Courses in the French Graduate Program
French and Francophone Literature
French Civilization
French Linguistics
Other Graduate Courses
Undergraduate courses in French that may carry graduate credit
French and Francophone Literature
F501-F502 Medieval French Literature I-II (3-3 cr.) Introductory survey; all texts read in original language; no previous knowledge of Old French required. F501 or equivalent a prerequisite for F502.
F503 Reading Old French (1 cr.) Prerequisite: F501 or equivalent. Oral translation of Old French texts and elucidation of textual and grammatical difficulties. May be repeated twice for credit.
F505 Middle French Literature (3 cr.) Representative works of fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; each semester focuses on a particular writer or genre.
F513 French Renaissance Prose (3 cr.) Prose works from sixteenth-century France including letters, essays, novels, short stories, Bible translations, travel accounts, political treatises, and philosophical dialogues by authors famous and obscure, humorous and solemn, terse and prolix. Also includes review of lexical and grammatical peculiarities of sixteenth-century French and typographic conventions of Renaissance printed books.
F514 French Renaissance Poetry (3 cr.) French lyric poetry of the sixteenth century from the Rhétoriqueurs to Agrippa d’Aubigné. Late medieval fixed forms and the chanson, sonnet, ode, and metrical experiment of vers mesurés. Formal analysis and situation of texts in their intellectual and historical contexts. Study of poetic manifestos of the Pléiade and their rivals.
F523 French Seventeenth-Century Literature and Culture (3 cr.) Questions concerning seventeenth-century France as treated in literature, philosophy, moralist teachings, science, and les beaux arts.
F535 Le XVIIIe siècle: L'Essai (3 cr.) Introduction to one of the two major genres of the Enlightenment, broadly defined and exemplified by writers like Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau.
F536 Le Roman au XVIIIe siècle (3 cr.) Introduction to the study of the French novel in the 18th century with special emphasis on three major genres of the period: the memoir-novel, the epistolary novel, and the philosophical novel.
F540 La Poésie au XIXe siècle I (3 cr.) From early Romanticism through Baudelaire.
F541 La Poésie au XIXe siècle II (3 cr.) Parnassian and Symbolist poets.
F545 Le Roman au XIXe siècle I (3 cr.)
F546 Le Roman au XIXe siècle II (3 cr.)
F552 La Poésie au XXe siècle I (3 cr.) Panorama: poets such as Cendrars, Apollinaire, Valéry, Claudel, les surréalistes, Saint-John Perse, Ponge, Michaux.
F553 La Poésie au XXe siècle II (3 cr.) Concentration on one or several authors; a school, e.g., surrealism; certain formal aspects.
F555 Le Roman au XXe siècle I (3 cr.) Representative French and francophone novels from 1900 to 1940. Novelists such as Proust, Gide, Colette, Celine, Bernanos, Sartre.
F556 Le Roman au XXe siècle II (3 cr.) The novel after 1940.
F557 Le Théâtre au XXe siècle (3 cr.) Jarry, Cocteau, Apollinaire, Claudel. Surrealism and theatre of the absurd: Vitrac, Ionesco, Adamov, Beckett, Genet, Arrabal, Artaud.
F559 L'Essai au XXe siècle (3 cr.) Important essays of the twentieth century, technical philosophy excluded. Authors such as Bergson, Valéry, Sartre, Camus, Weil, Artaud, Lyotard.
F564 Issues in Literary Theory (3 cr.) Important issues and methods of literary study, such as catharsis, genre, meaning, periodization, representation, rhetoric, and vraisemblance, studied in an historical perspective.
F615 Studies in Medieval French Literature (3 cr.) Prerequisite: Knowledge of Old French. Intensive study of one writer, work, theme, or genre, such as Chrétien de Troyes, the Roman de la Rose, lyric poetry. May be repeated twice for credit.
F620 Studies in Sixteenth-century French Literature (3 cr.) Intensive study of a writer, genre, or aspect of the century, such as Rabelais, Montaigne, poetry, humanism. May be repeated twice for credit.
F630 Studies in Seventeenth-century French Literature (3 cr.) Intensive study of one writer, work, or theme, such as Racine, Corneille, Molière, Baroque poetry. May be repeated twice for credit.
