Rice Course Schedule, Fall 2001
French (FREN)

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FREN 101   ELEMENTARY FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE I Credits 5.00  Fall 01
Introductory French.  Concentration on all four language skills. Supplemented
by work in the language laboratory.
001 KH 107 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM      Staff                     Enr: 21 Max: NA
002 KH 105 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM      Staff                     Enr: 13 Max: NA
003 HUM 226 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM     Staff                     Enr: 8 Max: NA
004 BB 116 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM      Staff                     Enr: 14 Max: NA

FREN 102   ELEMENTARY FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE I Credits 5.00  Fall 01
See Fren 101.
Prereq- Fren 101 or placement exam.
002 HUM 328 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM     Staff                     Enr: 12 Max: NA

FREN 113   BEGINNING FRENCH FOR ENGINEERING AND SCI Credits 5.00  Fall 01
Single summer course offered in August. Intensive introductory French for
students in engineering or science. Focus on communicative competence, cultural
awareness, and engineering/science-related content. Multimedia integration. 4
hours daily; 3-week session.  Offered July 31 - August 17, 2001. Also offered
as FREN 101.
001 TBA - MTWTHF 08:30AM - 12:30PM      Crull, Brigitte           Enr: 8 Max: NA

FREN 114   BEGINNING FRENCH FOR ENGINEERING AND SCI Credits 5.00  Fall 01
Continuation of introductory French for students in engineering or science.
Focus on communicative competence, cultural awareness, and
engineering/science-related content. Multimedia integration.
Prereq- Fren 113, Fren 101 or permission of instructor.
001 SH 309 - MWF 02:00PM - 02:50PM      Crull, Brigitte           Enr: 0 Max: 0

FREN 201   INTERMEDIATE FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE Credits 4.00  Fall 01
* 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 HZ 119 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM      Staff                     Enr: 14 Max: NA
002 KH 105 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM      King, Roger               Enr: 12 Max: NA

FREN 202   INTERMEDIATE FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE Credits 4.00  Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
See Fren 201.
Prereq- Fren 201 or placement exam.
001 HUM 226 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM     Datta, Evelyne            Enr: 7 Max: 0

FREN 301   ADVANCED FRENCH FOR WRITTEN & ORAL COMMU Credits 3.00  Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
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 HZ 122 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM      Datta, Evelyne            Enr: 17 Max: 0

FREN 302   FRENCH PHONETICS                         Credits 3.00  Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Contrastive analysis of the French sound system, including such key areas as
diction and articulation of French speech, with emphasis on class as well as
laboratory practice.
Prereq-  Fren 202 or placement exam.
001 SH 562 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM      Alcover, Madeleine        Enr: 7 Max: 0

FREN 311   INTRO TO FRENCH LITERATURE I             Credits 3.00  Fall 01
* 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 SH 562 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM      Nelson, Deborah H.        Enr: 18 Max: 0

FREN 312   INTRO TO FRENCH LITERATURE II            Credits 3.00  Fall 01
* 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 HUM 118 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM     Harter, Deborah A.        Enr: 15 Max: 0

FREN 313   ADVANCED FRENCH FOR ENGINEERING AND SCIE Credits 3.00  Fall 01
Strong engineering/science content-based course. Includes current
scientific/technical issues, cross-cultural topics and career-related task
assignements. Focus on reading, writing, speaking, and listening comprehension
skills in context of french science and technology.
001 SH 352A - MWF 03:00PM - 03:50PM     Crull, Brigitte           Enr: 7 Max: NA

FREN 355   MODERN SHORT FICTION FROM BALZAC TO BORG Credits 3.00  Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
A study of great works of American and European short fiction from the late
18th through the20th century. Focus on the particular anxieties and the
particular pleasures of the modern period, with readings for Kleist, Balzac,
Poe, Hawthrone, Gogol, Melville, Maupassant, LeFanu, Kafka, Faulkner, O'Connor,
Calvino, and Borges. Also offered as ENGL 355.
001 HZ 212 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM      Harter, Deborah A.        Enr: 4 Max: NA

FREN 415   COURTLY LOVE IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE          Credits 3.00  Fall 01
Undergraduate version of FREN 515.
Pre-req- FREN 301 and 311
001 SH 460 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM      Nelson, Deborah H.        Enr: 6 Max: NA

FREN 423   MODERN FRENCH PAINTERS AND THEIR WRITERS Credits 3.00  Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Fascinated by painting, modern and contemporary French writers have produced
significant literary commentaries that reveal affinities with painters whose
artistic "questioning" they shared. Those commentaries in turn enlightened
their own aesthetic concerns as well as the painters' own creative visions. The
purpose of this course is to study some of the encounters between these
painters and their writers. Among them: Picasso (commented by Apollinaire,
Cocteau, Breton, Sollers, etc.), Braque (commented by Ponge, Paulhan, Malraux,
Saint John Perse), Matisse (commented by Aragon, Pleynet), Magritte (analyzed
by Foucault, and Butor), and Rebeyrolle (by Sartre, Foucault).
Pre-req FREN 302 and 312
001 SH 352A - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM     Goux, Jean-Joseph C.      Enr: 13 Max: 0

FREN 515   COURTLY LOVE IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE          Credits 3.00  Fall 01
Study of the Occitan and Old French poetry that served as the source of the
kind of love that came to be called "amour courtois" in the nineteenth century.
001 SH 460 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM      Nelson, Deborah H.        Enr: 1 Max: NA

FREN 568   FRENCH PHILOSOPHY                        Credits 3.00  Fall 01
Survey of moral philosophy from Descartes to today, exploring the relationship
between the individual and society, the problem of freedom and values,
questions of universality, humanism, the important moments of the constitution
and deconstitution of the subject. Includes Philosophy of Descartes, Rousseau,
Condorcet, Comte, Guyau, Durkheim, Fouillee, Bergson, Alain, Camus, Sartre,
Simone de Beauvoir, Lacan, Irigaray, Foucault, Levinas, and Ricoeur
001 SH 560 - TH 01:00PM - 04:00PM       Goux, Jean-Joseph C.      Enr: 8 Max: 0

FREN 574   CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES IN AND OUT OF FR Credits 3.00  Fall 01
A proseminar, the course will study the various modes of negotiation and
construction of identity at work in selected francophone works (literature,
essay, film, painting).  The seminar will include selected essays by Borduas,
Fanon, Memmi, Soyinka, and Khatibi, as well as literature, films, and painting
from Kane, Kourouma, and Labou Tansi (Sub-Sahara), Conde (Carribean),
Issiakhem, Cherkaoui, Mimouni, and Djebar, (Maghreb), Bouraoui (France), Jutra,
Aquin, Blais, and Hebert (Quebec).  The course is open to non-French majors,
although a reading knowledge of French is recommended since not all reading
selections may be available in translation.
001 SH 460 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM        Aresu, Bernard            Enr: 10 Max: NA

FREN 600   INDEPENDENT STUDY                        Credits   Fall 01
No Descrition
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 3 Max: 0

FREN 610   SEMINAR: TOPICS IN LANGUAGE METHODOLOGY  Credits 3.00  Fall 01
Exploration and analysis of a range of theories, issues and problems in foreign
language instruction.  Areas of inquiry include:  the nature of language
acquisition, pedagogical methods, instructional technologies, development of
teaching materials, and testing/assessment.  Required for all graduate language
teaching assistants.
Also offered as Germ 510.
001 HUM 120 - TBA                       Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

FREN 800   THESIS RESEARCH (PhD)                    Credits   Fall 01
No description.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 8 Max: 0