A.B. French and Italian

FRE 101 Beginner's French I Fall This class develops the basic structures and vocabulary for understanding, speaking, writing, and reading in French. Classroom activities foster communication and cultural competence through comprehension and grammar exercises, skits, conversation and the use of a variety of audio-visual materials.No credit is given for FRE 101 unless it is followed by FRE 102. Prerequisites: Princeton French Language Placement test. Staff

FRE 102 Beginner's French II Spring The objective of this course is to enable students to achieve intermediate communication proficiency in French. All four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing will be actively practiced in realistic communicative situations, through a variety of activities designed to help students to strengthen newly acquired vocabulary and grammatical structures. Students will learn to talk about events and people, construct narratives in French and develop reading and writing skills that will be a foundation for literacy in the target language. There is wide use of authentic material from France and the Francophone world throughout the course. Staff

FRE 1027 Intensive Intermediate and Advanced French Spring FRE 1027 is an intensive double-credit course designed to help students develop an active command of the language. Focus will be on reading and listening comprehension, oral proficiency, grammatical accuracy, and the development of reading and writing skills. A solid grammatical basis and awareness of the idiomatic usage of the language will be emphasized. Students will be introduced to various Francophone cultures through readings, videos, and films. Prerequisite: FRE 101 and permission of instructor. Five 90-minute classes. Staff

FRE 103 Intensive Beginner's and Intermediate French Fall/Spring FRE 103 is an intensive beginning and intermediate language course designed for students who have already studied French for typically no more than two-to-three years. This course covers material presented in FRE 101 and FRE 102 in one semester and is designed to prepare students to take FRE 107 the following semester. Classroom activities include comprehension and grammar exercises, conversation, skits, and working with a variety of audio-visual materials. Prerequisites: Two years of high school French and appropriate score on the Princeton French Language Placement Test. Staff

FRE 105 Intermediate French Fall The main objective of this course is to develop your listening, speaking and writing skills, while allowing you to strengthen your knowledge of contemporary French society and culture. There is a thorough review of French grammar and a wide range of communicative activities chosen to improve proficiency and give practice of newly acquired linguistic material. The course aims at building your confidence in French, while giving you a foundation for the understanding and appreciation of French-speaking cultures and exposing you to their rich literary and artistic productions. A wide range of authentic material will be offered, including films. Staff

FRE 107 Intermediate/Advanced French Fall/Spring The objective of this course is to examine what it means to communicate in a foreign language while helping students strengthen their linguistic skills and gain transcultural and translingual competence. Students will reflect on differences in meaning through the study of diverse cultural modules, including stereotypes, slang, advertisements, Impressionist art, Occupied France, current events, and French and Francophone literary texts and films. FRE 107 is not open to first-year students in the fall semester. Prerequisites: FRE 102 or FRE 103. Staff

FRE 108 Advanced French Fall/Spring FRE 108 is an intermediate advanced course. It will take you on a journey through various periods of French history and culture and offer an opportunity to reflect on important questions at the center of contemporary debates. Examples include: the role of the State in the shaping of the nation, the organic revolution, the role of education in our society, etc. We have selected a wide variety of materials (films, videos, music, newspaper articles and literary texts) and carefully incorporated them into the curriculum so you will develop the ability to communicate and gain understanding of French and Francophone cultures and societies. Staff

FRE 207 Studies in French Language and Style Fall/Spring An interdisciplinary course proposing the study of language, culture, and French and Francophone literatures organized around the theme "Visions fantastiques". Includes the study of different genres and mediums on topics including fairy tales and folk tales, utopias and dystopias, science fiction, and folly, dreams and the surreal. The course offers a review and reinforcement of advanced grammatical structures and aims to improve written and oral expression through the study of texts. Prerequisites: FRE 107, FRE 108, or placement based on placement test. Staff

FRE 211 French Theater Workshop (also

THR 211

FRE 215 France Today: Culture, Politics, and Society Fall SA This course is designed to develop students' linguistic skills and broaden their knowledge of contemporary French society. Discussions and essays will cover a wide range of topics drawn from economic, political, social and cultural aspects of France and the Francophone world. Current affairs will be discussed in class on a regular basis. The course will provide intensive language practice and students will improve their communication skills by completing a research project, to be presented orally and in writing, on a topic of their choice. Excellent preparation for Princeton-in-France internships or Sciences-Po semester. C. Sagnier

FRE 221 The Rise of France: French Literature, Culture, and Society from the Beginnings to 1789 Fall LA This course examines the evolution of French society and culture during the Ancien Régime (i.e. from the Middle Ages to the Revolution). Students will explore the main cultural and social ideas of the period by studying outstanding literary and artistic masterpieces. Topics include: courtly love, the discovery of the New World, political absolutism and Versailles court culture, the opposition to political and social authorities in the Enlightenment period. Prerequisites: FRE 107, FRE 108, or equivalent. Staff

FRE 222 The Making of Modern France: French Literature, Culture, and Society from 1789 to the Present Spring LA This course examines the major historical and cultural developments that have shaped France since the Revolution. By studying a series of classic texts, important films, paintings, and essays, we will undertake an interdisciplinary tour through two centuries of French cultural history, addressing issues such as nationhood, colonialism, democracy, and consumer society. The focus will be on the relations between artistic renovation, social change, and historical events. Prerequisites: FRE 107, FRE 108, or equivalent. FRE 207 recommended as a co-requisite. G. Blix

