French Courses

Fall 2024▲

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Elementary French I

FREN 111 - Leva, James R.

Emphasis on listening comprehension and speaking, with gradual introduction of reading and writing.

Intermediate French I

FREN 161 - Kamara, Mohamed

Extensive grammar review with acquisition of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in the classroom. The course acquaints students with French life and culture.

Advanced Intermediate French

FREN 164 - Kamara, Mohamed

Emphasis on reading and composition skills, with extensive practice in speaking and listening through class discussion. Some grammar review.

Invitation au voyage

FREN 273 - Kamara, Mohamed

In this course students will discover the fascinating and ecclectic world of French language literature and film. This exploration will include a variety of authors, poets, playwrights, and filmmakers. Focus on textual analysis in composition and oral presentations.

Histoire des idées

FREN 283 - McCormick, Stephen P.

This course retraces the evolution of thought in France across centuries through the examination of intellectual, cultural and artistic movements. Readings, discussions and paper in French for further development of communication skills.

La Francophonie

FREN 344 - Kamara, Mohamed

An analysis of styles, genres, and themes in relation to particular cultural contexts, as represented in literary works written in French by authors from countries other than France. Of particular interest is French language literature from Africa, the Caribbean, and Canada.

Directed Individual Study: Traditions intellectuelles et la société contemporaine

FREN 403E - McCormick, Stephen P.

This course investigates influential moments in French intellectual and scientific history and explores how these questions resurface in contemporary francophone society.

Spring 2024▲

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Spring Term Topics in French Civilization: Collecting Empire: Museums, Botanical Specimens, and Assembling the French Colonial Empire

FREN 285B - Kamara, Mohamed / McCormick, Stephen P.

A study of significant aspects of culture and civilization through direct experience abroad in France and/or Francophone countries.

Winter 2024▲

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Elementary French II

FREN 112 - Leva, James R.

Emphasis on listening comprehension and speaking, with gradual introduction of reading and writing.

Elementary French II

FREN 112 - Kamara, Mohamed

Emphasis on listening comprehension and speaking, with gradual introduction of reading and writing.

Intermediate French II

FREN 162 - Roney, Kristina M.

Extensive grammar review with practical application of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in the classroom. The course acquaints students with French life and culture.

Conversation et composition: Cours avancé

FREN 261 - Roney, Kristina M.

Further development of conversational skills and beginning work in free composition, with systematic grammar review and word study in various relevant cultural contexts.

Civilisation et culture françaises: La France d'aujourd'hui

FREN 282 - McCormick, Stephen P.

A study of modern France. This course examines the economic, political, social and intellectual issues which shape contemporary French life. Readings, discussions and papers in French for further development of communication skills.

Séminaire avancé: Les géographies de l'imaginaire: la cartographie et le voyage entre le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance

FREN 397C - McCormick, Stephen P.

This seminar is a sustained and in-depth exploration of medieval and Renaissance cartography and travel. We will explore what it means to draw maps in the Middle Ages and how cartographic contours are shaped more by imagination and ideology than direct observation. We will read a variety of primary sources written in French including books of marvelous beasts and monsters, early travel accounts of Europeans in the Far East, and literary texts that explore lands reachable only through imagination. A primary outcome of this course is to investigate how the medieval cartographic imagination set the stage for colonial expansion, exploitation and inequality along racial lines, and the European justification for global hegemony. Supplementary texts, in the form of critical

Directed Individual Study: Littérature de l'exile

FREN 403D - Radulescu, Domnica V.

An exploration of Contemporary Francophone theater, prose and film by writers and artists of French expression focused on the experience of displacement, exile and post-colonial realities in and outside of France.