The Art of the Essay: Creative Nonfiction in French
FREN 304
Spring 2025
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01
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The "Art of the Essay" is both a creative nonfiction writing class and a literature seminar, a hybrid experience where students will read some of the most momentous and important examples of the essay genre while simultaneously producing their own interpretative compositions. Writing experiences may include opinion pieces, historical fiction, writing on art or music, and biographical sketches. To improve our own writing, we will read essays by Montaigne (the writer who effectively defined the genre) before moving onto later authors from the French and Francophone world (e.g., Voltaire, Baudelaire, Césaire, Beauvoir) who gravitated to this open and highly personal way of writing to further their own artistic or ideological positions. As a supplement to the class we will also be inviting journalists and essay writers from both France and the United States to speak to us. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA RLAN |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (FRST-MN)(FRST)(RMST) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 75% - 89% |
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| Instructor(s): Curran,Andrew Times: .M.W... 01:20PM-02:40PM; Location: RLAN106; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 10 | JR major: 3 | | |
| Seats Available: 8 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 0 | SO: 1 | FR: 1 |
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