FREN 360 - Colloquium: 18th-Century Francophone Writers

Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3HU, CD, COLQ
In the eighteenth-century, Beckford, Casanova, Hamilton, Galiani, Grimm, Isabelle de Charrière, Jan Potocki, the prince de Ligne, Frederick II, Catherine the Great et al., are only some of the people who wrote, occasionally or habitually, in French. This course will examine whether these people used the “universal language” of the Enlightenment because it afforded them the freedom to write about subjects which might otherwise have been off-limits in their own language.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: L. Thommeret
Prerequisites & Notes
Appropriate SAT II score (650-800) or AP score (4 or 5), appropriate score on placement test, FREN 301 the equivalent.