Study of major trends in the nineteenth-century French novel. Specific topics will vary and may focus on a specific movement, author or theme.

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.

Did you know that Louis XIV was responsible for surgery being recognized as a branch of medicine in France, and Napoleon was one of the firsts to encourage vaccination? That Marie Curie discovered radium, still used today to treat some forms of cancer, and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau played a crucial role in the creation of pediatrics? In this course, you will discover all the medical oddities and feats that shaped today's France.

Following the French New Wave, contemporary French cinema from the 1980s to the current era has revisited the country's recent historical past, in particular those periods of the Occupation and of decolonization, in addition to focusing on social issues such as the suburbs and their culture, immigration, and the French education system, in a variety of films including thrillers and comedies. This class will focus on how these topics reflect economic realities, national obsessions, behavioral conventions, and societal transformations.

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Course taught in French. Introduction to the way the French look at their own political, social, and cultural history; a study of some institutions, events, and figures that help understand French people today. Prerequisite: FRENCHST 240 level or equivalent, preferably 250 level. Non-majors may write papers and exams in English. (Gen.Ed. HS)

The first of two consecutive courses devoted to advanced grammar review and composition (followed by French 473). Extensive written practice with various grammatical structures, frequent short writing assignments, introduction to literary analysis. Taught in French.

This course offers an introduction to African film as an aesthetic and cultural practice. Students should expect to be familiarized with the key ideas and objectives that have inspired and driven that practice since the early 1960s, and be furnished with the technical tools and methodological skills that would permit them to understand, analyze, and think critically about the artistic and thematic aspects of the films that are screened.

This course offers an introduction to African film as an aesthetic and cultural practice. Students should expect to be familiarized with the key ideas and objectives that have inspired and driven that practice since the early 1960s, and be furnished with the technical tools and methodological skills that would permit them to understand, analyze, and think critically about the artistic and thematic aspects of the films that are screened.