Courses

Variable topics in French and Francophone literatures and cultures; taught in English. Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 250. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs. GE lit course.

Introduction to the study of the cinema and to French film classics. Students will explore cinema as an art form, the social and cultural history of France as it relates to the cinema, and the qualities that make individual films cinematic masterpieces. Taught in English. GE VPA course. GE foundation lit, vis and performing arts course.

This course examines comic books and graphic novels of the 'Franco-Belgian tradition' ('bande dessinee' or BD), particularly as they engage in questions of the representation of cultures and identities. Taught in English. GE cultures and ideas course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course.

Exploration of the lived environment of the city of Paris through the study of its history, geography, population, and cultural production, including but not limited to art, architecture, cinema, literature, and fashion. Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 1803.01 or 1803.03. GE cultures and ideas course. GE theme lived environments course.

This course examines representations of rebellious and runaway slaves of French-speaking regions and explores how they rejected their oppression through tactics of flight, practices of resistance and resiliency, and modes of belonging and community-formation. GE foundation race, ethnicity and gender div course.

French-American cultural relations since World War I; an exploration of French reaction to and adoption or rejection of a number of American cultural "exports," from jazz and the GI to Coke and consumerism. Taught in English. Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 153. GE cultures and ideas course.

Examine how the concept of citizenship through resistance has been represented in literature, film, music, and comics of the French-speaking world created to inspire activism at crucial historical moments. Study how citizens have exercised the right to effect change in society through producing, consuming, and redeploying defiant cultural artifacts. GE theme citizenship for div and just wrld course.

Exploration of cultural texts (stories, songs, films, paintings, photos, etc.) that represent love and sex in France, from medieval courtly love, to 18th-century libertinism, to the swinging 1960s, to dating apps and the #Me Too movement. Examination of the historical and cultural, and therefore changing, nature of "acceptable" and "unacceptable" forms of love and sex. GE theme traditions, cultures, and transformations course.

Supervised training in international (French-speaking) business. Prereq: 3501 (406) or permission of instructor. Notify Department chair no later than six months or one semester prior to start of internship. Not open to students with 6 cr hrs for 690. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs or 6 completions. This course is graded S/U. FL Admis Cond course.

In this course students will develop cultural self-awareness, intercultural empathy, and an understanding of the patterns of behavior and values of people from different cultural contexts - all skills necessary for working and succeeding in the 21st century. GE diversity global studies course. GE theme citizenship for div and just wrld course.

Considering it more than a biological necessity, this course approaches food as a way of approaching a region's cultures in an ever-changing world of human and environmental interactions and explores how concerns over agricultural sustainability thus translate into concerns over cultural specificity. Students will examine Mediterranean cuisines through literature, film, music, and social media. Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 2061 or Italian 2061. GE cultures and ideas and diversity global studies course. GE theme lived environments and sustainability course.

This course introduces undergraduate students to the exciting field of second language acquisition. This course is ideal for language learners who wish to reflect on and improve their own language learning experience, for those who desire to become language instructors, and for anyone who simply has an interest in languages. Taught in English. GE foundation social and behavioral sci course.

Examines the socio-historical factors and the linguistic processes that contributed to the formation of the Romance languages and to their divergences. Course taught in English. Prereq: Equivalent of 1103 in Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, or Latin, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for RomLing 5051 or Clas 5051. Cross-listed in Clas and RomLing.

This course examines theory & research that underlie contemporary approaches to communicative language teaching & includes work with the development of materials & activities for the classroom. We will consider & discuss a range of aspects of second language acquisition (SLA) theory & research that have implications for the L2 classroom. It will provide a theoretical & practical foundation to you. Prereq: Graduate teaching associate in the Department of French and Italian, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for German 6600, German 7600, French 7301, Italian 7301, or FRIT 7301. Cross-listed in German.

Explores in depth a particular area or issue of second language acquisition. Repeatable to a maximum of 12 cr hrs.

Introduction to social-cultural trends in Italy as reflected in literary texts and other materials from the beginnings to the Renaissance. Taught in English. GE lit and diversity global studies course.

Survey of the Italian cinema from the beginnings to today, with special emphasis on neorealism. Taught in English. Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 221. GE VPA and diversity global studies course. GE foundation lit, vis and performing arts course.

Examines Italian and American mafia movies made from 1905 to the present day and traces the history of the Italian and Italian American Mafias. Taught in English. GE VPA course. GE foundation lit, vis and performing arts course.

This course explores how representations of love have been conditioned by questions of identity (race, gender, sexuality and ethnicity) through representations of eros, romance and friendship in a variety of moving images. GE VPA and diversity global studies course. GE foundation lit, vis and performing arts and race, ethnicity and gender div course.

This course addresses how belonging in contemporary Italy - juridical, social, economic - is intrinsically defined by race. Students interrogate Italian-ness as a racialized identity, as well as how gender and ethnicity contribute to the construction of racial identity. This course is an exploration of intersectionality, an important tool for thinking about immigration, discrimination and culture. GE foundation race, ethnicity and gender div course.

This course traces the history of Italian environment and landscape narratives with a focus on the last two centuries by analyzing the effect of human-driven land consumption, pollution, and economic transformations on natural spaces in Italy. GE theme sustainability course.

This course familiarizes students with the adaptability and influence of romance storytelling, from its medieval foundations (King Arthur) to its continued popularity in different forms (fantasy, science fiction, romance novels). Students learn to identify how its themes inform how we ascribe value to some people(s) and deny it to others; and to evaluate how stories can imagine more just worlds. Prereq: English 1110, or equiv. GE lit and diversity global studies course. GE theme traditions, cultures, and transformations course.

Study of Italian society and culture from the Middle Ages to the present through the examination of the important cities that have shaped its history. GE cultures and ideas and diversity global studies course.