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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: FREN 208 or approval of the department. Course designed to enhance oral and written proficiency along with vocabulary expansion and to review grammatical structures. It emphasizes description and narration, extending to the broader French-speaking world. FREN 244 and 344 is a sequence particularly suggested for students who minor in French. (Fall)
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Selected topics in French presented in a classroom setting. Subjects covered will determine how the course applies to the major. This course may be repeated for credit.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Emphasizes individual, directed study. Designed for students who want to conduct independent research in a specific subject of modern languages. Faculty will assist student with selection of topic and serve as consultant for the project. This course is limited primarily to the department majors and must be approved by the Chair of Modern Languages.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: A minimum of one (1) academic year at Collonges (ACA) prior to taking this course. This course seeks to develop knowledge and proficiency in the French economic and business world. It includes vocabulary review; practice of oral and written expression, marketing, banking, employment, job hunting, interviewing, accounting, and publicity. Written expression of business correspondence are some of the topics discussed.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: FREN 208 and FREN 244 or approval of the department. Designed to enhance oral and written proficiency along with vocabulary expansion and to review grammatical structures. It focuses on Nous and Les Autres, incorporating description and narration, extending to the broader French-speaking world, incorporating current events and argumentation along with vocabulary study and grammar refinement. FREN 244 and 344 is a sequence particularly suggested for students who minor in French. (Fall)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: FREN 208 and FREN 244 or equivalent or approval of the department. An intensive course designed to enhance oral and written proficiency along with vocabulary expansion. It focuses on the study of syntax, morphology, phonetics, and phonology as components of the generative grammar of the French language. Open to eligible students returning from ACA. This course is required for majors in French. (Fall)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: FREN 244 or approval of the department. This course focuses on contemporary French culture and civilization and emphasizes social, political, and artistic trends, and intellectual movements that have contributed to the institutions and character of modern France. Course conducted entirely in French. (Winter)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: FREN 244 and ENGL 216 or approval of the department. Close reading and discussion of selected works from the period (eleventh through sixteenth centuries) viewed in the socio-historical, intellectual, and artistic context: Chanson de Roland, Roman de Renart, Aucassin et Nicolette, Farce de Ma?tre Pathelin, and works by Chrétien de Troyes, Villon, Rabelais, the Pléiade, and Montaigne. FREN 358. Survey of French 17th and 18th Centuries Literature (D-2) (W) (3 hours) Prerequisites: FREN 244 and ENGL 216 or approval of the department. This course is a study of neo-classical tragedy and comedy as illustrated in select texts of Corneille, Mohère, Racine, Marivaux, and Beaumarchais. It experiments in narrative fiction, including works by Mme de Lafayette and Prévost. The art of epistolarity: Pascal and the polemical letter, Mme de Sévigné and the personal letter, Voltaire and the traveler's letterFocus on topics: préciosit? ?and sensibility; feminism and modernity; rationalism an d esprit critique. FREN 458. Survey of French 19th and 20th Centuries Literature (D-2) (W) (3 hours) Prerequisites: FREN 244 and ENGL 216 or approval of the department. Studies the main literary works and currents in the modern era in their historical context. Based on an interdisciplinary approach linking literary theory with history, sociology, and psychology. Works studied: Chateaubriand, Réné ; Balzac, Le Père Goriot; Hug o, Hernani Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal; Gide, La Symphonie pastorale; Camus, L'Etranger; Duras, Moderato Cantabile.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: FREN 244 and ENGL 216 or approval of the department. This course proposes a cultural and literary journey based on a variety of texts throughout the main French-speaking regions of the world: the African continent, South East Asia, French Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, the French-speaking islands of the Caribbean. This approach is inteded to stress and place into perspective these geographical and national entities. Guest-speakers closely related, either as native speakers or by their professional experience to French-speaking Africa, Canada, or the Caribbean will be invited when available.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
See FREN 265 for course description.
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