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
The Pursuit of Happiness in Ancien Régime France
The Belle Époque
The Spectacle of Culture: Modern French Theater
History in the Literature of Twentieth-Century France
(Re)Constructing Identities: Francophone Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction
Women's Voices from the Francophone World
Literature, Language, and Identity in Québec
The Reciprocal Gaze: French and American Perspectives of Each Other
"I eat - therefore I am", Food and Culture in France
France in the Twentieth Century
French Ambitions for the European Union
Sex and Gender: The French Paradox
French Films and Their American Remakes
French Cinema
Study and Production of a Play
Courses taught in English
Women Writers in France
Imperialism and Culture
Global Consumptions: Food, Eating and Power
French courses with Web pages
FR 101: Beginning French I
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
FR373 Le Roman du dix-neuvième siècle
FR395 Women's Voices from the francophone world
FR 495 Exiles and Expatriates