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FRE 1112 -
Introductory French II
Description: Groundwork in French, including oral proficiency, aural comprehension and reading; for students with no prior knowledge of French, or one year of high school French. Supplementary language laboratory work and oral skills.
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Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Summer 2009
FRE 1121 -
Intermediate French I
Description: Review of grammar, composition, reading and conversation. Students should have completed FRE 1111 and 1112 or the equivalent.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Summer 2009
FRE 1131 -
Conversation and Composition I
Description: Intense practice in conversation and composition with emphasis on developing advanced language skills in French. A writing enriched course. Students should have completed FRE 1121 and 1122 or the equivalent.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009
FRE 1133 -
Advanced Grammar
Description: Intensive practice of spoken and written French.
Prerequisites: FRE 1131
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2005, Fall 2002
FRE 1134 -
Business French
Description: An introduction to French business terminology and discourse related to economic, finance, and management.
Prerequisites: FRE 1122
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2002, Spring 2001, Spring 2000, Spring 1999
FRE 1136 -
Contemp Fren Lang I
Description: Offered as part of the Villanova Summer Program at the Universite de Rennes 2 - Haute Bretagne to provide practice to speaking and writing on an advanced level. The use of French in everyday situations and subject-related discussions. Students will read newspapers, magazines, advertising, and listen to broadcasts.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Summer 2008, Summer 2007, Summer 2006
FRE 1141 -
Phonetics
Description: Through phonetics transcription, introduction to phonology, and recognition of socio-linquistic variation, this course is designed to help students improve their knowledge of spoken French.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2006
FRE 2001 -
French Culture & Lit to 1789
Description: Significant developments in the arts, society, and literature in France from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution. Research paper required for FRE majors.
Prerequisites: FRE 1132
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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FRE 2002 -
Modern French Culture & Lit
Description: Significant developments in the arts, society, and literature in France from the French Revolution to the present. Research paper required for FRE majors.
Prerequisites: FRE 1132
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009
FRE 2140 -
French Culture
Description: Focuses on the history, geography, and the political, economical and social structures in France from its origins to the 20th century.
Prerequisites: FRE 1131
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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FRE 2142 -
The savoir vivre in France
Description: The course is designed to help students to gain a better understanding of social rules and codes which define the French mentality and cultural identity.
Prerequisites: FRE 1131
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2004, Summer 2003, Spring 2003, Summer 2002
FRE 2144 -
Franco American Relations
Description: Course examines how these old allies became rivals while trying to sell their model of "good society." Taught in English.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Summer 2004, Summer 2003
FRE 2215 -
Francophone Women's Voices
Description: Study of cultural production (literature, cinema, etc.) by women of the French speaking world. Regions may include North Africa, the Caribbean islands and Canada.
Prerequisites: FRE 1131
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Spring 2007, Fall 2003, Fall 2000
FRE 3211 -
La musique populaire, 1950:-
Description: Survey of popular music, 1950 to the present, considering literary influences and trends in music and in the industry.
Prerequisites: FRE 1131
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2002, Fall 1996, Spring 1995
FRE 3411 -
17th Century Literature
Description: Analytical readings of major texts.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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FRE 3412 -
Special Topics
Description: Advanced study of topics of special interest in French literary and/or cultural studies. May be repeated for credit if topic changes. Pre-requisite FRE 1131 or FRE 1132 with the permission of the French director.
Prerequisites: FRE 1132 or FRE 1131
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008
FRE 3613 -
Impressionism
Description: Comparison of literary and artistic trends of the end of the nineteenth century in France.
Prerequisites: FRE 1131
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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FRE 3715 -
Utopia in 18th-C Fr Lit
Description: Emphasis on real and fictional travel accounts as well as works in which homesteading on islands or in isolated natural settings plays an important role.
Prerequisites: FRE 1131
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2001, Fall 1998
FRE 3718 -
Themes in Fre Poetry 1789-pres
Description: An overview of the voices, forms and innovations of the French poetic tradition through the themes of love; subjectivity and objectivity; masculinities and femininities; nature vs. the city; and others, in the works of selected French poets from the nineteenth century to the present.
Prerequisites: FRE 1132
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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FRE 3819 -
Existentialism in France
Description: Saint-Germain des Pres, jazz, Sartre, Camus, de Beauvoir, Vian, Greco. A writing enriched course. Fulfills advanced literature requirement.
Prerequisites: FRE 1131
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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FRE 3820 -
Le vers libre
Description: The revolution of poetry in France. Discussion of the evolution of French free-verse poetry in its social and historical context.
Prerequisites: FRE 1131
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008
FRE 3921 -
20th Century Theatre
Description: Authors may include: Jarry,Claudel, Giraudoux, Anouih, Camus, Satre, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Koltes.
Prerequisites: FRE 1131
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2007, Spring 1996
FRE 4110 -
French Classical Theatre
Description: Readings and discussions on the major dramatists and theorists of the French 17th century. Conducted in English.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 1997
FRE 4130 -
Food and Culture in France
Description: Through selected readings and films, the course will examine French society and its peculiar approach to the culture of the table.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009
FRE 5900 -
Independent Study
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Prerequisites: FRE 1121 or FRE 1122
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008
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