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Courses: French (FREN)
6198:6398: Special Problems
Cr. 1-3 per semester or more by
concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of chair.
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: Teaching College French
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate
standing and approval of chair. Theory and practical methodology of
first-year undergraduate French instruction.
6316: Applied Phonemics for Teachers of French
Cr. 3. (3-0).
Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Emphasizes
factors helpful in organizing the teaching of standard French
pronunciation from the functional point of view: liaison, phoneme
discrimination, and special problems for native English-speakers.
6317: Oral Proficiency Interviewing in French
Cr. 3. (3-0).
Prerequisite: graduate standing. Oral-proficiency interviewing; also
elicitation/behavior techniques as specified by the American Council
on the Teaching of Foreign Language.
6318: Applied Psycholinguistics for Teachers of French
Cr. 3. (3-0).
Prerequisite: graduate standing. Study of linguistics and
psycholinguistic theory as applied to the teaching of French.
6320: History of French Poetry
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate
standing. French poetical theory and practice from origins to 1800.
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, Moliere, and their contemporaries.
6325: Eighteenth Century Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite:
graduate standing. Study of poetry, drama, and fiction. Marivaux,
Beaumarchais, Montesquieu, Prevost, Rousseau, Diderot, Laclos.
6326: The Eighteenth Century Philosophical World
Cr. 3. (3-0).
Prerequisite: graduate standing. The philosophical literature from
Fenelon 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.
6330: Modern French Poetry
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate
standing. Major poets from Baudelaire to the present.
6331: Twentieth Century French Theatre
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite:
graduate standing. Leading playwrights and stage directors from the
turn of the century up to the theatre of the absurd.
6332: Patterns of Fear
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing.
French literature of the fantastic, with emphasis on nineteenth
century writers: Potocki, Merimee, Gautier, Balzac, Barbey
d'Aurevilly, Maupassant, Lorrain.
6333: The World of Marcel Proust
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate
standing. Social, aesthetic, and political values that conditioned
Proust's thinking. Structural and thematic analysis of his masterwork
with emphasis on the Dreyfus Affair, Wagnerian and Pre-Raphaelite
influences.
6335: French for Singers
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: one year of
college French or consent of instructor. Open only to graduate music
majors and opera studio students. Review of high frequency
grammatical structures, introduction to conversational and musical
vocabulary, diction for singing and spoken dialogue.
6340: French Women Writers
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate
standing. French women writers from the Renaissance to present.
6380: Practicum in Teaching Methodology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites:
teaching assistantship in the Department of Modern and Clasical
Languages. Required of all new and returning teaching assistants.
Introduction to, demonstration of, and discussion of current methods
and their application in first and second-year language instruction.
6392: Reading French for Nonmajors I
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite:
graduate standing or approval of chair. Reading knowledge of French
as a research tool. Accelerated study and analysis of grammar and
linguistic structures of French scholarly and scientific literature.
6393: Reading French for Nonmajors II
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite:
FREN 6392 or equivalent and graduate standing or approval of chair.
Continuation of FREN 6392 with emphasis on specialized vocabulary.
Readings in scientific research areas.
6397: Selected Topics in French Literature, Language, and Culture.
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. May be repeated
with approval of chair.
6399-7399: Master's Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester.
7331: Narrative Technique
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate
standing. Theoretical and critical introduction to modes of
narration, with emphasis on first-person narration, followed by the
study of five French novels from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and
twentieth centuries.
7332: Modern Methods of Criticism
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite:
graduate standing. Modern literary theory and its application to
practical literary criticism - psychoanalytical, sociological,
archetypal, formalist, structuralist, semiotic. Various French texts
are analyzed in clas.
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Courses: French (FREN)
6198:6398: Special ProblemsCr. 1-3 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of chair.
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: Teaching College French
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate
standing and approval of chair. Theory and practical methodology of
first-year undergraduate French instruction.
6316: Applied Phonemics for Teachers of French
Cr. 3. (3-0).
Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Emphasizes
factors helpful in organizing the teaching of standard French
pronunciation from the functional point of view: liaison, phoneme
discrimination, and special problems for native English-speakers.
6317: Oral Proficiency Interviewing in French
Cr. 3. (3-0).
Prerequisite: graduate standing. Oral-proficiency interviewing; also elicitation/behavior techniques as specified by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language.
6318: Applied Psycholinguistics for Teachers of French
Cr. 3. (3-0).
Prerequisite: graduate standing. Study of linguistics and
psycholinguistic theory as applied to the teaching of French.
6320: History of French Poetry
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate
standing. French poetical theory and practice from origins to 1800.
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, Moliere, and their contemporaries.
6325: Eighteenth Century Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite:
graduate standing. Study of poetry, drama, and fiction. Marivaux,
Beaumarchais, Montesquieu, Prevost, Rousseau, Diderot, Laclos.
6326: The Eighteenth Century Philosophical World
Cr. 3. (3-0).
Prerequisite: graduate standing. The philosophical literature from
Fenelon 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.
6330: Modern French Poetry
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate
standing. Major poets from Baudelaire to the present.
6331: Twentieth Century French Theatre
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite:
graduate standing. Leading playwrights and stage directors from the
turn of the century up to the theatre of the absurd.
6332: Patterns of Fear
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing.
French literature of the fantastic, with emphasis on nineteenth
century writers: Potocki, Merimee, Gautier, Balzac, Barbey
d'Aurevilly, Maupassant, Lorrain.
6333: The World of Marcel Proust
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate
standing. Social, aesthetic, and political values that conditioned
Proust's thinking. Structural and thematic analysis of his masterwork
with emphasis on the Dreyfus Affair, Wagnerian and Pre-Raphaelite
influences.
6335: French for Singers
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: one year of
college French or consent of instructor. Open only to graduate music
majors and opera studio students. Review of high frequency
grammatical structures, introduction to conversational and musical
vocabulary, diction for singing and spoken dialogue.
6340: French Women Writers
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate
standing. French women writers from the Renaissance to present.
6380: Practicum in Teaching Methodology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites:
teaching assistantship in the Department of Modern and Clasical
Languages. Required of all new and returning teaching assistants.
Introduction to, demonstration of, and discussion of current methods
and their application in first and second-year language instruction.
6392: Reading French for Nonmajors I
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite:
graduate standing or approval of chair. Reading knowledge of French
as a research tool. Accelerated study and analysis of grammar and
linguistic structures of French scholarly and scientific literature.
6393: Reading French for Nonmajors II
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite:
FREN 6392 or equivalent and graduate standing or approval of chair.
Continuation of FREN 6392 with emphasis on specialized vocabulary.
Readings in scientific research areas.
6397: Selected Topics in French Literature, Language, and Culture.
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. May be repeated
with approval of chair.
6399-7399: Master's Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester.
7331: Narrative Technique
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate
standing. Theoretical and critical introduction to modes of
narration, with emphasis on first-person narration, followed by the
study of five French novels from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and
twentieth centuries.
7332: Modern Methods of Criticism
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite:
graduate standing. Modern literary theory and its application to
practical literary criticism - psychoanalytical, sociological,
archetypal, formalist, structuralist, semiotic. Various French texts
are analyzed in clas.