Students who have completed FRN 201 may not take these courses for credit. A course in spoken and written French, with emphasis on precision and fluency in the spoken form. This course teaches literary analysis and its application to representative texts chosen from various periods of French literature. All readings are done in French. Discussions are in French.
Students learn to express themselves in the current idiom with fluency and accuracy.
At least one hour of laboratory is required weekly. Century Literature Major issues of the Enlightenment such as progress, tolerance, and equality as well as questions of language and identity are discussed. Readings include masterpieces of French prose including Voltaire's Candide , Rousseau's Confessions, Montesquieu's Lettres persanes , Beaumarchais' Mariage de Figaro , Grafigney's Lettres d'une Peruvienne . May be repeated as the topic changes. French Civilization A discussion of French civilization from the creation of the modern state to the present.