The second semester of this intensive course for beginners provides students with the linguistic tools to read excerpts from a play (Antigone by Jean Anouilh), to polish a written autobiography, and to perform short oral skits. A variety of cultural materials help students acquire grammatical structures and expand their vocabulary. Recommended course background: AS 210.101 or placement test score: https://learnmore.jhu.edu/browse/ksas/internal/selfenroll/courses/as-french-placement-test. May not be taken on a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis. Contact: Claude Guillemard ([email protected])

• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Guillemard, Claude H
• Room: Smokler Center Library
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second semester of this intensive course for beginners provides students with the linguistic tools to read excerpts from a play (Antigone by Jean Anouilh), to polish a written autobiography, and to perform short oral skits. A variety of cultural materials help students acquire grammatical structures and expand their vocabulary. Recommended course background: AS 210.101 or placement test score: https://learnmore.jhu.edu/browse/ksas/internal/selfenroll/courses/as-french-placement-test. May not be taken on a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis. Contact: Claude Guillemard ([email protected])

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Guillemard, Claude H
• Room: Smokler Center Library
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second semester of this intensive course for beginners provides students with the linguistic tools to read excerpts from a play (Antigone by Jean Anouilh), to polish a written autobiography, and to perform short oral skits. A variety of cultural materials help students acquire grammatical structures and expand their vocabulary. Recommended course background: AS 210.101 or placement test score: https://learnmore.jhu.edu/browse/ksas/internal/selfenroll/courses/as-french-placement-test. May not be taken on a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis. Contact: Claude Guillemard ([email protected])

• Days/Times: MWF 3:00PM - 3:50PM
• Instructor: Guillemard, Claude H
• Room: Shriver Hall 001
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second semester of this intensive course for beginners provides students with the linguistic tools to read excerpts from a play (Antigone by Jean Anouilh), to polish a written autobiography, and to perform short oral skits. A variety of cultural materials help students acquire grammatical structures and expand their vocabulary. Recommended course background: AS 210.101 or placement test score: https://learnmore.jhu.edu/browse/ksas/internal/selfenroll/courses/as-french-placement-test. May not be taken on a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis. Contact: Claude Guillemard ([email protected])

• Days/Times: MW 6:00PM - 7:15PM
• Instructor: Anderson, Bruce; Jean-Pierre, Jean-Ederson
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This beginning French course is a fast-paced, intensive introduction to the French language and the culture of France and the French-speaking world, covering the content of French Elements 1 and 2 (AS 210.101-102) but in one semester. As such, it is meant for students who have some previous classroom or independent study of French (as assessed by a placement exam), or who are native or bilingual speakers of another Romance language. Classroom activities will emphasize spoken communication on a variety of topics, using relevant vocabulary and grammar. Extensive use of online resources outside of class will build skills in listening, reading, and writing. Completion of this class will allow students to enroll in Intermediate French 1 (AS 210.201).

• Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 3:50PM, TTh 3:00PM - 3:50PM
• Instructor: Anderson, Bruce
• Room: Gilman 277
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course develops skills in speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing. Systematic review of language structures with strong focus on oral communication and acquisition of vocabulary; extensive practice in writing and speaking; readings and films from French-speaking countries. Recommended Course Background: AS.210.102 or AS.210.104 or appropriate score on Placement test I.

• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Roos, Suzanne Lois
• Room: Gilman 479
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course develops skills in speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing. Systematic review of language structures with strong focus on oral communication and acquisition of vocabulary; extensive practice in writing and speaking; readings and films from French-speaking countries. Recommended Course Background: AS.210.102 or AS.210.104 or appropriate score on Placement test I.

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Roos, Suzanne Lois
• Room: Gilman 479
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course develops skills in speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing. Systematic review of language structures with strong focus on oral communication and acquisition of vocabulary; extensive practice in writing and speaking; readings and films from French-speaking countries. Recommended Course Background: AS.210.201 or score of 90-94 on Placement test I.

• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Luo, Wanyun; Roos, Suzanne Lois
• Room: Gilman 377
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course develops skills in speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing. Systematic review of language structures with strong focus on oral communication and acquisition of vocabulary; extensive practice in writing and speaking; readings and films from French-speaking countries. Recommended Course Background: AS.210.201 or score of 90-94 on Placement test I.

• Days/Times: MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Mariot, Manon Daniele Eliane
• Room: Gilman 479
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students in AS.210.301 will focus primarily on written expression, learning to ‘decipher’ classic and contemporary texts in order to expand their French vocabulary and communicate their ideas in writing with clarity and accuracy. (A primary focus on oral expression is provided in AS.210.302; the two advanced-level courses may be taken in either order or simultaneously.) Recommended Course Background: AS.210.202 or appropriate score on Placement test I: https://learnmore.jhu.edu/browse/ksas/internal/selfenroll/courses/as-french-placement-test

