MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN CULTURE

FRENCH 672

Explores a specific topic in the history of French and/or Francophone literature and culture; includes analysis and interpretation of texts and/or film in their historical contexts. May be focused on one, or cut across different literary periods. Applies diverse interpretative methodologies to a coherent body of material. Taught in French.

FRENCH 462

A study of how culture has evolved over the course of French history, in relation to a chosen topic. Taught in French.

FRENCH 321

Introduction to important literary works from the medieval era to the French Revolution. Taught in French.

FRENCH 345

Study of French literary texts embedded in their cultural contexts, with a focus on clothing and fashion. Chart the emergence and representation of sartorial taste in France through analysis and discussion of selected texts and other media that feature clothing as a reflection of aesthetic and social values. Rather than evidence for material and economic history, literature and the visual arts will be ways to touch on issues such as the evolution of the notion of human physical beauty, of taste, of gender differences and roles, of social status and stratification in different historical contexts.

FRENCH 348

An introduction to political, social, intellectual, artistic and literary developments in French and Francophone culture, within the time period from the French Revolution to the current era. Taught in French.