Admission

Contact the UNT Office of Graduate Admissions at (940) 565-2636

FAX : (940) 565-2581

For information on the graduate program in French, contact the Department of Foreig Lang. & Literatures :

Dr. Marie-Christine KOOP, Chair at (940) 565-2404

or Michel SIRVENT, Graduate Advisor

or write to :

Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures, U. of North Texas,

P.O. Box 311127, Denton, TX 76203-6645

2007 SUMMER INSTITUTE

Two separate two-week sessions (3-6 graduate credits), Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Immersion experience

Session 1 (June 4-15): 18th-Century French Women Writers  (FREN 5200-001)

Dr. Marijn Kaplan

Eighteenth-century French women writers wrote numerous best-sellers—one critic suspects their books were literally read to p i e c e s which would explain why they have long been hard to find—yet modern readers have only recently begun to appreciate them. Through class discussions and readings of works by Françoise de Graffigny, Marie Jeanne Riccoboni and Isabelle de Charrière, we will analyze these authors’ “devious narratives”: their desires, their concerns, as well as their efforts to overcome gender-induced restrictions in both their lives and their work, creating “novel” alternatives for women.

Session 2 (June 18-29): History of French Civilization (FREN 5710-001)

Dr. Marie-Christine Koop

This course will present a chronological survey of French civilization from the origins to the end of the nineteenth century. Topics will include political figures, major historical events, institutions, economic developments, social issues (education, family, women), history of ideas, literary movements, art history, and music history. Lectures and discussions will be supplemented by readings, video sequences, slides, recordings, web sites, and a CD-ROM (2000 Ans d'histoire de France, new ed., HavasInteractive, 2000). Textbook: to be announced.

Information and the application form are available at

http://courses.unt.edu/koop/institute.htm,

or contact Dr. Koop, Director of the French Summer Institute.

For more information on the graduate program in Spanish, contact Dr. Michel Sirvent, Graduate Adviser in French, or visit http://www.forl.unt.edu. The program offers graduate assistantships at UNT ($4,529 per semester in 2006-2007 for an 8-hour load) and summer study at the University of Strasbourg, France.

2007 SPRING

FREN 5430-001: The Works of François Rabelais Wednesday, 5:00-7:50 p.m.

Dr. Jerry Nash

Considered by many French literary students and scholars as the best example of the Renaissance mind and spirit, François Rabelais is also one of France's great comic geniuses and prose writers. This course will explore the verbal and literary constructs comprising the « Gargantua et Pantagruel,» Rabelais's five novels.

FREN 5600-001: French Women Writers Tuesday, 5:00-7:50 p.m.

Dr. Marijn S. Kaplan

This course will present an overview of women’s contributions to French literature from the Middle Ages to the present. The overview is organized around themes prevalent in women’s writing throughout the ages such as coming to writing, marriage, love, and feminism. In addition, students will be exposed to entire novels and larger selections from works by four women writers representing the Middle Ages, the seventeenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries through individual case studies.

FREN 5740-001: Quebec Society and Culture Monday, 5:00-7:50 p.m.

Dr. Marie-Christine Koop

This course will present an overview of Québec society and culture. After an historical survey beginning with the discovery of Québec by Jacques Cartier, it will analyze the changes that took place during the Révolution Tranquille in the political, economic, social, and cultural arenas. It will then examine the evolution of mentalities, especially the identity crisis, ideologies, and the political agenda that led to the referenda of 1980 and 1995 for a possible independence of Québec from Canada. The course will also address the salient traits pertaining to Québec culture (literature, art, film, theatre, chanson) and the situation of Québec society today. The major texts will be Marie-Christine W. Koop’s Le Québec aujourd’hui. Identité, société et culture and Louis Hémon’s Maria Chapdelaine. Additional readings, TV sequences, and films will supplement the lectures and readings.

Monday: 5:00pm-8:00pm, Dr. Lawrence Williams

FREN 5450: Le Théâtre français des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles Tuesday:

5:00pm - 8:00pm, Dr. Marjin S. Kaplan

FREN 5540: Le Roman du XX-ème siècle

Wednesday: 5:00pm - 8:00pm, Dr. Michel Sirvent

2006 French Summer Institute Two separate two-week sessions (3-6 graduate credits), Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Immersion experience

Session 1 (June 5-16): Advanced Grammar and Phonetics Review (FREN 5300)

Dr. Marie-Christine Koop

This course has two objectives: (1) Provide a comprehensive review of French grammar with various exercises, including translation with an emphasis on a contrastive analysis of standard French and English structures; (2) present a review of the French phonetic system through a study of the phonetic alphabet and intensive practice in the pronunciation of standard French to improve listening and pronunciation skills through personalized exercises, including recordings on cassette tapes. Textbooks: to be announced. This course is required for students enrolled in the master's program in French, unless FREN 5340 has been completed.

