French and Italian

Department of French and Italian,
Division of Humanities and Fine Arts,
Phelps Hall 5206;
Telephone (805) 893-3111

Department Chair: Catherine Nesci

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Faculty

William J. Ashby, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Professor (linguistics)

Robert Beachboard, Docteur de l'Université de Paris, Professor Emeritus

Alfredo A. Bonadeo, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, Professor Emeritus

Cynthia Brown, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, Professor (late medieval-early Renaissance literature)

Jean-Jacques Courtine, Doctorat d'Etat de Linguistique, Université de Paris X, Professor (linguistics and cultural studies)

Anne G. Cushing, Ph.D., University of Colorado, Professor Emerita

Jody Enders, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Professor (medieval literature, rhetoric)

Naomi Greene, Ph.D., New York University, Professor Emerita (20th-century literature, film, Artaud)

Harry Lawton, M.A., B. Litt., Oxford University, Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment (modern Italian poetry, Italian cinema)

Sydney Lévy, Ph.D., UC Irvine, Professor (contemporary French poetry, literary theory)

Elizabeth MacArthur, Ph.D., Princeton University, Associate Professor (18th-century literature)

André Malécot, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Professor Emeritus

Didier Maleuvre, Ph.D., Yale University, Assistant Professor (19th-century literature)

Edmond E. Masson, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, Professor Emeritus

Jack Murray, Ph.D., Yale University, Professor Emeritus

Catherine Nesci, Ph.D., University of Paris, Agrégation, École Normale Supérieure, Associate Professor (19th-century literature, Balzac, theory)

Eric Prieto, Ph.D., New York University, Assistant Professor (20th-century literature)

Patrizio Rossi, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, Professor Emeritus

Jacqueline Simons, Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures, Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment (supervisor of teaching assistants)

Cynthia Skenazi, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Associate Professor (16th-century literature)

Jon R. Snyder, Ph.D., Yale University, Associate Professor (Italian Renaissance literature, comparative literature)

Ernest Sturm, LL.B., New York University School of Law; Ph.D., Columbia University, Professor (literature and philosophy)

Mark J. Temmer, Ph.D., Yale University, Professor Emeritus

Ronald W. Tobin, Ph.D., Princeton University, Professor (17th-century French theatre, Molière)

Philip D. Walker, Ph.D., Yale University, Professor Emeritus

One studies a foreign language and its literature in order to gain insight into another culture and another time. This enables us to see our own culture and era in a broader perspective, and helps us discern what is universal and timeless, and what is local and relative. "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose"-"The more things change, the more they are the same"-is an old French saying. It is only by reading the great literature from different times and places that we slowly grasp that human nature is the same today as it was when Machiavelli wrote The Prince, when Montaigne wrote his Essays, when La Fontaine wrote his Fables. On the other hand, it is by reading literature from other eras-from the Italian Renaissance, from the French Enlightenment, and from our own century-that we begin to understand that certain "styles" of thinking and behavior come and go; that what shocked one era is acceptable in another, and vice-versa. Such insight inevitably leads us to wonder how future generations may judge our own era, and thus can be a first step in bringing about change. Ultimately, the study of a foreign language and its literature leads to a richer understanding of our place in the world and in history.

The Department of French and Italian offers the bachelor of arts in French and in Italian cultural studies. There are also minors in French and Italian. The graduate program in French offers the M.A. in French literature or French linguistics, and the Ph.D. in French literature. In addition, the department collaborates with the Comparative Literature Program, the Film Studies Program, the Medieval Studies Program, and the Renaissance Studies Program.

The junior year abroad. The opportunity to live and study in France or Italy for a year is something to be remembered for a lifetime. It is one thing to visit a country as a tourist, and quite another to live among French or Italian people, attend a French or Italian university, and to become immersed in either of these cultures. One's perspective on the world is never quite the same again. The Education Abroad Program sends French majors to the universities of Bordeaux, Grenoble, Lyon, and Toulouse, with a limited number going to the Paris Center for Critical Studies. Qualifying Italian cultural studies majors are sent to the universities of Padua, Venice, and Bologna; a few art students may pursue special academic programs at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts or the Venice Institute of Architecture. Italian senior honors students may apply to attend the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (medieval and Renaissance studies), or to spend a semester at Bocconi University in Milan (economics, international business). Education Abroad participants pay the same fees they would pay at UCSB, as well as room, board, books and personal travel and living expenses. Majors who go to France under the Education Abroad Program must complete at least 18 units of upper-division courses in the department on the UCSB campus. Full details regarding EAP courses and regulations are available from the EAP office or the department chair. For more information, contact the EAP Office, 1231 Girvetz Hall (telephone: 893-2958).

Le Club Français and Club Italiano. These clubs meet twice a month for ethnic food, films, conversation, and general fun, under the leadership of visiting French students and native Italian speakers. All levels of fluency are welcome. For details, contact the department.

Awards and Honors

Pi Delta Phi is a nationwide French honor society. Juniors and seniors with a 3.5 GPA in French and a 3.23 grade-point average overall will be invited to join, as will qualifying graduate students. The annual Pi Delta Phi banquet is held in May. In addition, French and Italian cultural studies majors of senior standing may be invited to participate in the senior honors program. This entails writing a 20-page paper as an independent study project (up to 4 units course credit). Those who successfully complete this project will graduate with honors; their diplomas and transcripts will read "Distinction in the Major." In addition, French senior honors students may submit their essays for consideration for the Hermione Chevalier Prize, a modest cash award that is given at the Pi Delta Phi banquet.

Graduate students in French will be considered for the Pierre and Geneviève Delattre Memorial Fellowship, an award of approximately $1,000, given annually on the basis of merit and need.

Senior Honors Program

French majors or Italian cultural studies majors of senior standing may be invited to participate in the departmental honors program. Details are available from the department office.

Undergraduate Program

Bachelor of Arts-French

The French major introduces students to France's rich literary and cultural heritage, from medieval epics to twentieth-century writings on World War II and the Nazi Occupation, and its legacy in the French collective consciousness. In addition, courses in Old French and in linguistics heighten students' awareness of how language changes over time, and how it is a living reflection of diverse cultural influences. In reading the works of such literary giants as Christine de Pizan, Rabelais, Molière, Voltaire, Rousseau, Balzac, Sand, Zola, Proust, Camus, Beauvoir, and Sartre, students will come to realize that although human technology has changed greatly in the last 500 years, human nature has not. These men and women still have important insights and urgent messages for us today. Students who major in French are well-equipped to pursue careers in publishing, research, teaching, the arts, or any field that draws upon a rich liberal education.

Preparation for the major. Required: French 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 26A. History 4A-B-C and Philosophy 20A-B-C are strongly recommended. French majors must maintain at least an average grade of C in French courses taken prior to the junior year; transfer students may be required to take an examination.

Upper-division major. Forty-four upper-division units in French, including (1) 8 units from advanced language (104A-B) or French linguistics (102, 103, 105, 107, 111, 112, 115, 116, 117); (2) French 101 (prerequisite for upper-division literature courses); (3) 8 units of upper-division literature taught in French, divided among two of the following time periods: (a) medieval, Renaissance, seventeenth century and (b) eighteenth, nineteenth, or twentieth century; (4) 8 units of cultural courses, from the series 106A-B-C-D; (5) 12 units of additional upper-division courses in the department, with a maximum of 8 units coming from courses taught in English or Italian; (6) 4 units from French 197 (senior seminar).

Bachelor of Arts-Italian Cultural Studies

The Italian cultural studies major is interdisciplinary. Perspectives from a broad spectrum of disciplines such as history, literary theory, sociology, gender and ethnic studies, film studies, and philosophy allow each student to explore the extraordinary resonances of Italian culture in a global context. The major includes electives from art history, film studies, geography, history, music, and political science, in addition to the core curriculum in Italian. The requirements for the major may be filled in a variety of ways and with a greater or lesser degree of specialization, depending upon the individual student's preferences and background. Students in this major who plan to enroll in graduate programs should consult an advisor.

Students are strongly encouraged to participate in the Education Abroad Program in Italy. EAP offers a one-quarter program in Siena, a semester program in Venice and Siena, and year-long programs in Bologna, Venice, and Padua. Special arrangements are available for qualified students wishing to study at the Venice Institute of Architecture or the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts. Senior honors students may apply to attend the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa or the Bocconi University in Milan (for economics and international business). Students may satisfy up to one-half of the requirements for the major while studying abroad for a year in Italy, or two-fifths of the requirements for the minor. Advanced courses taken in Siena during the spring program may, with the consent of the director of undergraduate studies, be counted toward the major or the minor. All Education Abroad Program participants should determine credit and unit limitations for their proposed work in Italy, in advance, with the director of undergraduate studies.

Students who complete the major in Italian cultural studies may enter a variety of careers and graduate programs including law, education, government service, international trade and finance, travel, communications and publishing. It is important to keep in mind that many of these professional careers require training beyond the undergraduate level, and students with such interests should discuss their plans with an advisor as early as possible.

Staff members are available in the department office during working hours to answer questions about the major and other academic matters. Students may also consult detailed descriptions of current course offerings in the department office. The director of undergraduate studies keeps posted office hours and is also available by appointment or via e-mail.

Preparation for the major. Italian 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or equivalent. History 4A-B-C and Philosophy 21A-B-C are strongly recommended.

