French & Italian

Course Offerings Spring 2013

Course Code	Title/Instructor	Meets
FREN 101-01	Elementary French Instructor: Anna Hudson Course Description: Complete first-year course. Intensive study of the fundamentals of French grammar, with special attention given to pronunciation and oral expression. Cultural readings in the context of language acquisition.	1030:MTWRF WESTC DURBIN
FREN 104-01	Elementary French Instructor: Anna Hudson Course Description: Complete first-year course. Intensive study of the fundamentals of French grammar, with special attention given to pronunciation and oral expression. Cultural readings in the context of language acquisition.	0830:MTWRF WESTC DURBIN
FREN 104-02	Elementary French Instructor: Anna Hudson Course Description: Complete first-year course. Intensive study of the fundamentals of French grammar, with special attention given to pronunciation and oral expression. Cultural readings in the context of language acquisition.	0930:MTWRF WESTC DURBIN
FREN 104-03	Elementary French Instructor: Dominique Laurent Course Description: Complete first-year course. Intensive study of the fundamentals of French grammar, with special attention given to pronunciation and oral expression. Cultural readings in the context of language acquisition.	1030:MTWRF BOSLER 310
FREN 116-01	Intermediate French Instructor: Ian MacDonald Course Description: Intensive second-year study of French, with attention to grammar review, conversation, reading in a cultural context and some writing. Prerequisite: 104 or the equivalent.	0830:MTWRF BOSLER 213
FREN 116-02	Intermediate French Instructor: Ian MacDonald Course Description: Intensive second-year study of French, with attention to grammar review, conversation, reading in a cultural context and some writing. Prerequisite: 104 or the equivalent.	0930:MTWRF BOSLER 213
FREN 230-01	Comm in Fr & Francophone Cont Instructor: Ian MacDonald Course Description: Intensive oral and written practice of French in the context of issues and themes such as a sense of place, the lessons of time, the social contract, and intellectual and artistic life. This course makes use of texts, films, multi media and interactive computer strategies in the development of conversational and writing skills. Intended as the gateway to the major or minor in French and Francophone Studies. Prerequisite: 116 or the equivalent. This course fulfills the WR graduation requirement.	1100:TR BOSLER 213 1130:MWF BOSLER 213
FREN 230-02	Comm in Fr & Francophone Cont Instructor: Dominique Laurent Course Description: Intensive oral and written practice of French in the context of issues and themes such as a sense of place, the lessons of time, the social contract, and intellectual and artistic life. This course makes use of texts, films, multi media and interactive computer strategies in the development of conversational and writing skills. Intended as the gateway to the major or minor in French and Francophone Studies. Prerequisite: 116 or the equivalent. This course fulfills the WR graduation requirement.	0900:TR BOSLER 310 0930:MF BOSLER 310
FREN 236-01	Intro to Cultural Analysis Instructor: Catherine Beaudry Course Description: An introduction to the practice of reading and writing about French and francophone themes in an analytical and contextualized way. This course considers how cultural production conveys ideologies, values and norms expressed in both historical and contemporary contexts. Normally offered as writing-intensive. Prerequisite: 230. This course fulfills the WR graduation requirement.	1130:MWF ALTHSE 07
FREN 236-02	Intro to Cultural Analysis Instructor: Lucile Duperron Course Description: An introduction to the practice of reading and writing about French and francophone themes in an analytical and contextualized way. This course considers how cultural production conveys ideologies, values and norms expressed in both historical and contemporary contexts. Normally offered as writing-intensive. Prerequisite: 230. This course fulfills the WR graduation requirement.	1330:TF ALTHSE 110
FREN 240-01	Paris: The Epicenter Instructor: Catherine Beaudry Course Description: This course introduces students to the history of Paris, as the epicenter of France through the study of the city, using maps, timelines, and architecture, literary and artistic works. It enables students to acquire a certain familiarity with the centralized nature of France, since the Revolution, with a special focus on the nineteenth century, the effect of the railroad on migration patterns into the city. It deepens students knowledge of the forces that created many Parisian identities within the contemporary city.	1330:MR LIBRY ALDEN
FREN 246-01	Intro to Francophone Cultures Instructor: Benjamin Ngong Course Description:	1030:MWF BOSLER 213