F635 Studies in Eighteenth-century French Literature (3 cr.) Intensive study of one theme, genre, or author, such as cultural otherness, theatre, Diderot, Rousseau. May be repeated twice for credit.
F640 Studies in Nineteenth-Century French Literature (3 cr.) Topics vary. May include fantasy and ideology in nineteenth-century narrative; Hugo, Zola and the roman politique; jealousy and narrative; experiments in verse; symbolism and its roots; painting and literature; decadence and aesthetics; women writers and critics. May be repeated twice for credit.
F647 Contemporary French Theory and Criticism (3 cr.) Prerequisite: F564. Recent movements and concepts in French theory influential in determining current practice in literary study. Structuralism, psychoanalysis, neo-Marxism, intertextuality, deconstruction.
F650 Études de littérature contemporaine (3 cr.) Intensive study of one writer, work, or theme, such as Céline, Proust, literary manifestos, existentialism, colonialism. May be repeated twice for credit.
F667 Studies in Francophone Literature (3 cr.) Intensive study of one writer, work, genre, or theme in French language literature produced outside of France or by immigrant writers in France. Examples of topics are Aimé Césaire, Senegalese film, post-colonial theory, créolité. May be repeated twice for credit with different topics.
F825 Seminar in French Literature (3 cr.) Intensive study of a topic involving more than one period of French literature. May be repeated twice for credit.
French and Francophone Civilization
F510 Foreign Study in French (2-8 cr.) Formal study in a French university; language, literature, and culture of France. Credit to apply only to the M.A. in French Instruction degree. Program must be approved by department.
F548 La Pensée française au XIXe siècle (3 cr.) Philosophers, historians, social critics, and religious writers, such as Chateaubriand, Michelet, Taine, Renan.
F561 Studies in French Civilization (3 cr.) Content varies. May include historical survey of the development of French civilization since the revolution, taking into consideration sociopolitical history, history of ideas, fine arts, literature. Field of study may be extended to the French-speaking world. May be repeated twice for credit.
French Linguistics
F507 Foreign Language Institute (1-6 cr.)
F520 Advanced French Phonetics (3 cr.) General introduction to French phonetics and phonemics; training in the evaluation of pronunciation accuracy and the teaching of French pronunciation at the secondary school and university level; remedial practice.
F565 Introduction to French Linguistics (3 cr.) Introduction to the structure of the French language: phonology, morpholoy, and syntax.
F576 Introduction to French Phonology (3 cr.) Study of French phonology and the phonology/ morphology interface within the framework of recent linguistic models, including solutions to major descriptive problems proposed from the early 20th century to the present.
F577 Introduction to French Syntax (3 cr.) Study of French syntax and the syntax/semantics interface within the framework of recent linguistic models.
F578 Contrastive Study of French and English (3 cr.) Advanced contrastive study of written French and English, with emphasis on problems of interference. Readings, exercises.
F579 Introduction to French Morphology (3 cr.) Introduction to word formation in French, including inflection, derivation, and compounding.
F580 Applied French Linguistics (3 cr.) Introduction to the lexical, phonological, morphological, and syntactic structure of French from a pedagogical perspective. Presentation of the several types of variation in the French language worldwide and linguistic diversity in France.
F582 Introduction to French Semantics (3 cr.) Introduction to issues in the interpretation of French. Focusing on the interpretation of various constructions of French, the course investigates semantic representations in the verbal and nominal domains. The goal is to comprehend how speakers of French develop these precise semantic intuitions.
F584 Stylistics and Semantics (3 cr.) Relations between types of interpretation and stylistic factors. Ludic-esthetic (including literary) uses of words versus cognitive-moral uses. Emphasis on the former; genre divisions; analysis of texts focused on basic problems of interpretive decision.
F603-604 History of the French Language I-II (3-3 cr.) Consideration of all aspects of the subject; concentration on internal development (phonology, morphology, syntax) from Latin to Modern French. First semester offers an overview; second semester, intensive study of selected aspects of internal evolution. Knowledge of Latin useful. F603 or equivalent is a prerequisite for F604.