Upper-division major. Forty upper-division units are required, including Italian 101 and 102; 8 units of Italian literature taught in Italian from any periods; 114X; 4 units from an additional Italian literature course (may be in English); 16 units of electives from the following: Art History 105K, 105L, 109A-B, 113A-B-C, 184B; Film Studies 101C, 155; Geography 159; History 115, 117A-B, 121A-B, 123A-B-C, 129A-B-D; Italian 121, 138AA-ZZ, 138AX-ZX, 142, 142X, 143, 143X, 144AA-ZZ, 144AX-ZX, 146, 146X, 147, 147X, 148, 148X, 149, 149X, 153X, 178, 179X, 180Z; Music 112A-B-C, 117, 177, 179, 180, 181. (No more than two courses may be from each discipline.) Double majors may use 8 units in both majors.

Minor-French

All courses to be applied to the minor must be completed on a letter-grade basis. This includes both courses offered in French and those offered by other departments and applied to the minor.

Preparation for the minor. French 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or equivalent (0-24 units); French 26A.

Upper-division minor. Twenty units, distributed as follows:

A. One course (4 units) from French 106A-B-C-D.

B. Sixteen units of French electives from courses in French culture, linguistics, or literature, with no more than 4 units coming from the 106 series. A maximum of 4 units may come from courses taught in English.

Note: Substitutions and waivers are subject to approval by the chair of the department. Please see the section on Academic Minors for special conditions governing minors in the College of Letters and Science.

Minor-Italian Cultural Studies

All courses to be applied to the minor must be completed on a letter-grade basis, including both courses offered in Italian cultural studies and those offered by other departments and applied to the minor.

Preparation for the minor. Italian 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or equivalent (0-24 units).

Upper-division minor. Twenty units, distributed as follows: Italian 101 (4 units); two upper-division literature courses taught in Italian (8 units); two additional upper-division Italian courses (8 units; which may include courses taught in English) or courses from the following: Art History 105K, 105L, 109A-B, 113A-B-C, 184B; Film Studies 101C, 155; Geography 159; History 115, 117A-B, 121A-B-C, 123A-B-C, 129A-B-D; Music 112A-B-C, 117, 177, 179, 180, 181. (No more than one course may be from each discipline.)

Note: Substitutions and waivers are subject to approval by the chair of the department. Please see p. 108 for special conditions governing minors in the College of Letters and Science.

Graduate Program

In addition to departmental requirements, candidates for graduate degrees must meet university degree requirements found in the chapter "Graduate Education at UCSB." The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is required of all applicants to the graduate program. Applicants whose native language is not English must receive a score of at least 550 on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), taken within two years of their application to UCSB. Students who have earned a bachelor's or master's degree from a U.S. college or university are exempt from this requirement.

Awards and Honors

Graduate students in French will be considered for the Pierre and Geneviève Delattre Memorial Fellowship, an award of approximately $1,000, given annually on the basis of merit and need. Graduate students are also considered for membership in Pi Delta Phi, the national French honor society.

Master of Arts-French

Admission

Applicants must have the B.A. in French or comparative literature or its equivalent from an accredited institution by the projected quarter of admission. The admissions committee considers transcripts, letters of recommendation, GRE scores, the statement of purpose, the writing sample, and the tape recording of spoken French (or the TOEFL, where applicable) in making admissions decisions.

Degree Requirements

The student must take 44 units of graduate-level coursework. Details on distribution requirements are available in the department's Graduate Student Handbook. A third language in addition to French and English is required. All M.A. candidates must pass written examinations and an oral examination in French and must serve as teaching assistants for at least two quarters. Continuation to the Ph.D. program upon completion of the M.A. is by no means automatic, as described below.

Doctor of Philosophy-French

Admission

Although students admitted to the department's M.A. program in French are conditionally admitted to the Ph.D. program as well, continuation to the Ph.D. program is by invitation only and is based upon performance in M.A. coursework, on the M.A. exams, and as a teaching assistant.

For those applying to the Ph.D. program from another institution, the M.A. in French or its equivalent is required. The admissions committee considers transcripts, letters of recommendation, GRE scores, the statement of purpose, the writing sample and the tape recording of spoken French (or the TOEFL, where applicable) in making admissions decisions.

Degree Requirements

Ph.D. students in the Department of French take those courses recommended by their advisors as useful in preparing for the comprehensive examination. All full-time graduate students must enroll in at least two regularly scheduled graduate seminars in French each quarter. They must also satisfy the requirement of a reading knowledge of two relevant foreign languages, must have had two courses in literary theory; and must serve as teaching assistants for three quarters.

All students must pass a series of written examinations; the examinations may be written in French or English. Students who successfully pass the written examinations must pass an oral qualifying examination in order to advance to candidacy. Following formal advancement to candidacy, the student must present a dissertation which gives evidence of ability to conduct independent research of high quality.

Full details of the Ph.D. program, including options for the examinations and examination schedules, are available from the department.

Optional Emphasis in Romance Linguistics

Students pursuing either an M.A. or a Ph.D. degree in French may petition the department to add an emphasis in Romance linguistics. This emphasis focuses on the evolution, modern usage, and structure of Romance languages. Specific requirements are under development. Consult the department for a provisional list of requirements and additional information.

Optional Emphasis in Women's Studies

The Women's Studies Program offers an interdisciplinary doctoral emphasis to students previously admitted to a Ph.D. program in art history, English, French, German, history, religious studies, or sociology. Students pursuing the emphasis in women's studies must complete four graduate courses; only one of the four required courses may be taken in the student's home department. The courses are Women's Studies 270, Feminist Epistemology; Women's Studies 280, Research Seminar; a course in feminist theory selected from those approved by the Women's Studies Program; and a topical seminar that addresses topics relevant to the study of women and gender, offered either in Women's Studies Program or in another department. The student's doctoral committee must include a faculty member who is officially affiliated with the Women's Studies Program, either as one of the three required members or as an additional appointee. This committee conducts the student's Ph.D. qualifying examinations and supervises the student's dissertation research. Contact the Women's Studies Program for additional information on faculty interests, course offerings, and program requirements.

Summer Institute of French Studies

A three-summer intensive program leading to the M.A. degree in French is designed primarily for secondary school teachers of French. Residence at the institute and observance of a "no English" rule are required.

Prerequisites. In addition to fulfilling the general requirements for admission to graduate status, the student must have an undergraduate major in French or its equivalent and must demonstrate proficiency in speaking and writing French. All applicants are required to take the general Graduate Record Exam (GRE).

Coursework. The M.A. requires 40 units or ten courses across five areas including language, linguistics, culture, literature, and interdisciplinary studies. Students may elect to write a thesis, but this is optional.

Since this is not a research-oriented degree, the Summer Institute M.A. will not completely fulfill requirements for entry into the Ph.D. program at UCSB.

Recommended preliminary readings. Students can do the reading for many courses during the winter; lists appear in the winter bulletin, published in the fall and available upon request.

For additional information and application forms, write to the Summer Sessions Office, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106.

French Courses

Lower Division

Please note: Students who have studied French at other institutions and wish to continue their study at UCSB are required to take the placement examination given by the department.

1. Elementary French
(4) Staff
The beginning course in French. Course taught in French. Oral skills stressed. Grammar reinforced by dialogue memorization and pattern drills. Correct pronunciation and the ability to distinguish sounds emphasized. Question-answer technique helps students transfer patterns to free conversation. Laboratory assignment given daily. Not taught in spring quarter. (F,W)

2. Elementary French
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: French 1 or equivalent.
A continuation of French 1. Course taught in French. Readings, essays, French geography included, the latter by means of slides. Laboratory assignment given daily. (F,W,S)

3. Elementary French
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: French 2 or equivalent.
A continuation of French 2. Course taught in French. Emphasis on readings and short essays rather than on dialogues. Slide programs given to encourage class discussion. Laboratory assignment given daily. (F,W,S)

4. Intermediate French
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: French 3 or equivalent.
Taught in French, the course reviews basic structures with new elements added. Vocabulary development stressed by means of original sentences and weekly essays. Reading selections to help develop oral-written correspondences included in the course. Laboratory assignment given daily. (F,W,S)

5. Intermediate French
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: French 4 or equivalent.
A continuation of French 4. Course taught in French. Basic structures reviewed. Supplementary readings such as L'Etranger, Huis Clos, etc., are emphasized. Laboratory assignment given daily. (F,W,S)

6. Intermediate French
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: French 5 or equivalent.
A basic text, used for the acquisition of vocabulary and the practice of essay writing, also stresses aspects of civilization and is complemented by readings of poems, plays, or novels. (F,W,S)

8A. French Conversation
(2) Staff
Prerequisite: French 3 or equivalent.
Brief exposés are based on centers of vocabulary which have been studied. Debates and discussion on topics given by the instructor are held between the students. (F,W,S)

8B. French Conversation
(2) Staff
Prerequisite: French 4 or equivalent.
Brief exposés are based on centers of vocabulary which have been studied. Debates and discussion topics given by the instructor are held between students. (F,W,S)

8C. French Conversation
(2) Staff
Prerequisite: French 5 or equivalent.
This course, because of the abilities of the students, varies more in content than does French 8A or 8B. Discussion of relevant topics is carried on, while fluency and vocabulary enrichment are definitely emphasized. (F,W,S)

10V. Intensive French for Musicians
(4) Staff
Comprehensive course designed to familiarize musicians with basic French grammar, culture, musical terminology, situational language usage as well as Italian prose and lyrics as applied to vocal literature. Emphasis on oral skills. For advanced singers/musicians. Taught in French.

11A-B. French for Graduate Students
(4-4) Staff
Prerequisite: French 11A for French 11B.
A service course for graduate students from other departments who need to satisfy language requirements. Divided into two levels: 11A (Elementary) for those who have no, or hardly any knowledge of French; 11B (Intermediate) open to students who have an appropriate level of knowledge of the language and to continuing students from 11A. Class offers grammatical preparation and practice for translation, but no individual projects.

