Discover and debate literature, media, and art from the French-speaking world while building fluency in the French language. Taught in French.
Athena Title
Texts and Contexts
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in FREN 3030E, FREN 3030H
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 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.
