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2023-2024

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Level II: Intermediate Language Skills

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2023-2024

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quence or equivalent. Students practice oral/aural skills, and review fundamentals of French grammar, vocabulary, and conjugation, while improving their understanding of French and Francophone culture through reading, and films. FRN 202 Intermediate French II is the fourth-semester French language and culture course at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Students will work to fine-tune their proficiency in the four fundamental language skills: speak- ing, listening, reading, and writing, while improving their understanding of French and Francophones cultures through movies, music, and cultural readings. First-year students are placed according to placement exam results. FRN 225 Parlons Français This course is designed as an intensive training in oral expression for semi-advanced students. It focuses on the practice of speaking and aims to help students develop pertinent vocabulary, as well as conversational or idiomatic expressions used in everyday life by French speakers. Students will gain greater fluidity and confidence and improve their oral communication skills by exploring contemporary issues in films and the media HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 228 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE

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Prerequisite

FRN 102 or equivalent, placement, or permission of the instructor. FRN 201 or equivalent, placement, or permission of the instructor.

Level III: Advanced Language Skills

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2023-2024

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2023-2024

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2023-2024

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culture through its representation in films and the media. Major trends examined include youth, education, immigra- tion, women in society, and the political system. Students pursue a research topic of their choice and submit a port- folio at the end of the semester. Students improve their language skills through readings, discussions, written weekly film reviews, and reflection papers and oral presentations on relevant topics. This course is highly recommended for students planning a term in France. This course is cross-listed with Media and Society. Prerequisites: FRN 226, or permission of the instructor, or concurrently with FRN 226. (Staff, offered annually)

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culture of the Province of Quebec in its socio-political and historical contexts. It offers students an understanding of contemporary issues, such as colonialism, post-modernity, the Quiet Revolution, language and politics, feminist movements, the dynamics of identity, immigration, and the new nationalism. Students will also consider Quebec’s relations with France and the USA in the context of globalization. While exploring a new socio-cultural space, students will improve their French language skills through readings, discussions, film reviews, and papers on rele- vant topics. Prerequisite: FRN 226, or permission of the instructor, or concurrently with FRN 226. (Dahouda, offered regularly) FRN 243 Topics in Francophone Cultures This course seeks to introduce the variations of French and the variety of cultures in the Francophone world. Students are introduced to the concept of Francophone, its ideological and political meaning as well as its cultural and literary expressions. Students discover the unity and the diversity of French-speaking countries. They explore contemporary issues in these countries, and discuss the relations of the Francophone world with France and the U.S. in the context of globalization. The goal of this course is not simply to acquaint students with issues and realities around the Francophone world, but to provide them with a broader cultural and intercultural perspective. Students improve their French through readings, discussions, weekly film re- views, and papers on relevant topics. Prerequisite: FRN 226, or permission of the instructor, or concurrently with FRN 226 (Dahouda, offered alternate years) FRN 244 Le Midi de la France In this course, we will study the cuisine, history, language, literature, music, politics, and identities of the cultures of the south of France, or le Midi de la France. Through an in-depth examination of the many regional languages, vibrant cultures, and varied landscapes of the Midi, students will learn to appreciate more fully the great diversity and cultural richness of metropolitan France. Furthermore, by studying how France became the nation it is today through a series of annexations of independent and culturally, politically, and linguistically autonomous peoples, students will deepen their understanding of nationhood and identity within the context of our increasingly globalized world. Some questions addressed in this course are: What is a nation? What is identity? Is it possible to possess many identities at once, or is identity something more monolithic? How do these ques- tions of identity affect contemporary discussions of the European Union? How does the formation of the European Union affect our understanding of ‘minor’ and ‘regional’ identities when prevalent notions of nationhood have been challenged again and again over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? What does it mean to be French? How have prevalent definitions of French-ness been challenged by the valorization of local identities, im- migration, and the formation of the European Union? How does language and multilingualism challenge our current conceptualizations of identity and nationhood? Through a study of the cultures of the south of France, students will gain broader perspectives on, and deeper knowledge of, modern French culture and what makes France France (Wells, offered alternate years) FRN 251 Introduction to French Literature I: Mystics, Friends and Lovers The conventions governing erotic love and passion in Europe were first formulated by the troubadours in Southern France. This course traces the evolution of passionate love from the Middle Ages to the Present, and analyzes its connections with mystical love. We will also study other traditions of love such as marital love and friendship. Prerequisite: Any two 240 level courses, or permis- sion of the instructor, or a 240 level with another 240 level taken concurrently. (Wells, offered alternate years) HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 229 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE

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2023-2024

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2023-2024

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2023-2024

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2023-2024

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2023-2024

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this course follows various trajectories between Paris and Francophone countries and regions around the world. Students listen to voices in French from outside France. Paris is considered a starting point, rather than the center of Francophone cultures. Special attention is given to the ambiguous love-hate relations between France and other Francophone countries. This course teaches explication de texte, the French approach to reading literary and other cultural texts. Prerequisite: Any two 240 level courses, or permission of the instructor, or a 240 level with another 240 level taken concurrently. (Dahouda, offered alternate years)

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2023-2024

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www.hws.edu

Level V: Advanced Culture and Literature

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2023-2024

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www.hws.edu

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2023-2024

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2023-2024

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colonial era to the present day. In this course students will develop their understanding of questions pertaining to race, gender, language, politics, and religion, while learning the methodology of literary analysis and enriching their critical vocabulary in French. Prerequisite: FRN 253 and one of FRN 251 or FRN 252, or permission of the instructor, or concurrently with another 250 level. (Staff, offered regularly)

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represent their society in a context of deep alienations, and how they try to reinvent themselves and their commu- nity through the diversity of their unique culture and humanity. Students improve their cultural and language skills by discussing these major topics: deconstructing colonization; the relation of self to other; memory, migrancy and the quest for identity; women in literature; French language and local language relations; writers and their imaginary HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 230 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE

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2023-2024

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www.hws.edu

Renaissance lyric poetry, Montaigne, Rabelais, The Pléiade poets, Women in the French Renaissance. Prerequisites: FRN 251 and FRN 252, or permission of the instructor, or concurrently with another 250 level. (Wells, offered regularly)

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2023-2024

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www.hws.edu

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2023-2024

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www.hws.edu

FRN 495/496 Honors FRENCH COURSES TAUGHT IN ENGLISH (FRNE) FRNE 155 Exile and Identity in Francophone Caribbean Fiction This course serves as introduction to the study of the French Caribbean literatures, from tradition to modernity. It explores the interface between exile and identity, and examines how gender, memory, and race, class and ethnicity, language and violence inform the works of French Caribbean writers. It will also discuss literary and historical relations of French Caribbean authors with Black writ- ers of the Harlem Renaissance movement. Typical readings: Césaire, Zobel, Depestre, Glissant, Condé, Danticat, Kesteloot, Freire, Fabre, Jules-Rosette, Wright, Baldwin. (Dahouda, offered occasionally).

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2023-2024

Source

www.hws.edu