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Courses

This page displays the schedule of Bryn Mawr courses in this department for this academic year. It also displays descriptions of courses offered by the department during the last four academic years.

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Spring 2013

COURSE TITLE SCHEDULE/
UNITS		 MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS LOCATION INSTRUCTOR(S)
FREN B002-001 Elementary French Semester / 1 Lecture: 9:00 AM-10:00 AM MWF Taylor Hall D Cherel,B.
Lecture: 8:45 AM- 9:45 AM TTH Taylor Hall D
FREN B002-002 Elementary French Semester / 1 LEC: 9:00 AM-10:00 AM MWF Taylor Hall E Laird,M.
LEC: 8:45 AM- 9:45 AM TTH Taylor Hall E
FREN B002IN-001 Intensive Elementary French Semester / 1.5 Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF Taylor Hall D Peysson-Zeiss,A.
Lecture: 9:45 AM-10:45 AM TTH Taylor Hall D
Other: 6:30 PM- 7:30 PM M Taylor Hall D
Drill- TBA: 6:00 PM- 9:00 PM T Taylor Hall D
Drill: 6:00 PM- 9:00 PM W Taylor Hall D
Drill: 6:00 PM- 9:00 PM TH Taylor Hall D
FREN B002IN-002 Intensive Elementary French Semester / 1.5 Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF Taylor Hall E de Tholozany,P.
Lecture: 9:45 AM-10:45 AM TTH Taylor Hall E
Other: 6:30 PM- 7:30 PM M Taylor Hall D
Drill: 9:00 AM-10:00 AM TTH Thomas Hall 118
Drill: 9:00 AM-10:00 AM W Thomas Hall 118
FREN B004-001 Intermediate French Semester / 1 Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF Taylor Hall E Cherel,B.
4th Hour: 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM T Taylor Hall E
4th Hour: 6:00 PM- 7:00 PM W Taylor Hall E
4th Hour: 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM TH Taylor Hall E
FREN B004-002 Intermediate French Semester / 1 Lecture: 12:00 PM- 1:00 PM MWF Taylor Hall E Mahuzier,B.
FREN B102-001 Introduction à l'analyse littéraire et culturelle II Semester / 1 Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF Taylor Hall B Armstrong,G.
FREN B105-001 Directions de la France contemporaine Semester / 1 Lecture: 11:15 AM-12:45 PM TTH Taylor Hall D Cherel,B.
FREN B207-001 Introduction à la littérature du 20ème et 21ème siècle Semester / 1 Lecture: 12:00 PM- 1:00 PM MWF Taylor Hall B de Tholozany,P.
FREN B254-001 Teaching (in) the Postcolony: Schooling in African Fiction Semester / 1 Lecture: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM MW Thomas Hall 118 Higginson,P.
FREN B270-001 Mediterranean Port-Cities: Immigration and Identities Semester / 1 LEC: 11:15 AM-12:45 PM TTH Taylor Hall B Peysson-Zeiss,A., Peysson-Zeiss,A.
LEC: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM W Taylor Hall, Seminar Room
FREN B302-001 Le printemps de la parole féminine: femmes écrivains des débuts Semester / 1 Lecture: 12:00 PM- 2:00 PM W Taylor Hall C Armstrong,G.
FREN B325-001 Etudes avancées: Proust Semester / 1 LEC: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM M Taylor Hall, Seminar Room Mahuzier,B.
Extra Session: 4:00 PM- 5:00 PM M Taylor Hall C
FREN B403-001 Supervised Work Semester / 0.5,1 Dept. staff, TBA
FREN B403-001 Supervised Work Semester / 0.5,1 Dept. staff, TBA
FREN B701-001 Supervised Work Semester / 1
FREN B701-002 Supervised Work Semester / 1
FREN B701-003 Supervised Work Semester / 1
FREN B701-004 Supervised Work Semester / 1

