
Elementary French I
Introduction to French language and selected aspects of French civilization and culture.
Learn more about this courseIntroduction to French language and selected aspects of French civilization and culture.
Learn more about this courseAn accelerated treatment of material covered in both F100 and F150 designed for superior students and students with previous training in another foreign language.
Learn more about this courseBasic structures of the French language and selected topics of French civilization and culture.
Learn more about this courseGrammar, composition, conversation coordinated with the study of cultural texts.
Learn more about this courseThis course explores the rich cultural life and history of the south of France, with particular focus on Provence. Provence is a land known for its arid climate and rocky terrain, as well as its many rivers, natural springs, and the enviable views of the French Riviera.
Learn more about this courseIn this course on material culture and emotions, we will use physical artefacts from early modern France as a case study to explore a history of emotions — specifically anger, anxiety, compassion, disgust, laughter, grief, love, and tears.
Learn more about this courseGrammar, composition, conversation coordinated with the study of cultural texts.
Learn more about this courseAn accelerated treatment of material covered in both F200 and F250. Grammar, composition, and conversation coordinated with readings of short texts.
Learn more about this courseIntroduction à l’étude de textes littéraires français.
Learn more about this courseAn introduction to French literature, this course has three goals: a) to provide further exposure to a variety of literary genres in French, including poetry, theatre, the novel and the short story b) to develop and sharpen reading skills through practice in close reading and techniques of literary analysis c) to foster student progress in practical skills such as aural and written comprehension, as well as oral and written expression.
Learn more about this courseThis course proposes an introduction to French and Francophone studies through the figure of the femme fatale.
Learn more about this courseOur discussions and analyses of our reading and viewing list each week (authors we will read include Montaigne, Reza, Anouilh, Mouawad, Shaheman, Laclos, Baudelaire, NDiaye, Molière, and Rimbaud) will focus on how protagonists and narrators question, search for, celebrate, or sometimes mask their origins as they struggle with their allegiances to categories of class, gender, religion, sexuality, ethnicity, family, and race.
Learn more about this courseThe fascination for the unknown place has always played a prominent role in literature. At least since Ulysses’ peregrinations in his attempt to go back to Ithaca, as they are recounted by Homer in the Odyssey, the remote place has never ceased to provide writers with themes to unfold in their works.
Learn more about this courseExplore the lives and work of African American visual artists, writers, and musicians who made Paris their home in the 20th century, and themes of diaspora, exile, négritude, race and the performance of identity.
Learn more about this courseTaking a comparative, transnational approach, this course offers an overview of European cinema as an evolving art and as a means of tracing the evolution of European society, politics, and identity during the twentieth century, using representative films from Belgium, France, Germany, Sweden, and the Soviet Union.
Learn more about this courseComprehensive grammar review with in depth study of the most complex features of written French. Four tests including final. Texts are Harper's Grammar of French and the workbook, both available as ClassPaks.
Learn more about this courseF313 builds students' understanding of advanced aspects of French grammar and their facility in applying this understanding to written and oral expression. We will supplement the text Contrastes (Rochat) with exercises (online and others) and compositions based on various materials from French and francophone everyday society, including e.g. cross-cultural studies, journalism, and film.
Learn more about this courseRecent and classic award-winning feature-length French films (comedies, dramas, thrillers) provide the basis for vocabulary expansion, in-class discussion and debates, and an increased understanding of various French cultural and historical issues, including immigration, WWII, regional differences, and religious conflict.
Learn more about this courseIntroduction to the language of business activities in France and to the structure and functioning of various aspects of contemporary French economic life. Awareness of the general cultural context within which business activities take place in France will also be an important dimension of the course.
Learn more about this courseThis new course offers a critical introduction to twentieth‑ and twenty-first century France in a global and comparative perspective, with special attention given to France and the United States.
Learn more about this courseDans ce cours nous lirons et analyserons plusieurs œuvres, appartenant à des genres et à des époques différentes, et comprenant, en plus des textes mentionnés, une traduction de quelques contes des Mille et Une Nuits, un choix de poèmes des Orientales de Victor Hugo, et le roman de L’Étranger de Camus. L’objectif principal du cours est d’étudier le thème de l’orientalisme dans la littérature afin d’examiner l’imaginaire qu’il nourrit ainsi que les préjugés qu’il véhicule.
Learn more about this courseFor students preparing an honors project to receive a degree with departmental honors in French.
Learn more about this courseThis course provides an overview of the structure of present day French, a perspective on its historical development, and an analysis of some of the current language-related issues in the French-speaking world.
