Fall 2023 UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
French
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French 101: First Semester French
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.
French 102: Second Semester French
Pre-Requisite: French 101 or placement via placement exam
Credits: 4
Description: Continuation of French 101.
French 203: Third Semester French
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.
French 204: Fourth Semester French
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.
French 211: TOPIC - Exploring Montreal and Quebec
Pre-Requisite: None
TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Credits: 3 credits
Description: Literature, film, television, and the quiet revolution next door.
Instructor: Ritt Deitz
French 228: Intermediate Language and Culture
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.
French 271: Literature, Comics and Film in French
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.
French 285: Rebellious Women
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
French 288: Doctor's Without Borders
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
French 311: Advanced Composition and Conversation
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
French / Int'l Bus 313: Professional Communication and Culture in the Francophone World
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
French 321: Introduction to Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Literature
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
French 322: Modern French and Francophone Literature
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
French 325: Visual Culture in French/Francophone Studies
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
French 467: Contemporary French Literature
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
French 590: Introduction to Phonetics
Pre-Requisite: FRENCH 228
TAUGHT IN FRENCH
Credits: 3
Description: Study of French sounds, phonetic transcription, practice in pronunciation.
Instructor: Anne Theobald
Lit Trans 209: Masterpieces of French Literature and Culture
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
Italian
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Italian 101: First Semester Italian
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.
Italian 102: Second Semester Italian
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.
Italian 203: Third Semester Italian
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.
Italian 204: Fourth Semester Italian
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.
Italian 230: Modern Italian Culture
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
Italian 311: Advanced Italian Language
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
Italian 321: Studies in Italian Literature and Culture I
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
Italian/ILS/LitTrans/Poli Sci 365: Machiavelli and His World
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
Lit Trans 254: In Translation-Lit of Modern Italian-Existentialism, Fascism, Resistance
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 20th – 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
Lit Trans/Medieval 255: Black Death and Medieval Life Through Boccaccio's Decameron
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
Lit Trans 260: Italy and the Invention of America: From Collumbus to World War II
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
Lit Trans 410: In Translation - Special Topics in Italian Literature - FIG ONLY
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
Fall 2023 GRADUATE COURSES
French
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French 820: College Teaching of French
Pre-Requisite: Graduate or Professional standing
Credits: 3
Schedule: Fridays 10 am to 12 pm
Description: Introduction to teaching collegiate world languages with an emphasis on communicative and literacy-based pedagogical strategies. (Meets With Italian 821)
Instructor: Heather Allen
French 947: Seminar - Literature Questions
Pre-Requisite: Graduate or Professional standing
Credits: 3 credits
Schedule: Mondays 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Description: Study of literature and culture organized thematically or by time period. Taught in French.
Instructor: Nevine El Nossery
Theme: L’immigration dans la littérature et le cinéma francophones : Mutations et évolutions identitaires
French 948: Seminar - Literature Questions
Pre-Requisite: Graduate or Professional standing
Schedule: Tuesdays 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Description: Study of literature and culture organized thematically or by time period. Taught in French.
Instructor: Jan Miernowski
Theme: Identity and Collectivity in 16th- and 21st-century French Literature and Culture
Italian
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Italian 632: Features in Italian Literature
Theme: Racconto Scapigliato e Novella Verista
Instructor: Ernesto Livorni
Pre-Requisite: gradate/professional standing
Credits: 3
Italian 732: Features in Italian Literature
Theme: Carlo Goldoni
Instructor: Stefania Buccini
Pre-Requisite: gradate/professional standing
Credits: 3
Italian 821: Issues in Methods of Teaching French and Italian
Pre-Requisite: Graduate or Professional standing
Credits: 1-3
Schedule: Fridays 10 am to 12 pm
Description: Intended for instructors of elementary- and intermediate-level collegiate instructors of Italian; key concepts of communicative, literacy-oriented language teaching and related techniques for classroom instruction of Italian. (Meets With French 820)
Instructor: Loren Eadie
Italian 951: Seminar - Studies in Italian Literature
Pre-Requisite: Graduate or Professional standing
Credits: 3 credits
Schedule: Thursdays 4 pm to 6 pm
Description: Advanced seminar. Topics vary.
Instructor: Patrick Rumble
Theme: Italian American Film and Media
Spring 2024 ANTICIPATED UNDERGRADUATE / GRADUATE COURSES
French & Lit Trans Courses
SPRING 2024
FR 101, FR 102, FR 203, FR 204, FR 211 (Topic: Exploring Paris), FR 228, FR 271, FR 312, FR 314, FR 322, FR 345*, FR 347, FR 391, FR 462 (Meets With 672-Topic: TBD), FR 569, FR 672 (Meets With 462- Topic TBD), FR 948, LT 303 (Topic: French Love)
*Pending final campus approval.
NOTE: The Department of French & Italian reserves the right to make changes to this anticipated list of courses as needed.
Italian & Lit Trans Courses
SPRING 2024
IT 101, IT 102, IT 203, IT 204, IT 312, IT 322, IT 350, IT 450 (Meets With 632- Topic: Letteratura postcoloniale italiana), IT 460, IT 632 (Meets With 450- Topic: Letteratura postcoloniale italiana), IT 952 (Topic: Love in Medieval Literature), LT 213, LT 253, LT 410 (Topic: Double Identity, Double Life, Double Truth)
NOTE: The Department of French & Italian reserves the right to make changes to this anticipated list of courses as needed.