Fall 2013

COURSE TITLE SCHEDULE/
UNITS		 MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS LOCATION INSTRUCTOR(S)
FREN B001-001 Elementary French Semester / 1,1.5 Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF Thomas Hall 104 Cherel,B.
Lecture: 9:45 AM-10:45 AM TTH Thomas Hall 104
FREN B001-002 Elementary French Semester / 1,1.5 Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF Thomas Hall 104 Cherel,B.
Lecture: 10:45 AM-11:45 AM TTH Thomas Hall 104
FREN B001IN-001 Intensive Elementary French Semester / 1.5 Lecture: 9:00 AM-10:00 AM MWF Taylor Hall D Peysson-Zeiss,A.
Lecture: 8:45 AM- 9:45 AM TTH Taylor Hall D
FREN B001IN-002 Intensive Elementary French Semester / 1.5 Lecture: 9:00 AM-10:00 AM MWF Taylor Hall E Interim,R.
Lecture: 8:45 AM- 9:45 AM TTH Taylor Hall E
FREN B003-001 Intermediate French Semester / 1 LEC: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF Taylor Hall E Interim,R.
FREN B003-002 Intermediate French Semester / 1 LEC: 12:00 PM- 1:00 PM MWF Thomas Hall 104 Cherel,B.
FREN B003-00A Intermediate French Semester / 1 4th Hour: 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM T Taylor Hall D
FREN B003-00B Intermediate French Semester / 1 4th Hour: 6:00 PM- 7:00 PM W Taylor Hall D
FREN B003-00C Intermediate French Semester / 1 4th Hour: 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM TH Taylor Hall D
FREN B003-00D Intermediate French Semester / 1 4th Hour (at Haverford): 6:00 PM- 7:00 PM W
FREN B003-00E Intermediate French Semester / 1 4th Hour (at Haverford): 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM TH
FREN B005-001 Intensive Intermediate French Semester / 1.5 Lecture: 9:00 AM-10:00 AM MWF Thomas Hall 104 Armstrong,G.
Drill: Date/Time TBA
FREN B005-002 Intensive Intermediate French Semester / 1.5 Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF Taylor Hall D Peysson-Zeiss,A.
FREN B101-001 Introduction à l'analyse littéraire et culturelle I Semester / 1 Lecture: 12:00 PM- 1:00 PM MWF Thomas Hall 102 Armstrong,G.
FREN B205-001 Le Temps des prophètes: de Chateaubriand à Baudelaire Semester / 1 Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH Taylor Hall F Mahuzier,B.
FREN B213-001 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the Humanities: Rhetoric and Interpretation after Post-Modernism Semester / 1 Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW Interim,R.
FREN B260-001 Atelier d'écriture Semester / 1 Lecture: 12:00 PM- 1:00 PM MWF Taylor Hall D Peysson-Zeiss,A.
FREN B275-001 Improving Mankind: Enlightened Hygiene and Eugenics Semester / 1 Lecture: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH Taylor Hall, Seminar Room Le Menthéour,R.
Extra Hour for French Credit: Date/Time TBA
FREN B325-001 Etudes avancées Semester / 1 Lecture: 12:00 PM- 2:00 PM M Taylor Hall, Seminar Room Interim,R.
FREN B398-001 Senior Conference Semester / 1 Lecture: 1:00 PM- 3:30 PM TH Dalton Hall 212A Dept. staff, TBA
FREN B670-001 Hysterics, Saints, Mystics and Criminals in France's Secular Republic Semester / 1 Lecture: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM W Taylor Hall, Seminar Room Mahuzier,B.
FREN B701-001 Supervised Work Semester / 1
FREN B701-002 Supervised Work Semester / 1
FREN B701-003 Supervised Work Semester / 1
FREN B701-004 Supervised Work Semester / 1

