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FREN   101 ELEMENTARY FRENCH I                      Credits 5.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION GROUP I (second semester must be completed)
Introductory French.  Concentration on all four language skills.
Supplemented by work in the language laboratory.
Enrollment is limited to 22 per section.
001 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM RH*107   Bailar, Melissa                *CURRENT ENR: 0

FREN   102 ELEMENTARY FRENCH II                     Credits 5.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
See Fren 101.
Prereq- Fren 101 or placement exam.
001 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM RH*109   Tysor, Susannah                *CURRENT ENR: 0
002 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM HB*22    Bender, Jonathan               *CURRENT ENR: 0
003 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM RH*107   King, Roger                    *CURRENT ENR: 0
004 MWF     01:00PM-01:50PM RH*109   Detiveaux, Georges             *CURRENT ENR: 0

FREN   114 BEGINNING FRENCH FOR ENGINEERI           Credits 4.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Continuation of introd. French for students in engineering or the
sciences. Focus on communicative competence, cultural awareness, and
engineering/science-related content. Multimedia integration.
Prereq- French 113 or French 101 or consent of instructor.
001 TBA     TBA                      Crull, Brigitte                *CURRENT ENR: 0

FREN   201 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH I                    Credits 4.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Intense oral and written grammar review; literary and cultural
readings serve as basis for class discussions and compositions.
Prereq- Fren 102 or placement exam.
001 MWF     01:00PM-01:50PM SH*562   Datta, Evelyne                 *CURRENT ENR: 0

FREN   202 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH II                   Credits 4.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
See Fren 201.
Prereq- Fren 201 or placement exam.
001 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM GL*105   Datta, Evelyne                 *CURRENT ENR: 0
002 MWF     02:00PM-02:50PM PL*120   Harter, Deborah                *CURRENT ENR: 0

FREN   213 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH FOR ENGR & SCIENCE I Credits 4.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Intermediate French for student in engineering and the sciences.
Expansion of Engineering/science-related content. Focus on communicative
competence and cultural awareness. Multimedia integration. Preparation
for professional language use during work and /or study abroad.
Prereq- Fren 114, or Fren 112, or consent of instructor
001 MWF     02:00PM-02:50PM RH*320   Crull, Brigitte                *CURRENT ENR: 0

FREN   214  INTERMEDIATE FRENCH FOR ENGR & SCIENCES Credits 4.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Intensive intermedite French for students of engineering or the
sciences. Expansion of engineering/science-related content. Focus on
communicative competence and cultural awareness. Multimedia integration.
Preparation for professional language use during work and/or study
abroad. 4 hours daily: 3 week session
Prereq- Fren 213 or Fren 201, or consent of the instructor.
001 TBA     TBA                      Crull, Brigitte                *CURRENT ENR: 0

FREN   301 ADV FRENCH FOR WRITTEN AND ORAL COMMUNIC Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
The objective of the course is to stimulate language production at the
advanced level through the examination of the lexical, syntactic, and
stylistic characteristics of contemporary French.  The course thus
relates the contents of descriptive, narrative, and argumentative texts
to specific functional and grammatical objectives.  The course also
features an individual or group research component through which
students will be able to practice French in an academic field of their
choice.
Prereq- FREN 202 or placement exam.
001 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM HB*22    Crull, Brigitte                *CURRENT ENR: 0

FREN   305 FRENCH FOR THE PROFESSIONS               Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
An introduction to French for the professions, this course will deal
with the essential vocabulary and syntax specific to the language of
technology, ecology, law, and medicine.  The area of focus will vary
from year to year.
Prereq- Fren 301 or 304.
001 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM HB*21    Datta, Evelyne                 *CURRENT ENR: 0

FREN   311 INTRO TO FRENCH LITERATURE I             Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Main currents in French literature from its beginning to the nineteenth
century.  Lectures and discussions in French.
Prereq-  Fren 202 or placement exam.
001 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM          Nelson, Deborah                *CURRENT ENR: 0

FREN   312 INTRO TO FRENCH LITERATURE II            Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Main currents in French literature from the nineteenth century to the
present.  Lectures and discussions in French.
Prereq-  Fren 202 or placement exam.
001 TTH     01:00PM-02:20PM RH*319   Wood, Philip                   *CURRENT ENR: 0

