Spring 2027 Course Offerings
The most up-to-date list of course offerings is always available via View Schedule of Classes on BuckeyeLink.
FRIT Graduate Associates must work with faculty advisors and the Academic Program Coordinator if enrolling in 8303 (teaching apprenticeship), 8998 (Dissertation Research -pre-candidacy), 8999 (Dissertation Research - post-candidacy), and/or 8899 (Dissertation Workshop) hours.
Spring 2027 Course Offerings
Introductory Language Courses
Please refer to the Schedule of Classes via BuckeyeLink to view days and times of these offerings.
French Introductory Language - GEL Foreign Language; GEN: World Languages
French 1101.01, 1102.01, 1103.01 - Beginning French I, II, and III Classroom (4 credit hours)
French 1101.21, 1102.21, 1103.21 - Beginning French I, II, and III Distance Learning (4 credit hours) 1101.21 also offered as an asynchronous learning option (4 credit hours)
French 1155.01 - Beginning French Review Classroom (4 credit hours)
French 1155.21 - Beginning French Review Distance Learning (4 credit hours)
Interested students can learn more about the modalities in which French basic-language sections are taught using this guide to French language (requires log-in).
Italian Introductory Language - GEL Foreign Language; GEN: World Languages
Italian 1101.03, 1102.03, 1103.03 - Beginning Italian I, II, and III Blended (4 credit hours)
Italian 1101.71, 1102.71, 1103.71 - Beginning Italian II and III Online (4 credit hours)
French Undergraduate Courses
French 1198 - French on the Ground
French on the Ground is an asynchronous course designed to build practical French for travel, study abroad, and internships in francophone settings. Through short, theme-based lessons, students develop confidence in everyday communication and reflect on cultural and intercultural contexts.
French 2101.01 – Introduction to French & Francophone Studies
Welcome to the threshold to the French minor and major! In French 2101, you will have the opportunity to practice and improve your reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills in French, as well as to continue learning about French & Francophone literatures and cultures through reading, viewing, and interpreting authentic literary and visual texts from around the Francophone world.
This lively course serves as a bridge between language courses (1101-1103) and upper-level courses in French. By emphasizing all four skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing), it will improve your proficiency and prepare you for further coursework in language, literature, culture, and film and for a minor or major in French or French and Francophone Studies. In it you will interpret and analyse both in oral discussion and in writing a variety of texts (short stories, films, songs, posters, etc.) from France and the Francophone world. Some grammar points will be reviewed, although grammar will be covered more intensely in FR 3101, which may be taken either at the same time as or after FR2101.
French 2101.61 - Introduction to French & Francophone Studies
Online Instruction, taught in French
Techniques for reading and interpreting different types of texts from the French-speaking world: stories, poetry, plays, films, music, and ads while building vocabulary, comprehension, speaking and writing skills.
Prereq: 1103.01, 1103.21, or 4 cr hrs of 1103.51 or 1103.61, or permission of instructor.
French 2801 - French Cinema
GEN Foundation: Literary, Visual & Performing Arts
3 credit hours, taught in English
Explore French cinema from its pioneering beginnings to the present day. Get to know the major eras in the history of French Cinema, such as the silent era, Poetic Realism, the Tradition of Quality, the New Wave, and modern French cinema, all within the context of French culture. Learn to discuss film as a text and talk about technical aspects like framing, mise-en-scène, and shot composition. The course is taught in English and all films are subtitled. No background in French or film studies is necessary.
French 2803.01 - Paris
GEN Theme: Lived Environments
ONLINE, 3 credit hours, taught in English
What was the city of Paris like in 1789, and how have its geography and society evolved over the last two centuries? By reading and viewing representations of Paris in a variety of media (maps, paintings, photographs, films, and literary and historical texts), we will explore both how the city’s landscape has shaped its society and how its increasingly diverse society has in turn shaped and transformed its landscape to suit Parisians’ evolving needs, desires, and caprices. Each two-week unit will treat representations of a specific event or era in Parisian history that had a significant impact on the city’s organization, architecture, and/or demography, and together the units will give us a general understanding of Parisian history over the last 230 years and of the multiple ways in which that history has been represented, and thus manipulated for various purposes.
French 3101 - French Grammar
3 credit hours, taught in French
“Bootcamp French” in the words of a former student, this course improves your ability to speak and write. We will review grammar “rules”, focus on how context creates meaning, and strengthen vocabulary by studying false cognates . Through online discussions, personal narratives and opinion pieces, students will practice speaking and writing more nuanced, accurate French.
Prereq: 1103.01, 1103.21, 4 cr hrs of 1103.51 or 1103.61, or permission of instructor. Prereq or concur: 2101.01, 2101.01H, or 3 cr hrs of 2101.51 or 2101.61. This course is available for EM credit.
French 3102 - Pronunciation & Performance
3 credit hours, taught in French
Parlez-vous français ? In this class you will! French 3102 aims to guide all students toward more accurate pronunciation of the French language in its many iterations throughout the francophone world. We will learn a new alphabet, review rules of pronunciation and diction, then put this knowledge to use through the performance of songs, poetry and plays. We will use film, television and YouTube to explore who speaks French and how they do it. After this class, you will never look at or listen to French the same again!
