Detailed French Course Descriptions: Fall 2009

French 2105: Mizutani-Rousseau

French 3105: Grammar, Composition, and Conversation, Johnson, Joseph

Progressive and comprehensive review of French. Practice in written and oral expression in French on a variety of topics in French culture. Conducted in French. PRE: FR 2106 or 2164 MWF 10:10-11:00AM, 11:15-12:05, 12:20-1:10PM

French 3125: Oral Proficiency Noirot

This course will help students reach the ACTFL-based level of Intermediate Advanced and learn to speak French better using appropriate idiomatic expressions and correct grammar. PRE: 3105-6 and admission by oral interview. Students must attend the first day of class. Meets MWF 12:20-1:10

French 3164: Advanced Business French Johnson

Business French is a skills-based course where students learn to use appropriate technical vocabulary for different business contexts, do translation, write professional correspondence, and read articles related to world of business, economics, and finance. Cross-cultural differences regarding the work place are also a focus of the course. PRE: FR 3106. MWF 1:25-2:15.

French 3205: French Culture and Civilization Teulon

A study of French culture and civilization from the origins of France to the French Revolution. PRE: FR 3105-3106. Meets TR 8:00-9:15AM and 9:30-10:45AM

French 3305: Survey of French Literature Teulon

Readings in French literature from the Middle Ages to the end of the 17th century to acquaint students with literary techniques and contexts. PRE: FR 3105-06 and 3304. Meets MW 2:30-3:45PM

French 3314: Francophone Studies Guèye

Students will read works by Francophone writers from North Africa, the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa and Quebec. This course explores the variety of voices, groups and societies in Francophone literatures. Intended as a basic introduction to the literature personality of the area, this course considers issues of history, resistance, representation, identities, and race, as a response to the legacy of colonial France. PRE: FR 3304, 3105 and 3106. Meets, MWF 10:10-11:00AM.

This course is designed to help students refine their writing skills in French through different activities, such as pre-writing, drafting, revision, editing, and proofreading. Students will improve their ability to compose in French in a variety of styles and will also review specific grammatical problems. The course will be taught in French, and it has been approved for graduate credit. PRE: FR 3105, 3106. Meets TR 2:30-3:45PM

French 4314/5404 Studies in French Literature: Joseph

"Itinéraires de l'imaginaire : le voyage aux 19e et 20e siècles": This exploration of the travel theme in French literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries will be carried through identifying various literary genres that dealt with this theme, discerning the hybrid elements which enter into travel writing as a genre, and studying some of the constitutive elements in the representation of the other, from exoticism to ethnography. Observational emphases will include: the interlacing of lived experience and the imaginary; the new modalities of the genre and the cultural and scientific elements that conditioned its transformations; and how these modalities and transformations reflect some of the major literary movements in the period covered. (This course has been approved for graduate credit.) PRE: FR 3105, 3106, 2/3 of the following courses 3305, 3306, 3314. Meets TR 2:00-3:15PM.