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  • FRE 353: French Stylistics and Translation

    1.00 Credits
    Gustavus Adolphus College

    This course involves translating different texts (from French into English and vice-versa) with a focus on grammatical, lexical, and stylistic problems. Texts will be drawn from a number of selections from modern fiction and magazine articles in a cultural context. Students will analyze their effectiveness and manner of expression and focus on style and the various forms of discourse through the language of advertising, politics, fiction, comic, etc. This course is also designed for students to discuss and study how the ideas expressed in these writings have social and psychological effects on self conception, identification, and the making of people. Students will explore how values, education, and socialization shape the culture(s) and civilization(s) of France. This course is designed for students who have already had a course in French composition and conversation, and it satisfies the required culture component for teaching majors and minors and French majors. Prerequisite: FRE-251 or equivalent. Fall semester, odd years.
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  • FRE 354: Advanced Grammar,Translation and Phonetics

    1.00 Credits
    Gustavus Adolphus College

    This course is designed to provide an in-depth review of the main points of French grammar and an intensive study of French phonetics. Practice in class will provide the opportunity for perfecting pronunciation. This course will also include translations from French into English and English into French as a way to apply newly studied grammatical points. Prerequisite: FRE-251 or equivalent. Fall semester, odd years.
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  • FRE 355: French Art

    1.00 Credits
    Gustavus Adolphus College

    This course will focus on different aesthetic movements in painting, sculpture, architecture, and music from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Students will study each artistic period within its historical context and will analyze the achievement of individual artists and the role of the State in promoting the arts in France. Prerequisite: FRE-251 or equivalent. Fall semester.
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  • FRE 361: French Prose

    1.00 Credits
    Gustavus Adolphus College

    A detailed study of French novels and/or essays, with periods and topics varying from year to year. The course examines trends in the particular type of writing and emphasizes their literary importance, as well as the economic, political, philosophical and social factors that they portray. Through essays, discussion and oral presentations, students analyze works in depth with the aim of developing their analytical skills. Prerequisite: FRE-251 or equivalent. Fall semester, even years.
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  • FRE 363: Francophone Women Writers and Artists

    1.00 Credits
    Gustavus Adolphus College

    This course analyzes literary works written by Francophone women writers, mostly contemporary. Students will analyze their texts in their personal, political, and social contexts. We will also study women painters and sculptors such as Berthe Morisot, Suzanne Valadon, or Camille Claudel, as well as women directors. We will focus on the values and points of views that we will find in these portrayals of women by women, in the particular society and family in which they are working. Prerequisite: FRE-251 or equivalent. Spring semester, even years.
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  • FRE 364: Francophone African/Caribbean Literatures and Cultures

    1.00 Credits
    Gustavus Adolphus College

    This course is a study of the literatures and cultures of Francophone African and Caribbean societies. Materials used for the course include literary, historical, sociological, and political texts, as well as films. The course may focus on a specific theme in a particular year but may also involve examining in general the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial experiences of African and Caribbean societies. Topics of interest include the clash between tradition and modernity, governance of modern nation states, gender roles, Négritude, Antillanité, and Créolité. Students will discuss, do presentations, and write research papers. Counts towards the Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies minor. Prerequisite: FRE-251 or equivalent. LARS, WRITD, NWEST, Fall semester, odd year
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  • FRE 365: History of 20th-and 21st-Century France

    1.00 Credits
    Gustavus Adolphus College

    This course focuses on France's history in the 20th and 21st centuries. Students will be encouraged to examine and to think critically about the social, economic, and political institutions in order to appreciate France's role in the contemporary world. Readings for the course will include historical texts, as well as literary texts, when relevant. Students will discuss, research topics to write on, and do oral presentations. Prerequisite: FRE-251 or equivalent. Spring semester, odd years.
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  • FRE 366: French and Francophone Culture and Civilization

    1.00 Credits
    Gustavus Adolphus College

    This course will focus on one or several themes related to France and/or some Francophone country. Subjects of focus will include issues such as political, social, and economic institutions in France and/or a Francophone country (e.g., Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, African countries), immigration in France, France's role in the European Union, the relationship between France and Francophone countries (Francophonie). Students will discuss, research topics to write on, and do oral presentations. Prerequisite: FRE-251 or equivalent. Spring semester, odd years.
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  • FRE 367: Le Maghreb

    1.00 Credits
    Gustavus Adolphus College

    This course focuses on three countries of the Maghreb-Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco-by analyzing their community of destiny: geography, religion, history, and language. Students will examine this unity, sealed by history, throughout literature and cinema. This literary and filmic analysis will be based on short stories, novels, and films written or directed by Algerian, Moroccan, and Tunisian authors who have chosen French as their language of expression, and are living either in their country of origin or in France as a land of exile and adoption. Prerequisite: FRE-251 or equivalent. Fall semester, even years.
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  • FRE 391: Independent Study

    3.00 Credits
    Gustavus Adolphus College

    Independent study project and a scholarly paper. Prerequisite: A minimum of three courses in French literature or permission of the instructor. Fall and Spring semesters.
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