1. Elementary French

Units: 4

Lecture, five hours. P/NP or letter grading.

1G. Elementary French for Graduate Students

Units: 3

Lecture, three hours. Preparation for GSFLT or other language examinations. Passing grade does not imply satisfaction of language requirements. S/U grading.

2. Elementary French

Units: 4

Lecture, five hours. Enforced requisite: course 1 with grade of C- or better. P/NP or letter grading.

3. Elementary French

Units: 4

Lecture, five hours. Enforced requisite: course 2 with grade of C- or better. P/NP or letter grading.

4. Intermediate French

Units: 4

Lecture, four hours. Enforced requisite: course 3 with grade of C- or better. P/NP or letter grading.

5. Intermediate French

Units: 4

Lecture, four hours. Enforced requisite: course 4 with grade of C- or better. P/NP or letter grading.

6. Intermediate French

Units: 4

Lecture, four hours. Enforced requisite: course 5 with grade of C- or better. P/NP or letter grading.

8. Intensive First-Year French

Units: 12

Lecture, 15 hours. All-in-French intensive language program equivalent to first year of college French and designed to develop basic language skills. Additional work in language and media laboratory required. Offered in summer only. P/NP or letter grading.

9. Intensive Second-Year French

Units: 8

Lecture, 10 hours; media laboratory, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 3. Intensive course equivalent to first two terms of intermediate French and designed to improve proficiency in reading, writing, and speaking. Offered in summer only. P/NP or letter grading.

12. Introduction to Study of French and Francophone Literature

Units: 5

Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 6. Principles of literary analysis as applied to selected texts in poetry, theater, and prose by French and Francophone writers. P/NP or letter grading.

14. Introduction to French Culture and Civilization in English

Units: 5

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 14W. Study of contemporary French institutions and issues in cultural, political, and socioeconomic realms. P/NP or letter grading.

14W. Introduction to French Culture and Civilization in English

Units: 5

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 14. Study of contemporary French institutions and issues in cultural, political, and socioeconomic realms. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.

16. Society And Self in Early Modern France

Units: 5

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Role of religion, politics, and sociability in constructing self and understanding its relation with society in early modern France. Development of students' critical thought and knowledge of French and European intellectual tradition. P/NP or letter grading.

19. Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars

Units: 1

Seminar, one hour. Discussion of and critical thinking about topics of current intellectual importance, taught by faculty members in their areas of expertise and illuminating many paths of discovery at UCLA. P/NP grading.

41. French Cinema and Culture

Units: 5

Lecture/screenings, five hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to French culture and literature through study of films of cultural and literary significance. P/NP or letter grading.

60. French and Francophone Novel

Units: 5

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Study of literary masterpieces produced by writers from France and Francophone world (Canada, Africa, Caribbean, etc.) from 17th to early 21st century. P/NP or letter grading.

89. Honors Seminars

Units: 1

Seminar, three hours. Limited to 20 students. Designed as adjunct to lower-division lecture course. Exploration of topics in greater depth through supplemental readings, papers, or other activities and led by lecture course instructor. May be applied toward honors credit for eligible students. Honors content noted on transcript. P/NP or letter grading.

89HC. Honors Contracts

Units: 1

Tutorial, three hours. Limited to students in College Honors Program. Designed as adjunct to lower-division lecture course. Individual study with lecture course instructor to explore topics in greater depth through supplemental readings, papers, or other activities. May be repeated for maximum of 4 units. Individual honors contract required. Honors content noted on transcript. Letter grading.

99. Student Research Program

Units: 1 to 2

Tutorial (supervised research or other scholarly work), three hours per week per unit. Entry-level research for lower-division students under guidance of faculty mentor. Students must be in good academic standing and enrolled in minimum of 12 units (excluding this course). Individual contract required; consult Undergraduate Research Center. May be repeated. P/NP grading.

100. Written Expression: Techniques of Description and Narration

Units: 5

Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 6. Writing assignments follow close analysis of relevant texts, film, and related grammatical structures. Examination of vocabulary and structures associated with descriptive writing and French verb tense system required for narration. P/NP or letter grading.

101. Advanced Expository Writing: Techniques of Argumentation

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 100. Study of rhetorical devices and revision of related grammatical structures. Writing assignments follow analysis of relevant texts. P/NP or letter grading.

104. Theory and Correction of Diction

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 6. Study of individual sounds (vowels, consonants, and semi-vowels), including rhythm, intonation, and phrasing, and of learning sound--spelling correspondences to help sight read accurately. Thorough study of symbols of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to give students tools to work on pronunciation systematically. Standard French serves as model, with examination of pronunciation changes and various dialects that are spoken in Francophone world to improve listening comprehension and pronunciation. P/NP or letter grading.

