Undergraduate Courses in French and Italian

3118	MTWR	8:00	-	8:50	BH	237	Dobrenn, Audrey
3120	MTWR	9:05	-	9:55	BH	237	Dobrenn, Audrey
3121	MTWR	9:05	-	9:55	SY	210	Ali, Ameena
3122	MTWR	10:10	-	11:00	BH	237	Kanko, Cynthia
3123	MTWR	11:15	-	12:05	BH	237	Brown, Adeleen
3125	MTWR	12:20	-	1:10	BH	237	Lerme, Loic
3126	MTWR	1:25	-	2:15	BH	315	Conrad, Amy
3127	MTWR	1:25	-	2:15	BH	237	Root, Jamie
3128	MTWR	1:25	-	2:15	FQ	012A	Brown, Adeleen
3129	MTWR	2:30	-	3:20	BH	237	Calin, Anamarie
3124	MTWR	2:30	-	3:20	BH	315	Conrad, Amy
3119	MTWR	4:40	-	5:30	BH	237	Komrower, Larry
3131	MW	7:15	-	8:45	BH	134	Scrivner, Olga
3130	TR	7:15	-	8:45	BH	236	Scrivner, Olga

Introduction to French language and selected aspects of French civilization and culture. Credit given for only one of F100, F115, or F491. Watch video

3132 MTWR 10:10 - 11:00 BH 332
11796 MTWR 11:15 - 12:05 BH 332

Prerequisite: Obtain authorization from department. An accelerated treatment of material covered in both F100 and F150 designed for superior students and students with previous training in another foreign language. Credit given for only one of F115 and F100; Credit given for only one of F115 and F150. If interested, please fill out the online authorization form.

3133	MTWR	8:00	-	8:50	BH	135	Biers, Kelly
3134	MTWR	9:05	-	9:55	BH	135	Biers, Kelly
3135	MTWR	10:10	-	11:00	BH	135	Wagner, David
3136	MTWR	11:15	-	12:05	BH	135	Wagner, David
3138	MTWR	12:20	-	1:10	BH	134	Siegel, Jason
3139	MTWR	1:25	-	2:15	SY	0008	Black, Mark
3140	MTWR	1:25	-	2:15	BH	134	Shailer, Annie
3141	MTWR	2:30	-	3:20	BH	134	Shailer, Annie
3137	MTWR	2:30	-	3:20	SY	0008	Brunet, Marie-Line
3142	TR	7:15	-	8:45	BH	337	Czader, Justyna

Prerequisite: F100. Basic structures of the French language and selected topics of French civilization and culture. Credit given for only one of the following: F115, F150, or F491.

3143	MWF	8:00	-	8:50	BH	215	Edgington, Erin
3144	MWF	9:05	-	9:55	BH	139	Khabarovskiy, Georgy
3146	MWF	10:10	-	11:00	SE	240	Edgington, Erin
3145	MWF	11:15	-	12:05	BH	214	Khabarovskiy, Georgy
3147	MWF	11:15	-	12:05	BH	240	Williams, Krista
3148	MWF	12:20	-	1:10	GY	436	Zlatkovsky, Katrina
3149	MWF	1:25	-	2:15	GY	436	Zlatkovsky, Katrina
3151	MWF	2:30	-	3:20	SY	200	Hettlinger, Allie
3152	MWF	2:30	-	3:20	HU	111	Williams, Krista
3150	MWF	4:40	-	5:30	BH	003	Hettlinger, Allie
3153	MW	7:15	-	8:30	BH	214	Bastin, Kate
3154	TR	7:15	-	8:30	BH	015	Petrush, Rebecca

Prerequisite: F150 or equivalent. Grammar, composition, conversation coordinated with the study of cultural texts. Credit given for only one of the following third-semester courses: F200, F205, or F219.

3158	MWF	8:00	-	8:50	BH	217	Beuerlein, Eric
3156	MWF	9:05	-	9:55	BH	138	Niehaus, Ben
3157	MWF	10:10	-	11:00	BH	214	Niehaus, Ben
3159	MWF	12:20	-	1:10	BH	214	Hendrickson, Ryan
3160	MWF	1:25	-	2:15	BH	105	Hendrickson, Ryan
3161	MWF	2:30	-	3:20	WH	106	Beuerlein, Eric
3155	MWF	3:35	-	4:25	SB	231	Afriyie, Antoinette
3162	MW	7:15	-	8:30	BH	135	Panwitz , Amber

Prerequisite: F200 or equivalent. Grammar, composition, conversation coordinated with the study of cultural texts. Credit given for only one of the following fourth-semester courses: F250, F255, F265, or F269.

10330 MWF 10:10-11:00 BH 322

Prerequisite: F250, F255, F265, or consent of department. This course offers a general introduction to French literature and provides reading strategies in poetry, theater, and fiction. We will start the semester with poems from the Course Packet and each student will present a brief exposé and compose a short essay. After the poems we read a comic and popular play from the nineteenth century Le voyage de Monsieur Perrichon by Eugène Labiche. Then we continue to two prose works from the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries: La Légend de Saint Julien l’Hospitalier by Gustave Falubert, and La symphonie pastorale by André Gide. We end the semester with the 17th-century play Phèdre by Jean Racine and study the classic verse of alexandrin. The course grade will be based on oral presentations, short and long essays and active and continuous class participation.

3165 MWF 11:15-12:05 BH 345

Topic: Collaboration and Resistance
Prerequisite: F250, F255, F265, or consent of department. Are there limits to the reasonable forms of resistance against even the most brutal of oppressors? What are the consequences of working with the enemy, whether to save your own life or to save the lives of others? What happens when you fall in love with someone who belongs to the enemy camp? From an entirely different perspective, what role did literature play in consolidating the French monarchy or in liberating French colonies? These are some of the questions raised by the materials considered in this class. Readings will be drawn from various historical periods and cover several genres. They include excerpts from La Servitude volontaire, a Renaissance political treatise by Étienne de La Boétie that eventually served as an inspiration for modern theories of non-violent resistance; pro-monarchy poetry by Pierre de Ronsard; some of Jean de La Fontaine's politically ambivalent Fables; Moi, Tituba sorcière, Maryse Condé's novel inspired by a historical slave accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials; and Aimé Césaire's play Une Tempête, a post-colonial rewriting of Shakespeare's The Tempest. We will also watch two movies about the occupation of France during World War II: Jean-Pierre Melville's L'Armée des ombres, which glorifies the dangerous undertakings of a group of resistance fighters, and Louis Malle's Lucien Lacombe, which tells the story of a young collaborator who falls in love with a Jewish girl. The final grade will be based on class participation (20%), two short papers (20% each), and two exams (also 20% each). Conducted in French.

3163 MWF 12:20-1:10 BH 015

Prerequisite: F250, F255, F265, or consent of department. This course serves as an introduction to the study of French literature. We will begin by studying French prosody and reading a selection of lyric poems from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Each student will select one poem from the reader on which to give a class presentation and write a short essay. Students will have the opportunity to rewrite their essays so that they make sense. Then we will read a 17th-century tragedy, Le véritable Saint Genest by Jean de Rotrou. Students will take an essay exam on the play after preparing the essay questions together in class. Next we will read a novel about the First World War, Roland Dorgelès' Les croix de bois, and again we will take an essay exam in class on questions discussed in a prior class meeting. To conclude, we will read the Surrealist exercise, 152 proverbes mis au goût du jour and compose our own proverbs adapted to the modern age. The course grade will depend on the four written assignments and on class participation.

3164 TR 9:30-10:45 BH 208

Prerequisite: F250, F255, F265, or consent of department. This course is intended to prepare French minors and majors for further study in upper-level courses in French literature, language and culture. The objective is to expand all four language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing), at the same time as developing an understanding of four major genres (novel, short story, drama, poetry) and an appreciation for French literary writing. What are the main features of poetry, drama, and prose writing? What should we pay attention to when reading these texts? What are some of the literary devices used by poets, dramatists and novelists? These are some of the questions which we will address during our discussions of the assigned texts. We will read Jean Anouilh’s play Le voyageur sans bagage, short stories by Guy de Maupassant, a selection of poems, and Gisèle Pineau’s novel Un papillon dans la cité.

3166 TR 11:15-12:30 BH 148

Topic: Exploring the Self
Prerequisite: F250, F255, F265, or consent of department. From the skeptical subject in Montaigne’s Essais to the doubled, dialogical child in Nathalie Sarraute’s Enfance, the exploration and construction of the self in literature will be at the center of this introduction to French reading and expression. Through close readings from varying genres (poem, essay, dialogue, novel, play), we will attempt to move beyond the broad and often misunderstood term “autobiography” by considering issues of subjectivity, self-expression, authorial voice, dialogue, self-portraiture, life writing, and authority. Texts we will study include: Montaigne’s Essais, Molière’s Le Malade imaginaire, Rousseau’s Confessions, selected poems from Ronsard, Baudelaire and Rimbaud, Proust’s Combray, and Nathalie Sarraute’s Enfance. Grading: two in-class essays (open book); three short essays with re-writes; class participation (includes reading responses, group work, discussion leading).

11553 TR 1:00-2:15 WH 005

Prerequisite: F250, F255, F265, or consent of department. From an etymological perspective, the word 'revolution' defines an astronomic phenomenon in which a celestial body moves round in a circular course, or the time in which such a body completes a full circuit. Revolution is therefore originally meant to describe a cyclic movement in which everything is supposed to return to its place. But soon this concept came to describe, paradoxically, a major, sudden and violent alteration in the order of things, designating for instance the upheavals of political regimes, as we see in the case of the French Revolution, the Revolution "par excellence. " Given the polysemy of the word, writers across the centuries have been fascinated by the concept of 'revolution', making the most of its multiple meanings in their works, and sometimes providing it with new meanings.

In this course, we will read several texts belonging to different centuries and literary genres (essay, fiction, theatre and poetry) in which the topic of the revolution, whether in its astronomical or political meaning (or both), is developed in various manners. Works studied include: the 17th-century novel Voyage dans la lune by Cyrano de Bergerac, the 18th-century short story Micromégas by Voltaire, the play L'Île des esclaves by Marivaux, some excerpts of the essay on L'Origine de l'inégalité parmi les hommes by Rousseau, the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen, a 19th-century selection of poems by Hugo and Rimbaud and the 20th-century play Les Justes by Camus. We will also watch two films set at the time of the French Revolution: Danton by Wajda and L'Anglaise et le duc by Rohmer.

The final grade will be based on class preparation (notably a bi-weekly response paper) and participation (20%), one composition with revision (20%), a mid-term exam (20%), an oral presentation (20%) and a final paper (20%). The course will be conducted entirely in French.

3167 TR 2:30-3:45 SY 003

Topic: The Goddess, the Saint, and the Prostitute
Prerequisite: F250, F255, F265, or consent of department. We will explore the image of women in (male) short fiction of the 19th century and also read short lyric poems from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Readings:
Balzac, Le Colonel Chabert
Mérimée, Carmen & La Venus d'Ille
Flaubert, Un coeur simple
Maupassant, Boule de suif

Two exams and two short take-home papers. Conducted in French.

3219 TR 8:00-9:15 BH 335

Prerequisite: F250, F255, F265, or consent of department. Students in S300 will read an anthology of French poetry and a play, Le jeu de l'amour et du hasard, and the novel Manon Lescaut. We shall begin the semester with the poetry learning how to read and analyze poems using the explication de texte method. Each student will give a brief (10 minutes) "explication" in French. Students will also write two five-page papers in French. Both the play and the novel illustrate the struggle between the intellect and the senses, a dominant theme in Western European literature. Le jeu de l'amour et du hasard has fun with the classic tradition and makes a play of words on philosophy and love. Manon Lescaut is certainly within the classic tradition but on the cusp of Romanticism as the young chevalier meets a different kind of woman. There will be two one-hour exams and a two-hour final. The course will be conducted in French.

10650 TR 11:15-12:30 BH 215

Prerequisite: F300 or equivalent. In this course we shall explore three forms of literature. We shall begin with an anthology of poetry from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, a philosophically rich poetry that forces one to understand that poetry has multiple dimensions. We shall follow this study with two plays from the French seventeenth century, perhaps the greatest period of European drama rivaled only by Shakespeare and the Spanish Golden Age. Racine’s Phèdre, one of the great tragic masterpieces will be joined with Molière’s Dom Juan, a comedy that fits a greater legendary figure famous from the Spanish Golden Age and from Mozart’s signal opera, Don Giovanni. We shall close the course reading Madame de LaFayette’s Princess de Clèves, a novel that has long been considered France’s first novel, and a novel that André Gide called France’s greatest. This novel sets a fictional romance and dilemma within a tightly arranged and accurate European setting from 1559-1560. The Princesse de Clèves is one of the most remarkable heroines in all of literature.

