French (FR)
26 courses in the 1968–69 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
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FR 100 French language and literature An intensive training course in conversational French with lectures and readings of French literary masterpieces.
Language training. This portion of the course will consist of structural grammar and intensive oral training. Two periods each week will be devoted to the programmed “Active review of French’? (Politzer and Hagiwara); one period each week will be devoted to newspaper reading, discussion, general conversation.
Literary training: This portion of the course will consist of three 20 minute T.V. lectures weekly on the literary texts being studied, followed by a discussion period.
Three lectures.
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FR 250 Structural grammar, intensive language training, and writing practice Prerequisite: French 100. Three lectures.
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FR 245 Classical literature of social commentary The social and political situation in 17th century France as interpreted and illustrated by Molitre, La Fontaine, La Bruyére, Saint-Simon, etc.
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FR 246 Enlightenment literature of social commentary The social and political situation in 18th century France as interpreted and illustrated by Lesage, Prévost, Rousseau.
Voltaire, Beaumarchais, etc.
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FR 265 Nineteenth century literature of social commentary The social and political situation in 19th century France as interpreted and illustrated by Balzac, Zola, etc.
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FR 266 Contemporary literature of social commentary The social and political situation in 20th century France as interpreted and illustrated by Mauriac, Péguy, Sartre, etc.
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FR 325 French theatre before 1850 A study of French theatre of the baroque, rococo and romantic periods. Special attention will be given to Corneille, Racine, Marivaux, Hugo and Musset.
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FR 326 French theatre after 1850 A study of the major developments in French drama since 1850. Special attention will be given to /e thédtre libre, Maeterlinck, Claudel, Cocteau, Sartre, Ionesco, Beckett, etc.
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FR 345 French poetry of the 19th century An intensive study of the romantic, parnassian, and symbolist schools of French poetry.
Department of Classics and Romance Languages
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FR 346 French poetry of the 20th century An intensive study of the main schools of poetry in 20th century France.
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FR 350 Techniques of audio-visual aids, with composition, translation and oral practice Prerequisite: French 250. Three lectures.
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FR 365 French Canadian novel A study of the principal novels produced by French Canadian writers.
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FR 366 French Canadian poetry and theatre A study of the major French Canadian poets and dramatists.
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FR 425 Medieval French language and literature An introduction to the problems of medieval French language and readings from the major literary texts of the period.
435*, French prose of the Renaissance. Particular attention will be paid to the aesthetics of prose in the period. Readings in the conteurs, Rabelais, and Montaigne, etc.
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FR 436 French poetry of the Renaissance Particular attention will be given to the aesthetics of poetry in the period, Readings in Marot, the Pléiade, the baroque poets, etc.
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FR 446 The genius of French prose A study of five major prose stylists of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries: Pascal, Diderot, Voltaire, Stendhal, and Flaubert.
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FR 455 Introduction to French linguisitics and advanced composition, translation and oral practice An introduction to the study of linguistics and phonetics, with advanced composition and translation. Lectures, debates, panels.
Prerequisite: French 350.
Three lectures.
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FR 456 Compared stylistics, and advanced composition, translation and orat practice An intreduction to the problems of stylistics, with advanced translation and oral practice. Lectures, debates, panels.
Prerequisite: French 350.
Three lectures.
465*, Proust and Gide. An intensive study of the works of Marcel Proust and André Gide.
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FR 466 The contemperary French novel An intensive study of the French novel since 1930, with special attention given to Malraux, Camus, Sartre, and Robbe-Grillet.
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FR 485 Principles of French criticism. A systematic survey of the major schools of French criticism from the classical to the modern periods.
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FR 486 Senior Seminar on approved topics. The following courses are administered by St. Jerome’s College.
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FR 275 J. Survey of French Literature from 1550-1660: Pléiade, Malherbe, Baroque per- iod, Corneille, Moliére, Pascal.
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FR 276 J. Survey of French Literature from 1660 to the Revolution: La Fontaine, Racine, Boileau, minor genres of classicism, novels and comedies to the Revolution.
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FR 315 J. French literature from 1900 to 1930. A survey of the main developments in the French novel, theatre, and poetry of the early twentieth century, Special attention is given to Gide, Claudel, Proust, Mauriac, and the Surrealists.
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FR 316 J. French literature from 1930 to present. A survey of the main developments in French literature from 1930 to present with special emphasis on Malraux, Giraudoux, Sartre, Anouilh, Camus and Sarraute.
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FR 320J French literature of the 19th century A survey of the main developments in the French novel, theatre, and poetry of the nineteenth century. Not offered in 1968.
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