FREN -- French

FREN 400 Applied Linguistics (3) The nature of applied linguistics and its contribution to the effective teaching of foreign languages. Comparative study of English and French, with emphasis upon points of divergence. Analysis, evaluation and construction of related drills.

FREN 401 Advanced Composition and Style (3) Prerequisite: FREN 301 or permission of department. Comparative stylistic analysis; translation.

FREN 402 Advanced Grammar and Phonetics (3) Prerequisite: FREN 301 or permission of department. Theory and practice of grammatical structures and rules of phonetics.

FREN 404 Issues in the French-Speaking World Today (3) Prerequisite: FREN 311 or FREN 312 or permission of department. A socio-cultural and historical approach to relevant issues affecting contemporary French civilization. Press articles and television programs will be the basis for classroom cultural analysis and oral communication.

FREN 405 Explication De Texte (3) Oral and written analysis of short literary works, or of excerpts from longer works chosen for their historical, structural, or stylistic interest, with the purpose of training the major to understand literature in depth and to make mature esthetic evaluations of it.

FREN 406 Commercial French II (3) Prerequisite: FREN 306 or permission of department. Advanced study of commercial French language--terminology and style--leading to preparation for the Paris Chamber of Commerce Examination.

FREN 407 History of the French Language (3) Evolution of the French language from Latin to modern French.

FREN 419 Studies in Medieval French Literature (3) Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Selected topics in medieval French literature.

FREN 429 Studies in French Literature of the Renaissance (3) Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Selected topics in French literature of the Renaissance.

FREN 439 Studies in 17th Century French Literature (3) Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Selected topics in seventeenth-century French literature.

FREN 449 Studies in 18th Century French Literature (3) Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Selected topics in eighteenth-century French literature.

FREN 459 Studies in 19th Century French Literature (3) Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Selected topics in nineteenth-century French literature.

FREN 469 Studies in 20th Century French Literature (3) Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Selected topics in twentieth-century French literature.

FREN 471 French Civilization I (3) French life, customs, culture, traditions (800-1750).

FREN 472 French Civilization II (3) French life, customs, culture, traditions (1750 to the early twentieth century).

FREN 473 Cross-Cultural Approaches to the Study of Contemporary French (3) Society Patterns of communication, mythology, and ideology in modern France, from the Third Republic to the present, through historical and cross-cultural approaches, with reference to the Francophone world.

FREN 474 Contemporary France: A Sociocritical Approach (3) Recommended: FREN 473. A sociocritical approach to understanding modern French society through the study of print and non-print media documents (autobiography, film, and paraliterature), with reference to the Francophone world.

FREN 478 Themes and Movements of French Literature in Translation (3) Studies treatments of thematic problems or of literary or historical movements in French literature. Topic to be determined each semester. Taught in English.

FREN 479 Masterworks of French Literature in Translation (3) Treats the works of one or more major French writers. Topic to be determined each semester. Taught in English.

FREN 480 French Cinema: A Cultural Approach (in Translation) (3) Formerly FREN 475. A study of French culture, civilization, and literature through the medium of film. Taught in English.

FREN 481 Femmes Fatales and the Representation of Violence in Literature, (3) Opera and Film (in English) The problem of violence in art with respect to women and marginal populations. Taught in English.

FREN 482 Gender and Ethnicity in Modern French Literature (3) Literature by women writers of France and other French speaking areas with a focus on the relationship between gender, ethnicity and writing. Taught in English.

FREN 483 I and They: Conflict Between Individual and Society in French (3) Literature The alienation of the individual in conflict with society reflected in French works from the absolutist society of the 17th century to the disintegration of societal norms today. Taught in English.

FREN 484 The Age of Anxiety: Existentialism and the Absurd (in Translation) (3) Existentialism and the Absurd in 20th century French literature. Taught in English.

FREN 485 Ideologies and Relations between the Sexes in French Literature (3) (in Translation) The evolution of sexual mores in the Western world as reflected in masterworks of French literature from the 12th to the 20th centuries. Taught in English.

FREN 489 Pro-Seminar in Themes or Movements of French Literature (3) Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs.

FREN 495 Honors Thesis Research (3) Open only to students admitted to the departmental honors program. The writing of a paper under the direction of a professor in this department and an oral examination. Required to fulfill the departmental honors requirement.

FREN 498 Special Topics in French Literature (3) Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs.

FREN 499 Special Topics in French Studies (3) Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. An aspect of French studies, the specific topic to be announced each time the course is offered.

FREN 600 Introduction to Literary Theory (3)

FREN 601 The History of the French Language (3)

FREN 603 Advanced Translation (3) Advanced translation (French/English, English/French) and comparative stylistic analysis.
FREN 609 Special Topic in the French Language (3)

FREN 619 Special Topic in Medieval French Literature (3)

FREN 629 Special Topic in Sixteenth Century French Literature (3)

FREN 639 Special Topic in Seventeenth Century French Literature (3)

FREN 649 Special Topic in Eighteenth Century French Literature (3)

FREN 653 The French Novel in the Nineteenth Century (3)

FREN 659 Special Topic in Nineteenth Century French Literature (3)

FREN 663 The French Novel in the Twentieth Century (3)

FREN 665 The French Theatre in the Twentieth Century (3)

FREN 669 Special Topics in Twentieth Century French Literature (3)

FREN 679 The History of Ideas in France (3) Analysis of currents of ideas as reflected in different periods and authors of French literature.

FREN 689 Seminar in a Great Literary Figure (3)

FREN 699 Seminar (3) Topic to be determined each semester.

FREN 709 College Teaching of French (1) Repeatable to 2 credits. Introduction to the teaching of French at the college level with particular emphasis on methodology. Seminars in theory, demonstration of different teaching techniques, supervised practice teaching, training in language laboratory procedures, evaluation of instructional materials. Required of all graduate assistants in French.

FREN 798 Master's Independent Study (1-3) Prerequisite: permission of the department's Director of Graduate Studies. Repeatable to 3 credits.

FREN 799 Master's Thesis Research (1-6)

FREN 818 French Literary Criticism (3) Analysis and evaluation of various trends in literary criticism. Topic to be determined each semester.

FREN 898 Doctoral Independent Study (3) Repeatable to 6 credits.

FREN 899 Doctoral Dissertation Research (1-8)