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Tentative Courses
French Studies
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Fall Quarter

Dept Course No and Title Instructor
FRENCH (F22)102C  TRANSLATIONIBER, L.
This course offers an introduction to the theory and practice of translation from French to English and English to French. You will have the opportunity to strengthen your skills in writing and comprehension through exercises utilizing a variety of source materials, such as literary texts, journalism, graphic novels, film, etc. You will also learn to identify the types of obstacles that arise in navigating between languages and develop strategies and techniques to overcome them. By the end of this course, you should be able produce short translations that are both accurate and natural sounding.

Prerequisite or co-requisite: FRENCH 2C or FRENCH 2BC or FRENCH S2BC or FRENCH 2C, with a grade of C or better.
FRENCH (F22)160  QUEER FRENCH FILMIBER, L.
This course will explore queer cinema around the French-speaking world, from Canada, to North Africa, to Belgium and France. We will consider how film participates in both the representation and the formation of LGBTQIA+ communities and identities. Films studied will be situated in relation to ongoing socio-political debates, scholarly articles on the films, directors, and queer theory, more broadly, along with critical reception of the works in question. We will pay close attention to issues like the positioning of the directors, screenwriters, and actors in relation to queer communities, and the stakes of different kinds of aesthetic and political interventions in the foregrounding queer characters and narratives. Readings and discussion in English. No prior knowledge of film studies, queer studies, or Francophone cultures is required.
FRENCH (F22)10  PEER TUTOR PROGRAMMIJALSKI, M.
No detailed description available.
FRENCH (F22)118  LOVE AND MONEY IN THE 18TH CENTURYBHATTACHARYA, M.
Why do crypto currencies, meme stocks and NFTs capture our imagination and time? Who establishes the value of money? How do we define love? And what is the relationship between fluctuating values of currencies, fortunes of nations, and the nature of family? Why are money and love often paired together in novels, TV shows, music, faits divers, and other cultural texts?

This course introduces students to how the intertwinement of love and money fashioned our world and continues to shape our present. Long before metaverse, humans imagined and created various forms of social, familial, and economic structures with contrasting, alternative views about love, money, nature of family, race, gender, and reality. Through rap music, literary press, novels, treatises, and other literary works, we will investigate how abstract concepts, love, and money, took concrete forms historically. These ideas traveled not just from or to France, but between global metropoles well outside of Europe, as for example between China and Levant or India and East Africa.
FRENCH (F22)2A  INTERMEDIATEMIJALSKI, M.
French and Francophone texts of contemporary literary or social interest, films, art, and the media provide the focus for more advanced conversation, reading, and composition. Classes are conducted entirely in French. Prerequisite: normally three years of high school French or one year of college French.
FRENCH (F22)2A  INTERMEDIATEMIJALSKI, M.
No detailed description available.
FRENCH (F22)2A  INTERMEDIATEKLEIN, L.
No detailed description available.
FRENCH (F22)199  INDEPENDENT STUDYVAN DEN ABBEEL, G.
No detailed description available.
FRENCH (F22)199  INDEPENDENT STUDYSTAFF
No detailed description available.
FRENCH (F22)199  INDEPENDENT STUDYMIJALSKI, M.
No detailed description available.
FRENCH (F22)199  INDEPENDENT STUDYNOLAND, C.
No detailed description available.
FRENCH (F22)1A  FUNDAMENTALSMIJALSKI, M.
Students are taught to conceptualize in French as they learn to understand, read, write, and speak. Students develop an awareness of and sensibility to French and Francophone life and culture through reading, film, the media, and class discussion. Classes are conducted in French.
FRENCH (F22)1A  FUNDAMENTALSMIJALSKI, M.
No detailed description available.
FRENCH (F22)1A  FUNDAMENTALSMIJALSKI, M.
No detailed description available.
FRENCH (F22)1A  FUNDAMENTALSMIJALSKI, M.
No detailed description available.
FRENCH (F22)1A  FUNDAMENTALSMIJALSKI, M.
No detailed description available.
FRENCH (F22)1A  FUNDAMENTALSMIJALSKI, M.
No detailed description available.
FRENCH (F22)150  CITIZENS AND DISSIDENTSBHATTACHARYA, M.
French 150:  "Citizens and Dissidents: Between Nations, Empires, and Colonies”

Do you need a Schengen visa to visit France or another country of the European Union? If not, have you wondered why citizens of some countries can travel without a visa, at least for a few weeks, whereas some others cannot? Did travelers always need a passport to travel between countries and cities? What purpose do documents such as driver’s licenses/ social security numbers/traveling documents/visas serve? What other forms did they take in history? How did subjects, non-citizens, colonized people, and enslaved men and women articulate their subjecthood and citizenship at different moments in history? Are citizens legal subjects or political subjects? And what happens when citizen’s rights are stripped away?

In this course, we will look at different conceptualizations and genealogies of citizenship and nation-states. Through our engagement with literary, political, and historical texts, we will enquire if nation-states are the only forms of territorialist sovereign frameworks possible and read about other forms of democratic federations, sovereign spatial frameworks, and states that were imagined or existed. Among other things, we will learn about how religious and racialized minorities such as Polish Jews in eighteenth-century France, Muslim subjects in colonial Algeria, and Black women in the French Empire navigated legal and political systems built on exclusion and proposed alternative forms of belonging.