French Studies
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Spring Quarter

Dept Course No and Title Instructor
FRENCH (S26)1C  FUNDAMENTALSMIJALSKI, M.
No detailed description available.
FRENCH (S26)1C  FUNDAMENTALSAYOUTI, T.
No detailed description available.
FRENCH (S26)1C  FUNDAMENTALSMIJALSKI, M.
No detailed description available.
FRENCH (S26)1BC  INTENSV FUND FRENCHKLEIN, L.
No detailed description available.
FRENCH (S26)2C  INTERMEDIATEMIJALSKI, M.
No detailed description available.
FRENCH (S26)2C  INTERMEDIATEMIJALSKI, M.
No detailed description available.
FRENCH (S26)2BC  INTENSIVE FRENCHMIJALSKI, M.
No detailed description available.
FRENCH (S26)10  PEER TUTOR PROGRAMMIJALSKI, M.
No detailed description available.
FRENCH (S26)102D  CULTR BUSINESS FRANMIJALSKI, M.
No detailed description available.
FRENCH (S26)118  NEW TASTEAYOUTI, T.
No detailed description available.
FRENCH (S26)140  FRENCH SCIENCE FICVAN DEN ABBEEL, G.
French 140:  French Science Fiction
Printemps 2026; GE Category IV (arts and humanities)


Résumé du cours :  La science-fiction est un genre essentiellement français aussi bien dans le cinéma et les arts (la bande dessinée) que dans la littérature, et cela depuis le 17ième siècle jusqu’à nos jours.  Nous allons lire et étudier les exemples principaux, y compris Cyrano de Bergerac, Voyage dans la lune (1658) ; Fontenelle, Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (1686) ; Voltaire, Micromégas (1752) ; Jules Verne, De la terre à la lune (1865) ; et Pierre Boule, La planète des singes (1963).  Nous allons également considérer la bande dessinée chez Tintin : Hergé, Objectif Lune (1953) and On a marché sur la lune (1954) ; aussi bien que le cinéma de Georges Méliès, Voyage dans la lune (1912) ; Jean-Luc Godard, Alphaville (1965) ; et nécessairement, Planet of the Apes (1968), dont une des séquelles a été filmé ici même sur notre campus de UCI !

Course Summary:  Science fiction is a uniquely French invention in film and visual art as well as literature, dating from the 17th century to the contemporary moment.  We will read and study prime examples, including Cyrano de Bergerac, Voyage dans la lune (1658); Fontenelle, Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (1686); Voltaire, Micromégas (1752); Jules Verne, De la terre à la lune (1865); and Pierre Boule, La planète des singes (1963).  We will also consider the comic books featuring Tintin: Hergé, Objectif Lune (1953) and On a marché sur la lune (1954); as well as films by Georges Méliès, Voyage dans la lune (1912); Jean-Luc Godard, Alphaville (1965); and of course, Planet of the Apes (1968), a sequel to which was shot on location here at UCI!
FRENCH (S26)150  SELF LOVE&COM GOODLITWIN, C.
FRENCH 150/PHILOS 130/ES 150/REL STD 100: Self Love, Narcissism, and the Common Good

In the age of social media, we tend to associate human self-love with the myth of Narcissus, trapped in the love of his self-reflected image. Self-love, however, was conceived of much more positively in the Antiquity. Aristotle and the Stoics, for instance, used the argument that we love people to whom we do good more than we love those who do good to us to oppose generous self-love to both selfishness and altruism. To them, actual love of self was in fact the natural reward of virtue and, as such, the core principle of friendship and active participation in the common good. This interpretation of self-love was, however, largely opposed by Christian theology. Saint Augustine described original sin as the corruption of man’s love of God into self-love. Since pagan virtues derive from self-love, they are sinful and false. Outside of Christian charity all human virtues are but disguised vices.

Paradoxically, in a context when this quarrel over the falsehood of human virtues outside of charity was revived at the Renaissance, an austere Augustinian interpretation of human self-love played a significant role in the invention of modern economic science: if only God’s grace can remedy the evil nature of self-love, skillful government should not foolishly attempt to make men virtuous but should instead channel their vices for the greater benefit of society. Such reflections directly influenced Bernard Mandeville, whose famous motto “Private vices. Public benefits” inspired Adam Smith’s metaphor of the “invisible hand”. Allegedly, the greed and selfishness of the rich may result in creating more wealth, and more distribution of this wealth to the poor through labor, than charity will ever have been able to. Indeed, from Rousseau to Smith, philosophers challenged Mandeville’s controversial argument pointing to its restrictive understanding of self-love and its negative moral and political consequences.

This course will examine these philosophical debates on self-love and the common good in the Antiquity, their impact in Early Modern French and European thought, as well as their role in the genealogy of political economy in the early wake of capitalism.
FRENCH (S26)199  INDEPENDENT STUDYBEY-ROZET, M.
No detailed description available.
FRENCH (S26)199  INDEPENDENT STUDYFARBMAN, H.
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FRENCH (S26)199  INDEPENDENT STUDYLITWIN, C.
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FRENCH (S26)199  INDEPENDENT STUDYNOLAND, C.
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FRENCH (S26)199  INDEPENDENT STUDYVAN DEN ABBEEL, G.
No detailed description available.