12. Intensive Elementary French
(8) Staff
Prerequisite: not open for credit to students who have completed French 1 or 2.
Course covers material in French 1 and 2 in one quarter.

13. Intensive Elementary-Intermediate French
(8) Staff
Prerequisites: French 1 and 2; or 12. Not open for credit to students who have completed French 3 or 4.
Course covers material taught in French 3 and 4 in one quarter.

14. Intensive Intermediate French
(8) Staff
Prerequisites: French 3 and 4; or 13. Not open for credit to students who have completed French 5 or 6.
Course covers material taught in French 5 and 6 in one quarter.

19A-B-C. Intensive Practice in Spoken French
(4-4-4) Staff
Prerequisite: French 6 or 8C or equivalent.
An intensive encounter with spoken French designed to develop communication skills. Systematic assimilation of oral structures through the study of film, soundtracks, and tapes. Exercises in oral expression. Active expansion of vocabulary and means of expression.

26A. Writing the Self
(4) Staff
Prerequisites: French 1-6 or consent of instructor.
A course to develop writing skills in French, with an emphasis on cultural studies. Polish skills in composition, grammar, and translation while addressing issues of the self in relation to family, gender, ethnicity, religion, etc.

67X. Censorship and the Power of Art
(4) MacArthur
Prerequisite: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
Study of representative contemporary debates over censorship (popular music, visual arts, etc.), followed by celebrated examples from the history of French literature (Sade, Baudelaire). Emphasis on what censorship debates imply about the power of art over individuals or societies. Taught in English.

68X. Adultery in French Literature
(4) MacArthur
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
Representations of adultery from the Middle Ages to the present, including such works as Tristan and Iseut, The Princess of Clèves, and Madame Bovary. Changing conceptions of love, the social function of marriage, psychological and political significance of adultery. Taught in English.

70X. French Culture and Institutions
(4) Staff
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
The course will address broad issues in French culture and institutions throughout the centuries, using a variety of perspectives and issues. Lectures and readings in English.

70Y. France: Historic Sites and Symbols
(4) Staff
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
The course will focus on the way cultural and historical memories are embodied in places, monuments, institutions, and symbols. Lectures and readings in English.

70Z. French History in Film and Literature
(4) Staff
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
The course will focus on various representations and iconography (of Paris, of the French Revolution) presented in literature and film. Lectures and readings in English.

Upper Division

French 26A is prerequisite to all upper-division courses taught in French.
French 101 is prerequisite to all upper-division literature courses taught in French.
Courses whose numbers are followed by X, Y, Z are taught in English.

101. Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis
(4) Staff
Not open for credit to students who have completed French 26B.
A continuation of French 26A. Introduction to techniques of literary and cultural analysis. Continued practice in writing. Will prepare students for upper-division courses in both literature and cultural studies.

102. Background of Modern French
(4) Ashby
The origins of the French language and an overview of its linguistic development with emphasis on the historical and cultural background. Lectures and readings in French.

103. Phonetics and Phonology
(4) Ashby
Basic concepts of articulatory phonetics and French phonology. A required one-hour session per week will be scheduled in the Language Laboratory. At that time the student's performance will be monitored by the instructor or teaching assistant.

104A-B. Advanced Writing and Translation
(4-4) Staff
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
The course will first focus on a study of literary and nonliterary discourses, with a sustained emphasis on translation. The course will then focus on creative writing in fictional and nonfictional prose. Lectures and readings in French.

105. French Morphology and Syntax
(4) Ashby
Prerequisites: Linguistics 20 or French 102.
An analysis of the morphology and syntax of modern French.

106A. History of French Culture
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
Cultural, literary, and artistic perspectives on four important historical moments: feudal society, the rise of the bourgeoisie, the Renaissance, and the Reformation.

106B. History of French Culture
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
Important social and cultural changes during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

106C. History of French Culture
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
Modernity as cultural phenomenon in the context of political and social changes from 1789 to 1940. Focus on the advent and crisis of democracy, the development of industrial capitalism and mass culture, the making of a national and historical consciousness.

106D. La France Depuis 1945: Mutations Sociales et Culturelles
(4) Courtine
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
The transformation of French society since World War II, with focus on attitudes and daily life. The role of women, love and marriage, birth and abortion, parents and children, leisure activities, culture, consumerism.

106X. Women in France: Images and Realities (in English)
(4) Brown
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
The comparison and contrast of the image of women in the arts and literature with their traditional position in French society from the Middle Ages to the present. Representative figures include Eleanor of Aquitaine, George Sand, and Simone de Beauvoir. Lectures and readings in English.

107AA-ZZ. Problems in French Linguistics
(4) Ashby
Prerequisites: upper-division standing, Linguistics 20 or French 102 or 103 or 105 or 111, or consent of instructor.
A few selected problems in the linguistic analysis of French will be studied in depth. The specialized focus will change from year to year. Lectures and readings in French.

108. Rhetoric of Crime
(4) Enders
Focusing on the interrelations between law and literature, we study French texts of all periods which explore crime at the levels of theme, structure, rhetoric and ideology. (Chanson de Roland, Montaigne, Racine, Rousseau, Sade, Zola, Duras, Japrisot).

108X. Rhetoric of Crime
(4) Enders
Prerequisites Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
Focusing on the interrelations between law and literature, we study French texts of all periods which explore crime at the levels of theme, structure, rhetoric, and idealogy (Song of Roland, Montaigne, Racine, Rousseau, Sade, Zola, Duras, Japrisot). In English.

109A-B-C. Introduction to French Literature
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
A. French literature from its medieval origins to the early seventeenth century. La Chanson de Roland, lyric poetry, Rabelais, Montaigne, Corneille.
B. French literature from the early seventeenth century through the eighteenth century. Racine, Molière, La Fontaine, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau.
C. French literature from the nineteenth century to the twentieth century. Chateaubriand, Flaubert, Romantic, Symbolist and Surrealist poetry, Proust, Beckett.

110. Senior Honors Seminar
(4) Staff
Prerequisites: open to senior French majors with French grade-point average of 3.25 or above.
Course material will vary from year to year, but will involve rigorous investigation of theoretical issues through the reading of both literary and critical texts.

111. Saussure et les Origines de la Linguistique Française
(4) Courtine
Focus on Saussure's landmark work, Cours de linguistique générale, and the concepts it defines: système, langue et parole, synchronie et diachronie, valeur et signification, sémiologie. Subsequent theories, including those of enunciation, will be discussed.

112. Linguistique Structurale et Analyse Structurale des Textes
(4) Courtine
Prerequisite: French 111 or consent of instructor.
The founding principles of structural linguistics, and how linguistic methods can be applied to the analysis of literary texts (Barthes, Greimas), folktales (Propp), myths or genealogies (Lévi-Strauss), semiology (Barthes, Prieto) and psychoanalysis (Lacan).

113. Discourse and the Body: Foucault in France and the U.S.
(4) Courtine
Focusing on the critical works of Michel Foucault in their historical context, the course will explore the sometimes contradictory readings of French post-structuralism in France and America.

113X. Discourse and the Body: Foucault in France and the U.S.
(4) Courtine
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
Focusing on the critical works of Michel Foucault in their historical context, the course will explore the sometimes contradictory readings of French post-structuralism in France and America. Taught in English.

114. Techniques of Literary Analysis
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
Approaches to the three main literary genres (poetry, novel, and theater) based on close textual analysis, readings in theory, and research methods. For advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students.

115. Language and Culture in the French-Speaking World
(4) Ashby
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
The French language in its cultural and social contexts. Topics include language planning; sociolinguistic and regional variation; minority languages in France; French in Canada, Louisiana, Africa, and the Caribbean; language and gender; the creation of new technical words; spelling reform.

116. Everyday French
(4) Ashby
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
The linguistic norm, as described in normative grammar and as taught in the schools, compared to everyday speech. Topics include linguistic variation in phonology, syntax, and lexicon conditioned by social class, age, sex, region, and register.

117A-B-C. French Business Culture: A Practical Approach
(4) Simons
A practical approach to the culture, economy, and commerce of modern-day France. Its relations with its European partners. Development of the necessary language skills. In French.

120X. Autobiography
(4) MacArthur
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
A study of autobiographies written in French from the eighteenth century to the present, including Rousseau, Chateaubriand, Sand, Leduc, and Sartre. Readings will vary from quarter to quarter. Lectures and readings in English.

121. La Vie Privée en France, XVI-XVIII Siècles
(4) Courtine
How did French people live in earlier times? What were the relations between men and women, parents and children? What were attitudes towards birth, love, marriage or death? We will seek answers in historical and contemporary texts.

121X. Private Life in France in the 16th-18th Centuries
(4) Courtine
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
How did French people live in earlier times? What were the relations between men and women, parents and children? What were attitudes towards birth, love, marriage or death? We will seek answers in historical and contemporary texts. Taught in English.

122. The Holocaust in France
(4) Courtine
Not open for credit to students who have completed French 122A
World War II left emotional scars on France that still have not healed. We will examine events and themes that still haunt the French: collaboration with the German occupiers, participation in the deportation of Jews, and the Resistance movement.

122X. The Holocaust in France
(4) Courtine
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or equivalents or consent of instructor. Not open for credit to students who have completed French 122AX
World War II left emotional scars on France that still have not healed. We will examine events and themes that still haunt the French: collaboration with the German occupiers, participation in the deportation of Jews, and the Resistance movement.

123. Algeria (1954-1962): The Last Colonial War
(4) Courtine
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Not open for credit to students who have completed French 122B.
The last colonial war was a long and bitter conflict leaving a lasting mark on France, and signalling the end of French colonialism. An examination of the political and cultural impact of the war on French collective memory.

