French Courses

Upper-Division Courses

Prerequisites: FREN 044 PO  or the equivalent, is required for admission to courses numbered FREN 101 PO  and above. For majors, FREN 101 PO  is normally a prerequisite for literature classes.

• FREN199DRPO - French: Directed Readings
• FREN199IRPO - French: Independent Research

Transitional Courses

• FREN101 PO - Introduction to Literary Analysis
• FREN103 PO - Frenchness: May ‘68-2008
• FREN106 PO - French Creative Writing: Atelier d’écriture
• FREN109 PO - Introduction to French Linguistics

Theme and Genre Courses

• FREN110 PO - French Films
• FREN127 PO - Language and Power in the Francophone World
• FREN128 PO - The Fantastic
• FREN129 PO - Who’s Afraid of Marcel Proust?
• RLIT181 PO - Literature, film and the Cognitive Sciences

Middle Ages Through the 17th- and 18th-Centuries

• FREN150A PO - Les Moralistes: Public and Private Selves
• FREN150B PO - Les Philosophes: Paradoxes of Nature
• FREN150C PO - Moralistes/Philosophes: Advanced Topics
• FREN151 PO - Men, Women and Power
• FREN152 PO - Masters, Servants and Slaves

19th and 20th Centuries

• FREN102 PO - Eat, Drink, Shop in Francophone Culture
• FREN173 PO - Reading Bodies
• FREN174 PO - The Romantic Other
• FREN175 PO - Writing the Exotic
• FREN178 PO - Writing the Painter, Painting the Writer
• FREN182 PO - Cannibalizing Surrealism
• FREN185 PO - The Art of Modern Fiction
• FREN191 PO - Senior Thesis
• FREN192 PO - Senior Paper
• FREN193 PO - Senior Oral Presentation
• RLIT181 PO - Literature, film and the Cognitive Sciences

French Literature Courses offered at the Other Claremont Colleges

• FREN117 CM - Novel and Cinema in Africa and the Caribbean
• FREN120 CM - Order and Revolt in French Literature
• FREN133 CM - Beur: Immigration/Citizenship/Maghreb
• FREN100 SC - French Culture and Civilization
• FREN104 SC - History, Memory and Loss: Vichy
• FREN107 SC - Headline News: Advanced Oral Expression and Composition of Current Events and Culture
• FREN111 SC - French Cinema: Images of Women
• FREN114 SC - Documenting the French
• FREN121 SC - The Politics of Love
• FREN124 SC - The Novelist and Society in France
• FREN130 SC - French Theater from Text to Stage I: Theatricality and “Mise en Scene”
• FREN154 SC - The 18th Century Novel
• FREN172 SC - Baudelaire and Symbolist Aesthetic