FRENCH 413      18Th-Century French Literature
Emphasis on philosophical and social significance. Authors may include Marivaux, Beaumarchais, Le Sage, L'Abbe Prevost, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Diderot. Also offered as FRENCH 5513.
Credits: 3 hours
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FRENCH 414      Medieval Literature
Selected readings in various genres including epic, romance, theater and lyric. Emphasis will be placed on the intertextual relations and the cultural and historical context surrounding text production in the Middle Ages. Also offered as FRENCH 5514.
Credits: 3 hours
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FRENCH 415      Advanced Conversation And Composition I
Practice in speaking and writing French, with attention to the elements of style. Continued in FRENCH 425. First semester required of all majors and second semester recommended. Both semesters required of prospective high school teachers. Either or both semesters may be repeated with the consent of the instructor and the French section head. No more than six hours credit may be applied towards a degree. Prerequisite: FRENCH 325. Offered: Fall.
Credits: 3 hours
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FRENCH 417      16Th-Century French Literature
Selected readings in prose and poetry from Marot through Astree. Authors may include Rabelais, Ronsard, du Bellay, Montaigne, Marguerite de Navarre. Also offered as FRENCH 5517.
Credits: 3 hours
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FRENCH 425      Advanced Conversation And Composition II
Continuation of FRENCH 415. See FRENCH 415. Required for teacher certification in French. Prerequisite: FRENCH 415. Winter.
Credits: 3 hours
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FRENCH 426      20Th-Century French Literature
Selected readings from the Belle Epoque to the contemporary period. Also offered as French 5526.
Credits: 3 hours
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FRENCH 435      Directed Discussions In Advanced French
Directed discussion on contemporary French culture. The discussions cover a wide range of topics on modern France: social, intellectual and cultural aspects. Students will participate and have the opportunity to observe and react within a cultural frame of reference. Open to advanced students of French and to teachers of the language for in-service training.
Credits: 3 hours
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FRENCH 440      Medieval Romance
The various movements of French medieval romance from the 12th through 15th centuries with an emphasis on the 12th and 13th centuries. Analysis of literary technique and socio-historical context will be stressed. No knowledge of Old French is assumed. Also offered as FRENCH 5540.
Credits: 3 hours
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FRENCH 443      Early French Theater
An examination of the development of French theater from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance, including religious and secular drama. The focus is on literary analysis of the dramatic texts, with some consideration of theater history and dramaturgy. Also offered as French 5543. Prerequisites: French 221 or the equivalent, French 315 strongly recommended.
Credits: 3 hours
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FRENCH 444      Renaissance Poetry
French poetry from the Grand Rhetoriqueurs through the Pleiade. Study of poetic forms, major poets and schools, and different approaches to analyzing poetry. Also offered as FRENCH 5544. Prerequisites: FRENCH 221 or the equivalent.
Credits: 3 hours
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FRENCH 445      Epistolarity And The Novel
Explorations of the genre through the analysis of 17th-and 18-century French novels. Introduced by a theoretical review. Also offered as FRENCH 5545.
Credits: 3 hours
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FRENCH 446      17Th-Century French Drama
The classical period: Emphasis on Corneille, Racine and Moliere. Also offered as FRENCH 5546.
Credits: 3 hours
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FRENCH 447      19Th-Century French Poetry
The study of the poetry and dominant poetic movements of the 19th-century, with special attention given to different approaches to its analysis. Also offered as FRENCH 5547.
Credits: 3 hours
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FRENCH 448      20Th Century French Theater
Analysis of major currents of French theater of the 20th-Century, with emphasis upon the postwar period and its movements. Also offered as FRENCH 5548.
Credits: 3 hours
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FRENCH 452      Medieval Poetry
A study of medieval poetry including religious and secular poetry, Provencal and Old French lyric, the influence of poetry in other genres such as romance and theater, later medieval poetry of the 14th and 15th centuries, as well as a discussion of the origins of the lyric. Also offered as FRENCH 5552. Prerequisites: FRENCH 221 or the equivalent.
Credits: 3 hours
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FRENCH 454      Intellectual Origins Of The French Revolution
Study of philosophical and political texts by Montesquieu, Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, etc. on government, society, language, freedom and equality. Critical study of the Enlightenment. Also offered as FRENCH 5554.
Credits: 3 hours
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FRENCH 455      Fin-De-Siecle And Belle Epoque
Study of the literary, cultural and historical context of this time period in French history, for example: Symbolism, Decadence, and the years 1900-1914. Also offered as FRENCH 5555.
Credits: 3 hours
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FRENCH 456      20Th Century French Poetry
The study of 20th-century poetry with special consideration given to different approaches to its analysis. Also offered as FRENCH 5556.
Credits: 3 hours
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FRENCH 457      20Th Century French Narrative
The analysis of major currents in French 20th century narrative, especially fiction and film. Courses will be organized around narrative themes or historical events and will include social and cultural components. Also offered as FRENCH 5561.
Credits: 3 hours
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FRENCH 463      19Th-Century French Fiction
Studies in the birth, development and variation of French Romanticism. Readings include de Stael, Senancour, Constant, Hugo, Stendhal and Merimee. The advent of realism and naturalism in France. Readings include Balzac, Flaubert, Daudet, De Maupassant, and Zola. Also offered as FRENCH 5563.
Credits: 3 hours
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