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FNEC 220. Managerial Accounting. A survey of topics in managerial FREN 201W. French Composition and Grammar. Prerequisite: 103 accounting. Designed for the student of general business administration or the equivalent. No graduate credit. No credit for students who have rather than the student interested in professional accounting. Prerequisite: earned credit for a more advanced French language course. [3] (INT) 140. No credit for graduate students. [3] (SBS) FREN 203. Phonetics. Methodical comparison of French and English FNEC 240. Corporate Finance. Investment and financial decisions sounds. Correct formation of French sounds; oral exercises and aural faced by firms. Theoretical basis of corporate decision-making. Review of training. Prerequisite: 201W. [3] (INT) various accounting documents and the alternative objectives of the firm, FREN 204. French for Business. Specialized vocabulary of business its management, and its owners. Study of the attributes of the firm that af- terms, business letters, and exercises in comprehension and translation. fect market value. How the firm’s decisions about investing in assets and Prerequisite: 201W. [3] (INT) methods used to finance these investments affect firm value. Prerequisite: 140 and Econ 150. [3] (SBS) FREN 205. Medical French in Intercultural Contexts. Advanced conversation course dealing with medical issues in the Francophone world. FNEC 261. Investment Analysis. Investment principles and practices. Prerequisites: 201W. [3] (HCA) Security analysis for developing techniques and standards of an investment appraisal. Principles of portfolio analysis. The forecasting problem FREN 209. Contemporary France. The culture of France today; social, in meeting portfolio needs of individuals and institutions. Develop ability to economic, and political issues; literature and the arts. Offered at Vanderbilt investigate and report. Prerequisite: 240. [3] (SBS) in France. Prerequisite: 201W. [3] (INT) FNEC 275. Financial Management. Analysis of cases representing cap- FREN 210. French and Francophone Cinema. The themes and art ital budgeting, forecasting cash flow, risk assessment, capital structure, of film in France and the French-speaking world. Offered in French at mergers and acquisitions. Seminar. Prerequisite: 240. [3] (SBS) Vanderbilt in France and in English at Nashville. When offered in English, this course does not count toward the minor, and writing must be done in FNEC 291a. Independent Study in Financial Economics. A program French to count toward the major. [3] (INT) of independent readings in financial economics arranged in consultation with an adviser. Prerequisite: written permission of an instructor and the FREN 211. Texts and Contexts: Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. program director. No credit for graduate students. May be repeated for a Literature and culture in historical contexts. Offered on a graded basis total of 6 credits in 291a and 291b combined if there is no duplication in only. Prerequisite: 201W. [3] (HCA) topic, but students may earn only up to 3 credits per semester of enroll- FREN 212. Texts and Contexts: Revolution to the Present. Literature ment. [1-3; maximum of 6 credits total for all semesters of FNEC 291a and and culture in historical contexts. Offered on a graded basis only. Prereq- 291b] (No AXLE credit) uisite: 201W. [3] (HCA) FNEC 291b. Independent Study in Financial Economics. A program FREN 214. Advanced Conversational French. Emphasis on idiomatic of independent readings in financial economics arranged in consultation usage and strategies for oral communication. Prerequisite: 201W. [3] (P) with an adviser. Prerequisite: written permission of an instructor and the program director. No credit for graduate students. May be repeated for a FREN 215. La Provence. Geography, history, politics, architecture, and total of 6 credits in 291a and 291b combined if there is no duplication in other cultural elements of Provence. Offered at Vanderbilt in France. Pre- topic, but students may earn only up to 3 credits per semester of enroll- requisite: 201W. [3] (INT) ment. [1-3; maximum of 6 credits total for all semesters of FNEC 291a and FREN 216. Cultural Study Tour. Preparation for excursions; discussions, 291b] (No AXLE credit) readings, and presentations. Offered each summer in the Vanderbilt in France program. [1] (No AXLE credit) French FREN 218. The Contemporary Press and Media. Analysis of news- papers and magazines through the comparative study of national and FREN 099. Commons Seminar. Topics vary. [1] (No AXLE credit) international issues in the press of the French-speaking world. Includes television broadcasts. Prerequisite: 201W. Offered at Vanderbilt in France. FREN 101a. Elementary French. A communicative approach to read- [3] (P) ing, writing, listening, and speaking for students who have studied little or no French. No credit for students who have earned credit for a more FREN 219. Contemporary Francophone Press. Critical study of the advanced French language course. [5] (No AXLE credit) Francophone press (print, television, radio, internet) in