Courses

Pre-Requisite: None*

*Students with previous knowledge in French MUST take the French placement exam.

Credits: 4

Description: For students with no previous training in the language; oral practice and conversation, grammar, reading, vocabulary building, and study of French and Francophone cultures.

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Pre-Requisite: French 101 or placement via placement exam

Credits: 4

Description: Continuation of French 101.

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Pre-Requisite: French 102 or placement via placement exam

Credits: 4

Description: Oral practice and conversation, grammar review, reading, vocabulary expansion, creative writing and study of French and Francophone cultures.

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Pre-Requisite: French 203 or placement via placement exam

Credits: 4

Description: Continuation of FRENCH 203 with more advanced materials. Advanced oral practice and conversation, grammar review, reading, vocabulary expansion, creative writing and study of French and Francophone cultures.

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Pre-Requisite: None

TAUGHT IN ENGLISH

Credits: 3 credits

WATCH ME !

Description: Literature, film, television, and the quiet revolution next door.

Instructor: Ritt Deitz

Pre-Requisite: French 204 or placement via placement exam

TAUGHT IN FRENCH

Credits: 3

Description: Enhance writing and speaking proficiency through cultural readings on France and the francophone world. Review of grammar and focus on more complex grammatical structures. A required prerequisite for the French major.

Pre-Requisite: FRENCH 228

TAUGHT IN FRENCH

Credits: 3

Description: An introduction to reading and analyzing literary works, comics, and film, with special emphasis on the development of writing skills in French. The program will concentrate on shorter works from the major genres of French literature, and prepare students for future study of literature.

Pre-Requisite: None

TAUGHT IN ENGLISH

Credits: 3

Description: Explores how women from different francophone regions from the Global South (with a specific focus on North (North and Sub-Saharan Africa and the the Middle East) gain agency through literature, movies, comics, and songs, contesting different forms of domination, exclusion, and injustice, based on on gender, race, class, and religion.

Instructor: Nevine El Nossery

Pre-Requisite: None

TAUGHT IN ENGLISH

Credits: 3

Description: An overview of the global humanitarian NGO, Doctors without Borders (or Médecins sans Frontières MSF) including its history, mission, organization, and the cultural, political, and ethical challenges it faces. Explores issues of global health, social justice, and humanitarian action. Features distinguished global practitioners with first-hand experience in health crisis situations.

Instructor: Gilles Bousquet

Pre-Requisite: FRENCH 228

TAUGHT IN FRENCH

Credits: 3

Description: Learn to write essays on a variety of topics, using different registers of French, and work to correct pronunciation and improve conversation skills. Taught in French.

Instructor: TBD

Pre-Requisite: French 228, 311, or French/Intl Bus 313

TAUGHT IN ENGLISH

Credits: 3

Description: Study and analysis of the culture and sociology of professional environments in the French and Francophone worlds, including government, international organizations, NGO’s and business. Students develop communication skills through interactive teaching methods in multimedia labs.

Instructor: Gilles Bousquet

Pre-Requisite: FRENCH 271

TAUGHT IN FRENCH

Credits: 3

Description: Introduction to important literary works from the medieval era to the French Revolution.

Instructor: Ewa Miernowska

Pre-Requisite: FRENCH 271

TAUGHT IN FRENCH

Credits: 3

Description: Introduction to important literary works of modernity (from the French Revolution to the twenty-first century).

Instructor: Jan Miernowski

Pre-Requisite: FRENCH 271

TAUGHT IN FRENCH

Credits: 3

Description: Aspects of French culture as manifested in painting, photography, film or other visual media in relation to literature.

Instructor: TBD

Pre-Requisite: FRENCH 321 or 322

TAUGHT IN FRENCH

Credits: 3

Description: A study of the latest developments in contemporary French Literature.

Instructor: Joshua Armstrong

Pre-Requisite: FRENCH 228

TAUGHT IN FRENCH

Credits: 3

Description: Study of French sounds, phonetic transcription, practice in pronunciation.

Instructor: Anne Theobald

Pre-Requisite: None

TAUGHT IN ENGLISH

Credits: 3

Description: A study of representative masterpieces of French and Francophone literature drawn from at least four different centuries. Emphasis on the interpretation of texts, important themes, and the ways literature expresses psychological and sociocultural realities. May cover topics such as: tragedies by Jean Racine, comedies by Moliere, novels by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Honore de Balzac, Guy de Maupassant and Maryse Conde, and stories by Gustave Flaubert and Albert Camus.

Instructor: TBD

Pre-Requisite: None*

*Students with previous knowledge in Italian MUST take the Informal Italian Placement Test (contact Mandi Schoville for information).

