Courses

TR 12:30-1:45
3 credits
Instructor: Elizabeth Weber

Get ready to chat in French! We’ll build vocabulary and communication skills, expand grammar skills, and explore songs, short stories, films, and current events from the French-speaking world. What’s your goal with French? Let’s get there together!

Prerequisite(s): FR 104, appropriate score on the department placement test, or consent of the instructor.

TR 9:30-10:45
3 credits
Instructor: Ellen McClure

Join us as we explore French popular culture through music, comics, film, television, and the internet. From the gilets jaunes to the banlieue, we’ll discuss what’s happening in France today and compare it to American popular culture and to France’s recent past.

Prerequisite(s): FR 104, appropriate score on the department placement test, or consent of the instructor.

MW 3:00-4:15
3 credits
Instructor: Rose Gérazime

Explore multicultural Paris in French films, while practicing your speaking, listening, writing, and grammar skills. Paris, like Chicago, has many neighborhoods and many different stories. Join us on our tour of Paris in film!

Prerequisite(s): FR 104, appropriate score on the department placement test, or consent of the instructor.

TR 3:30-4:45
Taught in English
3 credits
Instructor: Carly Lapôtre

Creative Arts & World Cultures course

Imaginary worlds, fantastic voyages, strange creatures, wild machinery and technology are some elements of French sci-fi and fantasy that we’ll explore in FR295. We’ll look at graphic novels, comics, movies and more. Whether you’re new to fantasy and sci-fi, or eager to compare the French versions to what you already know, join us on the voyage!

Recommended background: Successful completion of a 100-level class in the Humanities and ENGL 160 and ENGL 161.

Wednesday 12:00-12:50
Taught in English
1 credit
Instructor: Elizabeth Weber

Hands-on apprenticeship course to learn how to be a language peer tutor and Language Learning Assistant. Click here to find out what Language Learning Assistants and Tutors do and how it helps your own résumé as well as 100-level French students.

To register, first fill out the short application on our Become a tutor/LLA page. Contact lclc@uic.edu with questions.

Prerequisite: French 104 or tested into upper-level French.

MW 2:00-3:15
3 credits
Instructor: John Ireland

We think of “gangsters” as an American thing. But France is fascinated by its own underworld. What can French crime tell us about “respectable” French society? A lot of French films grapple with that question.

Prerequisite(s): Two 200-level French courses (or equivalent); or one 200-level French course plus concurrent registration in a second 200-level French course; or consent of the instructor.

MW 11:00-12:15
3 credits
Instructor: John Ireland

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Prerequisite(s): Two 200-level French courses (or equivalent); or one 200-level French course plus concurrent registration in a second 200-level French course; or consent of the instructor.

M 5:00-7:30
3 credits
Instructor: Yann Robert

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Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or better or concurrent registration in a 300-level French course (or equivalent); or consent of the instructor.

R 3:30-6:00
3 credits
Instructor: Inma Taboada

(Description coming soon.)

Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or above, consent of the instructor, and three courses at the 200 and 300 levels.

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