Europe, Africa, Canada, Louisiana, Islands in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean (Madagas- FREN 101b. Elementary French. Continuation of 101a. A communica- car, Seychelles). Current issues in the media. Comparisons with the U.S. tive approach to reading, writing, listening, and speaking for students who press. Prerequisite: 201W; Recommended: 222. [3] (HCA) have studied little or no French. No credit for students who have earned credit for a more advanced French language course. [5] (INT) FREN 222. Introduction to Francophone Literature. The geopolitical, linguistic, and literary dimensions of the notion “La Francophonie.” Read- FREN 102. Accelerated Elementary French. A communicative ap- ings will be chosen from fictional and nonfictional works from Africa, Can- proach to reading, writing, listening, and speaking for students who have ada, the Caribbean, countries bordering the Indian Ocean, and Vietnam. studied one to three years of French. No credit for students who have Prerequisite: 201W. [3] (P) completed French 101a-101b. No credit for students who have earned credit for a more advanced French language course. [5] (INT) FREN 224. Art and Literature of the Nineteenth Century. Romanti- cism, realism, and symbolism in French art and literature. Prerequisite: FREN 103. Intermediate French. Review of French grammar with em- 201W. Offered at Vanderbilt in France. [3] (HCA) phasis on composition, reading, and conversation. Multicultural materials of the French-speaking world. No credit for students who have earned FREN 225. Art and Literature of the Twentieth Century. Literary and credit for a more advanced French language course. [5] (INT) artistic movements of the twentieth century in France. Prerequisite: 201W. Offered at Vanderbilt in France. [3] (HCA) FREN 115F. First-Year Writing Seminar. Independent learning and in- quiry in an environment in which students can express knowledge and de- FREN 226. Advanced French Grammar. A systematic review with par- fend opinions through intensive class discussion, oral presentations, and ticular attention to morphology and syntax. Prerequisite: 201W. [3] (INT) written expression. May be repeated for credit once if there is no duplica- FREN 232. The Querelles des femmes. Debates around the status of tion of topic, but students may earn only up to 3 credits in any 115F course medieval and Renaissance women, including the Roman de la rose. Alain per semester of enrollment. [3; maximum of 6 credits total for all semesters Chartier, Christine de Pisan, the Des Roches, Montaigne, and Marie de of 115F] (AXLE credit category varies by section) Gourney. Prerequisite: 201W. [3] (P) College of Arts and Science / Courses 171

FREN 234. Medieval French Literature. Thematic exploration of chron- FREN 271. French and Italian Avant-garde. Italian authors writing in icles, romance, poetry, and theatre of medieval France and the history and French in the international and experimental atmosphere of Paris before culture that surrounded these literary productions. Prerequisite: 201W. [3] World War I. D’Annunzio’s “Le martyre de Saint Sébastien” to Marinetti’s (HCA) “Manifeste du Futurisme.” Offered on a graded basis only. Prerequisite: 201W. [3] (HCA) FREN 237. The Early Modern Novel. Development of the novel as a genre in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; its changing social, FREN 272. Adultery and Transgressions in Literature. Comparative intellectual, and political context. Prerequisite: 201W. [3] (HCA) and historical study of texts from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century. Offered on a graded basis only. Prerequisite: 201W. [3] (P) FREN 238. The Twentieth-Century Novel. The novel as a genre in the context of modernity and post modernity. Readings will focus on narrative FREN 287a. Internship Research and Readings in France. Under techniques. Prerequisite: 201W. [3] (HCA) faculty supervision, students intern in public or private organizations, and complete research and readings. Must be taken concurrently with 287b. FREN 239. The African Novel. The postcolonial Francophone novel of Corequisite: 287b. [3] (No AXLE credit) Subsaharan Africa illustrating topics such as tradition and modernity, the identity of Africa, the representation of women, and the ideology of lan- FREN 287b. Internship Training in France. Under faculty supervision, guage. Prerequisite: 201W. [3] (INT) students intern in public or private organizations, and complete research and readings. Offered on a pass/fail basis only and must be taken concur- FREN 240. From Carnival to the “Carnivalesque.” Carnival themes of rently with 287a. Corequisite: 287a. [1] (No AXLE credit) transgression, the grotesque, feasting, and the “fool.” Rabelais to contemporary works. Offered on a graded basis only. Prerequisite: 201W. [3] (P) FREN 289. Independent Study. Content varies according to the needs of the individual student. Primarily designed to cover pertinent material not FREN 241. Emile Zola: From Naturalist Novels to Social Activism. otherwise available in the regular curriculum. May be repeated for a total of The author’s method of researching subject matter and style of writing. 