34 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 100Introductory French I4
Beginning study of French language and culture through textual, audio, and visual materials. Learning to function in culturally authentic situations and to perform with some proficiency in the four fundamental skill areas: reading, writing, listening, speaking. Designed to develop novice to novice-mid oral and written proficiency as defined by the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages. (F3)
Beginning study of French language and culture through textual, audio, and visual materials. Learning to function in culturally authentic situations and to perform with some proficiency in the four fundamental skill areas: reading, writing, listening, speaking. Designed to develop novice to novice-mid oral and written proficiency as defined by the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages. (F3) (Intercultural and Linguistic Competencies)
Continuation of FREN 105. Designed to develop novice-mid to novice-high proficiency in reading, writing, listening, speaking. (F3) (Intercultural and Linguistic Competencies)
FREN 105 Credit Type Code: Letter Grade TAGS Cultural and Linguistic Competencies
FREN 155Reading & Culture4
Reading and response writing designed to develop proficiency at the intermediate level. Aspects of culture including history, the arts, and literature. Material may include video and CD-ROM programs, Internet resources. Grammar review as necessary.
This course is designed to improve French language proficiency and skills at the intermediate level to prepare the transition to more advanced coursework. Students will study structures, build vocabulary, and analyze cultural artifacts from France and the Francophone world. This work will hone skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Class is discussion-based and conducted entirely in French. (PTK - HUM) (Intercultural and Linguistic Competencies)
FREN 110 , or permission of instructor. MILE Requirement: HUM Credit Type Code: Letter Grade TAGS Cultural and Linguistic Competencies
FREN 215Multi-Modal Francophone Texts4
This course is designed to improve French language skills at the intermediate level to prepare the transition to more advanced coursework. Students will read a variety of texts and media sources from France and the Francophone world. Response to those works will hone skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Class is discussion-based and conducted entirely in French. (PTK - HUM) (Intercultural and Linguistic Competencies)
FREN 110 MILE Requirement: HUM Credit Type Code: Letter Grade TAGS Cultural and Linguistic Competencies
FREN 220Mod France+Cult Heritage4
France’s historical, political, social, and economic background from the 1950s to the present. Topics include postwar reconstruction, development of France as a modern power, role of the country in construction of and integration into the European Union, search for new identity as a nation, future role in a larger and more integrated Europe.
Students will study the overarching themes of inclusion and resilience in French cinema. The stories depict life and culture spanning four centuries, and in relation to major forces of change, including social migration, international conflict, and personal tragedy. Among the different genres in this collection are historical and contemporary drama, literary adaptation, and comedy. Social issues impacting on personal and group identity linked to inclusion and resilience include immigration, upward social mobility, family conflict, cultural and religious intolerance, and physical disability. The course will be taught in French and in English. (PTK - GLO)
FREN 210 & FREN 215 MILE Requirement: GLO Credit Type Code: Letter Grade TAGS Public Speaking
FREN 225Fren Connections: Poetry & Culinary4
This course is designed to develop writing skills at the advanced level (ACTFL scale for proficiency in writing) to prepare students for writing in advanced-level literature classes. Students will respond in writing to a variety of culture-based readings centered on French gastronomy. They will conduct research in French on related topics. Grammar will be reviewed with a level-appropriate text. Class is discussion-based and conducted entirely in French. (PTK - CRE)
This course features selected prose works in French from throughout the Francophone world. The focus primarily on the narrative form includes unabridged short stories from France, Senegal and the province of Quebec from beginning in the eighteenth century, and a twentieth-century novel from the French Antilles. Students will study how language and local cultures interact to express diverse lived and literary experiences. The course develops reading proficiency of primary and secondary source materials, writing proficiency at the advanced level, and supports critical engagement with language and literature. The course is taught in French. (M2)(Critical Reading)(Writing)
FREN 210 & FREN 215 Prohibited: FREN 341 Credit Type Code: Letter Grade TAGS Critical Reading Writing
FREN 250France 1950 to Present4
This course focuses on the social, political and cultural events that have shaped France since the 1950’s. Through readings, media sources and movie clips, students will learn how such factors as the baby-boomers’ coming of age, immigration, the construction of the European Union, and globalization have, often painfully, transformed a country rooted in rural traditions into a modern, pluralistic one able to compete in the global world.
FREN 210 & FREN 215 Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
FREN 260Doing Business W/ The French/Franco4
This course seeks to develop students’ cultural knowledge, business sense, and special vocabulary in preparation for working in a francophone environment. The program uses current, authentic materials to build communicative and cultural competencies in a student-centered and media-rich classroom. Students develop a shared acculturation document over the course of the semester for Americans working abroad; practical, transferable skills for doing business with the francophone world, including writing resumes and cover letters in the target language,will also prepare students for the job market in the United States.(PTK - SS)
FREN 210 & FREN 215 MILE Requirement: SS Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
FREN 265Drama At The French Theatre4
Students will read and analyze selected major works of dramatic literature in French from medieval times through the twentieth century. Students will study how dominant themes, literary conventions and digressions from those conventions allow comedy, tragedy, tragi-comedy and theatre of the absurd productions to give voice to an array of concerns, cultures-and “drama”-over time. Close readings, class discussion, writing assignments and dramatic readings in an actual performance space will help develop a deeper appreciation of the central conflicts in the texts, and identify areas of inquiry for further in-depth study and research. Course is taught entirely in French. The course will count as an elective for the minor or major.
