French Studies

2026-2027

110 courses

FRENCH 101The View From Paris (HISTORY 231P)
FRENCH 102Jews, Race, and Ethnicity in French Cinema and Literature (CSRE 131B, JEWISHST 131)
FRENCH 103Literature and Atheism
FRENCH 104The Dynamics of Style and Culture in Francophone West Africa and Paris (AFRICAAM 103C)
FRENCH 105Paris through 10 Objects and Places (AFRICAAM 105C)
FRENCH 105EFive Words that Shaped French Culture
FRENCH 113Lyric Returns: Craft and Creative Translation (ITALIAN 113)
FRENCH 118Literature and the Brain (COMPLIT 138, COMPLIT 238, ENGLISH 118, ENGLISH 218, FRENCH 218, PSYC 126, PSYCH 118F)
FRENCH 120Coffee and Cigarettes: The Making of French Intellectual Culture
FRENCH 120EIntroduction to the Medical Humanities (ANTHRO 120H, DLCL 120, ITALIAN 120)
FRENCH 13Humanities Core: Great Books, Big Ideas -- Europe, Modern (HISTORY 239C, HUMCORE 13, PHIL 13)
FRENCH 130Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance French Literature
FRENCH 131Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Revolution in 17th- and 18th-Century France
FRENCH 132Literature, Revolutions, and Changes in 19th- and 20th-Century France (FRENCH 332B)
FRENCH 133Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean (AFRICAAM 133, COMPLIT 133, COMPLIT 233A, CSRE 133E, JEWISHST 143)
FRENCH 134Animals (ITALIAN 134)
FRENCH 136Science, Fiction, Science Fiction
FRENCH 149Love at First Sight: Visual Desire, Attraction, and the Pleasures of Art (ARTHIST 119, ARTHIST 319, FRENCH 349, ITALIAN 149, ITALIAN 349)
FRENCH 154Film & Philosophy (COMPLIT 154A, ENGLISH 154F, ITALIAN 154, PHIL 193C)
FRENCH 154FFanon (AFRICAAM 154, COMPLIT 154F, CSRE 154F, FEMGEN 154F)
FRENCH 158Repressed Love in the French Ancien Regime (FEMGEN 158F)
FRENCH 159French Kiss: The History of Love and the French Novel (FRENCH 256, HISTORY 236F)
FRENCH 163A Brief History of Now: Song and Poetry from Sappho to Taylor Swift (COMPLIT 163)
FRENCH 175CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People (COMPLIT 100, DLCL 100, GERMAN 175, HISTORY 106E, ILAC 175, ITALIAN 175, URBANST 153)
FRENCH 179Autofiction: Writing the Self in the 20th and 21st Century French Novel
FRENCH 181Philosophy and Literature (CLASSICS 42, COMPLIT 181, ENGLISH 81, GERMAN 181, ILAC 181, ITALIAN 181, PHIL 81, SLAVIC 181)
FRENCH 192How French Women (Re)invented Cinema (FEMGEN 192, FILMEDIA 112, FRENCH 392)
FRENCH 199Individual Work
FRENCH 203Queer Romance (COMPLIT 203R, ENGLISH 302R, FEMGEN 203F, FRENCH 303, ITALIAN 202)
FRENCH 205Songs of Love and War: Gender, Crusade, Politics (FEMGEN 205, FRENCH 305, ITALIAN 205, ITALIAN 305)
FRENCH 212Giambattista Vico (COMPLIT 221, FRENCH 321, ITALIAN 221, ITALIAN 321)
FRENCH 213Film and Fascism (FILMEDIA 213A, FRENCH 313, ITALIAN 212)
FRENCH 213ECulture and Revolution in Africa (AFRICAAM 213, COMPLIT 213, GLOBAL 213, HISTORY 243E)
FRENCH 215CWar, Love, and Other Games: Play and Violence in the Middle Ages (FRENCH 315C, HISTORY 215C, HISTORY 315C, ITALIAN 215C, ITALIAN 315C)
FRENCH 217Love, Death and the Afterlife in the Medieval West (FRENCH 317, HISTORY 217D, HISTORY 317D, ITALIAN 217, ITALIAN 317)
FRENCH 218Literature and the Brain (COMPLIT 138, COMPLIT 238, ENGLISH 118, ENGLISH 218, FRENCH 118, PSYC 126, PSYCH 118F)
FRENCH 219Sex, Gender, and the Body in Renaissance France (FRENCH 319)
FRENCH 220Rethinking Francophonie in the 21st Century
FRENCH 223ABaroque Tragedy (ENGLISH 223A, ENGLISH 323A, FRENCH 323A, ITALIAN 223A, ITALIAN 323A)
FRENCH 228EGetting Through Proust
FRENCH 235Literature, Scandal, and Disgust
FRENCH 236Casablanca - Algiers - Tunis : Cities on the Edge (COMPLIT 236A, CSRE 140S, FRENCH 336, HISTORY 245C, JEWISHST 236A, URBANST 140F)
