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:
EUST 110 The Nation State in Europe
FREN 243 Topics in Cultural Studies: Cultural Reading of Food
FREN 249/349 Paris Program: Hybrid Paris
FREN 250 Mali Program: Film and Society in Mali (Not offered in 2014-2015)
HIST 139 Foundations of Modern Europe
HIST 140 The Age of Revolutions: Modern Europe, 1789-1914 (Not offered in 2014-2015)
HIST 141 Europe in the Twentieth Century
HIST 237 The Enlightenment (Not offered in 2014-2015)
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 Sexuality and Sagacity (Not offered in 2014-2015)
FREN 241 The Lyric and Other Seductions (Not offered in 2014-2015)
FREN 242 Journeys of Self-Discovery
FREN 244 Growing Up French
FREN 245 Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean (Not offered in 2014-2015)
FREN 249/349 Paris Program: Hybrid Paris
FREN 340 Arts of Brevity: Short Fiction (Not offered in 2014-2015)
FREN 341 Madame Bovary and Her Avators (Not offered in 2014-2015)
FREN 351 Metamorphoses: Love, War and Monsters in Early Modern France (Not offered in 2014-2015)
FREN 354 Other Worlds (Not offered in 2014-2015)
FREN 356 Women of Ill Repute: Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France
FREN 359 Twentieth Century Literature: The Novel and Memory
Group II History and Art History
ARTH 140 African Art and Culture
ARTH 172 Modern Art: 1890-1945
ARTH 286 Legacies of the Avant-Garde: Dada Then and Now (Not offered in 2014-2015)
FREN 246 Paris Program: Modern French Art
FREN 251 Mali Program: Negotiating the Past: The Challenges of Nation-building in Mali (Not offered in 2014-2015)
HIST 137 Early Medieval Worlds
HIST 139 Foundations of Modern Europe
HIST 140 The Age of Revolutions: Modern Europe 1789-1914 (Not offered in 2014-2015)
HIST 141 Europe in the Twentieth Century
HIST 181 West Africa in the Era of Slave Trade
HIST 183 History of Early West Africa
HIST 184 Colonial West Africa (Not offered in 2014-2015)
HIST 232 Renaisance Worlds in France and Italy (Not offered in 2014-2015)
HIST 236 Women's Lives in Pre-Modern Europe (Not offered in 2014-2015)
HIST 243 The Peasant's Are Revolting! Society and Politics in the Making of Modern Europe
HIST 247 The First World War as Global Phenomenon
HIST 281 War in Modern Africa
HIST 282 Masquerades in Africa (Not offered in 2014-2015)
Group III: Social Sciences: Anthropology, Economics, Political Science
ECON 233 European Economic History
EUST 159 The Age of 'Isms'- Ideals, Ideas and Ideologies in Modern Europe
FREN 248 Paris Program: Representations of Islam in France
POSC 245 Contemporary Politics of the Middle East (1918-1967)
POSC 251 Modern Political Philosophy: Modernity and Its Discontents (Not offered in 2014-2015)
POSC 255 Post-Modern Political Thought
POSC 278 Memory and Politics
POSC 282 Humanitarian Intervention and International Law
POSC 352 Political Theory of Alexis de Tocqueville (Not offered in 2014-2015)
POSC 359 Cosmopolitanism
POSC 364 Capitalism and Its Critics (Not offered in 2014-2015)
POSC 371 Modern Political Philosophy: Modernity and Its Discontents (Not offered in 2014-2015)
SOAN 256 Ethnography of Africa
Senior Seminar: FREN 395 The Mande of West Africa
For courses other than those in the French 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.