FREN416
Contemporary French Literature and Culture Broken Mirrors: Today’s Women Autobiography in France Notre cours porte sur l’autobiographie de femmes au XXIème siècle en France. Nous analyserons en particulier l’instabilité du “Je” féminin, entre une autobiographie impossible et une autofiction qui essaie de réparer la mémoire à travers un prisme social par exemple. En évitant toute […]
FREN419
Écrits de femmes (Studies in Women’s Writing) Dans ce cours, nous examinerons un éventail de textes écrits par des femmes à travers les siècles (des récits allégoriques du Moyen Âge jusqu’au théâtre du dix-neuvième siècle) en nous penchant particulièrement sur la représentation des femmes et de l’écriture, ainsi que la réception de ces textes par […]
FREN476
French Language and Societies This course is an introduction to sociolinguistics, with a focus on French-speaking societies. Throughout the semester, we will discuss basic concepts in sociolinguistics and address main topics in the field, including language variation, language contact and its possible outcomes, standardization, multilingualism, identity questions, and language attitudes and ideologies. This course aims […]
RMST301
Prose Fiction and Non-Fiction of the Romance World Speculative Fiction: Afrofuturism, Gothic Horror, and the Weird In this course, students will study major works of speculative fiction from France, Argentina, Italy, Mexico, Dominican Republic (in English translation). The course starts with a French example of what has been dubbed “weird fiction”, namely Guy de Maupassant’s […]
RMST321
French Literature from the Middle Ages to the Revolution The Art of Love in Occitan and Old French Literature Cross-listed with MDVL 301 What is love? Is it an ultimate force, stronger than human rules and laws, deeper than religious faith? Or a dangerous illusion that leads us down a path of misery, strife, and […]
FREN321
Critical Writing The course topic differs each term, depending on the instructor. Language of instruction: French Recommended prerequisites: This course is recommended for students who have completed FREN_V 302 or assignment based on placement test.
ITST380
Italian Food Cultures Italy is world-renowned for its food cultures and Italians put great care into food preparation, consumption, and appreciation. It’s no wonder that Italian food-related themes permeate the country’s cultural life and beyond. This course will examine representations of Italian or Italian-derived foodways and the role they play in articulating larger issues concerning […]
FREN352
French Grammar Welcome! Languages are patterns that can be reproduced and predicted, so by recognizing these patterns, you can acquire better and more durable knowledge of that language. This is what this course is about: helping you get an overview of the structures and systems of French so that you can read any text, reach […]
FREN427
Cinéma français Ce cours a pour objectif d’initier les étudiant(e)s à l’histoire du cinéma français, du début du siècle dernier jusqu’à nos jours, en fonction de ses grandes lignes d’évolution esthétique et idéologique. En guise d’introduction, nous aborderons les principales étapes qui ont marqué le cinéma français avant 1945: l’âge d’or du cinéma muet, la […]
FREN402
Upper-Intermediate French II The Department of FHIS offers a series of eight courses designed to build students’ skills progressively in the four basic communicative functions of listening, reading, writing, and speaking. FREN 402 is the second of a pair of Upper-Intermediate courses—401 and 402—aligned with level B2 objectives of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). The […]