French 230 - COLLOQUIA IN FRENCH STUDIES
Fall
2012
02
4.00
Carole Delaitre
MWF 09:00-09:50
Smith College
17974-F12
SEELYE 204
cdelaitre@smith.edu
A gateway to more advanced courses. These colloquia develop skills in expository writing and critical thinking in French. Materials include novels, films, essays, and cultural documents. Students may receive credit for only one section of FRN 230. Enrollment limited to 16. Basis for the major. Prerequisite: FRN 220, or permission of the instructor. A study of madness and its role in the literary tradition. The imagination, its powers and limits in the individual and society. Such authors as Maupassant, Flaubert, Myriam Warner-Vieyra, J.-P. Sartre, Marguerite Duras.
Topic: Fantasy and Madness.