For information on major and minor requirements and all courses offered this year, see the French Department section of the Middlebury College General Catalog for 2008-09.

Introductory courses (taught every semester)

Identity in French Literature
From Romanticism to Modernism
Introduction to Contemporary France

Advanced courses

Poetry and Painting in France: 1850-1950
Beyond Versailles: Encounters with Nature in French Literature
Exiles and Expatriates in French Literature
Francophone Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction
Literature and language of Québec
The Reciprocal Gaze: French and American Perspectives of Each Other
France in the Twentieth Century
French Films and Their American Remakes
French Cinema
The Culture of Leisure: Changing Perspectives in Modern France

Courses taught in English

Women Writers in France
Imperialism and Culture
Global Consumptions: Food, Eating and Power

French courses with Web pages

FR 103: Beginning French III 

FR 205 Toward Liberated Expression including Le Lexique and its page on French Politics (first-place winner in the AATF Teaching with the Internet Competition, 1996)

FR 210 Identity in French Literature

FR 221 Du Romantisme au Modernisme

FR 395 Women's Voices from the Francophone World

FR 495 Exiles and Expatriates

 

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