Spring 2014

COURSE TITLE SCHEDULE/
UNITS		 MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS LOCATION INSTRUCTOR(S)
FREN B002-001 Elementary French Semester / 1 Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF Taylor Hall E Cherel,B.
Lecture: 9:45 AM-10:45 AM TTH Taylor Hall E
FREN B002-002 Elementary French Semester / 1 Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF Taylor Hall E Interim,R.
Lecture: 10:45 AM-11:45 AM TTH Taylor Hall E
FREN B002IN-001 Intensive Elementary French Semester / 1.5 Lecture: 9:00 AM-10:00 AM MWF Taylor Hall D Peysson-Zeiss,A.
Lecture: 8:45 AM- 9:45 AM TTH Taylor Hall D
Lecture: Date/Time TBA Taylor Hall D
Drill: Date/Time TBA Taylor Hall D
FREN B002IN-002 Intensive Elementary French Semester / 1.5 Lecture: 9:00 AM-10:00 AM MWF Taylor Hall E Interim,R.
Lecture: 8:45 AM- 9:45 AM TTH Taylor Hall E
Lecture: Date/Time TBA Taylor Hall D
Drill: Date/Time TBA
FREN B004-001 Intermediate French Semester / 1 Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF Thomas Hall 102 Mahuzier,B.
Drill: Date/Time TBA
FREN B004-002 Intermediate French Semester / 1 Lecture: 12:00 PM- 1:00 PM MWF Thomas Hall 111 Cherel,B.
Drill: Date/Time TBA
FREN B102-001 Introduction à l'analyse littéraire et culturelle II Semester / 1 Lecture: 12:00 PM- 1:00 PM MWF Thomas Hall 116 Armstrong,G.
FREN B105-001 Directions de la France contemporaine Semester / 1 Lecture: 11:15 AM-12:45 PM TTH Thomas Hall 118 Cherel,B.
FREN B204-001 Le Siècle des lumières Semester / 1 Lecture: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH Taylor Hall C Le Menthéour,R.
FREN B207-001 Introduction à la littérature du 20ème et 21ème siècle Semester / 1 Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF Taylor Hall C Interim,R.
FREN B248-001 Histoire des Femmes en France Semester / 1 Lecture: 12:00 PM- 1:00 PM MWF Thomas Hall 102 Mahuzier,B.
FREN B262-001 Débat, discussion, dialogue Semester / 1 Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF Taylor Hall D Peysson-Zeiss,A.
FREN B306-001 Libertinage et subversion Semester / 1 Lecture: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM TH Le Menthéour,R.
FREN B355-001 Variations sur le recit moderne: ruses et ressources Semester / 1 Lecture: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM W Thomas Hall 118 Armstrong,G.
FREN B701-001 Supervised Work Semester / 1 Lecture: Date/Time TBA Armstrong,G.
FREN B701-002 Supervised Work Semester / 1 Lecture: Date/Time TBA Mahuzier,B.
FREN B701-003 Supervised Work Semester / 1 Lecture: Date/Time TBA Higginson,P.
FREN B701-004 Supervised Work Semester / 1 Lecture: Date/Time TBA Le Menthéour,R.

2013-14 Catalog Data

FREN B001 Elementary French Fall 2013 The speaking and understanding of French are emphasized particularly during the first semester, and written competence is stressed as well in semester II. The work includes regular use of the Language Learning Center and is supplemented by intensive oral practice sessions. The course meets in intensive (nine hours a week) and non-intensive (five hours a week) sections. Language Level 1

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FREN B001IN Intensive Elementary French Fall 2013 French 001 Intensive Elementary is the first half of a two-semester beginning sequence designed to help students attain a level of proficiency to function comfortably in a French-speaking environment.It is both speaking (through pair work, group work and drills) and writing intensive (through blogs and essays). In drill sessions, students develop the ability to speak and understand better through songs, skits, debates, and a variety of activities. The course meets nine hours per week.

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FREN B002 Elementary French Spring 2014 The speaking and understanding of French are emphasized particularly during the first semester, and written competence is stressed as well in semester II. The work includes regular use of the Language Learning Center and is supplemented by intensive oral practice sessions. The course meets in intensive (nine hours a week) and non-intensive (five hours a week) sections. This is a year-long course. Language Level 1

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FREN B002IN Intensive Elementary French Spring 2014 The second half of a two-semester beginning sequence designed to help students attain a level of proficiency to function comfortably in a French-speaking environment.It is both speaking (through pair work, group work and drills) and writing intensive (through blogs and essays). In drills sessions, students develop the ability to speak and understand better through songs, skits, debates, and a variety of activities. Class meets nine hours per week.

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FREN B003 Intermediate French Fall 2013 The emphasis on speaking, understanding, and writing 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 in non-intensive (three hours a week) sections that are supplemented by an extra hour per week with an assistant. Language Level 2

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FREN B004 Intermediate French Spring 2014 The emphasis on speaking, understanding, and writing 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 in non-intensive (three hours a week) sections that are supplemented by an extra hour per week with an assistant. This is a year-long course; both semesters are required for credit. Language Level 2

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FREN B005 Intensive Intermediate French Fall 2013 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 three class meetings a week, students develop their skills in group sessions 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 semester II. Open only to graduates of Intensive Elementary French or to students placed by the department. Students who are not graduates of Intensive Elementary French must take either 102 or 105 to receive credit. Prerequisite 002 intensive. Two additional hours of instruction TBA. Language Level 2

