Winter 2018 300-level French Courses

FRENCH

FRENCH 333: French PhoneticsProf. Kathy Meyer TTh 10-11:30 am #26992This course is designed to provide students with a foundation in phonetics, an introduction to French phonology as well as techniques for improving their own pronunciation or for teaching French to others. This course is taught entirely in French and daily homework consists of reading theory, writing phonetic transcriptions using the International Phonetic Alphabet, oral practice using recordings on Canvas, and analyzing phonological problem sets.

FRENCH 350.001: Special Topics in French and Francophone Studies: Le Pacifique français : paradis artificiel? Prof. George Hoffmann MWF 10-11 am #31053Tahiti : un pays qui a permis à l’Europe de rêver de la Révolution. La Nouvelle-Calédonie : une colonie pénale… Pourquoi des destins aussi opposées ? Nous étudierons les premiers voyages au Pacifique, la mutinerie du Bounty, Gauguin, Loti, le massacre à Ouvéa et la lutte aujourd’hui pour l’indépendance de ces deux îles par rapport à la France.

FRENCH 350.003: Special Topics in French and Francophone Studies:The Trial: Literature and Art Before the Law in Nineteenth-Century FranceProf. Michèle Hannoosh MW 11:30 am-1 pm #31054 In this course, we will study art-works and literary texts which were taken to trial in nineteenth-century France, examining both the works themselves and the materials from the trials. Such trials provide a unique occasion to observe a society’s practices of interpretation and criteria of judgment in action. Through a study of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal, Barbey d’Aurevilly’s Les Diaboliques, and, in the visual arts, Daumier and the caricaturists, we will consider how the trials relate to social and historical circumstances, as well as to the expectations, presuppositions, and conventions which their society brought to reading and viewing.

FRENCH 362: Quebec and French Canadian StudiesProf. Jarrod Hayes MW 2:30-4 pm #31087This course will examine Québécois literary and other cultural texts as articulations of Québécois national identity and consider them in their historical and political contexts while devoting special attention to the role of memory in writing Québécois identity.

FRENCH 368: Enlightenment, Revolution, and RomanticismProf. William Paulson TTh 10-11:30 #31086This course explores a crucial century and a half (roughly 1715 to 1851) in which France occupied the center stage of world history and its modern society and institutions came into being. Readings in literature (Madame de Graffigny, Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, Madame de Duras, Balzac, and others) and also on the French Revolution. Satisfies HU distribution.

FRENCH 374: Problems in Society and Social Theory Prof. David Caron TTh 2:30-4 pm #31089The course will touch on questions of inequality as it relates to economic disparities, political oppression, gender, sexuality, immigration, health, and popular culture. We will focus on practical ways in which people carve out a space for themselves within a hostile system.

FRENCH 375: Cinema and Society in the Francophone World Prof. Annette Joseph-Gabriel TTh 11:30 am-1 pm #31196 In this course we will examine the multiple and complex representations of home in francophone cinema, with a geographic focus on portions of the francophone world from West Africa to the Maghreb to the Antilles and the “outer-cities” of Paris.

FRENCH 414: Advanced Business FrenchProf. Juliette Moutinou MWF 9-10 am #20310Advanced business French 414 is offered to students who have successfully completed Business French 380, and students with an advanced knowledge of French. During the term, the course will focus on acquiring a more profound knowledge of corporate communication and culture in France and Francophone countries.