Conversation, grammar, and reading.
Conversation, grammar, and reading. Pre: 101 or consent.
Content of 101-102 covered in one semester. Three two-hour sessions per week.
Reading, conversation, laboratory drill, composition. Pre: 102 or 110 or consent.
Continuation of 201. Pre: 201.
Content of 201-202 covered in one semester. Three two-hour sessions per week. Pre: 102 or 110 or consent.
Intensive course of full-time formal instruction on the second-year level in French language and culture in a French-speaking country. Pre: 102 or 110 or consent.
Continuation of 258.
Analysis of phonological system; methods of teaching pronunciation; understanding various types of spontaneous speech. Drills in pronunciation, intonation, stress, and rhythm. Pre: 202 or 210 or 259 or consent.
Development of language skills through reading of cultural and literary texts. Pre: 202 or 210 or 259 or consent.
Structure of contemporary French as analyzed by descriptive linguists. Pre: 202 or 210 or 259 or consent.
Reading and writing commercial materials. Pre: 202 or 210 or 259 or consent.
Systematic practice for control of spoken French. Further development of vocabulary for accurate, mature expression. Pre: 202 or 210 or 259 or consent.
Emphasis on strengthening facility with language through further training in syntax, structure, and composition writing. Pre: 202 or 210 or 259 or consent.
Systematic and advanced practice for control of spoken French, advanced development for accurate, mature expression. Pre: 311 or consent.
Major authors and movements. Pre: 311 (or concurrent) and 312; only 311 may be concurrent.
Continuation of 331. Pre: 311 (or concurrent) and 312; only 311 may be concurrent.
Intensive formal instruction at the third-year level in French language skills: reading, writing, grammar, or conversation in a French-speaking country. Pre: 202 or 210 or 259 or consent.
Continuation of 358.
Intensive formal instruction at the third-year level in French language skills: reading, writing, grammar, or conversation in a French-speaking country. Pre: 202 or 210 or 259 or consent.
Survey of culture and institutions of modern France. Pre: 202 or 210 or 259 or consent.
A historical survey of the development of French culture. The course is interdisciplinary, focusing on the relations between politics, literature, science, and the arts. A-F only. Pre: 202 or 210 or 259 or consent.
(B) French film; (C) the Fantastic; (D) Francophone literature. Repeatable two times with consent. Pre: 311 or 312, or consent.
Independent study of approved reading with faculty supervision. Repeatable two times. A-F only. Pre: consent.
Further development of listening, comprehension, speaking, and writing skills through viewing of French videotapes, reading French newspapers, frequent oral and written reports. Pre: 311 and 312, or 306, or 358, or 360; or consent.
Practice in techniques based on contrastive linguistics. Translation of texts from various fields from French into English and the reverse. Pre: 306 or 309, and 312; or consent.
Samplings from epic, novel, verse and prose, tale, lyric poetry, chronicle, theater, didactic literature. Elementary readings in original text in editions giving modern French translation. Pre: 331 or consent.
Advanced course in spoken and written French with intensive review of alternative grammatical structures and shades of meaning in the modern language. Graduates who have not taken prerequisites may request consent. Pre: 306 or 405 (or equivalent); or consent.
Samplings from all major writers of the period. Readings in original text in editions giving modern French equivalents for difficult words. Pre: 331 or consent.
Principal works of major dramatists: Corneille, Moliere, Racine. Principal movements and major authors of non-dramatic prose and poetry. Pre: 331 or consent.
Pre: 332 or consent.
Study of representative prose and poetry of the major trends of 19th century France: romanticism, realism, symbolism, aestheticism. Pre: 332 or consent.
Major French playwrights and their works: Claudel, Giraudoux, Anouilh, Sartre, Camus, etc. Pre: 332 or consent.
Study of representative prose and poetry of the major trends of 20th century France: modernism, surrealism, existentialism, postmodernism and multiculturalism. Pre: 332 or consent.
Intensive course of full-time formal instruction on the fourth-year level in French linguistics, civilization, culture, and literature in a French-speaking country. Pre: 359 or 360 or equivalent.
Continuation of 458.
Intensive course of formal instruction on the fourthyear level in French language, culture and literature in a French-speaking country. For semester programs only. Pre: 360 or equivalent.
(B) French literature by period; (C) Francophone literature; (D) French film; (E) topic in French literature. Repeatable two time per alpha. Pre: 331 (or concurrent) and 332 (or concurrent), or consent.
Independent study of approved readings and research with faculty supervision. Repeatable two times. A-F only. Pre: consent.
Reading of scholarly and technical French for graduate students; open to undergraduates with consent of department chair. Not applicable to undergraduate language requirement. Repeatable two times with consent. CR/NC only.
Authors and movements of modern period.
Poetry, theater, prose. Emphasis on Montaigne and Rabelais. Lectures, discussions, reports.
Dramatic or prose works of the classical period.
Philosophic movements and their impact on the social, political, and literary life of the period and the modern era.
Advanced practice in translation into French and from French to English in various fields (literature, business, medicine, other), with reflection on choices. Readings in translation theory. Repeatable one time.
Origins and development of French language in its cultural context. Contrastive analysis.
Genesis and evolution of literary genres from the 12th to 15th centuries. Epic, romance, lyric poetry, prose, and drama.
Novels which have influenced movements or established techniques. Repeatable two times with consent.
Historical development; major dramatists who have influenced movements or established techniques. Pre: 6 credit hours at 400 level.
Repeatable unlimited times. Pre: consent of department chair.
Study of authors or a period. Repeatable two times with consent. Pre: consent of instructor and French graduate advisor.