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1020  Beginning French II (4) Recommended Prerequisite: FRNCH 1010 or by placement exam.
   Second-semester French. This course continues to develop listening and reading strategies with an emphasis on oral and written forms of communication.

1110  Accelerated Beginning French (4) Recommended Prerequisite: By placement exam.
   For students with previous French classroom experience, but otherwise the same as FRNCH 1010. After 1110, students complete the first year by taking FRNCH 1020.

1120  Intensive Beginning French (8) Recommended Prerequisite: FRNCH 1110 or by placement exam.
   Combines FRNCH 1010 and 1020 into one semester. Open but not restricted to students with previous French classroom experience who will be able to move through material quickly especially early in the semester.

2010  Intermediate French I (4) Recommended Prerequisite: FRNCH 1020 or by placement exam.
   Third-semester French. Continued emphasis on listening and speaking skills with an increased emphasis on reading and writing skills through the study of short selections of French literature.

2020  Intermediate French II (4) Recommended Prerequisite: FRNCH 2010 or by placement exam.
   Fourth-semester French. This course maintains a strong emphasis on listening and speaking skills. Through readings of more extensive texts and informal writing as a support for speaking, it develops oral fluency toward narration/elaboration and paragraph-length discourse.

3040  Topics in Literature and Culture (3) Recommended Prerequisite: FRNCH 2020 or by placement exam.
   Topic to be announced each quarter. Focus on content to engage students in critical thinking and analysis. Course covers oral functions (detailed description, narration, and elaboration, stating and supporting opinions) and writing (informal and formal, with focus on thesis and organization).

3060  Grammar and Reading (3)
   Review of grammar through reading of selected texts; extensive writing. Preparation for 4000-level courses. For students with two or more years of experience in a country where the language is spoken.

3330  Advanced French Phonetics (3) Recommended Prerequisite: FRNCH 2020.
   French phonetics and exercises in pronunciation.

3600  French Conversation (1) Prerequisite: FRNCH 1010 or equivalent.
   This course provides students at all levels of fluency in French the opportunity to improve their skills in speaking and listening and to expand their cultural awareness. Presentations by the instructor and invited speakers on topics of cultural interest related to the French-speaking world (e.g. current events, film, art, music, cuisine, business, politics, cross-cultural encounters) will be followed by general discussion and small group conversation. Credit/No credit. No written work. Course repeatable for credit, but majors and minors may only count up to three credits toward the major or minor.

3950  French Service-Learning (1 to 3)
   Involves students in thoughtfully organized service that meets a particular community's needs. Students have opportunities to use and expand their French language skills and cross-cultural understanding while doing service-learning projects on campus and in the local community.

4510  French Business and Current Issues (3)
   Introduction to business and professional French. Current issues in French business and politics. Letter, resume writing, and practical job skills in French.

4550  French Civilization (3) Recommended Prerequisite: Any 3000 level course or advanced standing.
   Major French contributions to world culture with emphasis on arts and thought in historical context.

4560  Contemporary French Culture (3) Recommended Prerequisite: Any 3000 level course or advanced standing.
   Present-day France and its place in today's world.

4600  Reading Seminar (3) Recommended Prerequisite: FRNCH 3040 or 3060. Fulfills Upper-division Communication/Writing.
   Extensive reading and writing as preparation for the literary survey courses. This course will focus on different topics in order to introduce students to literary analysis in French. Emphasis on close readings, critical understanding and analysis of French texts.

4610  French Literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (3) Recommended Prerequisite: FRNCH 3040 or 3060.
   The literary surveys focus on selected and representative works of the period under consideration. Courses are reading and writing intensive. They introduce students broadly to the period -- to literary works and their cultural context. Students will practice different kinds of formal and textual analysis as well as actively participate in class discussions. From the Song of Roland to Montaigne.

4620  French Literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (3)
   The literary surveys focus on selected and representative works of the period under consideration. Courses are reading- and writing-intensive. They introduce students broadly to the period -- to literary works and their cultural context. Students will practice different kinds of formal and textual analysis as well as actively participate in class discussions. From Descartes through Rousseau.

