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FRENCH 396 Contemporary French Thought (1): Introduces students to theory and theoretical practices for understanding and analyzing French and Francophone literature and culture.
FRENCH 397 Studies in Literature and Culture (1): Training in methods of research and analysis of French and Francophone literature and culture.
FRENCH 401 Authors (1): Content varies. Studies of one or several major literary or cultural figures of French and Francophone studies. Emphasizes their status within literary history or the cultural context of their work.
FRENCH 402 Genres (1): Content varies. Studies of one or several literary genres or sub- genre and their laws. Emphasizes formal aspects and cultural context.
FRENCH 404 Literature and Visual Culture: (1): Content varies. Samples: Contemporary French cinema and film history; painting and literature; the history of the relationship between literature and the visual arts.
FRENCH 410 Studies in Medieval Literature (1): Content varies. Samples: Romances by Chretien de Troyes, Christine de Pizan, and Marie de France.
FRENCH 420 Studies in the 16th Century (1): Content varies. Samples: Renaissance poetry; Rabelais; Montaigne.
FRENCH 421 Visual Culture: Cinema, Performance Studies and Multimedia (1): Content varies. Contemporary French cinema and film history, television and multimedia cultures, courses on film directors.
FRENCH 422 Visual Culture: Art History and Literature (1): Content varies: painting and literature, the circulation of works of art, the history of the relationship between literature and the visual arts.
FRENCH 430 Studies in the 17th Century (1): Content varies. Samples: the moralists; power and knowledge in classical theatre; the critique of rationality.
FRENCH 431 French, Francophone and Postcolonial Studies (1): Literature and culture of one or several geopolitical areas such as the Caribbean, the Maghreb, Sub-Saharan Africa or Vietnam.
FRENCH 432 French, Francophone and Transnational Studies (1): Studies of migration and diasporic discourses from missionary discourses and pre-modern travelers to contemporary globalized movements.
FRENCH 440 Studies in the 18th Century (1): Content varies. Samples: The rise of the public sphere; Diderot’s aesthetics; Rousseau and the French Revolution; the global eighteenth century.
FRENCH 441 Interdisciplinary, Theoretical and Critical Approaches (1): An examination of theoretical discourses from disciplines other than literature (linguistics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, historiography) and their relationship to the French and Francophone world; history of ideas.
FRENCH 442 Interdisciplinary and Cultural Studies (1): Canon formation, evolution of linguistic and literary forms, studies of popular culture.
FRENCH 450 Studies in the 19th century (1): Content varies. Samples: Literature and/of the city; literature and revolution.
FRENCH 460 Studies in the 20th century (1): Content varies. Samples: Literature and cultural authority in 20th century France; l'aimance, l’amour, le corps de l'écriture.
FRENCH 465 French, Francophone and Postcolonial Studies (1): Content varies. Literature and culture of one or several geopolitical areas such as the Caribbean, the Maghreb, Sub-Saharan Africa or Vietnam.
FRENCH 467 Gender and Sexuality in French and Francophone Literature and Culture (1): Content varies. Samples: French feminist theories; queer theories in French and Francophone contexts; women's autobiography.
FRENCH 470 Comparative Studies in a French and Francophone Context (1): Content varies. Studies of a motif, theme, genre or theoretical issue across languages, either Europhone or vernacular and dialectal forms.
FRENCH 490 Special Topics in Literature (1): Content varies. Samples: literature of the African diaspora; women's autobiography.
FRENCH 491 Topics in Language (1): Content varies. Samples: translation, stylistics, and semantics.
FRENCH 492 Topics in Culture and Society (1): Content varies. Samples: culture and politics of the 1920s and 1930s; early modern print culture; the Situationist International.
FRENCH 493 Topics in Literary Theory (1): Content varies. Samples: postcolonial theory; Foucault and Deleuze; psychoanalysis and contemporary theory.
FRENCH 494 Interdisciplinary, Theoretical and Critical Approaches (1): Content varies. An examination of theoretical discourses from disciplines other than literature (linguistics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, historiography) and their relationship to the French and Francophone world; history of ideas.
FRENCH 495 Writing Tutorial (1): Required of all second year students. Under faculty supervision, students revise and expand a paper written in the first or second year of course work for submission for the second year review.
FRENCH 498 Independent Reading (1):
FRENCH 499 Independent Study (1): May be repeated for credit. Permission of instructor and department required.
FRENCH 590 Research (1): Independent investigation of selected problems pertaining to thesis or dissertation. May be repeated for credit.
FRENCH 596 Dissertation Prospectus (1): Production of a dissertation prospectus, including a statement of purpose and critical method, an outline, and a bibliography. Normally taken with the Ph.D. dissertation director.
ITALIAN 305 The Future of Tradition (1): The Italian cultural tradition in works from medieval to modern. Content varies; for example, study of genius in Leonardo da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Galileo Galilei.
ITALIAN 360 From the Avant-Garde to the Postmodern (1): Major authors and movements animating the modern and contemporary literary scene. Content varies: for example, futurism, intellectuals and politics from D'Annunzio to Pasolini, feminist Italian fiction.
ITALIAN 370 Mapping Italian Literature: The Theatre of Memory (1): Major texts of Italian literature read in the context of European and world literature. Content varies: for example, Leopardi and European romanticism; Calvino, Borges and Pynchon.
ITALIAN 375 Topics in Italian Culture (1): Content varies: for example, perspectives in Renaissance; the Baroque imagination; Italian women writers; fascism and culture; philosophy and literature.
ITALIAN 380 Topics in Italian Cinema (1): Major Italian filmmakers, cinematic trends, and production techniques; individual directors or a movement (such as existentialist film, neorealism, or cinema of the 1970s). ITALIAN 498 Independent Reading (1)
ITALIAN 490 Topics in Italian Literature and Culture (1): Content varies. Samples: Italy and the Invention of the Orient; Gramsci Beyond Gramsci: Mapping Cultures in Italy and Abroad; Italian Feminism.
ITALIAN 498 Independent Reading (1): N/A
ITALIAN 499 Independent Study (1): May be repeated for credit. Permission of instructor and department required.
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