| FRE -121 INTER FRENCH I | |
| Department: | French |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| This course is for students who successfully completed the elementary sequence or equivalent. French grammar fundamentals are reviewed and practiced orally and in writing. Students work with selected cultural topics from the Francophone world, in written texts and film. This course, which uses French as the principal language of instruction in the classroom, includes two mandatory laboratories per week. Prerequisite: FRE102 or equivalent, or permission of the instructor. (Fall) | |
| FRE -122 INTER FRENCH II | |
| Department: | French |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| This course is a continuation of FRE 121. It uses French as the principal language of instruction in the classroom and includes two mandatory laboratories per week. Prerequisite: FRE121 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. (Spring) | |
| FRE-125: Intensive French Review | |
| Department: | French |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Prerequisites: FRE 102 or 105, or 121 or permission. This course offers qualified students the opportunity to complete the intermediate sequence of language acquisition in one semester instead of two. Students review and reinforce all the fundamentals of the French lagnuage (speaking, listening, writing, and reading). Instruction and practice depend heavily on the use of technology. A mandatory weekly laboratory is included, in addition to individual practice at the language computer laboratory. First-year students are placed in | |
| FRE -227 FRE IN REV II: TRANSLATION | |
| Department: | French |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| This course continues to review the fundamentals of grammar while emphasizing the skills of reading and writing. Students will read short stories from the Francophone world and write weekly essays. Prerequisite: FRE 226 or permission of instructor. (Spring) | |
| FRE -242 TOP IN FRE CULT: QUEBEC STUDIES | |
| Department: | French |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| This course traces the rise and development of the literature from French Canadian and Quebecois society in its cultural expression, and political and historical contexts. It offers students an understanding of contemporary issues relevant to this French-Speaking community, such as rural and urban space relations, colonization vs. independence, the emergence of the feminist writers, quiet revolution and the question of sovereignty, violence and writing of the deconstruction, discourse on the Church ideology voices from immigrant writers. Student explores a new imaginary space while improivng their French language skills through readings, discussions,film reviews, and papers on relevant topics. Typical readings: Lacombe, Roy, Miron, Aquin, Proulx, Robin, Gagnon, Ollivier, Hebert. Prerequisite: FRE 226 and FRE 227, or permission of the instructor. | |
| FRE -243 TOPICS IN FRANCOPHONE CULTURES | |
| Department: | French |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| This course seeks to introduce the various manifestations of French language and the many Francophone cultures and societies throughout the world. Students are introduced to the concept of francophonie, its ideological and political meaning as well as its cultural manifestations and literary expressions. Students discuss the relations of the Francophone world with France and the USA in the context of globalization. This course provides students with a broader cultural dimension to raise their consciousness of intercultural perspectives. Students improve their level of language proficiency by reading, discussions, writing weekly film reviews, and papers on relevant topics. Prerequisite: FRE 226 and 227, or permission of the instructor. (Offered alternate years) Typical readings: Selections from journal articles, newspapers, books and Web materials dealing with current events related themes examined in class | |
| FRE -355 ADV,FRANC.TOPICS:VOICESFROMAMER. | |
| Department: | French |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| This course deals with ways in which Francophone Caribbean writers represent their society in a context of deep alienations, and how they try to reinvent themselves and their community through the diversity of their unique culture and humanity. Students will improve their cultural and language skills by discussing these major topics: deconstructing colonization; the relation of self to other; memory, migrancy and the quest for identity; women in literature; French language and local language relations; writers and their imaginary homeland; Caribbean societies and the racial problem; images of society in literature (France or the French West Indies). Prerequisite: FRE 253 and one of FRE 251, FRE 252, or permission of the instructor. (Dahouda, offered occasionally) Typical readings: Césaire, Fanon, Dépestre, Zobel, Condé, Glissant, Schwartz-Bart, Chamoiseau | |
| MDLN 218 Island Voices: Culture and Identity In French Caribbean Literature | |
| Department: | French |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| This course offers to students windows into the Francophone
Caribbean culture, society as a literary construction. They analyze
the problem of identity through a study of Caribbean literary movements.
Topics include discrimination and violence; exile and identity; the
writings of diversity; French civilization and post-colonial literatures
relations; the search for Africa and metaphors of root; writing in
diaspora; gender and literature relations. Taught in English. (Dahouda,
offered alternate years) Typical readings: Césaire, Damas, Fanon, Condé, Étienne, Ménil, Schwartz-Bart |
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| FSEM 104: Lost in Translation: Memory in Exile | |
| Department: | French |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| In the wake of postcolonialism, and in the context of
globalization, a Web of transnational communities has emerged in the
world. These new migrations have transformed national literatures.
In this seminar we will focus on the work of writers from the diaspora
--writers who live outside their countries and in the memory of their
native languages, religions and cultures, while forging new identities
abroad-- Through the works of African, Caribbean, and Vietnamese diaspora
writers, we will ask questions about notions of authenticity and alienation.
What strategies do these writers devise to relocate themselves in
new imaginary or physical spaces? How do they capture the pressures,
the challenges and the experiences shaping their migrant communities?
In what ways do they negotiate their pluralistic identities while
they live in states of displacement, wandering, remembrance, and are
confronted to prejudice? How do their writings reconfigure national
literary paradigms? These are among issues to be discussed in this
seminar which main objective is to understand how patterns of memory,
exile and identity affect and operate in the fictional works of these
writers. Typical readings: 1) Fictions: Kien Nguyen, The Unwanted; Le Thi Diem Thuy, The gangster we are all looking for; Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker; Manthia Diawara, We won’t budge: An African exile in the world; 2) Essays: by Edward Said, Amin Maalouf and Brent Hayes Edwards relevant toThe Practice of Diaspora. |
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