123X. Algeria (1954-1962): The Last Colonial War
(4) Courtine
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or equivalents or consent of instructor. Not open for credit to students who have completed French 122BX.
The last colonial war was a long and bitter conflict leaving a lasting mark on France, and signalling the end of French colonialism. An examination of the political and cultural impact of the war on French collective memory. In English.

130. Prosecution and Persecution in the Middle Ages
(4) Enders
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
Legal and cultural perspectives on transgression in the Middle Ages. An examination of representative historical and literary treatments of such subjects as witchcraft, heresy, rape, treason, homosexuality, and "minorities." Lectures and readings in French.

130X. Prosecution and Persecution in the Middle Ages
(4) Enders
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50. Not open for credit to students who have completed French 130.
Legal and cultural perspectives on transgression in France in the Middle Ages. An examination of representative historical and literary treatments of such subjects as witchcraft, heresy, rape, treason, homosexuality, and "minorities." Lectures and readings in English.

131. Performing Gender in the Middle Ages
(4) Enders
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
Cultural and literary portrayals of the connection between gender and social roles in the Middle Ages. Readings focus on early conceptualizations of physiognomy, medicine, marriage, power, sainthood, transvestism, the idealization of women, and misogyny. Lectures and readings in French.

131X. Performing Gender in the Middle Ages
(4) Enders
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50. Not open for credit to students who have completed French 131.
Cultural and literary portrayals of the connection between gender and social roles in France in the Middle Ages. Readings focus on early conceptualizations of physiognomy, medicine, marriage, power, sainthood, transvestism, the idealization of women, and misogyny. Taught in English.

132. Women on Trial
(4) Enders
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
A study of the cultural construction of femininity through an examination of legal proceedings (actual and literary) initiated by or against medieval women for such "crimes" as witchcraft, adultery, pride, theft, vainglory, and seduction. Lectures and readings in French.

132X. Women on Trial
(4) Enders
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50. Not open for credit to students who have completed French 132.
A study of the cultural construction of femininity through an examination of legal proceedings (actual and literary) in France initiated by or against medieval women for such "crimes" as witchcraft, adultery, pride, theft, vainglory, and seduction. Taught in English.

133. Words and Music in the Middle Ages
(4) Enders
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
A study of major medieval performance genres in their sociocultural context, including the troubadours and trouvères, the Mass and liturgical drama, extant instrumental music, and romance works with lyric insertions (e.g., Aucassin et Nicolette, Machaut). Lectures and readings in French.

133X. Words and Music in the Middle Ages
(4) Enders
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50. Not open for credit to students who have completed French 133.
A study of the major medieval performance genres in their sociocultural context, including the troubadours and trouvères, The Mass and liturgical drama, extant instrumental music, and romance works with lyric insertions (e.g. Aucassin et Nicolette, Machaut). Lectures and readings in English.

134A. Law and Literature in the Middle Ages
(4) Enders
Not only does medieval literature represent and stage constant juridical proceedings (trials, ordeals, executions): law itself is often perceived as entertainment. Analyzing representative epic, theatrical, and legal texts, we will investigate the veritable spectacle of jurisprudence (including its contemporary ramifications).

134B. Trials of Desire in the Middle Ages
(4) Enders
From knightly jousting to romantic monologues to lyric debates about fidelity, numerous medieval characters fight about love. Focusing on Chrétien de Troyes and the troubadours, we explore the literary and cultural ramifications of the representation of love as violent.

135. Medieval Paris
(4) Brown
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
A study of the political, artistic, and intellectual culture of medieval Paris, with a focus on its changing royal image, architectural achievements, university system, urban celebrations, and literary monuments.

135X. Medieval Paris
(4) Brown
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
A study of the political, artistic, and intellectual culture of medieval Paris, with a focus on its changing royal image, architectural achievements, university system, urban celebrations, and literary monuments. In English

136A. Medieval Narrative
(4) Brown
The rise of medieval narrative literature and its development. Emphasis will be placed on the chanson de geste and/or the romance. Lectures and readings in French.

136B. Lyric Poetry of the Middle Ages
(4) Brown
Four centuries of French poetry, from the earliest songs of the troubadours and trouvères to the verse of Villon. Thematic and stylistic analyses of selected texts from courtly and popular traditions. Lectures and readings in French.

136C. Medieval Drama
(4) Brown
A study of the origins and development of French theatre to 1500 with emphasis on the comic genres. Lectures and readings in French.

136D. Trends in Medieval Literature and Culture
(4) Brown
The development of a cultural or literary idea, theme, or structure (e.g., allegory, autobiography, madness) from the twelfth century through the fifteenth century. Lectures and readings in French.

136E. Women in the Middle Ages
(4) Brown
A study of the socio-political role of women in France from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries through an examination of their image in literary texts written by both sexes. Lectures and readings in French.

136X. Women in the Middle Ages
(4) Brown
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
A study of the socio-political role of women in France from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries through an examination of their image in literary texts written by both sexes. Lectures and readings in English.

137X. Medieval Literature in Translation
(4) Brown
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
A study of one or more major medieval works in translation such as The Song of Roland, the romances of Chrétien de Troyes, the Lais of Marie de France, or The Romance of the Rose. Lectures and readings in English.

138. Modern Images of the Middle Ages: The Intersection of Text, History, and Film
(4) Brown
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
Course will examine major cultural aspects of the Middle Ages, including courtly love, the Arthurian myth, the legend of Robin Hood, witchcraft, scholasticism, the Inquisition, war and death, through the dual optic of medieval literature and modern film. Taught in French.

138X. Modern Images of the Middle Ages: The Intersection of Text, History and Film
(4) Brown
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
Course will examine major cultural aspects of the Middle Ages, including courtly love, the Arthurian myth, the legend of Robin Hood, witchcraft, scholasticism, the Inquisition, war and death, through the dual optic of medieval literature and modern film. Taught in English.

139X. Torture
(4) Enders
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50.
An investigation into the history of torture from classical antiquity to Amnesty International. Discussions focus on its interrelations with literature, law, art history, gender, and violence in the media. Guest lecturers, as available.

140A. Rabelais
(4) Skenazi
A detailed study of Gargantua and Pantagruel in the contexts of popular culture; the biblical, classical, and scholastic heritage; the intellectual avant-garde of Humanism. Lectures and readings in French.

140B. Renaissance Poetry
(4) Skenazi
A study of the great masterpieces of French Renaissance poetry with special attention given to poets of the "École de Lyon" and the "Pléiade." Works by Marot, Scève, Du Bellay, and Ronsard. Lectures and readings in French.

140C. The Renaissance Literature of Ideas
(4) Skenazi
The discovery of the new world. The encounter with the other, the questioning of a social order, the evolution of sciences. Readings: Marot, Cartier, Thévet, Rabelais, Du Bellay, Montaigne.

141. Ambiguity and Opposition in Selected Authors of the Early Renaissance
(4) Skenazi
The expression of resistance and reaction to the social order. May include works by Lemaire de Belges, Marot, Rabelais, Scève. Lectures and readings in French.

141X. Rabelais in Translation
(4) Skenazi
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
A study of the works of Rabelais in an attempt to discover in them the expression of a popular culture parallel to official literary culture but most often excluded from officially recognized literature. Lectures and readings in English.

142. French Theatre
(4) Skenazi
A study of the meaning and the function of French theatre throughout the centuries, in connection with the cultural context of the day. Plays by Molière, Beaumarchais, Hugo, Musset, Ionesco, Beckett. Lectures and readings in French.

142X. French Theatre in Translation
(4) Skenazi
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
A study of the meaning and the function of French theatre through the centuries, in connection with the cultural context of the day. Plays by Molière, Beaumarchais, Hugo, Musset, Ionesco, Beckett. Lectures and readings in English.

143. Belgian Literature in French
(4) Skenazi
A study of selected texts of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Belgian literature in relation to the visual arts of the period. Works by Maeterlinck, Verhaeren, Ghelderode. Lectures and readings in French.

144. The Rise of Nationalism in the Renaissance
(4) Skenazi
Political discourse in the Renaissance. The expression of nationalism in selected texts and documents from the sixteenth century.

145X. Irony in the Renaissance
(4) Skenazi
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50.
How can irony provide an answer to religious, social, political, and ethnic contradictions of a society? What are the expressions of irony in the Renaissance? Works by Boccaccio, Marguerite de Navarre, Erasmus, Rabelais, Montaigne.

146X. Voyages Into the Unknown
(4) Skenazi
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50.
The impact of the voyages of discovery on late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe. Readings on real and imaginary voyages: Columbus, Cartier, Léry, More, Rabelais, Montaigne.

147. Paris, From the Renaissance to the Revolution
(4) Courtine, Skenazi
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
The historical and artistic features of Paris (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries), focusing on how the monarchy wrote the city in its own image, and on the guidebooks to the monuments. Birth of urban ethnography, with Mercier's Tableaux de Paris.

147X. Paris, From the Renaissance to the Revolution
(4) Courtine, Skenazi
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
The historical and artistic features of Paris (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries), focusing on how the monarchy wrote the city in its own image, and on the guidebooks to the monuments. Birth of urban ethnography, with Mercier's Tableaux de Paris. In English

149. Poetry and Music of the French Renaissance
(4) Staff
Open to Music majors with reading knowledge of French. May be taken for credit only once as either French 149 or Music 189.
Interdisciplinary study in the relationship between text and music in the Renaissance chanson. Works studied include poetry of Marot, Ronsard, Baïf; music of Josquin, Claudia, Lassus.

