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FREN 3204 - French Literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Order, Reason, and Revolution

1 Course Unit(s)
An exploration of the century of Louis XIV and of the Age of Enlightenment. Using literary texts, film, music, and visual arts, this course will view baroque art and literature, classicism and Versailles, the esprit critique of moralist and philosophical writers, and libertine thought. Authors may include Corneille, Racine, Molière, Madame de La Fayette, Descartes, Pascal, Diderot, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Laclos.

General Education Requirement(s): Upper-level Liberal Arts; Writing Intensive 
Prerequisite(s): FREN 2014 or FREN 2024 and FYS 1104 
Corequisite(s): None
Pre/Corequisite(s): None


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