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 2015-2016)
FREN 249/349 Paris Program: Hybrid Paris
HIST 139 Foundations of Modern Europe (Not offered 2015-2016)
HIST 140 The Age of Revolutions: Modern Europe, 1789-1914 (Not offered 2015-2016)
HIST 141 Europe in the Twentieth Century (Not offered 2015-2016)
HIST 237 The Enlightenment
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 238 French Classics Reimagined
FREN 239 Banned Books
FREN 240 Sexuality and Sagacity (Not offered 2015-2016)
FREN 241 The Lyric and Other Seductions
FREN 242 Journeys of Self-Discovery (Not offered 2015-2016)
FREN 244 Contemporary France and Humor
FREN 245 Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean (Not offered 2015-2016)
FREN 249/349 Paris Program: Hybrid Paris
FREN 308 France and the African Imagination
FREN 340 Arts of Brevity: Short Fiction (Not offered 2015-2016)
FREN 341 Madame Bovary and Her Avatars (Not offered 2015-2016)
FREN 351Love, War and Monsters in Renaissance France (Not offered 2015-2016)
FREN 356 Women of Ill Repute: Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France (Not offered 2015-2016)
FREN 360 The Algerian War
Group II History and Art History
ARTH 140 African Art and Culture (Not offered 2015-2016)
ARTH 172 Modern Art: 1890-1945 (Not offered 2015-2016)
ARTH 286 Legacies of the Avant-Garde: Dada Then and Now
FREN 246 Paris Program: Modern French Art
HIST 130 The History of Political Thought, 300-1600: Power, Authority and Imagination
HIST 137 Early Medieval Worlds (Not offered 2015-2016)
HIST 139 Foundations of Modern Europe (Not offered 2015-2016)
HIST 140 The Age of Revolutions: Modern Europe 1789-1914 (Not offered 2015-2016)
HIST 141 Europe in the Twentieth Century (Not offered 2015-2016)
HIST 181 West Africa in the Era of Slave Trade
HIST 183 History of Early West Africa (Not offered 2015-2016)
HIST 184 Colonial West Africa
HIST 232 Renaissance Worlds in France and Italy
HIST 236 Women's Lives in Pre-Modern Europe
HIST 237 The Enlightenment
HIST 243 The Peasants Are Revolting! Society and Politics in the Making of Modern Europe (Not offered 2015-2016)
HIST 247 The First World War as Global Phenomenon (Not offered 2015-2016)
HIST 281 War in Modern Africa (Not offered 2015-2016)
HIST 282 Masquerades in Africa (Not offered 2015-2016)
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 Politics of the Middle East I (1918-1967)
POSC 246 Politics of the Middle East II (1967-2011)
POSC 251 Modern Political Philosophy: Modernity and Its Discontents
POSC 255 Post-Modern Political Thought
POSC 277 Religion in Politics: Conflict or Dialogue?
POSC 278 Memory and Politics (Not offered 2015-2016)
POSC 282 Terrorism and Violence in World Politics (Not offered 2015-2016)
POSC 348 Strangers, Foreigners and Exiles
POSC 352 Political Theory of Alexis de Tocqueville (Not offered 2015-2016)
POSC 359 Cosmopolitanism (Not offered 2015-2016)
POSC 364 Capitalism and Its Critics
POSC 371 Modern Political Philosophy: Modernity and Its Discontents
SOAN 256 Africa: Representation and Conflict
Senior Seminar: FREN 395 French Exoticism
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.