printer friendly pageFRENCH 60S: Advanced Conversation Salon
This course provides students with the opportunity to practice speaking French at the advanced level. Recreating the atmosphere of a French salon, participants will develop greater oral proficiency through discussions of literature, film, politics, and contemporary culture. Please note that all Maison Française courses take place at the Maison Française and begin during Week 2 of the quarter. Prerequisite:
FRENLANG 23C or equivalent.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
FRENCH 65N: Nation in Motion: Film, Race and Immigration in Contemporary French Cinema (CSRE 65N)
An examination of the current debates in France regarding national identity, secularism, and the integration of immigrants, notably from the former colonies. Confronts films' and other media's visual and discursive rhetorical strategies used to represent ethnic or religious minorities, discrimination, citizens' resistance to government policies, inter-racial marriages, or women's rights within immigrant communities. By embodying such themes in stories of love, hardships, or solidarity, the motion pictures make the movements and emotions inherent to immigration tangible: to what effect? Taught in French. Films in French with English subtitles.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Alduy, C. (PI)
FRENCH 112: Oscar Wilde and the French Decadents (COMPLIT 112, COMPLIT 312, FRENCH 312)
Close reading of Oscar Wilde's work together with major texts and authors of 19th-century French Decadence, including Symbolism, l'art pour l'art, and early Modernism. Points of contact between Wilde and avant-garde Paris salons; provocative, creative intersections between (homo)erotic and aesthetic styles, transgression; literary and cultural developments from Baudelaire to Mallarmé, Huysmans, Flaubert, Rachilde, Lorrain, and Proust compared with Wilde¿s Salomé, Picture of Dorian Gray, and critical writings; relevant historical and philosophical contexts. All readings in English; all student levels welcome.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Dierkes, P. (PI)
FRENCH 118: Literature and the Brain (ENGLISH 118, ENGLISH 218, FRENCH 318, PSYCH 118F)
Recent developments in and neuroscience and experimental psychology have transformed the way we think about the operations of the brain. What can we learn from this about the nature and function of literary texts? Can innovative ways of speaking affect ways of thinking? Do creative metaphors draw on embodied cognition? Can fictions strengthen our "theory of mind" capabilities? What role does mental imagery play in the appreciation of descriptions? Does (weak) modularity help explain the mechanism and purpose of self-reflexivity? Can the distinctions among types of memory shed light on what narrative works have to offer?
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
House, P. (PI)
;
Landy, J. (PI)
;
Mann, J. (PI)
;
Vermeule, B. (PI)
;
Walser, H. (PI)
;
Wiebracht, B. (PI)
FRENCH 120: Coffee and Cigarettes: The Making of French Intellectual Culture
Examines a quintessential French figure "l'intellectuel" from a long-term historical perspective. We will observe how this figure was shaped over time by such other cultural types as the writer, the artist, the historian, the philosopher, and the moralist. Proceeding in counter-chronological order, from the late 20th to the 16th century, we will read a collection of classic French works. As this course is a gateway for French studies, special emphasis will be placed on oral proficiency. Taught in French; readings in French.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Edelstein, D. (PI)
FRENCH 125: Religion, The Self, and Society in 20th-Century French Novels and Film
Survey course on religion, the self, and society in 20th-century French novels and film. Readings may include: Gide, Camus, and Bernanos for the novels, and films by Robert Bresson and others. Taught in French.
Instructors:
Lewallen, J. (PI)
FRENCH 130: Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance French Literature
Introduction to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The birth of a national literature and its evolution. Literature as addressing cultural, philosophical, and artistic issues which question assumptions on love, ethics, art, and the nature of the self. Readings: epics (La Chanson de Roland), medieval romances (Tristan, Chrétien de Troyes' Yvain), post-Petrarchan poetics (Du Bellay, Ronsard, Labé), and prose humanists (Rabelais, Montaigne). Taught in French. Prerequisite:
FRENLANG 124 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Alduy, C. (PI)
;
Lewallen, J. (TA)
FRENCH 131: Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Revolution in 17th- and 18th-Century France
The literature, culture, and politics of France from Louis XIV to Olympe de Gouges. How this period produced the political and philosophical foundations of modernity. Readings include Corneille, Molière, Racine, Lafayette, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Beaumarchais, and Gouges. Taught in French. Prerequisite:
FRENLANG 124 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, WAY-A-II, GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Apostolides, J. (PI)
;
Haake, G. (TA)
FRENCH 132: Literature, Revolutions, and Changes in 19th- and 20th-Century France
This course will explore several of the most important texts of 19th and 20th century French literature. The focus of the course will be on understanding stylistic and thematic experimentation in its historical and cultural context, with a focus on the theme of moral, political, and social transgression. We will read works in all major literary genres (poetry, prose, and drama) and will discuss movements such as Realism, Romanticism, Symbolism, Decadentism, and Existentialism through the works that best define them. Readings will include such writers as Chateaubriand, Balzac, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Huysmans, Apollinaire, Gide, Yourcenar, Sartre, Camus, and Beckett. All readings, discussion, and assignments are in French.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Kassabova, B. (PI)
FRENCH 133: Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean
This course aims to equip students with an understanding of the cultural, political and literary aspects at play in the literatures of Francophone Africa and the Caribbean. Our primary readings will be Francophone novels and poetry, though we will also read some theoretical texts, as well as excerpts of Francophone theater. The assigned readings will expose students to literature from diverse French-speaking regions of the African/Caribbean world. This course will also serve as a ¿literary toolbox¿, with the intention of facilitating an understanding of literary forms, terms and practices. Students can expect to work on their production of written and spoken French (in addition to reading comprehension) both in and outside of class. Required readings include: Aimé Césaire, "Cahier d¿un retour au pays natal," Assia Djebar, "L¿Amour," "La Fantasia," Abdelkebir Khatibi, "Amour bilingue," Sony Labou-Tansi, "La vie et demie." Taught in French. Prerequisite:
FRENLANG 124 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Hulstyn, M. (PI)
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