College of Arts and Sciences
Departmental E-mail: [email protected]
Departmental URL: www.indiana.edu/~frithome (Please note that when conferring University Graduate School degrees, minors, certificates, and sub-plans, The University Graduate School’s staff use those requirements contained only in The University Graduate School
Bulletin.) Curriculum Degrees Offered
Master of Arts (French Literature, French Linguistics, French Instruction, Italian), and Doctor of Philosophy (French Literature, French Linguistics, Italian) Special Departmental Requirements (See also general University Graduate School requirements.)
All associate instructors in French are required to take F572 and F573; all associate instructors in Italian are required to take M572 and M573.
Admission Requirements for All Programs
1. Undergraduate major in French or Italian, depending on intended focus, or its equivalent
2. Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test:
Domestic student requirement, recommended for international students;
3. Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL):
International students only;
4. Three letters of recommendation
5. Statement of purpose in English and target language 6. Official transcripts and certified English translations 7. C.V.
8. Writing sample
For further details and program-specific requirements, please check the Web site (www.indiana.edu/~frithome/
graduate/) or contact the graduate secretary in the department.
Degrees in French
Master of Arts Degree—French Instruction Course Requirements
A total of 30 credit hours, at least 20 credit hours of which must be in French, including F572, F573, F574 or F578, and F580. Additional work must include at least one course from each of the following four areas:
French language, Francophone civilization, Francophone literature, and foreign language methodology/applied linguistics/second-language acquisition.
Language Proficiency Requirement
At the end of the first year of graduate study, students will be interviewed in French using a system based on the oral interview procedures developed by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and the Educational Testing Service. A score equivalent to
“Advanced High” on the ACTFL/ETS scale is required.
Final Examination
Written examinations in the following two areas (one essay written in French): applied French linguistics and foreign language methodology/second language acquisition. Oral examination in one of the following two
areas of the student’s choice: Francophone civilization or Francophone literature.
Master of Arts Degree—French Literature Course Requirements
A total of 30 credit hours, at least 23 credit hours of which must be in French.
Final Project
Evaluation of accumulated dossier of graduate-level term papers by the French literature faculty. Dossier must be prefaced by 4-5 page rationale written (in French) by the student.
Master of Arts Degree—French Linguistics Course Requirements
A total of 30 credit hours, of which 20 must be in French, including F574 or F578, F576, F577, F579, F580, F582 and F603.
Language Requirement
Reading proficiency in a language selected from the following list: a modern Romance language other than French (Haitian Creole may count), a regional/minority language of France, German, Russian, Latin, or Classical Greek.
Final Examination
Two written exams; one chosen from Group A and one from Group B. Group A: applied French linguistics, history of the French language, and pedagogy/language acquisition. Group B: phonology, syntax. To be admitted to the Ph.D. program, students must select from the first two areas in Group A. Students desiring admission to the Ph.D. program must submit a research statement on the day of the written exams and participate in an oral Ph.D.
admission interview.
Doctor of Philosophy Degree—French Literature Admission Requirements
Successful completion of the curriculum and final examination constituting the department’s M.A. program in French literature. Students with an M.A. from another institution will first be admitted to the M.A. program, but their work will be submitted for a faculty review at the end of the second semester to be considered for admission to the Ph.D program.
Course Requirements
A total of 90 credit hours: 65 credit hours of course work plus 25 thesis hours (F875). F564 and F603 or their equivalents are required.
Language Requirement
Reading proficiency in one outside language chosen from German, Latin, Catalan, Classical Greek, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, or Spanish. Another language may be substituted with permission of the D.G.S. and the Ph.D.
dissertation advisor.
Minor(s)
One Ph.D. minor is required for a total of 9 to 12 credit hours, as required by the minor department(s) or
program(s). Examination on the minor subject is at the discretion of the minor department.
Qualifying Examination
Oral and written exams covering six literary periods (Middle Ages, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth/twenty-first centuries) or 5 centuries and literary criticism. Students may choose to be exempted from written exams on two of the six literary periods, provided they have achieved a grade of B or higher in two courses from each of these areas. Students must develop a customized reading list in their intended area (literary period) of specialization.