150A. The Early Seventeenth Century
(4) Tobin
Analysis of literary, philosophical, and cultural trends of the first half of the seventeenth century. Esthetics of mannerism (Théophile, Saint-Amant), classicism (Malherbe, Racan), Préciosité (Voiture, Montausier), French mannerist tragedy (Rotrou, Corneille). Birth of modern rationalism and importance of neostoicism in Descartes' works. Class reading and discussions supplemented by lectures on aspects of culture (religion, politics, society). Documentary films used. Lectures and readings in French.

150B. The Age of Louis XIV
(4) Tobin
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
The development of literary genres between 1660 and 1680. Pascal, Racine, Molière, La Fontaine, La Rochefoucauld, Mme de La Fayette studied as examples of that ideal which attempts a balance, through tension of mannerism and classicism. Discussions of art and architecture will supplement literary analyses. Lectures and readings in French.

150X. Seventeenth-Century French Literature in Translation
(4) Tobin
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
Analysis of selected seventeenth-century French texts by such authors as Molière, Racine, Descartes, Pascal, and La Fontaine. Lectures and readings in English.

153. Mythological Heroes and Heroines of the Seventeenth Century
(4) Tobin
Study of the concept of the hero in Descartes; analysis of political and mythological heroes and heroines in dramatic texts by major playwrights: Molière, Rotrou, Corneille, and Racine. Lectures and readings in French.

154. Comedy in the Seventeenth Century
(4) Tobin
Survey of the theories of the comic in the seventeenth century; discussion of the major comedies from 1637 to 1667, including farces, literary parodies, baroque comedy, social satire, and two enigmatic plays: Molière's Dom Juan and Le Misanthrope. Lectures and readings in French.

160A. Introduction to Eighteenth-Century French Thought
(4) Sturm
A reading of basic Enlightenment texts, stressing the fundamental works of Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, Laclos, and other major figures of the century. Lectures and reading in French.

160B. Eighteenth-Century French Novel
(4) MacArthur
The novel's progression from banned genre to predominant literary form. Works by authors such as Prévost, Marivaux, Graffigny, Diderot, Laclos, and Sade. Lectures and readings in French.

160C. Eighteenth-Century French Theatre
(4) MacArthur
A study of eighteenth-century plays, and of the controversies over acting and the role of the theatre in society. Plays and essays by Marivaux, Voltaire, Sedaine, Diderot, Rousseau and Beaumarchais. Lectures and readings in French.

160X. The Power of Negative Thinking: Sartre, Adorno, and Marcuse
(4) Sturm
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
Critical perspectives on man and culture by three of the great myth-shattering thinkers of the century. Topics: the social function of art, the Freudian legacy, utopia revisited, work and play, etc. Lectures and readings in English.

161. Rousseau About Himself
(4) MacArthur
A detailed reading of the Confessions and Les Rêveries du Promeneur Solitaire. Discussion and readings in French.

162. The Pleasures of the Mind: Candide, Jacques Le Fataliste, Le Neveu de Rameau, Lettres Persanes
(4) MacArthur
A thematic and stylistic analysis of the wittiest writers of the Enlightenment (Voltaire, Diderot). Discussion and readings in French.

163. The Politics of Paradise
(4) Sturm
Rousseau's two Discourses, The Social Contract, and Emile, along with Voltaire's Candide, Le Mondain, and other works will be subjected to content analysis. The course will focus on rhetoric of utopia and its political infrastructure. Lectures and readings in French.

163X. Diderot, Fiction, and Role-Playing
(4) MacArthur
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
A study of Diderot's concern with human happiness (sexual freedom in The Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville), with the theory and practice of the novel (Jacques the Fatalist), with acting on the stage (Paradox on the Comedian), with the alienated man (Rameau's Nephew). Lectures and readings in English.

164. Literature in the Age of Anxiety
(4) Sturm
Works dramatizing the plight of modern man faced with existential dilemmas and extreme situations. Sartre, Camus, Gide, Beckett, and others. Lectures and readings in French.

164X. Rousseau and the Confessional Urge
(4) MacArthur
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
An in-depth analysis of Rousseau's Confessions, one of the most influential documents of western civilization. Also to be studied: The Fifth Rêverie of the Solitary Wanderer. Lectures and readings in English.

166. Sartre: Recounting Lives
(4) Sturm
The course will investigate the variety of angles from which Sartre recounts lives, whether it be his own or another's, real or fictional. Cognitive issues and dilemmas of biography, autobiography, and case studies will be investigated from a modern-critical perspective. Lectures and readings in French.

166X. Recounting Lives
(4) Sturm
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of department.
An investigation of how Sartre, Camus and Gide recount lives-their own or another's, real or fictional. Issues of biography, autobiography, and case studies will be addressed from a contemporary critical perspective.

167X. Problems of Ending in Poetry and Fiction
(4) MacArthur
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
An investigation of the thematic and formal elements that make readers feel a work has ended, and of the connections between different types of endings and political, social, and religious structures and beliefs. Authors such as Ronsard, Diderot, Flaubert, Mallarmé. Lectures and readings in English.

168. French Women Writers
(4) MacArthur
A survey of works by women writers from different periods. Readings will vary from quarter to quarter. Authors such as Marie de France, Marguerite de Navarre, Lafayette, Graffigny, Stael, Sand, Colette, Duras. Lectures and readings in French.

169A. Visions of Alienation
(4) Nesci, Maleuvre
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Not open for credit to students who have completed French 171A.
Figures of deviance, marginality, prostitution, and social misery as testimonies to the pathology of the modern condition. Study of de Staël, Balzac, Sand, Flaubert, Zola, Durkheim and Freud.

169AX. Visions of Alienation
(4) Nesci, Maleuvre
Prerequisite: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor. Not open for credit to students who have completed French 171AX.
Figures of deviance, marginality, prostitution, and social misery as testimonies to the pathology of the modern condition. Study of de Staël, Balzac, Sand, Flaubert, Zola, Durkheim and Freud. Taught in English.

169B. Paris in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Art
(4) Nesci, Maleuvre
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Not open for credit to students who have completed French 171B.
Literary and artistic representations of Paris as the dreamworld of modernity. Writers: Balzac, Baudelaire, Hugo, Flaubert, Zola. Artists: Degas, Manet, the Impressionists. Main themes: visual culture, painting of modern life, Paris and revolution, Paris underground.

169BX. Paris in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Art
(4) Nesci, Maleuvre
Prerequisite: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor. Not open for credit to students who have completed French 171BX.
Literary and artistic representations of Paris as the dreamworld of modernity. Writers: Balzac, Baudelaire, Hugo, Flaubert, Zola. Artists: Degas, Manet, the Impressionists. Main themes: visual culture, painting of modern life, Paris and revolution, Paris underground. Taught in English

170A. Romanticism and the Anxiety of Definition
(4) Nesci, Maleuvre
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
French poetry, prose, and theater from the first half of the nineteenth century. Focus on problematics of self-definition, the experience of historical, cultural and narrative loss, and the writer's involvement in the making of history. Taught in French.

170B. The Heroism of Modern Life
(4) Nesci, Maleuvre
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal and Flaubert's Madame Bovary as the first masterpieces of literary modernity. Study of réalisme and the new cultural realities characteristic of the crisis of art during the Second Empire (1852-1870). Taught in French.

170C. Dandies and Decadence
(4) Maleuvre
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
Dandyism and its appeal to modernist reflection on figuration. Fin-de-siècle aesthetics of decadence will be tied to the uncertainty of figuration and the perversity of identity. Balzac, Baudelaire, Huysmans, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Lorrain, Proust.

170X. Trauma and Discontent in Modern Culture
(4) Maleuvre
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
Exploration of the catastrophic nature of experiences in modern times. Texts include Montaigne, Rousseau, Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Balzac, Freud, Duras, and Primo Levi. Films include La Jeté and Hiroshima mon Amour. In English.

170Y-Z. The Scandal of Realism
(4-4) Maleuvre, Nesci
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
Y. Study of the plot of ambition and desire in the novels of Balzac and Stendhal. Comparison with Sand's idealism and utopian plots. Taught in English.
Z. Degradation of romantic love and heroism in Flaubert and Zola. Relationship between the novels and visual representations of the rebuilding of Paris during the Second Empire. Taught in English.

171AA-ZZ. Studies in the Nineteenth Century
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instuctor. May be repeated for credit provided letter designations are different.
In-depth study of texts and themes from the nineteenth century in France.
A. The Romantic Movement in France

171AX-ZX Studies in the Nineteenth Century
(4) Nesci, Maleuvre
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instuctor. May be repeated for credit provided letter designations are different.
In-depth study of texts and themes from the nineteenth century in France. Taught in English.
AX. The Romantic Movement in France

171X. French Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
(4) Nesci
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50. Same course as Women's Studies 171CN.
Women's new positions in the public sphere of power following the French Revolution and their changing personal and collective aspirations throughout the century. Rights of women, women's voice and writing (journalism and autobiography), feminism, socialism and revolution. Taught in English.

172. Women in the Nineteenth Century: (1789-1848)
(4) Nesci
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
A multi-disciplinary approach to the study of women's sociopolitical status in post-Revolutionary France. Analysis of the novelistic representation of women in various roles, in conjunction with legal, medical, pedagogical, and historical documents which set societal standards for women.

172X. Literature and the Rise of the Modern World
(4) Nesci
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
A study of the role played by the creative artist in the process of cultural change: the impact of change on the artist; the opportunities that change gives the artist; the artist as world creator. Lectures and readings in English.

