Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

Beginning

There is no language prerequisite for courses at this language level. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

High Beginning

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of one semester (or two quarters) of college-level French. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

Please use the following only as a guideline to determine what each student's language level may be. Each semester/quarter is of COLLEGE-LEVEL French or the equivalent of:

0 Semesters/0 Quarters = Low Beginning
1-2 Semesters/1-3 Quarters = High Beginning
3-4 Semesters/4-6 Quarters = Intermediate
5-6 Semesters/7-9 Quarters = Advanced
Fluent/Native Speaker = Superior

Each lecture is illustrated with about 200 pictures by using a power point presentation.

Lecture 1: From prehistory to the end of Middle Ages
1. History: Prehistory, the Gaul, the barbarian invasions, the Middle Ages
2. Art
3. Literature in the Middle Ages

Lecture 2: The XVIth century: The Renaissance period
1. History: Valois, the Bourbons
2. Art: architecture (the first Renaissance period and the second Renaissance period), sculpture, painting
3. Literature

Lecture 3: The XVIIth century (1st part)
1. History: The regency of Mary de Medicis, Louis XIII, the regency of Anne of Austria
2. Art: - Religious architecture, civilian architecture
-Sculpture
-Painting (baroque and classical influence)
3. Literature

Lecture 4: The XVIIthe century (2nd part)
1. History: Louis XIV (internal and external politics)
2. Art: architecture, internal decoration, sculpture, painting
3. Literature

Lecture 5: The XVIIIth century (1st part)
1. History: the regency of Philippe of Orleans, ministry of the Duke of Bourbon, ministry of Fleury and personal reign of Louis XV
2. Art: - architecture (the rococo and the return of the classical lines)
-Internal decoration
-Sculpture
-Painting
3. Literature

Lecture 6: The XVIIIth century (2nd part)
1. History: Louis XVI, the revolutionary period and the Directory
2. Art: architecture, sculpture, internal decoration, painting
3. Literature

Lecture 7: The XIXth century (1st part)
1. History: The consulate, the Empire, the 1st Restoration, the 2nd Restoration and the Julyn Monarchy
2. Art: architecture, sculpture, internal decoration, painting
3. Literature

Lecture 8: The XIXth century (2nd part)
1. History: The Second Republic, the Second Empire and the Third Republic
2. Art: architecture and town-planning, internal decoration, sculpture, painting
3. Literature

Lecture 9: The XXth century (1st part)
1. History: The Third Republic, daily life (the Belle Epoque, the "roaring twenties")
2. Art: architecture, internal decoration, sculpture, painting
3. Literature

Exam: Multiple-choice questionnaire