French 230 - COLLOQUIUM IN FRENCH STUDIES
Spring
2015
02
4.00
Helene Visentin
TTh 10:30-11:50
Smith College
37986-S15
HATFLD 106
hvisenti@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: Paris, a Multi-Layered City.