11797 TR 1:00-2:15 BH 147

Prerequisite: F300 or equivalent. Dans ce cours consacré au thème de la recherche de l’identité, nous lirons trois romans du vingtième siècle, ainsi qu’une variété de poèmes (de la Renaissance à l’époque coloniale). Dans le roman populiste Petit-Louis d’Eugène Dabit, nous constaterons le passage à l’âge d’homme vécu par un jeune soldat pendant la Grande Guerre (1914-1918). Notre deuxième roman, un "polar," ou roman policier—Piège pour Cendrillon de Sébastien Japrisot—raconte une tentative mystérieuse de meurtre: crime qui mène à de profondes questions d’identité, car la survivante, amnésique, ne sait pas si elle est auteur ou victime du crime. Nous terminerons le semestre avec une autofiction de Marguerite Duras, L’Amant, inspiré d’une liaison qu’elle a vécue pendant son adolescence en Indochine française: relation qui met en jeu des différences de race, de classe sociale, et de nationalité, dans un contexte colonial et exotique. Intercalés parmi nos romans différents seront des poèmes de la Renaissance (Louise Labé), du 19ème siècle (Artur Rimbaud, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore) et du 20ème siècle (Guillaume Apollinaire, Jules Supervielle, Paul Eluard, Anne Hébert, et Aimé Césaire). Il y aura un exercice oral, un examen de mi-semestre, un essai de 7 pp., et un examen de fin de semestre.

3170 MWF 1:25-2:15 BH 139

Prerequisite: F250. This course has two aims: to summarize the grammar learned up to this level and to practice and expand that knowledge to a higher level of French grammar. The textbooks used in class are the fourth edition of Grammaire française by Jacqueline Olivier and Martin Beaudoin and French Grammar and Usage by Roger Hawkins and Richard Towell. The semester goal is to give students a grammatical instrument in preparation for the courses at the F300 and 400 levels.

3169 MWF 2:30-3:20 BH 138

Prerequisite: F250. This course has two aims: to summarize the grammar learned up to this level and to practice and expand that knowledge to a higher level of French grammar. The textbooks used in class are the fourth edition of Grammaire française by Jacqueline Olivier and Martin Beaudoin and French Grammar and Usage by Roger Hawkins and Richard Towell. The semester goal is to give students a grammatical instrument in preparation for the courses at the F300 and 400 levels.

3168 MWF 1:25-2:15 BH 138

Prerequisite: F250. This course has two aims: to summarize the grammar learned up to this level and to expand that knowledge to written and literary French grammar. In order to do so, we use Harper's Grammar of French by Samuel N. Rosenberg et al. and the exercise book. The semester goal is to give students a grammatical instrument in preparation for the reading-intensive courses at the F300 and 400 levels. The class will be graded through various types of small and big tests.

11798 MWF 12:20-1:10 BH 322

Prerequisite: F250. This course reviews and refines the French grammar students have already learned and, building on this knowledge base, expands students’ understanding of more advanced structures. The course will strengthen students’ skills in oral and written comprehension and expression. It also serves as a preparation for advanced culture and literature courses at the F300 and 400 levels that involve extensive reading and writing.

The course will make extensive use of two textbooks that are both grammar manuals and workbooks: Grammaire française by Ollivier and Beaudoin and French Grammar in Context by Jubb and Rouxeville. These will sometimes be supplemented by French and Francophone materials mostly drawn from the contemporary media. Grades will be based on daily preparation and participation, several short writing assignments, several tests, and a cumulative final exam.

3171 MWF 2:30-3:20 BH 214 (lecture)
3173 TR 10:10-11:00 WH 202 (drill) Frimu, Rodica
3172 TR 1:25-2:15 BH 015 (drill) Frimu, Rodica

Prerequisite: F250. French F315 has three objectives: (1) to develop students' communicative skills by practice in listening comprehension and conversational practice; (2) to improve students' pronunciation accuracy and oral fluency and to train them to evaluate their own pronunciation; (3) to learn about the sound system and its role in the grammar and vocabulary of the language, and also as a marker of social and geographical identity. The focus will be on the pronunciation of Standard French, that is, the speech of the educated Parisian that serves as a model in the French speaking world. However, students will be introduced to salient features of other varieties of French.

The course meets five times weekly: two small practice sessions, two lectures, and one session of practice in the language lab under the supervision of the instructors or tutorial instruction. All components of the course are taught in French. Prerequisite is FRIT F 250 or
equivalent. Choose one drill section to go with this lecture component.

28914 TR 1:00-2:15 WY 101

Prerequisite: F300 or equivalent. Dans cette introduction historique à la civilisation française, nous étudierons la période qui s'étend de l'arrivée au pouvoir des dynasties mérovingienne et carolingienne des Ve-VIIIe siècles (Clovis ; Pépin le Bref, puis Charlemagne et ses fils) à la fin du XVe siècle. Le cours combinera la présentation des « événements historiques » et l'étude de l'évolution des institutions politiques, économiques et sociales (l'aspect artistique et culturel de cette période est traité dans un autre cours : F463/4). Le cours sera un mélange de: 1) mini-exposés du professeur ; 2) présentations-discussions de documents historiques et iconographiques ; 3) discussions de groupe. Le cours sera fait en français.

Notation :
1) contrôle continu (5 'quizzes') : 25%
2) participation orale active et continue : 25%
3) composition écrite en français (5-7 pages) : 25%
4) examen final : 25%.

Textes à lire et à consulter : Stéphane Muzelle, 100 fiches d'histoire du Moyen Age, édition Bréal, 2004; Jean-Louis Biget et Patrick Boucheron, La France médiévale, vol. 1 (5e-13e siècles), et vol. 2 (13e-15e siècles), édition Hachette, 1999 et 2000.

32362 TR 11:15-12:30 WH 005

Prerequisite: F300 or equivalent. This introduction to French civilization 1500-1800 will be structured around what are often considered as four different historical turning points: the trauma of the Saint Bartholomew massacre and the religious wars; the heyday of absolutism under Louis XIV; the unfolding of the Enlightenment; the turmoil of the French Revolution. We will examine each historical moment through primary and secondary texts as well as films set in the period. The aim of the course is to foster (1) mastery of the matter (the story told), (2) awareness of the disciplinary tools/methods (the telling of the story), (3) mastery of academic French (the language in which the story is told), (4) awareness of why the story matters. Weekly response papers, scaffolded final writing portfolio. The course will be conducted in French. Prerequisite: F300.

9832 TR 9:30-10:45 BH 245

Topic: Heroines in French Theater
Prerequisite: F300 or equivalent. From clever women like the “Parisian maiden” who cross-dresses to test her future husband, to mad women like Solange and Claire, whose game of dress-up leads to a fatal end. From the injustices of Cleopatra, captured and driven to suicide, or Antigone, buried alive for defending her dead brother, to the desperate and scorned cases of Phaedra, in love with her stepson, or Berenice, left to rot by her politically-driven lover. These heroines will be the subjects of our course.

We will focus on major French plays from the 16th to the 20th centuries in which female roles are central. This course will also serve as an introduction to French theater, giving students tools for writing and talking about dramaturgy and film adaptations. Major plays from the Renaissance will be read in short excerpts, while plays from later centuries, read in full, will include: Bérénice (Racine); La Fausse suivante (Marivaux); Les Caprices de Marianne (Musset); Antigone (Anouilh); Les Bonnes (Genet). Film adaptations studied will include: La Fausse suivante (Benoît Jacquot) and Les Blessures assassines (Jean-Pierre Denis).

3174 - Times arranged

Independent study for students pursuing honors in French. See our Honors Program page for details.

28915 TR 9:30-10:45 WH 005

Title: Female Voices in 17th-century literature
The French seventeenth-century, also known as the "Great Century," was a period of relative political stability and peace that saw the rise of France as a major cultural player in Europe. From the public discussions and presentations of literary works in salons to the classical tragedies of Jean Racine and Pierre Corneille, and what is considered by many to be the first modern novel in French, Madame de Lafayette's La Princesse de Clèves, female voices would be central to many of the artistic developments of the period. This course will examine the polyphony of female voices in central and lesser-known French texts written by women and men in order to think about questions of decorum and duty, freedom and modern selfhood, and the imagining of alternative gender roles. Weekly response papers, scaffolded final writing portfolio. The course will be conducted in French.

28916 TR 11:15-12:30 BH 208

Close readings of philosophical essays (Voltaire’s Lettres philosophiques, Diderot’s Supplément au voyage de Bougainville, Rousseau’s Essai sur l’origine de l’inégalité) and narratives (Voltaire’s Candide, Diderot’s La Religieuse, Rousseau’s Confessions) by the three great figures of the French Enlightenment. 2 exams and a 5-page paper (2 versions).

12992 TR 2:30-3:45 SY 001

Title: Interpretation littéraire et adaptation cinématographique
Prerequisite: Two of the following: F305, F306, or F375; or consent of the instructor. « Interpréter un texte », disait Roland Barthes dans son étude d'un texte de Balzac, «ce n'est pas lui donner un sens […] c'est au contraire apprécier de quel pluriel il est fait» (S/Z, 11). Ce cours se propose de poursuivre une méditation sur l'interprétation: ses possibilités, ses défis, ses limites, ses pièges. Qu'est-ce qui fonde et justifie une interprétation légitime? Par contre, quand est-ce qu'une interprétation «trahit» son texte? A partir de l'étude d'œuvres prises dans quatre genres différents—légende, théâtre, roman, roman court («novella»), et conte--, nous nous pencherons surtout sur des problèmes d'interprétation textuelle. Puisque toute adaptation cinématique dramatise l’acte d'interprétation, nous testerons nos conclusions en étudiant des extraits des films inspirés par nos œuvres. Il y aura une variété d'exercices à l'oral et à l'écrit, dont un exposé, une dissertation, un examen partiel («midterm») et un exercice de fin de semestre.

3177 - Times arranged

Independent study on a specific topic not taught in one of this semester’s regular courses. If interested, complete the permission form.

3178 - Times arranged

Independent study for students pursuing honors in French. See our Honors Program page for details.

3185	MTWR	8:00	-	8:50	BH	337	Magni, Isabella
3186	MTWR	9:05	-	9:55	BH	337	Magni, Isabella
3187	MTWR	10:10	-	11:00	BH	337	Quadrini, Paola
3188	MTWR	10:10	-	11:00	FQ	012B	Liberti, Matthew
3189	MTWR	11:15	-	12:05	BH	337	Quadrini, Paola
3191	MTWR	12:20	-	1:10	BH	337	Ponziani, Laura
3192	MTWR	12:20	-	1:10	SY	210	Serafin, Karolina
3193	MTWR	1:25	-	2:15	BH	337	Ponziani, Laura
3194	MTWR	1:25	-	2:15	BH	240	Varela, Adriana
3195	MTWR	2:30	-	3:20	BH	240	Varela, Adriana
3196	MTWR	2:30	-	3:20	BH	337	Marongiu, Cinzia
3197	MTWR	4:40	-	5:30	BH	337	Marongiu, Cinzia
3198	TR	7:15	-	8:45	BH	139	Montroni, Letizia

Introduction to contemporary Italian language, geography, and culture. Involves a broad variety of assignments and activities that develop grammatical competency and proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Cultural topics and simple cultural comparisons are introduced. Credit given for only one of the following: M100, M110, or M115, or M491.

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3199	MTWR	11:15	-	12:05	SY	212	Serafin, Karolina
3200							CANCELLED

Prerequisite: Consent of department. An accelerated treatment of material covered in both M100 and M150 designed for highly motivated students and students with previous language training. Credit given for only one of M115 and M100; credit given for only one of M115 or M150. If interested, please complete and submit the electronic form.

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3201	MTWR	10:10	-	11:00	SY	106	Winkler, David
3202	MTWR	11:15	-	12:05	SY	106	Winkler, David
3203	MTWR	1:25	-	2:15	SY	106	Love, Anna
3204	MTWR	12:20	-	1:10	SY	106	Love, Anna

Prerequisite: M100. Continued introduction to contemporary Italian language, geography, and culture. Involves a broad variety of assignments and activities that build grammatical competency and proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Practice with new cultural topics and basic cultural analysis. Credit given for only one of the following: M110, M115, M150, or M491.

