FREN-101-2021S
This course introduces you to the French language and Francophone cultures in a worldwide context. Improve your listening, reading, speaking, and writing in skills in French. This course is aligned with level A1 objectives of the CEFR. View full description.
FREN-501B-2020S
Title: “The Fantasy and Medieval Dual” | Explore the multifaceted links that fantasy maintains with medieval inspiration, by jointly studying contemporary works and works from the Middle Ages that may relate to it. View full description.
FREN-599B-2020W
All candidates for the M.A. degree with thesis are required to develop a thesis of approximately 80 pages, which they will defend during a 1.5-hour oral examination. View full description.
FREN-599A-2020W
All candidates for the M.A. degree with thesis are required to develop a thesis of approximately 80 pages, which they will defend during a 1.5-hour oral examination. View full description.
FREN-578A-2020W
Title: “The Archeology of Texts: the Problems of Scientific Publishing” | Discover how individual choices can have a profound and sometimes controversial impact on scientific editions of texts, which are meant to deliver reliable materials to researchers—from manuscripts, old printed matter, author’s drafts to other archive documents. View full description.
FREN-514A-2020W
Title: “France in Ruins: Wounded Spaces From 1945 to the Present” | Ruins have represented the decay of the pagan world, its architectural genius, the height of the sublime, and a refuge for earthly pleasures or the inquisitive mind. Discover how the concept of ruins has evolved since 1945. View full description.
FREN-512A-2020W
An introduction to the key texts, themes and some of the more influential theories in literary criticism and cultural studies from the twentieth century to the present. View full description.
FREN-510A-2020W
Title: “Baudelaire and the Poetics of Modernity” | Study the texts of Baudelaire, who asserts himself as a thinker of “modernity”—a term he invented by making it the watchword of a new aesthetic and poetics. View full description.