Sample Graduate Courses

 

Fall

Advanced Workshop in Contemporary French
Stylistics and Semantics of Written French
Textual Analysis
The Age of Enlightenment
Civilization of Contemporary France
The French Revolution
History of Contemporary France, 19th and 20th centuries
Women Writers in French Literature
Contemporary French Theater (since World War II)

Spring

Applied Methodology to Teaching French as a Foreign Language
Applied Phonetics and Spoken Contemporary French
Studies in Literature of the Renaissance
Topics: Histoire de la Colonisation Française (19e et 20e siècles)
French Classical Tragedy
Decolonization, History, and the Literary Imagination
Studies in 19th Century Literature: Roman et politique au XIXe siècle
Literary Institutions in France, 1789-1980
Introduction to Medieval Literature
French Cultural History: French Perspectives on a Multi-Cultural Education

Summer

French Politics, Culture & Society: The Longue Durée of French Politics
Historicism and Civilization: la France actuelle
Francophone Literature and Postcolonial Subjectivity
French Cultural History Since 1870
Sociolinguistics of Contemporary French
Studies in Genres and Modes: Prose Fiction and Critical Theory
Problems in Contemporary French Society: Ethnography of the Parisian banlieue
 

Courses taken by recent program participants in the University of Paris system:

Etudes d’auteur: François Villon
Histoire du 20e siècle
L’écriture du moi au 16e siècle
Traduction littéraire
Poétique et politique de la ville
L’Europe dans les relations internationales
Naturalisme et symbolisme
Institutions politiques de l’Europe
Littérature et philosophie : Baudelaire
Linguistique médiévale
Notre Dame and the tip of the Ile Saint-Louis.
Montaigne
Sociétés comparées
La diversité de la littérature médiévale
Histoire des 16e et 17e siècles
La société dans la littérature du 19e siècle
Histoire de la langue française
La naissance de l’identité littéraire