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3206	MWF	9:05	-	9:55	BH	332	Hiller, Stephen
3207	MWF	10:10	-	11:00	WH	106	Hiller, Stephen
3208	MWF	12:20	-	1:10	BH	138	Marongiu, Cinzia
3209	MWF	1:25	-	2:15	BH	011	Marongiu, Cinzia
3205	MWF	3:35	-	4:25	SB	220	Orsi, Marianna
13657	TR	7:15	-	8:30	WH	006	Orsi, Marianna

Prerequisite: M110, M115, M150 or equivalent. Building on Elementary Italian I-II, students further study and practice fundamental concepts and structures in Italian grammar. Through a variety of assignments and activities, they strengthen proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, writing, cultural analysis and understanding. Includes an introduction to brief literary texts. Credit given for only one of M200 or M215.

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Nussmeier, Anthony

Prerequisite: M115 or equivalent, or consent of instructor. An accelerated treatment of material covered in both M200 and M250. Designed for students who have completed M115 and other highly-motivated students, students with extensive experience with another language, and/or students who aspire to study abroad. Credit given for only one of M215, M200, or M250.

Interested students must meet the following requirements to enroll in M215:

• A grade of B or higher in M115 or in both M100 and M150
• Recommendations from the previous Italian instructor (if M115) or instructors (if M100 and M150)

If interested, please contact your current Italian instructor or the Director of Language Instruction, Professor Colleen Ryan.

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7794 TR 9:30-10:45 BH 247

Renaissance artists and writers were as committed to advocating the dignity of humankind and its central place in the universe as they were committed to making fun of or laughing at themselves and each other. This course will focus on the comic literature of the Italian Renaissance. We will explore the nature and various expressions of comedy in genres such as the short story, the facetia ('witty anecdote'), the apologue, the comic play, the epic and satiric poem and the treatise. In doing so we will address the following questions, among others: What is the relation of laughter and ignorance, error, moral and physical deformity? Does laughter bring people together or does it set them apart? How does comedy articulate the ethical concepts of innocence and guilt? How are conflicts dealt with in comic texts? We will read works by Boccaccio, Ariosto, Machiavelli, Aretino and Castiglione, among others, and we will also discuss a selection of relevant historical and critical materials. Students will write three short essays, take five quizzes and a final exam.

3210	MWF	11:15	-	12:05	BH	247	Vitti, Alicia
3211	MWF	12:20	-	1:10	BH	139	Vitti, Alicia
6474	MWF	2:30	-	3:20	WH	008	Nussmeier, Anthony

Prerequisite: M200 or equivalent. The study of more complex concepts and structures in Italian grammar. Through a variety of texts, media and assignments, students practice listening, speaking, reading, writing, and they analyze cultural topics and situations in greater depth. Increased attention to short literary texts. Credit given for only one of M250 or M215.

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6475	MTWRF	10:10	-	11:00	BH	142	Garrido Baez, Luisa
33312	MWF TR	10:10	-	11:00	BH	228 345	Migliozzi, Mary

Prerequisite: M250 or consent of instructor. Conducted in Italian, this course continues the study of advanced structures through a variety of media and authentic texts. While the focus is on accuracy and fluency in speaking, practice with other skills and the study of Italian culture will be integrated throughout.

28925 TR 11:15-12:30 BH 247

Prerequisite: M307 or consent of instructor. The focus of this course is on the literature of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Its goal is to read some of modern Italy's most representative works, to understand them in their diverse historical contexts, and to develop a critical approach to literary texts. Special attention will be paid to such topics as the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Verism, the symbolist movement and its legacy, the avant-guards, war and literature, Fascism and literature, and contemporary literature. Students will write three short essays during the term, participate in an oral presentation, take five quizzes and a final exam. The class will be conducted in Italian.

11813 TR 1:00-2:15 LI 044B
Films: T 7:15-10:00pm SE 105

The objective of this course is to gain a better understanding of the often complex mechanism of Italian politics, the intriguing regional differences, and the civic and cultural development that have shaped the Italian Republic since the end of terrorism. Through a pluridisciplinary approach this course will explore how contemporary Italian cinema has followed, mirrored, and often even anticipated the cultural transformation and moments of crisis in Italian society. During the semester 15 films will be screened. Students will learn how to prepare a film analysis, will write short essays, and will lead group and class discussions. Conducted in English.

28926 TR 4:00-5:15 LI 044B
Films: T 7:15-10:00pm BH 224

The course will analyze the cinematic representation of the complex phenomena called Mafia. We will study how within Italian cinema the characterization of the Mafia and mafiosi began with the archetypal figures of the bosses and the "good guy" crusader from the North sent to Sicily to fight crime. Cinematic representation went on to adopt a more sociological approach, attempting to explore the political implications of the Mafia through the political cinema genre, in particular, Rosi's Salvatore Giuliano, 1961. The course will include Cipri's and Maresco's surreal and tragicomic films mocking traditional representation of the Mafia. Special attention will be dedicated to the role of women in Torre's and Amenta's films. Conducted in Italian.

11814 TR 2:30-3:45 WH 202

Topic: "Italian Tales"
Prerequisite: M308 or consent of instructor. This course traces the development of the short story as one of Italy's most vital artistic and social forms. Readings will include selections from Boccaccio's Decameron and exemplary tales by Domenico Cavalca to short stories by Italo Calvino and Sandra Petrignani.

3215 - Times arranged

Independent study on a specific topic not taught in one of this semester’s regular courses. If interested, complete the permission form.

3216 - Times arranged

Independent study for students pursuing honors in Italian. See our Honors Program page for details.

29004 TR 9:30-10:45 HU 111

In the age of globalization, France has been fighting to affirm and protect its identity from the perceived threat of American-style popular culture and language. This course aims to provide a broad background on modern French culture through the lens of the idea of "French exception". It is open to all students interested in learning and exploring various aspects of French culture such as the notions of "Frenchness" and "French cultural exception", the French ideas of citizenship, secularism, multiculturalism and gay rights. Each class will focus on such a keyword and its representations in the French public forum. Reading: The French Exception. Godin, Emmanuel; Chafer, Tony (eds.). New York: Berghahn Books, 2005.

Note: This course open to Hutton Honors College students only. Please contact your Hutton advisor for permission.

29216 TR 1:00-1:50 BH 340 (lecture)
Films: T 7:15-10:00 LH 102

29217 R 4:40-5:30 BH 228(discussion) Puiatti, Sandro
29218 R 5:45-6:35 BH 209 (discussion) Puiatti, Sandro
29219 F 10:10-11:00 WY 101 (discussion) Puiatti, Sandro

This course introduces students to one of the most basic concepts of literary criticism - literary genres - with specific reference to a popular genre such as the so-called "thriller." "Thriller" is a term that came into use in the late nineteenth century and was applied not only to the detective story, the most famous examples of which were A. Conan Doyle's tales about Sherlock Holmes, but also to a closely related literary genre, the spy novel, that also attained great popularity during the period.

The primary focus of this course will be to teach students how to understand the conventions and traditions that govern any literary genre, with specific reference to the "thriller" as exemplified by selected detective and spy stories in both literature and film. Attention will be paid to basic critical concepts such as style, form, structure, point of view, and implied reader, in order to provide students with analytical tools that will be valuable in the years to come. It is my hope that students will apply the lessons they learn about genre in this class to any literary genre, not only genres typical of popular culture.

Readings will include the detective fiction of Poe, Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, and Friedrich Dürrenmatt. We will also examine several detective-mystery movies, including the recent Sherlock Holmes (2009), and the classic masterpieces of the noir tradition, including The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep. For the spy genre, we will read the pre-Cold War novel A Coffin for Dimitrios, at least one James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, and a Cold War spy novel by John Le Carré. In addition, we will screen two very different James Bond films: one made during the height of the Cold War, and Martin Campbell's Casino Royale (2006).

Note: This course fulfills the Critical Approaches (CAPP) requirement of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
16770	MTWR	9:05-9:55	SB 140	Audrey Dobrenn
16774	MTWR	10:10-11:00	SB 140	Audrey Dobrenn
16771	MTWR	11:15-12:05	SB 140	Adeleen Brown
16772	MTWR	12:20-1:10	SB 140	Anemarie Calin
16773	MTWR	1:25-2:15	SB 140	Anemarie Calin
16775	MW	7:15-8:45 pm	BH 336	Justyna Czader
16776	TR	7:15-8:45 pm	WH 119	Justyna Czader

Introduction to French language and selected aspects of French civilization and culture. Credit given for only one of F100, F115, or F491. Watch video

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
16777	MTWR	10:10-11:00	BH 315	Eric Beuerlein
25685	MTWR	11:15-12:05	BH 315	Kelly Biers

Prerequisite: Obtain authorization from department. An accelerated treatment of material covered in both F100 and F150 designed for superior students and students with previous training in another foreign language. Credit given for only one of F115 and F100; Credit given for only one of F115 and F150. If interested, please fill out the online authorization form.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Type	Notes
34772	TR W	5:45-7:45 pm 7:15-9:30 pm	BH 240 BH 310	Lecture Film Showings	2nd 8 weeks only

In this course, for which no prior experience in French language or culture is necessary, we will explore a range of meditations on the intertwined themes of love and loss through several centuries of French literature and several decades of French cinema (supplemented with one or two US-based movies). Some of the eight weekly film screenings will be directly related to readings. For example, we will read the devastating eighteenth-century libertine novel Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos and watch two filmic adaptations: Dangerous Liaisons directed by Roger Vadim and starring Jeanne Moreau and Cruel Intentions directed by Roger Kumble and starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Reese Witherspoon. Other text-film pairings will be more distant but hopefully no less evocative. Thus, our screening of Paris, je t'aime, a series of short films by various directors about love in the City of Lights, will be accompanied by several love poems from the middle ages to the twentieth century that feature Paris. Students will be expected to keep an informal weekly blog and to generate a few more formal response papers as well as two 4-5 page essays.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
16778	MTWR	8:00-8:50	BH 105	Jason Siegel
16779	MTWR	9:05-9:55	BH 140	Jason Siegel
16780	MTWR	10:10-11:00	BH 337	Annie Shailer
16781	MTWR	10:10-11:00	BH 332	Marie-Line Brunet
16782	MTWR	11:15-12:05	BH 332	Marie-Line Brunet
16785	MTWR	11:15-12:05	SY 106	Cynthia Kanko
16783	MTWR	12:20-1:10	BH 315	Amy Ali
16784	MTWR	1:25-2:15	BH 140	Cynthia Kanko
16786	MTWR	2:30-3:20	FQ 012A	Amy Ali
16787	MW	7:15-8:45 pm	JH A107	David Wagner
16788	TR	7:15-8:45 pm	BH 336	Allie Hettlinger

Prerequisite: F100. Basic structures of the French language and selected topics of French civilization and culture. Credit given for only one of the following: F115, F150, or F491.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
16789	MWF	9:05-9:55	BH 015	Kate Bastin
16790	MWF	10:10-11:00	SY 002	Kate Bastin
16792	MWF	11:15-12:05	SE 245	Larry Komrower
16791	MWF	12:20-1:10	BH 105	Larry Komrower
16793	MWF	1:25-2:15	BH 214	Jamie Root
16794	MWF	2:30-3:20	WH 121	Jamie Root
16795	MW	7:15-8:30 pm	BH 138	Krista Williams

Prerequisite: F150 or equivalent. Grammar, composition, conversation coordinated with the study of cultural texts. Credit given for only one of the following third-semester courses: F200, F205, or F219.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
16797	MWF	8:00-8:50	BH 238	Rebecca Petrush
16798	MWF	9:05-9:55	BH 148	Mark Black
16799	MWF	10:10-11:00	BH 015	Mark Black
16802	MWF	11:15-12:05	JH A106	Antoinette Afriyie
16800	MWF	1:25-2:15	WH 106	Antoinette Afriyie
16804	MWF	1:25-2:15	BH 138	Georgy Khabarovskiy
16801	MWF	2:30-3:20	WH 006	Loïc Lerme
16803	MWF	3:35-4:25	HP 10	Loïc Lerme
16805	MW	7:15-8:30 pm	BH 139	Ben Niehaus

Prerequisite: F200 or equivalent. Grammar, composition, conversation coordinated with the study of cultural texts. Credit given for only one of the following fourth-semester courses: F250, F255, F265, or F269.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
16806	TR	9:30-10:45	BH 209	Margaret Gray
16807	TR	11:15-12:30	BH 208	Brett Bowles
16808	TR	1:00-2:15	WY 101	Guillaume Ansart

Prerequisite: F250, F255, F265, or consent of department.