Session 2 (June 19-30): Nineteenth-Century French Prose (FREN 5520)

Dr. Michel SIRVENT

The course will focus on 19th-century narrative prose from Balzac to Maupassant. Readings will include two novels: Balzac's Le Colonel Chabert, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, and two short stories by Maupassant : La Maison Tellier and Le Horla. Texts will be compared with film adaptations (Chabrol, Renoir, Ophuls) and in relation to art, in particular between Maupassant's stories and Impressionism.

Requirements: one oral presentation; one term paper.

Information & application available at http://courses.unt.edu/koop,

or contact Dr. Koop, Institute Director .

Tuesday 5:00-7:50 p.m. Dr. Michel Sirvent

The main goal is to develop a generic method for textual analysis by introducing Roland Barthes' S/Z and Gérard Genette's Figures III, both groundbreaking classics. The emphasis will be on narrative forms. As a methodology course, the objective is to help students develop their critical skills by better understanding textual strategies. Whether serving artistic or political ends, the uses and misuses of narrative discourse become a challenge to the current reader. In this sense, the capacity to analyse narrative structures in detail provides us with "self-defense" tools against all sorts of cultural forms of discourse.

The 3 main course components will be the following :

1. Introduce basic concepts in linguistics relevant to textual analysis : from classical works by Saussure, Jakobson, Benveniste, as well as from current studies on discourse analysis by J.-M. Adam and D. Maingueneau.

2. Introduce specific tools for textual/narrative analysis. These tools will be based upon the 2 influential studies above mentioned : - Barthes' S/Z illustrates a practical method for reading a 19th century short story by Balzac (Sarrasine). - Genette's Figures III helps to distinguish between different variables such as narrative voice, point of view, narrative time, tempo, and levels, etc.

3. Apply and test these analytical tools through practical exercises on 2 selected readings.

- a 19th century short story by H. de Balzac : Le Chef d'oeuvre inconnu

- a 20th century novel by Jean Giono : Un roi sans divertissement.

Requirements: two oral reports; one oral presentation; one midterm exam; one term paper. This is a required course, except for students following the French Summer Institute track (completing at least 15 of the 36 credits for the M.A. during the French Summer Institute).

FREN 5430-001: RENAISSANCE POETRY

Wednesday 5:00-7:50 p.m. Dr. Jerry Nash

This seminar will focus on readings from the major poets of the Renaissance: Marot, Labé, Scève, Du Bellay, Ronsard, D'Aubigné.

Requirements: an explication de texte, a mid-term exam, a final exam.

FREN 5730-001: WOMEN IN FRANCE

Monday 5:00-7:50 p.m. Dr. Marie-Christine Koop

The objective of this seminar is to show the various stages that have led to the emancipation of women in France. It will first offer an overview of women's conditions in France from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century through the various historical events and social movements that have enabled them to achieve basic rights in education, contraception, civil life, work, and politics. The second part of the seminar will focus on the current status of women in France, changes in mentality, and the role of women?s associations in the implementation of equal rights. Lectures and discussions will be supplemented by readings (history, sociology, cultural anthropology), feature films, and video sequences. Texts include Le Deuxième Sexe (vol. 2) by Simone de Beauvoir and Les Femmes dans la société française au XXe siècle by Christine Bard.

Monday, 5:00-7:50 p.m. Dr. Lawrence Williams

Applied French linguistics can be broadly defined as the analysis of how the French language is used in both educational and non-educational contexts. In this course, students will learn how to define a specific topic of investigation (an issue or phenomenon related to French) and analyze it in three stages:

1) state the problem, create questions to guide the study, and develop a method or plan for finding or collecting data;

2) review the relevant professional literature; and

3) analyze data. For the semester-long project, each student may choose an area of inquiry related to his/her teaching or research interests.

http://courses.unt.edu/lwilliams/fren5320/

FREN 5460: 17th/18th-Century Epistolary Novel

Wednesday, 5:00-7:50 p.m. Dr. Marijn Kaplan

In this course we will trace the development of the French epistolary novel throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Starting at its humble beginnings, we will read the "Lettres de la religieuse portugaise," followed by such highlights as the "Lettres persanes" and "La Nouvelle Héloïse." Via Diderot's hybrid "La Religieuse" we will arrive at epistolary fiction's alleged masterpiece and apex in the late eighteenth century, "Les Liaisons dangereuses." Class discussions and close readings will guide our primarily formal analysis of the epistolary novel, from its monovocal mémoire to its perplexingly polyvocal perspective."

FREN 5500: 19th/20th-Century French Poetry

Tuesday, 5:00-7:50 p.m. Dr. Michel Sirvent

Study and analysis of the major movements of French Poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries, from Romanticism to present, with an emphasis on Ponge's poetry,spatial poetry, and experimental texts (M. Roche) after 1950.

