Director: Professor Dana Strand
French and Francophone Studies Concentration (FRSTc)
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 economics, 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: Cultural Reading
FREN 249/349 French Studies Seminar in Paris: European Identities: Paris and Geneva
FREN 250 Mali Program: Film and Society in Mali (Not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 139 Foundations of Modern Europe (Not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 232 Renaissance Worlds in France and Italy
HIST 237 The Enlightenment (Not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 330 Gender, Ethics and Power in Medieval France (Not offered in 2010-2011)
LCST 245 Introduction to Critical Methods: Structure, Gender, Culture
Four Core Courses: Two from Group I, one from Groups II and III
Group I: French and Francophone Literature
FREN 240 Growing Up French
FREN 241 The Lyric and Other Seductions
FREN 243 Topics in Cultural Studies: Cultural Reading
FREN 245 Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean (Not offered in 2010-2011)
FREN 249/349 Paris Program: European Identities: Paris and Geneva
FREN 351 Topics in Sixteenth Century Literature: Metamorphoses: Love, War and Monsters in Early Modern France (Not offered in 2010-2011)
FREN 352 The Court and Its Dissenters (Not offered in 2010-2011)
FREN 360 Topics in French Studies: Algeria-France (Not offered in 2010-2011)
Group II History and Art History
FREN 246 French Studies Seminar in Paris: City of Wonders: Paris in the Arts
FREN 251 Mali Program: Negotiating the Past: The Challenges of Nation-building in Mali (Not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 137 Before Europe: The Early Medieval World 250c-1050 (Not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 139 Foundations of Modern Europe* (Not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 141 Europe in the Twentieth Century (Not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 232 Renaissance Worlds in France and Italy
HIST 236 Women's Lives in Pre-Modern Europe (Not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 237 The Enlightenment* (Not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 243 The Peasants are Revolting! Society and Politics in the Making of Modern France (Not offered in 2010-2011)
HIST 330 Gender, Ethics and Power in Medieval France* (Not offered in 2010-2011)
*This course qualifies for Group II if not taken to fulfill the supporting course requirement.
Group III: Social Sciences: Anthropology, Economics, Political Science
ECON 233 European Economic History
FREN 233 The French Cinema (Not offered in 2010-2011)
CAMS 217 Border Crossings: Postmodern Perspective on French and German Cinema
POSC 251 Modern Political Philosophy (Not offered in 2010-2011)
POSC 352 Political Theory of Alexis de Tocqueville (Not offered in 2010-2011)
SOAN 256 Ethnography of Africa (Not offered in 2010-2011)
Senior Seminar: FREN 395 Cultures of Autobiography
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 director for other on or off-campus courses that may count for the concentration.