*subject to change*

Summer '26

French 37 (elhariry) @ 12-FQZ Feminist Queer Zones: FQZ Feminist Queer Zones provides in-depth study of the exceptional richness of feminist and queer traditions in global francophone cultures. From nineteenth-century revolutionaries to the mid-twentieth century’s first-wave feminists; from reproductive rights and women’s suffrage to the explosive intersectionality of race, capitalism, post/colonialism, and feminism; the books read in this class help us understand sexuality, gender, and identity as they evolve over time and across historical, political, and sociocultural formations. The texts open up POROUS ZONES—open fields and fluid sites of change, exchange, and interchange—that allow for various other forms of alternative thinking. Along with full book-length texts by Louise Michel, Simone de Beauvoir, Monique Wittig, Anne Garréta, and Françoise Vergès, FQZ seeks to bridge the gap not only between theory and action, but also between reading and writing, and between art and life. We will participate in a unique pleasure-taking act—the opportunity to read single, long, complex texts over an extended period of time, sometimes spanning many weeks. By valuing slowness, leisure, and depth over speed, anxiety, and breadth, will have the opportunity to dwell with thinkers and writers long enough to do begin doing honor and justice to their life and work. A progression of alternating short creative and critical assignments will provide the framework for a hybrid final project that will represent a culminating multimedia work of personal-creative criticism. All readings and discussions are conducted in English. No prior knowledge or pre-requisites necessary. Readings, written assignments, and x-hours are offered in French for students seeking credit for the major or minor in French. No prerequisites. World Culture: Culture Identity. Distributives: INT, TMV. XL w/WGSS 50.01 and COLT 67.08. NRO eligible. *Please note, that courses that receive an NRO grade may not fulfill major requirements.​*

French 26 (formerly Fr 75) (Hollister) @ 10a-French Film: This course will focus on one of the following: an individual filmmaker, a significant movement or period, or a major theme in French cinema. Students will become familiar with aspects of French cinematic history as well as with important concepts in film analysis. Not open to students who have received credit for FREN 75 or a course in the French 75 series. The course is not repeatable for credit. Prerequisites: FREN 006 or a course from the FREN 10 series or permission from the instructor. World Culture:Western Cultures. Distributives: ART. NRO eligible. *Please note, that courses that receive an NRO grade may not fulfill major requirements.​*

Fall '26

French 1 McConnell @ 9L and Boumlik @ 10: 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.

French 2 Boumlik @ 9L, Mefoude-Obiono @ 10 & 12: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.

French 3 Sanders @ 11 and Oliveira @ 12 & 2: 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. 

French 11 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. The course will have a web-based component, which, through cultural, grammar and multimedia learning activities, will complement face-to-face work and prepare students for in-class work. Students will learn to talk about familiar events in the present and the past, as well as formulate plans for the future. Weekly cultural videos will situate in context the grammatical content of the course, making it relevant and meaningful. Students will be actively engaged in a variety of creative written and oral activities that will help them develop their language skills. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to sign up for French 3 or apply for our French LSAs in Lyon or Toulouse. With the goal of facilitating the acquisition of the target language, this course will be conducted entirely in French.  Prerequisite-One year or equivalent of university level instruction in a Romance Language or Latin; or three high school years of instruction in a Romance Language or Latin; or native speaking proficiency in a Romance Language; or permission of instructor.

French 5 (formerly French 8) Tarnowski @ 9L: Conversations and Style: A bridge course between the elementary language sequence and FREN 6, Texts and Contexts. You'll build your cultural knowledge by studying historical and contemporary French and francophone societies. Focus topics include evolving political and regional identities, literature and the expression of identity, gender relations, the role of the media, education, religion and immigration. You'll expand your active use of French, refine reading and writing strategies, and comprehensively review grammar. Course work includes active participation in class discussions, oral presentations, and regular reading/writing assignments in the areas of narrative and poetry, cinema, music, and journalism. Not open to students who have received credit for FREN 008 or FREN 09.01. Prerequisites: FREN 3, or equivalent preparation. DIST: Western Cultures and SOC.  NRO eligible. *Please note, that courses that receive an NRO grade may not fulfill major requirements.​*