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FREN B101 Introduction à l'analyse littéraire et culturelle I Fall 2013 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 and laboratory exercises. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

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FREN B102 Introduction à l'analyse littéraire et culturelle II Spring 2014 Continued development of students' expertise in literary and cultural analysis by emphasizing close reading as well as oral and written analyses of increasingly complex works chosen from various genres and periods of French and Francophone works in their written and visual modes. Readings include comic theater of the 17th or 18th centuries and build to increasingly complex nouvelles, poetry and novels of the 19th and 20th centuries. Participation in guided discussion and practice in oral/written expression continue to be emphasized, as is grammar review. Prerequisite: FREN 005 or 101. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

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FREN B105 Directions de la France contemporaine Spring 2014 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 and magazines, complemented by video materials. Prerequisite: FREN 005 or 101. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

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FREN B201 Le Chevalier, la dame et le prêtre: littérature et publics du Moyen Age Not offered 2013-14 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 women and men 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. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

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FREN B204 Le Siècle des lumières Spring 2014 Representative texts of the Enlightenment with emphasis on the development of liberal thought as illustrated in the Encyclopédie and the works of Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP)

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FREN B205 Le Temps des prophètes: de Chateaubriand à Baudelaire Fall 2013 A study of post-Revolutionary texts in which the prophetic voice of the « genius » is often gendered feminine and/or other . We will read Chateaubriand's short fiction situated in America, Atala and René, the prototype of the romantic ennui and incestuous love ; Mme de Staël's semi-autobiographical novel Corinne ou l'Italie ; Stendhal's delightfully juvenile Charteuse de Parme; Balzac's exotic Fille aux yeux d'or; George Sand's controversial Lélia, and two works, Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal, which were put on trial in 1857 for being dangerous to religion and public morals, and brought their respective authors out of obscurity, later to be integrated into the literary canon. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP)

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FREN B206 Le Temps des virtuoses: Symbolisme, Naturalisme et leur progéniture Not offered 2013-14 A study of selected works by Claudel, Gide, Proust, Rimbaud, Valéry, Verlaine, and Zola. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP)

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FREN B207 Introduction à la littérature du 20ème et 21ème siècle Spring 2014 A study of selected works illustrating the principal literary movements from 1900 to the present. Depending on who is teaching the course, this class will focus on various authors and literary movements of the 20th century such as Surrealism, Modernism, the Nouveau Roman, Oulipo, as well as works from the broader Francophone world. Prerequisites: French 102 or 105. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI)

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FREN B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the Humanities
Section 001 (Fall 2013): Rhetoric and Interpretation after Post-Modernism Fall 2013 An examination in English of leading theories of interpretation from Classical Tradition to Modern and Post-Modern Time. This is a topics course. Course content varies. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as ITAL B213 Cross-listed as RUSS B253 Cross-listed as PHIL B253

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FREN B248 Histoire des Femmes en France Spring 2014 A study of women and gender in France from the Revolution to the present. The course will pay particular attention to the role of women in the French Revolution (declarations, manifestos, women's clubs, salons, etc.) and in the post-revolutionary era, as well as to the more contemporary feminist manifestations in France since Simone de Beauvoir's Deuxième Sexe and the flow of feminist texts produced in the wake of May '68. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP)

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FREN B254 Teaching (in) the Postcolony: Schooling in African Fiction Not offered 2013-14 This seminar will examines novels from Francophone and Anglophone Africa, critical essays, and two films, in order to better understand the forces that inform the African child's experiences of education. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Africana Studies

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FREN B260 Atelier d'écriture Fall 2013 Intensive practice in speaking (praxis component through language exchange) and writing. Conversation, discussion, advanced training in grammar and stylistics. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Praxis Program

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FREN B262 Débat, discussion, dialogue Spring 2014 This advanced study of oral communication develops students' linguistic skills in narration, hypothesizing, persuasion or counseling, debate, negotiation, etc. Such skills will be nurtured through enrichment of vocabulary, reinforcement of accuracy in manipulation of complex grammatical structures, and enhancement of discursive strategies. The authentic material (both print and film) which serves as the basis of analytical discussion will reflect issues of contemporary importance; for example, France and Third World Francophone countries. Prerequisite: 212 or 260.

