Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2000
French (FREN)
Rice Course Schedule as of 01/03/2000.
This schedule is maintained by the Office of the Registrar
(reg@rice.edu).
NOTE: Course web pages are available for some FREN courses.
FREN 101 ELEMENTARY FRENCH Credits 5.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I (Must complete second semester)
Introductory French. Concentration on all four language skills. Supplemented
by work in the language laboratory. NOTE: Section 1 carries 5 semester hours
only. All other sections carry 4 semester hours.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 22
FREN 102 ELEMENTARY FRENCH Credits 4.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I (Must complete first semester)
See Fren 101.
Prereq- Fren 101 or placement exam.
001 TBA Tysor, Susannah Bartholom Enr: 0 Max: 22
002 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 22
003 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 22
004 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 22
FREN 114 BEGINNING FRENCH FOR ENGINEERS Credits 4.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
French for Engineers.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max:
FREN 201 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH I Credits 4.00 Spring 00
* 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 TBA Datta, Evelyne Enr: 0 Max: 22
FREN 202 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH Credits 4.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
See Fren 201.
Prereq- Fren 201 or placement exam.
001 TBA Datta, Evelyne Enr: 0 Max: 22
002 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: 22
FREN 213 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH FOR ENGR & SCIENCE I Credits 4.00 Spring 00
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 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
FREN 214 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH FOR ENGR & SCIENCES Credits 4.00 Spring 00
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 Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
FREN 301 ADVANCED FRENCH GRAMMAR Credits 3.00 Spring 00
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 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
FREN 305 COMMERCIAL FRENCH Credits 3.00 Spring 00
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 TBA Datta, Evelyne Enr: 0 Max: NA
FREN 311 INTRO TO FRENCH LITERATURE I Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* 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 TBA Nelson, Deborah H. Enr: 0 Max: NA
FREN 312 INTRO TO FRENCH LITERATURE II Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* 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 TBA Wood, Philip R. Enr: 0 Max: NA
FREN 360 GENDER&SEXUALITY-MOD FREN HIST Credits 3.00 Spring 00
An examination of gender roles, gender ideology, and sexual practices in the
construction of French society from the Enlightment to World War II. Taught in
English.
Also offered as HIST 360
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA
FREN 372 THE MAKING OF MODERN FRANCE 1815-1895 Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* 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 TBA - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
FREN 387 IMAGES OF CONTEMPORARY FRANCE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* 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 TBA Goux, Jean-Joseph C. Enr: 0 Max: NA
FREN 401 STYLISTICS & TRANSLATION Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Theory and practice of translation. Translation of modern texts from and into
English.
Prereq- 301 or 304 and 311 or 312 or permission of the instructor.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
FREN 403 SPECIAL TOPICS: PARIS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
No description
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
FREN 404 BEGINNINGS OF THE LANGUAGE & LITERATURE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
No description
001 TBA - TH 01:00PM - 04:00PM Nelson, Deborah H. Enr: 0 Max: NA
FREN 408 WOMEN FILMMAKERS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
From Avant-Garde to contemporary fictures, we will emphasize on childhood,
adolescence and sexuality.
Prereq- Fren 302 and 301 or 304.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
FREN 414 LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF MIDDLE AGES Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Examination of the origins of the legend of King Arthur and reasons for its
popularity, particularly in literature of the French Middle Ages but also in
other medieval literatures of Western Europe. Includes discussion of the
legends's influence in diverse areas even in modern times.
Prereq- Fren 301 or 304, and 311, or placement exam.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
FREN 415 COURTLY LOVE IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
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 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
FREN 420 THE MOTIF OF "VOYAGE" IN WRITINGS FROM T Credits 3.00 Spring 00
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 301 and 311 or placement exam.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 12
FREN 434 FRENCH FEMINIST THEORY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
The purpose of this course is to gain a broad understanding of the important
problems of contemporary feminist theories in French. We will focus on the
interrelated issues of gender, sexuality, race, ethics, language, and power by
exploring in depth primary texts in feminst theory. Readings (in French) will
include Beauvoir, Irigaray, Djebar, and Brossard.
