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4.00 Credits
For description, see Existentialism and the Absurd (FREN-UA 767), above.
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4.00 Credits
The department offers occasional courses on subjects of special interest to either a regular or visiting faculty member. For specific courses, please consult the current class schedule.
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4.00 Credits
For description, see Proust (FREN-UA 771), above.
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4.00 Credits
For description, see Beckett (FREN-UA 774), above.
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4.00 Credits
For description, see History of French Cinema (FREN-UA 778), above. Interdisciplinary Courses The Department of French sponsors the following interdisciplinary courses and, in some cases, cosponsors them with other departments. No knowledge of French is required. Courses may be counted toward the minor in French literature in translation or the minor in literature in translation, but not toward the major in French.
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Exposes the student to various modes, such as expressionism, social realism, and the projection of the hero. One film is viewed per week and analyzed with reading assignments that include novels, plays, and poems. The objective is to exploit the potentiality of different media and to make vivid and intellectual the climate of Europe on which these media so often focus. Graduate Courses Open to Undergraduates Courses in the Graduate School of Arts and Science are open to seniors with a 3.5 average in three 4-point courses (12 points) of advanced work in French. If these courses are offered toward the requirements for the baccalaureate degree, no advanced credit is allowed for them in the graduate school. Before registering for these courses, students must obtain the permission of the director of undergraduate studies. A complete list of graduate courses open to qualified seniors is available in the department each semester.
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4.00 Credits
Study of the theatrical genre in France, including the golden-age playwrights (Corneille, Racine, Molière), 18th-century irony and sentiment, and the 19th-century theatrical revolution. Topics include theories of comedy and tragedy, the development of stagecraft, and romanticism and realism. Also, the theatre as a public genre, its relationship to taste and fashion, and its sociopolitical function.
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4.00 Credits
Man's attempt to come to terms with himself and his universe has been the central impetus of all great literature. Covers the changing image of man through the centuries in the works of French writers of international repute: Voltaire in his philosophical tales; Diderot as a precursor of the modern novel; Stendhal in The Red and the Black; Flaubert in Madame Bovary; and Proust, Camus, and Beckett, all of whom have attempted to define man in relation to the major problems of his existence.
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4.00 Credits
The rich and diverse literary works by women express their individuality and their important social and cultural role in France from the 12th century to the present. Studies both the changing sociohistorical context of these writers and the common problems and themes that constitute a female Department of French tradition. Writers include Marie de France, Christine de Pisan, Marguerite de Navarre, Madame de Sévigné, Germaine de Staël, George Sand, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, and Marguerite Duras.
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4.00 Credits
Courses on subjects of special interest by either a regular or visiting faculty member. For specific courses, please consult the current class schedule. Recent topics include Paris in history, art, and literature; la Belle Époque; and Paris and the birth of modernism.
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