French and Romance Philology

Departmental Chair: Pierre Force, 517 Philosophy; 854-5226; [email protected]

Departmental Adviser: Dominique Jullien, 504 Philosophy; 854-3691; [email protected]

Office Hours: to be arranged, by appointment

Departmental Office: 515 Philosophy; (212) 854-2500; fax: (212) 854-5863

Office Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Web: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/french/

Placement Test

Students who have had courses in French elsewhere (in high school, college, or both) must take the French Placement Test before registering for any French (language) course. Placements indicated by the results of the test are not mandatory, but students would be well advised to heed them. The test is given during registration week and the first week of classes. The date and time of each test is posted on the department bulletin board during the registration period. Throughout the term, the test can be taken between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. in the Department prior to enrolling in a course.

Language Laboratory

The Language Laboratory, in 116B Lewisohn, provides intensive practice in French pronunciation and aural comprehension. Exercises in the laboratory are closely integrated with classroom work.

Conversation Courses

Students who wish intensive oral practice in French may take one of the 2-point conversation courses that are on levels commensurate with the intermediate and advanced regular courses. Conversation courses range from a concentration on the development of a basic vocabulary to the development of the ability to participate in advanced-level discussions of topics chosen by the students and teachers.

Maison Française

The Maison Française offers resources including a library with an extensive selection of periodicals, lectures, and other cultural activities, and regular events such as déjeuners and informal conversation groups. Students are invited and encouraged to take advantage of the Maison Française.

For further information, please call (212) 854-2282 or visit the Maison's home page on the Web at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/french/maison/

Fall 2000

Introductory Undergraduate Courses

French C1101x. Elementary course. 4 pts. The staff. MTuWThF at the following times: sec. 1: 9-9:50; sec. 2: 10-10:50; sec. 3: 11-11:50; sec. 4: 11-11:50; sec. 5: 1:10-2. Language laboratory: one 50-minute period a week required.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Enrollment limited to 20. The course is designed to help students understand, speak, read, and write the French language. Prepares students to understand native and non-native speakers of French. Students are able to provide information about their opinions and feelings, their families, their immediate environment, and their daily activities. Students are introduced to both the structure of the French language and cultural features of some French-speaking communities. Daily assignments, laboratory work, and screening of video materials.

French F1101x. Elementary French, I. 4 pts. The staff. Sec 1: MWF 4:10-5:25; sec 2: TuThF 4:10-5:25; sec 3: MWF 6:10-7:25 evening.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
The same course as C1101x, above.

French C1102x Elementary course. 4 pts. The staff. MTuWThF at the following times: sec. 1: 9-9:50; sec. 2: 10-10:50; sec. 3: 11-11:50; sec. 4: 11-11:50; sec. 5: 1:10-2. Language laboratory: one 50-minute period a week required.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
The continuation of C1101y (see spring listing).

French F1102x. Elementary course. 4 pts. The staff. TuThF 2:40-3:55; MWF 6:10-7:25 evening.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
The continuation of F1101y (see spring listing).

French C1201x. Intermediate course. 4 pts. The staff. MTuWTh at the following times: sec. 1: 9-9:50; sec. 2: 10-10:50; sec. 3: 11-11:50; sec. 4: 1:10-2; sec. 5: 1:10-2.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Limited to 21 students. Prepares students for advanced French language and culture. Develops skills in speaking, reading, and writing, and emphasizes cross-cultural awareness through diverse texts: essays, short stories, films, and long fragments of larger works. The program aims at helping students develop a higher level of linguistic accuracy by introducing them to nuances and differences of meaning of syntactic structures in a variety of contexts. Upon completion of the second-year program, students are able to write about and discuss a variety of complex topics using relatively complex structures. Daily assignments, laboratory work, and screening of video materials. Recommended companion course: F1221-F1222.

