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French 101: Elementary French
French 102: Elementary French
French 103: Elementary French
French 201, 202, 203: Intermediate French
French 207: Second Year Reading (graduate students only)
French 302/303: Advanced French
French 306: French Literature: 1789- Present
French 390: Independent Study
French 435: Topics in Non-Fiction
French 450: Jew and Nation
French 490: Honors Seminar
French 499 B: French Fairy Tales
French 596: Memory Across the Disciplines
French 600: Independent Study or Research
French 800: Doctoral Dissertation

Italian 103: Elementary Italian
Italian 203: Intermediate Italian
Italian 303: Advanced Italian
Italian 327: Advanced Conversation
Italian 352: Italian Cultural History
Italian 366: Great Directors: Bertolucci and Coppola
Italian 390: Independent Study
Italian 401/501A: Medieval Italian Readings
Italian 590: In Search of a Form (The 20th Century Novel in Italy)
Italian 600: Independent Study or Research

FRENCH 101: ELEMENTARY FRENCH

Daily, multiple sections, various hours, 5 cr., Staff

Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Oral practice in the language laboratory is required.

Class Description
We will develop the skills of speaking, listening, writing and reading to a basic level of proficiency. In 101, students will learn how to describe themselves, their family, and their surroundings. They will learn to tell time, how to talk about the weather and about food! French 100 classes are taught through an experiential methodology which entails exclusive use of French in the classroom, interactive presentations and emphasis on communicative skills. Classes are highly interactive and students will be expected to participate.

Recommended preparation
Daily attendance is of utmost importance as well as active participation in class. Timely completion of homework is required.

Class Assignments and Grading
Students are assigned exercises in the workbook and lab book. They are asked to memorize vocabulary, to fill out worksheets and to write mini-compositions. Quizzes 25% Midterm 10% Final Exam 15% Interview 10% Participation 15% Homework 25%

Prerequisite: score of 0-14 on FR TL placement test if French is language of admission.

Required texts: Meyer/Fronk, Vis-à-vis text, workbook/laboratory manual and compact disc, Meyer, Hedwige, Encore des Exercises, (McGraw-Hill).

FRENCH 102: ELEMENTARY FRENCH

Daily, multiple sections, various hours, 5 cr., Staff

Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Oral practice in the language laboratory is required.

Class Description
We will develop the skills of speaking, listening, writing and reading to a basic level of proficiency. In 102, students will study past tenses, pronouns, adverbs, and pronomial verbs. We will talk about vacation, travel, urban life, medias and the arts. French 100 classes are taught through an experiential methodology which entails exclusive use of French in the classroom, interactive presentations and emphasis on communicative skills.

Recommended preparation
Daily attendance is of utmost importance as well as active participation in class. Timely completion of homework is required.

Class Assignments and Grading
Students are assigned exercises in the workbook and lab book. They are asked to memorize vocabulary, to fill up worksheets and to write mini-compositions. Quizzes 25% Midterm 10% Final Exam 15% Interview 10% Participation 15% Homework 25%

Prerequisite: either FRENCH 101 or score of 15-30 on FR TL placement test.

Required texts: Meyer/Fronk, Vis-à-vis text, workbook/laboratory manual and compact disc, Meyer, Hedwige, Encore des Exercises, (McGraw-Hill).

FRENCH 103: ELEMENTARY FRENCH

Daily, multiple sections, various hours, 5 cr., Staff

Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Oral practice in the language laboratory is required.

Class Description
We will develop the skills of speaking, listening, writing and reading to a basic level of proficiency. In 103, students will learn the subjunctive, the future, the relative pronouns and the conditional. We will talk about jobs, leisures, the environment and the French speaking world.
French 100 classes are taught through an experential methodology which entails exclusive use of French in the classroom, interactive presentations and emphasis on communicative skills.

Recommended preparation
Daily attendance is of utmost importance as well as active participation in class. Timely completion of homework is required.

Class Assignments and Grading
Students are assigned exercises in the workbook and lab book. They are asked to memorize vocabulary, to fill up worksheets and to write mini-compositions. Quizzes 25% Midterm 10% Final Exam 15% Interview 10% Participation 15% Homework 25%

Prerequisite: either FRENCH 102, FRENCH 110, or score of 31-56 on FR TL placement test.

Required texts: Meyer/Fronk, Vis-à-vis text, workbook/laboratory manual and compact disc, Meyer, Hedwige, Encore des Exercises, (McGraw-Hill).