173AA-ZZ. Literary Crises
(4) Maleuvre, Nesci
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit provided letter designations are different.
Study of masterpieces in realism, idealism and naturalism, focusing on tensions revealing the limits and foundations of the novel. Emphasis on the relationship between ethics and aesthetics.
A. Balzac
B. Stendhal
C. Sand
D. Flaubert
E. Zola

173AX-ZX. Literary Crises
(4) Maleuvre, Nesci
Prerequisite: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit provided letter designations are different. French 173AX not open for credit to students who have completed French 173X.
Study of masterpieces in realism, idealism and naturalism, focusing on tensions revealing the limits and foundations of the novel. Emphasis on the relationship between ethics and aesthetics. In English.
AX. Balzac
BX. Stendhal
CX. Sand
DX. Flaubert
EX. Zola

174. Le Roman d'education au 19ème siècle
(4) Nesci
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
A study of novels dealing with the theme of the worldly education of a young man or woman. Lectures and readings in French.

174X. The Novel and its Discontents
(4) Maleuvre, Nesci
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
Modernity as an experience of literary and historical disenchantment as it also pertains to the novelistic form. Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Zola, Huysmans, Proust, Gide, Genet.

175. The Romantic Novel
(4) Maleuvre, Nesci
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
A study of the novel of the 1830s, its main characteristics as an emerging literary genre, and its main themes. Works by Chateaubriand, Madame de Duras, Balzac, Hugo, Sand, and Stendhal will be analyzed. Taught in French.

175X. The French Revolution: A Cultural History
(4) Nesci
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
Cultural origins of the French Revolution (1789-1799). Analyses of prints, texts, and films representing the performative aspect of revolutionary language. Gender, family romance, and citizenship in Revolutionary Paris. The legacy of the Revolution to modern political culture. Taught in English.

176. Voyages en Amérique
(4) Nesci
Study of French travellers in America, from Chateaubriand and Tocqueville to Baudrillard. Focus on French readings of the American Dream, the confrontation between images of utopias and counter-utopias. The discovery of America as rediscovery of Europe.

176X. French Travelers in America
(4) Nesci
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50.
Study of French travellers in America, from Chateaubriand and Tocqueville to Baudrillard. Focus on French readings of the American Dream, the confrontation between images of utopias and counter-utopias. The discovery of America as rediscovery of Europe.

177. Literary Genius and the Experience of Limits
(4) Maleuvre
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
The image of art in its transcendence, the literary absolute, the madness of perfectibility and definition will serve as thematic approach to a reading of novels concerned with defining a limit to art. Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Proust, Nerval.

177X. Literary Genius and the Experience of Limits
(4) Maleuvre
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
The image of art in its transcendence, the literary absolute, the madness of perfectibility and definition will serve as thematic approach to a reading of novels concerned with defining a limit to art. Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Proust, Nerval. Taught in English.

178A-B-C. Special Topics in French Cinema
(4) Staff
Special topics in French cinema such as recent film, the representation of history, the counterpoint of text and image. Different letters designate different areas of study.

178X. French Film: Theory and Practice
(4-4) Staff
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50.
French film from its beginnings to the late 1930s. Course will view the relationship between film and the other arts (surrealism, cubism) as well as the way film reflects social and political issues. Jean Cocteau, René Clair. Lectures and readings in English.

178Y. French Film: Theory and Practice
(4) Staff
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50.
The course focuses on French film from the late 1930s to the present. It pays particular attention to the emergence of New Wave directors such as Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut.

178Z. French Film: Special Topics
(4) Staff
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50. Same course as Film Studies 178Z.
Special topics in French cinema such as recent film, the representation of history, the counterpoint of text and image, the relationship between film and the other arts, film iconography. Lectures and readings in English.

179. Dandyism and Decadence
(4) Maleuvre
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
Study of the figure of the dandy as it relates to theory of representation, ethics, and the subject. Readings from Baudelaire, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Huysmans, Gide, Wilde, and Warhol.

179X. Dandyism and Decadence
(4) Maleuvre
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
Study of the figure of the dandy as it relates to theory of representation, ethics, and the subject. Readings from Baudelaire, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Huysmans, Gide, Wilde, and Warhol. In English.

180A. Modern French Literature
(4) Lévy
The course will examine literature from the early part of the century. Areas to be investigated may include Surrealism and/or Modernism and literary figures such as Proust, Gide, Cocteau.

180B. Modern French Literature
(4) Lévy
The course, devoted primarily to the 1930s and 1940s, will examine novelists such as Bernanos, Queneau, Beckett, Céline, and Malraux, dramatists such as Anouilh and Giraudoux, and will discuss writers associated with Existentialism and/or later Surrealism (Prévert, Michaux, Eluard).

180C. Modern French Literature
(4) Lévy
This course, devoted to aspects of French poetry, fiction, and film since World War II, may treat modern poets, "new novelists" (to be chosen among Sarraute, Duras, Robbe-Grillet, Butor), playwrights of the "absurd," and/or New Wave filmmakers.

180X. Existentialist Literature in Translation
(4) Staff
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
Readings in fiction, drama, and philosophical essays from the French Existentialist movement. Readings will include Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir. The major existentialist themes (commitment, anguish, subjectivity, etc.) will be considered. Lectures and readings in English.

181. Contemporary French Literature
(4) Lévy
From the Writing of Adventure to the Adventure of Writing. A study of contemporary works (Butor, Robbe-Grillet, Blanchot, Beckett, Sollers) and avant-garde movements ("Nouveau Roman," "Tel Quel") that challenge, at various levels, the very notion of "Literature."

181X. Narratology
(4) Staff
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
Study of formal elements of narrative exemplified by various fictional genres. In addition to learning narrative theory, students will apply practical techniques of analysis to specific literary texts. Course should interest students in communication theory, anthropology as well as literature. Taught in English.

182. Literary Translation: Theory and Practice
(4) Lévy
This course will explore the various theories of translation and offer a practical component where students will work on a specific translation project. Literary, philosophical, linguistic and theoretical texts by Jakobson, Benjamin, Steiner, Derrida and others will be examined.

183X. From Existential Phenomenology to Structuralism
(4) Sturm
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
Intellectual movements in postwar France. Critical readings and discussion in literature, psychoanalysis, art, and systems. Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, Lacan, Barthes, Foucault, and others. Lectures and readings in English.

184A-B. Contemporary French Poetry
(4-4) Lévy
From Baudelaire to Prévert: a critical study of significant poems since 1857, against the background of Parnassian, symbolist, cubist, and surrealist ideas. Study of poetic materials and techniques. Several short papers, explications de texte, practice in translation. Lectures and readings in French.

185. Contemporary Women Writers
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
The course will examine the works of several contemporary women writers, including Simone de Beauvoir and Colette. Taught in French.

189. Literary France
(4) Nesci
The relationship between literature and society, and the evolution of the status of the writer from the seventeeth century to the present. Emphasis on the rise of the intellectual as hero at the time of the Dreyfus Affair.

189X. Literary France
(4) Nesci
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
The relationship between literature and society, and the evolution of the status of the writer from the seventeeth century to the present. Emphasis on the rise of the intellectual as hero at the time of the Dreyfus Affair. Taught in English.

190X. Cross-Currents in Modern French and Italian Film
(4) Lawton, Maleuvre
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
Thematic parallels within these major filmic traditions. Treatment of the following central themes: war, death, love, justice, consumerism, etc., by such directors as Renoir, Fellini, Godard, Truffaut, Malle, Bertolucci, Scola, and others.

192. Littérature de la Francophonie
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of department.
Course deals with literature in French by writers outside France. Material of the course includes representative authors and literary movements of Canada, Haiti, Senegal, Zaire, etc. Questions of national identity and literary relations will be discussed. Lectures and readings in French.

192X. Francophone African Novel in Translation
(4) Staff
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
The course deals with the Francophone African novel in translation. Particular attention will be paid to politics, thematology, and the oral tradition in the novels. Writers include Camara Laye, Mongo Beti, Mariama Ba, and Yambo Ouologuem. Lectures and readings in English.

193X. Structuralism and Poststructuralism
(4) Lévy
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
Study of fundamental concepts of structuralism and poststructuralism. Examination of the work of some of the following modern thinkers: Saussure, Jakobson, Lévi-Strauss, Barthes, Kristeva, Derrida, Lacan, Foucault, Lyotard, Serres. Lectures and readings in English.

194. Science and Fiction
(4) Lévy
Study of the interaction between science and literature in the modern period. Reading in the philosophy of science (Cuvier, Claude Bernard, Einstein, Heisenberg, Weiner, Mandelbrot) and literature (Balzac, Maupassant, Verne, Stevenson, Musil, Calvino, Ponge). Lectures and readings in French.

194X. Science and Fiction
(4) Lévy
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
Study of the interaction between science and literature in the modern period. Reading in the philosophy of science (Cuvier, Claude Bernard, Einstein, Heisenberg, Weiner, Mandelbrot) and literature (Balzac, Maupassant, Verne, Stevenson, Musil, Calvino, Ponge). Lectures and readings in English.

195. The Poet's Identity
(4) Lévy
Study of the way poets present themselves through their poetry and the different functions they assign to their poetry. Close readings of French poetry from the late middle ages to the present. Lectures and readings in French.

196. Fantasy and the Fantastic
(4) Lévy
Exploration of the fantasy theme and fantastic literature in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature. Course will include some of these authors: Nerval, Nodier, Maupassant, Gautier, Villiers, Mérimée, Balzac, Breton, Paulhan. Lecture and readings in French.

196X. Fantasy and the Fantastic
(4) Lévy
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
Exploration of the fantasy theme and fantastic literature in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature. Course will include some of these authors: Nerval, Nodier, Maupassant, Gauthier, Villiers, Mérimée, Balzac, Breton, Paulhan. Lectures and readings in English.

