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114/ French 302 Approaches to Reading and Writing Every third year Aims to familiarize students with methods for the critical analysis of a variety of texts. It also further develops studentsf oral and written skills. Prerequisite: French 301. Conducted in French. One unit. French 311 French Life Letters: Middle Ages to 1800 Every third year An overview of French life and letters from the Middle Ages to 1800. Focus is on literature, but other types of cultural material are included to provide insights into the cultural, historical, and ideological contexts. Prerequisite: French 301. Conducted in French. One unit. French 312 French Life Letters: the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries Every third year An overview of French life and letters from 1800 to the present. Focus is on literature, but other types of cultural material are included to provide insights into the cultural, historical, and ideological contexts. Prerequisite: French 301. Conducted in French. One unit. French 399 Special Topics Fall, spring Designed to give students the tools to read and write critically in the target (foreign) language. A thematic topic will be the focus of the course, and a variety of texts representative of all major genres (poetry, play, short story, novel) will be examined. Writing exercises include le resume , le commentaire, la disserta tion, lfexpose oral. Prerequisite: French 301. Conducted in French. One unit. French 401 Advanced French Every third year Designed for students who seek to reach an advanced level of proficiency in French. The four skills will be stressed. Particular emphasis will be put on exercises that illustrate language as a system. Four class hours weekly. Prerequisite: A minimum of two French courses at the 300-level. Conducted in French. One unit. French 402 Translation Every third year Through the translation of selected passages, seeks to teach students to write with precision and clarity in both French and English. Prerequisite: A minimum of two French courses at the 300 level. Conducted in French. One unit. French 403 Syntax Every third year An appreciation of the structure of the French sentence through two types of analyses: analyse grammaticale and analyse logique. Prerequisite: A minimum of two French courses at the 300-level. Conducted in French. One unit. French 413 Seminar: French Poetry Every third year A critical study of French prosody and poetic practice with an analysis of poetical works drawn from Villon to the present. Prerequisite: A minimum of two French courses at the 300-level. Conducted in French. One unit. French 421 French Literature from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance Every third year A critical study of the major works and authors of the Middle Ages (including La Chanson de Roland, Chre tien de Troyes, Le Roman de Renart, La Farce deMa i tre Pathelin, Villon), and the major poets and prose writers of the Renaissance (including Rabelais, Du Bellay, Ronsard, Montaigne). Prerequisite: A minimum of two French courses at the 300-level. Conducted in French. One unit. French 422 The Classical Theater and Its Aftermath Every third year Representative dramatic works of the 17th and 18th centuries are studied against the backgrounds of the dramatic theory from which they spring. The plays of Corneille, Molie re and Racine are featured. Prerequisite: A minimum of two French courses at the 300-level. Conducted in French. One unit. French 423 18th-Century French Literature Every third year An examination of the literature of the period as it relates to the changing social, intellectual and literary values that led to the French Revolution and its consequences. Authors treated include Beaumarchais, Saint-Pierre, Laclos, Lesage, Marivaux, Pre vost, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Diderot, Sedaine, Voltaire. Pre requisite: A minimum of two French courses at the 300-level. Conducted in French. One unit. French 424 19th-Century Novel Every third year Modern Languages and Literatures

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