FREN 246-02	Intro to Francophone Cultures Instructor: Linda Brindeau Course Description: This course explores the relationship between literature and Francophone cultures (Vietnam, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa). Topics include: "Ngritude," the negro-African identity, "cultural mtissage," the status of women, the dialogue between tradition and modernity, independence, and post-colonial disillusionment. Historical overview of the international context of Francophonie will be examined through short stories, novels, poems, critical essays, feature and documentary films. Prerequisite: 236. This course fulfills the DIV I.b. distribution requirement and Comparative Civilizations graduation requirement.	1130:MWF BOSLER 318
FREN 363-01	Franco-Maghrebi Imagination Instructor: Nancy Mellerski Course Description: Cross-listed with AFST 320-03, FLST 310-01, MEST 200-08 and WGST 300-02. The Monday session will be taught in French. We will study writers and filmmakers of two generations in France: those who immigrated to the Mtropole from North Africa during the postcolonial period, and those who were born in France of Maghrebi parents but still find themselves on the other side of the ethnic divide in a society that maintains an ambivalent relationship with its cultural minorities. Our approach will be an eclectic one, as we explore the history of Franco-Maghrebi relations during the colonial era, the socioeconomic experiences of the guest workers who toiled to rebuild France during the postwar period, the meaning of social and geographical marginalization in the banlieue, the particular situation of Muslim female authors, and, finally, the ways in which cultural hybridity is expressed in both prose and cinema.	1330:MF BOSLER 310
FREN 365-01	French and Identity Instructor: Lucile Duperron Course Description: This seminar aims to examine how the French language participates in the construction of identity at the individual, national, and transnational levels. We will examine these levels through historical, political, social, and literary perspectives. For example, we will research the history of French in order to understand how it became a national language. We will also investigate how French reflects the diversity of its speaking population within France and outside of France. Related to this topic, we will address Francophonie and its political ramifications on language planning, policy, and ideology. Literary works by French-speaking writers from past to present will contribute to enrich our debate about the interplay between language and individual, national, and transnational identity formation.	1330:W ALTHSE 07
FREN 500-01	Independent Study Instructor: Benjamin Ngong Course Description:	:
Course Code	Title/Instructor	Meets
ITAL 101-01	Elementary Italian Instructor: Luca Trazzi Course Description: Intensive study of the fundamentals of Italian grammar, with a view to developing reading, writing, speaking, and understanding skills. Laboratory and other audiovisual techniques are used. Cultural elements are stressed as a context for the assimilation of the language.	1030:MTWRF BOSLER 315
ITAL 101-02	Elementary Italian Instructor: David Commins Course Description: Intensive study of the fundamentals of Italian grammar, with a view to developing reading, writing, speaking, and understanding skills. Laboratory and other audiovisual techniques are used. Cultural elements are stressed as a context for the assimilation of the language.	:
ITAL 104-01	Elementary Italian Instructor: Luca Lanzilotta Course Description: Intensive study of the fundamentals of Italian grammar, with a view to developing reading, writing, speaking, and understanding skills. Laboratory and other audiovisual techniques are used. Cultural elements are stressed as a context for the assimilation of the language.	0830:MTWRF BOSLER 318
ITAL 104-02	Elementary Italian Instructor: Luca Lanzilotta Course Description: Intensive study of the fundamentals of Italian grammar, with a view to developing reading, writing, speaking, and understanding skills. Laboratory and other audiovisual techniques are used. Cultural elements are stressed as a context for the assimilation of the language.	0930:MTWRF BOSLER 318
ITAL 104-03	Elementary Italian Instructor: Luca Lanzilotta Course Description: Intensive study of the fundamentals of Italian grammar, with a view to developing reading, writing, speaking, and understanding skills. Laboratory and other audiovisual techniques are used. Cultural elements are stressed as a context for the assimilation of the language.	1030:MTWRF BOSLER 318
ITAL 104-04	Elementary Italian Instructor: Nicoletta Marini Maio Course Description: Intensive study of the fundamentals of Italian grammar, with a view to developing reading, writing, speaking, and understanding skills. Laboratory and other audiovisual techniques are used. Cultural elements are stressed as a context for the assimilation of the language.	1030:MTWRF BOSLER 306