Dissertation
Doctor of Philosophy Degree—French Linguistics Admission Requirements
Successful completion of the curriculum and final examination constituting the department’s M.A. program in French linguistics, plus submission of a research statement and successful completion of the Ph.D.
admission interview. Students with an M.A. from another institution must pass the department’s M.A. examination, submit the research statement, and sit for the Ph.D.
admission interview. This can take place at the beginning of the second year; courses taken during the first year count toward the Ph.D.
Course Requirements
A total of 90 credit hours: 65 credit hours of course work plus 25 thesis hours (F875). Students must complete at least five 600-level courses in French Linguistics excluding F603.
Language Requirement
Reading proficiency in two languages as follows: (1) German or Latin, and (2) a Romance language other than French, a regional/minority language of France, or Haitian Creole. (Note that Picard and Occitan ARE regional/
minority languages of France.) The language selected for the M.A. may count toward the Ph.D. requirement. For specialists in the history of French, we highly recommend the study of both German and Latin (in addition to the Romance language).
Minor(s)
Twelve (12) credit hours of course work required in (1) general linguistics, excluding Linguistics L503, or (2) second language studies. Other minors are possible with the permission of the Director of Graduate Studies.
Qualifying Examination
Students will take two cloistered General Exams, three hours each in length, and one Research Exam, to be completed over a period of one week with access to research materials. For the General Exams the students can select one area from Group A (Lexicology/
Lexicography, Language Contact, History of French, Sociolinguistics and Dialectology) and one area from Group B (Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Second Language Acquisition). Selection of the examination areas will be made in consultation with the student’s advisory committee.
The Research Exam is designed to demonstrate that students have developed sufficient depth in a particular constellation of research questions and that they are ready to begin work on their dissertations. The area of this exam corresponds to the area of the student’s projected dissertation topic and will be distinct from those of the two general exams. The particular question to be addressed, which will reflect the student’s research interests, will be assigned at the beginning of the one-week period during which students write the exam. The Research Exam must be written in English.
The exams will normally be taken during the second semester of the fourth year of study. The General Exams (cloistered) may be taken in January or September; the Research Exam requirement must be satisfied during the same semester as the General Exams. Examination on the minor subject is at the discretion of the minor department.
Dissertation Degrees in Italian
Master of Arts Degree in Italian Course Requirements
A total of 30 credit hours, of which 20 must be in Italian.
Final Examination
Six-hour written exam based on reading list covering all periods of Italian literature. Exam must be taken no later than the fourth semester if the student intends to seek admission to the Ph.D. program.
Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Italian Admission Requirement
Successful completion of the department’s M.A. program in Italian or the equivalent. For further details, contact the graduate secretary in the department.
Course Requirements
A total of 90 credit hours. 65 credit hours of course work plus 25 thesis hours (M875).
Language Requirement
Reading proficiency in one of the following: French, German, Classical Greek, Latin, Spanish or Portuguese.
Minor(s)
One Ph.D. minor is required for a total of 9 to 12 credit hours, as required by the minor department(s) or program(s). Examination on the minor subject is at the discretion of the minor department.
Qualifying Examination
The qualifying exam consists of (1) an in-depth written exam covering all periods of Italian literature and culture, including film; and (2) the submission of a dissertation project.
Students must take the written exam no later than their fourth semester in the Ph.D. program. This is a two- day exam given on the first Friday and Saturday of each semester, 5 hours each day. Day one will cover the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Baroque. Day two will cover the eighteenth century to the present including cinema.
The second part of the Ph.D. exam consists of the submission of a preliminary description of a dissertation project of approximately 20 to 25 pages of length (including a select bibliography). Students must submit their dissertation project as soon as possible after having passed the first part of their Ph.D. exam, and no later than the following exam session.
Dissertation Ph.D. Minors
Ph.D. Minor in French Literature
Doctoral students from other departments may complete a minor in French literature by successfully completing no fewer than four French literature courses (12 credit hours) listed in the University Graduate School Bulletin as carrying credit toward the Ph.D., of which no more than two may be at the 400 level. In all cases, selection of the particular courses to be counted must be made in consultation with the Director of Graduate studies in French literature.
