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Texts and Contexts

Communication
Critical Thinking

Course Description

Discover and debate literature, media, and art from the French-speaking world while building fluency in the French language. Taught in French.

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Texts and Contexts

Equivalent Courses

Not open to students with credit in FREN 3030, FREN 3030H

Non-Traditional Format

This course will be taught 95% or more online. Lectures, discussions, assignments, and student works are managed online according to the Guidelines for Online Teaching and Digital Literacy of the Romance Languages Department.

Prerequisite

FREN 3010 or FREN 3010H

Semester Course Offered

Offered every year.

Grading System

A - F (Traditional)

Student learning Outcomes

  • Students will demonstrate advanced fluency in spoken French.
  • Students will develop increased competency in written French.
  • Students will develop personal style in spoken and written French.
  • Students will review complex grammar as necessary.
  • Students will evaluate literature, art and media from the French-speaking world.
  • Students will identify genres, styles and structures of written and visual texts.
  • Students will explain historical and geographical contexts of written and visual texts.
  • Students will compare written and visual texts from different French-speaking regions.

Topical Outline

  • Genres: poetry, theater, prose. Poetry by poets such as (but not limited to) Ronsard, du Bellay, La Fontaine, Hugo, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Valéry, Césaire and Ponge. Theater by authors such as (but not limited to) Molière, Corneille, Racine, Anouilh, Vian, or Beckett. Prose by authors such as (but not limited to) Voltaire, Balzac, Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Sartre, Camus, Robbe-Grillet, or Sembene. Topics might include poetry: metaphor, voice, personification; theater: action, gesture, costume, plot, setting, props; prose: narrative voice, irony, kinds of narrators, tense of narration, historical setting. Linguistic topics might include performance utterances, dialogic situations, levels of discourse. Social topics might include courtly literature, urbanization, rise of the bourgeoisie.

Institutional Competencies Learning Outcomes

Communication

The ability to effectively develop, express, and exchange ideas in written, oral, interpersonal, or visual form.


Critical Thinking

The ability to pursue and comprehensively evaluate information before accepting or establishing a conclusion, decision, or action.


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