Winter Quarter 2026

Winter Quarter 2026

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• For all courses not described here, please refer to the General Catalog course descriptions: General Catalog

Language Courses

FRE 001Y-003Y: Elementary French
FRE 021Y-023Y: Intermediate French
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Undergraduate Course Descriptions & Flyers

• FRE 50 French Film
  Jeff Fort
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• FRE 101 Poetry in French
  Claire Goldstein

• Sometimes simple like a nursery rhyme, sometimes intricate, poetry is an art form that uses all aspects of language – from the sounds and rhythms of phrases to the shape of words on the page – to create new connections, evoke strong emotions and forge associations. Poetry can express tender love or searing anger; regret, loss, or wonder: the whole range of human emotions and experiences. This quarter we will learn to analyze poetic form and techniques as we study poems from a wide range of French-language poetic movements from the past to the present. In learning to appreciate the detail and the complex layering of poetry, we will become more perceptive readers of the ways language functions in our world.  Prerequisite FRE 100 or permission of instructor.       
  GE credit:  AH, WC, WE
   

  
• FRE 125 French Literature & Other Arts
  Jeff Fort
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• FRE 128 Colonization
  Toby Warner

• n 1939, over 100 million people (about five percent of all humans then living) were citizens or subjects of the French empire which at that time covered about ten percent of the planet, stretching from the Caribbean across Africa to East and South Asia and the Pacific. By the mid-1960s, a majority of those who had been French imperial subjects were citizens of newly independent nations, while many others were French citizens living in overseas Departments. In this course we will study the history, culture and politics of decolonization in the francophone world. This will include a survey of francophone decolonial thought from the 1930s-60s, as well as forays into film, music, art, and literature. While carefully situating each movement and thinker in their historical context(s), we will also strive to understand decolonization as an ongoing struggle and grasp its relevance and urgency in the present.Prerequisite: FRE 100 or permission of instructor. GE: AH, WC, WE

  

Graduate Course Descriptions

• FRE 390A Teaching French
  Julia Simon
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