Gray: La condition humaine
An introduction to four genres in French literature (poetry, theatre, novel and short story), this course also provides sustained exercise in literary analysis and techniques of close reading, as well as seeking to further fundamental skills in French. Our varied texts have in common the effort to communicate diverse aspects of the human condition, with its discoveries, its dilemmas, its raptures and disappointments.

We will begin with love poems from the Renaissance (16th century), Romantic (19th), Symbolist (late 19th) and modern (20th century) eras, appreciating the evolution of the love lyric as we proceed. Our play, Jean Anouilh's Le bal des voleurs, opens the love theme to probing questions of social class in a delightful mix of bumbling thieves, a rich and canny dowager with eligible nieces, true love and personal honor across social and economic differences. The coming-of- age novel L'enfant noir by Camara Laye, inspired by his childhoodand youth in the West African nation of Guinea, explores love for the mother, admiration for the father, first love, desire for independence and impatience with one's own culture. We will analyze the narrator's experience of school days, family visits, rituals of growing up, departure from home, first exposure to death and loss, hard work and success. We will conclude with a selection of twentieth-century short stories exploring moral choice, vision and ambiguity: Albert Camus's « L'hôte ,» Jean-Louis Curtis's « Le coffret,» and Henri Thomas's « Labarque. »

The final grade will be based on active class participation (10%), an « explication de texte » (15%), a midterm (20%), a 5-page paper (25%), and a final exam (30%). F300 fulfills A & H requirement. Conducted in French.

Bowles: Social and Political Literature
Far from being an artistic endeavor that stands apart from or above its social, political, and cultural context, literature is always to some degree a product of and response to these contexts. Working from this premise, we will read various genres of French literature (poetry, theater, the short story, the essay, novella) as expressions of social and political thought from the medieval period through the twentieth century. Our focus throughout will be to analyze how the structure and style of our texts function in articulating a social, cultural, or political position at a particular moment in French history. Thematic units will be chosen among the following: inter-class power relations in short stories by Guy de Maupassant and an essay and poems by Charles Baudelaire; religious hypocrisy in Molière's Tartuffe (the text of the play and filmed performances) and Flaubert's novella Un coeur simple; race and colonialism in an essay by Michel de Montaigne and an essay and poems by Aimé Césaire and Léon Damas; anti-war protest in poems by Arthur Rimbaud and Guillaume Apollinaire; critique of political institutions in an essay by Voltaire and excerpts of a novel by Emile Zola; female perspectives on love and power in lais by Marie de France, poems by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, and short stories by Colette. This course will be taught entirely in French.

Ansart: The Goddess, the Saint, and the Prostitute
We will explore the image of women in (male) short fiction of the 19th century and also read short lyric poems from the 19th and 20th centuries. Two exams and two short take-home papers. Conducted in French.
Readings:
Balzac, Le Colonel Chabert
Mérimée, Carmen & La Venus d'Ille
Flaubert, Un coeur simple
Maupassant, Boule de suif

Number	Days	Time	Room
24677	MWF	10:10-11:00	BH 322

Le poids de l'existence

What is the meaning of life? Does our existence have an obvious, pre-given purpose? If it has, how can it be that people don't agree on this purpose? Is the purpose rather to search such a meaning – or are these just the wrong questions altogether? Is the weight of these questions something we should embrace or escape? In this course we will study masterpieces from French literature that confront the question of the weight of existence in different ways. Alternating between early modern and 20th-century texts, we will explore essays by Montaigne, Pascal and Camus, and plays by Molière, Racine, Sartre and Beckett. The course will be writing-intensive and conducted seminar-style with focus on in-class discussion. Through our ongoing reflection and dialog, the participants will improve (a) their skills as interpreters of French literature in general; (b) their grasp of the genres of the essay and theater in particular; (c) their mastery of academic French, both written and spoken. Course requirements include weekly response papers, three 2-page papers and final portfolio with rewrites of these. All class discussion, reading, and writing will be done in French.

Number	Days	Time	Room
16809	TR	9:30-10:45	BH 205

The principal women in the novels we shall read are very different from one another yet they are all "heroines" of nineteenth-century fiction. Two of them can be said to be bewitching or bewitched. The third is also in control but in a very different way. One is a gypsy, another half aristocrat and half peasant, and the third a widow from the middle class of a city in provincial Normandy. Who are the men who dominate or are dominated by these women? We shall also explore the poetry of a number of poets who express the problems and contradictions that bedeviled post-revolutionary France and the unknown world this revolution unleashed. We shall have two one-hour exams, a two-hour final, and one eight-page essay in French.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Notes
21589	TR T	1:00-2:15 7:15-10:00 pm	BH 208 LI 033	Lecture Film Showings

Marginality in French Film
Historically, France has long boasted one of the highest standards of living in the world and formed one of the most culturally cohesive nations. Yet over the past twenty-five years the country has struggled with economic stagnation, a high unemployment rate, and increasing social disunity—problems that have generated criticism not only of social institutions and structures, but normative cultural priorities and values. Articulated around a dozen films made since the 1980s, this course approaches film as a form of social and political critique, linking cinematic form and narrative style to historical context and ongoing debates over race, gender, religion, and class. Themes and films will include homelessness in Agnès Varda's Vagagond and Léos Carax's Lovers on the Bridge; the public school system in Laurent Cantet's The Class and Nicolas Philibert's To Be and to Have; ghettoization of racial minorities in Mathieu Kassovitz's Hate and Jean-François Richet's My Hood's Gonna Blow; gender and Islam in Yamina Benguigui's Inch'Allah Dimanche and Coline Serreau's Chaos; immigration in Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's The Promise and Michael Haneke's Code Unknown. This course will be taught entirely in English. All readings will be in English. Films will be in French with English subtitles.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
16810	MWF	9:05-9:55	BH 322	Hall Bjørnstad
16811	MWF	10:10-11:00	BH 138	Marc Schachter
16812	MWF	1:25-2:15	WH 202	Aiko MacPhail
26208	MWF	2:30-3:20	WH 202	Aiko MacPhail

Prerequisite: F250

Bjørnstad: This course offers an intensive study of French grammar with the very practical purpose of preparing the participants for more advanced literature and culture courses at the F300 and 400 levels. We will both review central grammar points and expand the students' understanding of more advanced grammatical structures. The course will strengthen the participants' skills in oral and written comprehension and expression. To this end, we will use two textbooks, with extensive exercises, as well as daily assignments where the students will be identifying and applying the grammatical structures we study in the context of the daily news from the Francophone world. Grades will be based on daily preparation and participation, regular short writing assignments, several tests, and a final exam.

Schachter: This course reviews and refines the French grammar students have already learned and, building on this knowledge base, expands students' understanding of more advanced structures. The course will also strengthen students' skills in oral and written comprehension and expression. It also serves as a preparation for advanced culture and literature courses at the F300 and 400 levels that involve extensive reading and writing. The course textbook is Grammaire française by Ollivier and Beaudoin, 4th edition. This will sometimes be supplemented by French and Francophone materials mostly drawn from the contemporary media. Grades will be based on daily preparation and participation, occasional short writing assignments, several tests, and a cumulative final exam.

MacPhail: This course has two aims: to summarize the grammar learned up to this level and to practice and expand that knowledge to a higher level of French grammar. The textbooks used in class are the fourth edition of Grammaire française by Jacqueline Olivier and Martin Beaudoin and French Grammar and Usage by Roger Hawkins & Richard Towell. The semester goal is to give students a grammatical instrument in preparation for the courses at the F300 and 400 levels.

Number	Days	Time	Room
16813	MWF	11:15-12:05	BH 219

This course has been cancelled for Spring 2012.

F314 is designed to improve your command of written French and build vocabulary through an intensive writing workshop with practice consisting in varied short written exercises and activities to improve expression in French. Students gain familiarity with a variety of creative, literary, expository, and communicative writing styles and develop their ability to form arguments in French by developing strategies relating to the writing process, and by acquiring tools (e.g. building vocabulary and acquiring an enhanced awareness of structures and styles) useful in written and oral communication. Prerequisite: F250 or equivalent.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
16817	MWF	10:10-11:00	JH A105	Ryan Hendrickson
16815	MWF	11:15-12:05	SY 103	Olga Scrivner
30012	MWF	12:20-1:10	BH 232	Amber Panwitz
16816	MWF	1:25-2:15	WH 203	Rebecca Petrush
16814	TR	7:15-8:30 pm	WH 203	Rodica Frimu

Prerequisite: F250 or F255. Three meetings per week plus optional listening comprehension and oral practice in the language laboratory. Development of communicative and speaking skills.

Number	Days	Time	Room
16818	TR	11:15-12:30	WY 101

Introduction to the language of business activities in France and to the structure and functioning of various aspects of contemporary French economic life. Awareness of the general cultural context within which business activities take place in France will also be an important dimension of the course. Weekly exercises will include oral activities (class discussions and debates, role playing, etc...) as well as reading and writing (translation, letter writing, reading of articles from French newspapers and magazines on current economic issues, etc...). Course taught in French. No previous knowledge of the world of French business is required. Useful for students preparing for the proficiency examinations of the Chambre de Commerce de Paris. Prerequisite is FRIT F250 or equivalent; fulfills S & H requirement.

Number	Days	Time	Room
29617	TR	4:00-5:15	BH 138

Prerequisite: F300. The course is a broad introduction to major moments in French politics, society and culture form the aftermath of the 1789 Revolution to the postcolonial era. Key moments include the First and Second Empire, Romanticism, the Paris Commune, the Dreyfus Affair, Impressionism, First and Second World Wars, feminism, May 1968, decolonization, immigration, and France's role in the European Union.

Number	Days	Time	Room
24073	TR	2:30-3:45	WH 008

Chacun d'entre nous a vécu des moments de solitude et fait l'expérience de moments d'intense empathie et solidarité avec une personne ou un groupe, qu'il s'agisse de parents ou d'amis, voire d'inconnus. Sommes-nous dès lors tous « condamnés » à vivre ces deux expériences comme deux états inéluctables et contradictoires, voire antagonistes ? Avons-nous quelque chose à apprendre de la solitude ? N'y a-t-il pas en fait plusieurs types de solitude ? Que retenir par ailleurs de l'expérience de la solidarité ? Sommes-nous « condamnés » à être solidaires les uns des autres ? Faut-il cultiver ou rejeter la solitude ou la solidarité ? Comment ressentons-nous individuellement chacun de ces états apparemment opposés ? Comment articuler, alterner ces états ? Nous tenterons de répondre à ces questions, et à bien d'autres, à la lumière des écrits de grands écrivains tels que Jean-Jacques Rousseau et ses Rêveries du promeneur solitaire, méditations étonnamment originales, Prosper Mérimée et ses trois nouvelles passionnantes, La Vénus d'Ille, Mateo Falcone, Colomba, Honoré de Balzac et son surprenant roman, Le Colonel Chabert, et enfin Albert Camus et ses six nouvelles ou contes philosophiques regroupés sous le titre L'Exil et le royaume. Devoirs et notation : Présence et participation active et continue en classe : 25% ; devoir écrit : 25% ; examen de mi-semestre : 25% ; examen final : 25%.

Number	Day/Time
16819	Arranged

For students preparing an honors project to receive a degree with departmental honors in French. See the Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor Eric MacPhail.

Number	Days	Time	Room
16820	TR	1:00-2:15	SY 200

This course provides an overview of the structure of present day French, a perspective on its historical development, and an analysis of some of the current language-related issues in the French-speaking world. We will first consider the history of Modern French from an external perspective, by examining some important historical events in the history of the language, and from an internal perspective, by looking at some of the specific ways the language has changed over time. Then we will talk about variation in French, or how French differs geographically (i.e. dialects and regional varieties in France and in the French-speaking world), how it differs socially (i.e. how social categories such as socioeconomic class or sex are reflected in language use), and how it differs situationally (i.e. how people change the ways they speak depending on who they're talking to, the formality of the situation, etc.). Along the way we will look at spoken versus written French, slang, and français populaire. Next we will discuss directions for the future: how French creates new words (neologisms), copes with English influence (Anglicisms), and addresses issues concerning the feminization of the names of occupations traditionally practiced by males.