Minor in French Linguistics
Doctoral students from other departments may complete a minor in French linguistics by successfully completing no fewer than four French linguistics courses (12 credit hours) at the 500 level or above. Doctoral students in French literature may complete a minor in French linguistics by successfully completing no fewer than three French linguistics courses (9 credit hours, 500- level courses or above) in addition to F603, for a total of 4 courses. In all cases, selection of the particular courses to be counted must be made in consultation with the Director of Graduate Studies in French linguistics.
Ph.D. Minor in Italian
Doctoral students from other departments may complete a minor in Italian by successfully completing no fewer than four Italian courses (12 credit hours) listed in this bulletin as carrying graduate credit. Selection of the particular courses to be counted must be made in consultation with the Director of Graduate Studies in Italian.
Faculty Chairperson
Professor Andrea Ciccarelli*
Graduate Faculty
(An asterisk [*] denotes membership in the University Graduate School faculty with the endorsement to direct doctoral dissertations.)
Rudy Professors of French and Italian
Rosemary Lloyd* (Emerita), Albert Valdman* (Emeritus, Linguistics)
Professors
Richard Carr* (Emeritus), Gilbert Chaitin* (Emeritus, Comparative Literature), Andrea Ciccarelli*, Laurent Pierre Dekydtspotter* (Second Language Studies), Eileen Julien*
(Comparative Literature), Edoardo Lèbano* (Emeritus), Eric M. MacPhail*, Jacques Emile Merceron*, Emanuel J.
Mickel*, Samuel Rosenberg* (Emeritus), Colleen Ryan*, H. Wayne Storey*, Antonio Vitti*
Associate Professors
Guillaume Ansart*, Marco Arnaudo*, Julie Auger*
(Linguistics), Brett Bowles, Margaret E. Gray*, Oana Panaite*, Russell Pfohl* (Emeritus), Kevin Rottet*, Massimo Scalabrini*, Barbara S. Vance* (Linguistics)
Assistant Professors
Hall Bjørnstad*, Alison Calhoun, Nicolas Valazza*
Senior Lecturer Kelly Sax Lecturers
Karolina Serafin, Alicia Vitti Directors of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor Julie Auger* (French Linguistics), Ballantine Hall 635, (812) 855-7958
Associate Professor Oana Panaïté* (French Literature), Ballantine Hall 627, (812) 855-1134
Associate Professor Marco Arnaudo* (Italian), Ballantine Hall 633, (812) 855-7812
Courses Graduate
GRAD-G 611 Romance Linguistics I (3 cr.) GRAD-G 901 Advanced Research (6 cr.) French
FRIT-F 401 Structure & Devel of French (3 cr.) P: F313 or F314 or consent of instructor.
FRIT-F 410 French Literature of the Middle Ages (3 cr.) Not open to M.A. or Ph.D. candidates in French.
FRIT-F 413 French Renaissance (3 cr.)
FRIT-F 423 Seventeenth-Century French Literature (3 cr.)
FRIT-F 424 Ideas and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France (3 cr.)
FRIT-F 435 Enlightenment Narrative (3 cr.) FRIT-F 436 Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau (3 cr.) FRIT-F 443 Great Novels of the Nineteenth Century (3 cr.)
FRIT-F 445 Nineteenth-Century Drama (3 cr.) FRIT-F 446 Great Poetry of the Nineteenth Century (3 cr.)
FRIT-F 450 Culture and Society in French Studies (3 cr.)
FRIT-F 461 La France contemporaine: Cinema et Culture (3 cr.)
FRIT-F 463 Civilisation française I (3 cr.) FRIT-F 464 Civilisation française II (3 cr.) FRIT-F 474 Thème et version (2 cr.)
FRIT-F 475 Le Français Oral: Cours Avancé (2 cr.)
FRIT-F 501 Medieval French Literature I (3 cr.) Introductory survey; all texts read in original language; no previous knowledge of Old French required.
