ELEMENTARY FRENCH
3 credits
Patterns 1-2
The courses are topically organized and designed to encourage communication and to offer insight into the culture of the speakers of French. Information is provided on the geo-political areas in which French is spoken and the cultural habits and orientation of its speakers.
INTERMEDIATE FRENCH
3 credits
Concentration Option or Patterns 1-2 or
These courses promote communication through a knowledge of French and French culture. They involve further study of the structural and lexical features of French based upon topical subjects. They enhance an understanding of the in-depth culture of France through presentations and its traditions of art, music, and literature.
STRUCTURE AND STYLE
3 credits
Concentration Option or Patterns 1-2 or
Review of grammatical principles and their practical application in written exercises and in the translation of standard English prose into French.
CONVERSATION AND COMPOSITION
3 credits
Concentration Option or Patterns 1-2 or
These courses involve conversations on topical subjects and in-depth analyses of structural, lexical, and grammatical features of French. The conversations are drawn on the cultural activities and perspectives of the speakers of French (holidays, work habits, plight of ethnic minorities, church, and family).
SURVEY OF FRENCH LITERATURE
3 credits
Concentration Option or Patterns 1-2 or
Readings and discussions in French of selected literary works from the beginnings to 1800 and from 1800 to the present.
CIVILIZATION
3 credits
Concentration Option or Patterns 1-2 or
The first semester treats the political, social, intellectual, and artistic developments in France from earliest times to 1870, while the second semester emphasizes these cultural structures as they exist in contemporary French society. Lectures and readings serve as a basis for class discussion in French.
OLD FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
3 credits
Concentration Option
The history of the formation of the French language, with special attention to the phonological and morphological development from Latin. Literary study, using texts in the original, of Alexis, Roland, Guigemar, Aucassin, Vergi, and the poetry of Villon.
SIXTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE
3 credits
Concentration Option
Readings and reports on works of representative authors of the 16th century.
CLASSICAL THEATRE
3 credits
Concentration Option
A study of the plays of Corneille, Moliere, and Racine.
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE
3 credits
Concentration Option
Readings and reports on works of representative authors of the 18th century.
NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL
3 credits
Concentration Option
A study of some of the major novels of the 19th century, including works by Constant, Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and Huysmans.
MODERN POETRY
3 credits
Concentration Option
A study of French poetry from Nerval and Baudelaire through the symbolists and surrealists to the present.
MODERN POETRY
3 credits
Concentration Option
A study of the plays of Claudel, Cocteau, Giraudoux, Anouilh, Montherlant, Sartre, Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, and Genet.
MODERN NOVEL
3 credits
Concentration Option
A study of the novels of Proust, Gide, Bernanos, Malraux, Sartre, Camus, and Robbe-Grillet.
