FREN-499-2020W
Required of all Honours candidates. The Honours Essay represents an extended personal research project (usually about 35-40 pages typewritten) carried out under the supervision of two members of the department’s Graduate faculty. View full description.
FREN-495-2020W
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.
FREN-484A-2020W
Discover the history of the book as we know it, from its manuscript origins to its most modern formats. Build your ability to read works of French literature in their original settings – print and manuscript – and to use editions of older texts critically. View full description.
FREN-470A-2020W
An introduction to sociolinguistics, with a focus on French-speaking societies. Explore topics such as language variation, language contact and its possible outcomes, standardization, multilingualism, identity questions, and language attitudes and ideologies. View full description.
FREN-430A-2020W
Title: “Great Women Writers of the 20th and 21st Century” | Explore the literary revolutions spurred by women writers in the 20th and 21st Century, in both Québec and francophone Canada. View full description.
FREN-420A-2020W
Title: “The Novel of the Extreme Contemporary” | One of the characteristics of the French novel today lies in the absence of generic borders accompanied by an outbidding of movements or currents. Explore what is at play in the novel of the end of the 20th and 21st centuries. View full description.
FREN-413A-2020W
Title: “Parisian Dreams” | If Paris is perceived as the essential capital of artists, the city is also associated with dreams of wealth, success, elegance and happiness. Explore what the Parisian dream represents for young provincials attracted by the capital—one of the great themes of the French realist novel. View full description.
FREN-408A-2020W
Title: “16th-Century Literature and its Mirror Games” | French Renaissance texts often served as mirrors or portraits of the soul, of the author, of the readers, and of society. Analyze works that feature images of mirrors from the point of view of theme, iconography, or structure, within their contexts. View full description.
FREN-407-2020W
Title: “I Fought the Law: the Criminal Underworld in Medieval French Literature” | Contrary to popular belief, medieval literature and culture were fascinated with criminals, thieves, cheaters and swindlers. This course focuses on texts and authors living on the fringe of society, breaking the law and flouting authority. View full description.
FREN-380-2020W
Title: “What is Frenchness?” | Explore the idea of Frenchness from the point of view of three key concepts that have formally shaped French national identity since the French Revolution: universalism, secularism and cultural heritage. View full description.