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Graduate Record 2010-2011 
    
Graduate Record 2010-2011 [ARCHIVED RECORD]

Course Descriptions


 

European History

  
  • HIEU 5791 - European Intellectual History


    Reading, discussion, and papers on selected topics in European intellectual history to 17th century. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5792 - European Intellectual History


    Reading, discussion, and papers on selected topics in European intellectual history since the 17th century. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7001 - Colloquium in Medieval European History


    The first semester of a two-semester sequence of graduate colloquia introducing students to the major themes in European history and historiography in the period before the eighteenth century and structured around central themes in medieval history.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7002 - Colloquium in Early Modern European History


    The second semester of a two-semester sequence of graduate colloquia introducing students to the major themes in European history and historiography in the period before the eighteenth century and structured around central themes in early modern European history.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7003 - Colloquium in Modern European History I


    The first semester of a two-semester sequence of graduate colloquia introducing students to the major themes in European history and historiography in the period from the eighteenth century to the present and structured around central themes in European history between c. 1750 and c. 1870.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7004 - Colloquium in Modern European History II


    The second semester of a two-semester sequence of graduate colloquia introducing students to the major themes in European history and historiography in the period before the eighteenth century to the present and structured around central themes in European history c. 1870.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7011 - Historiography


    Introduces the theory of historiography. Examines various works of historiographical theory (Collingwood, Veyne, Ricoeur, and others), bringing them to bear on a sampling of historical writing.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7012 - Roman Religion


    Examines the institutions, practices, and attitudes associated with Roman religion, focusing chiefly on aspects of Roman religion as practiced in the city of Rome itself, and devoting itself primarily to the Republican and early imperial periods. Cross listed as LATI 706.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7013 - Anthropology of Ancient Greece


    A survey of anthropological methods useful for the study of the past: simultaneously an economic introduction to the Great Books of anthropology, to a prominent aspect of contemporary classical scholarship, and to the opportunities and problems presented by using the methods of one field to illuminate another.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7014 - Ancient History


    Introduces non-literary materials of use to the historian in correcting and/or amplifying the literary record, including inscriptions, papyri, coins, etc.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7111 - Medieval History


    Reading and discussion of selected topics in medieval history.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7211 - The Renaissance


    Studies European politics and society from the commercial revolution to Cateau Cambresis.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7221 - The Age of Reformation


    Surveys current problems in the history of the religion, science, philosophy, politics, economics, and social structure. Covers Europe (especially England, France, Germany, and Italy), 1350-1750.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7231 - Early Modern Europe


    A colloquium on central topics of European history, 1400-1789, emphasizing developments in social, political, economic, and cultural history.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7241 - Popular Religion 1300-1800


    Traditionally, the history of religion was limited to the study of formal theology and ecclesiastical institutions. It has now become common to ask what the religious ideas and experience of ordinary people was, and to examine the connection between formal dogma and lay piety. Course introduces some of the most exciting works of this new direction and establishes bridges between history and religious studies, between the late medieval and early modern periods, and between intellectual and social history. Cross-listed as RELC 724.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7261 - Early Modern England


    Readings and discussion on special topics in the period 1485 to 1760.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7271 - Early Modern Inquisitions


    Close examination of the Spanish and Roman Inquisitions: their initial and later targets, the theological and legal premises on which they operated, the ways in which modern scholars can use surviving Inquisition records. Prerequisite: Graduate students or instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7291 - Modern European Social History


    A comparative approach to major changes and problems in political, social, and cultural history.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7301 - History of Science


    Introduces the historiography of science, and especially to new approaches which integrate the history of the natural and social sciences into intellectual, social, political, and economic history.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7311 - The Enlightenment


    Intensive reading and discussion of the primary and secondary literature.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7321 - Europe in the Eighteenth Century and Revolutionary Period


    Intensive readings on Europe, 1715-1799, emphasizing the origins of the French Revolution.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7331 - The Fortune of Gender in Early Modern Europe


    After tracing the emergence in the 1790s of the history of women and a decade later the history of gender as coherent modes of investigation, we shall examine recent developments and tensions in these fields by discussing important monographs and collections of essays.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7351 - Modern France


    A reading course devoted to the historiography of France 1700. Emphasizes recent trends in the literature. Prerequisite: HIEU 350 or equivalent.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7356 - Victorian England