Readings: Hugo, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, de Noailles,Valéry, Apollinaire, Breton, Char, Ponge, du Bouchet, Albiach, P. Garnier, M. Roche, J. Roubaud, Oulipo.

Texts:

Anthologie de la poésie française du XXe siècle; Ed. Michel Décaudin. Gallimard, c1984-c1992. Vol. 1 (#191);

Anthologie de la poésie française du XIXe siècle, Vol. 1 & 2;

Francis Ponge, Le Parti pris des choses, Gallimard;

Jeux poétiques, Frank Evrard, Ed. Ellipses, 2005.

Requirements: explications de textes, a mid-term exam, a term essay.

Two separate two-week sessions (3-6 graduate credits), Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Immersion experience

Session 1 (June 6-17): Contemporary France (FREN 5720)

Dr. Marie-Christine Koop

This course will offer a survey of contemporary France regarding institutions, daily life, current events, and the value system. After a short summary of French history and an introduction on the importance of the French language in the world, the following topics will be addressed: geography and climate, population and immigration, education, family, women, health issues and eating habits, urbanism and transportation, government, political parties and elections, the economy and the work force, the place of France within the European Union, leisure, the media, art, and culture. Lectures and discussions will be supplemented by readings, video sequences, and feature films.

Textbook: to be announced.

Session 2 (June 20-July 1): Methods of Teaching French (FREN 5150)

Dr. Lawrence Williams

This course on methods of teaching French will provide a forum for debate and discussion of a wide range of theoretical perspectives and approaches to instruction and assessment. In addition to exploring existing tools for teachers of français langue étrangère (FLE), there will be daily opportunities to create instructional materials and assessment tools for the FLE classroom. Textbook analysis, task design, and the integration of multimedia resources will be an integral part of this course. A special segment of each class period will highlight a different element of culture, grammar, or language use. This segment will include topics such as the following: teaching and testing le passé composé and l'imparfait; using French tongue twisters as pronunciation and writing exercises; using e-French to promote electronic literacy; la dictée revisited; la poutine, a culinary treasure; and many more. The overarching objective is to challenge existing beliefs and practices about foreign language learning and teaching in order to engage in critical pedagogy, a reflective activity that is crucial for educators.

Information & application available at http://courses.unt.edu/koop,

or contact Dr. Koop, Institute Director (koop@unt.edu).

Monday, 5:00-7:50 p.m. Dr. Marie-Christine KOOP

This course will present a chronological survey of French civilization from the origins to the end of the nineteenth century. Topics will include major political figures and historical events, institutions, economic developments, social issues (education, family, women), history of ideas, literary movements, art history, and music history. Lectures and discussions will be supplemented by readings, video sequences, slides, recordings, and a CD-ROM. Textbook: to be announced.

 FREN 5200: 20TH-CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE : BETWEEN FICTION and AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Tuesday, 5:00-7:50 p.m.    Dr. Michel SIRVENT

The course will focus on the interplay between the novel genre and autobiography through some of the most representative masterpieces of French 20th century: Marcel PROUST's Un amour de Swann, J. P. SARTRE's Les Mots, Georges PEREC's W ou le souvenir d'enfance, Nathalie SARRAUTE's Enfance, and A. ROBBE-GRILLET's Le Miroir qui revient. The emphasis will be on the different narrative strategies involved in each work. Class format will consist of oral presentations ("analyses de texte", i.e., close readings of specific passages) followed by discussions.There will be a term paper.

FREN 5200: le roman autobiographique

FREN 5200: FRENCH WOMEN WRITERS

Wednesday, 5:00-7:50 p.m.    Dr. Marijn S. KAPLAN

This course will present an overview of women's contributions to French literature from the Middle Ages to the present. The overview is organized around themes prevalent in women's writing throughout the ages such as coming to writing, marriage, love, and feminism. In addition, students will be exposed to entire novels and larger selections from works by four women writers representing the Middle Ages, the seventeenth, eighteenth and twentieth centuries through individual case studies.

Two separate two-week sessions (3-6 graduate credits), Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Immersion experience

Session 1 (June 7-18): Advanced French Conversation (FREN 5200)

Dr. Marie-Christine Koop

The main objective of this course is to enable students to improve their fluency in spoken French through intensive oral practice in a variety of activities such as sketches, debates, oral presentations, discussions on films and readings, etc. Students will also have the opportunity to enrich their vocabulary and review the French phonetic system. As a final class project, they will prepare and present a French television morning show which will be filmed and then viewed in class.

