Fall 2024 Courses
French 01: 1 section Zidouh @ 9L-In this course, emphasis will be on speaking and dialogue with your peers. You will learn to introduce your family and friends, share what your daily life looks like, talk about what you do for leisure. Your final assignment will be to do an oral presentation in French describing your home town. Does not serve to satisfy Distributive or World Culture Requirements.
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French 02: 2 sections McConnell @ 9L and Mefoude @ 10-In this course, you will expand your possibilities of expression by learning how to use the past and future tenses, to say where you've been and where you're going. You will share childhood memories and exchange ideas about plans for your education and career. While building your vocabulary, you will deepen your cultural knowledge with introductions to multiple francophone countries around the world. Your final assignment will be to choose a francophone country and do an oral presentation for your peers on its history, geography, architecture, art or traditions. Does not serve to satisfy Distributive or World Culture Requirements. Prerequisites: French 1 or qualifying placement through the French Placement Exam.
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French 03: 3 sections Novak @ 11, and Oliveira @ 9L & 10-In this course, you will explore several themes of contemporary life and learn to discuss travel, technology and its influence, wellness and healthcare, and social relationships. Your final assignment will be to seek out information on a current issue facing a francophone country—the environment, racism, poverty, freedom of speech, immigration, the colonial past, religious conflicts—and present it to your peers through a medium of your choice: film, interview, blog, skit, music or poster. Does not serve to satisfy Distributive or World Culture Requirements. Prerequisite: French 2, French 11, or placement through the French Placement Exam.
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French 11: 1 section McConnell @ 10-This 1-credit course is designed for students who have studied French for one to three years in high school, or those who have been exposed to French through family ties or have spent some time in a Francophone environment. It is also suitable for students with little or no knowledge of the French language, but who have a strong background in another Romance language (i.e. Spanish, Italian, Romanian, Portuguese, Catalan, and also Latin). French 11 is an accelerated course that combines French 1 and 2 in one term, offering an exciting and fast-paced atmosphere in which to learn French.
French 08: 2 Sections-Zidouh @ 11 and Novak @ 2. Practice in the active use of the language combined with an introduction to major aspects of French society. Each week students will write papers and participate in discussions based on books, articles, and films emphasizing social and historical concepts. Dist:SOC; WCult:W. Prerequisite: Completion of FR3 or exemption from FR3. NRO eligible.
French 10.08: "Living in Paris/Habiter Paris." LaGuardia @ 12 Living in Paris has generated an enormous amount of writing since the middle ages. This course will examine diverse narrative, poetic, propagandistic, memorial, historical, and anthropological texts that describe the difficulties and the joys of living in the French capital. Works by Perec, L'Estoile, Prévost, Baudelaire, Mercier, Sue, Balzac, Augé, Modiano, Colette, Barthes, Gary, Duras, and others. Prerequisite: French 8 or permission of instructor. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. NRO eligible.
French 21: Introduction to Francophone Literature and Culture--Souvenirs d'enfance: Larose @ 11: "All grown-ups were once children ... but only few of them remember it." ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince. This seminar will center on the ways in which authors reminisce about their childhoodliving in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. Subjects are shaped, in part, by public policy, education, and disasters, for example, their lives sometimes impacted by war and dictatorship. We will pay particular attention to issues of language, migration, sexuality and how identities are informed by race, class, gender, and ability. This course is designed to acquaint students with literary works from authors like Georges Perec, Maryse Condé, Abdellah Taïa, Kim Thúy, Ananda Devi, Patrick Chamoiseau, Gaël Faye among others. Prerequisites French 8; World Culture Western Cultures; Distributives INT. NRO eligible.
FREN 53.07 Confrontations with Death in the French Tradition: Kritzman @ 10a: Through readings of essays, plays, philosophical texts and fiction, we will examine the relationship of death to the history of French culture and the philosophical traditions it embodies since World War II. Issues to be discussed include separation and loss, mourning and melancholia, terrorism, the absurd and the death of God, and the difficulty of representing death. What does non-being signify and how can one describe it? Texts will be drawn from Camus, Sartre, Beauvoir, Beckett, Derrida, Malraux, Blanchot ,Kristeva, Cixous and Perec. Prerequisite: A course in the FREN 10 series or permission of the instructor. Dist:TMV; WCult:W. NRO eligible.
FREN 52: Women and Migration-Elles viennent d’ailleurs:Women and Migration- Larose @2: Through a series of Francophone literary texts and films, this course examines how contemporary female writers, filmmakers and artists respond to the migration, immigration, and displacement of peoples today. From the written and the visual materials, students will consider how women such as Fatou Diome, Marie NDiaye, Kim Thúy among others address the range of critical issues and factors contributing to displacement, particularly under conditions of poverty, uneven development, competition for resources, political instability, violence, and natural disasters. The course gives participants an opportunity to participate in current immigration debates whether it is the Syrian refugee crisis, the Mexican Border crisis, Haitian TPS status, the Haitian migrants’ mistreatment at the Texas border or the current Afghan relocation project. Prerequisite: A course in the FREN 10 series or permission of the instructor. DIST: NW and INT and LIT.
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