    Selected topics in the history of England from 1815 to the late 19th century.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7391 - Europe Since 1789


    Intensive reading and discussion of topics in comparative European history since 1789.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7401 - Nineteenth-Century Europe


    Intensive reading and discussion of the secondary literature.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7451 - Twentieth-Century Europe


    Intensive reading in selected topics, emphasizing new or emerging nations in Europe.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7471 - European Economic History


    Intensive reading and discussion of topics in European economic history.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7611 - Russia 1894-1917


    Russia in the revolutionary era, 1894-1917. Study of Russian society, its institutions, culture, and the revolutionary forces confronting the Tsarist regime in the reign of Nicholas II.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7661 - Russian Social and Cultural History, 1815 to the Present


    A comparative approach, through readings and discussion, to trends in social and cultural history during the last century of the monarchy and in the Soviet period.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7781 - Modern European Intellectual History


    Selected literature in modern European intellectual history, broadly defined.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 8011 - Ancient History


    Topics to be chosen by the instructor.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 8111 - Medieval History


    Medieval History



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 8211 - The Renaissance


    The Renaissance



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 8221 - The Reformation


    A research seminar.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 8231 - Early Modern Europe


    A research seminar in topics pertaining to the history of Europe in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Offered as required.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 8232 - Early Modern Europe


    A research seminar in topics pertaining to the history of Europe in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Offered as required.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 8251 - History of Russian Empire


    Topics to be chosen by the instructor. Offered as required.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 8261 - Early Modern England


    Early Modern England



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 8330 - Saints and Society


    This seminar examines Christian holy people in medieval and early modern Europe, and in other regions coming under European influence. With emphasis on change over time, topics include popular perceptions and official definitions of holiness, literary and artistic genres in which holiness was represented, differences between the Catholic Church’s and other denominations’ use of holy people. Major research paper required. Prerequisite: Graduate student status in History or another humanities discipline.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 8356 - Victorian England


    A research seminar.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 8401 - Nineteenth-Century European History


    Reading and research in selected topics, with emphasis on Germany and Austria.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 8451 - Twentieth-Century Europe


    A research seminar.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 8461 - Twentieth-Century Europe and Russia


    For students working in any geographical area of 20th-century Europe. Topics selected by students in consultation with instructor. Helps students begin research for M.A. theses and doctoral dissertations.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 8641 - Soviet Domestic and Foreign Policy


    Offered as required.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 8642 - Soviet Domestic and Foreign Policy


    Offered as required.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 8671 - Russian History


    A discussion of selected problems in Russian history during the late Imperial and Soviet periods with emphasis upon political, social, and cultural history.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 8781 - Modern European Intellectual History


    A research seminar.



    Credits: 3

French

  
  • FREN 5001 - Academic Writing in French


    Prepares students for advanced academic writing in French. Students learn effective use of bibliographic tools and master principles of close, creative and critical reading (both primary and secondary sources); grammatical, logical and effective writing (including self-editing); and effective oral presentation of research. Prerequisite: at least two courses at the 4000 level with an average grade of B+.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5010 - Introduction to Reading Old French


    Readings from several varieties of Old French, including the Île-de-France, Picard, and Anglo-Norman dialects. Considers the derivation of French from Latin. Taught in English. Prerequisite: Good reading knowledge of modern French.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5011 - Old French


    Basic introduction to reading Old French, with consideration of its main dialects (Ile-de-France, Picard, Anglo-Norman) and paleographical issues. May be taken in conjunction with FREN 510 or independently. Taught in English.  Prerequisite:  Reading knowledge of modern French.



    Credits: 1
  
  • FREN 5012 - Introduction to Old Provencal Language and Literature


    Old Provencal (alias Old Occitan) as a grammatical system with some attention to its derivation from Latin. Readings of simple prose texts followed by poetic selections of the troubadours. Taught in English. Prerequisite: FREN 508 or instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5029 - Applied Linguistics: French


    A synchronic study of the structure of French to be made through a contrastive analysis of French as a target language and English as a source language. Analysis considers syntax primarily; some elements of semantics also are considered. The theoretical assumptions lead to practical procedures applicable in a teaching situation.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5030 - French Phonetics and Phonology


