Course Offerings by term

This high intermediate course allows students to reinforce and expand their ability to express themselves, defend an opinion, and debate with others. Special attention is paid to increasing students' ability to form complex sentences to express attitudes, wishes, necessity, doubt, emotions, to link ideas and to speculate.


RoomDayStart TimeEnd Time
SD-5
Tuesday
12:10
13:30
SD-5
Wednesday
12:10
13:30
SD-5
Friday
12:10
13:30

(formerly FR307 and FR2055)This course is designed for highly motivated students who plan to enroll in advanced French courses on campus or abroad. Heavy emphasis will be placed on individual work based on customized programs of study in chosen textbooks. Special attention will be given training on various forms of written French as well to a strengthening of the coherent structure of these writings.Class time will be devoted to analyzing the students’ trials and errors, through group discussions, review and quizzes. Taught in French.


RoomDayStart TimeEnd Time
SD-6
Monday
10:35
11:55
SD-6
Thursday
10:35
11:55

Shows the evolution of modern French culture in its relationship to cinema. Examines the early influence of literature and theater on cinema and its subsequent detachment, to be recognized as an art in itself with its own particular form. Emphasizes the viewing and discussing of one film each week: two class meetings plus one film per week. Taught in French.


RoomDayStart TimeEnd Time
G-002
Monday
15:20
18:15

This is a course for beginners. By reading simple ancient Greek texts and trying to write (or, if you like, speak) some Greek yourself, you learn the first grammar essentials and acquire a basic vocabulary of c. 1000 words. Choice of a particular textbook and specialization on particular aspects, e.g. Greek for students of philosophy, is possible.


RoomDayStart TimeEnd Time
SD-2
Tuesday
13:45
15:05
SD-2
Friday
13:45
15:05
RoomDayStart TimeEnd Time
G-L22
Monday
16:55
18:15
G-L22
Thursday
16:55
18:15

Surveys major issues concerning gender and the science of psychology in an attempt to answer the question: why is there such a gender gap when women and men share more psychological similarities than differences? Topics include: developmental processes and gender; gender roles and stereotypes, biology and gender; cross-cultural perspectives of gender; social-cultural theories of gender; language and gender, emotions and gender, health and gender.


RoomDayStart TimeEnd Time
C-102
Monday
16:55
19:50

Introduces the study of the moral conscience, repression, and the search for happiness. Examines Freud and Marcuse's theses concerning human sexuality and human rights in terms of antagonisms between, on the one hand, erotic preference, gender identity and aggression, and on the other, socialization, morality, and so-called civilized refinement.


RoomDayStart TimeEnd Time
G-002
Tuesday
15:20
18:15

Topics vary each semester.


RoomDayStart TimeEnd Time
SD-2
Wednesday
10:35
13:30