Rice Course Schedule, Fall 2003
French (FREN)

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FREN 101   ELEMENTARY FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE I Credits 5.00  Fall 03
Introductory French.  Concentration on all four language skills. Supplemented
by work in the Language Resource Center. Enrollment is limited to 20.
Section
5 is an intensive (3 week) course that runs from July 28th - August 15th.
002 RH 304 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM      Dejonckheere, Emilie      Enr: 16 Max: 20
003 HANS 201 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM    Futamura, Wakaba          Enr: 11 Max: 20
004 RH 204 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM      Stepanova, Natalya Alexee Enr: 16 Max: 20
005 RH 121 - MTWTHF 09:00AM - 12:00PM   Leduc, Natali             Enr: 16 Max: 20

FREN 102   ELEMENTARY FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE I Credits 5.00  Fall 03
See Fren 101. Enrollment is limited to 20.
Prereq- Fren 101, placment test, or permission of instructor.
001 RH 305 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM      Akli, Madalina Crenguta   Enr: 6 Max: 20
002 KH 101 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM      Sow, Sadibou              Enr: 8 Max: 20

FREN 201   INTERMEDIATE FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE Credits 4.00  Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Communication based course. Focuses on the functional use of the language
through linguistic, sociocultural and situational contexts. Develops all four
language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing).
001 RH 304 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM      Datta, Evelyne            Enr: 16 Max: 20
002 FL 412 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM      Datta, Evelyne            Enr: 16 Max: 20

FREN 202   INTERMEDIATE FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE Credits 4.00  Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
See Fren 201. Students from the College of Engineering enrolled in 202 will
have the opportunity to take FREN 214 in May. See FREN 214.
Prereq- Fren 201 placement test, or permission of instructor.
001 SH 207B - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM     Crull, Brigitte           Enr: 19 Max: 20

FREN 301   ADVANCED FRENCH FOR WRITTEN & ORAL COMMU Credits 3.00  Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This course bridges the intermediate and advanced levels by building on
previously acquired skills.  Students will further develop oral fluency and
written proficiency through exposure to literary texts, newspaper and web
articles, and videos.  A class simulation project will be created in which
every student has an active role to play, thereby fostering
communication/negotiation, writing of a variety of texts, and enhancement of
cultural awareness.   This course also features an individual component through
which students will be able to practice an academic field of their choice.
Prereq- FREN 202, placement test, or permission of instructor.
001 RH 205 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM      Datta, Evelyne            Enr: 19 Max: 20

FREN 311   MAJOR LITERARY WORKS AND ARTIFACTS OF PR Credits 3.00  Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Study of French culture, literature, and artifacts form the Middle Ages until
the Revolution. Course conducted entirely in French.
Prereq-  Fren 202 or placement exam, or AP credit or permission of instructor.
001 SH 460 - MWF 02:00PM - 02:50PM      Shea, Louisa              Enr: 7 Max: NA

FREN 312   MAJOR LITERARY WORKS AND ARTIFACTS OF PO Credits 3.00  Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Study of 19th- and 20th-century fiction through the special lens of the
Romantic imagination.  Readings from Chateaubriand, Desbordes-Valmore, Claire
de Duras, Musset, Hugo, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Proust, Prévert, and the new
novelists.  Emphasis on discussion and close textual analysis, all in French.
Prereq-  Fren 202 , placement exam, or permission of instructor.
001 HUM 120 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM     Harter, Deborah A.        Enr: 11 Max: 0

FREN 313   ADVANCED FRENCH FOR ENGINEERING AND SCIE Credits 3.00  Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Strong engineering/science content-based course. Includes current
scientific/technical issues, cross-cultural topics and career-related task
assignments. Focus on reading, writing, speaking, and listening comprehension
skills in context of french science and technology.
Prereq- FREN 202, FREN 214, placement exam, or permission of instructor
001 SH 460 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM      Crull, Brigitte           Enr: 5 Max: 20

FREN 318   STRUCTURE OF FRENCH                      Credits 3.00  Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
The primary objective of this course is to present contemporary French as a
dynamic linguistic system shaped by historical, cognitive and sociological
developments. The historical section presents the diachronic evolution of
French as a crucial factor in the current use of the standard and regional
dialects. The linguistic section analyses the language as a system of mental
representation, and presents the tools necessary to describe that system.
Linguistic forms are shown to be motivated by cognitive
principles, which are
identified and carefully examined. The last part of the course is devoted to
the socio-economic conditions which preside over language use. Beyond the
specific consideration of French, this course is concerned with the historical,
psychological, and sociological dimensions that enter into the description of
any language. Also offered as LING 318.
Prereq- FREN 202 or placement exam or AP credit or permission of instructor.
001 RH 302 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM      Achard, Michel J.         Enr: 7 Max: 0

