21st/17th Century Francophone Theater

FRIT-F825
4:00P - 6:00P, W

This theater history seminar will study how current productions from across the francophone world engage with French theater’s neo-classical past to shape francophone drama in different ways.

Advanced French Syntax

FRIT-F671
5:00P - 7:30P, W

In this seminar we will examine both (1) the overarching theoretical questions about the nature of syntactic change that arise in the generative tradition and (2) many specific case studies from the recent and long-term histories of French and Romance, English and Germanic, and various other languages.

Autour du "Cleveland" de Prévost : roman philosophique, roman d’aventures et utopie

FRIT-F635
4:55P - 6:55P R

Mal connu aujourd’hui, le roman-fleuve (1000 pages !) de Prévost, Le Philosophe anglais, ou Histoire de M. Cleveland, fils naturel de Cromwell (1731-39), est bien l’un des plus grands romans philosophiques du 18e siècle.

Applied French Linguistics

FRIT-F580
4:15P - 5:30P MW

Broadly speaking, Applied Linguistics is the field of study that seeks to apply findings from core areas of linguistics to real-world issues. Our focus will be the application of selected findings in linguistics to the pedagogy of French as a foreign language in the United States.

Contrastive Study of French and English

FRIT-F578
4:00P-5:15P TR

This course focuses on aspects of grammar and pragmatics where French and English make use of different constructions (e.g., phrasal verbs, the expression of verbal aspect, achieving emphasis, etc.).

Introduction to French Phonology

FRIT-F576
11:30A - 12:45P, TR

F576 introduces French phonology from a sociolinguistic perspective, exploring the major controversies of 20th century phonological analysis and their evolution into current theoretical frameworks.

Introduction to French Morphology

FRIT-F579
9:30A-10:45A TR

Morphology is the study of word structure, and as such it occupies a central place in linguistics even though it is often overshadowed by its neighbors, phonology and syntax.

Studies in 19th Century French Literature: Burning Books in the 19th Century

FRIT-F640
4:00P-6:00P T

The auto-da-fé, or “public act of burning books considered offensive, subversive, or heretical,” is commonly considered a repressive, if not barbaric act aimed at destroying writings and images that allegedly threaten political and/or religious powers.

Medieval French Literature

FRIT-F501
4:55P - 6:55P T

Overview of French literature of the medieval period. Close readings of primary texts will focus on major themes of this period, such as amour courtois, chivalry, Arthurian legend, and the merveilleux, while secondary texts will present a variety of contemporary critical approaches.

Seminaire sur L'Intermedialité: Orality: Performance - Mediations - Synchronisation

FRIT-F652
4:00P-6:30P R

In this seminar we will explore the different forms of Orality as they appear in the Francophone World since the Middle Ages. We will base our reflection on specific cases (oral tales, reading practices, music and sound recording, image and sound synchronisation, live film commentary) and theoretical readings (Mauss, McLuhan, Certeau, Zumthor, Bolter, Stiegler).

Seminar in Francophone Studies: Arts of Survival: Contexts of Creativity in Dakar, New Orleans and Port-au-Prince

FRIT-F667
4:00P-6:00P W

A comparative exploration of contemporary urban culture and arts in cities with African and French roots, across multiple continents. What are the aesthetics, distinctive capacities, and uses of specific artistic forms and media—arts, performance arts, and literary arts—flourish in these cities?

Learning and Teaching of French

FRIT-F673
1:00P-2:15P TR

In this course, we inquire into the structure of the knowledge acquired in second language (L2) acquisition of French. We consider issues in clause structure, verbal paradigm, sentence interpretation, gender acquisition, noun phrase structure and phonology.

Seminar in Medieval Italian Literature: Boccaccio's Mediterranean

FRIT-M603
4:00P-6:00P T

This seminar will be centered around a reading of Boccaccio’s Decameron as a text that asks scholars to delve deeply into the medieval Mediterranean for insight into its social fabric, source materials, and its embodiment of a world in flux in the wake of a plague.

Seminar in Italian Literature and Culture: Italian Comics and Graphic Novels

FRIT-M825
10:10A-12:05P R

This class examines the world-famous tradition of Italian comics from its origins to the present. We will have an introductory session in which we will cover the language of comics in general.

French Renaissance Lyric

FRIT-F620
4:00P-6:00P Mondays

This course studies the poetry and poetics of the French Renaissance from the Rhétoriqueurs to D’Aubigné and the Baroque poets. We will begin with Jean Molinet’s Art de rhétorique from the very end of the fifteenth century, which is both a treatise on poetry and an anthology of poems in late Medieval formes fixes.

