Taught in French. Instructs basic communicative French, the people and cultures where it is spoken, using formal and informal registers, and speaking in present and future time. Students will listen and respond, read and write, ask and answer simple questions in basic functional French. Content: personal topics, everyday living.

Taught in French. Continuation of basic French inter-communication skills both producing French (speaking and writing), and interpreting French (listening and reading.) The aim is to comprehend and contribute to discussions about families, housing, sports, travel, and traditions in French.

Taught in French. Course continues to work on focus on pronunciation, grammar. and developing conversational and writing fluency. Students will read excerpts of French and francophone media or literature. Topics include the environment and the many francophone cultures and tasks include narrating in more complex past, future and hypothetical contexts.

Taught in French. Students will comprehend and produce French in more complex contexts (literary and cultural) while reviewing intermediate grammar structures to improve fluency and accuracy. Students present and debate cultural, historical or current events topics; practice expressing emotion, opinion, judgment, necessity, hypotheticals, and regret.

Taught entirely in French. Students develop advanced interpretive and presentation skills, detecting sequencing, time frames and chronology in texts, whether heard or viewed. Format is discussion, presentation, role plays, several compositions written in a process.

Taught entirely in French. Via classic, French New Wave, francophone to contemporary French-speaking film students discover and compare cultural differences, discuss global or local concerns, spanning the disciplines. Writing in a process leads to more sophisticated writing skills.

Survey of representative works of French literature from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the 17th and 18th centuries, examining the formation of French cultural identity up through the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.

Survey of representative works of French literature in all genres, from Romanticism through narrative realism and the modernist innovations of Surrealism and existentialism in the 20th century.

Eligible students majoring in French may elect tutorial for credit; topic chosen in consultation with faculty member.

This is advanced work in writing expository prose is based on intensive study of advanced grammar and syntax with attention to peculiar features of the French idiom. Students examine phonology and phonetics with attention to French speech patterns and rhythms whilst enhancing vocabulary development through the varieties of lexical references and other dictionaries.

Surviving in global careers--commerce, law, diplomacy, communications, health--requires knowledge of business terminology and organism structures. Students study current events, and present on francophone companies, institutions, and NGO's. Résumés are perfected in French, interview questions are drilled. The French government DAF (Diplôme du français des affaires) exam is optional.

Capstone for all French Majors, taken with other Modern Languages & Literatures language majors. Students will study major schools and themes in literary theory, both historical and contemporary. Rhetorical, philosophical, historical, and cultural approaches to literature will be studied in intimate conjunction with specific literary texts drawn from several linguistic and cultural traditions.

Students explore salient characteristics and themes of literature of various genres written in French from Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and Québec. Topics include «la négritude», other reactions to colonialism, `borrowed language', ideas and realities of liberation, post-colonialism, the francophone woman, literature as political agent, and satire.

Students study major French authors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (Proust, Malraux, Sartre, Camus, and others), with attention to the historical context of their works against the background of two world wars and world-wide revolutionary movements, along with their interaction with other artistic media.

This course will explore the literature and culture of the French Middle Ages. Students will develop familiarity with literary genres and themes including the chansons de geste, romances, and fabliaux, courtly love, the international character of medieval French literature, voices and representation of women, and the role of the Church.

Students study major authors of the French Renaissance in their historical and cultural contexts. Authors to be read will include Marot, Labé, Scève, Rabelais, Du Bellay, Ronsard, and Montaigne, in conjunction with study of Renaissance culture, the Reformation, the Wars of Religion, and the other arts.

Students study major authors of the "long" 17th century in historical and cultural contexts: Corneille, Cyrano, Descartes, Pascal, Mme de Lafayette, Molière, Racine, Mme de Sévigné, the moralistes, among others. Focus is on complex historical contexts of the period: baby kings, the Fronde, religious conflict, the court and wars of Louis XIV.

Students study major French authors of the European Enlightenment. Authors to be read will include Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot, among others, in the context of the development of (and resistance to) the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.

Students study the emergence of French Romanticism in the wake of Revolutionary tumult (Lamartine, Vigny, and Hugo), and of the deeper and darker reaction to bourgeois culture (Baudelaire, Flaubert, Rimbaud, and others), marking relations with painting, sculpture, and music.

Students study theater in French from its medieval beginnings to the present. Authors/works to be read may include medieval farce, Turnèbe, Corneille, Molière, Racine, Diderot, Hugo, Rostand, Ionesco, Girardoux, Beckett, and Césaire. Works will be studied in historical, cultural, critical, and performing contexts.

Theory and Practice. Study of French narrative, dramatic, and lyric poetry, with emphasis on the lyric.

Students conduct detailed analysis of the outstanding stylistic features of France's great prose writers from the XVIth century to the present day. Works may include writings by Rabelais, Montaigne, Pascal, Voltaire, Flaubert, Balzac, Michelet, Proust, Camus, Malraux and Lévi-Strauss, among others.

This multidisciplinary study of French and Francophone cultures as they have developed over the centuries will focus on the historical, institutional, religious, and artistic manifestations that have contributed to the formation of these identities. Special attention will be given to their revolutionary role in politics, painting, intellectual life, and cinema.

Eligible students who have secured an internship related to the field of study may complete an internship for credit, with the approval of a faculty member. Students complete reflective assignments and a final project in French, in consultation with the faculty member.

Eligible students majoring in French and with departmental honors may elect tutorial for credit; topic chosen in consultation with faculty member. Instructor's consent, restricted to students in French BA.