College of Letters & Science
French 102 is the continuation of French 101 and is intended for students with limited study of French (e.g., 1-2 years of high school level study). Course goals focus on developing interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational communicative skills and cultural awareness of the French-speaking world. Topics explored in the course include travel, fashion, media, and housing.
French 101 is intended for students with no previous study of French. Course goals focus on developing interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational communicative skills and cultural awareness of the French-speaking world. Topics explored in the course include personal identity, daily life, youth culture, and education.
Le séminaire sous-titré “Francophonies et Postcolonialités” vise à cerner et à comprendre les mutations intervenues récemment à la fois dans les littéraires francophones et dans les approches à ces littératures. Le manifeste “Pour une écriture-monde en français,” signé par quarante-quatre écrivains en 2007 a décrété la mort de la francophonie littéraire et propose à sa …
The principal aim of this course is to provide a basic reading knowledge of Old French, mainly of the 12th and 13th centuries. Rather than work through a prescribed grammar of the language (there is no fully satisfactory one for this purposes, anyway), I propose to tease the syntax, morphology, and phonology of Old French …
Ce cours porte sur la littérature de la première moitié du XVIIe siècle – la période dite “baroque”. Témoignant d’une prédilection pour les phénomènes d’illusion et de métamorphose, L’Astrée servira de point de départ à l’étude du roman et de fondement à la définition de l’idéologie de l’époque. La lecture de Francion et de Première journée – oeuvres où domine …
This graduate pro-seminar provides teachers already exposed to the fundamentals of lower-level collegiate foreign language instruction opportunity to further develop theoretical knowledge and teaching strategies for advanced learning, literature, and cultural studies courses. Readings are from New Literacy Studies scholars (e.g., James Paul Gee, Richard Kern, The New London Group) as well as essays and …
Désir, passion et obsession dans les romans et les nouvelles du XIXe siècle: Les romanciers associés à la mouvance réaliste et naturaliste ont mis en scène des personnages rongé de désirs, de passions et d’obsessions. A l’aide de textes empruntés à Balzac, Flaubert, Maupassant et Zola, nous étudierons comment ces auteurs – en liaison avec …
This 4-credit course is designed for students who have taken Italian 181 or 101. In most cases, the honors section has the same syllabus and the same program as Italian 102 (for your reference, see description of 102). Students in Honors Italian benefit from a smaller class size and will be able to do many fun …
LT 410, Food Cultures of Italy is a 3-credit course conducted in English. It focuses on the history of Italian food cultures from the end of the 19th-century to the present. Readings include fiction, cookbooks, and history. It does not count towards the Italian major.
LT 360, French and Italian Renaissance Literature is an online only 3-credit course conducted in English. It offers multimedia lectures that relate literature to art, politics and spirituality. It includes readings of Renaissance literary, philosophical and historical works. It does not count towards the Italian major.