4630  French Literature of the Nineteenth Century (3) Recommended Prerequisite: FRNCH 3040 or 3060.
   The literary surveys focus on selected and representative works of the period under consideration. Courses are reading- and writing-intensive. They introduce students broadly to the period -- to literary works and their cultural context. Students will practice different kinds of formal and textual analysis as well as actively participate in class discussions. From Hugo through Villiers de l'Isle-Adam.

4640  French Literature of the Twentieth Century (3) Recommended Prerequisite: FRNCH 3040 or 3060.
   The literary surveys focus on selected and representative works of the period under consideration. Courses are reading- and writing-intensive. They introduce students broadly to the period -- to literary works and their cultural context. Students will practice different kinds of formal and textual analysis, as well as participate in class discussions.

4880  Directed Reading (1 to 3)
   Directed readings are designed for advanced undergraduates to pursue interests with a given professor that go beyond the boundaries of previous classroom work or available class offerings. Students will create a reading list and syllabus of assignments and meetings in conjunction with the professor.

4900  Special Topics (0.5 to 4) Recommended Prerequisite: FRNCH 3040 or 3060.
   Special topics and courses vary. They are designed for advanced minors and majors and explore literary themes, movements, issues with a more specific focus than the literary surveys. Frequently this designation indicates an undergraduate course that meets with a graduate course.

4990  Capstone Course (1) Recommended Prerequisite: FRNCH 3040 or 3060.
   The student will make an oral presentation to a panel of French faculty. The presentation will be based on a formal term paper that the student has written for an upper-level (4600+) French course. Faculty and student will discuss the presentation topic and its possible relation to the student's overall major. The entire session will last one hour.

4999  Honors Thesis/Project (3) Fulfills Upper-division Communication/Writing.
   Restricted to students in the Honors Program working on their Honors degree.

6260  Linguistic Structure of French (3) Cross listed as LING 6250. Recommended Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
   Meets with LING 5250, though graduate students are expected to perform at a superior level. No prior knowledge of French is required. A course in the linguistic description of Standard French: phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon. A linguistic approach is contrasted with traditional grammar.

6270  Topics in French Linguistics (3) Cross listed as LING 6251. Recommended Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
   Meets with LING 5251, though graduate students are expected to perform at a superior level. No prior knowledge of French is required. May be repeated when topic varies. Information on current topics available in Linguistics Office.

6600  Studies in Medieval Literature (3) Cross listed as C LIT 6620.
   Selected works of poetry, prose, or theatre from the Middle Ages are studied in the context of a major theme or concept.

6610  Studies in Humanism (3) Cross listed as C LIT 6630. Recommended Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
   Through readings of authors such as Geoffroy Troy, Clement Marot, Francois Rabelais, Marguerite de Navarre, and Joachim Du Bellay as well as Ficino, Erasmus, More, Castiglione, Alciato and Aretino, this course situates the diverse currents of 16th century French humanist writers in relation to Italian and Northern European humanistic movements and debates. We will pay particular attention to the impact of printing, neo-Platonism, courtly ideals, anti-courtier satires, and encyclopedic thinking on the formation of letters during this period.

6620  Renaissance Authors (3) Recommended Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
   This seminar surveys a range of genres such as the nouvelle (Marguerite de Navarre), lyric (Marot, Sceve, Labe, Du Bellay), the novel (Jean Lemaire de Belges, Helisenne de Crenne and Rabelais), epic (d'Aubigne),and the essay (Montaigne). Each offering will focus on a specific grouping of these authors that highlights a particular historical or philosophical issue. The course also stresses the development of formal analysis and critical writing skills.

6630  Seventeenth-Century Authors (3) Recommended Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
   This seminar surveys Baroque, Neo-Classical and precieux currents of the 17th century through representative readings in drama (Corneille, Racine, and Moliere), the novel (d'Urfe, Layfayette, Scudery), moralists (Pascal, La Fontaine, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyere) and poetry (Viau, Saint-Amant, Malherbe, Boileau). Themes and specific groupings of authors will vary.

6631  French Drama (3)
   This seminar explores specific problems and/or important periods in French drama from the medieval farce to twentieth-century theatre of the absurd. Themes and specific groupings of authors will vary.

6640  Eighteenth-Century Literary Currents (3) Recommended Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
   This seminar examines how women were represented and represent themselves in diverse literary works from the period surrounding the French Revolution. We will consider not only myths of femininity that are exemplified by these writings but also how they mirror our own modern myths. Particular emphasis will be placed on the study of historical, political, and social contexts.