ITAL 104-05	Elementary Italian Instructor: James McMenamin Course Description: Intensive study of the fundamentals of Italian grammar, with a view to developing reading, writing, speaking, and understanding skills. Laboratory and other audiovisual techniques are used. Cultural elements are stressed as a context for the assimilation of the language.	0930:MTWRF ALTHSE 206
ITAL 116-01	Intermediate Italian Instructor: Sylvie Davidson Course Description: Intensive introduction to conversation and composition, with special attention to grammar review and refinement. Essays, fiction and theater, as well as Italian television and films, provide opportunities to improve familiarity with contemporary Italian language and civilization. Prerequisite: 104 or the equivalent.	1030:MTWRF BOSLER 319
ITAL 116-02	Intermediate Italian Instructor: Luca Trazzi Course Description: Intensive introduction to conversation and composition, with special attention to grammar review and refinement. Essays, fiction and theater, as well as Italian television and films, provide opportunities to improve familiarity with contemporary Italian language and civilization. Prerequisite: 104 or the equivalent.	:
ITAL 231-01	Written Exp & Textual Analysis Instructor: Tullio Pagano Course Description: Designed to increase student's awareness of various rhetorical conventions and command of written Italian through analysis and imitation of model texts of a literary and non-literary nature. Two and a half hours classroom and one hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite: 116 or the equivalent. This course fulfills the WR graduation requirement.	0830:W BOSLER 214 0900:TR BOSLER 214
ITAL 231-02	Written Exp & Textual Analysis Instructor: Nicoletta Marini Maio Course Description: Designed to increase student's awareness of various rhetorical conventions and command of written Italian through analysis and imitation of model texts of a literary and non-literary nature. Two and a half hours classroom and one hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite: 116 or the equivalent. This course fulfills the WR graduation requirement.	0930:W BOSLER 306 1330:TR BOSLER 306
ITAL 306-01	Real and Imaginary Journeys Instructor: Tullio Pagano Course Description: By exploring the inner conflicts of their own soul and venturing beyond the boundaries of their native culture, Italian authors from Dante and Petrarch to Italo Calvino and Federico Fellini have opened new paths that often influenced the development of Western art and literature and touched the lives of countless readers and viewers around the world. In this course, we use the theme of the journey to analyze the work of some of the most influential Italian authors and trace their cultural legacy. This course is taught in Italian. Prerequisites: 231 and 232, or permission of the instructor. This course fulfills the DIV I. b. distribution requirement. Offered every two years.	1330:MR BOSLER 214
ITAL 306-02	Real and Imaginary Journeys Instructor: David Commins Course Description: By exploring the inner conflicts of their own soul and venturing beyond the boundaries of their native culture, Italian authors from Dante and Petrarch to Italo Calvino and Federico Fellini have opened new paths that often influenced the development of Western art and literature and touched the lives of countless readers and viewers around the world. In this course, we use the theme of the journey to analyze the work of some of the most influential Italian authors and trace their cultural legacy. This course is taught in Italian. Prerequisites: 231 and 232, or permission of the instructor. This course fulfills the DIV I. b. distribution requirement. Offered every two years.	:
ITAL 321-01	Food and Italian Culture Instructor: Sylvie Davidson Course Description: Taught in English. In this course, we will examine the role played by food in the shaping of Italian culture from the Middle-Age to the end of the Eighteenth century. We will look at the main ingredients available in Italy during the medieval period, their preparation, their circulation within the Mediteranean area, and their social significance. We will discover the impact that the discovery of the Americas had on the Italian and, more generally, European diet and economy. Finally, we will devote time to analyze the changes in literary and visual representation of food and eating practices in Early Modern Italy.	1500:MR BOSLER 213 1630:R BOSLER 213
ITAL 400-01	Boccaccio's "Decameron" Instructor: James McMenamin Course Description: This course will focus on Boccaccio's Decameron with a critical eye on the construction of the text and the stylistic complexity of the individual novelle. Students will be guided to study the use of rhetoric as a means of empowerment from a variety of perspectives. The course will culminate in a research project of interdisciplinary nature that reflects each students personal interests.	1330:W BOSLER 306
ITAL 500-01	Independent Study Instructor: Nicoletta Marini Maio Course Description:	:
ITAL 500-02	Independent Study Instructor: Nicoletta Marini Maio Course Description:	: