100 courses with the subject FREN, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
FREN 111Introduction to the French Language4
An introduction to the basic elements of the French language. Work in all communicative skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing, with particular attention to grammar and pronunciation. Introduction to the geography and culture of the French-speaking world. Spring. Equivalent courses: FREN 111A, FREN 111FA FREN 111FA Beginning French I - France (4 Credits) Introduces students to the four language skills: speaking, writing, listening, and reading. Topics include everyday issues (shopping, directions, family, housing). Equivalent courses: FREN 111, FREN 111A
Continued systematic development of all communicative skills. Further understanding of French culture, geography, and customs, enhanced by readings and video selections. Fall. Placement Exam with a score of 17 or FREN 111AC Equivalent courses: FREN 112A, FREN 112AC, FREN 112FA
Selected readings deal with world languages and cultures. Texts read may be classics in a national literature, works by writers who recently won a high literary prize, or texts dealing with current topics critical t the history or politics of a particular country. Texts may be tied to on- campus lectures on world literature by invited speakers. This course can be repeated once for credit with the permission of the chair.
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can be repeated once for credit with the permission of the chair.
Continued systematic development of all communicative skills. Further understanding of French culture, geography, and customs, enhanced by readings and video selections. Satisfactory completion of FREN 211 meets global language proficiency. Spring. Placement Exam with a score of 33 Equivalent courses: FREN 211A, FREN 211B, FREN 211FA Attributes: Global Language Proficiency
Equivalent courses: FREN 211, FREN 211A Attributes: Global Language Proficiency FREN 211FA Intermediate French I - France (4 Credits) French for beginning intermediate students based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. In this course, you will build on the speaking, writing, listening, and reading skills you acquired in the previous levels and also increase your knowledge and cultural awareness of Francophone culture. Reading, writing, and culture will be the focal points. Topics may include: cultural identity, food, family, education, work, nationality, and diversity. Equivalent courses: FREN 211, FREN 211A Attributes: Global Language Proficiency
FREN 212French-Speaking Cultures in Readings and Film4
Francophone cultures through short literary and cultural readings and short films, with a grammar review component and continued development of reading, writing and speaking skills in French. Fall Equivalent courses: FREN 212FA, FREN 212FB, FREN 212Z Attributes: Global Language Proficiency, Human Experience (HE), Thematic Encounter1/2-Movement FREN 212FA Intermediate Grammar and Methodology (3 Credits) French for advanced beginner students based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. In this course, you will build on your interpersonal, interpretive, and presentation skills acquired in the previous levels and also increase your knowledge and understanding of Francophone culture. Cultural content is taught through multimedia and readings, and the goal will be for grammatical points to be taught using a communicative approach. Topics may include: French media and cinema, wellness and health, current French societal issues. Equivalent courses: FREN 212, FREN 212FB, FREN 212Z Attributes: Global Language Proficiency FREN 212FB Intermediate French II - France (4 Credits) o Equivalent courses: FREN 212, FREN 212FA, FREN 212Z FREN 270FA Intermediate French - France (3 Credits) This course will help students to improve their written and oral skills in French and train them to develop an approach to various writing assignments. This is designed to broaden the range of options available to them for expressing themselves in the language. FREN 270FB Intermediate French Writing - France (3 Credits) This class is designed to introduce students to the techniques and tools required for both academic and personal writing. Over the course of the semester, students will learn how to write a variety of different types of texts including: the description, the compte rendu universitaire, the journalistic portrait, and other textual genres. FREN 270FC Intermediate French Coversation - France (3 Credits) This class is built as a series of discussion sessions. Throughout group discussions about news and precise topics (gastronomy, French music, immigration…) students will acquire basic vocabulary and learn more about social and cultural facts and French contemporary civilization. We will study topics such as immigration in France, the French social system, cinema, leisure…and provide the students with basic information in everyday life. Learning will be based on listening and speaking with material such as songs, TV shows, movie extracts… A vocabulary sheet will provide basic vocabulary about the topic studied. Focus will be put on correct vocabulary and pronunciation.
FREN 211 or FREN 215 FREN 211 or FREN 211A or FREN 211FA FREN 211 or FREN 211Z or FREN 211FA FREN 112 or FREN 112A FREN 112 or FREN 112Z or FREN 112FA None
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FREN 212French-Speaking Cultures in Readings and Film4
Supervised reading or research at the lower-division level. Permission of department chair required. Consult department for applicability towards major requirements. Not available to first-year students.
Selected readings deal with world languages and cultures. Texts read may be classics in a national literature, works by writers who recently won a high literary prize, or texts dealing with current topics critical to the history or politics of a particular country. Texts may be tied to on- campus lectures on world literature by invited speakers. This course can be repeated once for credit with the permission of the chair.
