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examining space — SCU2214.01

Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time: TH 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

Are you interested in taking a closer look at the  immediate and collective spaces that we live in? What are some of the realities that exist around us and why/ how can we build work that pushes against these basic constructs.

Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World I — FRE2103.01

Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Days & Time: MO,WE,TH 8:30am-9:50am
Credits: 5

Viewed from the outside, the French-speaking world offers enticing images of beauty, pleasure, and freedom. From the inside, however, it is a complicated, often contradictory world where implicit codes and values shape the most basic aspects of daily life. This course will give you an insider’s perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose ideas, customs, and belief systems are surprisingly different from your own.

Chocolat — FRE4608.01

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

Why is a Mayan food, chocolate, such a high-stake product in French-speaking countries ?

Framed? Literature Heroines on Screen — FRE4809.01

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

French literature and film have always reciprocally inspired one another – as early as 1897, Lumière represented the main characters of Hugo’s Les Misérables. This course will offer students the opportunity to analyze literary representations of women and their film adaptations in terms of intermediality and intertextuality. Adaptations will include: La Princesse de Clèves (La Fayette/Sauder), La Religieuse (Diderot/Rivette), La Noire de… (Sembène/Sembène), La Prisonnière/La Captive (Proust/Akerman). Students will focus on various adaptation strategies and approaches.