French F1201x. Intermediate course. 4 pts. The staff. Sec 1: MWF 4:10-5:25; sec 2: TuThF 6:10- 7:25 evening.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
The second-year program prepares students for advanced French language and culture. In addition to developing speaking, reading and writing skills, the courses emphasize cross-cultural awareness through diverse texts: essays, short stories, films, and long fragments of larger works, drawn from the writings of representative masters. Also, the program aims at helping students develop a higher level of linguistic accuracy by introducing them to nuances and differences of meaning of syntactic structures in a variety of contexts. Students practice speaking by initiating, sustaining, and closing relatively complex communicative tasks. They listen to authentic and fabricated segments of spoken French in both audio and video form and reflect on what they have learned. Upon completion of the second-year program, students will be able to write about and discuss a variety of complex topics using relatively complex structures. Daily assignments, laboratory work, and screening of video materials. Recommended companion course F1221-F1222.

French C1202x. Intermediate course. 4 pts. The staff. MTuWTh at the following times: sec. 1: 10-10:50; sec. 2: 11-11:50; sec. 3: 1:10-2; sec. 4: 1:10-2.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
The continuation of C1201y (see spring listing).

French F1202x. Intermediate course. 4 pts. The staff MWF 2:40-3:55; TuThF 6:10-7:25 evening.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
The continuation of F1201y (see spring listing).

French F1203x. Elementary and intermediate reading and translation. 3 pts. Instructors to be announced. TuTh 2:40-3:55.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
The first semester of a two-semester course. Primarily for graduate students and students in the School of International and Public Affairs. This course does not fulfill any part of the undergraduate foreign language requirement. A survey of the essentials of grammar and a reading program. Passing the sequence F1203-1204 with a grade of B or better is equivalent to passing the French Proficiency Exam.

French F1206x. Rapid reading and translation. 3 pts. The staff. Sec 1: MW 4:10-5:25; sec 2: TuTh 4:10-5:25.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Prerequisite: one year of college French or the equivalent. A rapid grammar review and a reading program. Primarily for graduate students and students in the School of International and Public Affairs. This course does not fulfill any part of the undergraduate foreign language requirement.

French F1221x. Second-year conversation, I. 2 pts. The staff. Sec 1: TuTh 11-12:15; sec 2: MW 2:40-3:55; sec 3: TuTh 2:40-3:55.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $1,536
Prerequisite: French F1102 or the equivalent, or instructor's approval. Recommended as a companion course to French F1201-F1202. Practice in conversational French, with emphasis on comprehension, pronunciation, and idiomatic usage. Conducted entirely in French for small groups. This course does not fulfill any part of the foreign language requirement.

French F1222x. Second-year conversation, II. 2 pts. Instructors to be announced. TuTh 4:10-5:25.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $1,536
Continuation of F1221y (see spring listing).

Advanced Undergraduate Courses

French W3131x. Third-year conversation. 2 pts. Instructors to be announced. Sec 1: MW 9:10-10:25; sec 2: TuTh 9:10-10:25; sec 3: MW 10:35-11:50; sec 4: TuTh 10:35-11:50; sec 5: TuTh 2:40-3:55.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $1,536
Prerequisite: French 1202 or two years of college French or four years of high school French, or the equivalent. Conversation on contemporary French subjects based on readings in current popular French periodicals.

French W3405x. Advanced grammar and composition, I. 3 pts. Instructors to be announced. Sec 1: MW 11-12:15; sec 2: TuTh 11-12:15.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Required of all French majors. Designed to give students an enhanced appreciation and command of the stylistics of written language. Introduction to the mechanics of writing through a progression of morphology and grammar exercises designed to help students move beyond the sentence level and discover the rules that govern texts. Composition exercises include sentence combining, describing, comparing, and contrasting as well as examining cohesive links in written texts. Daily assignments.

French W3406x. Advanced grammar and composition, II. 3 pts. Instructor to be announced. TuTh 1:10-2:25.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Second part of a year-long course required of all French majors. See W3405, above, for description.