FREN 332   FRENCH PHONETICS                         Credits 3.00  Fall 03
* 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.  enrollment is limited to 15.
Prereq- FREN 202 or placement exam or AP credit or permission of instructor.
001 RH 204 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM      Alcover, Madeleine        Enr: 6 Max: NA

FREN 336   WRITING FOR THE MAJOR                    Credits 3.00  Fall 03
The course will focus on the practice of writing as a discursive discipline.
It will also closely examine, from both a stylistic and rhetorical point of
view, creative and critical prose by Barthes, Djebar, Sarraute, and others.
Required of majors.  Open to non-majors if space is available.
FREN 311 or 312 or placement exam or AP credit or permission of instructor.
001 RH 202 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM      Aresu, Bernard            Enr: 4 Max: 0

FREN 430   FREE-THINKERS AND MORALISTS IN THE 17TH  Credits 3.00  Fall 03
This semester the topic will be "Inventing the Honnête Homme in the 17th
Century". At its zenith under Louis XIV, court society calls for a new ideal of
the individual. Inspired by the Renaissance courtier and the heroic cavalier,
the ideal of the honnête homme is both defined and challenged in major fictions
of Corneille, Tristan L’Hermite, Molière, Racine, and Mme de La Fayette.
Secondary readings include Castiglione, Montaigne, Nicolas Faret, La
Rochefoucauld, Méré, and La Bruyère.
Prereq FREN 311 or placement exam or AP credit or permission of instructor.
001 HUM 120 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM     Robin, Jean Luc           Enr: 4 Max: NA

FREN 450   TOPICS IN 19TH CENTURY LYRIC             Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Study of the poetry and prose poetry of the 19th century from the Romantic
period to the symbolist era, through such writers as Desbordes-Valmore, Vigny,
Hugo, Nerval, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Mallarme.
Prereq- Fren 311 or 312 or placement exam or AP credit or permission of
instructor.
001 HUM 120 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM     Harter, Deborah A.        Enr: 13 Max: NA

FREN 467   POSTMODERN  BREAK IN FRENCH PHILOSOPHY   Credits 3.00  Fall 03
A study of the questioning of philosophical modernity (starting with Descartes
and the Enlightenment philosophers) by structuralist and poststructuralist
thinkers and theorists of the postmodern condition.  Among contemporary authors
studied will be Lacan, Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, and others.
Prereq- Fren 311 or 312 or placement exam, or AP credit or permission of
instructor.
001 SH 462 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM      Goux, Jean-Joseph C.      Enr: 3 Max: NA

FREN 566   THE NARRATIVE & THE OTHER ARTS           Credits 3.00  Fall 03
The seminar will focus on the esthetic and ideological interplay between
literature and the other arts. Figures and topics will include: neoclassical
poetry and painting; Diderots galen, and Gauguins Tahiti; Baudelairs art
criticism; Delacroix, Chass-riau, Fromentin, Djebar, and French Orientalism;
Cocteau, or the poet as film-maker; Simon and the Baroque; Robbe-Grillet,
Duras, and the cinema; and Ben Jelloun and Giacometti.
001 RH 202 - T 02:00PM - 05:00PM        Aresu, Bernard            Enr: 7 Max: NA

FREN 568   FRENCH PHILOSOPHY                        Credits 3.00  Fall 03
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 RH 202 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM        Goux, Jean-Joseph C.      Enr: 7 Max: NA

FREN 585   NOVEL: FROM BELLE EPOQUE TO1950          Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Survey of the evolution of the novel and the vicissitudes of the modern subject
and identity.  Includes Proust, Gide, Malraux, Drieu la Rochelle, de Beauvoir,
Sartre, Genet, Camus, and Sarraute.
001 RH 202 - TH 01:00PM - 04:00PM       Wood, Philip R.           Enr: 6 Max: NA

FREN 600   INDEPENDENT STUDY                        Credits   Fall 03
No Descrition
Prereq- Permission of instructor
001 TBA - TBA                           Harter, Deborah A.        Enr: 1 Max: NA
002 TBA - TBA                           Goux, Jean-Joseph C.      Enr: 0 Max: NA
003 TBA - TBA                           Aresu, Bernard            Enr: 0 Max: NA
004 TBA - TBA                           Achard, Michel J.         Enr: 1 Max: NA
005 TBA - TBA                           Nelson, Deborah H.        Enr: 0 Max: NA
006 TBA - TBA                           Huffer, Lynne             Enr: 0 Max: NA
007 TBA - TBA                           Wood, Philip R.           Enr: 0 Max: NA

FREN 800   THESIS RESEARCH (PhD)                    Credits   Fall 03
No description.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 12 Max: NA