French (FR)

Professional and scholarly development in interdisciplinary French Studies.

Professional and scholarly development in interdisciplinary French Studies.

An overview of the major subfields of linguistics as they apply to the French language.

Intensive study of various French Renaissance writers in relation to selected artistic issues of the period.

A comprehensive cross-sectional view of French society and its institutions since World War II.

Concept of francophone; French minorities in Europe and North America; role of French language in Africa, Middle East, Far East.

Based on the Foucaldian notion of episteme, the course analyzes major literary texts and intellectual trends.

Based upon current theories of theater, the course focuses on problematics of French drama from the Seventeenth-Century to the present.

Discourse and thematic analysis of selected works of French Enlightenment genres: essay, drama, fiction, poetry.

French cultural aspects, other than language and literature, conducted in French with the collaboration of specialists outside the French department.

This interdisciplinary seminar examines notions of decadence in the visual arts and other fields elaborated primarily in French and Francophone contexts between 1880 and 1914. We will alternate an in-depth reading of Joris-Karl Huysmans' classic text of Decadence, A Rebours (1884), with close study of the visual arts, music, scientific discourse, and historical and philosophical texts in order to identify what were considered by contemporaries the major sources of decadence during that era: among others, `new women,' Jews and other social and `racial' inferiors, democratization, urbanization, and the triumph of scientific and rationalistic thought. We will also examine presumed symptoms of decadence: neurasthenia, declining birth rates, perceived social `pathologies' such as prostitution, crime, and drugs; homosexuality, androgyny, and other supposed sexual `perversions'; and psychological conditions such as hysteria. Finally, we will examine what contemporaries considered antidotes to decadence: visits to spas, the cult of heroes, sports, a return to faith. We will analyze how artists and authors of the period among others, Aubrey Beardsley, Félicien Rops, Edvard Munch, Fernand Knopff, Jean Lorrain, Oscar Wilde, and others' valorized the notion of decadence, celebrating it and making it the touchstone of a key esthetic of the late-nineteenth century, overlapping and echoing other trends and esthetics, such as Symbolism, Art nouveau, the Pre-Raphaëlites, Japonism, the Arts and Crafts Movement, Jugendstil, Estheticism, Dandyism, and Snobbism

Interdisciplinary approaches to these concepts, with a focus on artistic and literary objects in the French context.

Diversity issues in Francophone literatures explored through various literary genres: variable focus may combine genre and topic.

Romanticism, realism, and their variations in the context of social and political revolution.

Representations of otherness in nineteenth-century French literature examined through race, gender, religion, and class paradigms.

Various nineteenth-century French writers considered in relation to selected esthetic and cultural problems raised during the period.

Women's literary production in nineteenth-century France, including novels, poetry, travel narratives, children's literature, and essays.

Established contemporary literary texts, figures, and aesthetic movements in various genres from Proust to Sartre and from Genet to Conde.

Exploration of the poetic genre and its diversification through poetic prose, free verse, and metaphorical narrative, from Baudelaire to Cixous.

Major trends in contemporary theory and criticism from genre debates to socio-political approaches to literature, post-structuralism, deconstruction, and reception theories.

Specialized consideration of contemporary writers; for advanced students.

French interdisciplinary methods of cultural analysis and cultural history, with applications to French cultural artifacts.

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Approaches to the uses and research applications of multimedia and other educational technologies applied to the teaching of foreign languages. (also crosslisted with SPAN 589)

Creative projects, including nonthesis research, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.

Formal courses given on a topical or special interest subject which may be offered infrequently; several different topics may be taught in one year or term.

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Activities to be included in the teaching assignment will be lecturing, leading discussions, conducting recitations, correcting and grading student papers and examinations.

Foreign study and/or research constituting progress toward the degree at a foreign university.

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