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FREN 101 - ELEMENTARY FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE I Credits: 5 Course URL: http://lang.rice.edu/French Introductory French. Concentration on all four language skills. Supplemented by work in the Language Resource Center. College: School of Humanities Department: French Studies
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FREN 102 - ELEMENTARY FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE II Credits: 5 Course URL: http://lang.rice.edu/French Continuation of FREN 101. Credit may not be received for both FREN 223 and FREN 102. Recommended Prerequisites: FREN 101 or FREN 222 or language placement test. College: School of Humanities Department: French Studies
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FREN 127 - IN THE MATRIX: ON HUMAN BONDAGE AND LIBERATION Credits: 3 Using the film "The Matrix" as a point of reference, this course presents celebrated explorations of servitude and emancipation -- from religious mysticism to Marxism and artistic modernism. Texts by Lao Tzu, Farid ud-Din Attar, Plato, Freud, Marx, Beaudelaire, J.S. Mill, Proust, de Beauvoir, Malcolm, Baudrillard. Course taught in English. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 127. College: School of Humanities Department: French Studies
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FREN 133 - AMERICA THROUGH FRENCH EYES Credits: 3 The United States has always been a source of fascination -- both attraction and revulsion -- for the French. This course aims to understand American culture and identity as revealed by transatlantic encounters with the French. We will study French intellectuals' observations from Tocqueville to Simone de Beauvoir as well as images of America in French popular culture. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 133. College: School of Humanities Department: French Studies
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FREN 201 - INTERMEDIATE FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE I Credits: 4 Course URL: http://lang.rice.edu/French Communication based course. Focuses on the functional use of the language through linguistic, sociocultural and situational contexts. Develops all four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing). Credit may not be received for both FREN 225 and FREN 201. Recommended Prerequisites: FREN 102 or FREN 223 or language placement test. College: School of Humanities Department: French Studies
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FREN 202 - INTERMEDIATE FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE II Credits: 4 Course URL: http://lang.rice.edu/French Continuation of FREN 201. Credit may not be received for both FREN 226 and FREN 202. Recommended Prerequisites: FREN 201 or FREN 225 or language placement test. College: School of Humanities Department: French Studies
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FREN 221 - CONTEMPORARY FRENCH SOCIETY Credits: 3 This course aims to give students an understanding of French Civilization through exploration of the social, cultural, and political issues that define France today. Course taught in English. College: School of Humanities Department: French Studies
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FREN 222 - AP CREDIT FRENCH LANGUAGE Credits: 4 This course provides credit for students who have successfully completed approved examinations, such as Advanced Placement exams. This credit counts toward the total credit hours required for graduation. Credit may not be received for both FREN 222 and FREN 101. College: School of Humanities Department: French Studies
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FREN 223 - AP CREDIT FRENCH LANGUAGE Credits: 4 This course provides credit for students who have successfully completed approved examinations, such as Advanced Placement exams. This credit counts toward the total credit hours required for graduation. Credit may not be received for both FREN 223 and FREN 102. College: School of Humanities Department: French Studies
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FREN 225 - AP CREDIT IN INTERMEDIATE FRENCH Credits: 3 This course provides credit for students who have successfully completed approved examinations, such as Advanced Placement exams. This credit counts toward the total credit hours required for graduation. Credit may not be received for both FREN 225 and FREN 201. College: School of Humanities Department: French Studies
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FREN 226 - AP CREDIT IN INTERMEDIATE FRENCH Credits: 3 This course provides credit for students who have successfully completed approved examinations, such as Advanced Placement exams. This credit counts toward the total credit hours required for graduation. Credit may not be received for both FREN 226 and FREN 202. College: School of Humanities Department: French Studies
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FREN 300 - INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits: Hours Variable This is a course tailored to meet the needs of French for special purposes. Instructor permission required College: School of Humanities Department: French Studies
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FREN 301 - ADVANCED FRENCH FOR WRITTEN AND ORAL COMMUNICATION Credits: 3 Course URL: http://lang.rice.edu/French Aimed at developing competence in oral and written expression, with the special emphasis on stylistic variations, lexical nuances, and complex grammatical structures. Drawing on literary and journalistic sources, students will practice different styles of writing. Besides working on an individual project, students will create a collaborative story of their own invention. Recommended Prerequisites: FREN 202 or FREN 226 or language placement test. College: School of Humanities Department: French Studies
