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3.00 Credits
This is the second half of an intermediate course that presumes intermediate/low proficiency in French, focusing on all four areas of language skills. The course develops skills gained in Intermediate I and offers further development of grammar and vocabulary. Guided readings of short texts in French, discussion of contemporary or historical events in the French-speaking world, continued practice with writing grammatically and stylistically correct French compositions. Oral/aural practice through class discussions, presentations, and laboratory assignments. Enhances appreciation of the French and Francophone world through cultural readings and films. Recommended for native speakers who need grammar review. Prerequisite: FR 210 or equivalency
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3.00 Credits
Focusing primarily on two of the four areas of language skills-reading and writing-this course is addressed tostudents at the intermediate level who have good grasp of grammar and who need to improve and practice their written skills. The course further reinforces and solidifies grammatical concepts. It explores complexities and variations in written styles with a view to enabling the student to develop grammatically correct yet individually distinct written expression. Prerequisite: FR 211 or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
A course in conversational French through the comparative study of cultures, this course is designed for students at the intermediate level desiring to hone and practice their oral skills. The course concentrates on two of the four areas of language skills-speaking and listening-through interactive classroom work, diverse oral exercises, activities, and assignments, all focused around the varied and distinct cultures of the Francophone world. Prerequisite: FR 211 or permission of instructor Humanities and Social Science208 s
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to bibliographical research (with library and technological workshops) and basic literary analysis and approaches, with attention paid to different genres, movements, and periods in French and Francophone literature. Students interested in non-literary areas of French and Francophone Studies pursue different bibliographical projects, on film or cultural studies, for example. May be taken simultaneously with FR 240. Prerequisite: FR 211 or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
This course enables students, though reading and critical discussion, to confront the ideas and diverse styles of some of the major French and Francophone writers of the twentieth-century. The literary works chosen (theater, poetry, short stories, and novels) reflect the immense social and artistic changes these writers have faced. Taught in English.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to introduce students to various means of approaching literary texts and to provide analytic tools for advanced literary study. The course reviews the traditional French "explication de texte," offers a considerationof literary genres, and presents varied theoretical approaches to literature. The course is balanced between readings in theory and application of their relevance for the study of literary works. Prerequisite: FR 250
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3.00 Credits
A study of the modern novel in French, with attention to such authors as Proust, Gide, Sartre, Camus, Duras, Robbe-Grillet, Djebar, Condé, and to different schools and literary concerns. Prerequisite: FR 250
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3.00 Credits
Major dramatists and movements in modern Frenchlanguage theater. Focus on French symbolist theater, existentialist theater, and theater of the absurd, with an introduction to theatrical theory. Prerequisite: FR 250
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Studies French poetic traditions and major poetic works from the medieval period to post-surrealism. Prerequisite: FR 250
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Introduces major poets, novelists, and dramatists of the French-speaking world, including study of their literary, critical, and political works. Focus varies. Topics might include the following: the different literary movements of the Caribbean and its main twentieth-century writers, such as Césaire, Condé, Glissant; contemporary Québeculture and literature, its historical and artistic considerations, political concerns, and relations to language through the works of such writers as Broussard, Micone, Roy, and Théoret; major writers in French from Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria, such as Ben Jelloun, Boudjedra, Djebar, Mimouni, Yacine, including additional consideration of Beur writers in France; the major writers and literary movements in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa within a historical and sociological context, considering work by Ba, Beyala, Kourouma, Laye, Ousmane, or Senghor. Prerequisites: FR 200 and FR 250
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