French 1001-1004

Required Materials: 4th Edition Chez Nous textbook (978-0135033678) and on-line Key to MyFrenchLab (www.myspanishlab.com/buy-access-french.html)

These four classes are part of ECU's elementary French language sequence. The sequence aims at developing students’ four skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking in French. In addition to acquiring these skills, students also learn about French and Francophone culture using the language as a communication tool.

French 3330

Composition and Advanced Grammar

Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:30-10:45

Prerequisite: French 2330

Required Materials: Tâches d’encre; 2nd edition (ISBN-10: 0618230475; ISBN-13: 9780618230471)

Voulez-vous écrire mieux? In this course, students will practice different forms of formal French writing: description, portrait, narration, essays, and letters. We will focus on improving students’ written expression in terms of both accuracy and content while increasing vocabulary and honing grammar skills. Classes will be conducted in French and all assignments will be written in French. Active participation in class activities is expected of all students. For more information, contact Dr. Debra Anderson (andersonde@ecu.edu)

FREN 3560

Required Materials: Course Packet and various books.

The avant-garde is a movement of rebellion.  These writers and artists wanted to revolt against social and political norms and change the world in which they lived.  Did they succeed?  This class, which will be conducted entirely in French, will attempt to answer such questions.  We will look at the writings of various French and Francophone writers spanning the length of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, beginning with such groups as the Futurists, the Dadaists, the Surrealists, the Negritude writers, the Existentialists, the Situationists, and finally taking a look at some contemporary writers who still claim to be part of this tradition.  Please contact Professor Marylaura Papalas (papalasm@ecu.edu) for more information.

FORL 2620

French Literature in Translation (3) (FC: HU)

Reading Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Volume 1. Swann's Way

Mondays & Wednesdays 2:00-3:15pm

"My greatest adventure was undoubtedly Proust. What is there left to write after that?" (Virginia Woolf)

An introduction to the work of Marcel Proust intended for a general undergraduate audience. How does one read Proust's masterpiece, which is arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century, the crucial modernist work? Through lively discussions around the text, videos such as Marcel Proust a writer's life, movies such as Swann in love, class reports and detective-like investigation, we will try to bring to life the genius of the author. Swann's Way is also one of the preeminent novels about a hyper-sensitive child, a perfect rendering of a life in art. It enfolds the short novel Swann in Love, an in-depth study into the psychology of sexual jealousy that becomes an intricate part of the entire work. This large drama all happens within the confines of the text, never to leave it again for the greatest pleasure of the sometimes amused, sometimes amazed, reader. For more information, contact Dr. Frédéric Fladenmuller (fladenmullerf@ecu.edu), Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures