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Fall 2024  |  FREN 5350 Section 001: Topics in Literature and Culture -- Anatomy of Difference: Theory of Human Diversity (33110)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
12 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Exclude fr or soph 5000 level courses
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024
Wed 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 28
Enrollment Status:
Open (4 of 10 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Problem, period, author, or topic of interest. See Class Schedule.prereq: 3101 or equiv
Class Notes:
Course Description: This course confronts graduate students with a set of longstanding beliefs about human difference. Students will work through three intersecting frameworks of thought from the 19th century to the present day, to continue questioning the perceived problem of categorizing difference along axes of superior and inferior values. The first, vitalism, asks what we mean by a rational study of human life; next, post-structuralism, challenges the problems of the veracity of dominant narratives; and last, disability studies, provides alternative narratives of human experiences. To some extent, this sequence makes it appear as if each theoretical approach is separated from the other and other meditations on gender, race, and sexual orientation. However, rather than draw a chronological line between these thoughts, this course proposes recapturing the interplay between them to redefine difference, deviance, and differentness and conceive a mosaic image of human life. The course places a strong focus on terminology, which will motivate graduate students to contend with derogatory terms that function to oppress some individuals in different circumstances while affirming others at the same time. Negotiating the usage of such words in this in-depth study will lend to deconstructing and reforming the value system they propagate.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33110/1249

Fall 2023  |  FREN 5350 Section 001: Topics in Literature and Culture -- Writing Evil: the French Tradition (33176)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
12 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Exclude fr or soph 5000 level courses
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023
Wed 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Virtual Rooms NORMREQD
Enrollment Status:
Open (12 of 20 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Problem, period, author, or topic of interest. See Class Schedule. prereq: 3101 or equiv
Class Notes:
Title: Writing Evil: the French Tradition. Description: In his 1951 masterpiece L'Homme révolté, Albert Camus laid out the intellectual history of a metaphysical and historical rebellion that started in the mid-18th century and culminated with the totalitarianisms of the 20th century - fascism, Nazism and communism, via the French Revolution, the Russian nihilists and terrorists, the Russian revolution and the crimes of Stalinism. Within his "history of two hundred years of European pride," as he called it, Camus also proposed a philosophical approach to literary movements that are crucial to our understanding of a French literary modernity nurtured by a fascination in the Marquis de Sade (an author arguably rediscovered after the Second World war but in fact already an object of fascination in the mid-19th century). French literary modernity includes Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Lautréamont, Dandyism as antinomianism and rebellion against external law, and later on the Surrealist movement. To be sure Camus falls short of exploring the works of the poet of evil, Jean Genet, his contemporary. The nihilist and antisemitic novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline is also missing from Camus's intellectual and literary history of metaphysical and esthetic rebellion. In this seminar we will read French literary modernity through the prism of metaphysical rebellion (rebellion against God, rebellion against Being) and the reclaiming of an esthetic of evil and transgression. We will draw on Camus's unique insights on metaphysics and his penetrating understanding of nihilistic and gnostic motifs in European modernity, and extend those insights to contemporary novelists to show that the tradition of metaphysical rebellion has outlived Sade, Baudelaire and Lautréamont and penetrated deep into our contemporary era. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?FREN5350+Fall2023
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33176/1239

Fall 2022  |  FREN 5350 Section 001: Topics in Literature and Culture -- (The) Mediterranean Works? (32885)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
12 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Exclude fr or soph 5000 level courses
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022
Thu 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 119
Enrollment Status:
Open (3 of 15 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Problem, period, author, or topic of interest. See Class Schedule. prereq: 3101 or equiv
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?abder002+FREN5350+Fall2022
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32885/1229

Spring 2022  |  FREN 5350 Section 001: Topics in Literature and Culture -- Remnants of the Sacred: Literature & Religion (66856)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
12 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Exclude fr or soph 5000 level courses
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022
Tue 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 12
Enrollment Status:
Open (6 of 15 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Problem, period, author, or topic of interest. See Class Schedule. prereq: 3101 or equiv
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?chaou001+FREN5350+Spring2022
Class Description:

Can we say that secularization is a process that broke entirely with religion and the sacred, or that the modern West has recycled and transformed elements of religion? Throughout the 20th century French thought has flirted with a secular mystique, with a return to a God beyond Being, or a return to archaic and obscure remnants of the sacred. Immanent or transcendent, the sacred remains, among atheist authors, or authors who have explicitly returned to religion.