105. Structure of French

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Prior background in linguistics not required. Introduction to linguistic analysis of French in areas of phonology, morphology, syntax, and language variation. P/NP or letter grading.

107. Advanced Oral Expression

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 6. Discussion and analysis of current events and sociocultural issues; techniques of argumentation. P/NP or letter grading.

108. Advanced Practical Translation

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Requisites: courses 100, 101. Translation of literary, sociocultural, and journalistic texts. May include editorials, polemical issues, film subtitles, biography and interview, formal and informal reporting, advertising and idiomatic language. Comparative stylistics of translation. P/NP or letter grading.

109. Language and Communication in Business French

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 6. Oral and written communication in commercial arena, including transactions, banking, education, job search, correspondence, and management. P/NP or letter grading.

112. Medieval Foundations of European Civilization

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours; discussion/film screenings, two hours. Medieval texts, culture, social structure, and political history as they lay bases of European modernity. P/NP or letter grading.

114A. Survey of French Literature: Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Units: 5

Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 12. Masterpieces of medieval and Renaissance literature, including examples of epic ("La Chanson de Roland"), romance (Chrétien de Troyes' "Yvain"), and Renaissance prose and poetry (including Marot, Du Bellay, Ronsard, Rabelais, Marguerite de Navarre, and Montaigne). P/NP or letter grading.

114B. Survey of French Literature: 17th and 18th Centuries

Units: 5

Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 12. Study of selections from major works of classicism and Enlightenment, including those by Racine, Pascal, La Fayette, La Fontaine, Laclos, Diderot, Voltaire, and Rousseau. P/NP or letter grading.

114C. Survey of French Literature: 19th and 20th Centuries

Units: 5

Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 12. Study of major literary movements and writers of period, including works by Hugo, Baudelaire, Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Zola, Gide, Proust, Sartre, Robbe-Grillet, and Duras. P/NP or letter grading.

115. Studies in Medieval French Culture and Literature

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 5. Taught in French. Study of medieval French culture and literature, including lyric poetry and narrative romance, history of medieval warfare, comedy, and class structures. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.

116. Studies in Renaissance French Culture and Literature

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Taught in French. Study of Renaissance French culture and literature, including la Pléiade and 16th-century poetry, linguistic and poetic revolution, novel and early prose, and late French humanism. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.

117. Studies in 17th-Century French Culture and Literature

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 5. Taught in French. Study of 17th-century French culture and literature, including theater, philosophers, moralists, novelists, and cultural, political, social, religious, and courtly aspects. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.

118. Studies in 18th-Century French Culture and Literature

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Taught in French. Study of 18th-century French culture and literature, including satire, novel, theater, philosophers, and theoretical writings. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.

119. Studies in 19th-Century French Culture and Literature

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 5. Taught in French. Study of 19th-century French culture and literature, including Romanticism, generation of 1848, naturalism and symbolism, and genres and trends from 1885 through World War I. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.

120. Studies in 20th-Century French Culture and Literature

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Taught in French. Study of 20th-century French culture and literature, including early 20th-century writers, surrealism, literature from 1915 to 1945, post-World War II literature, existentialism, new novel, theater, and poetry. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.

121. Studies in Francophone Cultures and Literatures

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 5. Taught in French. Study of Francophone cultures and literatures, including works by poets, playwrights, and novelists from Caribbean, North Africa, Quebec, and sub-Saharan Africa, immigrant narratives, and colonialism and postcolonial studies. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.

130. Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 12 or 100. Taught in French. Study of contemporary France and Francophone world (Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Quebec), government, institutions, and cultural, economic, social, and political issues. May be repeated for credit with topic change. Letter grading.

132. French and Francophone Poetry

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Taught in French. Study of history of French and Francophone poetry and readings of major poets from 16th to 20th century. P/NP or letter grading.

136. French and Francophone Autobiography

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Taught in French. Rhetoric of genre and its relation to broad questions of identity, gender, race, and class. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.

137. French and Francophone Intellectual History

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 12 or 100. Taught in French. Exploration of themes that address particular problem of French literature, civilization, or ideas. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.

138. Contemporary French Theory

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 12 or 100. Taught in French. Study of French theorists (Barthes, Baudrillard, Cixous, Derrida, Foucault, Irigaray) and major concepts in contemporary French thought, with attention to its influence on and application to literary and nonliterary texts. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.

