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French Course Atlas
French Fall 2008
FREN 101: Elementary French I, Faculty
FREN 102: Elementary French II, Faculty
FREN 170S: Mysticism and Literary Expression, Vance
FREN 201: Intermediate French, Faculty
FREN 202: Advanced Conversation, Faculty
FREN 203: Grammar and Composition, Coropceanu, York, Faculty
FREN 210: French for Reading Comprehension, Faculty
FREN 310WR: Writing Skills, Coropceanu, Faculty
FREN 313: La France Contemporaine, Faculty
FREN 314: What is Interpretation?, Nouvet, Faculty
FREN 351: Studies in the Modern Period, Marder
FREN 361SWR: Ghosts of the Plantation, Loichot
FREN 385: Individual and Society: Other Spaces, Wall
FREN 391S: Francophone Studies, Loichot
FREN 488: Littérature et Mysticisme à l’aube de la Modernité (1500-1800), Vance
FREN 488WR: Not Quite Mad: Salvador Dali, Nouvet
FREN 490SWR: Honors Seminar: La Question de l'art, Judovitz
FREN 101 Elementary French I
Max:18
Faculty MWF 8:30-9:20 / T 8:30
Faculty MWF 9:35-10:25 / T 8:30
Faculty MWF 10:40-11:30 / T 10:00
Faculty MWF 11:45-12:35 / T 11:30
Content: This beginning level course gives you the advantage of an immersion method by presenting native French speakers in real-life settings. The basis of the curriculum is a video/audio program, French in Action, with an unfolding mystery story. You will follow the characters as they move through France. You will learn living French that has not been simplified. At the same time, the program is structured so that you will acquire the new language efficiently. French 101 meets FOUR TIMES a week to maximize the development of communicative proficiency in French.
Texts: Pierre Capretz, French in Action, Text and Workbook, Part I. Software: Système D (French writing program).
Particulars: 40% of the final grade is based on weekly quizzes; 20% of final grade is based on compositions; 20% of the final grade is based on daily class work; and 20% on two oral examinations. This is the most basic course and is designed for students with no previous knowledge of French or with only one year of French.
Max:18
Faculty MWF 8:30-9:20 / Th 8:30
Faculty MWF 9:35-10:25 / Th 10:00
Content: French 102 uses the same video/audio program as French 101, French in Action. Building on material in French 101 or an equivalent first year course at the high school level, French 102 broadens the fundamental skills of listening comprehension, speaking, reading and writing. As in French 101, classes are conducted entirely in French. French 102 meets FOUR TIMES a week to maximize the development of communicative proficiency in the second language.
Texts: Pierre Capretz, French in Action, Text and Workbook, Parts I and II. Software: Système-D (French Writing Program)
Particulars: 40% of the final grade is based on weekly quizzes; 20% of the final grade is based on compositions; 20% of the final grade is based on daily class work; and 20% on two oral examinations. In the departmental sequence, French 102 follows French 101. The course is also open to students who have had some French (two years in high school).
FREN 170S Mysticism and Literary Expression
Max:18
Vance MW 4:30-5:45
Content: The course goals are to study mysticism and French literary expression in a “comparative” mode, asking probing questions about the alliance of mystical philosophy and literature; about the unclear boundary lines between the sacred and the profane. To improve our ability to make critical judgments, as we study the way literary thinkers contributed, between 1500-1800, to the very notion of the “critical,” through simultaneously fictional and spiritual experimentation.
Texts: No textbook; materials on reserve, electronic reserve and on Blackboard. Readings may include selections of various Ancient Roman and Greek philosophical text: Michel de Montaigne; Blaise Pascal; Denis Diderot; Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Also needed: Access to a computer linked to the campus system and Adobe Acrobat Reader (for electronic reserve material).
Particulars: This course is intended for freshmen and emphasizes reading, discussion, and writing. Participation and two short papers (6-8 pages each) will be the most important assignments. There will be one mid-term exam.
