Classes will meet every weekday for a minimum of three hours. A daily journal, special projects, group discussions, museum visits and excursions are part of the program. Work is done in French. This course explores contemporary French literary culture and society through the art and language of French cinema. Films by such directors as Marguerite Duras, Claude Lelouch, Alain Resnais, Franois Truffaut, and others are screened in French with English subtitles.
Work is done in French.
A study of Neo-Classicism, its vocabulary and presuppositions through the works of Corneille, Racine, Molire, etc. An historical panorama of France from Roman times through the French Revolution. Textual analysis and applied principles of stylistics through selected readings and compositions. They may deal with subjects of either a lingual, cultural or literary nature. This course may be repeated since the topic varies from year to year.