12 credits over a four-semester period, but students may earn only up to “Environmental” influences of violence, prostitution, and alcoholism. The 3 credits per semester of enrollment. [1-3; maximum of 12 credits total for idea of the “public intellectual.” Prerequisite: 201W. [3] (HCA) four semesters of FREN 289] (No AXLE credit) FREN 251. Provence and the French Novel. Images of Provence, its & FREN 294. Special Topics in Traditions. Topics vary. Prerequisite: A S people, and their customs in novels of the nineteenth and twentieth cen- 201W. May be repeated for credit more than once if there is no duplica- turies by Dumas, Zola, Giono, Pagnol. Offered at Vanderbilt in France. tion in topic. Students may enroll in more than one section of this course Prerequisite: 201W. [3] (HCA) each semester. [3] (No AXLE credit) FREN 252. Literature and Law. Confessions, murder, argumentation, FREN 295. Special Topics in Communications and Intersections. interpretation, and the representation of “the criminal” in literary and legal Topics vary. Prerequisite: 201W. May be repeated for credit more than texts from traditional French writings. Offered on a graded basis only. Pre- once if there is no duplication in topic. Students may enroll in more than requisite: 201W. [3] (P) one section of this course each semester. [3] (No AXLE credit) FREN 253. Literature of the Fantastic. The theme of the fantastic in FREN 299a. Senior Honors Thesis. [3] (No AXLE credit) nineteenth- and twentieth-century prose fiction. Critical analysis using psychological and psychoanalytic concepts. Prerequisite: 201W. [3] (HCA) FREN 299b. Senior Honors Thesis. [3] (No AXLE credit) FREN 255. French Feminist Thought: Literary and Critical. Femi- nist themes in twentieth-century French literature and criticism. Authors include Beauvoir, Duras, Sarraute, Irigaray, Cixous. Prerequisite: 201W. German [3] (P) GER 099. Commons Seminar. Topics vary. [1] (No AXLE credit) FREN 256. French Intellectual History. From Montaigne to Sartre and GER 101. Elementary German I. Development of the four language beyond. Critical discourses and major philosophical texts. Prerequisite: skills of reading, listening, speaking, and writing. [5] (No AXLE credit) 201W. [3] (HCA) GER 102. Elementary German II. Continuation of 101. Prerequisite: FREN 258. The Struggle of Encounter: The Israeli-Palestinian Con- 101. [5] (INT) flict in Literature. The literary encounter between the Jewish and Arab worlds through representations of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Prereq- GER 103. Intermediate German I. Intensive review of German grammar uisite: 201W. [3] (P) as a basis for reading, conversation, and composition. Texts and discussions address issues in contemporary German society. Prerequisite: 102. FREN 260. Enlightenment and Revolution. Major writers of the eigh- [3] (INT) teenth century, including Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot; literature of the Revolution. [3] (HCA) GER 104. Intermediate German II. Practice in reading, listening, speaking, and writing. Short stories, one longer work (Kafka), and discussions FREN 261. Age of Louis XIV. Literature and society in the reign of Louis examine aspects of modern life from a German perspective. Prerequisite: XIV. Authors include Mme de Lafayette, La Fontaine, Molière, Pascal, Ra- 103. [3] (INT) cine, and Mme de Sévigné. Prerequisite: 201W. [3] (HCA) GER 105. Intensive German in Regensburg. Grammatical and syn- FREN 265. From Romanticism to Symbolism. Nineteenth-century lit- tactic structures. Prerequisite: 103; corequisite: 106. [3] (No AXLE credit) erature through its major movements: Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, and Symbolism. Prerequisite: 201W. [3] (HCA) GER 106. Intensive German in Regensburg. Landeskunde and communicative skills. Prerequisite: 103; corequisite: 105. [3] (No AXLE credit) FREN 267. Twentieth-Century French Literature. Critical readings of representative works organized thematically with emphasis on their con- GER 115F. First-Year Writing Seminar. Independent learning and in- textual and intertextual relationships. Prerequisite: 201W. [3] (HCA) quiry in an environment in which students can express knowledge and defend opinions through intensive class discussion, oral presentations, FREN 268. Understanding the Maghreb. The North African Maghreb, and written expression. May be repeated for credit once if there is no du- its history and society. Novels, essays, documentaries, newspaper ar- plication of topic, but students may earn only up to 3 credits in any 115F ticles, and films. Offered at Vanderbilt in France. Prerequisite: 201W. [3] course per semester of enrollment. [3; maximum of 6 credits total for all (INT) semesters of 115F] (AXLE credit category varies by section) FREN 269. Francophone Literature and Film of the Maghreb. Litera- GER 172. Borders and Crossings: German Literature and Culture ture, film, and their cultural context in Francophone North Africa. Offered from Romanticism to the Present. Textual and visual contributions to at Vanderbilt in France. Prerequisite: 201W. [3] (SBS) German culture from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in English