Elementary French for Graduate Students

FRIT-F491
11:00A-12:15P TR

This course provides an introduction to structures of the language necessary for reading, followed by reading in graded texts of a general nature.

Issues of Representations in Italian Culture

FRIT-M605
4:55P-6:55P W

In this course we will examine issues of representations in Italian culture, mostly in visual arts and media. 

Individual Readings in French Literature and Linguistics

FRIT-F815
ARR

Independent study of a topic not offered in a regular course this semester, under the guidance of a faculty member.

Research in French Literature and Language

FRIT-F875
ARR

Reading French for Graduate Students

FRIT-F492
11:00A-12:15P D

Le XVIIIE SIECLE: L'ESSAI

FRIT-F535

For off campus students only.  Online class meetings TBD

Individual Readings in French Literature and Linguistics

FRIT-F815
ARR

Independent study of a topic not offered in a regular course this semester, under the guidance of a faculty member.

Research in French Literature and Language

FRIT-F875
ARR

Individual Readings in Italian Literature

FRIT-M815
ARR

Independent study of a topic not offered in a regular course this semester, under the guidance of a faculty member.

Research in Italian Literature

FRIT-M875
ARR

Reading Italian for Graduate Students

FRIT-M492
6:00-7:00P MW

This summer you can complete your Italian Graduate Language Proficiency online. During our eight-week summer course, you will review Italian grammar for the first part of the course and immerse yourself in translation and text interpretation in the second part.

Forms of Civility in the Italian Renaissance

FRIT-M604
4:00P-6:00P M

This graduate course examines the classical genealogy, the social and historical milieu and the rhetorical matrix of this new form of social interaction, which was to become the generative model of early modern European ethics, and which was governed by the values of moderation, convenience, conformity, adaptability, grace, and dissimulation.

Individual Readings in Italian Literature

FRIT-M815
ARR

Independent study of a topic not offered in a regular course this semester, under the guidance of a faculty member.

Research in Italian Literature

FRIT-M875
ARR

Introduction to French Phonology

FRIT-F576
1:00P-2:15P TR

F576 introduces French phonology from a sociolinguistic perspective, exploring the major controversies of 20th century phonological analysis and their evolution into current models. We will examine well-known French sound-system phenomena as latent final consonants, e ‘muet’, nasal vowels, and h-aspiré, as well as prosodic structure.

Introduction to Applied French Linguistics

FRIT-F580
4:00P-5:15P MW

Applied Linguistics is the field of study that seeks to apply findings from core areas of linguistics to real-world issues. Our focus will be the application of selected topics in linguistics to the pedagogy of French as a foreign language in the United States. 

Contemporary France on Film

FRIT-F651 WEB
1:00P - 3:00P MR

Offered primarily for middle- and high-school teachers of French, this interdisciplinary course uses recent documentary and fiction films to reflect critically on social, cultural, and political topics crucial to the increasingly contested nature of French national identity in the twenty-first century.

History of the French Language II

FRIT-F604
11:15A-12:30P TR

In this course we will explore in greater theoretical and empirical depth some issues introduced briefly in F603, focusing especially – but not exclusively – on syntax, on the later medieval and early modern periods, and on areas of student interest.

Medieval Manuscripts

FRIT-F615
4:00P-6:00P W

The medieval manuscript is a witness to unique versions of texts, a cultural artifact with an idiosyncratic logic and unique history. This seminar initiates students in the main fields of manuscript studies (paleography and codicology) as well as early book history and textual scholarship. Our approach privileges hands-on experiences in the Lilly Library, but prepares students for archival work of all kinds. Exercises offer students the opportunity to confront and manipulate manuscripts in person and via cutting edge digital viewers and transcription/annotation tools.

Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Contemporary French Cinema

FRIT-F651
4:00P-6:00P R

Taking an interdisciplinary perspective from postcolonial studies and film studies, this course will examine the representation of race and ethnicity in French cinema as a contested field of cultural production and of sociopolitical discourse. To what degree do film and other audio-visual mass media (television, internet, social media) serve both to reify and to contest institutional power structures and administrative practices inherited from the colonial period, as well as deeply ingrained modes of imagining racial and ethnic difference as part of or in contradistinction to French national identity?

Seminar in French/Francophone Studies

FRIT-F825
4:00P-6:00P T

This graduate seminar examines the material culture of early modern (16th-18th centuries) French/Francophone dramatic works and the role materiality plays in the way these art objects communicate (their mediality).