197. Senior Seminar
(4) Staff
Prerequisites: open to students who have completed 20 or more upper-division units in the major. Consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units, but only 4 units may be applied toward the major.
A seminar enabling students to synthesize knowledge gained in upper-division French courses, both at UCSB and through the Education Abroad Program. Topics vary, but involve investigations of theoretical issues related to French literature and culture.

199. Independent Studies in French
(1-5) Staff
Prerequisites: students must (1) have attained upper-division standing; (2) have a minimum 3.0 grade-point average for the preceding three quarters; (3) have completed at least two upper-division courses in French. Students are limited to 5 units per quarter and 30 units total in all 98/99/198/199/199RA courses combined.
Individual investigations in literary or linguistics fields.

199RA. Independent Research Assistance
(1-5) Staff
Prerequisites: Student must have: (1) upper-division standing; (2) 3.0 grade-point average for three preceding quarters; (3) completion of two upper-division French courses, and (4) consent of instructor. Students are limited to 5 units per quarter and 30 units total in all 98/99/198/199/199RA courses combined.
Independent research, under the supervision of a consenting faculty member.

Graduate Courses

200AA-ZZ. Topics in French Literature
(4) Staff
This course may be repeated provided the letter designation is different.
Studies of various topics in French literature.
A. Travelling in the Renaissance
B. Nineteenth and twentieth centuries
C. Irony in the Renaissance
D. Misery
E. Nomadic Thought/Nomadic Literature
F. Science and Literature
G. What is an Author?

201. Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
(4) Courtine
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Discourse analysis, located at the intersection between linguistics and history, will be studied from its development in France in the 1970s. Focus on its application to various "discourses" including the social and the political.

202A-D. Advanced Critical Writing
(4) Enders
Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit provided letter designations are different.
Workshop on the style, structure, and ideology of crafting persuasive critical arguments and creating authority in writing (in French or English). Focus on introductions, conclusions, definitions, proofs, refutation, and interaction with sources through analysis, critique, practice, and peer review.
A. Writing For Publication
B. Writing the Thesis
C. Writing and the Profession
D. Special Topics in Writing

203. Advanced French Phonetics
(4) Staff
An accelerated review of the principles covered in French 103A-B-C, but without laboratory practice. An introduction to acoustic phonetics.

204A. History of French Language
(4) Ashby
Prerequisites: one year of college Latin or equivalent or consent of instructor; French 203 or equivalent.
The linguistic history of French, stressing the major changes in the phonological, morphological, and syntactic systems from Latin to modern French.

204B. Old French Philology
(4) Ashby
Prerequisites: one year of college Latin or equivalent or consent of instructor; French 203 or equivalent and French 204A.
Reading and linguistic analysis of old French texts.

205. Bibliography and Research Techniques
(2) Tobin
Open to qualified undergraduates by petition and consent of instructor. Recommended for all graduate students concerned with, or specializing in, French literature.
A brief introduction to bibliographical theory and practice, the principal bibliographies, and other sources of information useful for the study of French literature, and ways of obtaining different types of information having to do with French literature.

206. Introduction to Old French
(4) Brown, Enders
Introduction to Old French and examination of a number of early medieval works.

207. Literary Criticism: Medieval and Modern
(4) Brown, Enders
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
A study of key critical texts of the medieval student and/or modern medievalist, including literary prologues (Marie de France, Chrétien, Mauchat), scholastic treatises, and the theories of mouvance (Zumthor) and medieval alterity (Jauss).

208. Studies in French Linguistics
(4) Ashby
Prerequisites: may be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 20 units.
Selected problems in linguistics will be studied with a different specialization each quarter.

214. Techniques of Literary Analysis
(4) Staff
Approaches to the three main literary genres (poetry, novel, and theater) based on close textual analysis, readings in theory, and research methods. For advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students.

216. Narratology
(4) Staff
Course taught in English, although knowledge of French is required.
Course will study the structures, modes, and levels of fictional narrative by applying recent analytical methods to selected texts: formalism, structuralism, semiotics, deconstruction, etc. Students will analyze their own story after an analytical model for an oral report and term paper.

218. Ideology in the Text
(4) Nesci
Prerequisite: graduate standing.
Course will study the notion of ideology as a formal principle in narrative, using the theories of Bakhtin and Uspensky and their French followers (e.g., Hamon, Greimas). Specific texts will be analyzed.

221. The Post-Rhetorical Age
(4) Courtine
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
The transformation of political speech-making from the town square to the media age. We will study textual and audio-visual sources on eloquence, crowd psychology, totalitarian and democratic scenes of speech-making, and political communication in the televison age.

222. Linguistique Structurale et Analyse Structurale des Textes
(4) Courtine
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
The founding principles of structural linguistics, and how linguistic methods can be applied to the analysis of literary texts (Barthes, Greimas), folktales (Propp), myths or genealogies (Lévi-Strauss), semiology (Barthes, Prieto) and psychoanalysis (Lacan).

224AA-ZZ. History of the Body
(4) Courtine
Prerequisite: graduate standing.
Focus on the body and body language as it has been transmitted historically through such sources as medical treatises, literary works, portraits and photographs.
A. Physical Expression of Emotions, 16th-19th Centuries
B. Monsters
C. Culture and Curiosity, 18th and 19th Centuries

225. Discourse and the Body: Foucault in France and the U.S.
(4) Courtine
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Focusing on the critical works of Michel Foucault in their historical context, the course will explore the sometimes contradictory readings of French post-structuralism in France and America.

235. The Medieval Book as Literary Artifact
(4) Brown
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Study of the materiality of books as critical to understanding literary works, especially during, but not limited to, the Middle Ages. Emphasis on the dynamic interaction between text and paratext, between writers and patrons, between authors, scribes and editors.

236AA-ZZ. Studies in Medieval Literature
(4) Staff
This course may be repeated provided the letter designation is different.
In-depth study of selected texts of medieval literature.
A. From Oral to Written
B. "Courtly Love" and "Courtly Romance"
C. Words and Music
D. The Dynamics of Allegory
E. Late Medieval Textuality and Poetic Authority
F. Theater and Theatricality
G. Representations of Medieval Gender
H. Torture and Truth in the Middle Ages
I. The Poetics of Silence
J. Trial, Ordeal, and Desire in the Middle Ages
K. Medieval Literature and Magic

237. The Book in Performance
(4) Brown, Enders
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
A study of the intersection between the medieval book and medieval drama, including the performative qualities of the medieval text, the drama of the page, and the "livresque" qualities of theater.

240A-E. Studies in the Sixteenth Century
(4) Skenazi
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. This course may be repeated provided the letter designation is different.
Study in depth of selected texts of the sixteenth century.
A. Rabelais
B. Pléiade
C. Montaigne and Marguerite de Navarre
D. French Renaissance Theatre
E. Renaissance Court Poetry

241. Figures of Instability
(4) Skenazi
Representation of fragmentation and change in the works of Du Bellay and Montaigne.

242A. Medieval Rhetoric and Literature
(4) Enders
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
As a veritable theory of literature, rhetoric instilled skills in memory, performance, structure, style, and creativity. Readings focus on the kinship between rhetoric and literature as exemplified in such authors as Chrétien, Abélard, Machaut, Gréban, Jean de Meung, and Christine de Pizan.

242B. Modern Theories of Rhetoric
(4) Skenazi
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
A study of figures of discourse such as metonymy and metaphor. Works of Fontanier, Jakobson, Genette, Lacan, Derrida, and Ricoeur.

250A-H. Studies in the Seventeenth Century
(4) Tobin
This course may be repeated provided the letter designation is different.
Study in depth of selected texts of the seventeenth century.
A. Corneille
B. Racine
C. Molière
D. Pascal
E. La Fontaine
F. Moralistes
G. Classical Hero
H. The Baroque

260A-Z. Studies in the Eighteenth Century
(4) MacArthur, Sturm
Prerequisite: graduate standing, or consent of instructor. This course may be repeated provided the letter designation is different.
Texts of the eighteenth century.
A. Voltaire
B. Diderot
C. Rousseau
D. The Novel
E. Political Thought in Belletristic Literature
F. Utopia in the Siècle des Lumières
G. Man against Myth
H. Negation and Myth in the Age of Enlightenment
I. Reason and Nature in the Enlightenment
J. Women Writers
K. Censorship in the Eighteenth Century
L. Reading Practices and the Public Sphere

261. Rousseau and His Critics
(4) Staff
A study of Rousseau's major works as a point of departure in a review of past and present critical views.

262. The Confessional Urge: Studies in French Autobiography
(4) Sturm
A critical inquiry into motivation and strategies of the genre. Casanova, Rétif, Rousseau, Leiris, Adamov, Sartre, Barthes, and others in selected texts. Psychoanalytic orientation.

263. Rousseau and the Alienation of Modern Man
(4) Sturm
In condemning the enlightenment notion of progress, Rousseau became the first thinker to anticipate the dehumanized edifice of the modern era. Discussion of his views on politics, art, education, and his extraordinary influence will be considered through Freud and Marcuse.

265. The Epistolary Form
(4) MacArthur
Prerequisite: graduate standing.
Study of real and fictional correspondences in the light of recent criticism. Emphasis on problems of epistolary narrative, and on the association between women and letter writing. Works by Abélard and Héloise, Guilleragues, Laclos, Charrière, Balzac, Colette.