Noncredit Courses

French N0101x. Elementary French, I. 0 pts. The staff. MWF 6:10-7:25 evening.
Available to FLP.
Total tuition: noncredit $1,060
Enrollment limited to 20. The course is designed to help students understand, speak, read, and write the French language. Prepares students to understand native and non-native speakers of French. Students are able to provide information about their opinions and feelings, their families, their immediate environment, and their daily activities. Students are introduced to both the structure of the French language and cultural features of some French-speaking communities. Daily assignments, laboratory work, and screening of video materials.

French N0102x. Elementary course. 0 pts. The staff. TuThF 2:40-3:55;MWF 6:10-7:25 evening.
Available to FLP.
Total tuition: noncredit $1,060
The continuation of N0101y (see spring listing).

French N0201x. Intermediate course. 0 pts. The staff. Sec 1: MWF 4:10-5:25; sec 2: TuThF 6:10-7:25 evening.
Available to FLP.
Total tuition: noncredit $1,060
The second-year program prepares students for advanced French language and culture. In addition to developing speaking, reading and writing skills, the courses emphasize cross-cultural awareness through diverse texts: essays, short stories, films, and long fragments of larger works, drawn from the writings of representative masters. Also, the program aims at helping students develop a higher level of linguistic accuracy by introducing them to nuances and differences of meaning of syntactic structures in a variety of contexts. Students practice speaking by initiating, sustaining, and closing relatively complex communicative tasks. They listen to authentic and fabricated segments of spoken French in both audio and video form and reflect on what they have learned. Upon completion of the second-year program, students will be able to write about and discuss a variety of complex topics using relatively complex structures. Daily assignments, laboratory work and screening of video materials.

French N0202x. Intermediate course. 0 pts. The staff MWF 2:40-3:55; TuThF 6:10-7:25 evening.
Available to FLP.
Total tuition: noncredit $1,060
The continuation of N0201y (see spring listing).

Spring 2001

Introductory Undergraduate Courses

French C1101y. Elementary course. 4 pts. The staff. MTuWThF at the following times: sec. 1: 9-9:50; sec. 2: 10-10:50; sec. 3: 11-11:50; sec. 4: 1:10-2. Language laboratory: one 50-minute period a week required.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Enrollment limited to 20. The course is designed to help students understand, speak, read, and write the French language. Prepares students to understand native and non-native speakers of French. Students are able to provide information about their opinions and feelings, their families, their immediate environment, and their daily activities. Students are introduced to both the structure of the French language and cultural features of some French-speaking communities. Daily assignments, laboratory work, and screening of video materials.

French F1101y. Elementary course. 4 pts. The staff. Sec 1: TuThF 2:40-3:55; sec 2: MWF 6:10- 7:25 evening.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
The same course as C1101y, above.

French C1102y. Elementary course. 4 pts. The staff. MTuWThF at the following times: sec. 1: 9-9:50; sec. 2: 10-10:50; sec. 3: 11-11:50; sec. 4: 1:10-2. Language laboratory: one 50-minute period a week required.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Continuation of C1101x (see fall listing).

French F1102y. Elementary French, I. 4 pts. The staff. Sec 1: MWF 4:10-5:25; sec 2: TuThF 4:10-5:25; sec 3: MWF 6:10-7:25 evening.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Continuation of F1101x (see fall listing).

French C1201y. Intermediate course. 4 pts. The staff. MTuWThF at the following times: sec. 1: 10-10:50; sec. 2: 11-11:50; sec. 3: 1:10-2; sec. 4: 1:10-2; sec. 5: 1:10-2.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Limited to 21 students. Prepares students for advanced French language and culture. Develops skills in speaking, reading, and writing and emphasizes cross-cultural awareness through diverse texts: essays, short stories, films, and long fragments of larger works. The program aims at helping students develop a higher level of linguistic accuracy by introducing them to nuances and differences of meaning of syntactic structures in a variety of contexts. Upon completion of the second-year program, students are able to write about and discuss a variety of complex topics using relatively complex structures. Daily assignments, laboratory work, and screening of video materials. Recommended companion course: French F1221-F1222.

