Courses
Language and culture courses
Students who have studied French before are placed in these courses according to their performance on the Wheaton placement test. Enrollment in each section is limited to 20 students. (French 102, 211 and 221 are yearlong courses.)
Fr 102 Beginning French
Fr 211 Intermediate French
Fr 221 Reading and Conversation
Fr 279 Literary Translation
Fr 295 Advanced French Grammar
Fr 296 Writing and Speaking in French
Fr 298 Experimental Course
Introductory culture and literature courses
Intended for students who have studied French for three or four years in secondary school, whose placement scores indicate comparable preparation or who have completed French 211 (with permission of the instructor) or French 221.
Fr 235 Introduction to Modern French Literature
Fr 236 Introduction to Early French Literature
Fr 245 Contemporary France
Fr 246 Introduction to French Cinema
Advanced culture and literature courses
Before enrolling in a 300-level course, students should have completed at least two of the three required courses at the 200 level (French 235, 236 and 245). Prerequisites may be waived by the instructor for students with special preparation.
Fr 301 Medieval French Literature
Fr 302 Renaissance Literature and Society
Fr 307 Translation, Art and Craft
Fr 320 From François I to François Mitterrand: A Cultural History of Politics and Architecture
Fr 327 Moralists and Misanthropes, Sociability and Individualism in Literature of the Ancien Régime
Fr 329 Love and Libertinage in the Early French Novel
Fr 331 Other Voices, Other Stories: Great Works by Women from France and the Francophone World
Fr 346 New Wave and Newer: French Cinema since the 1950s
Fr 347 Literature, the Arts and Society from the Dreyfus Affair to Vichy
Fr 349 Les Trente Glorieuses
Fr 352 The Quill and the Brush
Fr 356 Le Théâtre et la Société Française
Fr 357 French Theatre in the 20th Century