This course is not open to those students who are native speakers or who have already developed near-native conversational abilities in French.
French 3502: French for International Studies
3 credit hours, taught in French.
Develop specific language skills and cultural competences to work in broad field of international studies in the US, France, and other Francophone regions. Learn about relations among French-speaking nations and regions, about int'l Francophone organizations, and about current events in the French-speaking world. Improve reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills in French.
Prereq: 2101 or equiv.
French 3503: Medical French
3 credit hours, taught in French
Designed especially for students interested in pursuing a variety of health professions and wishing to add value to their expertise in healthcare fields. Students learn how to interact effectively in French with patients and patients' families from various cultural backgrounds, and/or to practice their profession in a Francophone context, at a mid- to high-intermediate level of French.
Prereq: French 2101
French 3802 - Made in Quebec: From Poutine to Pop Music & Everything in Between
GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, and Transformations
ONLINE, 3 credit hours, taught in English
What do poutine, Céline Dion, hockey, and Cirque du Soleil have in common? They’re all part of Quebec’s vibrant popular culture, which both reflects and reshapes the province’s identity.
This course explores how Quebec’s cultural expressions such as food, music, sports, cinema, and more have served as powerful tools of expression and change in Quebec. We’ll trace how Indigenous traditions, French and British colonial legacies, and global immigration have shaped Quebec’s cultural landscape. Along the way, we’ll examine how the Quiet Revolution transformed society, shifting power between dominant and marginalized groups, and how these dynamics continue to influence Quebec today.
By engaging with Quebec’s cultural products—from classic chansons to contemporary cinema—you’ll gain insight into how language policy, social movements, and everyday practices intersect to create a rich, evolving cultural identity.
This course is taught in English, and delivered completely online in an asynchronous format. The course may be taken from anywhere at any time as long as assignments are completed by established due dates. Regular optional synchronous meetings are also available via Carmen Zoom.
This course satisfies the goals and meets the expected GE learning outcomes for the theme of Traditions, Cultures, and Transformations
French 3803 - Cultures of Resistance
GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World
3 credit hours, taught in English
The Resistance required secrecy, imagination, and courage to face the Nazi occupation during World War II. It is part of a long history of struggle for freedom and equality with pivotal moments such as the French revolution, Haitian Revolution, and decolonization.
In this course, we will explore and analyze how the concept of citizenship through resistance has been represented in the literature, film, music, and comics of the French-speaking world. We will examine works of art created to engage with cultural activism at crucial historic moments. We will study how individuals have been exercising the right to effect change in society by assuming agency in the face of various forms of oppression and power imbalance and apply these lessons to our own ideas for creating a more just and diverse world.
Variable topics in French and Francophone literatures and cultures
French 4100 - Advanced French Grammar for Contemporary Contexts
3 credit hours, taught in French
Why study advanced French grammar if you are interested in international affairs? Human rights? Food? Finance? Migrants? Medicine? To follow these issues in the francophone media, you need to master the written language by becoming a more educated, informed reader, as well as a more skilled, articulate writer of French.
French 4401 - Topics in French & Francophone Studies
3 credit hours, taught in French
French 5202 - Versailles to the Enlightenment: Texts and Contexts
Undergraduate / Graduate sections available, 3 credit hours, taught in French
Major early modern French literary movements and authors to major ideas and authors of the 18th century in France; emphasis on such writers as Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau.
Italian Undergraduate Courses
Italian 1198.71 - Italian on the Ground
7-Week Session-2, Distance Learning
A guided notebook to Italian language and culture intended for students studying abroad in Italy. This course will prepare students for a study abroad experience in Italy through an introduction to language, culture, and intercultural reflections.
Students looking to take this course must be studying abroad in the summer semester immediately following.
Italian 2055 - Mafia Movies
GEN Foundation: Literary, Visual, & Performing Arts
ONLINE, 3 credit hours, taught in English
The Mafia in Italy is referred to as an octopus as the organization pervades almost every facet of Italian cultural life. Tony Soprano, Don Vito and Michael Corleone, Lucky Luciano, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, or Christopher Moltisanti are some of the figures that contribute to the myth of the Italian and Italian-American Mafias. Others, such as Jonas Carpignano, Peppino Impastato, and Roberto Saviano explore a new cinematic wave about organized crime. In this course we watch Italian and American mafia movie and television hits, and explore the myth of the Mafia that is so widespread in American popular culture, and trace its histories and receptions as it passes across time and through a variety of cinematic styles. We will question whether there exists a unique American or Italian cinema and television treating Mafias, in its polymorphic nature, and explore how filmmakers from the two countries approach the subject in dissimilar fashions, especially in terms of stereotyping, gender, politics, and representations of violence and alluring criminals.
This course can count as a course taught in English toward the Italian minor and the Italian or Italian Studies majors.
