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.

Objective:

This class is based on DIVERSITY and considers literature to be a mode of reflection on the world and ourselves.

Program (1st Semester):

Marcel Proust, Sodome et Gomorrhe II, 1922
Albert Camus, La Peste, 1947
Colette, Les vrilles de la vigne, 1908
Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse*, 1954
Nathalie Sarraute Pour un oui ou pour un non*, 1988, video excerpts
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Voyage au bout de la nuit, 1932, video excerpts
Marguerite Duras, Moderato Cantabile*, 1958, video excerpts
Alain Robbe-Grillet, Le Voyeur
Georges Simenon, L'Affaire Saint-Fiacre*, 1959
Roland Barthes, Fragments d'un discours amoureux, 1977

Program (2nd semester):

Albert Cohen, Belle du Seigneur, 1968, video
Georges Perec, Les Choses*, 1967
Léo Malet, Les rats de Montsouris, 1994 (new edition)
Frédéric Dard, Bacchanale chez la mère Tatzi, 1985
Marguerite Yourcenar, Souvenir pieux, 1974, video excerpts
Patrick Modiano, Livret de Famille*, 1977
Christian Bobin, Le Très-Bas*, 1992
Rachid Boudjedra, L'escargo entêté*, 1977
Benoît Duteurtre, Dans la sanisette
Annie Ernaux, La Place*, 1983
Marie Darrieussecq, Truismes*, 1966

*original version

Grading: 2 exams during the semester

Educational Resources: Numerous audiovisuals. Course summary given at end of semester.