French F1201y. Intermediate course. 4 pts. The staff MWF 2:40-3:55; TuThF 6:10-7:25 evening.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Same course as C1201y, above.

French C1202y Intermediate course. 4 pts. The staff. MTuWThF at the following times: sec. 1: 10-10:50; sec. 2: 11-11:50; sec. 3: 1:10-2; sec. 4: 1:10-2; sec. 5: 1:10-2.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Continuation of C1201x (see fall listing).

French F1202y. Intermediate course. 4 pts. The staff. Sec 1: MWF 4:10-5:25; sec 2: TuThF 6:10- 7:25 evening.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $3,072
Continuation of F1201x (see fall listing).

French F1204y. Elementary and intermediate reading and translation. 3 pts. Instructors to be announced. TuTh 2:40-3:55.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Continuation of F1203x (see fall listing).

French F1206y. Rapid reading and translation. 3 pts. The staff. Sec 1: MW 4:10-5:25; sec 2: TuTh 4:10-5:25.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Prerequisite: one year of college French or the equivalent. A rapid grammar review and a reading program. Primarily for graduate students and students in the School of International and Public Affairs. This course does not fulfill any part of the undergraduate foreign language requirement.

French F1221y. Second-year conversation, I. 2 pts. Instructors to be announced. TuTh 4:10-5:25.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $1,536
Prerequisite: French F1102 or the equivalent, or instructor's approval. Recommended as a companion course to French F1201-F1202. Practice in conversational French, with emphasis on comprehension, pronunciation, and idiomatic usage. Conducted entirely in French for small groups. This course does not fulfill any part of the foreign language requirement.

French F1222y. Second-year conversation, II. 2 pts. The staff. Sec 1: TuTh 11-12:15; sec 2: MW 2:40-3:55; sec 3: TuTh 2:40-3:55.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $1,536
Continuation of F1221x (see fall listing).

Advanced Undergraduate Courses

French W3132y. Third-year conversation. 2 pts. Instructors to be announced. Sec 1: MW 9:10-10:25; sec 2: TuTh 9:10-10:25; sec 3: MW 10:35-11:50; sec 4: TuTh 10:35-11:50; sec 5: TuTh 2:40-3:55.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $1,536
Prerequisite: French 1202 or two years of college French or four years of high school French, or the equivalent. Conversation on contemporary French subjects based on readings in current popular French periodicals.

French W3405y. Advanced grammar and composition, I. 3 pts. Instructors to be announced. TuTh 1:10-2:25
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
First part of a year-long course required of all French majors. Designed to give students an enhanced appreciation and command of the stylistics of written language. Introduction to the mechanics of writing through a progression of morphology and grammar exercises designed to help students move beyond the sentence level and discover the rules that govern texts. Composition exercises include sentence combining, describing, comparing, and contrasting as well as examining cohesive links in written texts. Daily assignments.

French W3406y. Advanced grammar and composition, II. 3 pts. Instructors to be announced. Sec 1: MW 11-12:15; sec 2: TuTh 11-12:15.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Second part of a year-long course required of all French majors. See W3405, above, for description.

Noncredit Courses

French N0101y. Elementary course. 0 pts. The staff. MWF 6:10-7:25 evening.
Available to FLP.
Total tuition: noncredit $1,060
Enrollment limited to 20. The course is designed to help students understand, speak, read, and write the French language. Prepares students to understand native and non-native speakers of French. Students are able to provide information about their opinions and feelings, their families, their immediate environment, and their daily activities. Students are introduced to both the structure of the French language and cultural features of some French-speaking communities. Daily assignments, laboratory work, and screening of video materials.

French N0102y. Elementary French, I. 0 pts. The staff. MWF 6:10-7:25 evening.
Available to FLP.
Total tuition: noncredit $1,060
Continuation of N0101x (see fall listing).

