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3.00 Credits
Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S This course will enable students to function in a French business environment. We will use departments of a company (human resources, production, sales, finance and administration) to acquire a knowledge of business terminology and practices. Using company web sites and the business press, students will become familiar with important companies and the environment in which they operate. Prerequisite: French 8, or permission of the instructor. WCult: W.
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3.00 Credits
08F, 09W, 09S: 9, 10 09F, 10W, 10S: 9, 10 Rapid review and continued study of the fundamentals of French, with intensive work in vocabulary building. More advanced practice, in classroom, drill-sessions, and laboratory, in the use of the spoken language. Open to students by qualifying test or to students who have passed French 1. Never serves in partial satisfaction of the Distributive or World Culture Requirements. The staff.
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3.00 Credits
09W: 2 09X, 10S: 11 This course is designed to enable students to acquire the analytical skills necessary to interpret the various representational modes that constitute French and Francophone cultures. In order to prepare students to become more culturally "competent" the course will draw on various critical concepts that focus on how and why we read the signs of culture from a variety of perspectives such as: history and politics; issues of class and power; the study of symbols and documents. We will explore a variety of cultural objects and examine the theoretical writings of some of the following authors: Balibar, Barthes, Baudrillard, Ben Jelloun, Bourdieu, Butler, de Certeau, Condé, Fanon, Finkielkraut, Foucault, Fumaroli, Glissant, Kristeva, Le Goff, Malraux, Nora, Ozouf, and WievorkaPrerequisite: French 10, or permission of the instructor. Dist: SOC; WCult: W. Walker.
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3.00 Credits
08F, 09F: 2 This course surveys the evolution of French language (Francophone) literature of the former French colonies and examines the social, political, and cultural issues it raises: race, colonialism, decolonization, revolution, independence, neo-colonialism, Négritude, Antillanité, Créolité, écriture fémi nine, mimetic desire, cultural hybridity, post-independence government and society. The survey will include novels, plays, poetry, film and essays by representative writers from the principal divisions of the Francophone world: the French West Indies, the Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa; Quebec, and Francophone CanPrerequisite: French 10, or permission of the instructor. Dist: LIT; WCult: NW. Green.
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3.00 Credits
08F, 10W: 11 Medieval France-its art, architecture, technology, philosophy and literature-exerted an unparalleled influence throughout Europe. Studying the first texts written in French, as well as the manuscripts in which they circulated, will shed light on the nature of French culture. We will examine defining issues of the period: the transition from oral to written expression, the invention of printing, debates concerning the status of women, Renaissance humanism, scientific inquiry, religious reform and conflict. Texts may includ e La Chanson de Roland , selected poetry, and works by Chrétien de Troyes, Christine de Pizan, Marguerite de Navarre, Fran ois Rabelais, and Michel de MontaignePrerequisite: French 10, or permission of the instructor. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. LaGuardia.
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3.00 Credits
09W, 10W: 10 The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were a dynamic and volatile period characterized on the one hand by the rise to power of the most absolute of all monarchs, the Sun King Louis XIV, symbolized by Versailles, and on the other hand by the French Revolution. Fostered by royal patronage, literature and the arts flourished, yet many writers also used artistic expression to counter this royal power. The period saw the birth of the modern French novel and the development of a rich body of theatrical and philosophical literature. These centuries are recognized as major components of France's collective identity and their influence is still felt in France today. Authors may include Descartes, Corneille, Racine, Molière, Lafayette, Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire, Graffigny, Beaumarchais and Laclos.Prerequisite: French 10, or permission of the instructor. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Marcellesi.
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3.00 Credits
09S: 2 10S: 10 This course examines the nineteenth-century renewal of literary form and vision from the French Revolution to the First World War. We will study the social and historical developments of French culture as they are reflected in various literary genres (narrative, poetry, dramatic theory and practice), literary criticism, philosophy, historiography, and the other arts. Emphasis will be placed on France's growing self-awareness as a nation and on the analysis of aesthetic and intellectual issues represented in the major literary movements of this period including romanticism, realism, symbolism, art for art's sake, naturalism , fin de sièc le decadence, and modernism. Readings may include works by such authors as Chateaubriand, de Sta l, Stendhal, Hugo, Musset, Sand, Balzac, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Michelet, Zola, and HuysmansPrerequisite: French 10, or permission of the instructor. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Kogan.
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3.00 Credits
09S, 09F: 10 This course examines the radical transformations of literary form and vision that characterize twentieth-century France with its two World Wars, its colonial conflicts, and the challenges to French identity posed by immigration and globalization. We will use lyric poetry, fiction, drama, autobiography, and film to explore literary movements such as surrealism, existentialism, the new novel, the theater of the absurd and ?riture féminine , as well as the recent impact of immigrant and minority writers. Readings and films may include works by Proust, Breton, Colette, Beauvoir, Sartre, Camus, Robbe-Grillet, Duras, Delbo, Cixous, Sebbar, Resnais, Malle, and Kassovitz.Prerequisite: French 10, or permission of the instructor. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Delogu.
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3.00 Credits
08F, 09W, 09S, 09F, 10W, 10S: D.F.S.P. Studies in such aspects of the cultural heritage as French art, music, and history. Credit for this course is awarded students who have successfully completed the program of the Dartmouth Foreign Study Program at one of its university centers in France. Prerequisite: acceptance into the Foreign Study Program. Dist: ART; WCult: W. The staff.
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3.00 Credits
08F: 11, 12 09W, 09S: 11, 12, D.L.S.A. 09X: 9 09F: 11, 12 10W, 10S: 11, 12, D.L.S.A. Given on-campus as the final course in the required sequence and off-campus as part of the L.S.A. curriculum, this course is designed to develop reading, writing, and speaking skills, with emphasis on expansion of vocabulary and reinforcement of grammatical structures. Some discussion of texts and films of literary or cultural interest. Frequent oral and written assignments and tests, both on-campus and off, plus daily drills off-campus. Open to students by qualifying test or to students who have passed French 2. Never serves in partial satisfaction of the Distributive or World Culture Requirements. The staff.
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