Max:18
Faculty MWF 8:30-9:20 / T 8:30
Faculty MWF 9:35-10:25 / T 10:00
Faculty MWF 11:45-12:35 / T 11:30
Content: In the context of a new feature-length film, Le Chemin du retour, and its fully-integrated accompanying grammar text Bien vu, bien dit, students get an in-depth review of the basic patterns and structures of French. They follow the travels of a young French television journalist investigating her grandfather’s hidden past. During this journey to different parts of the French-speaking world, students have the opportunity to reactivate their previous knowledge of the language and to expand upon that base so that they can communicate with confidence.
Texts: Williams, Bien vu, bien dit student text and workbook/laboratory manual. Software: Software: Système-D (French Writing Program).
Particulars: 50% of the final grade is based on written unit tests; 20% on compositions; 20% on oral presentations; 10% on daily classwork including homework and laboratory assignments. Prerequisites: French 102 or equivalent. Students with three years of high school French should enroll in French 201.
FREN 202 Advanced Conversation
Max:12
Faculty MWF 9:35-10:25
Content:This course stresses improving comprehension and oral production skills in French. Authentic French television, films, videos, radio, Internet sites and written passages from magazines and books stimulate discussion of contemporary topics. All course materials are unscripted and culturally authentic to enhance proficiency in all aspects of the spoken language.
Texts: Oukada, Bertrand and Solberg, Controverses.
Particulars: Grading will be based on class participation, oral presentations, and some written work, including a class journal. Prerequisites: French 201. French 202 is open to intermediate-level students who have studied French for at least 3 semesters or the equivalent. French 202 does not count for the major or for the minor in French. Upon successful completion of French 202, students cannot enroll in French 201. Since this is a conversation class, there is a very strict attendance policy.
FREN 203 Grammar and Composition
Max:12
Faculty MWF 8:30-9:20 / Th 8:30
York MWF 10:40-11:30 / Th 10:00
Faculty MWF 11:45-12:35 / Th 11:30
York MWF 2:00-2:50 / Th 2:30
Content: In French 203, students develop interpretive strategies and review and practice grammatical forms in the context of authentic literary and cultural texts. Class activities are designed to improve students' abilities in the communcative and presentational modes. There will be frequent written reactions to authentic materials. Viewing of French films will provide the opportunity for extended oral analysis and discussion. French 203 is a required course for all French majors and minors.
Texts: Morris, Herron and Estin, Identité, modernité, texte and Stillman, Reprise grammar review worktext.
Particulars: Prerequisites: Four years of high school French or French 201.
FREN 210 French for Reading Comprehension
Max: 15
Faculty TT 11:30-12:45
Content: Designed to develop the reading skill to enable students to read French from journals and specialized work in their field. Instruction is in English. No previous knowledge of French is required. Recommended for graduate students who need French as a research tool. In some departments, this course can be substituted for the GSFLT or a departmental reading exam in French. Students should consult the appropriate departmental representative for details.
Texts: Sandberg, French for Reading.
Particulars: Grading: Translation exercises, and two exams (mid-term and final) based on the format of the GSFLT. No papers. This course is primarily for graduate students and has no connection with the undergraduate French language sequence. French 210 does not count towards the College language requirement.
Max: 18
Faculty MWF 9:35-10:25
Coropceanu MWF 10:40-11:30
Coropceanu MWF 11:45-12:35
Content: Through the reading of a variety of literary, political, cultural and critical essays, this course will explore the ways in which words and images structure thought, communication and the interaction of the subject with society. Great attention will be paid, both through reading and extensive written work, to the logical and coherent elaboration of an argument. The goal of this course is the development of reading and writing skills leading to correct and effective expression in French.
Texts: Siskin, Tâches d’encre and Stillman, Reprise grammar review worktext.
Particulars: Short paper (2-3 pages) once a week. Prerequisite: French 203, or a score of 4 or 5 on the French AP exam.
FREN 313 La France Contemporaine
Max: 15
Faculty MWF 10:40-11:30
Faculty MWF 11:45-12:35
Content: This course will present and analyze various aspects of contemporary French culture and society. Presentations will be based on up-to-date materials from newspapers, films and cultural documents (books on French culture). Basically the course will be divided into three parts: a) French Society (cultural patrimony and Paris versus la province), b) French Institutions (political system, educational system, grandes écoles) and their differences with American institutions, c) Cultural life.