Credits: 4

Description: Oral practice and conversation, grammar, reading, vocabulary building, and study of Italian cultures.

Pre-Requisite: Italian 101, Italian 181 or placement via informal Italian placement test*

*contact Mandi Schoville for information

Credits: 4

Description: Oral practice and conversation, grammar, reading, vocabulary building, and study of Italian cultures. Continuation of Italian 101.

Pre-Requisite: Italian 102, 201 or placement via informal Italian placement test*

*contact Mandi Schoville for information

Credits: 4

Description: Conversational practice, review of grammar, viewing and discussion of Italian films, and class reading of short stories.

Pre-Requisite: Italian 203 or placement via informal Italian placement test*

*contact Mandi Schoville for information

Credits: 4

Description: Conversation and writing practice, review of grammar, and class reading of a modern Italian novel.

Pre-Requisite: Italian 202 or 204

TAUGHT IN ITALIAN

Credits: 3

Description: A survey of Italian history, literature, art, music, politics, and popular culture of the 20th-21st centuries.

Instructor: Loren Eadie

Pre-Requisite: Italian 202 or 204

TAUGHT IN ITALIAN

Credits: 3

Description: Development of accurate and nuanced capacity for expression in Italian and for understanding the spoken and written language. Also addresses Italian phonetics and phonology to develop accurate pronunciation.

Instructor: Jelena Todorovic

Pre-Requisite: Italian 202 or 204

TAUGHT IN ITALIAN

Credits: 3

Description: Focuses on masterworks of Italian literature in Medieval and Renaissance Italy, and on the ways in which this period laid a foundation of today’s Italian society and culture. Includes historical, social, and cultural contexts of the Medieval and Renaissance periods.

Instructor: Kristin Phillips-Court

Pre-Requisite: Satisfied Communications A requirement

TAUGHT IN ENGLISH

Credits: 3

Description: Introduces students to the major works of Machiavelli through the close reading of his writings in cultural and historical contexts. Discussion and targeted writing assignments will aim at cultivating in students 1) a broad understanding of Machiavelli’s principal intellectual attitudes, 2) a deeper understanding of his literary sensibility, and 3) the ability to articulate controversies and complexities surrounding his thought.

Instructor: Kristin Phillips-Court

Pre-Requisite: Sophomore Standing

TAUGHT IN ENGLISH

Credits: 3

Description: This course will offer a general introduction to the modern Italian novel (in translation) in philosophical, artistic, and socio-historical context.  Students will be introduced to several of the most significant literary authors and movements in Italy during the 20^th – 21st Centuries, and they will gain a broad understanding of modern Italian culture, history and society.  The central themes of the course include: modernism and postmodernism, immigration and nationalism, Futurism and Italian avant-gardes, fascism/anti-fascism and Resistance, Feminism and gender in Italy, terrorism and political extremism,  Mafia and anti-Mafia, colonialism and post-colonialism, and the impact of globalization on contemporary Italy.  Authors covered in this course include: Aldo Palazzeschi, Carlo Levi, Beppe Fenoglio, Dacia Maraini, Gabriella Ghermandi, and Nanni Balestrini.

Instructor: TBD

Pre-Requisite: Sophomore Standing

TAUGHT IN ENGLISH

Credits: 3

Description: Have you ever wondered what it was like to live during the Black Death? Were our medieval and early-modern ancestors different from us, or are we challenged with similar problems? What can we learn from their lives? And, if we could, what could we teach each other? Discuss these topics while reading one of the world’s greatest literary classics, Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, a text that will make us both laugh and cry. Through reading the Decameron, investigate medicine, art, culture, music, politics, religion, interpersonal and transcultural relations, warfare, fashion, gender and gender roles, as well as everyday life in the Middle Ages and early modernity. Also examines medieval written documents, twentieth-century feminist responses to the Decameron and filmic renditions of it, medieval frescoes, historical descriptions of the plague, and modern descriptions of, and reactions to, the COVID-19 pandemic.

Instructor: Jelena Todorovic

Pre-Requisite: Sophomore Standing

TAUGHT IN ENGLISH

Credits: 3

Description: Focuses on the central role played by Italy in the European vision of America between Columbus’s voyages and the Second World War.

Instructor: Stefania Buccini

FIG STUDENTS ONLY

Section 001: Italian National Identity (National Identity in the Global World: The Italian Case)

Instructor: Ernesto Livorni

Section 002: Food Cultures of Italy

Instructor: Grazia Menechella

For Both Sections–

Pre-Requisite: Sophomore Standing

Credits: 3

TAUGHT IN ENGLISH