F670 Advanced French Phonology (3 cr.) Advanced phonological analysis of issues in French phonology, emphasizing recently proposed linguistic models.
F671 Advanced French Syntax (3 cr.) Advanced syntactic and semantic description of French, emphasizing recently proposed linguistic models.
F672 French Dialectology (3 cr.) Geographical and social variation in French; traditional and modern dialectology, oil dialects and North American varieties of French, languages in contact, norm(s), variationist studies.
F675 Studies in French Linguistics (3 cr.) Content varies. May include general or intensive study in syntax, semantics, lexicography, or other linguistic topics. May be repeated twice for credit.
F676 Structure and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Haitian Creole and Haitian French (3 cr.) Description of the phonological, morphosyntactic, and lexical structure of Haitian Creole and comparison with Haitian French. Review of the linguistic situation of Haiti, including the respective functions of Creole and French, and attitudes and values associated with each language.
F677 French Lexicology and Lexicography (3 cr.) Prerequisite: F580 or equivalent. Study of the structure of the French lexicon. Examination of the process of dictionary compilation and evaluation. Hands-on experience in the use of computer technology for lexicographic and lexicological tasks such as the compilation of databases, use of the optic scanner, and automatic text analysis.
F678 Advanced French Morphology (3 cr.) Prerequisite: F579 or permission of instructor. Advanced study of word structure in French from a variety of theoretical perspectives.
G611 Romance Linguistics I (3 cr.) A course offered by the University Graduate School.
Other Graduate Courses
F563 Introduction to Graduate Study and Research (1 cr.) Satisfactory/Fail grading.
F572 Practicum in College French Teaching (1 cr.) Focused classroom observations followed by discussions; identification and evaluation of teaching techniques. Required of all new associate instructors; offered only in fall semester.
F573 Methods of College French Teaching (3 cr.) Theoretical notions underlying current approaches; testing; evaluation of teacher performance and instructional materials. Required of all associate instructors; offered only in spring semester.
F574 Thème et version, cours avancé (3cr.) Translation of contemporary texts from English into French, occasionally from French into English. Emphasis on problems of literary styles.
F605 History of French Prose Style (3 cr.) Philological and literary study of major figures and trends in prose style from late Middle Ages to the present. Ciceronianism, style coupé, oratorial styles, écriture artiste, etc.
F613-F614 Provençal I-II (3-3 cr.) Prerequisite: Knowledge of Old French, Italian, Latin, or Spanish. F613 or equivalent is a prerequisite for F614. Poetry of the medieval troubadours
F673 Topics in the Learning and Teaching of French (3 cr.) Prerequisite: F580 or equivalent. Survey of major issues in the learning and teaching of French and discussion of how these issues and research results bear on approaches to second language teaching. Designed for prospective teachers of French and students interested in second language acquisition and classroom research.
F810 Individual Readings in French Civilization (cr. arr.)
F815 Individual Readings in French Literature and Linguistics (1-6 cr.)
F875 Research in French Literature and Language (1-12 cr.)
Undergraduate Courses in French that May Carry Graduate Credit
Courses at the 400-level, listed here and described in the College of Arts and Sciences Bulletin, may be taken for graduate credit with the permission of the student's graduate adviser.
F401 Structure and Development of French (3 cr.)
F413 French Renaissance (3 cr.)
F423 Seventeenth-Century
French Literature (3 cr.)
F424 Ideas and Culture
in Seventeenth-Century France
(3 cr.)
F435 Enlightenment Narrative (3 cr.)
F436 Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau (3 cr.)
F443 Great Novels of the
Nineteenth Century (3 cr.)
F445 Nineteenth-Century Drama (3 cr.)
F446 Great Poetry of the
Nineteenth Century (3 cr.)
F450 Colloquium in French Studies-Tradition and Ideas (2-3 cr.)
F453-454 Le Roman au XXe siècle I-II (3 cr.)
F461 La France contemporaine: cinema et culture (3 cr.)
F463-464 Civilisation française I-II (3 cr.)
F467 French Beyond the Hexagon (3 cr.)
F474 Thème et version (2 cr.)
F475 Le Français oral: cours avancé (2 cr.)
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