French and Francophone Studies Concentration
Coordinator: Associate Professor Éva Pósfay
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 offered in French literature of France, Francophone literature of Africa and the Caribbean, film studies, social, political and art history, and economic, will afford a synthetic view of the evolution and impact of French cultural institutions. The majors most organically connected with French Studies are French, history, anthropology, art history, and political science, although students majoring in other disciplines may also concentrate in French and Francophone Studies.
Requirements for the Concentration:
Language Requirement: French 204 or equivalent
Two Supporting Courses:
FREN 243: Topics in Cultural Studies
FREN 249/349: Paris Program: Reading and Writing the City
FREN 250: Film, Literature and Society in Mali (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
HIST 181: West African Societies in Historical Perspective (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
HIST 237: The Enlightenment
HIST 341: France, Third-Fifth Republic
LCST 245: Structure/Gender/Culture
Four Core Courses: Two from Group I, one from Groups II and III
Group I: French and Francophone Literature
FREN 233: The French Cinema (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
FREN 235: Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
FREN 240/241: Introduction to French and Francophone Literatures
FREN 245: Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean
FREN 249/349: Paris Program: Reading and Writing the City*
FREN 250: Film, Literature and Society in Mali (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
FREN 351: Topics in Sixteenth Century: Metamorphoses: Love, War and Monsters in Early Modern France
FREN 352: Seventeenth-Century Literature: Eccentrics in Classical France (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
FREN 354: Literature of the Other (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
FREN 356: Paris: Capital of the Nineteenth Century
FREN 357: Modern French Poetry (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
FREN 358: Twentieth-Century Literature: Theater of Derision (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
FREN 359: Twentieth-Century Literature: The Novel and Memory
* This course qualifies for Group I if not taken to fulfill the supporting courses requirement.
Group II: History and Art History
ARTH 180: Medieval Art (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
ARTH 242: Impressionism
FREN 246: City of Visions (Paris Program)
FREN 251: Negotiating the Past: The Challenges of Nation-building in Mali (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
HIST 140: Modern Europe
HIST 142: The Peasants are Revolting! Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
HIST 181: West African Societies in Historical Perspective * (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
HIST 235: Social History of Early Modern Europe (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
HIST 237: The Enlightenment *
HIST 238: Gender and Ethics in Medieval France
HIST 341: France Third-Fifth Republic*
*This course qualifies for Group II if not taken to fulfill the supporting course requirement.
Group III: Social Sciences: Anthropology, Economics, Political Science
FREN 243: Topics in Cultural Studies
MEDA 238: Border Crossings: Postmodern Perspective on French and German Cinema
MEDA 241: The French Cinema (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
POSC 251: Modern Political Philosophy (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
POSC 255: Post-Modern Political Thought (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
POSC 357: Tocqueville (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
SOAN 256: Ethnography of Africa (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
SOAN 332: Contemporary Social Theory (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
*This course qualifies for Group III if not taken to fulfill the supporting course requirement.
Senior Seminar: FREN 395: Interdisciplinary Seminar in French or Francophone History, Culture, or Literature. For 2000-2001: Mande of West Africa
For courses other than those in the French department, students will be expected to do source reading in French, but papers and exams will be written in English. Check with the Coordinator for other on or off-campus courses that may count for the concentration.