• FRE 507: Teaching French Through French Literature: Strategies for teaching the French language through its literature.  All major genres represented.  Designed specifically for those students who intend to teach French at the high school level or above.  Taught by David Fein
                                
• FRE 554: Topics in French Poetry:  "Le Poète et Son Oeuvre" dans la Poésie Amoureuse de la Renaissance Française:  Love poetry enjoyed an extraordinary revival in Renaissance France.  Not since Lucretius, Ovid, and Propertius in Classical Antiquity, or Petrarch in fourteenth-century Italy, had Cupid and Venus received such a welcome from the earthly emissaries of the Muses.  Indeed, for many, the sixteenth century remains the golden age of  love poetry in French literature.  This course explores the theme of love in the works of six of the most prominent poets of the period: Clément Marot, Maurice Scève, Louise Labé, Joachim Du Bellay, Pierre de Ronsard, and Catherine des Roches.  Taught by Roberto Campo   
                                                            
• FRE 557: Advanced Topics in French Literature: Paris: Building the City/Writing the City:  The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the (hi)story of the city of Paris from Gallo-Roman times to the present.  The first half (approximately) of the course will emphasize the growth and development of the city in terms of topography, architecture, demography, urbanism, and the social and political history relevant to this growth.  The second half will examine some of  the literary responses to this urban landscape.  Taught by William Goode

• FRE 615-616: Composition for Graduate Students: Intensive study of stylistics with emphasis on choice of the "mot juste."  Concentration on "dissertation littéraire générale" in order to prepare the student for research.  Also work in translations.                                                                             

• FRE 653: Seminar in French Literature: Stendhal: In this seminar we study Stendhal's major novels, Le Rouge et le noir and La Chartreuse de Parme, but we also read lesser known works: his "autobiography"-- La Vie de Henry Brulard-- Armance, De l'Amour, Chroniques italiennes, Lamiel, some of his correspondence and finally, some of his more outrageous plagiarisms.  Students will become acquainted with the many facets of this romantic rationalist and will study the complexities of his narrative style.   Assignments will include reports, explications de texte, and a final paper.   Taught by Kathleen Mather                                                                                                                                                            
• FRE 671: French Literary Criticism:  Introduces students to criticism as an "institution" by tracing the development of French literary criticism from Sainte-Beuve into the twentieth century, presents major issues and movements in criticism and theory in 20th century France, establishes a familiarity with the context of contemporary criticism and theory beyond France.  Taught by Roch Smith

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