ITAL102

Beginners’ Italian II Continuation of foundational elements of Italian language. Development of listening, reading, speaking and writing skills in the context of everyday situations in the present and past tenses. Aligned with CEFR level A1 objectives. Credits will be only granted for ITAL 103 or both ITAL 101, ITAL102. Recommended prerequisite: ITAL 101. (NOTE: One […]

Postcolonial Counterpoint. Orientalist, France, and the Maghreb

Postcolonial Counterpoint. Orientalist, France, and the Maghreb

Farid Laroussi — Postcolonial Counterpoint is a critical study of Orientalism and the state of Francophone and postcolonial studies, examined through the lens of the historical and cross-cultural relations between France and North Africa.  Thoroughly questioning the inability of Western academia to shake free of universalism and essentialism and come to grips with the Orientalism […]

La mesure des mots. Microscopie du Livre I des fables de La Fontaine

La mesure des mots. Microscopie du Livre I des fables de La Fontaine

Hervé Curat — Cette analyse textuelle des vingt-deux «fables de La Fontaine» qui font le Livre premier des Fables choisies de 1668 suit l’ordre du recueil, préservant le plan de lecture choisi par le fabuliste. L’étude de chacune longe le texte, mais cède à l’occasion le pas à une vue transversale de faits touchant l’ensemble […]

FREN123

Course type: Hybrid A hybrid course may involve a combination of synchronous activities (done in “real time”) and asynchronous activities (done in one’s own time). The course will be delivered online. Intermediate French II French 123 is a continuation of French 122: a refinement of reading, speaking and listening skills with additional emphasis on techniques […]

FREN122

Course type: Hybrid A hybrid course may involve a combination of synchronous activities (done in “real time”) and asynchronous activities (done in one’s own time). The course will be delivered online. Intermediate French I With an approach that is communicative and collaborative, inductive and interactive, the course develops understanding of the French language and the […]

FREN102

Beginners’ French II A continuation of the A1 level work begun in FREN 101 and its journey into the French language and around the Francophone world. With an approach that is communicative and collaborative, and inductive and interactive, the course develops understanding and the mobilization of knowledge as savoir-faire. FREN 102 involves three hours per […]

Celestina según su lenguaje

Celestina según su lenguaje

Raúl Alvarez-Moreno — Celestina según su lenguaje estudia el lenguaje en Celestina (1499-1502) como elemento primordial y no solo supletorio o subsiguiente de la contienda que tiene lugar en la obra. A causa del recorrido desde lo semántico a lo epistemológico y lo filósofico-moral -ética y política-, ya en el aristotelismo, el estoicismo o el […]

FREN112

Course type: Hybrid A hybrid course may involve a combination of synchronous activities (done in “real time”) and asynchronous activities (done in one’s own time). The course will be delivered online.  

Traditions orales et postcoloniales

Traditions orales et postcoloniales

Luc Fotsing Fondjo et Moustapha Fall (ed.) — Que suggère une oralité postcoloniale qui informe le texte de fiction postcolonial africain ? Est-ce un stéréotype folklorique ? Est-ce l’expression d’une voix collective revendiquant un espace dont elle a été dépossédée ? Est-ce la voix transgressive d’une nouvelle génération d’écrivains et de lecteurs s’opposant aux canons […]

Una embajada española al Egipto de principios del siglo XVI

Una embajada española al Egipto de principios del siglo XVI

Raúl Álvarez-Moreno — Pedro Mártir de Anglería desembarcó en Egipto la Navidad de 1501 tras ochenta días de viaje, trece de ellos en Venecia, para negociar la restauración de los lugares santos y la protección de los cristianos en Jerusalén, quienes temían una represalia mameluca por las recientes acciones llevadas a cabo contra los moriscos […]