French 6 (formerly French 10) LaGuardia @ 2: French Texts and Contexts: An introduction to French literature, culture, and media across time that provides students with the tools to read and analyze texts critically. Through a selection of literary works, films, and other cultural artifacts, this course examines how ideas, genres, and narratives develop and intersect. Topics and materials vary based on the instructor's focus, allowing for an engaging and dynamic exploration of francophone literary and cultural landscapes. "Living in Paris has generated an enormous amount of writing since the Middle Ages. This course will examine diverse narrative, poetic, memorial, historical, anthropological, and cinematic texts that describe the difficulties and the joys of living in the French capital. Works by Perec, L’Estoile, Baudelaire, Balzac, Augé, Modiano, Colette, Varda, Barthes, Gary, Duras, and others." Not open to students who have received credit for FREN 10.01-10.99. Prerequisite: French 5 or French 8 or the permission of the individual instructor. DIST: Western Cultures and LIT.  NRO eligible. Please note, that courses that receive an NRO grade may not fulfill major requirements.*

French 18 Media and Other Pleasures (Larose) @ 2a: In today’s digital culture, social media users often text images of fruits and vegetables — such as the peach or eggplant emoji— as playful stand-ins for words, particularly when flirting with their interlocutors.  While this trend may feel modern, it reproduces a long-standing artistic tradition. Dating back to the Renaissance, artists and writers have used food and culinary imagery to depict everything from childhood nostalgia to romantic love and sexual desire. Through an analysis of films, songs, and written texts by artists such as Stromae, Francky Vincent, Barthes, and Proust, among others, we will examine how food has been used as a rich and expressive metaphor to showcase national identity as well as personal desire and memory. Prerequisites: French 6 or a course in the French 10 series or permission of the instructor. World Culture: Western Cultures. Distributives: INT, LIT. This is a new course from Professor Larose. 

French 33 (formerly Fr 53.06), Human Rights in France (Kritzman) @ 10a: A wide-ranging survey of the historical and conceptual issues in human rights from the Enlightenment to the present. An examination of philosophical origins and contemporary theoretical debate on citizenship and hospitality, republicanism and universalism; death penalty, women’s and gay rights, Charlie Hebdo and freedom of the press. Essays, historical documents and literature. Authors drawn from: Voltaire, Rousseau, Gouges, Renan, Drumont, Hugo, Camus, Sartre Beauvoir, Ben Jelloun, Badinter, Derrida, Kristeva, Agacinski, Lefort, Balibar, Debray. Prerequisite: A course in the FREN 10 series, French 6 or permission of the instructor. Degree Requirement Attributes: Dist:TMV; WCult:W. NRO eligible. Please note, that courses that receive an NRO grade may not fulfill major requirements.*

Winter '27

1 section of French 1.

2 sections of French 2.

4 sections of French 3.

French FYS7 (elhariry).

French 5 (formerly French 8) @ 9L (Sanders): Conversations and Style: A bridge course between the elementary language sequence and FREN 6, Texts and Contexts. You'll build your cultural knowledge by studying historical and contemporary French and francophone societies. Focus topics include evolving political and regional identities, literature and the expression of identity, gender relations, the role of the media, education, religion and immigration. You'll expand your active use of French, refine reading and writing strategies, and comprehensively review grammar. Course work includes active participation in class discussions, oral presentations, and regular reading/writing assignments in the areas of narrative and poetry, cinema, music, and journalism. Not open to students who have received credit for FREN 008 or FREN 09.01. Prerequisites: FREN 3, or equivalent preparation. DIST: Western Cultures and SOC.  NRO eligible. *Please note, that courses that receive an NRO grade may not fulfill major requirements.​*

French 6 (formerly French 10) @ TBD (St. Clair): French Texts and Contexts: An introduction to French literature, culture, and media across time that provides students with the tools to read and analyze texts critically. Through a selection of literary works, films, and other cultural artifacts, this course examines how ideas, genres, and narratives develop and intersect. Topics and materials vary based on the instructor's focus, allowing for an engaging and dynamic exploration of francophone literary and cultural landscapes. Not open to students who have received credit for FREN 10.01-10.99. Prerequisite: French 5 or French 8 or the permission of the individual instructor. DIST: Western Cultures and LIT.  NRO eligible. Please note, that courses that receive an NRO grade may not fulfill major requirements.*

French 36-New course from (Sanders) @ 3a on Digital Humanities-TBD. 