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FREN
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1
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Repeatable
can be repeated once for credit with the permission of the chair.
A study of contemporary cultural topics in French-speaking countries, including geography, people, and customs. Readings cover social systems such as education, health care, technology, family, religion, art, business, and political thought. Students will integrate these topics with intensive study of the French language, grammar, and phonetics. Emphasis placed on conversational skills and oral expression. Taught in French. Spring. Equivalent courses: FREN 311FA, FREN 311Z Attributes: Global Language Proficiency, Human Experience (HE), Thematic Encounter3 - Justice, Writing Requirement (WR) FREN 311FA Advanced French I - France (3 Credits) In this level, students will work through an intensive review of grammar and focus on how to articulate and organize ideas. Reading, writing, and textual analysis tend to be the focal points. Students will improve their skills on different writing assignments, incorporating the acquired grammatical structures and discover selected cultural topics through text and video. Equivalent courses: FREN 311, FREN 311Z
An introduction to French-language texts and media from a variety of genres: cinema, fiction, poetry, bandes dessinées, advertising, and theater. The course offers the opportunity to discuss the works studied and to practice textual analysis with continued emphasis on grammar, speaking and writing. Taught in French. Fall. Equivalent courses: FREN 312FA, FREN 312Z Attributes: Benedictine Raven (BN), Human Experience (HE), Thematic Encounter3 - Truth, Writing Requirement (WR) FREN 312FA Advanced French II - France (3 Credits) In this level, students will work through an intensive review of grammar and focus on how to articulate and organize ideas. Reading, writing, and textual analysis tend to be the focal points. Students will improve their skills on different writing assignments, incorporating the acquired grammatical structures and discover selected cultural topics through text and video. FREN 311 or FREN 311Z or FREN 311FA Equivalent courses: FREN 312, FREN 312Z
In this course students become familiar with some of the great books which gave rise to French literary culture. Readings are drawn from verse, drama, fiction, and essays. Emphasis on fostering an appreciation of French literature, understanding the works in their social and historical context, and learning the techniques of literary analysis. Attributes: Human Experience (HE), Thematic Encounter3 - Truth, Writing
FREN 331French Literature from Monarchy to Republic4
This course focuses on the poetry, theatre, and prose written during the Modern era. Emphasis on fostering an appreciation of French-language literature, understanding the works in their social and historical context, and learning the techniques of literary analysis. Attributes: Human Experience (HE), Thematic Encounter3 - Truth CSBSJU Undergraduate Academic Catalog 2026-2027 305
The poems, plays, graphic novels and prose works in this course provide insight into the beginnings of the French democracy and the expansion of its colonial empire, with emphasis on the post-colonial period in the contemporary francophone world. Emphasis on fostering an appreciation of French literature, understanding the works in their social and historical context, and learning the techniques of literary analysis. Taught in French.
A study of diverse Francophone cultures as they have evolved from colonization to independence. Films, cultural readings and literary texts are used in this study of Quebec, and francophone countries in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.
This course will help students deepen their mastery of the structures of spoken French and enrich their active vocabulary. Using Saussure’s “Cours de linguistique générale” as a starting point, students will learn the International Phonetic Alphabet, develop an understanding of basic linguistic terminology of articulatory phonetics and of the principles that govern French pronunciation. Using multimedia, short transcriptions and audio recordings, students will analyze dialectal variation and historical changes in the language, syllabic and metrical structure, liaison, intonation, and prosody, as well as the relationship between orthography and spoken language in order to improve and perfect their pronunciation and aural comprehension of Modern Standard French. Attributes: Abstract Structures (AS)
In this course, students will become acquainted with a diverse corpus of "real" and fictional letters including some of the great classics of the French epistolary tradition, film and texts that these foundational works have inspired, and various published and unpublished letters produced in French since the Enlightenment. Through a study of letters in various forms, students will be able to identify major themes of epistolary theory and production, debate the relationship of letters to literature, and engage in formal correspondence that respects the conventions of letter- writing in French while recognizing the evolving practices of epistolary exchange.
