FREN 343 - La France à travers les siècles

FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter

Prerequisites: FREN 273. Readings in French literature and civilization from across the centuries. Recent offerings: Les femmes et la comédie; L’orientalisme français; L’écriture de femmes. May be repeated for degree credit if the topic is different.

Winter 2014 Topic:

FREN 343: L’amour et le mariage à travers les siècles (3). Prerequisite: FREN 273. This course focuses on Francophone women writers from the middle ages to the present. We read and discuss plays, poems, essays, correspondences, and novels in which women writers, through the overarching themes of marriage and love, examine their status as individuals as well as their role vis-à-vis their families, society, the church and the state. (HL) Kamara.