The study of intermediate French through reading, writing, listening, speaking, and cultural competence, structured around authentic texts.

Introduces students to the concepts, questions, and methodologies that inform the study of the Francophone world. Includes an intensive French grammar review.

This course invites students to discover the diverse and rich realm of folklore in the French Atlantic as a site of cultural memory. Students will examine the marginalization of indigenous peoples, local traditions, and popular cultures of the Maghreb, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the French Antilles as an outcome of the long histories of colonization, discrimination, and modernization. In this course, students will discuss how the quest for the past of these regions is crucial for the revival and interpretation of their local popular cultures today.

Development of specialized conversational and written proficiency necessary to import-export business activities, banking, insurance, business regulation, etc., in the French-speaking world.

Explores the social, historical, and political situation of French- speaking cultures outside metropolitan France. May be repeated up to 9 hours with a different subtitle.

Directed study in French and Francophone Studies. Given in exceptional circumstances only. May be repeated up to 6 credit hours.

Advanced work on a specific topic, concept, or problem in the field of French and Francophone Studies. Emphasis on advanced critical skills and research methods. Recent topics include: War, Literature, film; Comedy in the Age of Enlightenment; Le nouveau roman; Literature and Film of Subsaharan Africian; The Eighteenth-Century Novel; Ghosts, Vampires, and the Fantastic; Love and Madness in the Nineteenth Century; Le poeme ivre; The Early Modern Self. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 credits under different subtitle.

Intensive study of an author, genre, period or movement of French literature or an aspect of French culture. May be repeated to a maximum of nine credits under a different subtitle.

A study of the history and structure of French with an emphasis on contemporary features.

French language and literature, permitting the student to work in areas of special interest, and providing opportunity for original endeavor. May be repeated to a maximum of six hours.