139. Paris: Study of French Capital

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 5. Taught in French. Textual and visual exploration of historical and imaginary (re)constructions of Paris, beginning with its earliest history and gradual formation of this great urban complex in maps from Renaissance to 20th century. Study of city's streets and quarters, traffic and transportation, multiple layers of past, present, and future, and flâneurs and insurrectionists through wide range of literary and critical texts. Readings cover mainly 19th and 20th centuries--Honoré de Balzac, Charles Baudelaire, Emile Zola, Marcel Proust, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and others. P/NP or letter grading.

141. French Cinema

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Study of French cinema and cinematographers in generic, thematic, and sociocultural aspects. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.

142. Francophone Cinema

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Study of Francophone (Africa, Caribbean, postcolonial communities in France) cinema and cinematographers in generic, thematic, and sociocultural aspects. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.

160. Francophone Cultures in English

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Study of historical, anthropological, legal, literary, or filmic texts to provide students with broad view of some main issues in field of colonial and postcolonial Francophone studies. P/NP or letter grading.

161. French and Francophone Theater in Translation

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Through plays of 20th century, analysis of struggles of individuals and social groups in contexts that are historical, political, philosophical (existentialism, absurd), and cultural (colonialism and conformism). May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.

163. French and Francophone Short Story in Translation

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Survey of short fiction forms in France and Francophone world. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.

164. French and Francophone Novel in Translation

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Study of French novels. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.

166. French and Francophone Autobiography in Translation

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Rhetoric of genre and its relation to broad questions of identity, gender, race, and class. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.

167. French and Francophone Intellectual History in Translation

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Readings of French and Francophone writers, historians, and thinkers. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.

169. Paris: Study of French Capital in Translation

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Textual and visual exploration of historical and imaginary (re)constructions of Paris, beginning with its earliest history and gradual formation of this great urban complex in maps from Renaissance to 20th century. Study of city's streets and quarters, traffic and transportation, multiple layers of past, present, and future, and flâneurs and insurrectionists through wide range of literary and critical texts. Readings cover mainly 19th and 20th centuries--Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, Jules Verne, Emile Zola, André Breton, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, and others. P/NP or letter grading.

189. Advanced Honors Seminars

Units: 1

Seminar, three hours. Limited to 20 students. Designed as adjunct to undergraduate lecture course. Exploration of topics in greater depth through supplemental readings, papers, or other activities and led by lecture course instructor. May be applied toward honors credit for eligible students. Honors content noted on transcript. P/NP or letter grading.

189HC. Honors Contracts

Units: 1

Tutorial, three hours. Limited to students in College Honors Program. Designed as adjunct to upper-division lecture course. Individual study with lecture course instructor to explore topics in greater depth through supplemental readings, papers, or other activities. May be repeated for maximum of 4 units. Individual honors contract required. Honors content noted on transcript. Letter grading.

191A. Variable Topics Research Seminars in Translation

Units: 4

Seminar, three hours. Research seminars on topics to be announced each term. Topics include major writers, genres, cultural movements, or theoretical practices. Reading, discussion, and development of culminating project. May be repeated for credit with consent of major adviser. P/NP or letter grading.

191B. Variable Topics Research Seminars: French

Units: 4

Seminar, three hours. Taught in French. Research seminars on topics to be announced each term. Topics include major writers, genres, cultural movements, or theoretical practices. Reading, discussion, and development of culminating project. May be repeated for credit with consent of major adviser. P/NP or letter grading.

195. Community or Corporate Internships in French

Units: 4

Tutorial, to be arranged. Limited to juniors/seniors. Internship in supervised setting in community agency or business. Students meet on regular basis with instructor and provide periodic reports of their experience. May be repeated for credit. Individual contract with supervising faculty member required. P/NP or letter grading.

198. Honors Research in French

Units: 4

Tutorial, three hours. Limited to junior/senior French majors with 3.5 departmental and 3.25 overall grade-point averages. Development and completion of honors thesis or comprehensive research project under direct supervision of faculty member. May be repeated for credit. Individual contract required. Letter grading.

199. Directed Research or Senior Project in French

Units: 2 to 4

Tutorial, three hours. Limited to juniors/seniors. Supervised individual research or investigation under guidance of faculty mentor. Culminating paper or project required. May be repeated for credit. Individual contract required. P/NP or letter grading.

200. Contemporary French Theories

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Introductory study of French structuralist and poststructuralist thought in literature, linguistics, psychoanalysis, anthropology, philosophy, and feminism, that may include texts by Althusser, Barthes, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Genette, Irigaray, Kristeva, Lacan, Lyotard, and others. S/U or letter grading.