Italian 2102 - Contemporary Italian Society
3 credit hours, taught in Italian
How did we arrive at the contemporary forms of Italian culture that one can find in Rome today? As the adage goes, "All roads lead to Rome," and indeed diverse trajectories have brought immigrants from within Italy and from abroad to call the capital city home. Deep and lasting transformations of Italian culture and society are more and more apparent; the influence of Italy’s institutions is waning, as a result of shifting and broadening traditions, values, and perspectives of what was once dominant and normative Italian cultural beliefs on religion, gender, family, and more. All these transformations are at play in the principal text of this course: the best-selling 2006 novel Clash of Civilizations for an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio by Amara Lakhous, an acclaimed Algerian-Italian author. Particularly when reading the principal novel but also in additional readings and videos, we will delve into the convergence of 20th and 21st century Italian cultural history and language expression through analysis of a variety of contemporary speech registrars, dialects, European cultural reference points, and immigration and refugee crises at the turn of the century.
In this course we explore modern and contemporary Italian society as we focus on the four language skills: listening, reading, writing, and speaking. Since you are transitioning from the elementary to the intermediate level, more emphasis will be placed on developing your reading skills, so you will be exposed to a lot of authentic Italian texts of different lengths and in different genres. However, your listening, writing, and speaking skills will not be ignored! Grammar will be reviewed and tested throughout the course.
The targeted structures are a review of nouns and adjectives; regular and irregular present indicative verbs; the passato prossimo, the imperfect, the past perfect (trapassato prossimo) and the remote past (passato remoto); the subjunctive mood, hypothetical constructions, and relative and interrogative pronouns.
Italian 3051 - Italian Romances
GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, & Transformations
3 credit hours, taught in English
Knights of the Round Table, Amazon warriors, wild-west gunslingers, intergalactic Jedi—these heroic archetypes are linked by the narrative strategy of "romance." In this course, students will learn about the nature, origins and afterlives of a key chapter in its history—medieval and renaissance Italian romance—and investigate the enduring influence of romance narrative on how stories are told and communities are represented today.
We will begin with its classical and medieval roots (Homer’s Odyssey; Chretien de Troyes’ Yvain) and a few contemporary works that, like Monty Python’s Holy Grail, satirize the genre to become familiar with its conventions. We will then read medieval and renaissance “classics” of the genre, before turning to recent stories shaped by romance, from historical spy novels to Star Wars movies.
And *you* get to choose one of the books you'll be reading. Taught in English
Italian 3223 - Regions of Italy
3 credit hours, taught in Italian
Development of language skills while studying the histories and cultures of a variety of regions of Italy. Not open to native speakers of Italian.
Prerequisite: ITALIAN 2102
Italian 4223 - Italian Cinema
3 credit hours
Examination of Italian cinema from Neorealism to the present. Discussion of contemporary society and culture with a brief introduction to film theory. Not open students who are native speakers of Italian.
Italian 5101 - Intensive Italian
Undergraduate / Graduate sections available
5 credit hours, taught in Italian
Intensive Italian covers the same material as Italian 1101, 1102, and 1103 in one semester! The course is fast-paced and ideal for students who are looking for a small, supportive, and inclusive classroom community and who find learning foreign languages interesting! Previous foreign language study ideal, but not required. Not open to native speakers of Italian.
Italian 5330 - Topics in Italian Studies
Undergraduate / Graduate sections available
3 credit hours, taught in Italian
Topics vary. Course details for SP27 coming soon.
FRIT Undergraduate Courses
FRIT 3054 - The 21st-Century Skill: Intercultural Competence for Global Citizenship
GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World
Taught in English, 3 credit hours
Intercultural competence is an essential characteristic for becoming globally-minded and functioning in multiple, diverse, local and non-local networks, and for that reason it has been identified as being among the top ten skills necessary for succeeding in the 21st century. Achieving the skills, knowledge, behaviors and attitudes of interculturally competent global citizens is a lifetime endeavor, so in this course you will acquire the foundations for the journey. This course is divided into four modules: 1) Foundational concepts; 2) Intercultural interactions; 3) Intercultural (communicative) competence; 4) Intercultural competence and citizenship. We will begin by exploring the complexities of the term ‘culture’ and how culture shapes our understanding of ourselves and others, our identity, and our worldview. You will explore your own cultural background by doing a cultural autobiography. You will delve into how implicit biases and stereotypes impact your interactions with others and learn to engage in inclusive practices that make you a better team player by participating in an investigative intercultural team project. In addition, you will learn the unique ways in which learning a world language and experiencing other cultures contribute to the development of intercultural competence.
This course meets the goals and expected learning outcomes of the GE theme category: Citizenship for a just and diverse world. It also counts as a course taught in English for the Italian/Italian studies majors and minor, and the French/French and Francophone studies majors and minor. This course also counts toward the ASC Leadership major.
FRIT 3061: Mediterranean Food Cultures
GEN Theme: Lived Environments, GEN Theme: Sustainability
3 credit hours, taught in English
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.