Category: French Courses

This informal conversation course meets at the French House over the noon hour. Students are required to attend four days per week. They may buy their lunch, bring their lunch, or just sit and chat. Conversation is directed by French Assistants and other francophone guests. For more information, contact French House Director Andrew Irving. Prerequisite: French …

An introduction to the terms and techniques of literary analysis, examining works of each genre (short story, poetry, theater and novel) from various time periods and areas of the francophone world. Prerequisite: French 228.  All sections are available for honors credit. Professors teaching sections this semester: Anne Vila, Martine Debaisieux, Joshua Armstrong

In this writing intensive course, students practice the types of writing tasks typical of courses in the major (composition, compte rendu, explication de texte), explore both traditional and evolving notions of culture in France and the francophone world, review grammar, and build vocabulary related to the cultural topics studied. Prerequisite: French 204 or French 227.

Continuation of French 203 with more advanced materials. Oral practice and conversation, reading, grammar review, vocabulary expansion, creative writing in French. This student-centered program engages the learner in textbook and non-textbook material focusing on life today in France and in the French-speaking world. Prerequisite: French 203 or appropriate score on placement exam. 

Oral practice and conversation, reading, grammar review, vocabulary expansion, creative writing in French. This student-centered program engages the learner in textbook and non-textbook material focusing on life today in France and in the French-speaking world. Prerequisite: French 102 or appropriate score on placement exam. 

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 …