FRIT-F 502 Medieval French Literature II (3 cr.) P: F501 or equivalent. Second part of introductory survey; all texts read in original language.
FRIT-F 503 Reading Old French (1 cr.) P: F501 or equivalent. Oral translation of Old French texts and elucidation of textual and grammatical difficulties. May be repeated twice for credit.
FRIT-F 505 Middle French Literature (3 cr.)
Representative works of fourteenth and fifteenth centuries;
each semester focuses on a particular writer or genre.
FRIT-F 507 Foreign Language Institute (1-6 cr.) FRIT-F 510 Foreign Study in French (2-8 cr.) Formal study in a French university; language, literature, and culture of France. Credit to apply only to the M.A. in French Instruction degree. Program must be approved by department.
FRIT-F 513 French Renaissance Prose (3 cr.) Prose works from sixteenth-century France including letters, essays, novels, short stories, Bible translations, travel accounts, political treatises, and philosophical dialogues by authors famous and obscure, humorous and solemn, terse and prolix. Also includes review of lexical and grammatical peculiarities of sixteenth-century French and typographic conventions of Renaissance printed books.
FRIT-F 514 French Renaissance Poetry (3 cr.) French lyric poetry of the sixteenth century from the Rhétoriqueurs to Agrippa d’Aubigné. Late medieval fixed forms and the chanson, sonnet, ode, and metrical experiment of vers mesurés. Formal analysis and situation of texts in their intellectual and historical contexts. Study of poetic manifestos of the Pléiade and their rivals.
FRIT-F 520 Advanced French Phonetics (3 cr.) General introduction to French phonetics and phonemics; training in the evaluation of pronunciation accuracy and the teaching of French pronunciation at the secondary school and university levels; remedial practice.
FRIT-F 523 French Seventeenth-Century Literature and Culture (3 cr.) Questions concerning seventeenth- century France as treated in literature, philosophy, moralist teachings, science, and les beaux arts.
FRIT-F 535 Le XVIIIe siècle: l’Essai (3 cr.) Introduction to one of the two major genres of the Enlightenment, broadly defined and exemplified by writers like Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau.
FRIT-F 536 Le Roman au XVIIIe siècle (3 cr.) Introduction to the study of the French novel in the eighteenth century with special emphasis on three major genres of the period: the memoir-novel, the epistolary novel, and the philosophical novel.
FRIT-F 540 Poésie et poétique au 19e siècle (3 cr.) Study of French poetry which may include Romantic, Parnassian, Decadent and Symbolist poets, as well as 19th-century poetic manifestos.
FRIT-F 545 Romans et autres recits du 19e siècle (3 cr.) Study of various forms of narrative (realist,
fantastical, psychological, historical, decadent, etc.) in 19th century French literature.
FRIT-F 548 L' Histoire, le drame et l'esthétique au 19e siècle (3 cr.) Study of the interrelations between history, theater and aesthetics in France in the 19th century.
FRIT-F 552 La Poésie au XXe siècle I (3 cr.) Panorama:
poets such as Cendrars, Apollinaire, Valéry, Claudel, les surréalistes, Saint-John Perse, Ponge, Michaux.
FRIT-F 553 La Poésie au XXe siècle II (3 cr.)
Concentration on one or several authors; a school, e.g., surrealism; certain formal aspects.
FRIT-F 556 Le Roman aux XXe et XXe siècles (3 cr.) Representative French-language novelists such as Proust, Gide, Colette, Celine, Bernanos, Sartre, Sarraute, Simon, Le Clézio, Labou Tansi, Djebar, Chamoiseau, Échenoz, etc., and aesthetic movements which influenced fiction- writing such as Existentialism, Négritude, le Nouveau Roman, Créolité, etc.
FRIT-F 559 Théâtre/Essai au XXe et XXle siècles (3 cr.) Course focuses on one or both of the two genres.