Number	Days	Time	Room
29618	TR	11:15-12:30	BH 141

This course covers some of the major works and genres of sixteenth-century French literature both in prose and verse, fiction and non-fiction. After a brief introduction to the unexpected charms of the French language as written and printed five centuries ago, we will read a collection of short stories by Marguerite de Navarre entitled l'Heptaméron. Students will write and rewrite a five-page composition on the story or theme of their choice from the Heptaméron. Then we will read a selection of lyric poems from the period, including dizains by Maurice Scève and sonnets by Pierre de Ronsard. There will be an essay test on poetry. Then we will read a political treatise by Etienne de La Boétie, Discours de la servitude volontaire and some brief excerpts from a work of Protestant propaganda of the Wars of Religion, Innocent Gentillet's Anti-Machiavel. We will finish with some essays by Michel de Montaigne. The final exam will cover the last three readings. The grade will be based on the written assignments as well as on class participation. Class will be conducted in modern French since it takes a little while to get the hang of middle French.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Notes
26211	TWR	4:00-5:40	BH 141	2nd 8 weeks only

Above class meets with FRIT-F 561.

Il y a un demi-siècle, dans les sociétés occidentales, on a pu croire que les croyances dans la sorcellerie et dans la magie étaient en voie de disparition. Toutes sortes de signes indiquent qu'il n'en est rien. Peut-être correspondent-elles à un besoin anthropologique. Il est du reste frappant que la littérature, ou, plus largement, certaines pratiques langagières (chant, poésie, discours public) soient comparées à un charme, un envoûtement. L'hypothèse du séminaire sera que le développement de la littérature (d'un certain type de "foi littéraire") représente une solution à ce même besoin anthropologique. Au XVIIe siècle, on assiste à la fois à la décriminalisation de la sorcellerie et à l'institutionnalisation des Belles-Lettres: à partir de textes de démonologues et de textes littéraires, on montrera que ces deux faits peuvent être mis en relation ; on prolongera la réflexion en direction du conte de fée et des fables ainsi que de leurs illustrations.

Number	Days	Time	Room
29621	TR	2:30-3:45	BH 321

Ce cours retrace l'histoire des différentes communautés francophones du Canada et des États-Unis et examine les différentes manifestations des cultures qui s'y sont développées: leur langue, leur musique, leurs traditions, leur cuisine, leur littérature et leur cinéma. Il examine aussi l'impact que ces cultures exercent sur les communautés anglophones voisines.

Number	Days	Time	Room
16821	TR	7:15-8:45 pm	BH 337

Prerequisite: F491 or consent of department. Open with consent of the instructor to undergraduates who have already completed the B.A. language requirement in another language. Continuation of language and reading development from F491. Credit given for only one of F492 or any of the following: F150, F169, F200, F205, or F219.

Number	Day/Time
16823	Arranged

Independent study on a specific topic not taught in one of this semester's regular courses. If interested, complete the permission form.

Number	Day/Time
16824	Arranged

For students preparing an honors project to receive a degree with departmental honors in French. See the Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor Eric MacPhail.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
16830	MTWR	9:05-9:55	SY 0006	Paola Quadrini
16832	MTWR	11:15-12:05	SY 0006	Cinzia Marongiu
16834	MTWR	12:20-1:10	SY 0006	Stephen Hiller
16833	MTWR	1:25-2:15	SY 0006	David Winkler
16831	MW	7:15-8:45 pm	BH 149	Laura Ponziani

Introduction to contemporary Italian language, geography, and culture. Involves a broad variety of assignments and activities that develop grammatical competency and proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Cultural topics and simple cultural comparisons are introduced. Credit given for only one of the following: M100, M110, M115, or M491.

Number	Days	Time	Room
16835	MTWR	11:15-12:05	SY 108

Prerequisite: Obtain authorization from department. An accelerated treatment of material covered in both M100 and M150 designed for superior students and students with previous training in another foreign language. Credit given for only one of M115 and M100; Credit given for only one of M115 and M150. If interested, please fill out the online authorization form.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
16836	MTWR	8:00-8:50	BH 337	Matthew Liberti
16837	MTWR	9:05-9:55	BH 337	Matthew Liberti
16838	MTWR	10:10-11:00	FQ 012B	Adriana Varela
16839	MTWR	11:15-12:05	BH 337	Sandro Puiatti
22090	MTWR	11:15-12:05	BH 105	Letizia Montroni
16840	MTWR	12:20-1:10	BH 337	Sandro Puiatti
20091	MTWR	1:25-2:15	BH 337	Karolina Serafin
16841	MTWR	2:30-3:20	BH 337	Letizia Montroni
16843	MW	7:15-8:45 pm	BH 148	Isabella Magni

Prerequisite: M100. Continued introduction to contemporary Italian language, geography, and culture. Involves a broad variety of assignments and activities that build grammatical competency and proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Practice with new cultural topics and basic cultural analysis. Credit given for only one of the following: M110, M115, M150, or M491.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
16844	MWF	9:05-9:55	BH 336	Cinzia Marongiu
16845	MWF	11:15-12:05	BH 240	Alicia Vitti
25686	MWF	1:25-2:15	SY 105	Anna Love

Prerequisite: M110, M115, M150, or equivalent. Building on Elementary Italian I and II, students further study and practice fundamental concepts and structures in Italian grammar. Through a variety of assignments and activities, they strengthen proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, writing, cultural analysis and understanding. Includes an introduction to brief literary texts. Credit given for only one of M200 or M215.

Number	Days	Time	Room
23689	MTWR	1:25-2:15	BH 315

Prerequisite: M115 or equivalent (M100 and M150), and consent of instructor. An accelerated treatment of material covered in both M200 and M250. Designed for students who have completed M115 and other highly motivated students, students with extensive experience with another language, and/or students who aspire to study abroad. Credit given for only one of the following: M215 or M200-M250.

Number	Days	Time	Room
29637	TR	9:30-10:45	SW 221

This class covers the development of two tightly interrelated genres such as mystery and crime in Italian culture from the second half of the 19th-century to the present. Students in this class will have the opportunity to analyze a vast variety of mystery and crime narratives from Italy, from the "classic" mystery to the psychological thriller, the legal thriller, the revenge tale, the political mystery and the historical mystery. The class will encourage students to investigate the process of intercultural adaptation that this originally English and American genre underwent when reinvented in a strikingly different environment such as the Italian one. Materials for this class include short stories, novels, movies and graphic novels. Students will learn how to develop original analyses based on the specific modes of communication of each medium.

All materials for this class are in English. No previous knowledge of Italian language or history is required. Students in this class will write three short essays, a final exam, and participate in an oral presentation.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
22848	MWF	9:05-9:55	JH A107	Alicia Vitti
16846	MWF	10:10-11:00	BH 240	Alicia Vitti
16847	MWF	1:25-2:15	JH A107	Marianna Orsi
16848	MWF	2:30-3:20	SY 001	Anthony Nussmeier

Prerequisite: M200 or equivalent. The study of more complex concepts and structures in Italian grammar. Through a variety of texts, media, and assignments, students practice listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and they analyze cultural topics and situations in greater depth. Increased attention to short literary texts. Credit given for only one of M250 or M215.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
19908	MTWRF	10:10-11:00	SY 105	Luisa Garrido Baez
31772	MTWRF	10:10-11:00	SY 0006	Mary Migliozzi

In this course students will learn to analyze texts from the main literary genres (lyric poetry, epic poetry, narrative, theater, songs, cinema) using specialized vocabulary, basic literary tropes and rhetorical figures, and basic principles of poetic rhyme and meter. Students will also improve their skills and deepen their understanding of intermediate and advanced grammar structures through daily practice of structures in speaking and writing activities about the texts at hand other cultural topics. Learning objectives for this course include a demonstrated ability to read and write analytically with greater accuracy and ease, and to speak and listen with greater fluency and confidence about literary and other cultural (musical, visual, journalistic) texts. Conducted in Italian.

Number	Days	Time	Room
29639	TR	1:00-2:15	KH 312

Study of language, texts, and cultural trends of representative works in medieval and early modern Italian literature as a base for advanced courses in Italian literature. Texts will include selections from Dante's Divina Commedia, Boccaccio's Decameron, Petrarch's Fragmenta, Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Machiavelli's Principe, and Veronica Franco's Lettere. Prerequisite: M301 or consent of instructor.

Number	Days	Time	Room
26222	TR	11:15-12:30	JH 440

This course examines the formation of Dante's artistic, political, and religious world and his often eclectic views and responses to the conditions of that world. Taught in English with readings in English.

Required Books:
Dante Aligieri, Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum: all volumes Bantam Classics (Inferno, Pugatarorio, and Paradiso)
Dino Compagni's Chronicle of Florence in Dante's Time

Suggested:
T. Barolini, Dante for the New Millennium. Fordham University Press

Number	Days	Time	Room	Notes
26223	TR T	2:30-3:45 7:15-10:00 pm	BH 317 TV 245	Lecture Film Showings

In the wake of postwar cinema a new genre emerged that lasted from the late 1950s to the mid 1970s: La commedia all'italiana - Italian Style Comedy, influenced by the Neo-realist movement, continued social critique by combining it with comic techniques. From this new style a series of directors managed to satirize the Italy of the economic boom by presenting it as a "Miracolo economico all'italiana" in a genuinely popular form of cinema. Despite its artistic and office success, Italian Style Comedy is rarely studied.

In this course we will look at the emergence of this genre, its key works, and compare and contrast the way in which different directors developed the unique features of the commedia. We will also examine the relationship between cinematic creation, social issues and the historical conditions that gave rise to the popularity of this particular form of comedy and shaped its development. Class discussion will be in Italian, the films will be shown with English subtitles or when not possible with Italian subtitles. Final papers and exams must be written in Italian.

Number	Days	Time	Room
16850	TR	7:15-8:45 pm	WH 202

This course has been cancelled for Spring 2012.

Prerequisite: M491 or consent of department. Open with consent of the instructor to undergraduates who have already completed the B.A. language requirement in another language. Continuation of language and reading development from M491. Credit not given for both M492 and either of the following: M150 or M200.

Number	Day/Time
16852	Arranged
32853	Arranged

Independent study on a specific topic not taught in one of this semester's regular courses. If interested, complete the permission form.

Number	Day/Time
16853	Arranged

For students preparing an honors project to receive a degree with departmental honors in Italian. See the Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor Massimo Scalabrini.

Lecture

Number	Days	Time	Room
30176	MW	9:05-9:55	BH 330

Discussion

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
30197	M	12:20-1:10	BH 240	Amy Conrad
30198	W	12:20-1:10	BH 345	Amy Conrad
31935	F	9:05-9:55	BH 217	Emanuel Mickel
30199	F	12:20-1:10	LH 019	Amy Conrad

In the critical approaches course "A Question of Love" we shall explore our understanding of the various emotions and relationships we cover by the word love. As a basis for understanding the different aspects of love in human relationships as represented in western tradition, we shall read and analyze an anthology of fundamental passages from several classical and medieval works, ranging from Plato and the Bible to Ovid and the Romance of the Rose. We shall use our discussion of these texts to analyze the representations of love in two medieval romances, Chretien's Erec and Enide and Gottfried's Tristan; one seventeenth and one eighteenth century French novel, The Princess of Cleves and Dangerous Liaisons; and an English novel of Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility.

There will be three examinations during the semester including the final. Students will be asked to write two papers: one of two pages and one not more than three pages. In these papers students will learn to approach literary texts in a critical manner. Students taking this course for honors credit will write a fifteen-page paper in consultation with the instructor instead of the second three-page paper. Honors students will be expected to "discover" their own topic and create the outline. Meetings with the professor will help both in the "discovery" of the topic and in the drafting of an outline. In this course we shall discuss the psychology of love, the close relationship between love and philosophy, the question of love and chivalry in the Middle Ages, the importance of rhetoric and authorial use of persona. Analyzing these issues will add to the student's ability to understand the novel we shall read, to appreciate the many faceted aspects of the experiences we cover by the single word love, and to see the ways in which writers have represented these human emotions.

Number	Days	Time	Room
29789	TR	11:15-12:30	KH 203

« To interpret a text, » claimed Roland Barthes, « is not to give it a meaning… ; on the contrary, it's to appreciate the text's very plurality » (S/Z, 11). This course will ponder issues in literary interpretation : its possibilities, its challenges, its limits, its dangers, its rewards. Our fundamental goal will be to analyze the « plurality » brought to every text by responsible interpretation. To that end, we will study literary works from five different genres : novel (2 works), novella, theatre, fairy tale and legend. We will test our conviction of the plurality of interpretation by comparing our texts with selected scenes from films they have inspired, using cinematic adaptation as interpretation-in-action. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to recognize the merits and flaws of varying literary interpretations; identify the elements that constitute a responsible, well-founded interpretation, as well as construct, present and defend their own; appreciate the work of interpretation within cinematic adaptations of literary texts. Student final grades will be based on class participation; an oral presentation; a mid-term essay exam; a 7-pp paper; and a comprehensive final exam.