FREN 215 Prohibited: FREN 265 & FRESHMAN CLASS STANDING Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
FREN 270Translation As Art & Skill4
Students will study and practice methodologies of translation from French to English. Although most texts will be literary, students will also work with a few technical passages. The study of some translation theory will broaden understanding of issues involved with this work, and appreciation for the skill and artfulness at its core.
Closely tied to culture and place, literary and artistic representations of people change dramatically in different spaces and times. In this course, we will explore some of the most important literary canon that treats two distinct cultural groups found in French-speaking Canada: the Québécois and the Acadian. We will examine literature from several different time periods, and from different geographic spaces to see how different representations of these two identities evolved, how they clashed, and how they intertwined with each other. Through an adaptation of one of these works, we will examine how a change in geography and cultural identity changes the context of the work. (PTK: Social Systems)
This course is designed to develop writing skills at the advanced level (ACTFL scale for proficiency in writing) to prepare students for writing in advanced-level literature classes. Students will respond in writing to a variety of culture-based readings centered on French gastronomy. They will conduct research in French on related topics. Grammar will be reviewed with a level-appropriate text. Class is discussion-based and conducted entirely in French.
FREN 210 & FREN 215 Prohibited: FREN 230 Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
FREN 330Art,Culture,History Paris4
Reading of literary works and discussion of artistic and socio-cultural context will help students develop informed knowledge and appreciation for past and present importance of this historical and cultural metropolis.
FREN 230 & FREN 241 Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
FREN 341Selected Prose Works in French4
This course features selected prose works in French from throughout the Francophone world The focus primarily on the narrative form includes unabridged short stories from France, Senegal and the province of Quebec beginning in the eighteenth century, and a twentieth-century novel from the French Antilles. Students will study how language and local cultures interact to express diverse lived and literary experiences. The course develops reading proficiency of primary and secondary source materials, writing proficiency at the advanced level, and supports critical engagement with language and literature. The course is taught in French. (M2)(Critical Reading)(Writing)
FREN 210 & FREN 215 Prohibited: FREN 241 Credit Type Code: Letter Grade TAGS Critical Reading Writing
FREN 345Le Grand Siecle 1630-17154
Great plays of the French classical period and the first complete modern novel. Emphasis on tension between rigid courtly/literary conventions and unrestrained, leisured aristocracy.
FREN 230 & FREN 241 Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
FREN 350Conformists/Rebels4
The course is designed to engage the students with selected works from the beginning of the seventeenth century when the literary salon culture began to flourish in Paris to the start of the French Revolution in 1789. Students will study how the themes of conformity and rebellion are represented, paying special attention to how the conflicts arising from the intersection of these apparently opposing roles-conformist and rebel-are played out in essays, novels and plays of the period. The course will be conducted entirely in French.
FREN 210 & FREN 215 & FREN 230 Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
FREN 352Life and Lit 1715-18054
Revolutionary and post-revolutionary spirit as manifested in novels, essays, and plays from the Age of Enlightenment to the early romantic period. Attention to political, religious, and social values and conditions that these works undermined and ultimately helped destroy.
FREN 230 & FREN 241 Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
FREN 353Works By French Women4
The course is designed to engage the students with works by women writing in French, specifically with respect to the theme of women’s roles in the domestic and public spheres. Students will read a variety of literary genres, including essays, novels, and poetry from the medieval period through the twentieth-century. They will study how writers from throughout the French speaking world have represented searches for meaningful roles in women’s lives, and will also consider the part the writing process itself has in crafting meaning for women. Students will read works by Christine de Pisan, Louise Labe, Isabelle de Charriere, Gabrielle Roy, Fatima Fallaire, Colette and Simone de Beauvoir, and others. The course will be conducted entirely in French.
FREN 210 & FREN 215 Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
FREN 355Novel Trad and Mod France4
Reading of novels and short stories that reflect the long, often difficult mutation of the country from rural and traditional to industrial and modern.
FREN 230 & FREN 241 Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
FREN 36020Th Cent French Theatre4
Trends in French drama from the surrealist period to theater of the absurd. Plays by Vitrac, Cocteau, Giraudoux, Sartre, Camus, Anouilh, Beckett, and Ionesco.
The industrial revolution transformed France into an urban country. From then on urban life became a major concern for political leaders and a vast source of inspiration for artists. Through readings by Zola, Gide, Breton, Camus, Sartre and Butor, discussions of paintings by Impressionists, Cubists and other modern painters and studies of architectural achievements, students will develop a sense of the evolution of the urbanization process and an understanding of the relationship between literature, art and the prevailing political climate.
FREN 210 & FREN 215 Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
FREN 365Drama At The French Theatre4
Students will read and analyze selected major works of dramatic literature in French from medieval times through the twentieth century. Students will study how dominant themes, literary conventions and digressions from those conventions allow comedy, tragedy, tragi-comedy and theatre of the absurd productions to give voice to an array of concerns, cultures-and “drama”-over time. Close readings, class discussion, writing assignments and dramatic readings in an actual performance space will help develop a deeper appreciation of the central conflicts in the texts, and identify areas of inquiry for further in-depth study and research. Course is taught entirely in French. The course will count as an elective for the minor or major.
FREN 215 Prohibited: FREN 365 OR FRESHMAN CLASS STANDING Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
FREN 370Translation As Art And Skill4
Students will study and practice methodologies of translation from French to English. Although most texts will be literary, students will also work with a few technical passages. The study of some translation theory will broaden understanding of issues involved with this work, and appreciation for the skill and artfulness at its core.