Individual playwrights such as Jarry, Cocteau, Apollinaire, Claudel, Novarina, and groups such as surrealism, the theatre of the absurd, postcolonial and contemporary theater: Beckett, Artaud, Césaire, Labou Tansi, and others. Important essayists such as Bergson, Sartre, Fanon, Bataille, Derrida, Cixous, etc.
FRIT-F 561 Studies in French Civilization (3 cr.) Content varies. May include historical survey of the development of French civilization since the revolution, taking into consideration sociopolitical history, history of ideas, fine arts, literature. Field of study may be extended to the French-speaking world. May be repeated twice for credit with a different topic.
FRIT-F 563 Introduction to Graduate Study and Research (1 cr.) S/F grading
FRIT-F 564 Issues in Literary Theory (3 cr.) Important issues and methods of literary study, such as catharsis, genre, meaning, periodization, representation, rhetoric, and vraisemblance, studied in an historical perspective.
FRIT-F 565 Introduction to French Linguistics (3 cr.) Introduction to the structure of the French language:
phonology, morphology, and syntax.
FRIT-F 572 Practicum in College French Teaching (1 cr.) Focused classroom observations followed by discussions; identification and evaluation of teaching techniques. Required of new associate instructors; offered only in fall semester.
FRIT-F 573 Methods of College French Teaching (3 cr.) Theoretical notions underlying current approaches;
testing; evaluation of teacher performance and instructional materials. Required of all associate instructors; offered only in spring semester.
FRIT-F 574 Thème et version: cours avancé (3 cr.) Translation of contemporary texts from English into French, occasionally from French into English. Emphasis on problems of literary styles.
FRIT-F 576 Introduction to French Phonology (3 cr.) Study of French phonology and the phonology/morphology
interface within the framework of recent linguistic models, including solutions to major descriptive problems proposed from the early twentieth century to the present.
FRIT-F 577 Introduction to French Syntax (3 cr.) Study of French syntax and the syntax/semantics interface within the framework of recent linguistic models.
FRIT-F 578 Contrastive Study of French and English (3 cr.) Advanced contrastive study of written French and English, with emphasis on problems of interference.
Readings, exercises.
FRIT-F 579 Introduction to French Morphology (3 cr.) Introduction to word formation in French, including inflection, derivation, and compounding.
FRIT-F 580 Applied French Linguistics (3 cr.) Introduction to the lexical, phonological, morphological, and syntactic structure of French from a pedagogical perspective. Presentation of the several types of variation in the French language worldwide and linguistic diversity in France.
FRIT-F 581 Structure of a Regional Language of France (3 cr.) Study of the structure of a regional language of France, including its phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon. Students will learn to read the language fairly fluently and have a chance to research one aspect of its structure. May be repeated for up to 6 credit hours with a different topic.
FRIT-F 582 Introduction to French Semantics (3 cr.) Introduction to issues in the interpretation of French.
Focusing on the interpretation of various constructions of French, the course investigates semantic representations in the verbal and nominal domains. The goal is to comprehend how speakers of French develop these precise semantic intuitions.
FRIT-F 584 Stylistics and Semantics (3 cr.) Relations between types of interpretation and stylistic factors. Ludic- esthetic (including literary) uses of words versus cognitive- moral uses. Emphasis on the former; genre divisions;
analysis of texts focused on basic problems of interpretive decision.
FRIT-F 603 History of the French Language I (3 cr.) Overview of the subject including consideration of all aspects; concentration on internal development (phonology, morphology, syntax) from Latin to modern French. Knowledge of Latin useful.
FRIT-F 604 History of the French Language II (3 cr.) P: F603 or equivalent. Intensive study of selected aspects of the internal evolution of French. Knowledge of Latin useful.
FRIT-F 605 History of French Prose Style (3 cr.) Philological and literary study of major figures and trends in prose style from the late Middle Ages to the present.
Ciceronianism, style coupé, oratorical styles, écriture artiste, etc.
FRIT-F 615 Studies in Medieval French Literature (3 cr.) P: Knowledge of Old French. Intensive study of one writer, work, theme, or genre, such as Chrétien de Troyes, the Roman de la rose, lyric poetry. May be repeated twice for credit with a different topic.