This seminar prepares majors to do original academic research and, in some cases, creative work for their senior projects. Prerequisites: FI 200, FI 224G or AM 310H.
Introduction to French for students with little or no training in the language. Three classes per week; intensive practice in speaking, listening, reading, writing, with additional focus on cultural understanding.
Introduction to French for students with little or no training in the language. Three classes per week; intensive practice in speaking, listening, reading, writing, with additional focus on cultural understanding.
Sequel to FR 101-102, or for students with
more than three years of study in high school.
Grammar review and practice in all four skill areas
develop broad language skills. Strong focus on
cultural communication. Prerequisite: FR 102 or
three or more years of high school French.
The first course in the third-year sequence will focus on developing oral and written expression in French. Readings will be in a wide variety of genres in order to broaden students' competence in cultural communication. Prerequisite: FR 202.
Cultural history, literature and cinema of French-speaking regions. Focus on diversity, gender, colonial war, the Negritude movement, and multicultural France. Prerequisite: FR 302H. Simultaneous enrollment in FR302H is also acceptable. NB: This course will be taught entirely in French and all coursework will be submitted in French.
Major ideas from classical Greece through the Enlightenment that have shaped our intellectual heritage. Emphasis on origins of academic disciplines, sources of creativity, social and cultural factors, key individuals. Variety of learning methods. Prerequisite: Junior standing and selection as a Ford Scholar. The two course sequence (FS 301 and 302) fulfill either an E or G perspective and the humanities academic area requirement.
Continuation of FS 301 covering nineteenth and twentieth centuries and culminating in a major project that draws on student's knowledge of history to address a significant intellectual problem in the future. Prerequisite: FS 301 and selection as a Ford Scholar. The two course sequence (FS 301 and 302) fulfill either an E or G perspective and the humanities academic area requirement.
Required of Seniors in the Ford Apprentice Scholars Program. Shared reflections on issues pertaining to research, teaching, and other aspects of teaching as a career. Participation in both fall and spring semesters for a total of one course credit.
Required of Seniors in the Ford Apprentice Scholars Program. Shared reflections on issues pertaining to research, teaching, and other aspects of teaching as a career. Participation in both fall and spring semesters for a total of one course credit. Prerequisite: FS1 410.
In depth treatment of the Hippocratic treatise “Airs, Waters, Places” (circa 400 BCE). All readings in ancient Greek. Analysis of early theories about ecosystems and other environmental phenomena. Prereq: GK 102.
This course provides an introduction to Greek poetry. Read Homer, Euripides, Menander, and other great authors in the original language with attention to genre, style, and historical context. Prerequisite: GK 102.