FRENCH 201, 202, 203: INTERMEDIATE FRENCH (VLPA)

Daily, multiple sections and hours, 5 cr., Staff

Designed to bring students to an intermediate level of proficiency. Emphasis on experiencing the language in context through a multi-media approach.

Class Description
A three-quarter systematic review and expansion of French grammar, development of conversational skills (listening and speaking), reading literary and cultural materials, and writing compositions. Conducted in French, the intermediate sequence encourages students to use their language skills more actively and at a more sophisticated level than the elementary sequence.
In-class grammar/vocabulary exercise correction, in-class compositions, group work, role playing, oral presentations, use of audio and video documents for listening-comprehension. Take home written grammar and vocabulary assignments.

Recommended preparation
Daily attendance is indispensable. Students must keep up with daily assignments and readings.

Class Assignments and Grading
Quizzes 35% Final exam 15% Oral presentation 10% Compositions 20% Participation and homework 20%

Prerequisite: either FRENCH 103, FRENCH 134, or score of 57-100 on FR TL placement test for FRENCH 201; FRENCH 201 for FRENCH 202; FRENCH 202 for FRENCH 203.

Required texts: Dietikeer, En Bonne Forme text, workbook, and cd (or audio files on web).

FRENCH 207: SECOND-YEAR READING (graduate students only)

MW 11:30-1:20, 5 cr., Denyse Delcourt

Intermediate vocabulary building and reading of literary texts. Students receiving credit for 207 may subsequently earn credit for lower-division French courses involving other skills.

FRENCH 302, 303: ADVANCED FRENCH (VLPA, W courses)

Multiple sections and hours, 5 cr., Staff

French 302 allows students to review French grammar at an advanced level and to acquire the essentials of French composition, through the study of written and audiovisual authentic cultural material . French 303 is geared toward students planning to take literature classes and allows them to complete their studies of the technique of French composition. These courses are conducted exclusively in French. French 301 not offered Spring Quarter.

Prerequisites: 301 for 302; 302 for 303.

Required texts: Hoffman, Travaux pratiques (Prentice-Hall); William F. Edmiston, Annie Duménil, La France contemporaine (Harcourt Brace); Debray, La République expliquée à ma fille (Editions du Seuil). Miguel, Claire, Vocabulaire progressif du francais avance, (CLE), Hoffman, L’Essentiel de la grammaire française (Prentice-Hall)- used in Fr 301 and Fr 302, not Fr 303.

FRENCH 306: SURVEY OF FRENCH LITERATURE: XIXth and XXth Century

(VLPA, W course)
TTH 12:30-2:20, 5 cr., Evelyne Ender

An introduction to major writers and literary movements of the modern period in France, from the early romantic poets, through Balzac, Baudelaire and Flaubert, to the experimental writings of Perec and others. Course conducted in French.

Prerequisites: French 302; may be taken concurrently with French 303.

Required texts: Berg et Leroy, Littérature française texts et contexts, T.2 (on order at the University Bookstore).

FRENCH 390: SUPERVISED STUDY

To be arranged, 2-6, max 20 cr.

FRENCH 435: TOPICS IN NONFICTION (meets with C LIT 400)

MW 1:30-3:20, 5 cr., Collins

Course description not yet available. Course conducted in English.

Prerequisite: French 303

FRENCH 450 A: JEW AND NATION IN TWENTIETH CENTURY FRANCE

MW 10:30-12:20, 5 cr., Collins

"To live like a king in France!" Such was the aspiring cry of the late
nineteenth-century Polish Jew. The hope was based upon Franace's action on the most influential remark on Jewsin the history of the country, that
uttered before the National Assembly on Dec. 23, 1789 by Clermont-Tonerre:
"Il faut refuser tout aux juifs comme nation, et accocrder tout aux juifs comme individus." Such became the reality, such became the illusion. The class will study the compatibilities and incompatibilities between two universalisms--a centrifugal ideal of Jacobin egalitarianism and an
imageless monotheism, the frictions, both reciprocally reinforcing and
reciprocally undoing, provoked by the meetings of two notions of
undissolvable "identity." The works will be read in the contect of an
attempt to understand those various forces that have had a role in
anti-Semitic emotion in France: the Church, rural sociology, immigration
patterns, etc..