This course will be taught in English with the possibility of writing and reading in French or English. We will read books or articles by Andre Breton, Georges Bataille, Rene Guenon, Levinas, Simone Weill, Lacan, Blanchot, and Derrida among others. The course will be completed by excerpts of books by historians of secularization and historians of "postmodern" philosophy.


Who Should Take This Class?:
Students in MA and beyond, French, Religious Studies, Cultural Studies, English, Philosophy
Learning Objectives:
Familiarizing students with 20th century French thought, as well as an overview of the multiple forms that the sacred and the religious take in a "disenchanted" world.
Grading:
Class participation, class presentation, short essay and long research paper.
Exam Format:
NA
Class Format:
Lecture and Discussion
Workload:
100 pages minimum, 200 pages maximum to read per week. Short paper around the mid-term.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66856/1223
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
29 October 2021

Fall 2020  |  FREN 5350 Section 001: Topics in Literature and Culture -- Islam in Europe: Charlemagne to the Renaissance (33231)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
12 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Exclude fr or soph 5000 level courses
Meets With:
EMS 5500 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020
Wed 02:30PM - 05:00PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Open (6 of 15 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Problem, period, author, or topic of interest. See Class Schedule. prereq: 3101 or equiv
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?noake001+FREN5350+Fall2020 This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33231/1209

Spring 2020  |  FREN 5350 Section 001: Topics in Literature and Culture -- Social Space and Everyday Life (66434)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020
Tue 03:35PM - 06:05PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 4
Enrollment Status:
Open (5 of 10 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Problem, period, author, or topic of interest. See Class Schedule. prereq: 3101 or equiv
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?itchouka+FREN5350+Spring2020
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66434/1203

Fall 2019  |  FREN 5350 Section 001: Topics in Literature and Culture -- The Mediterranean(s) in Theory (31788)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019
Tue 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Peik Hall 315
Enrollment Status:
Open (6 of 15 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Problem, period, author, or topic of interest. See Class Schedule. prereq: 3101 or equiv
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?abder002+FREN5350+Fall2019
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/31788/1199

Fall 2019  |  FREN 5350 Section 002: Topics in Literature and Culture -- Michel Foucault, Philosopher (32894)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Meets With:
GER 5610 Section 001
PHIL 5760 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019
Wed 04:40PM - 07:10PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 106
Enrollment Status:
Open (6 of 8 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Problem, period, author, or topic of interest. See Class Schedule. prereq: 3101 or equiv
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mrothe+FREN5350+Fall2019
Class Description:
Michel Foucault's writings have become - albeit always highly contested - important reference points across the humanities, in disciplines such as history, sociology, gender or post-colonial studies, literature or philosophy itself. His idea of theory as a tool box, along with a striking diversity of pursuits, have undoubtedly encouraged such broad reception. A concern for emancipation, however, seems to underpin all of Foucault's theorizing, from his early writings on literature, his reflection on madness and punishment to his late lectures at the Collège de France. It is thus through the lens of emancipation that we will critically survey Foucault's work while resisting the temptation to reduce it to a single coherent system. This perspective will urge us too to explore the centrality and persistence of Foucault's engagement with the philosophies of Kant, Nietzsche, Marx and Heidegger.
Who Should Take This Class?:
advanced undergraduates, graduates
Grading:
participation, essays or paper, brief presentations
Workload:
reading: 20 to 50 pages a week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32894/1199
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 April 2019

Spring 2019  |  FREN 5350 Section 001: Topics in Literature and Culture -- What Is Existentialism? (67194)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Meets With:
PHIL 5760 Section 001
GER 5610 Section 001
SCAN 5670 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Tue 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Appleby Hall 303
Enrollment Status:
Closed (8 of 8 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Problem, period, author, or topic of interest. See Class Schedule. prereq: 3101 or equiv
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?FREN5350+Spring2019
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67194/1193

