French and Francophone Studies Concentration
Coordinator: Associate Professor Éva Pósfay, fall and winter, Professor Dana Strand, spring
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: Visions of Paris
FREN 250: Mali Program: Film, Literature and Society in Mali (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
HIST 181: West African Societies in Historical Perspective (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
HIST 234: France in the Making, 987-1460* (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
HIST 237: The Enlightenment
HIST 341: France, Third-Fifth Republic (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
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 235: Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean
FREN 240/241: Introduction to French and Francophone Literatures
FREN 245: Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
FREN 249/349: Paris Program: Visions of Paris
FREN 250: Mali Program: Film, Literature and Society in Mali (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
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 2002-2003.)
FREN 354: Literature of the Other (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
FREN 356: Nineteenth-Century Literature
FREN 358: Twentieth-Century Literature: Theater of Derision (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
FREN 359: Twentieth-Century Literature: The Novel and Memory (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
* This course qualifies for Group I if not taken to fulfill the supporting courses requirement.
Group II: History and Art History
ARTH 242: Impressionism (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
FREN 246: Paris Program: City of Wonders: Paris in the Arts
FREN 251: Mali Program: Negotiating the Past: The Challenges of Nation-building in Mali (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
HIST 137: Before Europe: The Early Medieval World 250-1050
HIST 140: Modern Europe 1789-1914
HIST 141: Europe in the Twentieth Century
HIST 142: The Peasants are Revolting! Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
HIST 181: West African Societies in Historical Perspective* (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
HIST 232: The Renaissance
HIST 234: France in the Making, 987-1460 (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
HIST 237: The Enlightenment*
HIST 238: Gender and Ethics in Medieval France (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
HIST 246: Julie's France, Pamela's England: Women in Society in the Age of Sensibility (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
HIST 341: France Third-Fifth Republic* (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
HIST 345: Atlantic Revolutions, France and America (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
*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
POSC 251: Modern Political Philosophy (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
POSC 255: Post-Modern Political Thought (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
POSC 352: Political Theory of Alexis de Tocqueville
SOAN 256: Ethnography of Africa
*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 2002-2003: Place and Identity in Contemporary France
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.