College of Arts & Sciences
Department of French and Francophone Studies
Department of French and Francophone Studies

Past Course Offerings

  • FREN 1001 (001) – Introductory French I
  • FREN 1002 (002) – Introductory French II
  • FREN 1009 (009) – French for Spanish Speakers
  • FREN 1011 (011) – Intensive Basic French
  • FREN 1501 (021) – Intermediate French I
  • FREN 1502 (022) – Intermediate French II
  • FREN 1511 (032) – Intensive Intermediate French
  • FREN 2001 (101) – Advanced French I
  • FREN 2002 (102) – Advanced French II
  • FREN 2011 (111) – Intensive Advanced French I
  • FREN 2012 (112) – Intensive Advanced French II now combined with FREN 2011
  • FREN 2551 (151) – Advanced Grammar and Writing now Composition & Style
  • FREN 2761 (161) – Topics for Oral Proficiency
  • FREN 2762 (162) – Topics for Oral Proficiency: Francophone Africa

  • FREN 2551 (151) – Advanced Grammar and Writing now Composition & Style
  • FREN 2761 (161) – Topics for Oral Proficiency
  • FREN 2762 (162) – Topics for Oral Proficiency: Francophone Africa
  • FREN 3350 (250) – Rdg Txts/Fr-Speak World: Cultures now Gateway: Text, Image, Culture
  • FREN 3351 (251) – Rdg Txts/Fr-Speak World: Lits now combine with FREN 3350

Pre-1800 Literature

  • FREN 4361 – King Arthur in Medieval France
  • FREN 4363 (363) – The Beastly Middle Ages
  • FREN 4364 (364) – Love and War in Medieval France
  • FREN 4365 (365) – Spectacle in Early Modern France
  • FREN 4366 (366) – (Non)Conforming in 17th Century France
  • FREN 4367 (367) – Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century
  • FREN 4368 (368) – Coming of Age in the 18th Century
  • FREN 4563 (463) – Love, Humor, and Society in Early Modern French Literature
  • FREN 4569 (469) – Desire, Gender, and Lyric in Early Modern France
  • FREN 4771 – Women & Gender in Medieval France

Post-1800 Literature

  • FREN 4132 (332) – French-Speaking Africa: Languages, Literatures, Cultures
  • FREN 4138 (338) – Childhood Narratives: N Africa
  • FREN 4139 (339) – Caribbean Crossings 20th-21st Century
  • FREN 4370 (370) – 19th Century French Novel
  • FREN 4371 (371) – 19th Century Best Sellers
  • FREN 4376 (376) – Major 20th Century French Novelists I
  • FREN 4377 (377) – Major 20th Century French Novelists II
  • FREN 4500 (400) – Power in 19th Century France
  • FREN 4535 (435) – Representation and Remembering: The Nazi Occupation Period in French Literature and Film
  • FREN 4538 – 19th Cent. Paris Underworlds
  • FREN 4539 (439) – Tradition and Modernity in Francophone Africa
  • FREN 4540 (440) – Memory and Orality in the Literature of Francophone Africa
  • FREN 4543 – Ambition, Fate, & Self in 19th-Century Literature
  • FREN 4562 (462) – Modern Francophone Women Novelists
  • FREN 4567 (467) – 20th Century French Arts: Photography
  • FREN 4568 (468) – 20th-Century French Women’s Writing
  • FREN 4600 – Activist Women’s Fiction
  • FREN 4770 (470) – God and Religion in Post Revolutionary France
  • FREN 471 – 20th Century French Writing and the Hispanic World
  • FREN 4772 (472) – Consuming Passion: Myths in French Literature
  • FREN 4773 – Maladies & Miracle Cures in 19th Century France
  • FREN 4774 (474) – Transgressions in French Literature, Culture, Arts
  • FREN 476 – French Caribbean Literature and Identities
  • FREN 4777 – Postcolonial Science Fiction
  • FREN 4778 (478) – Modern French-Canadian Lit
  • FREN 4779 (479) – Algerian Revolutions
  • FREN 4781 (481) – Modern French Canadian Literature: Urban Fictions in Québec
  • FREN 4782 (482) – Law & Order in the French Detective Novel
  • FREN 489 – Senior Seminar in Literature

  • FREN 3590 (290) – Louisiana: Language/History/Culture
  • FREN 3702 (294) – French for Politics
  • FREN 4131 (331) – French Speaking Africa: History, Society, Politics
  • FREN 4132 (332) – French-Speaking Africa: Languages, Literatures, Cultures
  • FREN 333 – Contemporary French Canada: Culture, Language and Society
  • FREN 4134 (334) – Comics: French Language Bandes Dessinées 
  • FREN 4135 (335) – Contemporary Belgian Culture
  • FREN 4136 (336) – Football and Francophonie
  • FREN 4137 (337) – Women in 19th Century France
  • FREN 4361 – King Arthur in Medieval France
  • FREN 4380 (380) – Quebec Film Classics
  • FREN 4381 – Immigration & Cinema
  • FREN 4531 (431) – Food & Cinema in French Imagination
  • FREN 432 – Topics in the Anthropology of France (taught in English)
  • FREN 4534 (434) – Contemporary Quebec Society in Film
  • FREN 4535 (435) – Representation and Remembering: The Nazi Occupation Period in French Literature and Film
  • FREN 4536 (436) – Albert Camus and His Times 
  • FREN 4537 (437) – Food, Race, and the French Empire
  • FREN 4538 – 19th Cent. Paris Underworlds
  • FREN 4541 (441) – Human Rights in Maghrebi Literature
  • FREN 4542 (442) – Parisian World Fairs 1855-1900
  • FREN 4544 (444) – Colonialism & Ecology in the French-Speaking World
  • FREN 4545 – Africans on the Move
  • FREN 4554 (454) – African Self-Perceptions
  • FREN 4555 – Visions of Empire
  • FREN 4557 (457) – Migration and Identity in Contemporary France
  • FREN 4564 (464) – Francophone Feminist Thought
  • FREN 4565 (465) – Caring in Crisis
  • FREN 4566 (466) – 20th Century Poetry and Politics
  • FREN 4601 – Health, Race, and Colonialism
  • FREN 4771 – Women & Gender in Medieval France
  • FREN 4779 (479) – Algerian Revolutions 

  • FREN 3563-3567 (263-270) French Theater Workshops (varying topics)
  • FREN 3595 (291) – Making Sense of Language
  • FREN 3701 (293) – Business French
  • FREN 3703 (295) – French Phonetics
  • FREN 375 – Advanced Theater Workshop
  • FREN 4301 – French/English Translation in the Age of AI
  • FREN 4391 (391) – Fundamentals of Learning & Teaching French
  • FREN 4392 (392) – Phonology and Advanced Oral Expression
  • FREN 491 – French Language in the Francophone World
  • FREN 499 – Senior Seminar in Language/Linguistics