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FREN B270 Mediterranean Port-Cities: Immigration and Identities Not offered 2013-14 A historical, social and literary approach to the Mediterranean, this course will examine the impact of colonization and decolonization in around the Mare Nostrum. It will study the relationship between cities around the Mediterranean and France; how the various waves of immigration have shaped the cityscape and how much of a thriving effect they had on its cultural, literary and artistic creation. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Praxis Program

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FREN B275 Improving Mankind: Enlightened Hygiene and Eugenics Fall 2013 At first sight, hygiene and eugenics have nothing in common: the former is usually conceived as a good management of our everyday conditions of life, whereas the later are commonly reviled for having inspired discriminatory practices (in Nazi Germany, but also in the US, Sweden, and Switzerland). Our inquiry will explore how, in the context of the French Enlightenment, a subdiscipline of Medicine (namely Hygiene) was redefined, expanded its scope, and eventually became hegemonic both in the medical field and in the civil society. We will also explore how and why a philanthropic ideal led to the quest for the improvement of the human species. We will compare the French situation with that of other countries (mainly UK and the USA). Prerequisites: French Majors must have taken FREN B102; Students who wish to get credit in French will meet one extra hour TBD. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-listed as HIST B275

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FREN B302 Le printemps de la parole féminine: femmes écrivains des débuts Not offered 2013-14 This study of selected women authors from the French Middle Ages, Renaissance and Classical periods--among them, Marie de France, the trobairitz, Christine de Pisan, Louise Labé, Marguerite de Navarre, and Madame de Lafayette--examines the way in which they appropriate and transform the male writing tradition and define themselves as self-conscious artists within or outside it. Particular attention will be paid to identifying recurring concerns and structures in their works, and to assessing their importance to female writing: among them, the poetics of silence, reproduction as a metaphor for artistic creation, and sociopolitical engagement. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as COML B302 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies

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FREN B306 Libertinage et subversion Spring 2014 The libertine movement of the 18th century has long been condemned for moral reasons or considered of minor importance when compared to the Enlightenment. Yet, the right to happiness ('droit au bonheur') celebrated by the so-called 'Philosophes' implies a duty to experience pleasure ('devoir de jouir'). This is what the libertine writers promoted. The libertine movement thus does not confine itself to literature, but also involves a dimension of social subversion. This course will allow you to understand Charles Baudelaire's enigmatic comment: "the Revolution was made by voluptuaries." Division III: Humanities

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FREN B325 Etudes avancées
Section 001 (Fall 2012): Littérature, religion, société
Section 001 (Spring 2013): Proust Fall 2013 An in-depth study of a particular topic, event or historical figure in French civilisation. The seminar topic rotates among many subjects: La Révolution frantaise: histoire, littérature et culture; L'Environnement naturel dans la culture française; Mal et valeurs éthiques; Le Cinéma et la politique, 1940-1968; Le Nationalisme en France et dans les pays francophones; Etude socio-culturelle des arts du manger en France du Moyen Age à nos jours. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as COML B325

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FREN B326 Etudes avancées
Section 001 (Fall 2012): French Film Not offered 2013-14 An in-depth study of a particular topic, event or historical figure in French civilisation. The seminar topic rotates among many subjects: La Révolution française: histoire, littérature et culture; L'Environnement naturel dans la culture française; Mal et valeurs éthiques; Le Cinéma et la politique, 1940-1968; Le Nationalisme en France et dans les pays francophones; Etude socio-culturelle des arts du manger en France du Moyen Age à nos jours; French film. Division III: Humanities

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FREN B350 Voix médiévales et échos modernes Not offered 2013-14 A study of selected 19th- and 20th-century works inspired by medieval subjects, such as the Grail and Arthurian legends and the Tristan and Yseut stories, and by medieval genres, such as the roman, saints' lives, or the miracle play. Included are works by Bonnefoy, Cocteau, Flaubert, Genevoix, Giono, Gracq, Hugo, and Yourcenar. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as COML B350

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FREN B355 Variations sur le recit moderne: ruses et ressources Spring 2014 For Francophone societies, whether traditional, pre-modern or modern, the production of narratives involves a complex interplay between practices associated with orality and writing. Among the texts studied are those by Chrétien de Troyes, Margerite de Navarre, Tahar ben Jelloun, and Ong. Division III: Humanities

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FREN B398 Senior Conference A weekly seminar examining major French and Francophone literary texts and the interpretive problems they raise.?Theoretical texts will encourage students to think beyond traditional literary categories and disciplinary boundaries ?to interrogate issues such as cultural memory, political and moral subversion, etc. This course prepares students for? the second semester of their Senior Experience, during which students not writing a thesis are expected to choose a?300-level course and write a long research paper, the Senior Essay.

