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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Fabulous Versailles, the synthesis of baroque and classical aesthetics and the cult of kingship, serves Department of French as an introduction to the study of major aspects of 17th- and 18th-century culture and French influence on European civilization. This course views the intellectual, artistic, and social complexities of the period through the works of contemporary philosophers, dramatists, artists, memorialists, and historians from Descartes to Voltaire. Films, field trips, and multimedia presentations of music and art.
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4.00 Credits
Retrospective and introspective view of French civilization from the early period to 1900 through the interrelation of history, literature, fine arts, music, and philosophy. Study of major historical forces, ideas, and tensions; the formation of collective identities (territorial, religious, political, and so on); France's diversity and formative conflicts; the Republican model; France and the outer world; and the relationship between state, nation, and citizenry. Primary sources and documents such as chroniques, mémoires, journaux, revues, and correspondances.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to French history, politics, and social relations from 1900 to the present. Attention is paid to the successive crises that challenged France's stature, its national identity, and its Republican model. Topics include the French political and social systems; France's "exceptionalism" and relationships with Europe, the United States, and globalization; colonialism, immigration, and postcolonialism; and gender and class relations.
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4.00 Credits
Continuation of FREN-UA 1. To continue on to the intermediate level, a student must complete both FREN-UA 1 and FREN-UA 2. This two-semester sequence is equivalent to FREN-UA 10. Offered every semester.
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6.00 Credits
No course description available.
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Prerequisite: Intensive Elementary French (FREN-UA 10) or Elementary French I, II (FREN-UA 1, 2). Open to students who have completed the equivalent of a year's elementary level and to others on assignment by placement test. Completes the equivalent of a year's intermediate level in one semester. Offered every semester.
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4.00 Credits
Systematizes and reinforces the language skills presented in earlier-level courses through an intensive review of grammar, written exercises, an introduction to composition, lexical enrichment, and spoken skills.
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4.00 Credits
Studies French classical literature as one of the summits of the struggle of human beings to understand themselves and their place in the universe. Authors studied include Descartes, Pascal, Madame de Sévigné, Madame de Lafayette, La Fontaine, Molière, Corneille, Racine, La Bruyère, and La Rochefoucauld.
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4.00 Credits
Designed to examine a specific period of European Department of French culture and history in several distinct national traditions, through a variety of methodologies. The focus is both broad and specific. The uniqueness of separate romantic manifestations (prose, poetry, theatre, music, and the plastic arts), as well as the relationships between them, constitute the core of inquiry.
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4.00 Credits
The novel comes into its own during the 18th century. It fought for recognition as a "worthy genre." The development of the novel as an aesthetic form and the social and moral preoccupations it reveals are studied in a variety of authors, such as Marivaux, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Laclos, and Sade.
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4.00 Credits
Deals with the various currents of ideas and the transformations in values, taste, and feeling that constitute the Enlightenment in France. Pays particular attention to the personality, writings, and influence of the following authors: Montaigne, Descartes, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, and Sartre. Significant works by these thinkers and others are closely read and interpreted.
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