201. Techniques of Literary Analysis

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Practice in close analysis of literary texts, including "explication de teste." S/U or letter grading.

202. Cultural Studies

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Introduction to theoretical approaches to popular and mass culture, and to postcolonial and Francophone cultures. Topics include emergent disciplines and theories such as sociology and structuralism, city, revolution, avant-garde strategies, media, diaspora during postwar modernization, Algerian War, May 68, and beyond. Theorists include Barthes, de Certeau, Bourdieu, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Ross, Rey Chow, Virilio. S/U or letter grading.

203. Contemporary Francophone Literature

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Study of Francophone African, Caribbean, Vietnamese, or Quebec literatures and cultures, with specific attention to issues of cultural contact, language, colonialism, anticolonialism, nationalism, resistance and dissidence, and postcolonial theory. S/U or letter grading.

204. Studies in Autobiography

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Introduction to theories of autobiography and subjectivity, and to genre of autobiography in literatures in French across centuries. Topics include early modern approaches to self-writing, Rousseau and emergence of modern self, women's autobiography in France and Francophone world. Theorists may include Georges Gusdorf, Philippe Lejeune, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Helene Cixous, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Toril Moi. S/U or letter grading.

205. Studies in Cinema and Literature

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Discussion of selected topics in French and Francophone cinema and literature. S/U or letter grading.

207. Studies in History of Ideas

Units: 4

Seminar, three hours. Particular problems in French literature and ideas. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading.

208. Studies in Literary Criticism

Units: 4

Seminar, three hours. Readings in literary criticism, theory, and literature from any period of French literature. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading.

209. Studies in Literary Genre

Units: 4

Seminar, three hours. Advanced research and study of literary genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, autobiography, or performance and of theory of these genres. S/U or letter grading.

M210. Paleography of Latin and Vernacular Manuscripts, 900 to 1500

Units: 4

(Same as Classics M218, English M215, and History M218.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Introduction to history of Latin and vernacular manuscript book from 900 to 1500 to (1) train students to make informed judgments with regard to place and date of origin, (2) provide training in accurate reading and transcription of later medieval scripts, and (3) examine manuscript book as witness to changing society that produced it. Focus on relationship between Latin manuscripts and vernacular manuscripts with regard to their respective presentation of written texts. S/U or letter grading.

214. Problematics of Medieval Language and Literature

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Introduction to Old French and problematics of medieval literature. S/U or letter grading.

215. Studies in Middle Ages

Units: 4

Seminar, three hours. Examination of nature of cross-cultural, crosslinguistic, and cross-confessional exchange in medieval and early modern periods and France's role in it. S/U or letter grading.

216. Renaissance

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. French literature of 16th century studied within historical, intellectual, and cultural contexts. Letter grading.

217. 17th Century

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Readings in 17th-century literature studied within historical, cultural, and literary contexts. S/U or letter grading.

218. Enlightenment

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Readings in 18th-century French literature and thought: novels, satires, plays, and other key Enlightenment "philosophies." Letter grading.

219. 19th Century

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Readings in 19th-century literature, covering development of novel, lyric poetry, and theater from Romantic period to "fin-de-siecle." S/U or letter grading.

220. 20th Century

Units: 4

Lecture, three hours. Overview, both historical and analytical, of 20th-century French literature set in context of several key critical topics that interrogate canonical interpretation. Letter grading.

296. Research Methods and Writing

Units: 2

Seminar, two hours. Advanced study of current topics in literary and cultural analysis and in critical theory. Discussion of current research and literature in research specialty of faculty member teaching course. S/U grading.

375. Teaching Apprentice Practicum

Units: 1 to 4

Seminar, to be arranged. Preparation: apprentice personnel employment as teaching assistant, associate, or fellow. Teaching apprenticeship under active guidance and supervision of regular faculty member responsible for curriculum and instruction at UCLA. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.

495. Teaching French at College Level

Units: 4

Seminar, three hours; discussion, one hour. Designed for graduate students. Theory and practice of language teaching. S/U grading.

596. Directed Individual Studies or Research

Units: 2 to 4

Tutorial, to be arranged. S/U or letter grading.

597. Preparation for Second-Year Review or PhD Qualifying Examinations

Units: 2 to 8

Tutorial, to be arranged. May be repeated for maximum of 16 units. S/U grading.

598. Research for and Preparation of MA Thesis

Units: 2 to 4

Tutorial, to be arranged. Maximum of 4 units may be applied toward MA degree requirements. S/U grading.

599. Research for and Preparation of PhD Dissertation

Units: 2 to 8

Tutorial, to be arranged. S/U grading.