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 (not offered in 2013-2014)
FREN 249/349 Paris Program: Identity Crossings: France-Morocco
FREN 250 Mali Program: Film and Society in Mali (not offered in 2013-2014)
HIST 140 The Age of Revolutions: Modern Europe, 1789-1914
HIST 141 Europe in the Twentieth Century (not offered in 2013-2014)
HIST 237 The Enlightenment (not offered in 2013-2014)
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
FREN 241 The Lyric and Other Seductions
FREN 243 Topics in Cultural Studies: Cultural Reading of Food (not offered in 2013-2014)
FREN 245 Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean
FREN 249/349 Paris Program: Identity Crossings: France-Morocco
FREN 340 Arts of Brevity: Short Fiction (not offered in 2013-2014)
FREN 341 Madame Bovary and Her Avators (not offered in 2013-2014)
FREN 351 Topics in Sixteenth Century Literature: Metamorphoses: Love, War and Monsters in Early Modern France
FREN 354 Other Worlds (not offered in 2013-2014)
FREN 359 The Novel and Memory (not offered in 2013-2014)
FREN 360 Topics in French Studies: Algeria-France*
Group II History and Art History
ARTH 286 Legacies of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism Then and Now
FREN 246 Paris Program: Modern French Art
FREN 251 Mali Program: Negotiating the Past: The Challenges of Nation-building in Mali (not offered in 2013-2014)
HIST 137 Early Medieval Worlds (not offered in 2013-2014)
HIST 139 Foundations of Modern Europe (not offered in 2013-2014)
HIST 140 Modern Europe 1789-1914
HIST 141 Europe in the Twentieth Century (not offered in 2013-2014)
HIST 184 Colonial West Africa (not offered in 2013-2014)
HIST 232 Renaisance Worlds in France and Italy
HIST 282 Masquerades in Africa (not offered in 2013-2014)
Group III: Social Sciences: Anthropology, Economics, Political Science
ECON 233 European Economic History
FREN 248 Paris Program: Representations of Islam in France
POSC 251 Modern Political Philosophy: Modernity and Its Discontents
POSC 352 Political Theory of Alexis de Tocqueville
POSC 364 Capitalism and Its Critics
POSC 371 Modern Political Philosophy: Modernity and Its Discontents
SOAN 256 Ethnography of Africa (not offered in 2013-2014)
Senior Seminar: FREN 395 Francophone Switzerland
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.