French and Francophone Studies Concentration

French and Francophone Studies Concentration

The French and Francophone Studies Concentration unites a diversity of disciplinary approaches to France while extending the notion of French and Francophone Studies beyond the specific territorial and linguistic boundaries of France and Parisian French. Relying on a solid language training, courses in Francophone literature and culture (continental Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and North America) as well as in other disciplines, this concentration will afford a synthetic view of the evolution and impact of French and Francophone cultural institutions. The majors most organically connected with this interdisciplinary curriculum are history, anthropology, art history, political science, media studies, and international relations, although students majoring in other disciplines may also concentrate in French and Francophone Studies.

Requirements for the Concentration

Language Requirement: French 204 or equivalent

Six Courses: Three from Group I, one from Group II, and one from Group III. A second course should be taken from Group II or Group III.

Group I: French and Francophone Literature and Culture

  • FREN 206 Contemporary Francophone Culture
  • FREN 208 Paris Program: Contemporary France: Cultures, Politics, Society
  • FREN 241 The Lyric and Other Seductions
  • FREN 245 Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean
  • FREN 247 The Seven Deadly Sins
  • FREN 259 Paris Program: Hybrid Paris
  • FREN 340 Arts of Brevity: Short Fiction
  • FREN 341 Madame Bovary and Her Avatars
  • FREN 351 Love, War and Monsters in Renaissance France
  • FREN 359 Paris Program: Hybrid Paris
  • LCST 245 The Critical Toolbox: Who's Afraid of Theory?

Group II History and Art History

  • ARTH 236 Baroque Art
  • ARTH 255 Islam in the Eyes of the West (not offered in 2016-17)
  • FREN 254 Paris Program: French Art in Context
  • HIST 138 Crusades, Mission, and the Expansion of Europe (not offered in 2016-17)
  • HIST 141 Europe in the Twentieth Century
  • HIST 142 Women in Modern Europe
  • HIST 183 History of Early West Africa
  • HIST 236 Women and Gender in Europe before the French Revolution
  • HIST 280 African in the Arab World

Group III: Anthropology, Political Science, Media Studies

  • CAMS 219 African Cinema: A Quest for Identity and Self-Definition
  • EUST 110 The Nation State in Europe
  • EUST 159 "The Age of Isms" - Ideals, Ideas and Ideologies in Modern Europe
  • FREN 233 French Cinema and Culture
  • FREN 255 Islam in France: Historical Approaches and Current Debates
  • POSC 245 Politics of the Middle East I (1918-67)
  • POSC 246 Politics of the Middle East II (1967-2011)
  • POSC 255 Post-Modern Political Thought
  • POSC 261 Power, Freedom, and Revolution
  • POSC 282 Terrorism and Violence in World Politics
  • POSC 352 Political Theory of Alexis de Tocqueville*
  • POSC 359 Cosmopolitanism*
  • SOAN 256 Africa: Representation and Conflict

Senior Seminar: 

  • FREN 395 Middle East and French Connection
 

For students who wish to make the most of the French and Francophone Studies Concentration, we strongly recommend taking classes that reflect the diverse geography of the French and Francophone world. For courses other than those in the French and Francophone Studies department, students may be expected to do source reading in French, but papers and exams will be written in English. Check with the director for other on- or off-campus courses that may count for the concentration.