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, students will do a comparative study of:

- writers (simple texts, poetry, and prose)
- painters (viewing works of art)
- musicians (listening to musical excerpts)

For each artist, by way of audio or visual support, a study will be conducted on vocabulary, syntax, ideas, and historical/biographical elements.

Program:

16th Century: Ronsard, Montaigne, Clouet, Fontainebleau school, Renaissance music

17th Century: Molière, Mme de Sévigné, La Fontaine, Champaigne, Mignard, La Tour, Charpentier, Lully, Couperin

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

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

20th Century: Prévert, Ionesco, Matisse, Picasso, Ravel, Satie

Grading: 2 written exams, group work, oral participation

NOTE: Program subject to change based on availability of exhibits and concerts