This seminar considers Machiavelli’s place within the society of letters, or more broadly, within the humanistic tradition. Students will seek to grasp the thread of his thinking across diverse texts and genres, while also evaluating …
Month: August 2014
Italian 821: Issues in Methods of Teaching French and Italian
This course is meant to be a forum for discussion of issues in Communicative Language Teaching, as well as a workshop where students will be able to evaluate and develop materials and activities for the …
Italian 741: Seicento E L Arcadia
This course offers a survey of 17th-century Italian literature and examines the development of specific literary genres in the contexts of cultural and intellectual history. It provides methodologies and philological instruments necessary to the critical …
Italian 671: Il Duecento
Besides offering a survey of early Italian authors while focusing on literary motifs and genres, this course emphasizes the importance of material culture and the necessity of its full consideration in textual criticism and interpretation …
French 932: Seminar – 18th Century
“La vie de l’esprit de Voltaire à Balzac” L’objectif général de ce séminaire sera d’examiner la vie publique et privée de l’esprit des années 1720 jusqu’en 1832 (date de la publication de la nouvelle Louis …
French 821: Issues in Methods of Teaching French and Italian
This course is meant to be a forum for discussion of issues in Communicative Language Teaching, as well as a workshop where students will be able to evaluate and develop materials and activities for the …
French 820: College Teaching of French
French 647: Le Roman Francais au XXe Siecle
By the end of the 19th-century, masterpieces of the genre had established a set of conventions for the novel, seemingly all of which would be subverted, deconstructed, and playfully re-employed by French novelists over the …
French 645: La Litterature Francaise du XVIe Siecle
Ce cours concernera, en gros, la première moitié du 16e siècle, c’est-à-dire les temps du règne de François Ier, de l’épanouissement de « l’humanisme » et de la première Réforme. C’est une époque d’énorme diversité des genres, …
French 626: Critical Approaches to French Literature
Ce cours obligatoire pour tout(e) étudiant(e) qui entre dans le programme de maîtrise et de doctorat en français est une initiation à la recherche dans le domaine littéraire. Le cours comportera deux volets. Premièrement, il …