FREN 303 Culture and Communication: Paris (study abroad) (TR 9:25-10:40)
Overview of the history of Paris as a cultural, intellectual, and economic center through texts, music, and films.
Students earn 3 credits for the course or 4 credits if participating in a supplementary 10-day study trip to France
at the end of the semester in May. Scholarships available. Instructor: Deborah Nelson-Campbell
FREN 312 Major Literary Works and Artifacts of Post-Revolutionary France: the Romantic Legacy (TR 2:30-3:50)
Study of 19th- and 20th-century fiction through the special lens of Romantic imagination. Readings from Chateaubriand, Desbordes-Valmore,
Claire de Duras, Musset, Hugo, Baudelaire Flaubert, Proust, Prevert, and the new novelists.
Emphasis on discussion and close textual analysis, all in French.Instructor: Deborah Harter
FREN 336 Writing Workshop (TR 10:50-12:05)
The course will focus on the practice of writing as a discursive discipline. It will also closely examine,
from both a stylistic and rhetorical point of view, creative and critical prose by Vercors, Queneau, Perec, and others.
Required of majors. Open to non-majors if space is available. Instructor: Julie Fette
FREN 348 French Theater of 17th & 18th Centuries (MWF 10-10:50)
French theater from the early 17th century to the French Revolution. It considers the debates of the period on the role theater should play
in the political and cultural life of France. The inter-relationship of theater and film will be addressed through film versions of the plays discussed.
Instructor: Wendy Freeman
FREN 422 Society and Spectacle/Spectacle of Society (MWF 1-1:50)
Literature and culture of the 17th and 18th centuries. It is organized around the concepts of spectacle and
spectacularity. Various discourses and modes of expression (theatre, iconography, festival...) are used to analyze the staging of
people and power and the ideological stakes of their re-presentations today in film and literary adaptations. Instructor: Wendy Freeman
FREN 449 National Identity & Public Memory in French (TR 1-2:20)
This course identifies events, symbols and shared experiences which Constitute collective French Memory and examines how
public memory has shaped national identity in contemporary France.Instructor: Julie Fette
FREN 462/562 Evolution of the Lyric from the Renaissance to the Present (W 1-4 pm)
Evolution of the French lyric from the Renaissance to the present, with special emphasis on the (post)modern period.
The course also examines the relationship between poetry and painting through theoretical texts by Baudelaire, Marin, Derrida, and others.
Representative figures: Nerval, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Eluard, Saint-John Perse, Césaire, Ségalen, Ponge, Char, Bonnefoy, and Brossard.
FREN 462 is undergraduate version of FREN 562, with shorter reading list and research paper.
Instructor: Bernard Aresu
FREN 503 Restricted, special topic TBA
Instructor: Jean-Joseph Goux
FREN 581 Deleuze II (T 1-4)
This course provides an advanced introduction to Deleuze's work, from the earliest writings to
the final period. Emphases: Deleuze¹s relation to the philosophical tradition, his differences from and similarities to other French "poststructuralists",
and the uses to which his work has been put by others. Taught in English.Instructor: Philip Wood