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.

• FREN 199DRPO - French: Directed Readings
• FREN 199IRPO - French: Independent Research

Transitional Courses

• FREN 101 PO - Introduction to Literary Analysis
• FREN 103 PO - Frenchness: May ‘68-2008
• FREN 105 PO - Culture, Phonetics and Style
• FREN 108 PO - Language and Power in the Francophone World

Theme and Genre Courses

• FREN 110 PO - Contemporary French Film
• FREN 128 PO - The Fantastic
• FREN 129 PO - Who’s Afraid of Marcel Proust?
• RLIT 181 PO - Literature, film and the Cognitive Sciences

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

• FREN 150B PO - Les Philosophes: Paradoxes of Nature
• FREN 150C PO - Moralistes/Philosophes: Advanced Topics
• FREN 151 PO - Men, Women and Power
• FREN 152 PO - Masters, Servants and Slaves

19th and 20th Centuries

• FREN 102 PO - Eat, Drink, Shop in Francophone Culture
• FREN 173 PO - Reading Bodies
• FREN 174 PO - The Romantic Other
• FREN 175 PO - Writing the Exotic
• FREN 178 PO - Writing the Painter, Painting the Writer
• FREN 182 PO - Cannibalizing Surrealism
• FREN 185 PO - The Art of Modern Fiction
• FREN 191 PO - Senior Thesis
• FREN 192 PO - Senior Paper
• FREN 193 PO - Senior Oral Presentation
• RLIT 181 PO - Literature, film and the Cognitive Sciences

French Literature Courses offered at the Other Claremont Colleges

• FREN 117 CM - Novel and Cinema in Africa and the Caribbean
• FREN 120 CM - Order and Revolt in French Literature
• FREN 133 CM - Beur: Immigration/Citizenship/Maghreb
• FREN 100 SC - French Culture and Civilization
• FREN 104 SC - History, Memory and Loss: Vichy
• FREN 107 SC - Headline News: Advanced Oral Expression and Composition of Current Events and Culture
• FREN 111 SC - French Cinema: Images of Women
• FREN 114 SC - Documenting the French
• FREN 121 SC - The Politics of Love
• FREN 124 SC - The Novelist and Society in France
• FREN 130 SC - French Theater from Text to Stage I: Theatricality and “Mise en Scene”
• FREN 154 SC - The 18th Century Novel
• FREN 172 SC - Baudelaire and Symbolist Aesthetic