Prereq- require reading knowledge of French, recommend one course in SWG,
Philosophy, or Literary Theory.
Also offered as WGST 434
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
FREN 459 MASTERPIECES OF FRENCH THEATER FROM CORN Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Literary in historical interpretations of plays by Corneille, Racine, Moliere,
Beaumarchais, Hugo, Musset, Feydeau, Rostand, Giraudoux, Anouilh, and Sartre.
001 TBA Alcover, Madeleine Enr: 0 Max: NA
Staff
FREN 484 LITERATURE-1950'S TO PRESENT Credits 3.00 Spring 00
This course will analyse the crisis of "representation" and "subjectivity"
through the French theories of aesthetic modernism and postmodernism, expressed
particularly in the arguments of the "avant-garde" (cubism, abstraction,
surrealism, existentialism, structuralism, "Tel Quel", etc....) The parallelism
between literature, painting, theater (and occasionally cinema and
architecture) will be stressed. Among the readings: Delaunay, Valery, Breton,
Artaud, Sartre, Barthes, Sollers, Lyotard.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
FREN 487 TWENTIETH-CENTURY NOVEL IN FRENCH Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This course will explore the construction of the modern self in a variety of
Fench 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 consruction 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 TBA Huffer, Lynne Enr: 0 Max: NA
FREN 493 THE CULTURE OF MUSEUMS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
This course will explore the museum as a central institution of Western culture
since the eighteenth century. Topics include the politics of collecting and
display, the representation of national pasts and ethnic "others" in museums,
exhibitions and the cultural marketplace, the museum as public space, and
museums as sites of knowledge and classification of objects.
Also offered as HIST 470
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
FREN 500 THESIS RESEARCH (M.A.) Credits Spring 00
No description
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
FREN 503 SPECIAL TOPICS IN FREN LIT SEMINAR ON DE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
No description
Also offered as ENGL 510
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
FREN 504 BEGINNINGS OF THE LANGUAGE & LITERATURE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
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 TBA Nelson, Deborah H. Enr: 0 Max: NA
FREN 508 FREN FILM II Credits 3.00 Spring 00
From Avant-Garde to contemporary fictures, we will emphasize on childhood,
adolescence and sexuality.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
FREN 515 COURTLY LOVE IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
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 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
FREN 540 THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT Credits 3.00 Spring 00
A study of literary, philosophical, and visual works that demonstrate how the
ideas of the Enlightenment and the rise of the bourgeoisie led to the French
Revolution.
Prereq- Fren 301, 302, 304 and 311.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
FREN 568 SEM ON FRENCH PHILOSOPHY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Moral philosophy from Descartes to today: the relationship between the
individual and society, the problem of freedom and values, the questions of
universality, humanism, the important moments of the constitution and
deconstitution of the subject through a study of moral philosophers: Descartes,
Rousseau, Condorcet, Comte, Guyau, Durkheim, Fouillee, Bergson, Alain, Camus,
Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Lacan, Irigaray, Foucault, Ricoeur, Levinas.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
FREN 580 GILLES DELEUZE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
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 TBA Wood, Philip R. Enr: 0 Max: NA
FREN 584 FRENCH PHILOSOPHY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
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
001 TBA Goux, Jean-Joseph C. Enr: 0 Max: NA
FREN 585 NOVEL FROM BELLE EPOQUE TO1950 Credits 3.00 Spring 00
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.
Prereq- Fren 301 or 304, and 312.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
FREN 611 LANGUAGE METHODOLOGY PRACTICUM Credits 1.00 Spring 00
The course, a continuation of Fren 610, allows students to gain further
knowledge and expertise in aspects of language methodology by attending a
series of workshops on topics such as Technology and Language Learning,
Writing, and content-based instruction. Students will also complete
assignments that supplement or expand on the material presented in the
workshops.
Also offered as GERM 611
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
FREN 800 THESIS RESEARCH Credits Spring 00
No description
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
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