Courses in French Studies

Course Descriptions

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; they may enroll in French 1 (Introductory French).

The lower-division program in French studies is part of Northern Colleges’ Joint French Program. Conversation groups are conducted by a native French speaker for all lower-division courses; hours are to be arranged. Courses marked with an asterisk meet the pre-1900 requirement.

All of the following courses are taught entirely in French:

• FREN 001 SC - Introductory French
• FREN 002 SC - Continued Introductory French
• FREN 022 SC - Intensive Introductory French
• FREN 033 SC - Intermediate French

Courses Counted Towards the Major/Minor

• FREN 044 SC - Advanced French: Readings in Literature and Civilization
• 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 - France in the ’Hood: Nationhood, Immigration, and the Politics of Identity in France
• FREN 111 SC - French Cinema: Images of Women in French Film
• FREN 112 CM - Le Théâtre Francophone
• FREN 114 SC - Documenting the French: An Introduction to the French Documentary Tradition
• FREN 116 SC - Written Page/Digital Image
• FREN 117 CM - Novel and Cinema in Africa and the Caribbean
• FREN 118 SC - From French “Frogs” to Quebec “Wawarons”: A Cultural Exploration of French Identity
• 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 - Introduction to French Poetry
• FREN 126 SC - Paris: Capitale des Arts (1850-1930)
• 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 - North African Literature after Independence
• FREN 133 CM - The Beur Question in Films and Texts
• 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 165 SC - From Mermaids to Catwomen: Animal Transformations in French Literature and Culture
• FREN 171 SC - Aesthetics, Society, and Thematic Structures in the 19th-Century Novel in France *
• FREN 172 SC - Baudelaire and the Symbolist Aesthetic *
• FREN 173 SC - Wit and Ridicule in the French Salon *
• FREN 176 SC - “Voyage et Exotisme” *
• FREN 177 PO - Bohemian Vagabondage
• 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