2012-2013 Pitzer Catalog 
    
    May 13, 2024  
2012-2013 Pitzer Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

French Courses


For complete descriptions and requirements for the major, please see appropriate course catalog.

All courses conducted in French. Conversation groups are conducted by a native French speaker for all lower division courses. Hours arranged. Graded language films are shown each week. All students who need review of grammar and syntax are to attend.

See each semester’s course schedule for complete listing of language offerings.

Courses


  • 1 - Introductory French
  • 2 - Continued Introductory French
  • 22 - Intensive Introductory French
  • 33 - Intermediate French
  • 44 - Advanced French

Upper Division Courses


  • 100 - French Culture and Civilization
  • 104 - History, Memory and Loss: Vichy (1940-45) in Contemporary France
  • 105 - Advanced Composition, Translation and Phonetics
  • 106 - The French Business World and its Language
  • 107 - Headline News: Advanced Oral Expression and Conversation of Current Events and Culture
  • 110 - France in the ‘Hood’: Nationhood, Immigration and the Politics of Identity in Fin-de-Siecle France
  • 111 - French Cinema: Images of Women in French Film
  • 112 - Le Theatre Francophone. Prerequisite: French 44 or equivalent
  • 117 - Novel and Cinema in Africa and the Caribbean
  • 120 - Order and Revolt in French Literature
  • 121 - The Politics of Love. Prerequisite: French 44 or equivalent
  • 124 - The Novelist and Society in France. Prerequisite: French 44 or equivalent
  • 130 - Topics in French Theater I: Theatricality and “Mise en Scene”
  • 132 - North African Literature after “Independence”
  • 133 - The Beur Question in Films and Texts
  • 135 - L’Art de la Nouvelle
  • 137 - The Algerian War and the French Intelligensia
  • 150a - Les Moralistes: Public and Private Selves
  • 150b - Les Philosophes: Paradoxes of Nature
  • 151 - Men, Women and Power
  • 152 - Masters, Servants and Slaves
  • 154 - The Eighteenth-Century Novel: Experimentations in Form
  • 172 - Baudelaire and the Symbolist Aesthetic
  • 173 - Reading Bodies
  • 174 - The Romantic Other
  • 175 - Border Crossings
  • 183 - The Novel in France Since 1945
  • 199 - Independent Study in French