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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The course will concentrate on improving speaking and listening skills in French. Students will learn the vocabulary and language structures that will help them converse in a number of specific situations - looking for a job, interviewing for a job, speaking about the future, the environment, global issues, advances in technology, and articulating points of view about the role of the media and advertising. They will also be introduced to current events in France and the Francophone world through newspaper articles, the Internet, video clips, films, and songs. In addition, students will practice using French in specific situations through mock job interviews and debates. Prerequisite: FRN 2002, or its equivalent. ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
This intermediate-level French class will help students improve their command of French in order to conduct business in French or travel through French-speaking countries with greater ease. The course will introduce students to the vocabulary and structures of the French business world. Students will learn how to: engage in conversations over the telephone, arrange meetings, make travel plans and hotel reservations, look for jobs and write the curriculum vitae, interview, write business letters and e-mails, and make formal presentations. Students will also examine the economic challenges facing French businesses in the age of globalization. The course will offer extensive grammar review. Students will read articles related to business in French print and non-print media, and analyze authentic documents from the business world. Prerequisite: FRN 2002, or its equivalent. ( Spring '07)
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3.00 Credits
The course is a continuation of FRN 2008, French Conversation. It will concentrate on improving speaking and listening skills. Students will learn the vocabulary and language structures that will help them converse in a number of concrete and abstract situations and will be introduced to current events in France and the Francophone world through newspaper and magazine articles, the Internet, video clips, films, and songs. In addition, students will practice using French in specific situations through class presentations, skits, and debates. Prerequisite: FRN 2008, French Conversation, or its equivalent. ( Spring)
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3.00 Credits
The main goal of this translation workshop is to improve the students' comprehension of French and writing skills in English. It will enhance the students' vocabularies in French and English as they strive to master clarity, precision and nuance in both languages. It will also foster teamwork. Students will translate a variety of texts taken from different sources: popular media-newspaper and magazine articles, websites and other online media; non-fiction - art criticism, selections from Baudelaire's Le Peintre de la vie moderne ( 1863), Roland Barthes' Mythologies ( 1957), and Simone de Beauvoir's Force de l'age (1960), art exhibition catalogues, and instruction manual for digital camera; literary texts- Guillaume Apollinaire's Calligrammes ( 1910's), Stephane Mallarme's poem "Uncoupe de des" (1914), Honore deBalzac's short story "Le Chef d'oeuvre inconnu" (1832), and selections from Marcel Proust's nove l A larecherche du temps perdu ( 1913-1927). The final segment of the workshop will discuss subtitles, in English and in French, from selected films. In the course of translating these texts, students will discuss various theories and philosophies regarding translation. Prerequisites: Intermediate French II, or its equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
This course will conduct a thematic and stylistic analysis of French films from the late 1950s through the 1990s and examine the images of French society that emerge. Filmmakers to be studied will include Fran?ois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, Louis Malle, Bertrand Blier, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Colline Serreau, Medhi Charef, Mathieu Kassovitz, and Bertrand Tavernier. In English. ( Fall '07)
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1.00 Credits
This 1-credit course is offered in conjunction with FRN 2055: French Cinema: From the Nouvelle Vague to the cinéma de banlieu, is a required corequisite of FRN 2055 for French majors and minors. In addition to attending the regular class meetings for FRN 2055, this course will consist of discussions in French of the films and include additional readings in French. ( Spring '08)
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed for students who have completed FRN 2002, Intermediate French II, and who wish to improve their oral, reading, writing, and listening skills. In addition to an advanced grammar review, the course will expose students to French literature, literary history and culture from the Middle Ages through the 17th- century. Students will also read one literary work in its entirety. In addition, students will study French and Francophone culture through newspaper articles, web-related activities, songs, and films. Prerequisite: FRN 2002, Intermediate French II, or its equivalent. ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
The course introduces students to key French novels of the 19thcentury, paying particular attention to the social, political, and literary contexts of these fictional narratives. From the romantic novel of the early part of the century to the realist novels of Honoré de Balzac and Gustave Flaubert and the later naturalist novels of Emile Zola and Guy de Maupassant, this course will examine how these novels depict 19th- century French society. In addition to the novels, we will read critical and historical material on the 19th- century. Prerequisite: FRN 3024, Introduction to the Analysis of French Texts, or its equivalent. (Fall '09)
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3.00 Credits
The course examines literature written in French outside of France by writers from the Maghreb (North Africa), the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa. A strong emphasis will be placed on the condition of women, sexuality, religion, and the postcolonial status of Francophone countries including their relationship with France. The class will also define what constitutes Francophone literature, the use of language, and the notions of Négritude and créolit? ? Course material includehistorical and critical texts, novels, short stories, poems, and films by writers and filmmakers such as Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Mariama Ba, Maryse Condé, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Azouz Begag,and Ousmane Sembène, among others. Prerequisite: FRN 3024, Introduction to the Analysis of French Texts, or its equivalent. ( Spring '07)
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3.00 Credits
In this course students read and analyze French plays by 20thcentury dramatists including Jean Anouilh, Samuel Beckett, Aimé Césaire, Marguerite Duras, Jean Giraudoux, EugènIonesco, and Jean-Paul Sartre. The approach to the texts will center on the social, political, and cultural contexts of the plays as well as representations of class, gender, and the role of language. Prerequisite: FRN 3024, Introduction to the Analysis of French Texts, or its equivalent. ( Fall '08)
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