Readings will include:
Yuri Slezkine, The Jewish Century
Paula Hyman, The Jews of Modern France
Alain Finkielkraut, Le Juif imaginaire
Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder
Ivan Strenski, Durkheim and the Jews of France
Jean-Paul Sartre, Réflexions sur la question juive
Claude Lévi-Strauss, "Race et culture"

Two films:
Louis Malle, Lacombe Lucien
Alain Resnais, Nuit et brouillard

Course conducted in English.

Prerequisites: French 303; French 304; French 305; French 306

FRENCH 490: HONORS SEMINAR: (VLPA)

To be arranged, 2-5, max 10 cr.

FRENCH 499: SPECIAL TOPICS: (VLPA)

To be arranged, 1-5 cr.

FRENCH 499B: FRENCH FAIRY TALES

TTH 12:30-2:20, 5 cr., Denyse Delcourt

Beginning with Charles Perrault, the 17th Century author of a number of well-known fairy tales such as Cinderella, The Little Red Riding Hood and Blue Beard, this course is an exploration of a major French literary tradition still greatly influential on modern literature and films. As women were the most productive fairy tale writers in France at the end of the 17th Century, we will also read some of Madame d'Aulnoy's disturbing, very different kinds of tales. Sexual politics, gender issues and the numerous other reasons behind her radical reworking of the genre will be discussed. French fairy tales have often been used by poets and novelists as a basis for their own writing. As such, they constitute an excellent way to get more deeply involved into French
literature.

Course will be conducted in French.

Prerequisite: French 303.

FRENCH 596: MEMORY ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES (CROSS-LISTED WITH C LIT 549A)

W 2:30-5:20, 5 cr., Prof. Evelyne Ender

We live in age of fascination -- cultural, literary, and scientific -- with autobiographical memory. The phenomenon of remembrance seems then to invite interdisciplinary approaches. These will be tested in our seminar through readings involving exemplary literary texts devoted to the presentation of the act of human remembrance (by G. Eliot, Nerval, Proust, Woolf, Freud, Barthes), philosophical essays, and scientific texts drawn from the disciplines of cognitive psychology and the neurosciences. Books for this course are available at the University Bookstore and the course-package at Ave Copy Center.

Students will be asked to write a substantial paper for the end of the semester and will give an oral presentation of their paper topic.

(The course is taught in English, a reading knowledge of French is desirable, but not a pre-requisite.)

Grads only

FRENCH 600: INDEPENDENT STUDY OR RESEARCH

Grads only

FRENCH 800: DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

Grads only

ITALIAN 103: ELEMENTARY ITALIAN

Daily, multiple hours and sections, 5 cr., Staff

The last quarter of a three-quarter introductory-level sequence. The four skills -- listening, speaking, reading and writing -- are stressed in a primarily oral-aural method of presentation. The three course series covers all major elements of Italian grammar. Conducted in Italian; language laboratory required in addition to daily class sessions. Offered sequentially, Autumn 101, Winter 102 and Spring 103.

Prerequisite: 102 for 103.

Required texts (for the sequence 101-102-103): Branciforte & Grassi, Parliamo Italiano! (Houghton Mifflin Company), Branciforte & Grassi, Parliamo Italiano! Workbook/Lab Manual/Video Manual (Houghton Mifflin Company).

ITALIAN 203: INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN (VLPA)

MWF/TTHF, multiple hours and sections, 5 cr.,Staff

The last part of a three-quarter, systematic review of Italian grammar and development of conversational skills (comprehension and speaking) as well as reading literary and cultural materials and writing compositions. Conducted in Italian, the intermediate sequence encourages students to use their language skills more actively and at a more sophisticated level than the elementary sequence. Offered sequentially Autumn 201, Winter 202, Spring 203.

Prerequisites: ITALIAN 202 or college equivalent or placement.

Required texts (for the ITALIAN 201-202-203 sequence): Lazzarino, Da Capo, Italian Dictionary (MacMillan).

ITALIAN 303: ADVANCED ITALIAN (VLPA, W course)

TTH, 12:30-2:20, 5 cr.

The last part of a three-quarter perfection-level sequence of syntax, composition and stylistics. Offered sequentially Autumn 301, Winter 302, Spring 303.

Prerequisites: 302 or college equivalent or placement.

Required texts: Radicchi, Sandra, Corso di lingua Italiana- livello intermedio, Sciascia, A Ciascuno Il Suo.

ITALIAN 327 A: ADVANCED CONVERSATION (VLPA)

TTH 9:30-10:20, 2 cr., Tatta

Focus on developing advanced conversational skills--listening and speaking--to fluency and increasing vocabulary in varying situations. May be taken up to four different times (2 cr. each time, 8 maximum) for credit. Discussions are based on contemporary Italian current event articles, fiction, and essay. Conducted in Italian. Not open to students whose native language is Italian. Offered quarterly. Materials available in class.

