Brock University Undergraduate Calendar

French Courses
FREN 1F90 Intermediate French Grammar review; literary, cultural and journalistic readings; practice in reading, writing, oral expression and comprehension. Lectures, 3 hours per week; language lab, alternating weeks. Prerequisite: FREN 1P03, OAC French, OAC Français or French immersion, or grade 12 French/français or French Immersion. FREN 1P01 Introductory French I Basic French: vocabulary, structures, pronunciation, spoken French. Oral and written exercises. Lectures, 3 hours per week; language lab, 1 hour per week, alternating weeks. Prerequisite: Ontario grade 9 French or equivalent. Note: see program notes regarding departmental confirmation of registration. FREN 1P02 Introductory French II Continuation of FREN 1P01. Basic French: vocabulary, structures, pronunciation, spoken French. Oral and written exercises. Lectures, 3 hours per week; language lab, 1 hour per week, 1 hour per week alternating weeks. Prerequisite: FREN 1P01, Ontario grade 10 or 11 French or equivalent. Note: see program notes regarding departmental confirmation of registration. FREN 1P03 Introductory French III Continuation of FREN 1P02. Basic French: vocabulary, structures, pronunciation, spoken French. Oral and written exercises. Language laboratory. Lectures, 3 hours per week; language lab, 1 hour per week, alternating weeks. Prerequisite: FREN 1P02 or equivalent. Note: see program notes regarding departmental confirmation of registration. FREN 2F00 Grammar and Composition Intensive grammar review; literary expression; composition; critical written and oral expression through discussion of general topics. Lectures, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: FREN 1F90. FREN 2F03 Literature and Culture: The French-Speaking World Literature in its cultural contexts. Works from different genres, historical periods and cultural traditions. Dissertation, technical vocabulary, rhetorical terminology and interpretative concepts. Lectures, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: FREN 1F90. Note: students may not concurrently register in FREN 2F03 and any French literature or culture course numbered 2(alpha)90 or higher. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in any French literature course numbered 2(alpha)90 or higher. FREN 2P44 Children's Literature in French: The Picture Book and Beyond Selection of texts representative of a variety of genres, including the picture book, fairytale, short story and novel emphasizing the contemporary period. Theory of children's literature. Lectures, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: FREN 1F90. FREN 2P65 Culture and Civilization of France to 1700 Prehistory to the end of the 17th century; art, music, architecture and aesthetics; intellectual trends; history, politics and society. Lectures, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: FREN 1F90. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in FREN 2P60 and 3F82. FREN 3P03 Grammar and Stylistics Advanced grammar; stylistics and semantics of contemporary French. Applications to composition. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: FREN 2F00. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in FREN 3E81 and 3F81. FREN 3P45 Nineteenth-Century French Literature to 1850 Romanticism, Parnasse and other currents. Texts chosen from various genres. Authors may include Stendhal, Balzac, Vigny, Lamartine, Hugo, Musset. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: FREN 2F00 and 2F03. FREN 3P53 Twentieth-Century French Literature to 1935 Ideological and aesthetic perspectives. Texts chosen from various genres. Authors may include Proust, Gide, Claudel, Apollinaire, Breton. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: FREN 2F00 and 2F03. FREN 3P65 Culture and Civilization of France from 1700 to the Present Art, music, architecture and aesthetics from the beginning of the 18th century to the present day; intellectual trends; history, politics and society. Lectures, 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: FREN 2F00 and 2F03. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in FREN 2P60, 3E82 and 3F82. FREN 3P73 Canadian Literature in French to 1939 Analysis of major texts chosen from various genres. Historical, sociological and ideological perspectives. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: FREN 2F00 and 2F03. FREN 3P74 Canadian Literature in French from 1939 to 1960 Analysis of major texts chosen from various genres. Historical, sociological and ideological perspectives. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: FREN 2F00 and 2F03. FREN 3P86 Women Writers of France (also offered as WISE 3P86) Texts chosen from various genres. Authors may include M. de France, M. de Navarre, Sévigné, Sand, Colette, Beauvoir, Duras, Yourcenar. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: FREN 2F00 and 2F03. FREN 3P91 Seventeenth-Century French Literature Classicism; religious and moral currents; texts chosen from various genres; authors may include Corneille, MoliPre, Racine, Mme de La Fayette, La Fontaine, Pascal, Descartes. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: FREN 2F00 and 2F03. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in FREN 3P31.