Our texts (and film excerpts) will include:
A novel: Henri Roché's Jules et Jim (1953), with scenes from François Truffaut's film (1962)
A play: Edmond de Rostand's 1897 Cyrano de Bergerac, with scenes from four films:

A fairy tale: Mme LePrince de Beaumont's 1757 tale, « Beauty and the Beast », with scenes from Jean Cocteau's 1946 film
A legend: « Tristan and Iseult, » as retold by Joseph Bédier in The Romance of Tristan and Iseult, and using scenes from Jean Cocteau's 1943 modernized adaptation, The Eternal Return
A novella: Vercors's The Silence of the Sea, set during the German occupation of France during World War II and compared to scenes from Jean-Pierre Melville's 1949 adaptation.
A novel-within-a-novel: Marcel Proust's Swann in Love (1913), from his masterpiece In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927)

Number	Days	Time	Room
29811	TR	1:00-2:15	HU 108

In this course we will study cultural exchanges between Italy and other countries through a discussion of the Italians' journeys of exploration from the Middle Ages to the 1700s, as well as through the analysis of modern colonialism and migration. These themes will be connected to a more general consideration of intercultural relations and cultural Otherness. Students will be encouraged to reflect upon such questions as: How does the cultural background of the traveler influence her/his perception of the new place? How does the contact with a different culture influence the traveler's own identity? How can cultural exchange help fighting stereotypes? What is the price of integration? Finally, in the case of the Italian migration to North America, what is the evolution of Italian American culture in the United States?

The first part of the course will discuss the experience of Italian famous travelers, including Marco Polo's journey to the Far East and Casanova's description of his wanderings throughout Europe. The second section of the course will be devoted to discuss literary works and films on the Italian American experience. Particular attention will be given to autobiographical writings by Italian American authors and to Francis Ford Coppola's film trilogy inspired by Puzo's The Godfather.

Students in this class will write three short essays, a final exam, and participate in an oral presentation.

Number	Days	Time	Room
2031	MTWRF	1:00-2:40	BH 135

Introduction to French language and selected aspects of French civilization and culture. Credit given for only one of F100, F115, or F491. Watch video

Number	Days	Time	Room
2033	MTWRF	11:00-12:15	BH 319

Prerequisite: F150 or equivalent. Grammar, composition, conversation coordinated with the study of cultural texts. Credit given for only one of the following third-semester courses: F200, F205, or F219.

Number	Days	Time	Room
2035	MTWRF	12:45-2:00	WH 104

Prerequisite: F200 or equivalent. Grammar, composition, conversation coordinated with the study of cultural texts. Credit given for only one of the following fourth-semester courses: F250, F255, F265, or F269.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor	Notes
2037	MTWRF	11:00-12:15	BH 135	Olga Scrivner	Undergraduates only
6549	MTWRF	12:45-2:00	WH202	Amandine Lorente Lapole	Undergraduates only

Although this course is designed for graduate students who seek to develop reading knowledge of French, it is also open to undergraduate students. However, it will not count toward the French major or minor, and it will not count toward fulfilling the undergraduate language requirement. The course provides an introduction to structures of the language necessary for reading, followed by reading in graded texts of a general nature. Credit given for only one of F491 or any French course at the 100-level.

Number	Day/Time
2041	Arranged

Independent study on a specific topic not taught in one of the department's regular courses. If interested, complete the permission form.

Number	Days	Time	Room
2047	MTWRF	10:20-12:00	BH 344

Introduction to contemporary Italian language, geography, and culture. Involves a broad variety of assignments and activities that develop grammatical competency and proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Cultural topics and simple cultural comparisons are introduced. Credit given for only one of the following: M100, M110, M115, or M491.

Number	Days	Time	Room
4956	MTWRF	11:00-12:15	BH 148

Prerequisite: M110, M115, M150, or equivalent. Building on Elementary Italian I and II, students further study and practice fundamental concepts and structures in Italian grammar. Through a variety of assignments and activities, they strengthen proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, writing, cultural analysis and understanding. Includes an introduction to brief literary texts. Credit given for only one of M200 or M215.

Number	Day/Time
2049	Arranged

Independent study on a specific topic not taught in one of the department's regular courses. If interested, complete the permission form.

Number	Days	Time	Room
2032	MTWRF	1:00-2:40	BH 135

Prerequisite: F100. Basic structures of the French language and selected topics of French civilization and culture. Credit given for only one of the following: F115, F150, or F491.

Number	Days	Time	Room
2036	MTWRF	12:45-2:00	BH 140

Prerequisite: F200 or equivalent. Grammar, composition, conversation coordinated with the study of cultural texts. Credit given for only one of the following fourth-semester courses: F250, F255, F265, or F269.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor	Notes
2039	MTWRF	11:00-12:15	BH 319	Eric Beuerlein	Undergraduates only
6550	MTWRF	12:45-2:00	SY 103	Allie Hettlinger	Undergraduates only

Prerequisite: F491 or consent of department. Although this course is designed for graduate students who seek to develop reading knowledge of French, it is also open to undergraduate students. However, it will not count toward the French major or minor, and it will not count toward fulfilling the undergraduate language requirement. The course includes a continuation of language and reading development from F491.

Number	Day/Time
2042	Arranged

Independent study on a specific topic not taught in one of the department's regular courses. If interested, complete the permission form.

Number	Days	Time	Room
2048	MTWRF	10:20-12:00	JH A107

Prerequisite: M100. Continued introduction to contemporary Italian language, geography, and culture. Involves a broad variety of assignments and activities that build grammatical competency and proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Practice with new cultural topics and basic cultural analysis. Credit given for only one of the following: M110, M115, M150, or M491.

Number	Days	Time	Room
4957	MTWRF	11:00-12:15	BH 135

Prerequisite: M200 or equivalent. The study of more complex concepts and structures in Italian grammar. Through a variety of texts, media, and assignments, students practice listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and they analyze cultural topics and situations in greater depth. Increased attention to short literary texts. Credit given for only one of M250 or M215.

Number	Day/Time
2050	Arranged

Independent study on a specific topic not taught in one of the department's regular courses. If interested, complete the permission form.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
17760	MTWR	8:00-8:50	BH 315
17762	MTWR	9:05-9:55	BH 315
17763	MTWR	9:05-9:55	SY 106
17764	MTWR	10:10-11:00	BH 315
17765	MTWR	11:15-12:05	BH 315
17767	MTWR	12:20-1:10	BH 315
17768	MTWR	1:25-2:15	BH 315
17769	MTWR	1:25-2:15	SY 106
17770	MTWR	1:25-2:15	FQ 012A
17771	MTWR	2:30-3:20	SY 106
17766	MTWR	2:30-3:20	BH 315
17761	MTWR	4:40-5:30	BH 315
17773	MW	7:15-8:45 pm	WH 109
17772	TR	7:15-8:45 pm	BH 332

Introduction to French language and selected aspects of French civilization and culture. Credit given for only one of F100, F115, or F491. Watch video

Number	Days	Time	Room
29673	TBA	TBA	TBA

Corequisite: F100.

This companion course to F100 gives beginning students the opportunity to practice conversational French in a relaxed setting with peers. Led by advanced students of French working under faculty guidance, group activities may include discussion, games, magazine/newspaper/movie discussions, cultural events, cooking, etc. S/F grading. No credit for French major.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
17774	MTWR	10:10-11:00	SY 106
25698	MTWR	11:15-12:05	SY 106

Prerequisite: Obtain authorization from department.

An accelerated treatment of material covered in both F100 and F150 designed for superior students and students with previous training in another foreign language. Credit given for only one of F115 and F100; Credit given for only one of F115 and F150. If interested, please fill out the online authorization form.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
17775	MTWR	8:00-8:50	BH 135
17776	MTWR	9:05-9:55	BH 135
17777	MTWR	10:10-11:00	BH 135
17778	MTWR	11:15-12:05	BH 135
17780	MTWR	12:20-1:10	BH 135
17781	MTWR	1:25-2:15	135
17782	MTWR	1:25-2:15	BH 231
17783	MTWR	2:30-3:20	BH 135
17784	TR	7:15-8:45 pm	BH 331

Prerequisite: F100.

Basic structures of the French language and selected topics of French civilization and culture. Credit given for only one of the following: F115, F150, or F491.

Number	Days	Time	Room
29680	TBA	TBA	TBA

Corequisite: F150.

This companion course to F150 gives beginning students the opportunity to practice conversational French in a relaxed setting with peers. Led by advanced students of French working under faculty guidance, group activities may include discussion, games, magazine/newspaper/movie discussions, cultural events, cooking, etc. S/F grading. No credit for French major.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
17785	MWF	8:00-8:50	WH 109
17786	MWF	9:05-9:55	BH 322
17787	MWF	11:15-12:05	BH 214
17788	MWF	10:10-11:00	BH 245
17789	MWF	11:15-12:05	BH 015
17790	MWF	12:20-1:10	BH 236
17791	MWF	1:25-2:15	BH 134
17792	MWF	4:40-5:30	BH 135
17793	MWF	2:30-3:20	BH 134
17794	MWF	2:30-3:20	BH 233
17795	MW	7:15-8:30 pm	BH 222
17796	TR	7:15-8:30 pm	BH 337

Prerequisite: F150 or equivalent.

Grammar, composition, conversation coordinated with the study of cultural texts. Credit given for only one of the following third-semester courses: F200, F205, or F219.

Number	Days	Time	Room
29688	TBA	TBA	TBA

Corequisite: F200.

This companion course to F200 gives intermediate students the opportunity to practice conversational French in a relaxed setting with peers. Led by advanced students of French working under faculty guidance, group activities may include discussion, games, magazine/newspaper/movie discussions, cultural events, cooking, etc. S/F grading. No credit for French major.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
17797	MWF	3:35-4:25	BH 135
17798	MWF	9:05-9:55	BH 015
17799	MWF	10:10-11:00	BH 345
17800	MWF	8:00-8:50	BH 333
17801	MWF	12:20-1:10	BH 214
17802	MWF	1:25-2:15	BH 233
17803	MWF	2:30-3:20	BH 240
17804	MW	7:15-8:30 pm	BH 337

Prerequisite: F200 or equivalent.

Grammar, composition, conversation coordinated with the study of cultural texts. Credit given for only one of the following fourth-semester courses: F250, F255, F265, or F269.

Number	Days	Time	Room
29696	TBA	TBA	TBA

Prerequisite: F200.

Students develop and teach basic French lessons in area elementary schools under the guidance of their instructor. Requirements include four school visits, five planning meetings, and four written reflective statements. S/F grading. No credit for French major.

Number	Days	Time	Room
29703	TBA	TBA	TBA

Corequisite: F250.

This companion course to F250 gives intermediate students the opportunity to practice conversational French in a relaxed setting with peers. Led by advanced students of French working under faculty guidance, group activities may include discussion, games, magazine/newspaper/movie discussions, cultural events, cooking, etc. S/F grading. No credit for French major.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
17806	TR	9:30-10:45	WH 112	Jacques Merceron
17807	TR	2:30-3:45	HU 111	Nicolas Valazza
17808	TR	11:15-12:30	KH 203	Margaret Gray
17809	TR	2:30-3:45	KH 203	Guillaume Ansart
24555	MWF	10:10-11:00	AD A151	Alison Calhoun
25489	TR	1:00-2:15	BH 015	Brett Bowles

Prerequisite: F250, F255, F265, or consent of department.

Ansart: Contes fantastiques et cruels/Introduction à la poésie
Introduction to reading and analyzing literature in French. We will read fantastic or cruel tales: a novella by Théophile Gautier, Jettatura, and short stories by Balzac (Sarrasine), Mérimée (La Vénus d'Ille), Flaubert (La Légende de Saint Julien l'Hospitalier), Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (L'Intersigne), Barbey d'Aurévilly (Le Bonheur dans le crime) and Maupassant; as well as short lyric poems by Hugo, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud and Apollinaire. Course taught in French. Students will write a take-home paper (two versions) and take a midterm and a final exam.

Bowles: Social and Political Literature
Far from being an artistic endeavor that stands apart from or above its social, political, and cultural context, literature is always to some degree a product of and response to these contexts. Working from this premise, we will read various genres of French literature (poetry, theater, the short story, the essay, novella) as expressions of social and political thought from the medieval period through the twentieth century. Our focus throughout will be to analyze how the structure and style of our texts function in articulating a social, cultural, or political position at a particular moment in French history. Thematic units will be chosen among the following: inter-class power relations in short stories by Guy de Maupassant and an essay and poems by Charles Baudelaire; religious hypocrisy in Molière’s Tartuffe (the text of the play and filmed performances) and Flaubert’s novella Un coeur simple; race and colonialism in the comic book Tintin au Congo and essays / poems by Négritude authors; anti-war protest in poems by Arthur Rimbaud and Guillaume Apollinaire; female perspectives on love and power in a novella by Annie Ernaux, poems by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, and short stories by Colette. This course will be taught entirely in French.

