Basic elements of French grammar. Oral, writing, and reading skills. Students may take either or both of these courses at Columbia.

Prerequisites: Primarily for students who need further instruction to qualify for the intermediate course. Credit cannot be granted for both FREN BC1002 and BC1102 (or its equivalent). Enrollment limited to 20 students per section.

Oral and written review of basic grammar and syntax. Readings in modern French and Francophone literature.

Prerequisites: FREN BC1001, BC1002, BC1102, C1101�C1102, or an appropriate score on the placement test.

Further development of oral and written communication skills. Readings in French literature.

Prerequisites: FREN BC1203 or an appropriate score on the placement test.

Advanced work in language skills. Readings in French literature.

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students. This course does not satisfy the language requirement.

Intensive oral work, vocabulary enrichment, discussions on prepared topics relating to contemporary France and the French-speaking world, oral presentations.

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students.

Discussions on contemporary issues and oral presentations. Creative writing assignments designed to improve writing skills and vocabulary development.

Transformation and evolution of the French languages from the early Middle Ages to the present are studied from a socio-historical perspective. Primary texts include literary, legal, political, scientific, administrative, liturgical, and epistolary documents. Includes consideration of French outside of France and variations on the continent in the 20th century.

Systematic study of morphology, syntax, and idiomatic expressions. Weekly writing assignments.

Prerequisites: Satisfaction of the language requirement or the equivalent.

Translation of various styles of prose and poetry from French to English.

Prerequisites: At least one French course after completion of the language requirement and permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 10 students.

Oral presentations and discussions of French films aimed at increasing fluency, acquiring vocabulary, and perfecting pronunciation skills.

Prerequisites: Satisfaction of the language requirement or the equivalent.

Medieval, Renaissance, and Classical literature in their cultural context.

Prerequisites: FREN BC3021, BC3022, BC3023, BC3024, or permission of the instructor.

Topics will include the theory of the gratuitous act, literature and the rise of Fascism, war and the literature of commitment, erotic violence.

Prerequisites: FREN BC3021, BC3022, BC3023, BC3024, or the equivalent.

Thorough study of the major intellectual movements in France from Surrealism to post-structuralism. Particular attention given to theories of political commitment, texuality and deconstruction. Readings include works by Breton, Senghor, Sartre, L�vi-Strauss, and Derrida.

Major surrealist paintings, films, and photographs. Included are works by Breton, Desnos, Bu�uel, Clair, Fini, Ernst, Dal�, Magritte, Man Ray, Molinier, Tanning, and Artaud. Critical texts by Sade, Freud, Breton, Bataille, Bellmer, Desnos, and others.

Analysis of the theoretical and literary precursors of n�gritude; major figures of the movement; relations with the Harlem Renaissance; and the formulation of creolity by contemporary Caribbean writers and thinkers. Authors will include Gobineau, Maran, Price-Mars, Hughes, McKay, C�saire, Senghor, Damas, Fanon, Sartre, Glissant, and Chamoiseau. Taught in French.

Prerequisites: Completion of language requirement in French or equivalent.

Introduction to major works of fiction from the French-speaking countries of the Caribbean, West Africa, North Africa and �Indochina.� Considers some of the principal authors of these regions, and examines the socio-political, historical, and aesthetic considerations that have influenced Francophone literary production in the twentieth century.

Looks at the portrayal of women as unsettling figures in the Francophone Caribbean literary universe. Examining the uncanny heroines in the novels of both male and female writers, students will identify the thematic commonalities and specific configurative strategies that emerge in the fictional representation of women in the region. The symbolic import of zombies, schizophrenics, and other "disordering" characters will be analyzed as indicators of and reflections on broader social realities.

Representations of African culture by filmmakers from various cultural backgrounds. Social and ideological positions and the demands of exoticism. The constructions of the African as �other� and the responses they have elicited from Africa�s cin�astes.

Basic elements of French grammar. Oral, writing, and reading skills. Students may take either or both of these courses at Columbia.

Prerequisites: FREN BC1001, BC1002, BC1102, C1101�C1102, or an appropriate score on the placement test.

Further development of oral and written communication skills. Readings in French literature.

Prerequisites: FREN BC1203 or an appropriate score on the placement test.

Advanced work in language skills. Readings in French literature.

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students. This course does not satisfy the language requirement.

Intensive oral work, vocabulary enrichment, discussions on prepared topics relating to contemporary France and the French-speaking world, oral presentations.

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students.

Discussions on contemporary issues and oral presentations. Creative writing assignments designed to improve writing skills and vocabulary development.

Prerequisites: Fourth year French students only; Seniors have priority.
Enrollment limited to 12 students.

The socioeconomic language of contemporary French society. Practice of oral and written communications based on documents from the French press. Students who have completed the course may wish to take the Dipl�me du Fran�ais des Affaires given by the Chambre de Commerce et d�Industrie de Paris.

Transformation and evolution of the French languages from the early Middle Ages to the present are studied from a socio-historical perspective. Primary texts include literary, legal, political, scientific, administrative, liturgical, and epistolary documents. Includes consideration of French outside of France and variations on the continent in the 20th century.

Prerequisites: The French language requirement and approval of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 12 students.

Workshop format course to perfect writing skills in French. Writing formats that will be used over the semester include narration, portait, essai, dissertation, film and book reviews, and correspondence.

Prerequisites: At least one French course after completion of the language requirement and permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 10 students.

Oral presentations and discussions of French films aimed at increasing fluency, acquiring vocabulary, and perfecting pronunciation skills.

Prerequisites: Satisfaction of the language requirement or the equivalent. FREN BC3021 may be taken for credit without completion of FREN BC3022.

The Age of Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism, and Symbolism.

Prerequisites: FREN BC3021, BC3022, BC3023, BC3024, or the equivalent.

The challenge of traditional ideas of government, religion, ethics, and aesthetics in 18th-century France.

Prerequisites: Satisfaction of the language requirement or permission of the instructor.

Readings of poems by Lamartine, Hugo, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Mallarm�. Focuses on the turn from Romanticism to Modernism in the 19th century.

Prerequisites: FREN BC3021, BC3022, BC3023, BC3024, or the equivalent.

Thorough study of the major intellectual movements in France from Surrealism to post-structuralism. Particular attention given to theories of political commitment, texuality and deconstruction. Readings include works by Breton, Senghor, Sartre, L�vi-Strauss, and Derrida.

Major surrealist paintings, films, and photographs. Included are works by Breton, Desnos, Bu�uel, Clair, Fini, Ernst, Dal�, Magritte, Man Ray, Molinier, Tanning, and Artaud. Critical texts by Sade, Freud, Breton, Bataille, Bellmer, Desnos, and others.

Representations of African culture by filmmakers from various cultural backgrounds. Social and ideological positions and the demands of exoticism. The constructions of the African as �other� and the responses they have elicited from Africa�s cin�astes.