French N0201y. Intermediate course. 0 pts. TuThF 6:10-7:25 evening.
Available to FLP.
Total tuition: noncredit $1,060
Limited to 21 students. Prepares students for advanced French language and culture. Develops skills in speaking, reading, and writing and emphasizes cross-cultural awareness through diverse texts: essays, short stories, films, and long fragments of larger works. The program aims at helping students develop a higher level of linguistic accuracy by introducing them to nuances and differences of meaning of syntactic structures in a variety of contexts. Upon completion of the second-year program, students are able to write about and discuss a variety of complex topics using relatively complex structures. Daily assignments, laboratory work, and screening of video materials.

French N0202y. Intermediate course. 0 pts. The staff. TuThF 6:10-7:25 evening.
Available to FLP.
Total tuition: noncredit $1,060
Continuation of N0201x (see fall listing).

French Literature

Fall 2000

Advanced Undergraduate Courses

French W3333x. Major literary works to 1800. 3 pts. P. Creamer, J. Helgeson. Sec 1: MW 1:10-2:25; sec 2: MW 6:10-7:25 evening.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Prerequisite: French 1202 or two years of college French or four years of high school French, or the equivalent. Reading and discussion of major works from the Middle Ages to 1800.

French W3334x. Major literary works since 1800. 3 pts. The staff. Sec 1: MW 2:40-3:55; sec 2: TuTh 2:40-3:55.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Prerequisite: French 1202 or two years of college French or four years of high school French, or the equivalent. Reading and discussion of major works from 1800 to the present.

French W3420x. Introduction to French and Francophone studies, I. 3 pts. R. Fisher. MW 4:10-5:25.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Prerequisite: completion French F1202, or the equivalent, or permission of the departmental representative or the instructor. Conceptions of culture and civilization in France from the Enlightenment to the Exposition Coloniale of 1931; emphasis on the issue of universalism vs. relativism and the ideological foundations of French colonialism. Authors and texts include: selections from the Encyclopédie, Diderot, the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen, selections from the Code Napoléon, Chateaubriand, Tocqueville, Segalen, Drumont.

French W3505x. Cultural studies: WWII and literature. 3 pts. H.Mitterand. MW 10:35-11:50.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Prerequisite: French W3333-W3334 or the permission of the departmental representative or the instructor. French writers during the early part of the war (1939-1940) and the Occupation period (1940-1944): literary life in Paris, political and military movements (collaborators, Resistance fighters, partisans of a wait-and-see policy, and major works, public or clandestine, of the time (Morand, Montherlant, Aymé, Giono, Aragon, Mauriac, Vercors, Sartre, Camus, Malraux).

French W3562x. Major prose writers in the age of classicism. 3 pts. G. May. MW 2:40-3:55.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Prerequisite: French W3333-W3334 or the permission of the departmental representative or the instructor. Society and the individual, customs and manners, art and science, philosophy and religion in major works by Descartes, Pascal, La Bruyere, La Rochefoucauld, Madame de Lafayette, and Madame de Sevigne.

French W3601x. Rousseau and the Enlightenment. 3 pts. G. May MW 2:40-3:55
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Prerequisite French W3333-W3334 or the permission of the departmental representative or the instructor. The development of Rousseau's thought and art in his major works, with special attention to his relationship with such contemporaries as Voltaire and Diderot and to his impact on the Revolution and Romanticism.

French W3676x. Structuralism-post-structuralism. 3 pts. S. Lotringer. TuTh 1:10-2:25.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Prerequisite: French W3333-W3334 or the permission of the departmental representative or the instructor. The extension of structuralist theory from Saussure (linguistics) to Jakobson (poetics), Lévi-Strauss (anthropology) and Barthes. Beyond structuralism: Derrida, Lacan, Kristeva, and others.

Comparative Literature-French W3700x. The voyager in the voyager out. 3 pts. M. Condé. MW 11-12:15.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Some nations discover and conquer, others are discovered and only voyage through their fears and desires.