270AA-ZZ. Studies in the Nineteenth Century
(4) Maleuvre, Nesci
May be repeated for credit provided letter designations are different.
In-depth study in depth of selected texts of the nineteenth century.
A. Balzac
B. Stendhal
C. Flaubert
D. Zola
E. Romantic Poetry
F. Baudelaire
G. Symbolism
H. Literature of the Second Empire
I. Theater
J. Hugo
K. Roman et Révolution
P. Memory and Crises
Q. Bodies Exposed

270L. Literature and Society in the Novel
(4) Nesci
Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.
An inquiry into literature as a socio-political institution. Topics covered will be the representation of sexuality and the family in realism; the notion of text as social practice; the socio-cultural codes and modes that frame the literary representation.

270M. Dandies and Decadence
(4) Maleuvre
Dandyism and its appeal to modernist reflection on figuration. Fin-de-siècle aesthetics of decadence will be tied to the uncertainty of figuration and the perversity of identity. Balzac, Baudelaire, Huysmans, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Lorrain, and Proust.

270N. Special Topics in the Nineteenth Century
(4) Nesci, Maleuvre
Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Course content will vary.

271. Paris in 19th Century Literature
(4) Nesci
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Focus on literary and artistic representations of Paris in post-revolutionary France. Texts by Balzac, Baudelaire, Hugo, Flaubert, Rimbaud, Zola. We will study how artists attempt to represent Paris as a fragmented totality and give meaning to modernity and its unstable history.

272. Structuralist and Poststructuralist Poetics
(4) Nesci
This course will focus on structuralist and poststructuralist poetics through the study of main concepts such as text, intertextuality, literarity. Special attention will be given to the different theories of sign as developed by Semiotics and interpretative Hermeneutics.

273. Confession and Fiction in the Nineteenth Century
(4) Nesci
Course analyzes a particular kind of novelistic production: mise en scène of young man as hero-and antihero-of a first-person narrative, through the representation of society and history, the role of language and women in narrative strategies.

274. Panoramic Literature
(4) Nesci, Maleuvre
Focus on the expository spirit in nineteenth-century culture: world exhibitions, panoramic journalism, and encyclopedic collection. Of particular interest will be technologies of rationalizing circulation of goods and bodies.

275. Poetry and Communication Theory
(4) Lévy
What constitutes the poetic message? How is it transmitted? What rules of communication does it follow and which ones does it break? This seminar will attempt to answer these questions through the study of seventeenth, nineteenth, and twentieth-century poets.

276. The Theory of Fantastic Literature
(4) Lévy
Study of the current theories of fantastic literature and their limitations. Works by some of the following authors will be examined: Cazotte, Nerval, Gautier, Mérimée, Nodier, Villiers, Maupassant, Apollinaire, Breton, Genet, Paulhan.

277. The Representation of Science in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature
(4) Lévy
Focus on the epistemological, theoretical implications and the cultural impact that the philosophy of modern science brings to the study of literature.

278. Poetry and Modernity
(4) Maleuvre
Focus on the conceptual aspect of poetry, its status as philosophical reflection, on the creative and meditative rapport between consciousness and the poem. De Staël, Desbordes-Valmore, Lamartine, Vigny, Hugo, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Laforgue, Mallarmé, Lautréamont.

279. Contemporary Theory in Translation
(4) Snyder
Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Survey of the principle issues of contemporary theory. Readings range from classic texts by Adorno, Bakhtin, Benjamin, Cixous, Foucault, Heidegger et. al. to recent essays in the new cultural studies. In English.

280AA-ZZ. Studies in the Twentieth Century
(4) Staff
May be repeated for credit in combination with French 280A-M provided letter designations are different
In-depth study of selected texts of the twentieth century.
A. Proust
B. Gide
C. Apollinaire
D. Existentialism
F. Theatre
G. Essay
H. Surrealism
I. Valéry
J. Contemporary Criticism
K. Camus
L. Politics and Literature
M. Sartre
N. Twentieth-Century Novel

281. Literature and Philosophy in Twentieth-Century Writing
(4) Sturm
Modern perspectives in methodology, psychoanalysis, aesthetics, and politics, and their relation to the reading of literary texts. Mainly Sartre and Marcuse.

283. Francis Ponge
(4) Lévy
Study of Francis Ponge as both poet and theoretician of literature. Particular attention will be paid to his writings which invoke the sciences.

284. Contemporary Poetry
(4) Lévy
Survey of French poetry since 1945. Francis Ponge, René Char, Henri Michaux, Michel Deguy, Lorand Gaspar, Edmond Jabès, Jacques Dupin, André DuBouchet.

285. Twentieth-Century Poetry
(4) Lévy
Valéry, Apollinaire, Reverdy, Jacob, Desnos, Eluard, Breton, Artaud, Char, Ponge, Michaux, Perse, Bonnefoy.

287. French Film and Theory
(4) Staff
May be repeated with instructor's permission.
Analysis of French film which will attempt to integrate a cultural-historical approach together with some theoretical considerations. Content may vary.

290. Readings in Twentieth-Century Alienation
(4) Sturm
The individual at odds with the myths and structures of the modern world, as perceived in his psychological, cultural, and aesthetic dimensions. Selected works by: Sartre, Camus, Beckett, Genet, Foucault, and others.

291. Africanist Discourse in French
(4) Staff
Course is concerned with the manner in which imaginative writers in France participated in Africanist discourse. We will examine the question of "blackness" and the "other" in French ethnology and colonialism, as well as in texts by Baudelaire, Sade, etc.

292. Biography as Myth and Reality
(4) Sturm
The real and imaginary "Case Studies" of Sartre and Freud. The orientation of the course will be philosophical and psychoanalytic.

293. Penser à Partir de Sartre: Philosophie, Fiction et Vérité
(4) Sturm
Sartre's ambition to grasp all aspects of twentieth-century human experience ("totalisation") through his phenomenological approach will be investigated through his major texts and critical works.

294. Francophone Literature
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit with consent of department.
Literature written in French outside of France. Course content may vary. May be taught in English or French.

500. Apprentice Teaching
(4) Simons
Units earned in this course, which is required of all teaching assistants, do not apply toward degree.
Includes orientation week, weekly meetings with supervisor, preparation of examinations, class visitations and discussions, videotaping of classes followed by review with supervisor, occasional workshops.

596. Directed Reading and Research
(2-6) Staff
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Individual tutorial. Instructor is usually student's major professor. Students doing initial research on the doctoral dissertation may sign up for this course.

597. Independent Study
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: consent of graduate advisor.
Individual research projects, supervised by a faculty member. Requires permission of graduate advisor to enroll.

598. Master's Thesis Research and Preparation
(1-12) Staff
No unit credit allowed toward degree. S/U grade.
Only for research underlying thesis, writing thesis. Instructor should be chair of student's thesis committee.

599. Dissertation Research and Preparation
(1-12) Staff
Only for the writing of the doctoral dissertation. Instructor should be chair of student's doctoral committee.

Italian Courses

Lower Division

Italian 1-6: Students in all sections of a given level progress at the same rate and cover the same amount of material. Students who have studied Italian at other institutions and wish to continue their study at UCSB are required to take the placement examination given by the department.

1. Elementary Italian
(4) Staff
Introduction to the most basic elements of Italian grammar. Articles, adjectives, gender. Verbs in the present tense. (F,W)

2. Elementary Italian
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: Italian 1 or equivalent.
Logical continuation of Italian 1. Direct and indirect pronouns. Verbs in the past tense and the imperfect. Emphasis on the correct writing and speaking of Italian. (F,W,S)

3. Elementary Italian
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: Italian 2 or equivalent.
Continuation of Italian 2. Verbs in the future, conditional. Introduction to subjunctive. Further emphasis on the correct writing and speaking of Italian.

4. Intermediate Italian
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: Italian 3 or equivalent.
The beginning of 2nd year Italian, which is more demanding than the first year. Emphasis on reading and comprehension of modern texts, with comprehensive review of grammar.

5. Intermediate Italian
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: Italian 4 or equivalent.
Logical continuation of Italian 4, based on reading and comprehension of more elaborate texts.

6. Intermediate Italian
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: Italian 5 or equivalent.
Reading and comprehension of chosen texts (short stories, etc.) and compositions. Readings chosen from such representative anthologies as Tempi Moderni (Burney).

8A-B-C. Italian Conversation
(2-2-2) Staff
Prerequisite: Italian 3 or consent of instructor.
Contemporary issues to be selected by instructor. Debates and discussion to be organized among students themselves.

9V. Beginning Italian for Musicians
(4) Staff
Comprehensive course designed to familiarize musicians with basic Italian grammar, culture, musical terminology, situational language usage as well as Italian prose and lyrics as applied to vocal literature. Emphasis on oral skills. Taught in Italian.

10V. Intensive Italian for Musicians
(4) Staff
Comprehensive course designed to familiarize musicians with basic Italian grammar, culture, musical terminology, situational language usage as well as Italian prose and lyrics as applied to vocal literature. Emphasis on oral skills. For advanced singers/musicians. Taught in Italian.

11A-B. Italian for Graduate Students
(4-4) Staff
Prerequisite: graduate standing. Italian 11A for Italian 11B, or consent of instructor.
Designed for graduate students who need to satisfy language requirements. Grammatical preparation and practice for translation, but no individual projects. No knowledge of Italian required for 11A.

20X. Introduction to Italian Culture
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor. Not open for credit to students who have completed Italian 106X-Y-Z.
A sweeping inquiry into Italian culture, from its origins to its current trends. Exploration of the media, sports, gastronomy, art, music, politics, language, regional and ethnic identity, sexuality, the family, and urban life. Taught in English.

21Y. Great Italian Writers
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: Writing 2 and 50 or consent of instructor.
An overview of the finest Italian literature available in translation, ranging from lyrics of the dolce stil novo poets to modernist writing by Anna Banti, hard-boiled detective fiction by Gadda, and postmodern stories by Calvino. Taug