6650  Nineteenth-Century Poetry (3) Recommended Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
   This course focuses on the major movements and figures such as the Romantic poets (including Lamartine, Hugo, and Nerval) and post-Symbolist experimentations by Verlaine and Lautreamont. Themes and specific groupings of authors will vary.

6652  Major Nineteenth-Century Novelists (3)
   Readings of works by major figures such as Constant, Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and Maupassant.

6690  Symbolist Poetry (3) Recommended Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
   This course focuses on the work of three great poets of 19th-century France--Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarme--and their contribution to the movement known as 'Symbolism.' We will trace the origins of this movement from early 19th-c. Romanticism. Our emphasis, however, will be on close textual analysis and rhetorical strategies in selected poems from these three authors.

6720  The Twentieth-Century Novel (3) Recommended Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
   Through readings of authors such as Proust, Gide, Malraux, Sartre, Queneau, Beckett, Robbe-Grillet, Sarraute, Duras, and Simon, this course surveys major developments in the novel since the beginning of the twentieth century. Topics and specific groupings of authors will vary.

6760  Twentieth-Century French Poetry (3) Recommended Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
   This seminar explores some of the major currents in 20th-century poetry from surrealism to the poetry of place. Themes and specific groupings of authors will vary.

6780  French Women's Writing (3) Recommended Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
   Women's writing has represented a site of ongoing critique and concern in French cultural production from the Middle Ages to the present. This course explores a range of questions and issues such as the appropriation and expropriation of a rhetorical voice, the effort to articulate a formally distinct notion of an ecriture feminine, and the gendering of the literary canon in French literature. Themes and authors will vary.

6880  Directed Reading (1 to 3) Recommended Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
   Directed readings are designed for advanced graduates to pursue interests with a given professor that go beyond the boundaries of previous classroom work or availabe class offerings. Students will create a reading list and syllabus of assignments and meetings in conjunction with the professor.

6900  Special Topics (1 to 3) Recommended Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

6970  Thesis Research: Master's (1 to 13) Recommended Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

6980  Faculty Consultation (3)

7250  Romance Philology (3) Recommended Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
   Main linguistic transformations in Vulgar Latin and Romance languages.

7300  Graduate Language Study (1 to 3) Recommended Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

7620  Mannerism to Baroque (3) Recommended Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
   This seminar uses representative works by Ronsard and Montaigne to study and debate the rhetorical, philosophical, and political dimensions of the Mannerist and Baroque movements in the second half of the 16th century. We will focus on the emergence of a Baroque aesthetic in the macabre themes and sublime fascination with death in both writers' works. We will also bring a number of theorists and philosophers of the Baroque such as Agamben, Benjamin, Derrida, de Certeau, Freud, and Lyotard into the discussions.

7630  Major Seventeenth-Century Authors (3) Recommended Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
   This seminar explores in greated detail specific problems and issues in 17th-century drama (Corneille, Racine, Moliere), novels (d'Urfe, Lafayette, Scudery), moralistic writing (Pascal, La Fontaine, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyere), and poetry (Viau, Saint-Amant, Malherbe, Boileau).

7640  Major Eighteenth-Century Authors (3) Recommended Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
   In-depth explorations of major 18th-century authors such as Prevost, Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire, Condillac, Montesquieu, Laclos, and Charriere. Themes and authors will vary.

7650  Major Nineteenth-Century Authors (3) Recommended Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
   Focuses on crucial movements and problems in 19th-century French literature. Topics and specific groupings of authors will vary.

7700  Introduction to Old French Literature (3)
   Introduces students to the study of Old French. The goal of the course will be comfortable reading knowledge. We will pursue this goal through philological excercises and explicit study of the language. We will also hone our reading skills through extended study of one author.

7720  Major Twentieth-Century Novelists (3) Recommended Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
   In-depth exploration of developments in the novelistic form through readings of representative works by authors such as Proust, Gide, Malraux, Sartre, Queneau, Beckett, Robbe-Grillet, Sarraute, Duras, and Simon. Topic and specific groupings of authors will vary.

7900  Special Topics I (1 to 3) Recommended Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

7970  Thesis Research: Ph.D. (1 to 13) Recommended Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

7980  Faculty Consultation (3) Recommended Prerequisite: Graduate standing.