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Academic Year 2000/2001
Introduction to French Literature & Culture I: 12th-18th Centuries
FREN 223 SP
This course provides an introduction to French literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the 18th-century.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA RLAN
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
SECTION 01
- Major Readings
- Chretien de Troyes, YVAIN OU LE CHEVALIER AU LION
Marie de France: LAIS
Selected Renaissance Poetry and Prose
La Rochefoucauld, La Fontaine: Selected Texts
Racine: ANDROMAQUE
Moliere: L'ECOLE DES
FEMMES
Readings from
L'ENCYCLOPEDIE
Voltaire: L'INGENU, MICROMEGAS
Madame de Graffigny: LETTRES D'UNE PERUVIENNE
- Examinations and Assignments
- Active participation in class discussion, short written paragraphs in answer to questions, three to four papers, one oral report.
- Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a
completed Drop/Add form to the
Registrar's Office.
- Instructor(s): Lowrie,Joyce O.
- Times: ..T.T.. 10:30AM-11:50AM; Location: FISK413
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 20)
- SR. major: Jr. major:
- SR. non-major: Jr. non-major: 6 SO: 6 FR: 8
Special Attributes:
- Curricular Renewal: Speaking, Writing
SECTION 02
- Major Readings
- Chretien de Troyes, LE CONTE DU GRAAL
Saint Bernard de Clarivaux, ELOGE DE LA NOUVELLE CHEVALERIE
Rabelais, GARGANTUA
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, LE CARNAVAL DE ROMANS
Madame de Lafayette, LA PRINCESSE DE
CLEVES
Moliere, LE
MISANTHROPE
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, QUELLE EST L'ORIGINE DE L'INEGALITE PARMI LES HOMMES
Denis Diderot, SUPPLEMENT AU VOYAGE DE BOUGAINVILLE
Various speeches by Danton, Saint-Just, and Robespierre
- Examinations and Assignments
- Students will write and revise several short papers.
- Additional Requirements and/or Comments
- This course is taught in French. All readings, written assignments and class discussions will be in French. Students should have completed FREN 215 (or have placed out of it through the placement test) or another
upper-level French course before
enrolling in this one.
- Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a
completed Drop/Add form to the
Registrar's Office.
- Instructor(s): Rider,John Jeffrey
- Times: .M.W.F. 10:00AM-10:50AM; Location: DAC300
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 20)
- SR. major: Jr. major:
- SR. non-major: Jr. non-major: 6 SO: 6 FR: 8
Special Attributes:
- Curricular Renewal: Speaking, Writing
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Last Updated on MAR-26-2001
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