Fall Quarter
| Dept | Course No and Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| FRENCH (F20) | 62 TRANSLATION | LITWIN, C. |
| This course introduces students to the theory of translation and to the more particular practice of French to English and English to French translation. Students develop critical and analytical skills that allow them: 1) to compare texts in the initial language to translations in the target language, as well as translations to translations; 2) to grasp essential structural differences between the French and the English language when it comes to syntax, semantics, style and register (and therefore to enhance their knowledge of French grammar and vocabulary); 3) to develop their reading and writing skills in both languages through a variety of targeted translation exercises from French to English, and from English to French; 4) to learn translation techniques on different kinds of materials (literature, news articles, poetry, songs, dialogues) with various kinds of constraints; 5) to learn about issues pertaining to translation and to discuss them critically from a practical angle. The class is taught primarily in French. | ||
| FRENCH (F20) | 119 ROMANTIC AND SYMBOLIST POETRY | VAN DEN ABBEEL, G. |
| An overview of 19th century French poetry from Romanticism (Lamartine, Hugo, Musset, Vigny) and the Parnasse (Gautier, Leconte de Lisle) up through Symbolism (Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé), with major emphasis on the work of Charles Baudelaire (Les Fleurs du Mal, Le Spleen de Paris). | ||
| FRENCH (F20) | 10 PEER TUTOR PROGRAM | MIJALSKI, M. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| FRENCH (F20) | 2A INTERMEDIATE | MIJALSKI, M. |
| French and Francophone texts of contemporary literary or social interest, films, art, and the media provide the focus for more advanced conversation, reading, and composition. Classes are conducted entirely in French. Prerequisite: normally three years of high school French or one year of college French. | ||
| FRENCH (F20) | 2A INTERMEDIATE | KLEIN, L. |
| French and Francophone texts of contemporary literary or social interest, films, art, and the media provide the focus for more advanced conversation, reading, and composition. Classes are conducted entirely in French. Prerequisite: normally three years of high school French or one year of college French. | ||
| FRENCH (F20) | 2A INTERMEDIATE | KLEIN, L. |
| French and Francophone texts of contemporary literary or social interest, films, art, and the media provide the focus for more advanced conversation, reading, and composition. Classes are conducted entirely in French. Prerequisite: normally three years of high school French or one year of college French. | ||
| FRENCH (F20) | 2A INTERMEDIATE | KLEIN, L. |
| French and Francophone texts of contemporary literary or social interest, films, art, and the media provide the focus for more advanced conversation, reading, and composition. Classes are conducted entirely in French. Prerequisite: normally three years of high school French or one year of college French. | ||
| FRENCH (F20) | 1A FUNDAMENTALS | STAFF |
| Students are taught to conceptualize in French as they learn to understand, read, write, and speak. Students develop an awareness of and sensibility to French and Francophone life and culture through reading, film, the media, and class discussion. Classes are conducted in French. | ||
| FRENCH (F20) | 1A FUNDAMENTALS | STAFF |
| Students are taught to conceptualize in French as they learn to understand, read, write, and speak. Students develop an awareness of and sensibility to French and Francophone life and culture through reading, film, the media, and class discussion. Classes are conducted in French. | ||
| FRENCH (F20) | 1A FUNDAMENTALS | STAFF |
| Students are taught to conceptualize in French as they learn to understand, read, write, and speak. Students develop an awareness of and sensibility to French and Francophone life and culture through reading, film, the media, and class discussion. Classes are conducted in French. | ||
| FRENCH (F20) | 1A FUNDAMENTALS | STAFF |
| Students are taught to conceptualize in French as they learn to understand, read, write, and speak. Students develop an awareness of and sensibility to French and Francophone life and culture through reading, film, the media, and class discussion. Classes are conducted in French. | ||
| FRENCH (F20) | 1A FUNDAMENTALS | STAFF |
| Students are taught to conceptualize in French as they learn to understand, read, write, and speak. Students develop an awareness of and sensibility to French and Francophone life and culture through reading, film, the media, and class discussion. Classes are conducted in French. | ||
| FRENCH (F20) | 1A FUNDAMENTALS | STAFF |
| Students are taught to conceptualize in French as they learn to understand, read, write, and speak. Students develop an awareness of and sensibility to French and Francophone life and culture through reading, film, the media, and class discussion. Classes are conducted in French. | ||
| FRENCH (F20) | 50 DANGEROUS LIAISONS | LITWIN, C. |
| What is it that makes the games of love and seduction so ambiguous, and, as such, potentially so destructive and fatal? Why are readers or spectators so interested in the shameful confession, the voyeuristic disclosure or the sadistic exposure of such fatal attractions? Is it because the reader (or the spectator) secretly shares the passion of the fallen characters? Are they partners in crime? This course sets out to explore these questions through the study of a small sample of Early Modern French literature classics from Molière’s Don Juan to Laclos’ Dangerous Liaisons. While reading these texts closely and paying careful attention to their historical context, we will discuss the deceptive (and self-deceptive) power of the rhetoric of love for the addressee and the addresser, the prey and the hunter, virtue and vice, but also for the comedian and the spectator, the reader and the narrator. The class will engage with notions and definitions of Don Juanism, libertinage, galanterie, adultery love, sadism and pertaining gender issues and representations. We will watch and discuss some recent film adaptations of these texts so as to reflect on their contemporary echoes. Additionally, some time will be dedicated to examining representations of adultery love and sensual delight in 18th-Century French visual arts. [IN ENGLISH – Texts in translation]. | ||
| FRENCH (F20) | 127 BODIES AND CROSSING: THE MEDITERRANEAN | KLEIN, L |
| This course entirely taught in French, explores francophone ultra-contemporary literature from the Northern shore of Africa. The Mediterranean in modern literature has expanded into a multitude of tropes and representations throughout the ages. The École d’Alger of the 1930s represented the Mediterranean space as a hedonistic haven with paradise-like beaches hosting a spectacle of bodies and senses, where people enjoy life regardless of their ethnicity: French and Arab. With colonialism in full swing, such a claim naively attempted to obscure the frontier between the colonizers and the colonized, the North and the South. Starting with the late 1980s, the strong trends of Sub-Saharan and North-African migration towards countries of economic stability (oftentimes the former empire), have been questioning the previous trope of the Mediterranean as paradise. Migrations in the Mediterranean also de-centered our perception and examination of bodies: more and more sexuality and corporeality are lodged in narratives evolving around non-heterosexual and gender-fluid bodies; more and more the reader's gaze is captured by the body of the drowned or the mutilated body. In this course we will analyse novels and films by Malika Mokeddem, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Madi Binebine, E.Y Elalami, M. Allouache, M. Touré, Mati Diop. | ||