Texts: La Civilisation française en évolution II. Steele, St. Onge. Newspaper articles.
Particulars: This course will require extensive discussions on the part of the students. One midterm and one final exam. There will also be an "exercise de recherche" (3 pages). Prerequisite or corequisite: French 310.
FREN 314 What is Interpretation?
Max: 18
Faculty MWF 9:25-10:25
Nouvet TT 3:00-4:15
Content: This course is designed to teach students the vocabulary and analytical techniques necessary for the study of cultural artifacts (verbal and visual) ranging from poetry to prose, to painting, cinema, photography and architecture.
Texts: A reader with selected texts. Poèmes, Pièces, Prose. Introduction à l'analyse de textes littéraires français. Schofer, Rice, Berg. M. Duras, Hiroshima mon amour (Folio).
Particulars: Two papers (with several drafts). A mid-term and final exam. An oral presentation in class. Prerequisite or corequisite: French 310.
FREN 351 Studies in the Modern Period
Max:18
Marder TT 10:00-11:30
Content: This course will present an overview of the literary, cultural, and historical dimensions of “modernity” in 19th and 20th century French literary, historical and filmic texts. We will focus on the following questions throughout the course: How does the Romantic Self emerge as a reactive response to the French revolution? How is history depicted as a fiction in various 19th and 20th century prose works? How do changing poetic forms reflect changing conceptions of language? How does ‘modern experience’ shape perceptions of space, time, and memory?
Texts: Readings to include selected short works by Chateaubriand, Madame de Staël, Lamartine, Stendhal, Balzac, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Flaubert, Michelet, Breton, Bataille, Genet, Césaire, Duras, and Ponge. Films: TBA
Particulars: Prerequisite/corequisite: French 314.
FREN 361SWR Ghosts of the Plantation
(cross-listed with CPLT 389/LAS 385SWR)
Max:10
Loichot TT 10:00-11:15
Content: Martinican writer Édouard Glissant identifies the slave Plantation as "one of the bellies of the world." This course explores how the Plantation machine produced repeating cultural and literary patterns in the Caribbean. The class will explore the question of race and examine how the present is still haunted by the “ghosts of slavery.” We will focus specifically on literary texts and cultural and legal documents from Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Haiti. The course will also include a comparative component that will highlight historical links between the French Caribbean and the US South, and most specifically, with the history of Georgia, Atlanta, and Emory University.
Texts: Readings by Marie-Célie Agnant, Mark Auslander, Maryse Condé, Frantz Fanon, Édouard Glissant, among others.
Particulars: Active class participation, 1 oral presentation, 2 short papers (5-6 pages), 1 research paper (10-12 pages), 2 field trips to local sites of memory. The course is taught in English but all the original French texts will also be available. The course if part of the Emory “Transforming Community Project,” http://transform.emory.edu/
No pre-requisite. French 361 does not count towards the College language requirement.
FREN 385 Individual and Society: Other Spaces
Max: 18
Wall TT 11:30-12:45
Content: The Garden of Eden is one of the most important examples of utopia in Western society and acts as a founding myth for utopian fiction. In this course, we will trace the representation of gardens, nature, and “other spaces”, spaces outside the Parisian sphere, during the pre- and post-Revolutionary period. In this tumultuous period, utopian spaces become connected to real spaces that constitute sites of “otherness” for France: the colony and the New World. We will ask how these alternative spaces function to both reflect and reform contemporary society and how their potential for both social critique and the creation of ideal space is transformed.
Texts: The following texts will be read in excerpts: Diderot Supplément au voyage de Bougainville; Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Paul et Virginie, Jean-Jacques Rousseau Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloise and Discours sur l’inégalité; Chateaubriand Atala; and George Sand Indiana.