In this course, we explore the ways in which women (in history and in literature) have engendered power, for male leaders, for themselves as agents, for their community, for their gender. We will begin with the warrior nation-builders like Geneviève and Jeanne d’Arc and continue with the women of revolution and salon of the 17th and 18th centuries. We will also examine figures representing the divas of opera, screen, and Parisian life, such as the soprano in Balzac’s Sarrasine, Carmen, and Salome. We will then turn to the women of the French Resistance, student riots, and post-colonial conflicts and wars of the 20th C. Finally, we will consider contemporary figures constructing different images, realities, and possibilities for women and men in the 21st century. Individual student projects will allow us to expand our study to include literary prototypes and cultural leaders, thinkers, artists, fashion designers, cinematographers, and writers from around the francophone world. One question we will follow throughout is to what extent these images and figures related to power are constructed by women or projected by the culture onto women, to what extent individuals and groups are bound or freed by such constructs. FREN 315 or FREN 316 Attributes: Human Experience (HE), Thematic Encounter3 - Justice
In this course we will work on French phonetics and pronunciation using poems from the 16th-20th centuries as material for practicing French pronunciation. We will also review poetic form and work on writing a French explication de texte on one or more poems.
This course makes use of cinema, the French “seventh art,” to help students increase their knowledge of Francophone film and the Francophone world, while honing discussion and presentation skills. This discussion-based course will take place concurrently with the Albertine Cinémathèque Film Festival (AR-approved events) and will be conducted in English. Attributes: Human Experience (HE)
In this Topics in Culture course, students will explore the culture, language, and interpersonal skills at the intersection of French and health. Class themes may include studying or practicing medicine abroad, cultural concepts of health and well-being, health care systems and social protections, global humanitarian organizations, and the vocabulary and grammar of greeting and reassuring patients, describing symptoms, and promoting healthy behaviors. This course will be conducted in French and may incorporate current events, authentic materials, in-class discussions, online interviews, and collaborative, hands-on learning to enhance student learning. Attributes: Human Experience (HE)
In this Topics in Culture course, students will explore the culture, language, and interpersonal skills at the intersection of French and business. Class themes may include studying or working abroad, technology and commerce, cultural concepts of work-life balance and time-management, and the vocabulary and grammar of applying for work, communicating with collaborators, and promoting yourself, your products, and your services. This course will be conducted in French and may incorporate current events, authentic materials, in-class discussions, online interviews, and collaborative, hands-on learning to enhance student learning. Attributes: Human Experience (HE)
In this discussion-based course, we will explore the history of the French musical from the 17th-century comédie-ballet to its modern-day form. We will read passages and watch recordings of performances, analyze and discuss them, focusing on the evolution and reception of "the French musical" through time. As a final project there will be space for literary innovation and creative production. Course is conducted in English.
In this course, we study French-language works from a variety of genres: songs, spoken word, short plays (from medieval farce to experimental theater of the 20th-21st centuries); we will choose particular pieces to learn and perform for a public audience. Performance venue may vary depending on projects chosen: in class, open mic at O’Conn’s, Brother Willie’s Pub, other campus stage venues, or even Celebrating Scholarship & Creativity Day or the French Lyric Festival. May require one substantial rehearsal TBA prior to performance. FREN 315 or FREN 316
A Life of Meaning: An exploration of French-language thinkers who grapple with the fundamental question of how to live a good life. Readings include: Christine de Pisan, Montaigne, de Beauvoir, Chedid, Badiou, French commentaries on the Rule of Benedict. FREN 370FA Advanced French Expression (Abroad) (3 Credits) Advanced study of grammar in context: emphasis on writing for varied communicative purposes, reading for style and content, translation. Students who have completed the equivalent of FREN 312 (6th semester) French will select this course.
Supervised reading or research at the upper-division level. Permission of department chair and completion and/or concurrent registration of 12 credits within the department required. Consult department for applicability towards major requirements. Not available to first-year students.
Through an examination of 20th and 21st century Québécois texts and a study of major cultural events of this same time period, students will learn of the diversity of the Québécois people and of the linguistic and cultural specificity of Québec in North America. With a particular attention to instances of injustice in Québécois society and the unique struggles related to language, students will learn to read texts in socio- cultural context, to conduct research using primary sources across different languages and media, and to practice the art of curation to bring contemporary fights for justice to life. Cultural and Social Difference: Identity (CI). CI course may be taken prior to or concurrently with Focus Course. Attributes: Human Experience (HE), Thematic Focus - Justice, Writing
The Practicum includes both an on-site component and a classroom component. The on-site component requires that a student work as French Cultural Events Assistant for the department or that a student engage in a significant leadership experience in the French Club. In order to register for this course, a student must submit a proposal outlining what s/he will do as an Events Assistant or Club leader. The proposal must be approved by the course instructor and, if applicable, the club/organization’s adviser. The classroom component will involve the equivalent of 4 or 8 hours of meetings/class sessions on-campus over the course of the semester (for 1 or 2 credits, respectively). Students will participate in discussions and complete a series of readings and reflective assignments. Attributes: Experiential Engagement (EX)
All majors must present a senior capstone in a public forum. In consultation with a faculty advisor students choose a project appropriate to their previous course of study and/or their individual goals.
