Designed as part of the living-learning community in Thatcher Language House. Improves knowledge of the German language with emphasis on oral skills. Builds vocabulary, develops ability to understand and communicate more freely by focusing on social and cultural issues.

Dialogues, reading selections from print and electronic sources, and grammar exercises for basic communication, a good understanding of the fundamentals of German grammar, and an introduction to the traditions and institutions of the German-speaking countries. Prerequisite GERMAN 110 or equivalent.

Course taught in French. Practice with the four skills: reading, writing, understanding, and speaking. Readings of contemporary plays, short stories, journal articles. Frequent short written exercises. Review of grammar as questions arise. Suitable for students planning to continue beyond the 240 level. Prerequisite: FRENCHST 230 or equivalent. Note: Students in 246 need not take this course. This course completes the CHFA Language Requirement.

An introduction to French with an emphasis on acquiring a basic level of proficiency in the language and understanding of the culture of France and the Francophone world. Freshmen with one senior year of high school French with a grade of A or B or with two years of high school French are encouraged to enroll in FRENCHST 120 rather than this course.

Not available at this time

Our objective in this course will be both literary and cultural. Starting with the 19th century writers Flaubert and Maupassant and continuing with the short prose works of such 20th and 21st century authors as Colette, Sartre, Camus, Duras, Ernaux, Tournier, Le Clezio, Gavalda and Schmitt, we will examine and discuss the succession and the interplay of major socio-political, intellectual and literary trends and upheavals that transformed French society from the late 19th to the early 21st century. All readings, discussion and papers will be in French.

An introduction to French with an emphasis on acquiring a basic level of proficiency in the language and understanding of the culture of France and the Francophone world. Freshmen with one senior year of high school French with a grade of A or B or with two years of high school French are encouraged to enroll in FRENCHST 120 rather than this course.

Course taught in English. This course offers a broad historical overview of the ways in which love and erotic behavior in French culture have been represented and understood in the arts, especially in Literature and, more recently, in film, from the middle ages to the twentieth century. (Gen.Ed. AL)

A second-semester elementary French course: a continuation of FRENCHST 110 with emphasis on acquiring basic level of proficiency in the language and understanding of the culture of France and the Francophone world.
Prerequisite: FRENCHST 110, one semester of college French, or two years of high school French. Freshmen with senior year high school French with a grade of A or B are encouraged to enroll in FRENCHST 120 rather than 110.