middle Ages through the 18th century. Emphasis on developing analytical skills by tracing the transformations of ethical, literary, philosophical and social currents.
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4.00 Credits
Significant texts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries examined in the light of close reading and analysis, with a focus on the significant role played by mobility in the modern world: the wanderer, the emigre, the exile, the hysteric, the itinerant actress, in addition to more socially acceptable travelers and tourists. We'll discuss the evolution, fragmentation, and reinvention of literary forms to correspond to a rapidly modernizing world.
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4.00 Credits
Studies literature, and film from Sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb and the French West Indies. Discussions centered on questions of cultural identities, diglossia, colonization, diaspora, trauma and memory.
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