Introductory Graduate Courses
(Available to qualified undergraduates with instructor's permission)

Comparative Literature and Society G4000x. Theory of literature. 3 pts. M. Riffaterre. Th 2:10-4.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*

French G4501x. Nineteenth-century French literature. 3 pts. D. Jullien. W 9-11.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*

Advanced Graduate Courses
(Instructor's permission required)

French G6703x. Diderot. 3 pts. G. May. Tu 2:10-4.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*

French G8239x. Analyse de la poésie. 3 pts. M. Murat. MW 11-12:50 (9/11-10/27).
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*

French G8511x. Zola and aesthetic realism. 3 pts. H. Mitterand. Tu 11-12:50.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*

Comparative Literature-French G8519x. Baudelaire. 3 pts. M. Riffaterre. W 2:10-4
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*

Comparative Literature-French G8670x. The anti-modern. 3 pts. A. Compagnon. M 4:10-6.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*

French G8708x. Literature of Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism. 3 pts. M. Condé. M 2:10-4.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*

Spring 2001

Advanced Undergraduate Courses

French W3333y. Major literary works to 1800. 3 pts. P. Creamer, J. Helgeson. Sec 1: MW 2:40-3:55; sec 2: TuTh 2:40-3:55.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Prerequisite: French 1202 or two years of college French or four years of high school French, or the equivalent. Reading and discussion of major works from the Middle Ages to 1800.

French W3334y. Major literary works since 1800. 3 pts. The staff. Sec 1: MW 1:10-2:25; sec 2: MW 6:10-7:25 evening.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Prerequisite: French 1202 or two years of college French or four years of high school French, or the equivalent. Reading and discussion of major works from 1800 to the present.

French W3421y. Introduction to French and Francophone studies, II. 3 pts. A.S. Morton MW 11-12:15.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Prerequisite: French F1202 or the equivalent, or permission of the departmental representative or the instructor. Universalism vs. exceptionalism, tradition vs. modernity, integration and exclusion, racial, gender, regional, and national identities are considered in this introduction to the contemporary French-speaking world in Europe, the Americas, and Africa. Authors include: Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sedar Senghor, Frantz Fanon, Maryse Condé.

French W3506y. Cultural studies: the age of Proust. 3 pts. D. Jullien. TuTh 10:35-11:50.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Prerequisite: French W3333-W3334 or the permission of the departmental representative or the instructor. Selected readings from Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, in the context of the historical, political, social and cultural events of the time.

French W3666y. Moliëre. 3 pts. P. Force. TuTh 2:40-3:55
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
Prerequisite: French W3333-W3334 or the permission of the departmental representative or the instructor. Most of Moliëre's major plays, including Tartuffe, Don Juan, and Le Misanthrope. Key concepts, such as naturalness and convention, value and exchange, as well as the relationship between ethics and comedy, and the notion of comic character.

Comparative Literature-French W3680y. Magical and other realism. 3 pts. M. Condé. MW 4:10-5:25.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*
"Magical realism is a commitment not only to the kingdom of this world but also to the other world." (Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer).

Introductory Graduate Courses
(Available to qualified undergraduates with instructor's permission)

Comparative Literature and Society G4001y. Theory of literature. 3 pts. M. Riffaterre. Th 2:10-4.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*

French G4105y. French literature of the middle ages. 3 pts. P. Creamer. T 11-12:50.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*

French G4203y. French literature of the 16th century. 3 pts. J. Helgeson. W 4-6.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*

Advanced Graduate Courses
(Instructor's permission required)

French G6640y. Twentieth-century autobiography. 3 pts. D. Jullien. M 11-1.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*

French G8403y. Eighteenth-century pre-Romantic currents. 3 pts. G. May. Tu 2:10-4.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*

Comparative Literature-French. G8627y. Intertextuality. 3 pts. M. Riffaterre. W 2:10-4.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*

French G8680y. Exoticism, magical and other realism. 3 pts. M. Condé. M 2:10-4.
Available to SSP, SMP.
Total tuition: credit $2,750*