FRENCH 238Art and the Market (ARTHIST 238C)
FRENCH 243Letter Writing in 17th - and 18th - Century France: A Media Revolution (HISTORY 243F)
FRENCH 250The Oceanic Novel: Woolf, Conrad, Duras, Tournier, Condé, Ortese (COMPLIT 250B, COMPLIT 350B, FRENCH 350, ITALIAN 250, ITALIAN 350)
FRENCH 251Writing, Memory, and the Self (FRENCH 351, ITALIAN 251, ITALIAN 351)
FRENCH 253The Great 19th Century French Novel: Long Stories, Short Readings (FRENCH 353N)
FRENCH 254Animism, Gaia, and Alternative Approaches to the Environment (ANTHRO 254C, HISTORY 254B, HISTORY 354B, REES 254)
FRENCH 256French Kiss: The History of Love and the French Novel (FRENCH 159, HISTORY 236F)
FRENCH 257Simone Weil, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, and Adriana Cavarero (COMPLIT 257, COMPLIT 357A, FEMGEN 257X, FEMGEN 357X, FRENCH 357, ITALIAN 257, ITALIAN 357)
FRENCH 258AExistentialism, from Moral Quest to Novelistic Form (COMPLIT 258A, ILAC 211, ILAC 311)
FRENCH 262Symbolism in Literature and the Arts (FRENCH 362, ITALIAN 262, ITALIAN 362)
FRENCH 264EIntroduction to Global Black Diaspora Studies II (AFRICAAM 264, COMPLIT 264, CSRE 165A, HISTORY 246E)
FRENCH 265The Problem of Evil in Literature, Film, and Philosophy (POLISCI 338E)
FRENCH 267Digital Humanities Workshop (COMPLIT 267F, ITALIAN 267)
FRENCH 269Transfigurative Lyric: Baudelaire and Mallarmé
FRENCH 274Haiti: Past, Present, and Futures (AFRICAAM 274C, GLOBAL 275, HISTORY 275, HISTORY 375)
FRENCH 276L'intimité et l'écart (FRENCH 376)
FRENCH 278Stranger Things: Unnatural Narrative as Radical Philosophy (FRENCH 378)
FRENCH 279Cinema and The Real: The French New Wave and the Quest for the Truth (FRENCH 379)
FRENCH 281Women in Africa and the Caribbean: Tales of Agency
FRENCH 283Recovering Lost Voices: French and Francophone Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present (COMPLIT 283F, COMPLIT 383F, FEMGEN 283F, FEMGEN 383F, FRENCH 383)
FRENCH 287Sex, Gender, and Violence: French and Francophone Women Writers Today (FEMGEN 287X, FEMGEN 387X, FRENCH 387)
FRENCH 289Liberte, Egalite, Laicite: French Political Myths and Concepts (FRENCH 389)
FRENCH 289EDesire, Violence, and the Sacred: Introduction to Rene Girard's Theory (COMPLIT 289E, POLISCI 289E, RELIGST 289X)
FRENCH 291Women in Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema (FRENCH 391)
FRENCH 301Thinking with Africana Literature and Philosophy (COMPLIT 301F)
FRENCH 303Queer Romance (COMPLIT 203R, ENGLISH 302R, FEMGEN 203F, FRENCH 203, ITALIAN 202)
FRENCH 305Songs of Love and War: Gender, Crusade, Politics (FEMGEN 205, FRENCH 205, ITALIAN 205, ITALIAN 305)
FRENCH 313Film and Fascism (FILMEDIA 213A, FRENCH 213, ITALIAN 212)
FRENCH 315CWar, Love, and Other Games: Play and Violence in the Middle Ages (FRENCH 215C, HISTORY 215C, HISTORY 315C, ITALIAN 215C, ITALIAN 315C)
FRENCH 317Love, Death and the Afterlife in the Medieval West (FRENCH 217, HISTORY 217D, HISTORY 317D, ITALIAN 217, ITALIAN 317)
FRENCH 319Sex, Gender, and the Body in Renaissance France (FRENCH 219)
FRENCH 321Giambattista Vico (COMPLIT 221, FRENCH 212, ITALIAN 221, ITALIAN 321)
FRENCH 323ABaroque Tragedy (ENGLISH 223A, ENGLISH 323A, FRENCH 223A, ITALIAN 223A, ITALIAN 323A)
FRENCH 324Before the Global South: The Avant-Garde and the Quest for New Knowledges in the Premodern (COMPLIT 324)
FRENCH 328Literature, Narrative, and the Self (COMPLIT 328, ENGLISH 328, ITALIAN 328)
FRENCH 329Rethinking Francophone Literature in the 21st Century (CSRE 329)
FRENCH 332BLiterature, Revolutions, and Changes in 19th- and 20th-Century France (FRENCH 132)
FRENCH 336Casablanca - Algiers - Tunis : Cities on the Edge (COMPLIT 236A, CSRE 140S, FRENCH 236, HISTORY 245C, JEWISHST 236A, URBANST 140F)