Home > Courses > Graduate Courses

Courses

Graduate Courses

Course Descriptions for the Spring 2012 semester

FREN 584 - FRENCH CANADIAN LITERATURE credits 3 Prof. Philippe Baillargeon

Contemporary Canadian poets, novelists, and dramatists writing in French. Prerequisite: Satisfactory performance in courses beyond the 240 level.

FREN 597E - ST-TEACHER IN THE MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL CLASSROOM 2 credits Prof. Rhonda Tarr

FREN  597ML ST-THE ALLEGORICAL IMPULSE: FROM EARLY ROMANCE TO THE DITS OF THE LATE MIDDLE AGES. 3 credits Prof. Paul Rockwell

We will study the social, philosophical, poetic and institutional currents that contribute to the emergence of French literature in the period between the twelfth and the late-fourteenth centuries. Readings will include Arthurian works by Chretien de Troyes and Marie de France; erotic allegories by Guillaume de Lorris, Jean Froissart and Guillaume de Machaut; as well as works concerning the myths of Trojan ancestry and of the grail.

FREN 597W ST-CHANGING FAMILY VALUES/AU SIECLE DES LUMIERES 3 credits. Prof. Janie Vanpee

Pre-marital sex, adultery, divorce, birth control, women's education, women's right to political representation, these controversial issues were at the core of debates over woman's changing legal, social, and cultural status and of her role in the family in eighteenth-century France. We will examine woman's changing role as represented in the fiction and philosophical texts of the French Enlightenment. Readings from l'Abbe Prevost, Francoise de Graffigny, Diderot, Rousseau, Isabelle de Charriere, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Olympe de Gouges, the Encyclopedie, legal documents and polemical essays, in light of more recent anthropological, sociological and psychoanalytic theory.

FRENCHST 809 GENRE COURSE -THEATER  3 credits  Prof. Dianne Sears

 Course taught in French. A diachronic study of French and Francophone theater from Medieval Drama to the contemporary stage, with reference to a wide range of theoretical approaches. The course will examine major movements in the rich history of French theater, including Classicism, romanticism, realism, surrealism, and the theater of the absurd. Theater as social commentary; relationships between theater and religion, political movements, postcolonialism, and questions of gender and race. Team-taught, drawing on the expertise of the French and Francophone Studies faculty.

We also offer Independent Studies