Graduate Course Descriptions

The following directory lists the graduate courses which the University expects to offer, although the University in no way guarantees that all such courses will be offered in any given academic year, and reserves the right to alter the list if conditions warrant. Click on the links below for a list of courses in that subject area. You may then click “View Classes” to see scheduled classes for individual courses.

5272. French Philosophy

Also offered as: CLCS 5272

3.00 credits

Prerequisites: None.

Grading Basis: Graded

Introduction to the French philosophical tradition from the Enlightenment to the post-structuralist revolution. Topics include theories of freedom, knowledge, power, language, subjectivity, sexuality, and the mind/body dialectic. Critical practice applied to literature, film, and other genres. Taught in English.

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5321. Old French Literature

3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 12 credits.

Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in LCL, others with instructor consent.

Grading Basis: Graded

May be repeated for up to 12 credits with change in content.

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5332. The Poetry of the French Renaissance

3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 12 credits.

Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in LCL, others with instructor consent.

Grading Basis: Graded

May be repeated for up to 12 credits with change in content.

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5334. The Prose of the French Renaissance

3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 12 credits.

Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in LCL, others with instructor consent.

Grading Basis: Graded

May be repeated for up to 12 credits with change in content.

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5338. Hegel and Revolution

Also offered as: CLCS 5338

3.00 credits

Prerequisites: None.

Grading Basis: Graded

Examines the logical underpinnings of Hegel’s foundational positions on epistemology, ethics, history, and political theory and their valences in twentieth-century French thought. Enables graduate students not only to understand the analytical basis for contemporary debates in critical theory, but also to develop their own theoretical frameworks for future research. Taught in English.

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5357. Topics in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture

3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 12 credits.

Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in LCL, others with instructor consent.

Grading Basis: Graded

May be repeated for up to 12 credits with change in content.

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5361. French Poetry in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

3.00 credits

Prerequisites: None.

Grading Basis: Graded

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5363. Topics in Nineteenth-Century French Literature

3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 9 credits.

Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in LCL, others with instructor consent.

Grading Basis: Graded

Explores the problems of genre, criticism, theory, and material conditions of the literary production of nineteenth-century France.

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5365. Topics in Nineteenth-Century French Media

3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 9 credits.

Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in LCL, others with instructor consent.

Grading Basis: Graded

Explores visual, spectacle-oriented, and print media; the commercial and technological dimensions of nineteenth-century media production, genre, advertising, and information theory; and the ways in which these elements challenge traditional literary categories.

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5372. French Contemporary Poetry

3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 12 credits.

Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in LCL, others with instructor consent.

Grading Basis: Graded

May be repeated for up to 12 credits with change in content.

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5373. The French Contemporary Novel

3.00 credits

Prerequisites: None.

Grading Basis: Graded

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5374. Narrative Forms in 20th- and 21st-Century French Literature

3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 9 credits.

Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in LCL, others with instructor consent.

Grading Basis: Graded

Narrative in 20th- and 21st-century literature, including its criticism and theory, in traditional and nontraditional literary forms. May be repeated with a change of topic for up to nine credits.

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5375. Aesthetic Trends in Twentieth-Century French Literature

3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 12 credits.

Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in LCL, others with instructor consent.

Grading Basis: Graded

May be repeated for up to 12 credits with change in content.

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5380. Seminar in Francophone Literature

3.00 credits

Prerequisites: None.

Grading Basis: Graded

The study of the literature from the French-speaking world outside of France (Quebec, the Antilles, West Africa, the Maghreb) against the background of colonial and post-colonial history.

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5395. Special Topics

1.00 - 3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 9 credits.

Prerequisites: None.

Grading Basis: Graded

May be repeated for up to nine credits with a change in content.

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5398. Variable Topics

3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 9 credits.

Prerequisites: None.

Grading Basis: Graded

May be repeated for up to nine credits with a change in topic.

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5399. Independent Study

1.00 - 3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 9 credits.

Prerequisites: None.

Grading Basis: Graded

May be repeated for up to nine credits with a change in content.

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5407. Problems in French Literature or Philology

1.00 - 3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 12 credits.

Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in LCL, others with instructor consent.

Grading Basis: Graded

May be repeated for up to 12 credits with change in content.

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