FREN 3P92 Eighteenth-Century French Literature Narrative, theatre and philosophical writing; critical voices, ideological concerns; authors may include Montesquieu, Marivaux, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Beaumarchais, Laclos. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: FREN 2F00 and 2F03. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in FREN 3P37. FREN 3P93 African Literature in French Narrative, poetry and theatre. Historical, cultural, ideological and theoretical concerns. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: FREN 2F00 and 2F03. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in FREN 3P62 and 3P63. FREN 3P94 Caribbean Literature in French Narrative, poetry and theatre. Historical, cultural, ideological and theoretical concerns. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: FREN 2F00 and 2F03. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in FREN 3P62 and 3P64. FREN 3P95 French Literature and Culture in Film New Wave and popular cinema; adaptations of French novels; critical texts. Directors may include Godard, Truffaut, Renais, Rohmer, Bessob, Chabrol, Lelouche, Duras. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week, plus film lab. Prerequisite: FREN 2F03. FREN 3P96 Contemporary Canadian Theatre in French Background and traditions; analysis of selected plays and study of current directions. Lectures, 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: FREN 2F03 and two FREN credits numbered 3(alpha)00 or above, with at least one-half credit in literature. FREN 4P03 Advanced Composition and Stylistics Advanced composition, formal considerations and writing tools, stylistics, rhetoric, idiomatic expression. Lectures, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: FREN 3P03 (3E81 or 3F81). Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in FREN 4F01, 4P01, 4P02 and 4P15. FREN 4P04 Translation II: Applications Lexical, morphological, syntactic and semantic interrelationships between source text and target text; application of translation methodologies to a variety of texts. Lectures, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: MLLC 3P94. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in FREN 4F01, 4P01 and 4P02. FREN 4P44 Nineteenth-Century French Literature after 1850 Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism. Texts chosen from various genres. Authors may include Flaubert, Zola, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: FREN 2F03 and two FREN credits numbered 3(alpha)00 or above, with at least one-half credit in literature. FREN 4P55 Twentieth-Century French Literature from 1935 to 1970 Ideological and aesthetic perspectives. Texts chosen from various genres. Authors studied may include Malraux, Camus, Sartre, Giraudoux, Robbe-Grillet, Beckett, Char. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: FREN 2F03 and two FREN credits numbered 3(alpha)00 or above, with at least one-half credit in literature. FREN 4P56 French Literature after 1970 Contemporary aesthetic movements. Texts chosen from various genres. Authors studied may include Le Clézio, Yourcenar, Tournier, Bonnefoy, Modiano, Duras. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: FREN 2F03 and two FREN credits numbered 3(alpha)00 or above, with at least one-half credit in literature. FREN 4P75 Canadian Literature in French after 1960 Texts from various genres representing major aesthetic movements. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: FREN 2F03 and two FREN credits numbered 3(alpha)00 or above, with at least one-half credit in literature. FREN 4P92 Research Project Independent research project under the supervision of a faculty member. Restriction: open to BFTS BA/BEd majors and permission of the Department. FREN 4P96 Critical Theory and Methodology Twentieth-century approaches to literary criticism: sociological, phenome-nological, psychoanalytic approaches; structuralism, semiotics, narratology, deconstruction. Bibliographical research. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: FREN 2F03 and two FREN credits numbered 3(alpha)00 or above, with at least one-half credit in literature. FREN 4V60-4V99 Special Research Topics in French Literature Course content will vary, depending upon the interests of instructors and students. Lectures, 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: FREN 2F03 and two FREN credits numbered 3(alpha)00 or above, with at least one-half credit in literature.