Fall 2017  |  FREN 5350 Section 002: Topics in Literature and Culture -- Postwar Fr Thought:Questions in Ethics & Esthetics (36111)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Tue 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 28
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Problem, period, author, or topic of interest. See Class Schedule. prereq: 3101 or equiv
Class Description:
"Remnants of the Epic: 20th Century French Prose" This seminar will assess the state, transformations and crisis of the epic novel in a context of global conflagration and of modern and guerilla warfare. We will explore diverse literary engagements with WWI, the Spanish Civil War, the Algerian War, the Middle-East conflict and the Lebanese War. Readings include Louis-Ferdinand Celine's Le Voyage au bout de la nuit, Blaise Cendrars's La Main coupee, Andre Malraux' L'Espoir, Jean Genet's Un captif amoureux, Assia Djebar's L'Amour, la Fantasia, Richard Millet's La Confession negative. We will ground our readings on theoretical reflections by Walter Benjamin, Paul Veyne, and on considerations regarding fiction and the writing of history.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/36111/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 August 2010

Fall 2015  |  FREN 5350 Section 001: Topics in Literature and Culture -- Performing the Mediterranean (25707)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015
Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 125
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Problem, period, author, or topic of interest. See Class Schedule. prereq: 3101 or equiv
Class Description:
Cultural and Political `Mise-en-valeur? in Contemporary France: the Case of St. Denis The French government has for several decades pursued a policy supporting the ?mise-en-valeur? of sites of historic interest in France, in large part with a view toward increasing economic activity in proximity to those sites, which might otherwise be neglected. One particularly interesting site which has received this treatment is St. Denis, on the outskirts of Paris. In this course, students will study both the history and the actuality of St. Denis. St. Denis is the site of the invention of Gothic architecture and was the burial place for many centuries of French kings; now it is also the center of a lively immigrant community. Some consideration will be given to the possible impact on St. Denis of another national undertaking: the Sarkozy government's new policy on suburbs, announced in February 2008. Books ordered for this course include: Principes et elements de l'architecture religieuse medievale ; Monasteres du Moyen Age autour de Paris ; L'opinion publique a la fin du Moyen Age d'apres la chronique de Charles VI du Religieux de Saint Denis ; and (recommended, not required) Histoire de la France : Origines et premier essor 480-1180, 3d ed., revised and expanded. This is a ?combined? course, offered at two different levels. Students enrolled in French 5350 will develop their own case studies, individually or collaboratively, about other exemplary sites of the French government's ?mise-en-valeur? of historically and culturally important locations once deemed to be at risk of neglect, in addition to learning about the St. Denis case. Students enrolled in French 3650 will focus their reading and research exclusively on St. Denis. Reading, research online and in the library, discussion, class presentations and final report (written in French). THIS COURSE WILL BE CONDUCTED IN FRENCH.
Class Format:
20% Lecture
10% Film/Video
30% Discussion
5% Laboratory
10% Small Group Activities
20% Student Presentations
5% Guest Speakers Meets daily 9-12, with two short breaks.
Workload:
60 Pages Reading Per Week
10 Pages Writing Per Term
3 Paper(s)
3 Presentation(s)
5 Quiz(zes)
Other Workload: Papers and presentations will be coordinated, that is, on same subject. Quizzes will be short, checking completion of daily readings.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/25707/1159
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
11 March 2008

Fall 2014  |  FREN 5350 Section 001: Topics in Literature and Culture -- Mediterranean Works: Art & Literature (34555)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014
Wed 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Vincent Hall 301
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Problem, period, author, or topic of interest. See Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
Topic: "The Mediterranean Works: Art & Literature on the Borders of Fortress Europe"
Class Description:
?(The) Mediterranean Works: Art and Literature on the Borders of Fortress Europe" In this seminar we will study the Mediterranean. We will take a comprehensive look at what is simultaneously a sea, a geographical region that expands beyond its shores, a political notion, a historical crossroads, a geopolitical knot, an ideological view of the world, and an academic frame of reference. Our examination will show that the Mediterranean has constituted a multifarious variety of designata for various peoples in various epochs. After this overview, with glimpses into several academic disciplines, including anthropology, geography, and history, we will shift our attention to what the Mediterranean has become in the realms of media and politics. Next, we will focus on representations of the Mediterranean and issues that have been associated with it in contemporary discourses for local authors and artists. Our corpus will include novelists, political cartoonists, and painters. The majority of productions we will examine are from western Mediterranean countries and especially by francophone writers and artists hailing form North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia).
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34555/1149
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
2 May 2014

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