Enrollment limited to 20. The course is designed to help students understand, speak, read, and write the French language. Students learn to provide information about their opinions and feelings, their families, their immediate environment, and their daily activities. They are introduced to both the structure of the French language the cultural features of some French-speaking communities. Daily assignments, laboratory work, and screening of video materials.

Enrollment limited to 20. The same course as W1101-W1102, above.

Enrollment limited to 20. Recommended companion course: W1221-W1222. Prepares students for advanced French language and culture. Develops skills in speaking, reading, and writing French. Emphasizes cross-cultural awareness through the study of short stories, films, and passages from novels. Fosters the ability to write about and discuss a variety of topics using relatively complex structures.

Enrollment limited to 20. The same course as W1201-W1202, above.

Conducted in French. Practice in conversational French, with emphasis on comprehension, pronunciation, and idiomatic usage. Recommended parallel: French W1201-W1202

Prerequisites: completion of the language requirement in French or the equivalent.

Conversation on contemporary French subjects based on readings in current popular French periodicals.

Prerequisites: FREN 3405 (Advanced Grammar and Composition) or an AP score of 5 or the permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limited to 20. Reading and discussion of major works from the Middle Ages to 1800.

Prerequisites: FREN 3405 (Advanced Grammar and Composition) or an AP score of 5 or the permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limited to 20. Reading and discussion of major works from 1800 to the present.

Prerequisites: W3405 must be taken before W3406 and before W3333/4 unless the student has an AP score of 5 or receives the permission of the Director of undergraduate studies.

Enrollment limited to 15. Required of all French majors. Designed to give students an enhanced appreciation and command of the written language. Introduction to the mechanics of writing through a progression of morphology and grammar exercises designed to help students move beyond the sentence level and discover the rules that govern texts.

Prerequisites: Prerequisites: FREN 3405 (Advanced Grammar and Composition) or an AP score of 5 or the permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

Examines conceptions of culture and civilization in France from the Enlightenment to the Exposition Coloniale of 1931, with an emphasis on the historical development and ideological foundations of French colonialism. Authors and texts include: the Encyclop�die; the D�claration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen; the Code noir; Diderot; Chateaubriand; Tocqueville; Claire de Duras; Renan; Gobineau; Gauguin; Drumont.

Prerequisites: Completion of French W3333 or W3334 and W3405, or permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies

Taking modern definitions and critiques of Enlightenment as its starting point, this course will look at how the Enlightenment defined itself as a philosophical, cultural and literary movement, practiced self-criticism from within, and responded to dissension and critique from without. Authors will include Adorno, Horkheimer, Foucault and Israel for the modern critical context, and Voltaire, Diderot, Buffon, Rousseau, Sade and Kant for the eighteenth century material. The course will be given in French, but non-majors may write papers in English. It can be used to fulfill either the cultural studies requirement, or the pre-1800 requirement (but not both).

Prerequisites: French W3333 or W3334 and W3405, or the permission of the director of undergraduate studies.

Based on readings of short historical sources, the course will provide an overview of French political and cultural history since 1700

Enrollment limited to 20. The course is designed to help students understand, speak, read, and write the French language. Students learn to provide information about their opinions and feelings, their families, their immediate environment, and their daily activities. They are introduced to both the structure of the French language the cultural features of some French-speaking communities. Daily assignments, laboratory work, and screening of video materials.

Enrollment limited to 20. The same course as W1101-W1102, above.

Enrollment limited to 20. Recommended companion course: W1221-W1222. Prepares students for advanced French language and culture. Develops skills in speaking, reading, and writing French. Emphasizes cross-cultural awareness through the study of short stories, films, and passages from novels. Fosters the ability to write about and discuss a variety of topics using relatively complex structures.

Enrollment limited to 20. The same course as W1201-W1202, above.

Conducted in French. Practice in conversational French, with emphasis on comprehension, pronunciation, and idiomatic usage. Recommended parallel: French W1201-W1202

Prerequisites: completion of the language requirement in French or the equivalent.

Conversation on contemporary French subjects based on readings in current popular French periodicals.

Prerequisites: FREN 3405 (Advanced Grammar and Composition) or an AP score of 5 or the permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limited to 20. Reading and discussion of major works from the Middle Ages to 1800.

Prerequisites: FREN 3405 (Advanced Grammar and Composition) or an AP score of 5 or the permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limited to 20. Reading and discussion of major works from 1800 to the present.

Prerequisites: W3405 must be taken before W3406 and before W3333/4 unless the student has an AP score of 5 or receives the permission of the Director of undergraduate studies.

Enrollment limited to 15. Required of all French majors. Designed to give students an enhanced appreciation and command of the written language. Introduction to the mechanics of writing through a progression of morphology and grammar exercises designed to help students move beyond the sentence level and discover the rules that govern texts.

Prerequisites: FREN 3405 (Advanced Grammar and Composition) or an AP score of 5 or the Director of Undergraduate Studies' permission.

Universalism vs. exceptionalism, tradition vs. modernity, integration and exclusion, racial, gender, regional, and national identities are considered in this introduction to the contemporary French-speaking world in Europe, the Americas, and Africa. Authors include: Aim� C�saire, L�opold Sedar Senghor, Frantz Fanon, Maryse Cond�.

Prerequisites: French W3333-W3334 or the permission of the director of undergraduate studies or the instructor.

A study of the French philosophical tradition from Montaigne to Derrida, with an emphasis on moral and political philosophy. Readings also include Descartes, Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Voltaire, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Renan, and Ric�ur.

A study of landmarks of French cinema from its origins to the 1970s. We will pay particular attention to the relation between cinema and social and political events in France. We will study films by Jean Vigo, Jean Renoir, Rene Clair, Alain Resnais, Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.

What is an author, a text, a reader, an interpretation? What determines esthetic judgments? Readings will include Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan, Maurice Blanchot, Paul de Man, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, and Jean-Luc Nancy.