This is a full-year course.

Arranged in consultatioin with the department.

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

We will study the figure of the intellectual from the 17th to the 20th century as well as some of the debates, polemics, intellectual activism in each period concerning subjects such as political power, intolerance, racism, fanaticism, feminism, and the death penalty.

Topics course. This course examines the place of sexuality in discussions and representations of immigration to France. Through readings, lectures, and film screenings, students discover the role played by sexuality in immigration debates from the 1920s to the present day.

Same as CLT 301. For students concurrently enrolled in CLT 300 wishing to read and discuss in French the literary theory at the foundation of contemporary debate. Readings of such seminal contributors as Saussure, Levi-Strauss, Barthes, Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, Cixous, Kristeva, Irigaray, Fanon, Deleuze, Baudrillard. Optional course. Graded S/U only. (E)

Emphasis on some of the more difficult points of French grammar and usage. Discussions and exercises based on various genres of writing and basic concepts in linguistics. Some work on phonetics. Prerequisite: normally, one course in French at the 250 level or permission of the instructor.

A study of post-revolutionary France as depicted by Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Proust and others in their novels. Film adaptations of the novels will also be discussed. We will consider topics such as public versus private spheres; old values versus new ones; the rise of the middle class; bodies and sexuality; the modern self. Pre-requisite: at least one course beyond FRN 230 or permission of the instructor.

From the Mediterranean rim to the Atlantic coast, from the center of the continent to the Indian Ocean islands, Francophone Africa presents a rich diversity of socio-historic, economic, and political situations. Through case studies, this course proposes an exploration of Francophone African cultures in three eras: colonialism, independence, and post-democracy. Focus will be on themes such as nation, agriculture, democracy, globalization, migration, and conflict. Prerequisites: one course beyond FRN 230 or permission of the instructor. (E)

A study of contemporary French social, economic, political and cultural issues through daily readings of French magazines and newspapers on line such as Le Monde, Le Figaro, Liberation, Le Nouvel, Observateur, L'Express. Prerequisite: FRN 230 or permission of the instructor.