Session 2 (June 21-July 2): French Renaissance Prose (FREN 5200)

Dr. Jerry Nash

A study of two major prose writers of the French Renaissance: François Rabelais and Michel de Montaigne. Emphasis will be given to their literary contributions in the genre of prose and to their roles in the history of ideas. Readings will be in modern French. Video materials will be used to supplement the readings.

Texts:

-Dumont.ed. Rabelais: Gargantua; Pantagruel.

-Faisant. Ed.: Montaigne: Essais.

Tuesday, 5:00-7:50 p.m. Dr. Jerry Nash

This seminar will focus on the love poetry of Du Bellay and on the body of critical writings that has been devoted to explicating this poetry from the Renaissance to our own modern times. There will be a series of critical readings of these writings and reports by those students in the seminar, a research paper, and a final examination.

Text:

Henri Chamard, editor. Joachim Du Bellay, oeuvres poétiques, Vol. 1 (L'Olive, L?Antérotique, XIII Sonnetz de l?Honeste Amour, etc.). "Société des textes français modernes." Paris: Nizet, 1982.

FREN 5200-002: Québec Society and Culture

Wednesday, 5:00-7:50 p.m. Dr. Marie-Christine Koop

This course will present an overview of Québec society and culture since its colonial origins. After an historical survey beginning with the discovery of Québec by Jacques Cartier, it will analyze the changes that took place during the Révolution Tranquille in the political, economic, social, and cultural arenas. It will then examine the evolution of mentalities, especially the identity crisis, ideologies, and the political agenda that led to the referenda of 1980 and 1995 for a possible independence of Québec from Canada. The course will also address the salient traits pertaining to Québec culture (literature, art, film, theatre, chanson) and the situation of Québec society today. TV sequences and films will supplement the lectures and readings.

FREN 5350: Analysis of Narrative Texts

Dr.  Michel SIRVENT

This is a methodology course to help students better analyze any form of narrative texts (whether literary or historical). The course will start with basic concepts from linguistics (Saussure, Jakobson, Barthes). Textual analysis will be based upon Roland BARTHES' world famous book, S/Z, that illustrates a practical method for reading a classical short story by BALZAC. The method for dealing with narrative texts will be based upon Gérard GENETTE's, Figures III, which introduces several fundamental narrative parameters (narrative voice, point of view, narrative time, narrative tempo, etc.). The course's main objective is to help students to apply all concepts and analytical tools through specific exercises and selected readings (classic or contemporary). In this manner they will acquire their own methodology for reading narratives.

REQUIRED TEXTS

- Roland BARTHES, S/Z, Seuil, Points, 1972.

- Gérard GENETTE, "Discours du récit" in Figures III, Seuil/Poétique, 1972, p. 67-271, PQ95 G4 1972

- Honoré De BALZAC, Le Chef d??uvre inconnu et autres nouvelles, Gallimard/Folio Classique, 1994.

FREN 5150 Teaching Methods for French

Dr. Lawrence Williams

This course will provide an overview of approaches to foreign language teaching and the theoretical notions underlying current trends and classroom practice. FREN 5150 has the following primary objectives:

(1) to acquaint students with issues and research in foreign language teaching;

(2) to show ways of using that research to achieve more effective classroom teaching and testing;

(3) to develop students? skills in reviewing teaching performance and instructional materials. Class meetings will be devoted to lecture, discussion, short presentations and/or demonstrations by students and the instructor. Students will use professional journals to explore topics of interest; prepare classroom materials; review instructional materials; complete a final examination.

FREN 5200.002 17th and 18th century French Theatre

Dr. Marijn S. Kaplan

There is arguably no period in French history when theater was as popular and as strongly supported by the government as during the Sun King's reign. Through our readings of works by the major playwrights of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, from Corneille to Beaumarchais, we will analyze in this course how drama functioned as an expression of artistic genius in the cultural, social, and political context of the Ancien Régime.

FREN 5200 20th century French Novel Le roman du vingtième siècle

Tuesday, 5:00-7:50 pm Michel SIRVENT

Starting with Albert CAMUS' L'Etranger, the course will focus on the transformation of the novel genre through some of the most representative masterpieces of French 20th century : Jean-Paul SARTRE's La Nausée, Jean GIONO's Un roi sans divertissement , Alain ROBBE-GRILLET's Le Voyeur, Marguerite DURAS' Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein, and Georges PEREC's Un homme qui dort (excerpts).

The course will include several video documents : interviews with Sartre, Robbe-Grillet, Duras, and a film adaptation of Perec's Un homme qui dort. The emphasis will be on the different narrative strategies involved in each work. Class format will consist of oral presentations ("analyses de texte", i.e., close readings of specific passages) followed by discussions. There will be a term paper, and an oral report-summary of the term paper.

