Graduate Courses: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Department of Modern and Classical Languages

Courses: French (FREN)

6313 Advanced Composition and Stylistics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Rhetorical figures of the French language, the different registers of discourse, idioms and comparative stylistics.   

6314 The Art of Translation
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing. Stylistic theory of translation plus practical exercises of thème et version drawn from literary, technical, and commercial language.   

6315 Advanced Translation
Cr. 3. (3-0). Translation of literary and non-literary texts.  

6316 Contemporary France
Cr. 3. (3-0). French Institutions, political and social issues, and France in the Francophone World.   

6321 The Medieval World
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing. The mind and spirit of France reflected in culture and literature from Chanson de Roland through Villon. Literature related to art, architecture, music, and philosophy.  

6323: Seventeenth Century Theatre
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing. The French theatre of the seventeenth century: Corneille, Racine, Molière, and their contemporaries.  

6325: Eighteenth Century Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing. Study of poetry, drama, and fiction. Marivaux, Beaumarchais, Montesquieu, Prévost, Rousseau, Diderot, Laclos.   

6326: The Eighteenth Century Philosophical World
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing. The philosophical literature from Fénelon through Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, and up to the revolution. Emphasis on man's role in society.   

6328 Nineteenth Century Novel
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing. Romanticism, realism, naturalism, and the literature of the turn of the century.  

6329 The Modern French Novel
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing. From Proust to the new novel.  

6331 20th Century French Theatre
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing. Leading playwrights from to the turn of the 20th century to the theatre of the absurd.  

6334 Jung and French Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing. Application of Jungian theory to various works of French literature.  

6340 French Women Writers
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing. French women writers from the Renaissance to present.  

6397 Selected Topics in French Literature, Language and Culture
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing.  

6399-7399 Master's Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester.

 

Catalog Publish Date: January 14, 2013
This Page Last Updated: May 31, 2012