Particulars: TBA
Prerequisites: FREN 314
Max: 18
Loichot TT 1:00-2:15
Content: This course is a survey of literary and cultural creations from the Francophone world, with a special emphasis on the Caribbean, Africa, and South-East Asia. This semester, we will focus on the question of childhood under colonialism and its aftermath, through representative examples: Martinique, Guadeloupe, Senegal, Rwanda, Algeria, and Vietnam. The course is interdisciplinary in nature. Texts and films from these regions will be analyzed in light of theoretical reflections drawn from the fields of political philosophy, gender studies, and postcolonial theory in an attempt to situate them in their social and historical contexts.
Texts: Readings may include texts by Véronique Tadjo, Fatou Diome, Marguerite Duras, Kim Lefèvre, Maryse Condé, Raphaël Confiant, Hélène Cixous, Leïla Sebbar, and Mohamed Dib.
Particulars: Active class participation, 2 mandatory film screenings, midterm examination, 1 oral presentation, 1 short paper (4-5 pages), 1 research paper (8-10 pages). The course is taught in French.
FREN 488 Littérature et Mysticisme à l’aube de la Modernité (1500-1800)
Max: 18
Vance MW 2:00-3:15
Content: Studying mystical discursive currents in the French Literary Tradition from the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century (1500-1800), comparatively considering how the formative culture wars of the French Renaissance helped define (or not) the cultural, religious, philosophical, linguistic, and literary issues that were fundamental to the Baroque and Enlightenment periods.
Texts: may include authors such as: Saint Bernard of Clairveaux, Saint Bonaventure, Guillaume de Saint Thierry, Marguerite Porete, Chrétien de Troyes, Nicolas of Cusa, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Erasmus, Marguerite de Navarre, Montaigne, Ignatius of Loyola, Metaphysical poets, Pascal, Diderot, Rousseau
Particulars: Course and course readings in French with the exception of certain poems. Two papers and active seminar participation will be the most important factors in the grade.
Prerequisites: at least two classes from the following list: FREN 331, FREN 341, FREN 351, FREN 391, FREN 385; the third course to be taken concurrently from the following sequence: FREN 331, FREN 341, FREN 351, FREN 391, FREN 361 or FREN 385.
FREN 488WR Not Quite Mad: Salvador Dali
Max:18
Nouvet TT 4:30-5:45
Content: "The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad," proclaimed on several occasions Salvador Dali. We will take seriously this apparent joke. As we shall see, Dali indeed paints and writes "contre" madness that is, both close to madness and against it. This complex relationship will be traced through Dali's autobiographical writings originally written in French ( La vie secrète de Salvador Dali, Journal d'un génie), his writings on the technique of painting (50 secrets magiques de la peinture) and his critical writings on painting (Oui 2). Since Dali's closeness to and opposition to madness will be at stake, we will begin by familiarizing ourselves with the lived experience of madness (schizophrenia in particular) as it is described and explained by contemporary therapists who take the risk of trying to treat it.
Texts: TBA
Particulars: TBA
Prerequisites: at least two classes from the following list: FREN 331, FREN 341, FREN 351, FREN 391, FREN 385; the third course to be taken concurrently from the following sequence: FREN 331, FREN 341, FREN 351, FREN 391, FREN 361 or FREN 385.
FREN 490SWR Honors Seminar: La Question de l'art
Max: 18
Judovitz TT 1:00-2:15
Content: Dans ce cours nous allons examiner la question de l'art étant donné que
sa représentation change à travers des moments historiques différents. Les enjeux vont porter sur les définitions de l'artiste, de l'acte créateur et de l'objet artistique telles qu'elles se cristallisent dans des oeuvres littéraires, artistiques et théoriques. Nous allons interroger la nature de l'oeuvre d'art en tant qu'objet de consommation publique et sa féminisation en tant qu'objet du désir, aussi bien que le rôle de l'artiste en tant qu'auteur/ producteur, le rôle du spectateur/ consommateur, et la redéfinition de la création artistique comme production matérielle. Les lectures vont inclure des oeuvres de Balzac, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, Sartre, Duchamp, Freud, Barthes, Foucault, Marx, Macherey et Bourdieu.
Texts: Most class readings will be available on line.
Particulars: TBA