Calhoun: Poetic, Prosaic, Theatrical Identities
As an introduction to reading and expression in French, this course will take for its theme the question of identity as it is formed in diverse literary genres across the centuries. In each selection we read, protagonists and narrators will question, search for, celebrate, or sometimes mask their true selves in an effort to accept or reject their origins. Some of the identities we will consider include: class, gender, ethnicity, family, and race. Class time will include several workshops focusing specifically on tools for improving students' writing skills. Grades will be based on three short essays with re-writes, class preparation, frequent quizzes and a take-home final exam.

Gray: La condition humaine
An introduction to four genres in French literature (poetry, theatre, novel and short story), this course also provides sustained exercise in literary analysis and techniques of close reading, as well as seeking to further fundamental skills in French. Our varied texts have in common the effort to communicate diverse aspects of the human condition, with its discoveries, its dilemmas, its raptures and disappointments.
We will begin with love poems from the Renaissance (16th century), Romantic (19th), Symbolist (late 19th) and modern (20th century) eras, appreciating the evolution of the love lyric as we proceed. Our play, Jean Anouilh's Le bal des voleurs, opens the love theme to probing questions of social class in a delightful mix of bumbling thieves, a rich and canny dowager with eligible nieces, true love and personal honor across social and economic differences. The coming-of- age novel L'enfant noir by Camara Laye, inspired by his childhoodand youth in the West African nation of Guinea, explores love for the mother, admiration for the father, first love, desire for independence and impatience with one's own culture. We will analyze the narrator's experience of school days, family visits, rituals of growing up, departure from home, first exposure to death and loss, hard work and success. We will conclude with a selection of twentieth-century short stories exploring moral choice, vision and ambiguity: Albert Camus's « L'hôte ,» Jean-Louis Curtis's « Le coffret,» and Henri Thomas's « Labarque. »
The final grade will be based on active class participation (10%), an « explication de texte » (15%), a midterm (20%), a 5-page paper (25%), and a final exam (30%). Conducted in French.

Merceron: L'Ici, L'Autre, L'Ailleurs
Durant ce cours centré sur les rapports complexes pouvant exister entre perceptions et sentiments d'identité et d'altérité, voire d'aliénation, d'appartenance enracinée et de découverte de divers ailleurs mentaux, géographiques et culturels, nous lirons la pièce Le Voyageur sans bagage de Jean Anouilh, histoire d'un amnésique à qui l'on veut imposer une nouvelle identité troublante, une sélection de poèmes explorant diverses facettes de cette thématique, des récits tirés de Mondo et autres histoires de Jean-Marie Le Clézio, histoires d'enfants « magiciens » lancés dans une quête d'émerveillement et de liberté, ainsi que de larges extraits d'Ailleurs par le même auteur, prix Nobel de littérature en 2008. La lecture de ces œuvres et essais sera l'occasion de s'interroger sur des questions aussi fondamentales pour l'individu et le groupe que le repliement, la dissolution, le dialogue, l'ouverture, l'enrichissement, etc.

Valazza: The Discovery of the New World
Europeans claim to have discovered the American continent in 1492, which was soon to be identified as the New World. Beyond its geographical aspect, this historical event carried such a strong cultural impact that the New World came to be seen, notably by writers, as the Other World, also considered the World of the Others, with all its historical, sociological, philosophical, but also fictional and metaphorical implications. Since then, and for centuries to come, writers have kept discovering the New World again and again, always lending to it new meanings.
In this course, we will read and analyze several texts belonging to different centuries and literary genres (essay, fiction, theatre and poetry) in which the topic of the New World is developed in various manners. Works studied include: 16th-century Chronicles of the New World, the essay Des Cannibales by Montaigne, the 18th-century short story Candide by Voltaire, the 18th-century play L'Île des esclaves by Marivaux, a 19th-century anthology of poems and the 20th-century play La Controverse de Valladolid by Jean-Claude Carrière. We will also have the chance to watch the film based on the latter play.
The final grade will be based on class preparation and participation (10%), two compositions (15% each), a mid-term exam (20%), an oral presentation (20%) and a final paper (20%). The course will be conducted entirely in French.

Number	Days	Time	Room
17859	TR	11:15-12:30	BH 148

Prerequisite: F250, F255, F265, or consent of department.

Ce cours d'introduction à la littérature de langue française se propose de familiariser les étudiants avec ses différents genres, styles et sujets, à partir d'une question fondamentale : « À quoi sert la littérature?» En suivant un parcours à la fois thématique et chronologique qui ira de Christine de Pisan, Rabelais, Pascal, Racine et Madame de Sévigné à Hugo, Baudelaire, Marguerite Duras et Aimé Césaire, nous découvrirons comment l'expérience de la lecture littéraire nous apprend : 1) à penser, à exercer nos facultés critiques pour mieux comprendre le monde, les différences entre sociétés et cultures, les situations historiques et politiques ; 2) à exprimer nos idées, nos sentiments, notre vision du monde ; 3) à imaginer des alternatives au présent et des solutions pour les conflits qui semblent aujourd'hui insurmontables. Taught in French.

Number	Days	Time	Room
24807	TR	1:00-2:15	BH 322

L'argent et son cortège habituel de splendeurs et de misères, nous fournira l'occasion d'explorer le jeu des passions et immoralités qu'il suscite ou exacerbe : avarice, cupidité, escroquerie, trahison, reniement, désir de puissance, mais aussi création et exaltation du beau et du bien, etc. Nous lirons la pièce classique de Molière, L'Avare (1668), la comédie acerbe d'Octave Mirbeau Les Affaires sont les affaires (1903) révélant certains dessous peu reluisants de la « Belle Époque », la pièce de Marcel Pagnol Topaze (1928), histoire d'un professeur licencié pour s'être montré honnête et qui finit dans la peau d'un joyeux escroc. En lieu et guise d'essais sur les passions et problèmes tout à fait contemporains liés à l'argent, nous lirons aussi plusieurs pièces brèves tirées de L'Argent, une collection de dix pièces courtes commanditées en 2009 par la Comédie Française. Nous y rencontrerons entre autres un couple qui « règle ses comptes », un clochard érudit, des gagnes-petits vivants en colocation, et des comédiens qui improvisent sur L'Avare de Molière.

Number	Days	Time	Room
25699	TR	9:30-10:45	BH 246

In F306 we shall read three shorter novels, Constant's Adolphe, Maupassant's Pierre et Jean and Barbey d'Aurevully's L'Ensorcelée. In these three novels we look into different aspects of nineteenth-century literature: in Adolphe the romanticized "autobiography" of Constant's love affair with Mme de Stael; Maupassant's intensely psychological study of rivalry and betrayal in family life; and the mysterious encounter of a woman half aristocrat and half peasant with a priest of violent, revolutionary attachment to the old order and yet a desire to maintain his priestly vows.
In our poetic anthology we shall sample some of the poets who characterize the intellectual, philosophical, and emotional struggle that marks the poetry of nineteenth-century France.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
17810	MWF	1:25-2:15	BH 240	Eric MacPhail
17811	MWF	2:30-3:20	BH 214	Aiko MacPhail
17812	MWF	3:35-4:25	WH 114	Aiko MacPhail
17815	MWF	12:20-1:10	BH 240	Alison Calhoun

Prerequisite: F250

Calhoun:
The approach this course will take to advanced French grammar will be a fast-paced review of the material you have already covered coupled with an intensive study of that grammar in a literary and critical context, both in texts supplied in our textbook/workbook and in students' own analytical writing. The goal of the course is to serve either as a complimentary grammar course to be taken simultaneously with F300 or as a springboard course preparing the student for F300 and beyond. Course grades will be based on weekly quizzes (50%), a midterm (15%), a final (20%) and class preparation (15%).

Aiko MacPhail:
This course has two aims: to summarize the grammarlearned up to this level and to practice and expand that knowledge to a higher level of French grammar. The textbooks used in class are the fifth edition of Grammaire française by Jacqueline Olivier and Martin Beaudoin and the third edition of French Grammar and Usage by Roger Hawkins & Richard Towell. The semester goal is to give students a grammatical instrument in preparation for the courses at the 300 and 400 levels.

Eric MacPhail:
This course has two aims: to summarize the grammar learned up to this level and to expand that knowledge to written and literary French grammar. In order to do so, we use Harper's Grammar of French by Samuel N. Rosenberg et al. and the exercise book. The semester goal is to give students a grammatical instrument in preparation for the reading-intensive courses at the F300 and 400 levels. The class will be graded through various types of small and big tests.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor	Notes
17813	MWF	10:10-11:00	BH 240	Kelly Sax	Lecture
17814	TR	11:15-12:05	WY 111		Drill
17815	TR	10:10-11:00	SY 008		Drill

Prerequisite: F250

In F315 you will:

1. Develop communicative skills by practice in listening comprehension and conversation
2. Improve pronunciation accuracy and oral fluency
3. Learn about the sound system and its role in the grammar and vocabulary of the French language, and also as a marker of social and geographical identity

The course meets five times weekly: Two small practice sessions, two lectures, and one session of practice in the language lab under the supervision of the instructors or tutorial instruction. All components of the course are taught in French.

Number	Days	Time	Room
28820	TR	11:15-12:30	BH 240

This introduction to the cultural history of France from the Renaissance to the Revolution will be structured around what are often considered as four significant historical turning points: the trauma of the Saint Bartholomew massacre and the religious wars; the heyday of absolutism under Louis XIV; the unfolding of the Enlightenment; and the turmoil of the French Revolution. The course will open with a survey of the whole period covered by the course, to provide the background for the subsequent focus on specific issues of the four historical moments, which will be examined in greater detail through primary and secondary texts, as well as films set in the period. The aim of the course is to foster (1) mastery of the matter (the story told), (2) awareness of the disciplinary tools/methods (how the telling of the story influences our perception of the events), (3) mastery of academic French (the language in which the story is told), (4) awareness of why the story matters. In order to realize these four aims, this class will rely heavily on different types of writing: weekly response papers, 3-4 short formal papers, scaffolded final writing portfolio. Furthermore, each student will work on a key concept as a subject of systematic reflection throughout the semester. The course will be conducted in French.

Number	Days	Time	Room
29726	TR	9:30-10:45	BH 148

Prerequisite: F300.

The course is a broad introduction to major moments in French politics, society and culture form the aftermath of the 1789 Revolution to the postcolonial era. Key moments include the First and Second Empire, Romanticism, the Paris Commune, the Dreyfus Affair, Impressionism, First and Second World Wars, feminism, May 1968, decolonization, immigration, and France's role in the European Union.

Number	Days	Time	Room
24116	TR	2:30-3:45	AC C118

Ce cours sera consacré au mythe littéraire de la ville de Paris: ses pouvoirs d'inspiration et de fascination, pouvoirs exprimés dans ses effets et reflets littéraires. A partir d'un survol historique de la ville--des premiers habitants, les Gaulois de la tribu des "Parisii", jusqu'au Paris cosmopolite de nos jours—nous entamerons nos ballades littéraires et artistiques. Nos lectures seront tirées de quatre genres: poésie, théâtre, roman et nouvelle. Notre ballade historique sera nourrie des vers du Moyen Age (Rutebeuf: "Adieu, donc, Paris sur Seine/ Je te chante l'adieu dernier" et Marot: "Dedans Paris, ville jolie"); de la Renaissance, du 19ème siècle (Victor Hugo et Baudelaire), et du 20ème siècle (Apollinaire, "Sous le pont Mirabeau/Coule la Seine"; Eluard, "Tu vas te libérer Paris"). De la fascination qu'exerce la ville dans le conte de Maupassant, "Une aventure parisienne", nous passerons à la pièce de théâtre fantaisiste (un ballet avec décors de Picasso et musique du Groupe des Six) de Jean Cocteau, Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel. Notre étude historique, littéraire et artistique de la "Ville des Lumières" continuera avec des sélections du roman sentimental de Victor Hugo, Notre Dame de Paris, et du roman d'épouvante de Gaston Leroux, Le fantôme de l'opéra. Nos lectures seront enrichies des sélections filmiques du ballet de Cocteau, du roman de Hugo et du film d'horreur américain silencieux de 1925, basé sur le roman de Leroux. Seront requis: une participation active, un exposé oral, un examen partiel, une dissertation, et un examen de fin de semestre.

