Foreign Languages and Literatures

Undergraduate Program

The Foreign Languages and Literatures Department is part of the Alice Coonley Higgins School of Humanities. The program investigates how peoples and nations express themselves through language, literature and other cultural phenomena. The interdisciplinary spirit of the program illuminates the relationship between national literatures and other areas of the humanities and social sciences.

The major is offered in French and Spanish. It is also possible, at the department’s discretion, to major in more than one language (the combined foreign languages major).

There are majors available in comparative literature and ancient civilization as well. Though based in foreign languages and literatures, these two programs–together with the minor offered by ancient civilization–are described elsewhere in the catalog under their own headings.

The Adviser System
Advisers are faculty in appropriate disciplines who are assigned to students when their major or minor is declared. Students and advisers should meet regularly. Advisers suggest a course of study, discuss and approve related courses and, for majors, identify areas of special interest that could lead to an honors project.

Language Placement
Refer to Summer Newsletter 2007

Study Abroad
Information on study-abroad programs in France, Germany and Spain is available at Clark’s Office of Study Abroad Programs.

Courses Offered at L’Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Students who participate in Clark’s study-abroad program at the Université de Bourgogne may take up to eight course units in French and other fields. Courses are offered both in the Faculté des Lettres and the Faculté de Droit and at the Centre International d’Etudes Françaises (CIEF). The following is a representative list of courses that have been offered in the past:

Faculté de Lettres et Faculté de Droit
Thème et Version – Translation Workshop French-English and English-French
Littérature française – Romantisme et Modernité
Littérature française – L’Univers balzacien
Littérature française – Le Roman au XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
Littérature comparée – Paris entre les deux guerres
Littérature comparée – Images de la femme dans la littérature française
Histoire de L’Art médiéval
Histoire de la Bourgogne médiévale
Histoire économique et sociale
Initiation à l’histoire rurale
Institutions politiques comparées
Analyse de la vie politique
Politiques européennes

Centre Internationale d’Etudes françaises
Composition et expression écrite – Advanced written French
Grammaire
Stylistique
La littérature et ses genres
Civilisation: La France contemporaine
Histoire de l’art: La peinture française au milieu du XIXe siècle
Culture et musique
Cinéma
Théâtre contemporain
Les philosophies de l’existence en France
Histoire de la Troisième République
Français économique et commerciale

Course Listing by Fields of Specialization

Chinese
CHIN101/CHIN102 Elementary Chinese

Classics
CLAS120 The Epic Journey
GRK101/GRK102 Introductory Greek
LAT101/LAT102 Introductory Latin

French
CMLT130 The National Imagination
FREN101/FREN102 Elementary French
FREN105 Intermediate French I
FREN106 Intermediate French II
FREN108 The Theater of Revolt in Modern France
FREN120 Ways of Writing, Ways of Speaking
FREN127 Media Workshop in French
FREN131 Readings in French Literature
FREN136 Studies in the Evolution of French Culture
FREN137 Studies in Contemporary French Culture
FREN140 Francophone Literature and Film
FREN145 Translation Workshop
FREN160 French Culture Seen Through Film: Jean Renoir
FREN162 Fairy Tales of the World
FREN165 French Play Production
FREN168 Immigration in France
FREN170 The Comic Spirit in French Theater and Film
FREN211 Spirited Rebellion: Adolescence in French Novel and Film
FREN215 20th-Century French and Francophone Women Writers
FREN240 Paris in Arts and Literature
FREN245 Mysteries of the City
FREN249 The French-Speaking World
FREN256 Lessons Learned: Education in the 20th-Century Novel
FREN 264 Writing and Identity in Francophone Caribbean
FREN267 French Cinema: The New Wave
FREN270 The Modern French Theater
FREN297 Advanced Topics
SCRN263 History of French Cinema

German

GERM101/GERM102 Introductory German
GERM103 Immediate German I
GERM104 Intermediate German II
CMLT130 The National Imagination
GERM131 German Culture and Conversation

German Literature Courses conducted in English
GERM188 The Culture of the Weimer Republic in Literature, Film and the Arts

Hebrew
HEBR101 Elementary Hebrew I
HEBR102 Elementary Hebrew II
HEBR103 Intermediate Hebrew
HEBR104 Intermediate-Advanced Hebrew
HEBR105 Advanced Hebrew
HEBR297 Sec. 6 Special Topics in Hebrew

HEBR299 Supervised Readings

Japanese
CMLT130 The National Imagination
JAPN101/JAPN102 Elementary Japanese
JAPN103/JAPN104 Intermediate Japanese
JAPN105/JAPN106 Advanced Japanese
JAPN180 Japanese Culture and Literature in Translation
JAPN190 Japanese Women Writers

Spanish
The Spanish program is based on a three-year rotation. Advanced courses listed as offered periodically are generally available at least once every three years.

CMLT130 The National Imagination
SPAN101/SPAN102 Elementary Spanish
SPAN103 Elementary Spanish: Intensive
SPAN105 Intermediate Spanish
SPAN106 Intermediate Spanish II
SPAN117 Field Work in the Latino Community
SPAN127 Practice in Oral and Written Spanish
SPAN131 Readings in Hispanic Literature
SPAN133 Studies in Hispanic Culture

Studies in Culture
SPAN134 Latino Literature and Media
SPAN140 Spanish Dramatic Expression: Play Production
SPAN141 Spanish Translation Workshop
SPAN236 Women in Hispanic Literature
SPAN237 Advanced Oral and Written Spanish
SPAN238 Hispanic Literature of Political Commitment
SPAN239 Hispanic Caribbean Fiction
SPAN242 The Latin-American Novel
SPAN243 Latin-American Essay and Thought
SPAN245 Hispanic-American Short Story
SPAN246 Studies in Spanish Cinema
SPAN248 Studies in Latin-American Cinema
SPAN249 Studies in Hispanic Cinemas
SPAN259 Eros and Violence: Drama
SPAN260 The Age of Cervantes
SPAN265 Latin-American Poetry
SPAN297 Advanced Topics

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