Learn more about this courseThis course explores the literary achievements of sixteenth-century France, the Renaissance.
Learn more about this courseWe will approach film not only as a form of art linked to painting, literature, and theater, but as an expression of evolving French national identity, an economic commodity, and a tool of sociopolitical discourse.
Learn more about this courseFor students preparing an honors project to receive a degree with departmental honors in French.
Learn more about this courseIndependent study on a specific topic not taught in one of this semester's regular courses.
Learn more about this courseIntroduction to contemporary Italian language, geography, and culture. Involves a broad variety of assignments and activities that develop grammatical competency and proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Learn more about this courseThis intensive beginning course covers the material of two semesters in one (M100 and M150). The course meets four times a week and also involves independent work by students. During the semester students are involved in a variety of tasks practicing speaking, writing, listening and reading in a cultural context.
Learn more about this courseContinued introduction to contemporary Italian language, geography, and culture. Involves a broad variety of assignments and activities that build grammatical competency and proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Learn more about this courseThis course is a continuation of Elementary Italian II.
Learn more about this courseThe course builds upon the first three semesters of beginning Italian (or equivalent) adding the unique feature of short films as the first stimulus for learning intermediate-level vocabulary, grammar, and cultural concepts.
Learn more about this courseThis course will center around Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, a collection of stories written in the wake of the plague that devastated Florence in 1348. We’ll consider the connection between storytelling and survival, whether in the wake of devastating disease or political crisis, as we move across the medieval world through Indian, Persian, and Arab traditions of storytelling
Learn more about this courseItalian style, in various aspects of worldwide culture, art and even products of manufacturing industries and urban historical centers, has often been regarded as a leading example of quality, aesthetic value, allure, beauty and fascination. In this course, we will analyze this phenomenon, and identify the historical roots of these peculiarities of Italian culture and society, especially focusing on the post-WWII period.
Learn more about this courseThis second-year Italian course meets three times a week and builds upon the first three semesters of beginning and intermediate Italian (or equivalent).
Learn more about this courseThis course examines Italian texts of various genres by men and women, authors and artists, across from the 1800s through our current decade.
Learn more about this courseThis course explores how gender and sexuality have been constructed and used in films about Italian organized crime, both in Italian and Italian American contexts. In particular, students will study women’s roles and representations in mafia stories in real-life and on screen, from the time of the Italian Unification to the present.
Learn more about this courseThis course will explore the questions of identity and assimilation of first- and second-generation immigrants into Italy who contribute to the transformation and richness of the Italian culture.We will face topics such as colonization, racism, religion, laws, and the difficulties and the beauty of being Italian.
Learn more about this courseIndependent study on a specific topic not taught in one of this semester's regular courses.
Learn more about this courseFor students preparing an honors project to receive a degree with departmental honors in Italian.
Learn more about this courseIn this class we will explore love as phenomenon and as representation from multiple perspectives, taking advantage of the tools of cultural analysis, artistic and literary interpretation, and scientific research to answer questions such as: What is love in 2020? What was it in the past? What would we be without it?
Learn more about this courseThe primary focus of this course will be to teach students how to understand the conventions and traditions that govern any literary genre, with specific reference to the "thriller" as exemplified by selected detective and spy stories in both literature and film.
Learn more about this courseThis course will examine the comic literature of the Italian Renaissance. We will explore the nature and various expressions of comedy in genres such as the short story, the facetia (‘witty anecdote’), the apologue, the comic play, the epic and satiric poem and the treatise.
Learn more about this courseIntroduces the history of anti-black racism in the US and then covers a selection of sci-fi texts and movies that either exemplify the systemic racism of their time, or expose it and question it, as in the case of Afrofuturism. Science Fiction is a particularly apt genre for this kind of investigation because its reliance on invented storyworlds allows it to create allegories for the present, and to imagine different kinds of possible societies.
Learn more about this courseThe Covid-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus social, economic, and political concerns shared worldwide around systemic racism, class inequality, and ecological devastation. In this course, readings and discussions of literary and non-literary works dealing with the legacy of colonialism and racism, immigration laws and behaviors, and public health policies in the French-speaking world vs. the US and other countries will allow us to understand differences in mentalities, perceptions, and forms of governance a imagine meaningful solutions to these crises.
Learn more about this courseIn this class we will explore the dramatic changes in analog game design and culture of the last decades. We will consider the changes in audience, production methods, and publishing policies that have made this change possible.
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