43 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.
Multimedia approach to the study of French. Introduction to French conversation, grammar, and culture. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
Continuation of FREN 001. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
Further acquisition of the fundamentals of French conversation, writing, and culture. Multimedia approach. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
Continuation of FREN 011. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
Topics related to French and Francophone Studies not covered in regular courses. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated.
Materials not covered in regular courses. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. Attribute/Distribution: AL, CC, HE, HU, W
Beginning level of French language, literature, or other culture courses taught abroad. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. Attribute/Distribution: AL, CC, HE, HU, W
Intensive practice in oral and written French and introduction to literary criticism. Emphasis on comprehension and oral performance of the French language. Student acquires confidence in speaking and writing French through discussions and written applications of current issues, articles, novels, movies, and other topics. Required for French majors. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU, W
Exposure to representative French and Francophone works from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century offering various critical strategies needed to read and interpret a literary text. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU, W
Topics related to French and Francophone Studies not covered in regular courses. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. Attribute/Distribution: AL, CC, HU, W
Materials not covered in regular courses. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. Attribute/Distribution: AL, CC, HE, HU, W
Intermediate level of French language, literature, or other culture courses taught abroad. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. Attribute/Distribution: AL, CC, HE, HU, W
Reading and discussion of a selection of mostly contemporary short stories from the French-speaking world. In addition to sharpening your critical reading skills, you will be exposed to a host of issues that will be, whenever possible, contextualized through a range of recent news clips pertaining to similar topics. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
Introduction to the Francophone world through a series of texts, films, articles, etc. from Francophone Europe, North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, Canada, Vietnam, and the Caribbean. Students will become acquainted with Francophone cultures and literatures while developing their interpretative and writing skills. In French. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU, W
Explore representations of this forbidden and secret feminine space, the harem, starting with French theater from the 17th century all the way to 20th-21st century Francophone North African novels and film. We will attempt a comparative study between the French and Francophone traditions and will be looking at the harem as a visual as well as textual feminine space from which narratives emerge and the extent to which they constitute a counter-discourse that questions dominant power structures. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
Depictions of North African immigrants (legal or illegal) and French citizens of North African descent in postcolonial France in novels, film, and Rap music. Explore key concepts such as hospitality, minority ethnic settlement, multiculturalism, nationality and citizenship, racism, extreme-right politics, and anti-discrimination policy, and attempt to see how North African postcolonial identities are articulated in relation to perceptions of French national identity, republican values, universalism, etc. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
How is France defining itself today as a European nation in a global world? Issues to be explored include: family, gender, race and religion, the education and social systems, immigration, and politics. Strongly recommended for students who plan to study abroad in France. Attribute/Distribution: AL, CC, HU, W
Professionally supervised practicum experience in an area related to the field. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated.
Study of the works of some author or group of authors, or of a period, or of a literary theme. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
Research project under the direct supervision of a faculty member. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated.
Topics related to French and Francophone Studies not covered in regular courses. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. Attribute/Distribution: AL, CC, HU, W
Materials not covered in regular courses. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. Attribute/Distribution: AL, CC, HU, W
Advanced level of French language, literature, or other culture courses taught abroad. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. Attribute/Distribution: AL, CC, HU, W
Supervised participation in various aspects of the teaching of a course. Consent of instructor, department chairperson, and permission of the Dean required. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated.
French classical theater, novel, and criticism, with emphasis on Corneille, Racine, Moliere, Pascal, Lafayette, Malherbe, and Boileau. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
Emergence of the modern self through a comparative study of textual as well as visual representations of postcolonial subjects by male and female writers and film makers. Study of the way the sociopolitical context of countries such as Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia informs the constitution of subjectivity within a multicultural and multilingual community. Issues such as patriarchy, nationalism, colonialism, postcolonialism, identity, gender, and Islam in North African literature and film from Franco-Arab traditions. Attribute/Distribution: AL, CC, HU, W
The Philosophes and Encyclopédistes of the eighteenth century, with emphasis on Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Diderot. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
Study of major nineteenth century novelists and poets. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
Contemporary French drama with an analysis of its origins and movements. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
Reading and discussion of contemporary works of fiction (post1980). Study of how these works fit into the context of French literature and relate more specifically to major literary currents of the twentieth century. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
Examination, within the framework of short fiction, of the major literary currents that have made up twentieth-century literature. Works by Sartre, Camus, Robbe-Grillet, Le Clézio, Echenoz, Sallenave, Toussaint, Diebar, Ben Jelloun, and others. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
French Films from the late 1950s to the present. Introduction to cinematograhic language and exploration of the issues of gender, power, and madness. Films by Truffaut, J-L Godard, C. Denis, A. Varda, J-J Beineix, E. Rohmer, and others. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU, W
This course deals with representations of the Algerian War and its consequences in francophone works by postcolonial authors and filmmakers from France and Algeria. We will examine the historical context of the conflict, issues of torture, repressed memories and trauma, nation-building narratives, the meaning of independence, the role of women and the complexities of postcolonial identity formation as experienced by Algerians and the Algerian Diaspora in France. Taught in French. Attribute/Distribution: AL, CC, HU, W
Focus on otherness/difference in French fiction from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Reading and discussion of short stories and novels by Graffigny, Diderot, Maupassant, Gide, Camus, Duras, Beauvoir, Le Clézio and others. Attribute/Distribution: AL, CC, HU
This course examines representations of illegal immigrants in postcolonial francophone literature and film. We will be looking at visual and textual narratives from and about those who decided to leave their African homeland to seek a better future in Europe despite the very restrictive policies adopted by most of the European Union on illegal immigration. The course will explore issues of postcolonial identity, the notions of borders, displacement, exile, trauma and how they relate to the act of writing. Attribute/Distribution: AL, CC, HU, W
Reading and discussion of works written by women in French. The emphasis is on 19thand 20thcentury writers, such as G. Sand, Colette S. de Beauvoir, M. Duras, and Andrée Chédid. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
Advanced study of an author, period, or theme. Topics vary. Consent of instructor required. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. Attribute/Distribution: AL, HU
Designed to give advanced qualified students the chance to acquire field experience and training with selected firms and governmental agencies in French-speaking countries. Assigned readings, written reports, and employer performance evaluations are required. Consent of instructor required. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated.
Research project under the direct supervision of a faculty member. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated.
Topics related to French and Francophone Studies not covered in regular courses. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. Attribute/Distribution: AL, CC, HU, W
Materials not covered in regular courses. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. Attribute/Distribution: AL, CC, HU, W
Professional level of French language, literature, or other culture courses taught abroad. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. Attribute/Distribution: AL, CC, HU, W
Source: Lehigh University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