T 5:00-7:50 in Lang. 202 Instructor: Dr. Marijn S. Kaplan

In this course we will trace the development of the French epistolary novel throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Starting at its humble beginnings, we will read the Lettres de la religieuse portugaise, followed by such highlights as the Lettres persanes and La Nouvelle Héloïse. Via Diderot's hybrid La Religieusewe will arrive at epistolary fiction?s alleged masterpiece and apex in the late eighteenth century, Les Liaisons dangereuses. Class discussions and close readings will guide our primarily formal analysis of the epistolary novel, from its monovocal mémoire to its perplexingly polyvocal perspective.

FREN 5120-001: Contemporary French Society

Dr. Marie-Christine Koop Wednesday, 5:00-7:50 p.m.

This course will offer a survey of contemporary France regarding institutions, daily life, current events, and the value system. After a short summary of French history and an introduction on the importance of the French language in the world, the following topics will be addressed: geography and climate, population and immigration, education, family, women, eating habits, housing, transportation, administration, government, political parties and recent elections, the economy and the work force, the European Union, leisure, vacation, sports, the media, art, and culture.

Main textbook:

Charles DEBBASCH & Jean-Marie PONTIER. La Société française. 4th ed. (Paris: Armand Colin, 2001).

Lectures and discussions will be supplemented by readings, video sequences, feature films, and CD-ROMs.

FREN 5300  History of the French Language (3 credit hours)

Dr. John Moses

This course is designed as an introduction to the history of the French language. Over the semester, we will trace the evolution of French from its Latin source, with attention to both the external (social, political, etc.) factors that influenced this evolution and the internal changes (phonological, morphological and syntactic) that occurred.

Knowledge of Latin is useful but not prerequisite.

 FREN 5150 : METHODS OF TEACHING FRENCH

Mondays 5:00-7:50 Instructor: Dr. John G. MOSES

This course will provide an overview of approaches to foreign language teaching and the theoretical notions underlying current trends and classroom practice. F5150 has the following primary objectives: to acquaint students with issues and research in foreign language teaching; to show ways of using that research to achieve more effective classroom teaching and testing; to develop students' skills in evaluating teaching performance and instructional materials.

Class meetings will be devoted to lecture, discussion, short presentations and/or demonstrations by students and the instructor. Students will use professional journals to explore topics of interest; prepare classroom materials; evaluate instructional materials; complete a final examination.

FREN 5200 : Le roman du vingtième siècle

Mardi 17 h -19h. 50 (Tuesday, 5:00-7:50 pm)    Dr.  Michel SIRVENT

TEXTES AU PROGRAMME:

André GIDE, LES CAVES DU VATICAN, GALLIMARD/FOLIO, ISBN: 2070360342

Marcel PROUST, DU COTE DE CHEZ SWANN, GALLIMARD/FOLIO, ISBN: 2070379248

L. F. CELINE, VOYAGE AU BOUT DE LA NUIT, GALLIMARD/FOLIO #28, ISBN: 2-07-036028-8 [PQ2607.E834 R6 1974 V. 1]

Claude SIMON, LA ROUTE DES FLANDRES, DOUBLE MINUIT, ISBN : 2707306290

OBJECTIFS DU COURS

PRATIQUE D'UNE MÉTHODE D'ANALYSE DU TEXTE NARRATIF : sur la base notamment de FIGURES III de Gérard GENETTE (extraits de "Discours du récit", pp. 67-266), Seuil Poétique 1972 [PQ. G4 1972}

2002 SUMMER INSTITUTE

2002 FRENCH SUMMER INSTITUTE Two separate two-week sessions (3-6 graduate credits), Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Immersion experience

Session 1 (June 3-14): Advanced grammar and phonetics review (FREN 5300)

Dr. Marie-Christine Koop

This course has two objectives:

1. Provide a comprehensive review of French grammar with various exercises, including translation. The emphasis will be on a contrastive analysis of standard French and English structures.

2. Present a review of the French phonetic system through a study of the phonetic alphabet and intensive practice in the pronunciation of standard French. Students will improve both their listening and pronunciation skills through personalized exercises, including recordings on cassette tapes.

Textbooks:

(a) Rosenberg, Samuel, et al. Harper's Grammar of French. Harper & Row/Heinle & Heinle, 1983

(b) Dansereau, Diane. Savoir dire en français. Cours de phonétique et de prononciation. D.C. Heath, 1990.

This course is required for all students enrolled in the master's program in French.

