Courses

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.

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French 102: Second Semester French

Pre-Requisite: French 101 or placement via placement exam

Credits: 4

Description: Continuation of French 101.

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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.

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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.

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French 211: TOPIC - Exploring Montreal and Quebec

Pre-Requisite: None

TAUGHT IN ENGLISH

Credits: 3 credits

WATCH ME !

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.

Courses Offered in Previous Semesters