FRE 224 French Literature: Approaches to the Language of Literary Texts Fall/Spring LA This course is meant to introduce students to great works of French literature from a range of historical periods and to provide them with methods for literary interpretation through close reading of these texts. The syllabus is organized around common themes and generic categories. This course is invaluable preparation for more advanced and specialized 300-level courses. Classroom discussion emphasized, free exchange encouraged. Prerequisites: FRE 107 or FRE 108 or permission of instructor. Course conducted entirely in French. V. Schröder

FRE 307 Advanced French Language and Style Fall/Spring The objective of this course is to improve spoken and written French through attentive study of French grammatical and syntactic structures and rhetorical styles, with a variety of creative, analytical and practical writing exercises, and reading of literary and non-literary texts. Prerequisites: A 200-level French course or permission of instructor. Staff

FRE 313 Contemporary French Civilization LA The evolution of 20th-century French institutions and their relationship to intellectual and social movements since World War I. New directions taken by French thought will be stressed through the study of individuals, selected from representative fields, whose influence led to the restructuring of contemporary French civilization. Two 90-minute classes. Prerequisite: a 200-level course in French or instructor's permission. Staff

FRE 317 Visions of Paris LA A study of Paris as urban space, object of representation, and part of French cultural identity. Topics include Paris in the Ancien Régime; Revolutionary and Napoleonic Paris; the transformation of Paris in the 19th century; Paris as a site of European art and literature; modern and multicultural Paris in the 1900s; and challenges in the new millennium. Prerequisite: a 200-level course in French or instructor's permission. One 90-minute lecture, one 90-minute preceptorial. A. Benhaïm

FRE 321 The Invention of Literature and Culture in France (also

GSS 330

FRE 327 Tales of Hospitality: France, North Africa, and the Mediterranean (also

COM 357

FRE 330 Landmarks of French Culture (also

AFS 330

FRE 331 French Renaissance Literature and Culture LA Readings from the works of Rabelais, the Pléiade poets, Marguerite de Navarre, Montaigne, and d'Aubigné in the light of contemporary artistic, political, and cultural preoccupations. Themes will include the rhetoric of love, education, humanism, recurrent mythologies, and utopias. Two 90-minute classes. Prerequisite: a 200-level course in French or instructor's permission. Staff

FRE 332 Topics in the French Middle Ages and Renaissance LA The continuities of French culture and its preeminence over much of Europe from its 11th-century beginnings through the 16th century. Emphasis on medieval and Renaissance literary works (in modernized versions) in their relationship to topics such as "love'' (fin'amor), saintliness, national identity, humanism, and so on. Prerequisite: a 200-level course in French or instructor's permission. One 90-minute lecture, one 90-minute preceptorial. Staff

FRE 341 The Classical Age Fall LA This course proposes a literary exploration of the French 17th century, a period that produced many "classics" of world literature, from the comedies of Molière and the fables of La Fontaine to the tales of Perrault. We will study these works both in their original historical context and through modern adaptations and interpretations, in order to assess the reasons for their survival and continued relevance. Some of the central themes are: love and marriage, passion and duty, self and society, truth and fiction, heroism and beastliness. Prerequisite: A 200-level French course or permission of instructor. V. Schröder

FRE 351 The Age of Enlightenment LA Examines the challenge to the political and cultural authority of the ancien régime from new ideas, values, and rhetorics. The emphasis may fall on the work of an individual writer or group of writers, a genre or subgenre (the epistolary novel, the popular scientific essay), or the role of literary institutions (journalism, salons, censorship). Two 90-minute classes. Prerequisite: a 200-level French course or instructor's permission. Staff

FRE 352 Topics in 17th- and 18th-Century French Literature Fall LA Topics will range from single authors and major texts (for example, the Encyclopedie) to literary genres and questions of culture (preciosite, comedy and/or tragedy, historiography, epistolary writing, etc.). Prerequisite: FRE 207 or equivalent. Course conducted in French. Two 90-minute classes. Staff

FRE 353 The Old Regime: Society and Culture in France, 1624-1789 LA The age of French political and cultural hegemony is characterized by the construction of the modern state, the imposition of strict social discipline, and the rationalization of large areas of human behavior. These processes will be studied in political and philosophical writings, plays, novels, poems, and memoirs. Prerequisite: a 200-level course in French or instructor's permission. Two 90-minute classes. Staff

FRE 357 Literature, Culture, and Politics (also

TRA 357

FRE 362 The 19th-Century French Novel Fall LA Close readings of landmark novels from nineteenth-century France by Balzac, Stendhal, Hugo, Flaubert, Zola, Huysmans, Gide, Verne, and Constant. What course did the modern novel chart between realism and naturalism, romantic disenchantment and fin-de-siècle decadence, engaged art and aesthetic detachment, national history and private life? How did the novel reflect, shape, and map this revolutionary period in French history? Topics to be highlighted: formal innovation, realism, social critique, theories of the novel, the reading public, and print culture. Prerequisite: a 200-level French course or instructor's permission. G. Blix

FRE 363 The 20th-Century French Novel