WSU Graduate Courses - French/FR

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FR 511 FRENCH CONVERSATION (Credits: 4)

Practice in oral use of French emphasizing the culture of the French-speaking world.

FR 512 FRENCH CONVERSATION (Credits: 4)

Practices in oral uses of French emphasizing the culture of the French-speaking world.

FR 521 FRENCH COMPOSITION (Credits: 4)

Writing techniques and grammar review; written stylistic analyses.

FR 522 FRENCH COMPOSITION (Credits: 4)

Writing techniques and grammar review; written stylistic analyses.

FR 523 FRENCH COMPOSITION (Credits: 4)

Introduction to written literary analysis of poetry, prose, and drama.

FR 525 BUSINESS FRENCH (Credits: 4)

An introduction to the language of business French with insight into France's place in the global economy.

FR 526 BUSINESS FRENCH: FOCUS ON QUEBEC (Credits: 4)

Web enhanced exploration of business language, culture and practices in Quebec.

PREREQUISITE: FR 325 OR EQUIVALENT.

FR 531 SURVEY OF FRENCH LITERATURE (Credits: 4)

Middle Ages to the present.Topics vary.

FR 532 SURVEY OF FRANCOPHONE LIT (Credits: 4)

Survey of literature from one or more regions of the Francophone world. Topics vary.

FR 581 APPLIED ELEMENTARY FRENCH INSTRUCTION (Credits: 1)

Assistance for elementary course instructors in conducting French classes.

FR 590 FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTITUTE (Credits: 8)

For teachers of French.Intensive experience designed, through total immersion, to improve language skills (conversation and composition) and increase awareness of French civilization and contemporary culture.

FR 603 ADVANCED STUDIES: LANGUAGE/CIVILIZATION (Credits: 4)

Course content will vary.Topic chosen by instructor.Conducted in French.

FR 622 VILLON TO CHENIER (Credits: 4)

Three centuries of French poetry:Villon, Sceve, Marot, Du Bellay, Ronsard, d'Aubigne, Malherbe, La Fontaine, Bioleau, Voltaire, Chenier.

FR 623 SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY NOVEL (Credits: 4)

Mme de La Fayette, Scarron, Finelon, Montesquieu, Lesage, Privost, Diderot, and Ladlos. Graduate standing and instructor permission required.

FR 641 LIBERTINES AND MORALISTS: RABELAIS TO VOLTAIRE (Credits: 4)

Libertines and Moralista:From Rabelais to Voltaire:Currents of skepticism and humanism in the intellectual history of France.Major authors:Rabelais, Montaigne, Cyrano de Bergerac, Saint-Evremond, La Bruyere, La Rochefoucauld, Bayle, Fontenelle, Diderot, Voltaire.

PREREQUISITE: LANGUAGE COMPETENCE.

FR 642 SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY THEATRE (Credits: 4)

Works of Corneille, Moliere, Racine, Marivaux, Diderot, Voltaire, Beaumarchais.

FR 643 THE ENLIGHTENMENT (Credits: 4)

History of political and social ideas in eighteenth-century France.Based principally on works of Montesquieu, Diderot, Voltaire, and Rousseau.

FR 650 INDEPENDENT GRAD RESEARCH (Credits: 1 TO 4)

Independent graduate research.

FR 651 FRENCH ROMANTICISM (Credits: 4)

From Rousseau to Hugo.Includes Bernardin de St. Pierre, Chateaubriand, Mme de Stael, Nodier, Lamartine, Vigny, Musset, Nerval.

FR 652 NINETEENTH CENTURY NOVEL (Credits: 4)

Chateaubriand, Constant, Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and France.

FR 653 POETRY FROM BAUDELAIRE TO BRETON (Credits: 4)

Symbolists, Decadents, and Surrealists.

FR 654 19TH CENTURY SHORT STORY (Credits: 4)

Intensive study of such authors as Balzac, Stendhal, Nodier, Mirimie, Flaubert, Maupassant, and Huysmans.

FR 662 TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE (Credits: 4)

The novel.

PREREQUISITE: CONSENT OF INSTRUCTOR.

FR 663 TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE: DRAMA (Credits: 4)

Study of modern French theatre including: Cocteau, Giraudoux, Anouilh, Beckett, Ionesco.

PREREQUISITE: LANGUAGE COMPETENCE, GRADUATE STANDING.

FR 665 PROBLEMS IN FRENCH LITERATURE (Credits: 4)

Examination of selected topics in French literature to investigate various themes, myths, genres, literary movements, or characters. Titles vary.

FR 681 INDEPENDENT READING FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS (Credits: 4)

Independent reading for graduate students.

FR 682 INDEPENDENT READING FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS (Credits: 4)

Independent reading for graduate students.