French courses Fall 2003

French Divison

Fall 2003 Courses

French 101 is offered MWF at 7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, and 12:30.
French 102 is offered MWF at 8:30, 9:30, and 11:30
French 201 is offered MWF at 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30, and 12:30.
French 202 is offered MWF at 10:30, 11:30, and 12:30.
Italian 102 is offered MWF at 10:30.
Italian 202 is offered MWF at 11:30.

FR 301 FRENCH PHONETICS (3 cr.) (CRN 13343 Oral Communication) Dr. Marie-Christine Garneau
MWF 11:30-12:20
Study of the French sound system. Good for students interested in improving their pronunciation, in reading and vocabulary building. Meets three times a week. Class sessions take place in the language laboratory. Prereq: French 202.

FR 306 STRUCTURE OF FRENCH (3 cr.) (CRN 45530) Dr. Kathryn Klingebiel
TTh 10:30-11:45
Structure of contemporary French, with intensive review of grammar and authentic usage. Develop vocabulary and communication skills, with attention to culture. Essential Reprise (1998). Prereq: Fr 202.

FR 311-1 FRENCH CONVERSATION (3 cr.) (CRN 11879 Oral Communication) Marion Correnoz
MWF 9:30-10:20

FR 311-2 FRENCH CONVERSATION (3 cr.) (CRN 33415 Oral Communication) Marion Correnoz
MWF 1:30-2:20
Emphasis on speaking and listening skills to develop students’ ability to communicate effectively, including spontaneous conversational skills that go beyond academic topics and prepared situations. Class discussions; small group activities; individual/group projects to encourage participation and practice; vocabulary development. Text: Entretiens. Prereq: French 202.

FR 312 W/I FRENCH COMPOSITION (3 cr.) (CRN 14259 Writing Intensive) Marion Correnoz
MWF 12:30-1:20
The emphasis is on writing and in different styles (formal, informal, business, literary, correspondence, descriptive). Short readings in preparation for writing will provide food for thought and discussion. Grammar points will be reviewed as necessary. Writing Intensive. Text: Alinéas. Prereq: French 202.

FR 331 SURVEY OF FRENCH LITERATURE (3 cr.) (CRN 11882) Dr. Marie-José Fassiotto
MWF 1:30-2:20
To provide an introduction to the elements of French literature, themes, imagery, techniques, etc., from the Middle Ages through the 18th century, enabling the student to read literature more meaningfully and pleasurably in advanced courses. Pre: 311 and 312 or consent.

FR 405 ADVANCED ORAL AND WRITTEN PRACTICE (3 cr.) Jacob Huss
MWF 9:30-10:20
Further development of speaking, listening, comprehension, and writing skills through a study of French songs, viewing of French videotapes, studying short readings. Prereq: FR 311 and 312, 306 or 358 (360).

FR 421 20TH-CENTURY FRENCH THEATER (3 cr.) Dr. Kathryn Hoffmann
TTh 1:30-2:45
The works of major French playwrights of the twentieth century, including Anouilh, Ionesco, Sartre, Beckett, Genêt, Cocteau and Giraudoux, in the context of the major literary, historical and philosophical problems that marked the century. Existentialism, pessimism, surrealism, individualism and otherness, the absurd, and the limits of the modern perspective will be discussed. Paper, oral presentation, short projects. Prerequisite: FR 332 or consent of instructor.

FR 491 SEMINAR IN FRENCH LITERATURE (3 cr.) Dr. Marie-Christine Garneau
MWF 1:30-2:20
Seminar conducted in French on recent and popular French films and on modern French and Francophone literature as film. Activities will include: analysis of films from a cultural point of view; comparison of films and literary texts; transcription and study of excerpts. Required: two major papers, two oral presentations.

FR 609 FRENCH RENAISSANCE (3 cr.) Dr. Marie-Christine Garneau
MW 2:30-3:45
Main works from the French Renaissance, including poetry and prose, with special emphasis on Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, thePléiade (Du Bellay & Ronsard), and Montaigne's Essais (selected chapters from the three books).]

FR 681 SEMINAR: THE NOVEL IN FRANCE (3 cr.) Dr. Jean Toyama
T 3:00-5:45 (Bilger 101)
We will be studying the novel by focusing on the development of its form as related to point of view in novels treating the subject of love. Pertinent chapters of Wayne Booth’s The Rhetoric of Fiction, E. M. Forester’s Aspects of the Novel, and Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe will be read. Novels to be read in their entirety: La Princesse de Clèves, Les Liaisons dangereuses, Eugénie Grandet, La Jalousie, L’Amant, Une si longue lettre. (Excerpts from other novels may also be included.) Grades will be based on an oral presentation (15%); progress report on paper (15%); paper (30%), preparation and discussion (20%); mid-term (20%).

LLEA 270 FREAKS AND MONSTERS (3 cr.) Dr. Kathryn Hoffmann
TTh 10:3011:45 (MSB 114)
An interdisciplinary course on monsters and freaks in literature, film, history and the history of medicine, centered on "otherness" as a cultural phenomenon. Using material from 16th-century Europe through 20th-c. America, course includes: 1) the history of fairground, circus and museum exhibitions of marvels and "freaks" (conjoined twins, horned people, giants, mermaids, "missing links," etc.; 2) birth defects in medicine and popular imagination; 3) monsters and freaks in literary short stories and films from France, Germany, Russia, South America, the U.S., England and Japan. Texts: Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body, and J. Bondeson, A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities. Prereq: sophomore standing or consent.

LLEA 682 MASTERPIECES OF MEDIEVAL WELSH LITERATURE (3 cr.) Dr. Kathryn Klingebiel
TTh 12:00-1:15
Introduction to the legend of King Arthur and Celtic mythology. Readings in medieval Welsh and English. No previous knowledge of Welsh required. Grammar instruction provided. Texts: Course reader; The Maginogion (Everyman paperback), tr. Gwyn Jones; Owein (Iarlles yr Ffynawn), ed. R.L. Thomson; Davies, Geiriadur Mawr (dictionary). Undergraduates welcome with consent of instructor.

ITAL 101 BEGINNING ITALIAN (3 cr) (CRN 18701) Staff
MWF 10:30-11:20

ITAL 201 INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN (3 cr) (CRN 18716) Staff
MWF 11:30-12:20