Composition and Conversation  Intensive practice in speaking and writing. Introduction to reading full-length literary works and to critical analysis. Development of writing skills in informal and formal forms. For students who wish to achieve greater fluency and an understanding of life in Quebec, Canada. Extensive work on oral comprehension and speaking.
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French Culture and Civilization  20th century French and Francophone culture from the perspectives of media, politics, intellectual life, and popular culture. Literary works discussed as framework and context, but the course is not primarily on literature. Epic, courtly, and allegorical literature, chivalric romance, ribald tale, and comic theatre of the French Middle Ages. Works by Rabelais, Montaigne, and the poets of the Lyon and Pleiade schools. The emergence of a national literature and the development of the Humanist tradition in France.