FREN   372 THE MAKING OF MODERN FRANCE 1815-1895    Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
The emergence of modern France:  the impact of war, industrialization,
imperialism, and cultural mastery.  Taught in English.
Also offered as Hist 372.
001 TTH     01:00PM-02:20PM HB*21    Lorcin, Patricia               *CURRENT ENR: 0

FREN   387 IMAGES OF CONTEMPORARY FRANCE            Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
The course will deal with the sociopolitical and intellectual history of
post-war France. Based upon texts by Wylie, Edmiston, and Dumenil, it
will also examine various analyses of French culture by Valery, E.Faure,
R. Aron, Furet, Barthes, Baudrillard, Lipovetsky, Lyotard.  The course
will cover such topics as the advent of the Fifth Republic,
decolonization, May 68 and political dissent, modernization and the
postmodern condition, France and the construction of Europe.
Prereq- Fren 202 or placement exam.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM FL*517   Goux, Jean-Joseph              *CURRENT ENR: 0

FREN   403 SPECIAL TOPICS                           Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Prereq- FREN 301 or 304, and FREN 311 or 312.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

FREN   404 BEGINNINGS OF THE LANGUAGE & LITERATURE  Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
001 TH      01:00PM-04:00PM TBA      Nelson, Deborah                *CURRENT ENR: 0

FREN   420 MOTIF OF "VOYAGE"IN WRITINGS FROM THE FR Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
This course examines the written experience of travelling in the context
of 16th century France. It invites reflection on such topics as travel
motivations, ethnography, exoticism and colonization. It also explores
the process of writing travel accounts (e.g. representation of the
"Other" or disclosure of oneself). The readings include: explorations
of Canada (Cartier), the fantastic voyage (Rabelais), and travels in the
Middle East (Chesneau), in Italy (Du Bellay Montaigne), and in Brazil
(Lery).
Prereq- FREN 310 OR 304 and 311 OR 312.
001 TTH     01:00PM-02:20PM          TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

FREN   487 TWENTIETH-CENTURY NOVEL  IN FRENCH       Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This course will explore the construction of the modern self in a
variety of  French and Francophone novels of the twentieth century.  We
will focus on the relationship between the self and narrative form; the
role of memory; violence and representation; and the construction of
gender, sexuality, nationality and race in the modern novel.  Readings
will include: Proust, Colette, Camus, Perec, Hebert, Duras
Ben Jelloun, and Djebar.
Prereq- FREN 301 and FREN 311 or FREN 312.
001 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM FL*414   Huffer, Lynne                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

FREN   500 THESIS RESEARCH (M.A.)                   Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

FREN   503 SPECIAL TOPICS                           Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

FREN   504 BEGINNINGS OF THE LANGUAGE & LITERATURE  Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
This course includes an external history of the French language, an
examination of hagiographic literature and the chanson de geste in their
cultural and artistic contexts, as well as a bibliographic component to
acquaint the students with library tools available for research
emphasizing medieval resources but not excluding those for later
periods.  Students will acquire a reading knowledge of Old French.
001 TH      01:00PM-04:00PM TBA      Nelson, Deborah                *CURRENT ENR: 0

FREN   580 GILLES DELEUZE                           Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
This course provides an advanced introduction to Deleuze's work, from
the earliest writings to the final period.  Emphases: Deleuze's relation
to the philosophical tradition, his differences from and similarities to
other French "poststructuralists," and the uses to which his work has
been put by others.  Taught in English.
001 W       07:00PM-10:00PM RH*239   Wood, Philip                   *CURRENT ENR: 0

FREN   584 POETICS AND POLITICS OF THE AVANT-GARDES Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Exploration of such artistic and literary movements as Cubism, Dada,
Surrealism, "Refus Global," "Lettrisme," "Situationnisme," "Oulipo,"
"Tel Quel", and "Les Perpendiculaires"...How does one define the
"avant-gardes"?  What are their strategies in the cultural, aesthetic
and political fields?  What do group, program, and manifesto represent
in the "avant-garde" movements?  Which role do the notions of utopia,
innovation, rupture, and marginality play?  Why do avant-garde movements
promote a correspondence between all the arts (literature, painting,
music, fashion, cinema, architecture, etc.)? What are the
socio-historical conjunctures that favor the emergence of avant-garde
movements or that can lead to their dissolution?
001 T       01:00PM-04:00PM HB*22    Goux, Jean-Joseph              *CURRENT ENR: 0

FREN   800 THESIS RESEARCH (PhD)                    Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

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