Session 2 (June 17-28): 17th-century French theater (FREN 5050)

Professor M. P. Martine D. Price

This course will provide an overview of the giants of France?s seventeenth-century drama. After a brief summary of early French theater we will focus on some specific contributions from Racine, Corneille and Molière by reading, analyzing and viewing the three following masterpieces: Phèdre, Le Cid, and Le Misanthrope. Through Racine's emotive words and the tragic figures of Phèdre we will experience a tragedy and observe which elements link French theater to its classical past. As we continue with another tragedy rooted in the Spanish medieval past we will discover the unforgettable and heroic figures we owe to Corneille, figures that must be known by every francophile. In the final play of our triptych we will uncover the treasures within the Misanthrope, as we celebrate Molière?s brilliant wit and biting satire we also watch human flaws come to life and examine why this psychological drama makes us laugh. Our class discussions will be enriched by videos, as we will enjoy and compare some superb performances of these jewels of literature filled with a universal appeal.

Additional information and the application form for the French Summer Institute are available at http://courses.unt.edu/koop (under French Summer Institute) or by contacting Dr. Koop, Institute Director, at koop@unt.edu.

2002 SPRING

FREN 5200-001: The French education system

Monday, 5:00-7:50 pm Instructor: Dr. Marie-Christine Koop

This course will present an overview of the French education system: history of education in France; organization at all levels; specificities of education in France; factors leading to academic success; women and education; the "baccalauréat" as an institution; teacher training, categories of teachers, and teachers' concerns; recent reforms at all levels of the education system; public vs. private schools; current and recent issues (languages, technology, the Muslim scarf, violence). The various themes will be illustrated with video sequences and feature films.

FREN 5200-002: La poésie du seizième siècle

Tuesday, 5:00-7:50 pm Instructor: Dr. Jerry Nash

Readings from the major poets of the Renaissance: Marot, Labé, Scève, Du Bellay, Ronsard, D'Aubigné.

Requirements: an explication de texte, a mid-term exam, a final exam.

FREN 5300-001: Introduction to French applied linguistics

Wednesday, 5:00-7:50 pm Instructor: Professor John Moses

This course is designed to introduce teachers of French to the structure of the French language and to a number of language issues in francophone countries throughout the world. Among the topics to be treated are: geographic and sociolinguistic variation both in and outside of metropolitan France; the notions of correctness and pedagogical norm; aspects of remedial phonetics; the orthographic system; the structure and semantics of the noun and verb systems; aspects of sentence structure. In addition to course readings, students will complete study questions, two extended projects and a final examination. This course will be taught in French. No previous coursework in linguistics is assumed.

2001 FALL

FREN 5350 : THEORIE ET ANALYSE DU TEXTE LITTERAIRE (Le texte narratif) Instructor :  Dr. Michel SIRVENT

OBJECTIFS DU COURS: Il s'agit d'un cours d?introduction à la théorie littéraire. Le cours vise à développer une approche pratique d?analyse des textes. Le cours se donne 2 objectifs complémentaires:

1) THÉORIE: Introduire à la théorie structuraliste et post-structuraliste du texte littéraire dans le domaine principalement de la narratologie. Il s'agit de confronter certaines méthodes d'analyse du récit.

2) LECTURE/ MISE EN PRATIQUE D?UNE MÉTHODE D?ANALYSE DU TEXTE NARRATIF : Application, illustration, discussion, vérification des concepts et des instruments d'analyse proposés dans les textes théoriques à partir des deux récits suivants :

- Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu de BALZAC

- W ou le souvenir d'enfance de PEREC

TEXTES AU PROGRAMME:

THEORIE :

-Roland BARTHES, S/Z, Seuil, Points, 1972.

-Gérard GENETTE, "Discours du récit" in Figures III, Seuil/Poétique, 1972, p. 67-271, PQ95 G4 1972

FICTION :

- Honoré De BALZAC, Le Chef d??uvre inconnu et autres nouvelles, Gallimard/Folio Classique, 1994.

- Georges PEREC, W ou le souvenir d'enfance, Gallimard, L'imaginaire", (Denoël 1975), PQ2676.E67 W23 1994

2 sessions of two weeks each : 4-week academic program: 3-6- graduate credits Classes meet Monday-Friday, 8:30-12:20 and 1:30-3:30 pm

FREN 5120: CONTEMPORARY FRENCH SOCIETY

Dr. Marie-Christine KOOP

This course will offer a survey of contemporary France regarding institutions, daily life, current events, and the value system. After a short summary of French history and an introduction on the importance of the French language in the world, the following topics will be addressed: geography and climate; population and immigration; the education system; family; women; eating habits; housing and transportation; administration, government, and political parties; the economy and the work force; leisure, vacation, and sports; the media, art, and culture. Lectures and discussions will be supplemented by readings, video sequences, feature films, and CD-ROMs.

FREN 5200-001 : WOMEN IN FRANCE

Dr. Marie-Christine KOOP 5:00-7:50 M

The objective of this course is to show the various stages that have led to the emancipation of women in France. It will first offer an overview of womenís conditions in France from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century through the various historical events and social movements that have enabled them to achieve basic rights in education, contraception, civil life, work, and politics. The second part of the course will focus on the current status of women in France, changes in mentality, and the role of womenís associations in the implementation of equal rights.

