'A review of Italian through film. Cultural and linguistic aspects of five to six films and related readings will be the focus of this course and the starting point for class activities, conversation, written exercises, and grammar review. This interdisciplinary approach offers students an opportunity to explore Italian culture deeply, while at the same time improving their reading, writing, and speaking skills. The course also features regular conversation sessions with language assistants who are native speakers.'

'A review of Italian through film. Cultural and linguistic aspects of five to six films and related readings will be the focus of this course and the starting point for class activities, conversation, written exercises, and grammar review. This interdisciplinary approach offers students an opportunity to explore Italian culture deeply, while at the same time improving their reading, writing, and speaking skills. The course also features regular conversation sessions with language assistants who are native speakers.'

'This course emphasizes understanding, speaking, and writing in a contemporary context. It also promotes creativity with presentations and original group projects. It includes Web activities, films, short stories, and frequent conversation sessions with language assistants who are native speakers.'

'This course emphasizes understanding, speaking, and writing in a contemporary context. It also promotes creativity with presentations and original group projects. It includes Web activities, films, short stories, and frequent conversation sessions with language assistants who are native speakers.'

'This course emphasizes understanding, speaking, and writing in a contemporary context. It also promotes creativity with presentations and original group projects. It includes Web activities, films, short stories, and frequent conversation sessions with language assistants who are native speakers.'

'This course will explore the figure of the prostitute, and the theme of prostitution, primarily in French novels of the nineteenth century. We will examine the ways in which the figure of the prostitute serves as a reflection of broader social and literary questions: female sexuality as represented by male authors, the link(s) between sex and money, the question of realism in narrative fiction, et al. In addition to literary texts, we will study secondary sources that place French prostitution in its historical and cultural context.

'This course is devoted entirely to the works of writer-director Ousmane Sembene. We will explore the major highlights of his life; his involvement in leftist movements in Europe, his writing and cinema and especially the place of his work in the African cultural discourse. The study of Sembene's work will be divided into four main themes: 1) Experience exile and the search for a voice; 2) The historical work; 3) The political and social criticism; 4) Woman and Society. Finally, we will examine the role of Sembene's work in the history of cultural discourse in Africa.'

'Popular French novels have inspired film directors and provided interesting interpretations of famous protagonists such as the three musketeers, Princess de Cleves, Madame Bovary, Julien Sorel, Bel-Ami, and Valmont and Merteuil of Dangerous Liaisons. Using films as introduction to novels in context, we focus on social codes of love in 16th and 17th century royal French courts, games of seduction and deception amongst 18th century nobility, and love and ambition in 19th Century society. Relevant literary texts and paintings are used as primary documents.

'After first defining 'courtly love' via Chretien's Lancelot and other representative texts, we shall read the two-part, 13C Roman de la rose, begun as a serious allegorical love-quest by one author, then, years later, 'continued' in an opposite vein by another author using virtually all knowledge and controversy to define love, and life, against Church and state dogma. The Rose's learned yet irreverent, schizoid nature and manuscript images made it an international blockbuster admired and/or reworked by Dante, Chaucer and others.

'Images et Patrimoine: In this multimedia course students learn to decode images and study the social and historical context of French art and architecture: Medieval tapestries, Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals, Renaissance castles, Classic and Rococo art, and nineteenth century schools of painting. Students give in-class presentations and write essays about notable French landmarks. The purpose of such inquiry is to revisit the past and see how it has affected contemporary French society. All course material is online.'