French
The French Department offers beginner to advanced language courses in the summer term. These include reading and translation, French language through culture, and courses in French and Francophone culture taught in English with options to read and write in French.
For questions about specific courses, contact the department.
Courses
Equivalent to FREN UN1101. Designed to help students understand, speak, read, and write French, and to recognize cultural features of French-speaking communities, now with the help of a newly digitized audio program. Students learn to provide information in French about their feelings, environment, families, and daily activities. Daily assignments, quizzes, laboratory work, and screening of video material.
Course Number
FREN1101S001Format
In-PersonSession
Session APoints
4 ptsSummer 2025
Times/Location
Mo 10:00-12:05Tu 10:00-12:05We 10:00-12:05Th 10:00-12:05Section/Call Number
001/10251Enrollment
9 of 15Instructor
Alexandra BorerPrerequisites: one term of college French or one year of secondary school French. $15.00= Language Resource Fee, $15.00 = Materials Fee , Equivalent to FREN UN1102. Continues the work of French S1101D and completes the study of elementary French. Students continue to develop communicative skills, narrating recent events (past, present, and future), describing daily life activities, and learning about cultural features of France and of the wider Francophone world. Following the communicative approach, students, with the help of the instructor, learn to solve problems using the language, to communicate their feelings and opinions, and to obtain information from others. Daily assignments, quizzes, laboratory work, and screening of video materials.
Course Number
FREN1102S001Format
In-PersonSession
Session APoints
4 ptsSummer 2025
Times/Location
Mo 10:00-12:05Tu 10:00-12:05We 10:00-12:05Th 10:00-12:05Section/Call Number
001/10252Enrollment
4 of 15Instructor
Pascale CreponPrerequisites: one term of college French or one year of secondary school French. $15.00= Language Resource Fee, $15.00 = Materials Fee , Equivalent to FREN UN1102. Continues the work of French S1101D and completes the study of elementary French. Students continue to develop communicative skills, narrating recent events (past, present, and future), describing daily life activities, and learning about cultural features of France and of the wider Francophone world. Following the communicative approach, students, with the help of the instructor, learn to solve problems using the language, to communicate their feelings and opinions, and to obtain information from others. Daily assignments, quizzes, laboratory work, and screening of video materials.
Course Number
FREN1102S002Format
In-PersonSession
Session BPoints
4 ptsSummer 2025
Times/Location
Mo 10:00-12:05Tu 10:00-12:05We 10:00-12:05Th 10:00-12:05Section/Call Number
002/10253Enrollment
10 of 15Instructor
Samuel SkipponCourse Number
FREN1201S001Format
In-PersonSession
Session APoints
4 ptsSummer 2025
Times/Location
Mo 10:00-12:05Tu 10:00-12:05We 10:00-12:05Th 10:00-12:05Section/Call Number
001/10254Enrollment
3 of 15Instructor
Sophie QueunietCourse Number
FREN1201S002Format
In-PersonSession
Session BPoints
4 ptsSummer 2025
Times/Location
Mo 10:00-12:05Tu 10:00-12:05We 10:00-12:05Th 10:00-12:05Section/Call Number
002/10255Enrollment
8 of 15Instructor
Eric MatheisCourse Number
FREN1202S001Format
In-PersonSession
Session APoints
4 ptsSummer 2025
Times/Location
Mo 10:00-12:05Tu 10:00-12:05We 10:00-12:05Th 10:00-12:05Section/Call Number
001/10256Enrollment
3 of 15Instructor
Zachary Desjardins-MooneyCourse Number
FREN1202S002Format
In-PersonSession
Session BPoints
4 ptsSummer 2025
Times/Location
Mo 10:00-12:05Tu 10:00-12:05We 10:00-12:05Th 10:00-12:05Section/Call Number
002/10257Enrollment
5 of 15Instructor
Hayet SellamiPrimarily for graduate students in other departments who have some background in French and who wish to meet the French reading requirement for the Ph.D. degree, or for scholars whose research involves references in the French language. Intensive reading and translation, both prepared and at sight, in works drawn from literature, criticism, philosophy, and history. Brief review of grammar; vocabulary exercises.