    Studies the French sound system, both in theory and practice. Provides essential articulatory phonetics, distinctive features, morphophonemics, prosodics and contrastive analysis. Practice in the production, recognition, and transcription of speech sounds. Opportunity for the correction and improvement of individual problems in French pronunciation. Involves classroom and laboratory instruction. Prerequisite: Not open to undergraduates who have taken FREN 427 or the equivalent.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5100 - Medieval Literature in Modern French I


    Introduces literary forms, habits of style and thought, and conditions of composition from the late eleventh century to the late thirteenth. Chanson de Roland, Chrétien de Troyes, Marie de France, lyric poetry, etc.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5150 - Medieval Literature in Modern French II


    An inquiry into the literary culture of the period from the late thirteenth century to the late fifteenth. Topics include the Roman de la Rose, Joinville, and Froissart; the development of drama; new lyric forms, early humanism; Villon; and problems of literary history and hermeneutics for a neglected period in French culture.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5200 - Literature of the Sixteenth Century: Poetry


    Studies the developments in theory and practice of French Renaissance poetry and poetics as seen in works by the Rhetoriqueurs, including Marot, Sebillet, Sceve, Labe, Du Bellay, Ronsard, and d’Aubigne.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5210 - Literature of the Sixteenth Century: Prose


    Studies important trends in Renaissance thought and style as seen in the works of major prose writers including Erasmus, Rabelais, Marguerite de Navarre, and Montaigne.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5300 - Literature of the Seventeenth Century I


    Studies art forms and society during the baroque and classical periods of French literary history. Readings in theater, fiction, rhetoric, and poetry.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5310 - Literature of the Seventeenth Century II


    Studies art forms and society during the baroque and classical periods of French literary history. Readings in theater, fiction, rhetoric, and poetry.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5400 - Literature of the Eighteenth Century I


    Religious, moral, and political thinking as reflected in the works of Bayle, Fontenelle, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Helvetius, and others.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5410 - Literature of the Eighteenth Century II


    Developing trends in traditional genres (drama, novel, poetry), as reflected in the works of Le Sage, Marivaux, Beaumarchais, Diderot, Chenier, Voltaire, Prevost, Rousseau, and others.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5510 - Topics in Medieval Literature


    Topics may include genres (romance, poetry, hagiography, chanson de geste, allegory), themes (love, war, nature), single authors (Chrétien de Troyes, Machaut) and cultural and literary issues (gender, religion, authorship, rewritings).



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5520 - Topics in Sixteenth-Century Literature


    Topics may include Montaigne, the European novella, poetic recreations of the ancients, literary Lyon, Rabelais and his world.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5530 - Topics in Seventeenth-Century Literature


    Topics may include genres such as tragedy, comedy, novel, and non-fiction prose, themes such as civility, religious conversion, the ¿human condition,¿ colonial expansion, and love, and theoretical issues such as institutional control of literature,  gender and writing, and discourse analysis.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5540 - Topics in Eighteenth-Century Literature


    Topics may include exoticism, reason and folly, libertinage, theater, Voltaire vs. Rousseau.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5559 - New Course in French Literature and General Linguistics


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of French literature and general linguistics.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • FREN 5560 - Topics in Nineteenth-Century Literature


    Topics include studies of genres (novel, poetry, prose poetry, theater), literary movements (romanticism, realism, modernity, symbolism, decadence), and themes or concepts (nostalgia, body, literature and the visual arts, le fantastique).



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5570 - Topics in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature


    Study of the various aspects of twentieth-century French literature. Genre, theme, and specific chronological concentration will vary. May be repeated for credit with different topics.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5580 - Topics in Literature


    Transhistorical study of genres (the novel, poetry, theater), themes (gravity, the body) or cultural issues (gender, resistance).



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5581 - Topics in African Literature


    Topics may include: Francophone novel, postcolonial literature, Francophone Theater & Poetry, Colonial Literature.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5584 - Topics in Cinema


    A range of analytical approaches to the study of cinema, including cinematographic language and structure, the representation of socio-cultural phenomena in film, and the experience of cinema viewing as a cultural and historical practice.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5585 - Topics in Civilization / Cultural Studies


    Interdisciplinary seminar in French and Francophone culture. Topics vary.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5600 - Literature of the Nineteenth Century I


    Studies romanticism, realism, naturalism, and symbolism. Analyzes representative texts of de Staël, Chateaubriand, Constant, Lamartine, Hugo, Vigny, Musset, Sand, Nerval, Balzac, Flaubert, Stendhal, Zola, Huysmans, Maupassant, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, and Mallarmé.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5610 - Literature of the Nineteenth Century II


