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French | FREN

French labelFrench | FREN

P Prerequisite | C Co-requisite | R Recommended
I Fall Semester | II Spring Semester | S Summer Session/s

  • FREN-F 101 Elementary French 1 (3-5 cr.) All world language classes may require homework using audio-, visual-, or computer-based materials in the World Languages Resource Center. Introduction to contemporary French and Francophone cultures. Emphasis on interaction and communication.
  • FREN-F 102 Elementary French 2 (3-5 cr.) P: FREN-F 101. All world language classes may require homework using audio-, visual-, or computer-based materials in the World Languages Resource Center. Introduction to contemporary French and Francophone cultures. Emphasis on interaction and communication.
  • FREN-F 203 Second-Year French I (3-4 cr.) P: FREN-F 102 or equivalent. FREN-F 203 must be taken before FREN-F 204. All world language classes may require homework using audio-, visual-, or computer-based materials in the World Languages Resource Center. Composition, conversation, and grammar coordinated with the study of expository and literary texts.
  • FREN-F 204 Second-Year French II (3-4 cr.) P: FREN-F 203 or equivalent. FREN-F 203 must be taken before FREN-F 204. All world language classes may require homework using audio-, visual-, or computer-based materials in the World Languages Resource Center. Composition, conversation, and grammar coordinated with the study of expository and literary texts.
  • FREN-F 298 Second-Year French (3-6 cr.) All world language classes may require homework using audio-, visual-, or computer-based materials in the World Languages Resource Center. A student who places at the third-year level on the IU South Bend foreign language placement examination and completes a course at the third-year level is eligible for 6 credit hours of special credit in FREN-F 298. A student who places in the second semester of the second year and completes a course at the second-semester, second-year level is eligible for 3 credit hours of special credit in FREN-F 298. If the grade earned is A, it is recorded for special credit; if the grade earned is B, S is recorded for special credit. No special credit is given if the grade earned is lower than B.
  • FREN-F 305 Chefs-d’œuvre de la Literature French I (3 cr.) P: FREN-F 204 or equivalent. FREN-F 203 must be taken before FREN-F 204. All world language classes may require homework using audio-, visual-, or computer-based materials in the World Languages Resource Center. Drama and literature of ideas. Dramatists such as Corneille, Racine, Moliére, Beaumarchais, and Sartre; essayist and philosophes such as Descartes, Pascal, Voltaire, Diderot, and Camus. Lectures and discussion in French.
  • FREN-F 306 Chefs-d’œuvre de la Literature French 2 (3 cr.) P: FREN-F 204 or equivalent. All world language classes may require homework using audio-, visual-, or computer-based materials in the World Languages Resource Center. Novel and poetry. Novelists such as Balzac, Flaubert, and Proust; readings in anthologies stressing 16th-, 19th-, and 20th-century poetry. Lectures and discussions in French.
  • FREN-F 311 Contemporary French Civilization (3 cr.) Political, social and cultural aspects of contemporary France. Taught in French.
  • FREN-F 313 Advanced Grammar and Composition 1 (3 cr.) P: FREN-F 204 or equivalent. All world language classes may require homework using audio-, visual-, or computer-based materials in the World Languages Resource Center. Detailed review of grammar. Writing practice, chiefly Thème et version.
  • FREN-F 314 Advanced Grammar and Composition II (3 cr.) P: FREN-F 313 All world language classes may require homework using audio-, visual-, or computer-based materials in the World Languages Resource Center. Detailed review of grammar. Writing practice, chiefly Thème et version.
  • FREN-F 361 Introduction historique à la civilization française I (3 cr.) P: FREN-F 204 or equivalent. All world language classes may require homework using audio-, visual-, or computer-based materials in the World Languages Resource Center. Readings related to the political and social development of France; background to a further study of French society and literature from the fifteenth century to the French Revolution.
  • FREN-F 363 Introduction à la France Moderne (3 cr.) P: FREN-F 204 or equivalent. All world language classes may require homework using audio-, visual-, or computer-based materials in the World Languages Resource Center. The development of French culture and civilization in the 20th century, with an emphasis on the events which shaped modern France, illustrative works of literature, the problems of Paris, and the structure of daily life. Period covered 1890-1958.
  • FREN-F 391 Studies in French Film (3 cr.) P: FREN-F 204 or equivalent. All world language classes may require homework using audio-, visual-, or computer-based materials in the World Languages Resource Center. Analysis of major French art form, introduction to modern French culture seen through medium of film art, and study of relationship of cinema and literature in France and the Francophone world. Films shown in French with English subtitles. Class taught in French.
  • FREN-F 450 Colloquium in French Studies (2-3 cr.) All world language classes may require homework using audio-, visual-, or computer-based materials in the World Languages Resource Center. Emphasis on one topic, author, or genre.
  • FREN-F 454 Litterature Contemporaine 2 (3 cr.) All world language classes may require homework using audio-, visual-, or computer-based materials in the World Languages Resource Center. 20th century French literature.
  • FREN-F 474 Thème et Version (3 cr.) Translation of selected passages, alternating between English and French, to teach students to write with precision and clarity in both languages.
  • FREN-F 480 French Conversation (3 cr.) All world language classes may require homework using audio-, visual-, or computer-based materials in the World Languages Resource Center. Designed to develop conversational skills through intensive controlled conversation with an emphasis on the use of linguistic devices and the mastery of oral expression.
  • FREN-F 495 Individual Readings in French (1-3 cr.) P: Consent of department. All world language classes may require homework using audio-, visual-, or computer-based materials in the World Languages Resource Center. May be repeated. No more than 3 credit hours may be applied toward requirements of the major.

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