Intro to Earth Process & Hist

Geology is a study of the Earth. In this course, students examine the processes that formed the Earth and that have continued to change the planet during its 4.57 billion year history. In rocks, minerals and the landscape, geologists see puzzles that tell a story about Earth’s past. Students develop their geologic observation skills. The class investigates the origins of minerals and rocks and the dynamic processes that form volcanoes, cause earthquakes, shape landscapes, create natural resources and control the climate—today as well as during the Earth’s past.

T-Immigration&Sexuality

This course explains how gender and sexuality have been politicized in immigration debates in France, from the 1920s to the present. Students examine both cultural productions and social science texts: memoirs, psychoanalytical literature, activist statements, sociological studies, feature films, fashion, performance art, blogs and news reports. France has historically been the leading European host country for immigrants, a multiplicity of origins reflected in its current demographic make-up.

FrancophoneAfricanWomenWriters

This course explores how Francophone African women writers from the 20th and 21st centuries address identity, gender, race, migration, female body, and sociocultural norms. Through texts set in Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa, students examine female protagonists navigating gender roles, exclusion, sexuality, and otherness across shifting cultural and social contexts in their pursuit of identity.

Teaching Romance Languages

Offered as FRN 299, ITL 299, POR 299 and SPN 299. The course explores the issues in world language instruction and research that are essential to the teaching of Romance languages. Special focus is on understanding local, national and international multilingual communities as well as theories, methods, bilingualism and heritage language studies. Discussions include the history of Romance languages, how to teach grammar and vocabulary, the role of instructors and feedback techniques.

RethinkingFrenchIntellectuals

This course examines the figure of the French intellectual and explores the ideas and writings of earlier thinkers who lived before the term “intellectual” was coined, tracing the historical roots of intellectual tradition in France. It also questions how the social category of the public intellectual has been both constructed and contested by thinkers excluded from the national narrative.

French Classroom on Screen

The classroom can function as a microcosm of French society, illuminating tensions along racial, socioeconomic, and cultural lines that mark the nation and its colonial history. Through the study of documentary and narrative films, critical essays, and literary texts, this course considers what pedagogy can reveal about childhood, national identity, political resistance, and humanity. Course taught in French. Prerequisite: Any topic of FRN 230.

Colq:T-WomnWrit/Africa&Caribbn

An introduction to works by contemporary women writers from Francophone Africa and the Caribbean. Topics studied include colonialism, exile, motherhood and intersections between class and gender. The study of these works and of the French language is informed by attention to the historical, political and cultural circumstances of writing as a woman in a former French colony. Texts include works by Mariama Bâ, Maryse Condé, Yamina Benguigui and Marie-Célie Agnant. Basis for the major. Course taught in French. Prerequisite: FRN 220. Restrictions: FRN 230 may not be repeated.

Colq:T-EncounteringNature

This course examines how writers from the 16th-18th centuries experienced their natural settings. These settings varied widely, encompassing both Europe and the Americas during early phases of colonization. The great variety of flora and fauna in these different locales prompted questions about what nature signified and for whom. How did such factors as gender, religion, ethnicity and social class combine with political influences in each century to cause shifting understandings and representations of the natural world?

High Intermediate French

Review of communicative skills through writing and class discussion. Materials include two movies, a comic book and two novels. Prerequisite: three years of high school French, FRN 103, FRN 120 or equivalent. Students completing the course normally enter FRN 230. Enrollment limited to 18.
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