This course is designed for students who have completed or are 
completing the intermediate language sequence, students who are 
taking or who have taken French Conversation and Composition. 
This course will continue teaching isolated topics in 
linguistics and culture, thus continuing the linguistic and 
cultural training of earlier courses, and will present students 
with a large sampling of French and Francophone literature, of 
different forms, from different periods, and from several 
cultures. This course will form the gateway to the major, the 
two courses being required for further study of the language, 
culture, or literature.

Genres:  poetry, theater, prose.  
Poetry by Ronsard, du Bellay, La Fontaine, Hugo, Baudelaire, 
Rimbaud, Valery, Cesaire or Ponge.
Theater by MoliŠre, Corneille, Racine, Anouilh, Vian, or Beckett.
Prose by Voltaire, Balzac, Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Sartre, 
Camus, Robbe-Grillet, or Sembene.
Topics: poetry: metaphor, voice, personification; theater: 
action, gesture, costume, plot, setting, props; prose: narrative 
voice, irony, kinds of narrator, tense of narration, historical 
setting.
Linguistic topics might include: performance utterances, 
dialogic situations, levels of discourse. Social topics might 
include courtly literature, urbanization, and rise of the 
bourgeoisie.