French 24-Introduction to French Literature and Culture III: Nineteenth Century  @ TBD (St. Clair): This course examines the nineteenth-century renewal of literary form and vision from the French Revolution to the First World War. We will study the social and historical developments of French culture as they are reflected in various literary genres (narrative, poetry, dramatic theory and practice), literary criticism, philosophy, historiography, and the other arts. Emphasis will be placed on France's growing self-awareness as a nation and on the analysis of aesthetic and intellectual issues represented in the major literary movements of this period including romanticism, realism, symbolism, art for art's sake, naturalism, fin de siècle decadence, and modernism. Readings may include works by such authors as Chateaubriand, de Staël, Stendhal, Hugo, Musset, Sand, Balzac, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Michelet, Zola, and Huysmans. Prerequisite: A course in the FREN 10 series, French 6 or permission of the instructor. Degree Requirement Attributes: Dist:LIT; WCult:W.

FSP Paris-Tarnowski.

Spring '27

1 section of French 1.

1 section of French 2.

3 sections of French 3.

1 section of French 11.

French 5 (formerly Fr 8) @ TBD (LaGuardia): Conversations and Style: A bridge course between the elementary language sequence and FREN 6, Texts and Contexts. You'll build your cultural knowledge by studying historical and contemporary French and francophone societies. Focus topics include evolving political and regional identities, literature and the expression of identity, gender relations, the role of the media, education, religion and immigration. You'll expand your active use of French, refine reading and writing strategies, and comprehensively review grammar. Course work includes active participation in class discussions, oral presentations, and regular reading/writing assignments in the areas of narrative and poetry, cinema, music, and journalism. Not open to students who have received credit for FREN 008 or FREN 09.01. Prerequisites: FREN 3, or equivalent preparation. DIST: Western Cultures and SOC.  NRO eligible. *Please note, that courses that receive an NRO grade may not fulfill major requirements.​*

French 6 (formerly French 10)  @ TBD (St. Clair): French Texts and Contexts: An introduction to French literature, culture, and media across time that provides students with the tools to read and analyze texts critically. Through a selection of literary works, films, and other cultural artifacts, this course examines how ideas, genres, and narratives develop and intersect. Topics and materials vary based on the instructor's focus, allowing for an engaging and dynamic exploration of francophone literary and cultural landscapes. Not open to students who have received credit for FREN 10.01-10.99. Prerequisite: French 5 or French 8 or the permission of the individual instructor. DIST: Western Cultures and LIT.  NRO eligible. Please note, that courses that receive an NRO grade may not fulfill major requirements.*

French 28-Queer, Weird, and Creepy in the C19-new course from (St. Clair)-TBD. Writing workshop. 

FRIT 37.10, French Gastronomy: Culture et Cuisine-taught in English (Beasley) @ 12: For over 300 years the world has associated France with the gastronomic arts.  In 2010 the “gastronomic meal of the French”was inscribed by UNESCO on its list of the “Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.”  In this interdisciplinary course, we will examine the culture of French gastronomy from its origins to the present.  We will use the case of France to illustrate how a country’s culinary culture illuminates its history, politics, economics, and “mentalités,” thought patterns.  There are no prerequisites for the course; students taking the course to count towards their French major/minor should only enroll if they have already received credit for Fr 8 or Fr 5. World Culture: Western Cultures. Distributives: INT, LIT.

French 34 (formerly Fr 50.05)  Montaigne and Proust Kritzman @ 10a: Montaigne and Proust, two of the greatest prose writers in the French literary tradition, represent distinct historical periods (the Renaissance and early twentieth century France) in which the idea of subjectivity is a major intellectual concern.  Using Montaigne and Proust's first person narratives as emblematic of their times, the course will examine how self-portraiture is manifested in time and space  and reflects upon broader notions of character, sensation, gender and sexuality, history and memory. Particular attention will be paid to how writing can be viewed as a way to suspend time, delay death and prolong life and sensation.  Paradoxically we shall discover  in each writer the failure of "autobiographical" narrative to establish identity.  Selectons will include representative Essais of Montaigne, Proust's Du coté de chez Swann and Le temps retrouvé, and short essays by Bergson, Bersani, Deleuze, de Man, Derrida, Genette, Kristeva and Lacan. Not open to students who have received credit for Fr 50.05.  Prerequisites: FREN 006 or a course from the FREN 10 series or permission from the instructor. World Culture: Western Cultures. Distributives: LIT.

FSP Paris-Hollister.