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HU K.Anyinefa, F.Echtman, D.Kight, Staff The emphasis on speaking and understanding French is continued, texts from French literature and cultural media are read, and short papers are written in French. Students use the Language Learning Center regularly and attend supplementary oral practice sessions. The course meets three hours each week, which are supplemented by an extra hour per week with an assistant. This is a year-long course; both semesters ( 003 and 004) are required for credit. Prerequisite: French 002, non-intensive, and departmental placement.
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HU F.Echtman The emphasis on speaking and understanding French is continued, literary and cultural texts are read, and increasingly longer papers are written in French. In addition to the three class meetings each week, students develop their skills in an additional group session with the professors and in oral practice hours with assistants. Students use the Language Learning Center regularly. This course prepares students to take 102 or 105 in the second semester. Open only to graduates of Intensive Elementary French or to students specially placed by the department. Students who are not graduates of Intensive Elementary must take either 102 or 105 in Semester II to receive credit.
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I H D.Kight, D.Sedley Presentation of essential problems in literary and cultural analysis by close reading of works selected from various periods and genres and by analysis of voice and image in French writing and film. Participation in discussion and practice in written and oral expression are emphasized, as are grammar review. Open only to graduates of Intermediate French or to students specially placed by the department.
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3.00 Credits
II H F.Echtman Continued development of students' expertise in literary and cultural analysis by emphasizing close reading as well as oral and written analyses of works chosen from various genres and periods of French/Francophone works in their written and visual modes. Readings begin with comic theatre of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and build to increasingly complex short stories, poetry, and novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Participation in guided discussion and practice in oral/written expression continue to be emphasized, as is grammar review. Offered in second semester. Prerequisite: French 005 or 101.
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3.00 Credits
HU D.Kight An examination of contemporary society in France and Francophone cultures as portrayed in recent documents and film. Emphasizing the tension in contemporary French-speaking societies between tradition and change, the course focuses on subjects such as family structures and the changing role of women, cultural and linguistic identity, an increasingly multiracial society, the individual and institutions (religious, political, educational), and les loisirs. In addition to the basic text and review of grammar, readings are chosen from newspapers, contemporary literary texts, magazines, and they are complemented by video materials. Offered in second semester. Prerequisite: French 005 or 101.
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3.00 Credits
e HU G.Armstrong Using literary texts, historical documents and letters as a mirror of the social classes that they address, this interdisciplinary course studies the principal preoccupations of secular and religious men and women in France from the Carolingian period through 1500. Selected works from epic, lai, roman courtois, fabliau, theater, letters and contemporary biography are read in modern French translation. Not offered in 2008-09.
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3.00 Credits
HU D.Sedley A study of the development of Humanism, the concept of the Renaissance, and the Reformation. The course focuses on representative works, with special attention given to the prose of Rabelais and Montaigne, the Conteurs, the poetry of Marot, Scève, the Pléiade, and d'Aubign
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3.00 Credits
HU D.Sedley Representative authors and literary movements placed within their cultural context, with special attention to development of the theater (Corneille, Molière, and Racine) and women writers of various genres. Not offered in 2008-09.
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3.00 Credits
s HU Staff Representative texts of the Enlightment and the Pre-Romantic movement, with emphasis on the development of liberal thought as illustrated in the Encyclopédie and the works of Montesquieum Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. Not offered in 2008-09.
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3.00 Credits
(1800-1860) HU Staff From Chateaubriand and Romanticism to Baudelaire, a study of selected poems, novels, and plays. Not offered in 2008-09.
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