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FREN B403 Supervised Work

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FREN B403 Supervised Work

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FREN B614 Modalité de la narration: L'ecrit et lo'oral Not offered 2013-14

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FREN B654 Nostalgie, ou la maladie du retour Not offered 2013-14 This seminar will enquire on the origins and the development of the discourse on nostalgia in the 18th and 19th centuries. Nostalgia was first conceived as a real disease by physicians, who hesitated between a physical and a moral interpretation, and between a spatial and a temporal perspective. Rousseau and other prominent writers played a crucial role in defining and shaping an affection that became more and more fashionable. We shall discuss the (ab)use of nostalgia in medicine, politics, and literature.

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FREN B670 Hysterics, Saints, Mystics and Criminals in France's Secular Republic Fall 2013 This course will approach the debate between science and religion which flared up as France became more secularized in the second part of the 19th century through such figures as hysterics, mystics, saints and criminals. The reading of medical treaties, court case reports, media and other cultural artifacts, along with literary works, will allow us to discuss the relevance of these figures in the imaginary cultural unconscious of the time, how their designation and diagnosis can also be read as symptoms of a broader culture malaise concerning gender and sexuality, power and agency, and the establisment of a special brand of secularism or « laïcité » in the late 19th century. We will start with Michel Foucault's examination of a criminal case, that of Pierre Rivière, and will discuss medical treaties by Charcot, Freud, Moreau de Tours, reports on « miracles » at pilgrimage sites such as Lourdes, popular religious literature, as well as canonical and popular texts such as Eugène Sue's Mystères de Paris, Flaubert's Un cœur simple, Barbey d'Aurevilly's Les Diaboliques, Zola's Lourdes, Thérèse Martin's Histoire de ma vie, and Bernanos's Histoire de Mouchette.

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FREN B688 Int roman africain francophone Not offered 2013-14

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FREN B689 Writing Music and Differences Not offered 2013-14 At the most abstract level, this course hopes to propose new and unorthodox approaches to literature. That is, the course offers creative, yet rigorously critical modes of engagement with text in which music plays a significant role. On a more specific level, it hopes to demonstrate the extent to which music and language have, throughout Western history, and more specifically and radically since the beginning of the nineteenth century--that is, the rise of romanticism--been fundamentally at odds with each other. It will try to show that Western philosophy has constructed their relationship as essentially antagonistic and what the ramifications of such a conflict might be.

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FREN B700 Supervised Work Not offered 2013-14

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FREN B701 Supervised Work Fall 2013, Spring 2014

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Textes et films au programme