Lectures and discussions will be supplemented by readings from major sources, video sequences, feature films, and CD-ROMs.

FREN 5200-002 : EARLY MODERN FRENCH FEMINISM

Dr. Jerry NASH,  5:00-7:50 T

This graduate seminar will use the Letters (1539) of Hélisenne de Crenne as the primary text for critical inquiry into and discussion of early modern feminism in France. The course will be taught both in French and English. Supplementing this pivotal Renaissance text will be readings in the classical and medieval works of feminist and anti-feminist thinkers and writers like Henri Corneille Agrippa (De nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus/Declaration on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex), Juan-Luis Viv@s (De institutione foeminae christianae/ Instruction of a Christian Woman), Boccaccio (De claris mulieribus/ Of Famous Women), Jean de Meung (Le Roman de la rose), Gratien du Pont, Controverses des sexes masculin et feminin), etc. Pro-feminist and anti-feminist views of woman will be the major focus of the seminar.

Requirements: An oral exposé, a research paper, a final exam.

Texts:

Hélisenne de Crenne, Les epistres familieres et invectives. Edited by Jerry C. Nash. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1996. (For students in French Studies)

A Renaissance Woman: Helisenne's Personal and Invective Letters. Translated by Marianna Mustacchi and Paul Archambault. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1986. (For students in academic areas other than French)

FREN 5200-003 : 18th CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE DIDEROT ET L'ESPRIT DES LUMIERES

Dr. Isabelle DEMARTE 5:00-7:50 W

Since the 1950's, Diderot has become a most prominent figure amongst Enlightenment thinkers. Polemic and "pantophile", his intelligence and imagination knew no boundaries, in particular those defining literary genres. In this seminar, we will focus on the various ways in which philosophical, dramatic, esthetic, and fictional works by Diderot allowed him to express the spirit of the Enlightenment. (Weekly discussions, close readings, explications de texte; mid-term and final examinations; final paper; XVIIIth c. music and paintings whenever possible)

2000 FALL

FREN 5150 : METHODS OF TEACHING FRENCH Professor

John G. MOSES Monday 5:00-7:50 LB 315

This course will provide an overview of approaches to foreign language teaching and the theoretical notions underlying current trends and classroom practice. F5150 has the following primary objectives: to acquaint students with issues and research in foreign language teaching; to show ways of using that research to achieve more effective classroom teaching and testing; to develop studentsí skills in evaluating teaching performance and instructional materials.Class meetings will be devoted to lecture, discussion, short presentations and/or demonstrations by students and the instructor. Students will use professional journals to explore topics of interest; prepare classroom materials; evaluate instructional materials; complete a final examination.

FREN 5200 : LE NOUVEAU ROMAN

Dr. Michel SIRVENT    mardi 5:00-7:50 LB 315

OEUVRES

1955 A. ROBBE-GRILLET LE VOYEUR Minuit 843 r532v

1956 Michel BUTOR L'EMPLOI DU TEMPS Minuit PQ2603.U73 E45

1958 Claude OLLIER LA MISE EN SCENE Garnier-Flammarion PQ2675.L398 M5

1966 Marguerite DURAS LE VICE-CONSUL Gallimard/Líimaginaire PQ2607.U8245 V47

1973 Jean RICARDOU LE NOUVEAU ROMAN (extraits), Seuil/Points PQ671 .R49

1980 Nathalie SARRAUTE L'USAGE DE LA PAROLE Gallimard/ Folio PQ2637.A783 U8

FREN 5300 : ADVANCED GRAMMAR AND PHONETICS REVIEW

Dr. Marie-Christine KOOP 5:00-7:50 W

This course has two objectives:

1. Provide a comprehensive review of French grammar with various exercises, including translation. The emphasis will be on a contrastive analysis of French and English.

2. Present a review of the French phonetic system through a study of the phonetic alphabet and intensive practice in pronunciation. Students will improve both their listening and pronunciation skills through personalized exercises, including recordings on cassette tapes.

Note: This course is required for students enrolled in the master's degree in French, as it will help them with research papers and teaching.

Textbooks:

1. Rosenberg, Samuel, et al. Harper's Grammar of French. Harper & Row/Heinle & Heinle, 1983.

2. Rosenberg, Samuel, et al. Readings to Accompany Harper's Grammar of French. Heinle & Heinle, 1983.

3. Dansereau, Diane. Savoir dire en français. Cours de phonétique et de prononciation. D.C. Heath, 1990.

2000 SUMMER INSTITUTE

2 sessions of two weeks each : June 5-30 4-week academic program: 3-6- graduate credits Classes meet Monday-Friday, 8:30-12:20 and 1:30-3:30 pm

FREN 5200-001: Session I (June5-16) : NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH PROSE

 Dr.    Michel SIRVENT

L'approche est interdisciplinaire :

- d'une part, le cours inclut un survol de l'art au 19-ème siècle : peinture, sculpture, avec, notamment l'accent mis sur le courant impressionniste.

