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FREN 312. CONTEMPORARY FRANCE. Students enrolled in this course will gain access to contemporary
France and to its people through readings and discussions (family, education, the arts, cinema
and theater, history, and immigration). Attention to daily life and traditions will foster a greater
awareness of the differences and similarities existing between France and the United States. The organization
of this course is as follows: Geography, history (from the beginning of the third Republic [1875]
to the present), government and institutions, manners and mores. Prerequisite: French 307 or 309, or
by permission. Alternate Fall semesters, three hours.
FREN 315. BUSINESS FRENCH. Through this course, students acquire the linguistic skills and
cultural information they need to prepare for the Chambre de commerce et d’industrie de Paris examinations.
They familiarize themselves with business practices of the Francophone world. They are
exposed to key French business topics and to essential career practices, as well as to cultural concepts
particular to French businesses. Areas of concentration are: 1. La correspondance; 2. La micro-informatique,
Internet, le courrier électronique; 3. La recherche d’un emploi; 4. La typologie des enterprises;
5. L’organisation des enterprises; 6. Le marketing; 7. La banque et les moyens de paiement; 8.
Les transports et le commerce international. Prerequisite: French 307 or 309, or by permission.
Alternate Spring semesters, three hours.
FREN 320. GENRES OF FRENCH LITERATURE I. A survey of French literature from the
beginning, in the eleventh century, to the end of the eighteenth century. A study of French literary history,
movements, authors, techniques, and themes, from the Song of Roland to Candide. Music and art
of these periods will illustrate how the literature shares the same ideas and esthetics. This course fulfills
the Information Literacy (IL) requirement for the French major. Prerequisite: French 202 or a
300-level French course, or by permission. Offered periodically, semester course, three hours.
FREN 321. GENRES OF FRENCH LITERATURE II. A survey of French literature of the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries, from Romanticism to Duras and Robbe-Grillet. A study of French literary
history, movements, authors, techniques, and themes of the last two centuries. Music and art of
these periods will illustrate how the literature shares the same ideas and esthetics. It is not necessary
to take French 320 before French 321. This course fulfills the Information Literacy (IL) requirement
for the French major. Prerequisite: French 202 or a 300-level French course, or by permission.
Offered periodically, semester course, three hours.
FREN 325. MODERN FRENCH THEATRE. A course designed to familiarize students with the
major movements and authors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including the avant-garde,
surrealism, l’antithéâtre (Theater of the Absurd), and francophone theatre. This course fulfills the
Information Literacy (IL) requirement for the French major. Prerequisite: French 202 or a 300-level
French course, or by permission. Offered periodically, semester course, three hours.
FREN 326. LE CINÉMA PAR LA CONVERSATION. This course begins with analyses, commentaries,
and discussions of French films with which spectators in non-francophone countries are
most likely to be familiar. Progressively, the emphasis shifts to films of the Occupation (1940-1944)
and of the Nouvelle Vague (the 1960s), films which have been held significant in aesthetic, social, or
moral terms by prominent critics and historians of French cinema. The materials and strategies used
are meant to stimulate interest in the target language, to bridge the gap between “skill” and creative
courses, and to develop the language proficiency of advanced students, as well as their ability to
express themselves creatively in French. This course fulfills the Information Literacy (IL) requirement
for the French major. Prerequisite: French 307 or 309, or by permission.
Alternate Fall semesters, three hours.
FREN 330. WOMEN WRITERS IN FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE. This
course serves to introduce students to the lives and works of francophone female authors from 1800 to
the present. Its articulation is as follows: 1. Prise de conscience: Madame de Staël (France,
Switzerland) and Simone de Beauvoir (France), with a side glance at Virginia Woolf (Great Britain);
2. Childhood and formation: Christiane Rochefort (France) and Nathalie Sarraute (France, Russia); 3.
Sexual awakenings and passion: Colette (France) and Marguerite Duras (France and Indochina); 4.
Matriarchy and exile: Antonine Maillet (Canada). The last third of the course focuses on the study of
texts by the three authors whose work is commonly, albeit somewhat paradoxically, known as “French
Feminism”: Luce Irigaray (Belgium), Hélène Cixous (Algeria), and Julia Kristeva (Bulgaria). This
course fulfills the Information Literacy (IL) requirement for the French major. Prerequisite: French
307 or 309, or by permission. Alternate Spring semesters, three hours.