002
  • Apollinaire. "Le Pont"
  • Arrabal. "Pique-nique en Campagne"
  • Hugo, Victor. "Demain dès l'Aube"
  • Philombe, René. "Civilisation"
  • Prévert. "Familiale"
  • Rimbaud. "Le Dormeur du Val"
  • St Exupéry. Le Petit Prince
  • Verlaine. "Chanson d'automne"
003
  • Anhouilh, Jean. Antigone
  • Palcy, Euzhan. La Rue cases-nègres (film)
  • Thompson, Chanal et Bette Hirsch. Ensuite
005
  • Aymé. Les Contes du Chat Perché : "Le Loup"
  • Diop, Birago. "Sarzan"
  • La Fontaine. "Le Loup et l'Agneau"
  • Mérimée, Prosper. La Vénus d'Ille
  • Perrault. "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge"
  • Ronsard. "Ode à Cassandre"; "Sonnet pour Hélène"
100 -- cours de littérature et de culture
  • Barson, John. La Grammaire à l'oeuvre
  • Bauby, Dominique. Le Scaphandre et le papillon
  • Dongala, Emmanuel. Jazz et vin de palme (recueil de nouvelles)
  • de Duras, Claire. Ourika
  • Giono. "La femme du boulanger"
  • Mérimée, Prosper. Carmen
  • Molière. Le Misanthrope
  • L'outremangeur (bande dessinée)
  • Musique populaire (d'Aznavour à Zebda: rap et chanson)
  • Pagnol, Marcel. La Femme du boulanger (film)
200 -- cours de littérature et de culture
Textes
  • Camus, Albert. Le mythe de Sysiphe
  • Césaire, Aimé. Discours sur le colonialisme
  • Colette. Claudine à l'école
  • de Balzac, Honoré. Le père Goriot
  • Baudelaire. "Choix de poèmes"
  • Genet, Jean. Le Balcon
  • Hugo, Victor. Le dernier jour d'un condamné
  • Jarry, Alfred. Ubu Roi
  • Labou-Tansi, Sony. Je soussigné cardiaque
  • Memmi, Albert. Portrait du colonisé précédé du Portrait du colonisateur
  • Kourouma, Ahmadou. Les soleils des indépendances
  • Radiguet, Raymond. Le diable au corps
  • Stendhal. Le rouge et le noir
  • Vallès. Jules L'insurgé
  • Zola, Emile. La curée
  • Raymond Queneau. Zazie dans le metro
  • Rimbaud . "Choix de poèmes"
  • Sartre, Jean-Paul. Huis Clos
  • Vian, Boris. L'écume des jours
Films
  • Arnaud, Jean-Jacques. La victoire en chantant
  • Berri, Claude. Uranus
  • Chabrol, Claude. Madame Bovary
  • Chatiliez, Etienne. La Vie est un long fleuve tranquille
  • Corneau, Alain. Fort Saganne
  • Denis, Claire. Chocolat
  • Girod, Francis. L'Etat sauvage
  • Hubert, Jean-Loup. Le Grand chemin
  • Palcy, Euzhan. La Rue Cases-Nègres
  • Peck, Raoul. Lumumba
  • Pontecorvo, Gillo. La Bataille d'Alger
  • Rohmer, Eric. Conte d'hiver
  • Roüan, Brigitte. Outre-Mer (1990)
  • Sembène, Ousmane. Camp de Thiaroye
  • Truffaut, François. Le Dernier Métro Wargnier
  • Régis. Indochine
200 -- cours de langue
  • Siskin, H. Jay et al. Tâches d'encre.
  • Judge, Anne & F.G. Healey. A Reference Grammar of Modern French
300 -- cours de littérature et de culture
  • Audoin-Rouzeau,  Stéphane  et Annette Becker. La Grande Guerre: 1914-1918
  • ---. 14-18: Retrouver la Guerre
  • Blanc, Henri. Le dernier survivant de 14
  • Buffon. Histoire naturelle
  • Céline, Ferdinand. Voyage au bout de la nuit
  • Charrière. Lettres de Mistress Henley
  • Cyrano de Bergerac. Voyage dans la lune
  • Daeninckx, Didier. Le der des ders
  • Diderot. Supplément au voyage de Bougainville
  • Dorgelès, Roland. Les croix de bois
  • Drieu La Rochelle, Pierre.  La comédie de Charleroi
  • de Duras, Claire.  Ourika. (1823)
  • Genevois, Maurice.  Ceux de 14 . "Sous Verdun"
  • Giono. Jean. Le grand   troupeau
  • J. P. Guéno Ed. Paroles de poilus
  • Margeritte, Victor. La Garçonne
  • Montesquieu. Les Lettres persanes, Flammarion
  • Proust, Marcel. A la recherche du temps perdu (Extraits Du côté de Guermantes et du Temps retrouvé )
  • Rousseau. Discours sur l'origine des inégalités
  • Roux, Frédéric.   Le désir de guerre
  • Sade. La Philosophie dans le boudoir
  • Vercel, Roger. Capitaine Conan
  • Voltaire. Micromégas
Cours gradués
  • Diderot. Le Rêve de d'Alembert
  • Descartes. Le Discours de la méthode
  • Mme de Villeneuve. La Belle et la bête.
  • Mme de Riccoboni. Lettres de Misstriss Fanni Butlerd
  • La Fontaine. Le Songe de Vaux
  • Mercier. L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fût jamais
  • Rétif de la Bretonne. Les Nuits de Paris
  • Rousseau. Les Rêveries d'un promeneur solitaire
  • Voltaire. Memnon ou la sagesse humaine
  • ---. Songes, in Dictionnaire philosophique
  • ---. Superstition