- d'autre part, chaque nouvelle sera comparée à sa version cinématographique : pour Le Chef díúuvre incon, La Belle Noiseuse de J. Rivette; pour Une partie de campagne, l'adaptation de Jean Renoir; pour Le Masque, le Modèle et La Maison Tellier, les réalisations de Max Ophuls; pour La Parure, Qui sait?, Le Horla et La Petite Roque, diverses adaptations produites par la télévision française.

OEUVRES au programme

BALZAC, Le chef d'úuvre inconnu et autres nouvelles Paris, Gallimard, Folio classique #2577

MAUPASSANT, La Petite Roque, Paris, Gallimard, Folio classique # 1809, 1987.

MAUPASSANT, La Maison Tellier et Une partie de campagne, Paris, Gallimard, Folio classique

MAUPASSANT, "Le Horla", "Qui sait ?" in Le Horla et autres Contes Fantastiques, Classiques Hachette, 1994 #48. Ou Le Horla, Petits classiques Larousse, 1999

Autres textes photocopiés : "Le Masque", "Le Modèle", "Qui sait?", "La Parure" (facultatif)

FREN 5120: Session 2 (June 19-30) : ADVANCED ORAL PRACTICE

Dr. Isabelle DEMARTE

1999 FALL

FREN 5200 : GENRE STUDY : 20TH CENTURY AUTOBIOGRAPHY Michel SIRVENT

Du Roman Autobiographique à la Nouvelle

Autobiographie                                                                                         

1999 SUMMER INSTITUTE

FREN 5200-001: Session I (June 7-18) : EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH PROSE

Dr. Isabelle DEMARTE

The course will include (1) close reading/interpretation of substantial excerpts from Enlightenment novels by Montesquieu (Lettres persanes), Diderot (La Religieuse), Laclos (Les Liaisons dangereuses), Graffigny (Lettres d'une péruvienne) and (2) 18/20th-century criticism. Painting, history of ideas (CD-ROMs : Le Louvre and the 18th century), and screen adaptations will provide an interdisciplinary approach to the socio-historic context from which the novel emerged

FREN 5120: Session 2 (June 21-July 2) : HISTORY OF FRENCH CIVILIZATION

Dr. Marie-Christine KOOP

This course will present a chronological survey of French civilization from the origins to the end of the 19th century. Topics will include political figures, majors historical events, social issues, literary movements, art history, and music history. The textbook will be supplemented by articles, films, recordings, CD-ROMs, & Internet sites.                                              

1999 SPRING

FREN 5200 : THE FRENCH EDUCATION SYSTEM

Dr. Marie-Christine KOOP    Wed. 5:00-7:50 pm

After a general introduction on contemporary France, the course will focus on the major aspects of education : organization of the education system at all levels; characteristics of education in France; factors leading to student success; women in education; the "baccalauréat" as an institution; teachers' concerns and grievances; recent reforms in education; public vs. private schools; current issues such as technology, the Islamic scarf, and violence in schools. Materials will include textbooks, articles, video sequences, CD-ROMs, & Internet sites.

1998 FALL

FREN 5200 : 16TH CENTURY: RABELAIS

Dr. Jerry NASH

Considered by many French literary students and scholars as the best example of the Renaissance mind and spirit, Francois Rabelais is also one of France's great comic geniuses and prose writers. This course will explore the verbal and literary constructs comprising the ""Gargantua et Pantagruel," Rabelais's five novels. There will be a term paper, an oral report-summary of the term paper, and a final exam.

FREN 5200 : 19TH CENTURY SHORT STORY: THE FANTASTIC TALE

Dr. Michel SIRVENT

Starting with Balzac's Le chef d'oeuvre inconnu, the course will focus on the development of the fantastic tale with some of the most fascinating stories of French 19th century : Théophile Gautier's La Morte amoureuse, Mérimée's La Venus d'Ille, and Maupassant's Le Horla. The course will include the study of some film adaptations. There will be a final paper and an oral presentation. These short stories will be included in the new study list for M.A. comprehensive exams.

FREN 5200: la nouvelle fantastique FREN 5200-003: BUSINESS FRENCH

Dr. Marie-Christine KOOP

Students will become familiar with basic business terminology in French and will learn to function in a French business environment. The use of Internet sites will be integrated in the course. Topics covered include: writing business letters, the job search, structure of a company with its various departments and their functions, and daily business formalities. No prerequisite in business required. Students will have the opportunity to take the exam leading to the Certificate of the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry.