Notes regarding credits...

Fall 3= 30 hrs of instr
Fall 4/Win 2/Yr 2= 45 hrs of instr

Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

Intermediate

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of two semesters (or three quarters) of college-level French. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

Objectives-
-For each century, comparative study:
of the writers: simple texts, poetry and pose
of the painters: their masterpieces
of the musicians: musical extracts

-For each artist, using audio and visual support, one will study apropos vocabulary, syntax, ideas, and some biographical, historical elements.

Program-
16th: Ronsard, Montaigne; Clouet, Ecole de Fontainbleau; Musique de la Renaissance

17th: Moliere, Mme. de Sevigne, La Fontaine; Champaigne, Mignard, La Tour; Charpentier, Lully, Couperin

18th: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau; Watteau, Fragonard, Greuze; Rameau, Mozart, Gluck

19th: Victor Hugo, Musset, George Sand; Delacroix, Ingres, Manet; Berlioz, Saint Saens, Offenbach, Gounod

20th: Prevert, Ionesco; Matisse, Picasso; Ravel, Satie

Grading-
Two written tests
Group work and oral participation