French

This course offers a chronological presentation of French literature from the 19th through the 20th centuries. It focuses on genres, major works, and authors, grounding them in significant events in French history.

This course represents additional work for the course FR 101A, FRENCH CIVILIZATION. This course studies key aspects of contemporary French culture and civilization. The course covers topics that are pertinent to the functions of French society such as state organization, the educational system, the press and media, and demographics.

This course in spoken and written French is designed for students who have some knowledge of French and who wish to extend it. All students take all elements of assessment including the degree examination. Students improve competence in the four main skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing French. 

This course focuses on writing that addresses places of memory by transfiguring them into "happiness machines," recycling the poetics deployed in the works of the program, which become literally a way of reintroducing into a new cycle fragments saved from oblivion in order to achieve a renewed perception of the world.

This course is specialized for international students. It studies basic texts of French and francophone literature, with a particular focus on the different styles used and topics approached. The course also discusses French history and how it is reflected in an authors' writing.

This course provides an opportunity to listen to and analyze popular French and francophone songs of the 20th and 21st centuries while discovering French society and culture. It discusses the vocabulary and what the lyrics mean from the author's point of view.

The course is a communicative course and develops students' understanding and production of the language at CEFR level A1. It is composed of two classes per week, and students must attend both classes. The course introduces basic French grammar and develops students' reading, speaking, and writing skills. 

This course represents additional work for the course FR 124, FRANCOPHONE CULTURE AND LITERATURE. This course offers an introduction to Francophone cultures by discovering a space of the Francophonie and its components (society, culture, language, history, geography). The work is done from the reading of a literary work in the program. Excerpts from the work are studied in class and illuminated by various documents such as videos, songs, texts, and authentic documents. In this course students discover a region of the Francophonie, learn about francophone literature, develop language skills through literary study, and study documents of various types and how to present them.

This course serves as an introduction into the francophone literature of Sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses a history of francophone literature through the study of two genres: poetry and novel. The first half of the course focuses on the poetry of the négritude movement, reading works from Senghor and Césaire. The second half of the course focuses on novels such as Cheikh Hamidou Kane's L'AVENTURE AMBIGUE, Yambo Ouologuem's LE DEVOIR DE VIOLENCE, and Henri Lopes's LE CHERCHEUR D'AFRIQUES. This course discusses topics such as identity through the lens of francophone literature and explores the question of the connection between literature and socio-historical context. 

This course explores some of the main trends of French and Francophone life writing since the beginning of the 21st century, and evaluates in what ways these trends (and the authorial strategies associated with them) offer new perspectives on the traditional concerns of the literary genre of autobiography, reflecting the increasing gender and ethnic diversity apparent amongst contemporary authors of French and Francophone literature. Questions of personal identity are at the center of this course, with a particular focus on (ethnically) hybrid identities. The course centers on the role of images in contemporary French and Francophone life-writing in order to interrogate the tendency in such works to use images in diverse ways to explore the complexities of identity. Visiting students should have the equivalent of at least two years of study at University level of French.