    Studies romanticism, realism, naturalism, and symbolism. Analyzes representative texts of de Staël, Chateaubriand, Constant, Lamartine, Hugo, Vigny, Musset, Sand, Nerval, Balzac, Flaubert, Stendhal, Zola, Huysmans, Maupassant, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, and Mallarmé.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5700 - Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries I


    Principal literary movements and representative authors in the novel.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5710 - Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries II


    Principal literary movements and representative authors in drama and poetry.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5811 - African Literature


    Studies the principal movements and representative authors writing in French in Northern, Central, and Western Africa, with special reference to the islands of Madagascar and Mauritius. Explores the literary and social histories of these regions.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5812 - New World Literature


    Introduces the French-language literatures of Canada and the Caribbean in their historical and esthetic context. Includes drama, fiction and poetry. FREN 571 or 570 are normally a prerequisite to advanced work in Francophone literature at the 800 level.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5993 - Independent Study


    Independent Study



    Credits: 1 to 3
  
  • FREN 5998 - Thesis Research


    For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 5999 - Thesis (M.A.)


    Composition and defense of master’s thesis.        Prerequisite:  Graduate standing and instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 7010 - Old French


    Old French



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 7012 - Old Provencal I


    Old Provencal I



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 7013 - Old Provencal II


    Old Provencal II



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 7020 - History of the French Language


    Studies the development of the French language from its origin to the present day with an examination of the oldest linguistic documents. Given in French or English as appropriate.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 7029 - Linguistics


    Introduces linguistic theory with applications to pedagogical and literary studies.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 7040 - Theories and Methods of Language Teaching


    Introduces the pedagogical approaches currently practiced in second-language courses at the university level. Critically examines the theories underlying various methodologies, and their relation to teaching. Assignments include development and critique of pedagogical material; peer observation and analysis; and a final teaching portfolio project.



    Credits: 1 to 3
  
  • FREN 7500 - Topics in Theory and Criticism


    Required of all graduate students in French unless exempted by the graduate advisor. Studies the motivations, ideas, and methods of literary theory, criticism and historiography (including genre studies); and the materials and methods of literary research. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in French or at least two courses at the 400 level with grades of B+ or better



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 7559 - New Course in French Language and General Linguistics


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of French literature and general linguistics.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • FREN 8510 - Seminar in Medieval Literature


    (a) Chansons de geste, chroniques, memories.(b) Vies des saints, romans. (c) Poesie non-narrative, theatre. (d) Satire et humanisme. Prerequisite: FREN 508.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 8520 - Seminar in Sixteenth-Century Literature


    (a) Rabelais. (b) Montaigne.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 8530 - Seminar in Seventeenth-Century Literature


    (a) Moliere. (b) Racine. (c) Corneille. (d) The Moralists. The Lyric of the early seventeenth century. La Fontaine. (g) Contes et Nouvelles.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 8540 - Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Literature


    (a) Voltaire. (b) Diderot.(c) Theater. (d) Novel. Rousseau. Marivaux.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 8559 - New Course in French Literature and General Linguistics


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of French literature and general linguistics.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • FREN 8560 - Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Literature


    (a) Flaubert. (b) Zola. (c) Balzac. (d) Stendhal. Symbolist Theater. Naturalistic Novel. (g) Musset. (h) Hugo. (i) Baudelaire and Nerval. La Decadence. (k) Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarme. (l) George Sand. (m) Vigny.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 8570 - Seminar in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature


    (a) Proust. (b) Gide. (c) Theater. (d) Roman-fleuve. Existentialism. New Novel. (g) Valery. (h) Dada and Surrealism. (i) Supervielle and St. John Perse.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 8580 - Seminar in Literature


    Transhistorical study of genres (the novel, poetry, theater), themes (gravity, the body) or cultural issues (gender, resistance).



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 8581 - Seminar in Francophone Literature


    Studies the Francophone literature of Africa, with special emphasis on post-World War II poets, novelists, and playwrights. Examines the role of cultural and literary reviews in the historical and ideological development.



    Credits: 3
  
  • FREN 8584 - Seminar in Cinema


    A range of analytical approaches to the study of cinema, including cinematographic language and structure, the representation of socio-cultural phenomena in film, and the experience of cinema viewing as a cultural and historical practice.



    Credits: 3
 

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