as well as observe classes taught by other instructors in their department.
Required for all in-coming teaching assistants in the French section. Schedule: F
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FRENCH GRADUATE COURSES, SPRING 2014 AS 210.612 Teaching French: Theory and Practice Kristin Cook-Gailloud Level Area Credits Department Graduate H 0.00 AS GRLL
Enrollment Limit 2
The goal of this course is 1) to familiarize students with different theoretical and practical approaches of language teaching and learning and 2) to understand how these approaches can be used to create a rich learning environment. Participants are expected to engage actively in classroom discussions based on assigned readings, as well as observe classes taught by other instructors in their department. Required for all in-coming teaching assistants in the French section. Schedule: F 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM | Homewood Campus
AS 212.604 Around Baudelaire Jacques Neefs, Michael Fried, Tamsyn Rose-Steel Level Credits Department Enrollment Limit Graduate 0.00 AS GRLL 15 Topics in Baudelaire's art and thought, and in that of various contemporaries (Courbet, Manet, Wagner) and successors (Mallarmé, Proust, Benjamin, Starobinski, Bonnefoy, Roubaud, Deguy). Readings and discussion will be mainly in French. Schedule: T 01:30 PM – 03:30 PM | Homewood Campus, Gilman 208
AS 212.632 Utopias Wilda Anderson Level Credits Graduate 0.00
Department AS GRLL
Enrollment Limit 7
Reflecting on the genre of the Utopia which from the late 17th century through the late 19th century alludes to diverse ideological constructions, such as the Golden Age, the "Pays de Cocagne", fantastic worlds, primitive societies, the state of nature, "robinsonnades", science fiction. Schedule: T 01:30 PM - 04:00 PM | Homewood Campus, Gilman 443
AS 212.644 Libertinage: Entre Révolte et Fantasme Elena Russo Level Credits Department Enrollment Limit Graduate 0.00 AS GRLL 10 The prerevolutionary libertine novel, starring at its center the character of the libertine, is the one most iconically associated with the French novel and with notions of transgressive “Frenchness,” intended both for national use and for export. In the wake of the pioneering work of René Pintard (Le Libertinage érudit dans la première moitié du 17e siècle, 1943) libertinage was emancipated from the fictional realm and promoted to a category of intellectual and cultural history. Yet recent critics have contested the use of this label, arguing that the historical individuals who were so called were a heterogeneous collection who had nothing in common apart from their marginality, which was in turn stigmatized or valorized. The purpose of this course is to examine critically the relationship between fictional and historical libertines, the many overlaps between the “transgressive” and the “erudite” communities, the role they played in the emergence of the “radical” Enlightenment and scientific materialism, their subversive use of language, the fluctuation between protective strategies of equivocation and the audacity of parrêsia. Readings from trial documents, pamphlets, correspondence, novels and essays, by G. C. Vanini, François Garasse, Antonio Rocco, Théophile de Viau, Descartes, Cyrano de Bergerac, Dassoucy, Bayle, Boyer d’Argens, Voltaire, Sade, Diderot, Laclos. Schedule: Th 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM | Homewood Campus, Gilman 443
AS 212.678 Guillaume de Machaut: Exploring Medieval Authorship in the Digital Age Tamsyn Rose-Steel Level Credits Department Enrollment Limit Graduate 0.00 AS GRLL 4 Using new websites devoted to the lyrics and music of Guillaume de Machaut, the foremost poet and composer of the 14th-century French royal court, this seminar will explore the role of music and literature during the Hundred Years War. Students will learn to use digital tools to view and analyze original illustrated musical manuscripts of Machaut’s work. Special Notes: Co-listed as AS.212.478 Prerequisites AS.212.333 and AS.212.334 or permission of the instructor. Schedule: F 01:30 PM – 04:00 PM | Homewood Campus
AS 212.791 Film Theory and Critical Methods Derek Schilling, Bernadette Wegenstein Level Credits Department Graduate 0.00 AS GRLL
Enrollment Limit 5
This survey of critical approaches to the study of film explores theoretical problems of representation and reality, film form and signification, authorship, spectatorship, and the digital frontier. Each week we examine a different narrative genre, historical period, or a given theoretical aspect through films that students will watch independently as well as at mandatory weekly screenings. Schedule: T 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM | Homewood Campus, Gilman 479 W 07:00 PM – 10:00 PM (the weekly screenings)
AS 212.801 French Independent Study (Graduate Level) Faculty Level Credits Department Graduate 0.00 AS GRLL Schedule: TBA | Homewood Campus Section 01: Jacques Neefs Section 02: Wilda Anderson Section 03: Elena Russo Section 04: Derek Schilling
AS 212.802 French Dissertation Research Faculty Level Credits Department Graduate 0.00 AS GRLL Schedule: TBA | Homewood Campus Section 01: Jacques Neefs Section 02: Wilda Anderson Section 03: Elena Russo Section 04: Derek Schilling
AS 212.803 French Dissertation Proposal Preparation Faculty Level Credits Department Graduate 0.00 AS GRLL Schedule TBA | Homewood Campus Section 01: Jacques Neefs Section 02: Wilda Anderson Section 03: Elena Russo Section 04: Derek Schilling
