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Dec 12, 2024
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2018-2019 Scripps Catalog THIS IS AN ARCHIVED CATALOG. LINKS MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE AND CONTENT MAY BE OUT OF DATE!
Courses in French Studies
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Placement Testing
All students wishing to enroll in French language courses must take the Language Placement Test. Only those students who have had no more than one semester of high school French are exempt from taking this examination and may enroll in French 1 (Introductory French). Placement test results are valid for one year; thereafter it must be retaken.
Students are strongly encouraged to fulfill the language requirement in an uninterrupted sequence. In all cases, however, the language requirement must be completed by the end of the first semester of the senior year.
Course Descriptions
All courses are taught entirely in French:
Lower Division Courses
- All students wishing to enroll in French language courses must take the Language Placement Test. Only those students who have had no more than one semester of high school French are exempt from taking this examination and may enroll in French 1 (Introductory French). Placement test results are valid for one year; thereafter it must be retaken.
- Students are strongly encouraged to fulfill the language requirement in an uninterrupted sequence. In all cases, however, the language requirement must be completed by the end of the first semester of the senior year.
- Registration through the Portal into weekly conversation sections (“French Labs”) is required. Student must attend the same section throughout the semester.
- During the semester, attendance at a minimum of three French tables at Scripps or CMC and three French Club-sponsored films is required.
Courses Counted Towards the Major/Minor
- FREN 044 SC - Advanced French: Readings in Literature and Civilization
Upper Division Courses - FREN 100 SC - French Culture and Civilization
- FREN 104 SC - History, Memory, and Loss: Vichy (1940-45) in Contemporary France
- FREN 106 SC - The French Business World and its Language
- FREN 107 SC - Headline News: Advanced Oral Expression and Composition in Current Events and Culture
- FREN 110 SC - Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité? France and the Crises of Globalization
- FREN 111 SC - French Cinema: Images of Women in French Film
- FREN 112 CM - Le Théâtre Francophone
- FREN 113 SC - Banned in France: Censorship Debates in Eighteenth-Century France
- FREN 114 SC - Reality Matters: Exploring “Le Cinéma du Réel”
- FREN 117 CM - Novel and Cinema in Africa and the Caribbean
- FREN 118 SC - Being French From Paris to Montreal
- FREN 120 CM - Order and Revolt in French Literature
- FREN 121 SC - The Politics of Love
- FREN 122 SC - French Women Writers from Marie de France to Madame de La Fayette
- FREN 123 SC - Representations of the Self: From Rousseau to Lévi-Strauss
- FREN 124 SC - The Novelist and Society in France
- FREN 125 SC - The French Detective and Classic Crime Fiction
- FREN 130 SC - French Theater from Text to Stage I: Theatricality and “Mise en Scène.”
- FREN 131 SC - French Theater from Text to Stage II: The Tragic and Comic Muse
- FREN 132 CM - Introduction to North African Literature (after Independence)
- FREN 133 CM - Africa in France
- FREN 135 CM - The Art of the Short Story
- FREN 141 SC - Medieval French Literature, Culture, and Language
- FREN 154 SC - The 18th Century Novel: Experimentations in Form
- FREN 155 SC - Nature/Culture; Government/Utopia: Political Writings of the 18th Century
- FREN 160 SC - Hugo, Women, and the French Revolution
- FREN 171 SC - Aesthetics, Society, and Thematic Structures in the 19th-Century Novel in France
- FREN 173 SC - Wit and Ridicule in the French Salon
- FREN 176 SC - “Voyage et Exotisme”
- FREN 179 SC - French Love Affairs: An Introduction to Proust
- FREN 182 SC - Contemporary Fiction in French
- FREN 183 CM - The Novel in France Since 1945
- FREN 184 SC - Portrait of Two Voices: Marguerite Yourcenar and Marguerite Duras
- FREN 191 SC - Senior Thesis
- FREN 199 SC - Independent Study in French Studies: Reading and Research
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