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

• FREN103 PO - Frenchness: May ‘68- 2018, and Beyond.
• FREN106 PO - French Creative Writing: Atelier d’écriture
• FREN108 PO - Building France
• FREN109 PO - Introduction to French Linguistics

Theme and Genre Courses

• FREN110 PO - French Films
• FREN111 PO - French Cinema, Special Topics
• FREN127 PO - Language and Power in the Francophone World
• FREN129 PO - Who’s Afraid of Marcel Proust?

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
• FREN189A PO - Parisian Ecologies: Transformations in Art, Literature, Science and the City (1850-1930)

19th and 20th Centuries

• 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

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 - Africa in France: The French of African Ancestry through Text and Film
• FREN100 SC - French Culture and Civilization
• FREN104 SC - History, Memory and Loss: Vichy
• FREN114 SC - Documenting the French
• FREN121 SC - The Politics of Love
• FREN124 SC - The Novelist and Society in France