Courses

• CAS LF 555: The Epistolary Novel
  Fictional letter writing, 1669-1784, as inspired by Ovid, Héloïse and Abélard, and letter-writing manuals. Masterpieces by Guilleragues, Montesquieu, Mme de Grafigny, Laclos, and Mme de Charrière. Revivals of epistolary storytelling in twentieth century novels by Colette and Gide.
• CAS LF 556: French Cinema and Literature
  Analysis of classic French films by Vigo, Renoir, Carné, Malle, Bresson, Godard, and Truffaut as well as later twentieth and early twenty-first century works. Weekly screenings, reading of literary models and film theory.
• CAS LF 558: Colonial Fictions: Modern French Writing and the Colonies
  Literary representations of the people, cultures, and places of the former colonies in works by Baudelaire, Camus, Céline, Duras, Gide, Leiris, and Robbe-Grillet. Attention to colonialist discourse in historical perspective, including exoticism, primitivism, and fetishism.
• CAS LF 562: The Age of Versailles
  Seventeenth-century developments in classical theater, the novel, poetry, and fairy tales in relation to the vision of an all-powerful monarchy. Creative responses to a culture of constraint, as seen in works of Corneille, Racine, Molière, LaFayette, La Fontaine, Aulnoy. Cannot be taken for credit in addition to CAS LF 452.
• CAS LF 564: Medieval Lyric
  Examines medieval poetry from the perspective of both medieval and modern theories. Themes include the birth of the Lyric; Occitania and the North; music and performance; irony; didactic poetry, narrative, and philosophy; and the transition "from song to book."
• CAS LF 569: Topics in Francophone Writing
  Topic for Fall 2012: Algeria in Words and Images: from Yesterday to Today. Close reading of selected texts and films by major writers and filmmakers. Attention to postcolonial criticism, imaginary, imagery, gender, location. Focus on re-appropriation of history, writing of violence, exoticism, memory, migration.
• CAS LF 570: Topics in Twentieth Century/Twenty-First Century French Literature
  Topic for Fall 2012: French Lives. A consideration of three generations of French intellectual history through the lives and major autobiographical texts of three masters of French prose. Readings include André Malraux's Antimémoires, Claude Lévi-Strauss' Tristes Tropiques, and Régis Debray's Loués soient nos seigneurs.
• CAS LF 571: Topics in Nineteenth Century French Literature
  Topic for Spring 2012: Women, Money, and Power. Intersections of these three sites of desire in nineteenth century French narrative. Topics include: the family, prostitution, gender identity, counter-discursive practices, and cultural contexts. Texts by Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and Rachilde.
• CAS LF 575: Later French Renaissance
  Emphasizes the impact of the discovery of the New World, the Wars of Religion, and early print culture on French society and letters. Special attention given to Montaigne's Essays. Additional authors studied may include Du Bellay, Rabelais, de Léry, or Marguerite de Navarre.
• CAS LF 590: Topics in Early Modern Culture
  Topic for Fall 2011: Social Comedy and Its Translations. French social comedy centered on the works of Molière, its origins in Italian commedia and its evolution in English Restoration theater, staging social debates in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Authors studied also include Regnard, Behn, Marivaux, Shadwell, Wyncherly, Gouges.
• CAS LG 111: First-Semester German
  For beginners or according to placement test results. Introduction to grammar, vocabulary, structure of German, emphasizing the four basic skills: speaking, writing, listening, and reading. (If CAS LG 112 or a more advanced college-level course has been completed, this course may not be taken for credit.)
• CAS LG 112: Second-Semester German
  Continues study and practice of the basic skills of speaking, writing, and reading German. Conversational dialogues, reading of short texts, grammar sessions, compositions. Conducted in German. (If a more advanced college-level course has been completed, this course may not be taken for credit.)
• CAS LG 211: Third-Semester German
  Further development of communicative skills acquired in the first year, emphasizing both production (speaking, writing) and comprehension (listening, reading). Grammar review. Reading and discussion of selected short stories, poetry, and plays as well as nonliterary texts. Conducted in German.
• CAS LG 212: Fourth-Semester German
  Continued development of communicative skills and strategies for functioning socially in German-language contexts. Students learn to understand literary and nonliterary texts. Conducted in German.
• CAS LG 250: Masterpieces of German Literature (in English translation)
  Introduction to the major works of German literature, emphasizing methods of close reading and the art of critical writing. Essays, plays, fairy tales, poetry, prose by Luther, Goethe, Grimm brothers, Heine, Nietzsche, Kafka, Thomas Mann, Rilke, Hesse, Christa Wolf. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS LG 303: Composition and Conversation I
  Increased sophistication in speaking German through simulation and role playing as well as in writing German through regular compositions and journal entries. Grammar review; practice in pronunciation, comprehension, conversation, vocabulary, and written expression. Discussion of contemporary topics, conducted in German.
• CAS LG 304: Composition and Conversation II
  Increased sophistication in speaking German through simulation and role playing as well as in writing German through regular compositions and journal entries. Grammar review; practice in pronunciation, comprehension, conversation, vocabulary, and written expression. Discussion of contemporary topics, conducted in German.
• CAS LG 325: Modern German History and Culture through Film
  Presentation of cultural differences between East and West Germany leading to reunification and beyond. Screenings of works by Fassbinder, Herzog, Schlöndorff, Sanders-Brahms, Dörrie, Wenders, and Tykwer. Texts on film art in different historical contexts. Discussions and essays in German.
• CAS LG 345: German for Business and Economics
  Introduction to the language of business and to the German economy within the context of European integration and globalization. Includes online research, group projects, skits, and panel discussions.
• CAS LG 350: Introduction to German Literature
  Masterpieces of German literature representing major eras and genres from the eighteenth century to the present. Practical introduction to methods of close reading and literary interpretation; class discussion. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.

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