This is a full-year course.

Arranged in consultatioin with the department.

Same as SPN 481. The theoretical and instructional implications of teaching foreign languages. This course reflects contemporary research and is designed to prepare aspiring instructors for the challenges of the profession. A theoretical component incorporates recent trends in language pedagogy and critical appraisal of SLA theories. A practical component focuses on developing a teaching persona, a relationship with learners, and classroom organization and presentation skills. The course will transform knowledge into practice, and will culminate in the creation of a teaching portfolio.

Admission by permission of the department; normally for junior and senior majors and for qualified juniors and seniors from other departments.

Topics Course. An overview of commercial and financial terminology against the backdrop of contemporary French business culture, using case studies, French television and newspapers, and the internet. Emphasis on essential technical vocabulary, reading and writing business documents, and oral communication in a business setting. Prepares students for the Diplome de francais professionnel (Affaires B2) granted by the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry and administered at Smith College.

One of the most ancient and universal feelings, love is also infinitely elusive and as much about the self as it is about anything else. In this course, intended for literary as well as non-literary students, we will examine what the Romantic imagination has made of the mystery, magic and travails of love and how it confronted some of the major cultural and social issues of its time: marriage and happiness, exotism, class divide, love and death. Novels by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Chateaubriand, George Sand, Lamartine, Alexandre Dumas and Nerval.

What effects does theater have on its audience and society at large? Does it corrupt the public and society, as J.-J. Rousseau argued, or on the contrary, can it morally reform its audience and society, as Diderot believed? The debate about the moral and political uses and misuses of theater animated the public, the philosophes and their critics, as well as the state, from the mid-seventeenth century until the Revolution, and on to today.

Practicum in French; must be taken simultaneously with CLT 150. Students will read short texts in translation theory, study translation techniques and strategies, compare versions of translated texts, and produce their own translations of French texts. Readings and discussions conducted in French. Prerequisite: two courses in French studies at the 200-level or permission of the instructor.

Fiction writers produce design and invite us to think about it in various ways. In our mind's eye, we see a virtual world created in their pages. We may discover design physically before us, on the page, or looking at the book itself as an object designed to tell us something quite different from the fiction it contains. Finally, a text may explore the seductions and dangers of the desire to design and to create. Authors include Guillaume de Lorris, Montaigne, Louis XIV, Alfred Jarry, Balzac, Zola, Huysmans, Apollinaire, Colette.

Topics course. Few cities have inspired artists more than Paris. In this course, we will discuss how, starting with the New Wave, filmmakers have been using the City of Light to reflect some of the most significant cultural and social changes of their times. Readings in film criticism and other related topics. Film screenings mandatory. Course taught in French. Cross-listed with Film Studies. Prerequisite: FRN 230, or permission of the instructor.