French and Francophone Studies 1 www.brown.edu/academics/french-studies/undergraduate/honors- French and Francophone program/). Concentration Requirements Studies A minimum of ten courses is required for the concentration in French and Francophone Studies. Concentrators must observe the following guidelines when planning their concentration. It is recommended that Chair course choices for each semester be discussed with the department’s Virginia A. Krause concentration advisor. The Department of French and Francophone Studies at Brown promotes At least four 1000-level courses offered in the Department of 4 an intensive engagement with the language, literature, and cultural and French and Francophone Studies critical traditions of the French-speaking world. The Department offers At least one course covering a pre-Revolutionary period 1 both the B.A. and the PhD in French and Francophone Studies. Courses (i.e., medieval, Renaissance, 17th or 18th century France) cover a wide diversity of topics, while placing a shared emphasis on such as: 1 language-specific study, critical writing skills, and the vital place of FREN 1000A Littérature et intertextualité: du Moyen-Age literature and art for intellectual inquiry. Undergraduate course offerings jusqu'à la fin du XVIIème s are designed for students at all levels: those beginning French at Brown, FREN 1000B Littérature et culture: Chevaliers, those continuing their study of language and those undertaking advanced sorcières, philosophes, et poètes research in French and Francophone literature, culture and thought. Undergraduate concentrators and non-concentrators alike are encouraged FREN 1030A L'univers de la Renaissance: XVe et XVIe to avail of study abroad opportunities in their junior year, through Brown- siècles sponsored and Brown-approved programs in France or in another FREN 1030B The French Renaissance: The Birth of Francophone country. Graduates in French and Francophone studies go Modernity? on to pursue careers in a number of fields, including translation, public FREN 1040A Civilite et litterature service, college and secondary education, publishing and the media. FREN 1040B Pouvoirs de la scène: le théâtre du XVIIe For additional information, please visit the department's website: http:// siècle www.brown.edu/Departments/French/ FREN 1040C Le Grand Siècle à l'écran FREN 1040D Molière et son monde French and Francophone Studies FREN 1050A "Family Values": Représentations Concentration Requirements littéraires de la famille au 18eme siècle FREN 1050B Fictions de l'individu The concentration in French and Francophone Studies is committed to the pursuit of an interdisciplinary, linguistically rigorous, and textually FREN 1050D The Age of Voltaire: Culture, Pensée, informed understanding of French and Francophone literatures and Société cultures. Concentrators engage actively through their coursework with a FREN 1050E French Lovers: Séduction et libertinage wide range of texts and critical perspectives, pertaining to multiple literary sous l'Ancien Régime genres, media, and contexts. They have opportunities to study different FREN 1050F Espace public; espace privé periods of French history as well as Francophone cultures beyond France. FREN 1050G Le corps des Lumières By the time they graduate, concentrators will have learned to read with knowledge and nuance and produced a varied body of critical work in FREN 1050H The Age of Voltaire: Lumières et French. modernité FREN 1100F Contes et nouvelles du Moyen Age The concentration in French and Francophone Studies is committed to the study of the language, literature, and cultural and critical traditions FREN 1410I Sorcellerie et Renaissance: le sort de la of the French-speaking world. Concentrators engage actively through sorcière their coursework with a wide range of texts and critical perspectives, and At least one course focusing primarily on a Francophone 1 multiple literary genres and media (the novel; theater; poetry; cinema; literature/cultural context other than French critical theory; special topics in contemporary politics and culture). They Four additional electives, of which one may be FREN 0600 4 have opportunities to study different periods of French literature and A senior capstone project intellectual history (from the Renaissance to the present) as well as Francophone cultures beyond France (West Africa, the Maghreb and Additional Guidelines: the Caribbean). Courses cover a wide diversity of topics, while placing a Up to four courses (taken in French) from a semester’s study shared emphasis on language-specific study, critical writing skills, and the abroad (and up to five courses from a full year abroad) may vital place of literature and art for intellectual inquiry. count towards the concentration. A year or semester of study abroad in France or a Francophone country is considered The concentration program is designed to encourage and support an integral part of the concentration and is therefore highly language-specific study. Literary texts and cultural documents are recommended. Students should consult the concentration read principally in the original. Likewise, in most courses, French is the advisor prior to going abroad to find out which types of language of class discussions, presentations and research/critical papers. courses will count for the concentration. Concentrators in French and Francophone Studies are strongly Up to two 1000-level courses taught in English with a encouraged to spend one or two semesters (usually in their junior year) meaningful engagement with French/Francophone texts and/ in France or in a Francophone country to derive the richest benefits or contexts may be accepted for concentration credit. These of linguistic and cultural immersion. Information on Brown in France may be courses offered within the Department of French and approved alternative programs in French-speaking countries is and Francophone Studies or other departments at Brown. available from the Office of International Programs (http://www.brown.edu/ (Appropriate courses on French or Francophone topics from Administration/OIP/) office and the OIP website. Other summer programs other departments must be approved by the concentration can be found on the French Embassy website. advisor.) Students who have an outstanding record in their concentration courses, Total Credits 10 have completed at least six concentration courses by the first semester of their senior year, and are highly recommended by two professors, are eligible to apply for admission to the Honors program (http:// French and Francophone Studies 1 2 French and Francophone Studies to that date). Recommendations should be from department faculty who The Senior Capstone have close knowledge of the student's work, preferably through a course The senior capstone is a research project, a translation or a piece of taken by the student during their sophomore or junior year. Please submit creative work undertaken by all concentrators of French and Francophone these forms to your faculty recommenders no later than September 18 Studies in their final year. As a culminating piece of work for their (or the weekday closest to that date). They will then be forwarded to the concentration, it is a conceptually rigorous, in-depth treatment of a subject Honors Advisor who, after reviewing the complete application along with (or a body of work) within French and Francophone Studies, and an the student's transcript(s), will make a determination about admission to opportunity for concentrators to take furthest their scholarly engagement the Honors Program. with particular materials or questions within this field. It is a chance to A successful application allows the student to pursue the Honors Thesis demonstrate the specific strengths and forms of competence—linguistic, Project. Honors is officially granted only when the student's two readers analytic, interpretive, critical, theoretical, cultural—developed in the course approve the completed thesis. of the concentration. The senior capstone experience is generally fulfilled by a research French Studies Graduate Program essay completed for a 1000-level (or a 2000-level) course taken in the department. In some cases, where appropriate to the course materials The department of French Studies offers graduate programs leading to the and focus, the capstone project may take the form of a work of translation Master of Arts (A.M.) degree and the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Degree. or a piece of creative writing. The length and scope of the project are Under most circumstances, the A.M. degree is only awarded as part of the determined in consultation with the faculty instructor of that course. The Ph.D. track. capstone project may be discussed with the course instructor ahead of For more information on admission and program requirements, please visit time, or it may emerge from a final assignment submitted for the course, to the following website: be later expanded on or (if deemed already satisfactory in its length, scope http://www.brown.edu/academics/gradschool/programs/french-studies and quality) retroactively validated with approval from the course instructor (http://www.brown.edu/academics/gradschool/programs/french-studies/) as meeting the capstone requirement. In the case of students pursuing Honors, the senior thesis fulfills the role of Courses the senior capstone. FREN 0100. Basic French. The senior capstone is intended as a meaningful scholarly experience This is the first half of a two-semester course. Four meetings