Prerequisites: 203 or college equivalent or placement.

Required text: Course reader.

ITALIAN 352 A: ITALIAN CULTURAL HISTORY

MW 11:30-1:20, 5 cr., Mazzola

The Italian Cultural History course aims at providing a general and clear overview and understanding of Italian cultural history from the XVII to the XX century, through readings from selected bibliographies, primary sources, historical documents, literature, and also through visual and musical material and class discussions.

The starting point of this survey will be the period that immediately followed the splendor of the Renaissance. This is a moment in Italian history often neglected but to belittle the XVII century would be erroneous. The impact of the Counter-Reformation and the aristocratic restructuring of society were to leave a lasting imprint and constraint on Italy’s subsequent evolution. This period is in fact vital to understand the Risorgimento and the political unification of Italy as a modern State. In the last part of the course we will focus on the post-unification problems and the rise of Fascism.
This course shall also provide a historical framework for Italy's most important and significant cultural achievements between the XVII and the XX century and it becomes a solid base for further studies in Italian Literature, Art, Music and History.

Required texts: The Italian Cultural History study material comprises selected readings from The Oxford Illustrated History of Italy and additional readings from primary and secondary sources provided in the Course Pack.

Prerequisite: Italian 203.

ITALIAN 366 A: GREAT DIRECTORS: BERTOLUCCI AND COPPOLA

5 cr., Albert Sbragia and Willis Konick

Early in the 70s, the dam which had long held back innovation in film sudddenly burst. Water plunted over the dam, and a new kind of film bounced happily in the flow. At either side of this dam, joinng this explosion of innovation, stood two directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, an Italian, then international director, and Francis Coppola, an Italian-American, then international director. Coppola lifted the gangster film from its moldy frame and turned it into something very different: the story of an Italian-American family, spinning towards wealth and corruption. Bertolucci took the love story and turned it into something else: the story of swift sex, sudden rage and political metaphor. After GODFATHER and LAST TANGO IN PARIS, movies weren't the same any more. We will examine major films of these two directors, noting what they drew from the past, what they gave to the present, those tumbling, bouncing films of the seventies, and how they suffered later, as they started their retreat from innovation. Films to be shown. Directed by Coppola: RAIN PEOPLE, GODFATHER ONE AND TWO, THE CONVERSATION, APOCALYPSE NOW. Directed by Bertolucci: THE GRIM REAPER, BEFORE THE REVOLUTION, THE CONFORMIST, 1900, LAST TANGO IN PARIS. Also clips from other films by the two directors.

This course is cross-listed with Comparative Literature (Cinema Studies) 271. Students taking the course as Italian 366 will be in consulation with prof. Sbragia and will have separate paper assignments and a supplemental reader.

ITALIAN 390 A: SUPERVISED STUDY (VLPA)

To be arranged, 2-6 cr, max 20

ITALIAN 401/501 A: MEDIEVAL ITALIAN READINGS

TTH 11:30-1:20, 5 cr., Yowell

This course will begin by considering the developing concept of literature in the vernacular and the creation and dissemination of manuscripts in medieval Italy. The first half of the course will focus on the expression of erotic desire in early Italian literature, the lyric of the Sicilian and Stilnovist schools, the poetry of Petrarch and Boccaccio's novelle, comic realistic poetry and treatises of the period. The second half of the course will explore images of evil--the heretic, sickness, the devil and death--as portrayed in the writings of the period. Course conducated in Italian.

Prerequisite: ITAL 302 for 401. Graduate students in Italian should sign up for ITAL 501.

ITALIAN 590: IN SEARCH OF A FORM (20TH CENTURY NOVEL IN ITALY)

TH 1:30-4:20, 5 cr., Mazzola

Italian writers have always had structural difficulties with the form of the
novel. This course will focus on the development of the Italian novel from
the beginning of last century to the present. Particular emphasis will be
given to the historical background in which each author wrote. A close
reading of texts by Italo Svevo, Luigi Pirandello and Elio Vittorini will
determine the elements (time, space, narrator's point of view, etc.) that
characterize the modern novel and how contemporary writers like Tabucchi and Tondelli dealt with it.

ITALIAN 600: INDEPENDENT STUDY OR RESEARCH: (VLPA)

To be arranged, Grads only

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