Number	Day/Time
17816	Arranged

For students preparing an honors project to receive a degree with departmental honors in French. See the Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor Eric MacPhail.

Number	Days	Time	Room
29733	MWF	11:15-12:05	BH 322

This course introduces students to the field of Linguistics – the scientific study of language – through the analysis of the structure of French. We will look at four main areas: (1) syntax/sentence structure [e.g. how phrases and sentences are constructed in hierarchical as well as linear form; how French sentence structure is like and unlike that of other languages, with special comparison to English]; (2) phonology /sound structure [e.g. the basic inventory of French sounds and their organization; differences in pronunciation among varieties of French in France and around the world] (3) morphology/word structure [e.g the internal structure of complex words like déstablisation (dé + stable + is + ation) and ouvre-boîtes; how speakers create new words]; (4) semantics/ meaning; e.g. how word-order choices signal different meanings; the interpretation of verb forms; the meanings of simple and complex words. The course takes a problem-solving approach: students are presented with specially constructed data sets and learn to make their own linguistically-informed generalizations about how French works. Although it will be assumed that students are meeting linguistic concepts for the first time, those who have already had an introduction to general linguistics are welcome. All students must have taken French through at least the F313 level (or have special permission from the instructor).

Number	Days	Time	Room	Notes
30341 30342	MWF	9:05-9:55	BH 245	Standard section Honors section

In this course students will read four novels and an anthology of poets including Lamartine, Hugo, Leconte de Lisle, Gautier, Nerval, Baudelaire, Verlaine, and Mallarmé. In the novels, René and Atala of Chateaubriand and La Recherche de l'absolu of Balzac, we shall explore Romantic idealism and its struggle with questions of religious fauth, the dilemma of science , and the utopian fervor brought about by the revolution. In Zola'a L'Assemmoir and Barrès' La Colline inspiré we shall look into what is called Naturalism and its tie to the fin de siècle's decadence. We shall have two hour exams, a two-hour final, and a term paper concerning some of our readings.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Notes
29740	TR	11:15-12:30	BH 015	Lecture

Historically, France has long boasted one of the highest standards of living in the world and formed one of the most culturally cohesive nations. Yet over the past twenty-five years the country has struggled with economic stagnation, a high unemployment rate, and increasing social disunity—problems that have generated criticism not only of social institutions and structures, but normative cultural priorities and values. Articulated around a dozen films made since 1985, this course approaches film as a form of social and political critique, linking cinematic form and narrative style to historical context and ongoing debates over race, gender, religion, and class. Themes and films will include homelessness in Agnès Varda's Sans toit ni loi and Léos Carax's Les amants du Pont Neuf; the public school system in Laurent Cantet's Entre les murs and Nicolas Philibert's Etre et avoir; ghettoization of racial minorities in Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine and Jean-François Richet's Ma 6-T va crack-er; gender and Islam in Yamina Benguigui's Inch'Allah Dimanche and Coline Serreau's Chaos; immigration in Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's The Promise and Michael Haneke's Code Inconnu. This course will be taught in French. Readings will be in French and English. Films will be in French with English subtitles.

All films will be available through eReserves at the Wells Library, but optional film showings will also take place Wednesday evenings.

Number	Days	Time	Room
29775	TBA	TBA	TBA

Note: Contact Kelly Sax for permission to enroll in the course.

Number	Days	Time	Room
17817	TR	7:15-8:45 pm	BH 233

Open with consent of the instructor to undergraduates who have already completed the language requirement for the B.A. in another language. Introduction to structures of the language necessary for reading, followed by reading in graded texts of a general nature. No credit for the French major or minor. Credit given for only one of F491 or any French course at the 100 level.

Number	Day/Time
17819	Arranged

Independent study on a specific topic not taught in one of this semester's regular courses. If interested, complete the permission form.

Number	Day/Time
17820	Arranged

For students preparing an honors project to receive a degree with departmental honors in French. See the Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor Eric MacPhail.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
17827	MTWR	8:00-8:50	BH 337	TBA
17828	MTWR	9:05-9:55	BH 337	TBA
17829	MTWR	10:10-11:00	BH 337	TBA
17830	MTWR	10:10-11:00	FQ 012B	TBA
17831	MTWR	11:15-12:05	BH 337	Andrea Polegato
17832	MTWR	12:20-1:10	BH 337	Andrea Polegato
17833	MTWR	12:20-1:10	BH 237	Karolina Serafin
17834	MTWR	1:25-2:15	BH 237	Isabella Magni
17835	MTWR	1:25-2:15	BH 337	Anna Love
17836	MTWR	2:30-3:20	BH 337	Isabella Magni
17837	MTWR	2:30-3:20	BH 237	Anna Love
17838	MTWR	4:40-5:30	BH 337	Edward Bowen
17839	TR	7:15-8:45 pm	BH 222	Edward Bowen

Introduction to contemporary Italian language, geography, and culture. Involves a broad variety of assignments and activities that develop grammatical competency and proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Cultural topics and simple cultural comparisons are introduced. Credit given for only one of the following: M100, M110, M115, or M491.

Number	Days	Time	Room
17840	MTWR	11:15-12:05	SY 006

Prerequisite: Obtain authorization from department. An accelerated treatment of material covered in both M100 and M150 designed for superior students and students with previous training in another foreign language. Credit given for only one of M115 and M100; Credit given for only one of M115 and M150. If interested, please fill out the online authorization form.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
17842	MTWR	10:10-11:00	BH 237	Paola Quadrini
17843	MTWR	11:15-12:05	BH 237	Laura Ponziani
17844	MTWR	1:25-2:15	BH 229	Paola Quadrini
17845	MTWR	12:20-1:10	BH 232	Laura Ponziani

Prerequisite: M100. Continued introduction to contemporary Italian language, geography, and culture. Involves a broad variety of assignments and activities that build grammatical competency and proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Practice with new cultural topics and basic cultural analysis. Credit given for only one of the following: M110, M115, M150, or M491.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
17846	MWF	3:35-4:25	BH 315	Anthony Nussmeier
17848	MWF	10:10-11:00	BH 322	Alicia Vitti
17849	MWF	12:20-1:10	BH 233	Letizia Montroni
17850	MWF	1:25-2:15	HU 108	Letizia Montroni
26923	TR	7:15-8:30	WH 006	Matthew Liberti

Prerequisite: M110, M115, M150, or equivalent. Building on Elementary Italian I and II, students further study and practice fundamental concepts and structures in Italian grammar. Through a variety of assignments and activities, they strengthen proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, writing, cultural analysis and understanding. Includes an introduction to brief literary texts. Credit given for only one of M200 or M215.

Number	Days	Time	Room
24279	MTWR	1:25-2:15	SY 006

Prerequisite: M115 or equivalent (M100 and M150), and consent of instructor. An accelerated treatment of material covered in both M200 and M250. Designed for students who have completed M115 and other highly motivated students, students with extensive experience with another language, and/or students who aspire to study abroad. Credit given for only one of the following: M215 or M200-M250.

Number	Days	Time	Room
22222	TR	9:30-10:45	BH 317

In any culture the concept of masculinity seems intrinsic to what it means to be a man. Italian culture is no exception. Men are masculine, right? Well, it depends. This course is designed to help us look beyond the positive and negative images of what men are like, and beyond basic assumptions about how their appearances and behaviors serve to define them as men. Through a close reading of several literary works and an analysis of certain films by 20th- and 21st-century Italian authors, we will explore the ways in which masculinity has been socially constructed in modern and contemporary Italy. Using literary, cinematic, historical, and sociological lenses we will investigate the notion of multiple "masculinities," based on class, sexuality, race, religion, politics, and the dynamics of social cohesion. We will also explore the ways in which the fascist movement, patriarchal family structures, and mafia culture have influenced concepts of Italian masculinity within Italian society and beyond. In the course of our studies, we will discover that these concepts of masculinity are complex, fragile, and negotiable because continuously under construction.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
17851	MWF	11:15-12:05	BH 240	Alicia Vitti
17852	MWF	12:20-1:10	BH 134	Alicia Vitti
21019	MWF	2:30-3:20	BH 105	Adriana Varela

Prerequisite: M200 or equivalent. The study of more complex concepts and structures in Italian grammar. Through a variety of texts, media, and assignments, students practice listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and they analyze cultural topics and situations in greater depth. Increased attention to short literary texts. Credit given for only one of M250 or M215.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
21020	D	10:10-11:00	SW 103	Marianna Orsi
29003	D	10:10-11:00	SY 006	Andrea Polegato

Prerequisite: M250 or consent of instructor. Conducted in Italian, this course continues the study of advanced structures through a variety of media and authentic texts. While the focus is on accuracy and fluency in speaking, practice with other skills and the study of Italian culture will be integrated throughout.

Number	Days	Time	Room	Notes
27639	TR T	11:15-12:30 7:15-10:00	BH 214	Lecture Films

Like any modern institution, the Italian society, is undergoing sweeping changes that will forever alter the traditional way of life and the ideological framework that shaped the Italian way of being. The aim of the course is to analyze and discuss this on-going process and to predict future trends through a series of discussion and debates based on controversial topics such as emigration, racism, interracial-marriages, cloning, abortion, death penalty and other issues. Through a pluridisciplinary approach this course will explore how Italian cinema has followed, mirrored, and often even anticipated the cultural transformation and moments of crisis in Italian society. Twelve films will be studied. Students will also learn how to prepare a film analysis, will write a final essay, and will lead group and class discussions.

Required texts:
P. Ginsborg, Italy and its Discontents 1980 – 2001. Penguin Books, 2001. ISBN 0-14-024794-7.
A course pack will be available at the bookstore. This course taught in Italian.

Number	Days	Time	Room
25704	TR	2:30-3:45	WH 114

Number	Days	Time	Room
17853	TR	7:15-8:45 pm	WH 203

Number	Day/Time
17855	Arranged

Independent study on a specific topic not taught in one of this semester's regular courses. If interested, complete the permission form.

Number	Day/Time
17856	Arranged

For students preparing an honors project to receive a degree with departmental honors in Italian. See the Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor Massimo Scalabrini.

Number	Days	Time	Room
29832	TR	1:00-2:15	HU 217

The purpose of this course is to explore the relationship between painting and literature from an interdisciplinary perspective (literary, art historical and philosophical), while developing a critical approach that questions the connections and discrepancies between text and image throughout history.

Literature and painting have often been considered "sister arts," even though their relationship has been characterized by rivalry as much as solidarity. Since Plato and the exclusion of "artists" from his Republic, painters and writers have struggled to assert their respective arts among the liberal ones. But while poetry was integrated earlier into humanist education, thanks to its discursive and "intellectual" nature, painting had to wait until the Italian Renaissance to get rid of its connotation as a mere mechanical art, and thus acquire its liberal status. Furthermore, only by comparing itself to the "intellectual" dignity of poetry, did painting succeed in surpassing its former status. Since the Renaissance, painters and poets have, on the one hand, fraternized with each other to promote the complementarity of both arts while, on the other hand, struggling to assert the superiority of their own art.

In this course, we will read and analyze several key texts that retrace the ambivalent relationship between painting and literature from antiquity to modern times. Beginning with the section of Plato's Republic condemning the arts of imitation, as well as the section of Aristotle's Poetics that conversely praises them, we will then examine Pliny's and Ovid's legendary tales about painters, which define many characteristics of the figure of the artist as s/he is still conceived nowadays. We will next devote our class meetings to the emergence of art theory in the Italian Renaissance, by reading excerpts from writings by artists (Alberti, Leonardo da Vinci, Vasari) who claimed the intellectual status of painting (what Leonardo calls "cosa mentale": "a thing of the mind"). It will be interesting to see how this "liberalization" of painting was achieved by way of comparing it to poetry and other liberal arts, including geometry and astronomy. In order to become familiar with critical concepts of modern aesthetics (such as the "sublime" and the "relativity of beauty"), we will then read selected texts by 18th-century philosophers, artists and art critics (Kant, Burke, Hume, Diderot, Richardson, Hogarth, Reynolds, etc.). Lastly, we will explore the figure of the painter as a fictional character, as he appears in several short stories and novels: Balzac's The Unknown Masterpiece, Gautier's The Golden Fleece, Huysmans' Against the Grain and Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray; as well as in film adaptations of these narratives. When possible, as a base for the critical reflection on the comparison between text and image, readings will be supported by visual examples taken from painters mentioned or implied in the literature.

Students will be required to write a response paper on the readings every two weeks, to make an oral presentation in class, to write a mid-term composition, and to develop a personal research project, leading to a final paper.