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FREN 303 - CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION: PARIS Credits: Hours Variable Overview of the history of Paris as a cultural, intellectual, and economic center through texts, music, and films. Students earn 3 credits for the course or 4 credits if participating in a supplementary 10-day study trip to France at the end of the semester in May. Scholarships available. College: School of Humanities Department: French Studies
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FREN 304 - CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION: PROVINCES OF FRANCE Credits: 3 Overview of the amazing diversity in the history, languages, economic bases, traditions, and cultures of the original provinces in order to arrive at a better understanding of France as it exists today. Includes texts, music and films. Equal emphasis will be placed on language skills and content. College: School of Humanities Department: French Studies
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FREN 306 - DUMAS AND THE THREE MUSKETEERS IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH CULTURE Credits: 3 More than one and a half centuries after its publication, Dumas' internationally acclaimed novel finds multiple reincarnations in contemporary French society. The novel will serve as a guide on a tour into French history and culture - past and present. The course will include texts, music, films, and writing workshops. Prerequisites: FREN 202 or placement exam or AP credit or permission of instructor. Department permission required College: School of Humanities Department: French Studies
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FREN 311 - MAJOR LITERARY WORKS AND ARTIFACTS OF PRE-REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE Credits: 3 Study of French culture, literature, and artifacts from the Middle Ages until the Revolution. Course conducted entirely in French. Recommended Prerequisite: FREN 202 College: School of Humanities Department: French Studies
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FREN 312 - MAJOR LITERARY WORKS AND ARTIFACTS OF POST-REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE Credits: 3 Study of 19th and 20th century poetry, fiction, and painting through the major literary and artistic movements: Romanticism, Realism, Symbolism, Surrealism, and the post-war era. College: School of Humanities Department: French Studies
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FREN 318 - STRUCTURE OF FRENCH Credits: 3 The primary objective of this course is to present contemporary French as a dynamic linguistic system shaped by historical, cognitive and sociological developments. Beyond the specific consideration of French, this course is concerned with the historical, psychological, and sociological dimensions that enter into the description of any language. Taught in French. Cross-list: LING 318. College: School of Humanities Department: French Studies
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FREN 321 - INTRODUCTION TO FRENCH SOCIETY AND CULTURE Credits: 3 This course provides grounding in social, political, cultural, and economic aspects of contemporary France. The course will focus on themes such as youth culture, Europeanization, immigration, and gender debates. College: School of Humanities Department: French Studies
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FREN 332 - FRENCH PHONETICS Credits: 3 Contrastive analysis of the French sound system including key areas as diction and articulation of French speech with emphasis on class as well as laboratory practice. College: School of Humanities Department: French Studies
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FREN 336 - WRITING WORKSHOP Credits: 3 The course will focus on the practice of writing as a discursive discipline. It will also closely examine, from both a stylistic and rhetorical point of view, creative and critical prose by Barthes, Djebar, Sarraute, and others. Required of majors. Open to non-majors if space is available. Recommended Prerequisites: FREN 311 or FREN 312. College: School of Humanities Department: French Studies
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FREN 340 - EXOTICISM IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT Credits: 3 This course will focus on French representations of the Orient and the Pacific in the eighteenth century. Readings include novels, travel journals and essays by Montesquieu, Rousseau, Diderot, and Bougainville, among others. We will conclude the course by turning to the nineteenth century and the paintings of Gauguin and Delacroix. College: School of Humanities Department: French Studies
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FREN 348 - FRENCH THEATER OF 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES Credits: 3 French theater from the early 17th century to the French Revolution. It considers the debates of the period on the role theater should play in the political and cultural life of France. The inter-relationship of theater and film will be addressed through film versions of the plays discussed. College: School of Humanities Department: French Studies
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FREN 355 - MODERN SHORT STORY: TOWARDS AN ETHICS OF FICTION Credits: 3 Study of great works in American and European short fiction of the 19th centuries, with special attention to the ethical dimensions that this (and all) fiction articulates. Selected critical essays will complement readings from Melville, Flaubert, Mann, Maupassant, Gogol, Wilde, Chekhov, Gilman, Kafka, O'Connor, Carver, and Garcia-Marquez. Does not count toward French major. Cross-list: ENGL 355. College: School of Humanities Department: French Studies
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