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Cook-Gailloud, Kristin Anna
• Room: Krieger 306
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students in AS.210.301 will focus primarily on written expression, learning to ‘decipher’ classic and contemporary texts in order to expand their French vocabulary and communicate their ideas in writing with clarity and accuracy. (A primary focus on oral expression is provided in AS.210.302; the two advanced-level courses may be taken in either order or simultaneously.) Recommended Course Background: AS.210.202 or appropriate score on Placement test I: https://learnmore.jhu.edu/browse/ksas/internal/selfenroll/courses/as-french-placement-test

• Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Cook-Gailloud, Kristin Anna
• Room: Smokler Center Library
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students in 210.302 will focus primarily on oral expression through individual and group work on contemporary media (music, film, current events) in order to expand their vocabulary and become fluent in conversation across social-cultural contexts. (A primary focus on written expression is provided in 210.301; the two advanced-level courses may be taken in either order or simultaneously.) Recommended Course Background: AS.210.202 or appropriate score on Placement test I: https://learnmore.jhu.edu/browse/ksas/internal/selfenroll/courses/as-french-placement-test

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Tribotte, Julien David; Wuensch, April
• Room: Gilman 186
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students in 210.302 will focus primarily on oral expression through individual and group work on contemporary media (music, film, current events) in order to expand their vocabulary and become fluent in conversation across social-cultural contexts. (A primary focus on written expression is provided in 210.301; the two advanced-level courses may be taken in either order or simultaneously.) Recommended Course Background: AS.210.202 or appropriate score on Placement test I: https://learnmore.jhu.edu/browse/ksas/internal/selfenroll/courses/as-french-placement-test

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Wuensch, April
• Room: Gilman 479
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students in 210.302 will focus primarily on oral expression through individual and group work on contemporary media (music, film, current events) in order to expand their vocabulary and become fluent in conversation across social-cultural contexts. (A primary focus on written expression is provided in 210.301; the two advanced-level courses may be taken in either order or simultaneously.) Recommended Course Background: AS.210.202 or appropriate score on Placement test I: https://learnmore.jhu.edu/browse/ksas/internal/selfenroll/courses/as-french-placement-test

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Wuensch, April
• Room: Croft Hall G02
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

This highly interactive, writing intensive course intends to 1) provide tools to help students reach linguistic proficiency in French (advanced lexical and idiomatic expressions, rhetorical devices used in complex argumentation; 2) sharpen analytical skills by applying the French method of Explication de textes to a variety of fictional and non-fictional discourses (film, literary excerpts, articles, social media); 3) help students develop their own voice in creative writing.

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Cook-Gailloud, Kristin Anna
• Room: Gilman 77
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

If the modern‐day Romance languages all evolved from Latin, how and why do they differ in so many important ways? What drives language change in the first place and why should this be the case? We approach these questions not only from a linguistic perspective (analyzing Romance sound systems, vocabulary, morphosyntax, and semantics), but from a cognitive‐psychological and a socio‐political perspective as well. Recommended Course Background: At least intermediate-level proficiency in a Romance language as assessed by coursework or placement exam; some previous coursework in linguistics is desirable but not necessary.

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Anderson, Bruce
• Room: Krieger 306
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/17
• PosTag(s): n/a

Readings and discussion of texts of various genres covering the time period from the Revolution to the 20th century. This sequence is a pre-requisite to all further literature courses. Students may co-register with an upper-level course during their second semester.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Desormeaux, Daniel
• Room: Gilman 75
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students will explore contemporary French society and culture through a wide variety of media: fiction and non-fiction readings (graphic novels, news periodicals, popular magazines), films, music, art, websites, and podcasts. A diverse range of hands-on activities in addition to guided readings will help students develop cultural awareness as we discuss topics such as education, politics, humor, sports, cuisine, immigration, slang, and national identity, as well as the historical factors that have influenced these facets of French and francophone culture. Recommended Course Background: AS.210.301 or AS.210.302 or permission of instructor.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Wuensch, April
• Room: Gilman 479
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/15
• PosTag(s): INST-CP

This course delves into the study of Poe's incredible impact on French literature and art. Although many of his American contemporaries dismissed him as a crude writer, he gained a more reverential status on the other side of the Atlantic throughout the 19th century, being introduced by Baudelaire as one of the first "poète maudit" of the century. Through Baudelaire's translations, Poe's writings gained recognition and his literary sensibility was widely praised. He influenced several major literary and artistic movements amongst them the Symbolist poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Valéry, the paintings of Edouard Manet and Paul Gauguin, but also the Fantastic in Maupassant's short stories and in Villiers de l'Isle-Adam writings. Moreover, Poe's influence is to be seen in the works of Jules Verne, the father of French science-fiction who admired Poe, in French Romanticism and in the detective stories of Emile Gaboriau. Through the prism of Poe's influence on French writers, this course allows a stimulating odyssey into various French works. Course taught in French.

• Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Mariot, Manon Daniele Eliane
• Room: Gilman 77
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course proposes to show to what extent the creation of imaginary spaces in French and francophone science fiction corresponds to a constant back-and-forth between science and folklore, real environments and fantasy spaces, French literature, and foreign literature. Section 1 (3 credits hours, in English); Section 2 (an additional class in French per week for an 4th credit hour) H W

• Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Jacob, Julia Marie Francoise
• Room: Bloomberg 178
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

This course proposes to show to what extent the creation of imaginary spaces in French and francophone science fiction corresponds to a constant back-and-forth between science and folklore, real environments and fantasy spaces, French literature, and foreign literature. Section 1 (3 credits hours, in English); Section 2 (an additional class in French per week for an 4th credit hour) H W

• Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Jacob, Julia Marie Francoise
• Room: Bloomberg 178
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

This seminar explores the history of thinking about non-human and human animals in France from the late sixteenth through the late nineteenth centuries. Topics to be explored include non-human sentience, interspecies relations, animals and industrialization, and the emergence of anti-cruelty laws. Taught in French.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Loiselle, Ken
• Room: Gilman 77
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/14
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

This course will meet three times during the semester to enable all French majors to prepare their thesis subject, thesis bibliography, and abstract prior to the writing of the Senior Thesis (AS.212.430). This course is required of all French majors and must be taken during the Fall semester of their senior year. Schedule TBA upon consultation with the class list, as there are only three group meetings. The rest of the meetings are in individual appointments with the DUS or another chosen French professor. Prerequisites: AS.212.333-334 and either prior enrollment or concurrent enrollment in AS.210.417 Eloquent French.

• Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Anderson, Wilda
• Room: Gilman 418
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

An in-depth and closely supervised initiation to research and thinking, oral and written expression, which leads to the composition of an honors thesis in French. Recommended Course Background: AS.212.429.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Desormeaux, Daniel
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

An in-depth and closely supervised initiation to research and thinking, oral and written expression, which leads to the composition of an honors thesis in French. Recommended Course Background: AS.212.429.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Wilda
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

An in-depth and closely supervised initiation to research and thinking, oral and written expression, which leads to the composition of an honors thesis in French. Recommended Course Background: AS.212.429.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Russo, Elena
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

The Caribbean is often described as enigmatic, uncommon and supernatural. While foreigners assume that the Caribbean is exotic, this course will explore this assumption from a Caribbean perspective. We will examine the links between Caribbean and Old-World imagination, the relationship between exoticism and Caribbean notions of superstition, and the way in which the Caribbean fictional universe derives from a variety of cultural myths. The course will be taught in English and all required texts are in English, French, and English translations from French. Students in the French program can choose to read all the original French versions and write in French.

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Desormeaux, Daniel
• Room: Smokler Center 214
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Émile Zola explicitly worked with contemporary theories of heredity to structure the infamous series of the 20 Rougon-Macquart novels. But he also attempted to use his understanding of the then-new sciences of biology and thermodynamics to re-theorize the cultural and epistemological consequences of literature in general. Starting from his famous text “le roman expérimental,” this course will call on Zola’s polemical and literary corpus to examine the effects of scientific thought on literature. We will consider what led this fundamental author of the late 19th century to undertake such a project and to invent “le Naturalisme”, the widespread movement that had followers in multiple world literatures of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This course is open to undergraduates and graduate students. This course is writing intensive and will be taught in French. The very provisional syllabus can be consulted at http://www.wilda.org/Courses/CourseVault/Undergrad/Zola/ZolaSyllabus.html Prerequisites preferred but not required: AS.212.333 or AS.212.334.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Anderson, Wilda
• Room: Gilman 418
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is a writing workshop for graduate students of literature and literate cultures. Its aim is to teach students to select appropriate formats for the dissemination of their research (conference talks, short and longer articles, ABD presentations, dissertation chapters, book reviews, etc.) and produce such works. Questions to be addressed include: how to recognize and choose the appropriate rhetoric for particular audiences, essential differences between written versus spoken communications, how to read and constructively critique other scholars’ work both in verbal and written contexts. Students will produce at least 2 polished works by the end of the semester; all work will be read and critiqued by all students during the class, and subsequent rewrites will continue to be critiqued throughout the semester. This course incorporates the study of exemplary critical texts, primarily concerning French thought, that are well known for their rhetorical stances. These texts will be analyzed in alternation with the students’ own work and critiques. Texts will be read in both French and English, to demonstrate questions raised by translation and the demands of differing linguistic cultures.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 3:30PM
• Instructor: Anderson, Wilda
• Room: Gilman 418
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for a graduate students pursuing an independent research project with a faculty mentor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Desormeaux, Daniel
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for a graduate students pursuing an independent research project with a faculty mentor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Wilda
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for a graduate students pursuing an independent research project with a faculty mentor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Russo, Elena
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Research work toward dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Desormeaux, Daniel
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Research work toward dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Wilda
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Research work toward dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Russo, Elena
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Research work toward dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schilling, Derek
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

1st semester: Develop list of already-read works in your chosen field to develop a thesis subject. Identify 2 co-advisors of the ABD project; the expectation is that 1 will direct the thesis following the ABD defense. Register in this advisor’s section (01: Desormeaux; 02: Anderson; 03: Russo; 04: Schilling). 1st month: Discuss with co-advisors your understanding of the core research question(s) and prepare a provisional abstract (an ongoing working tool). The abstract includes 1) well-articulated thesis statement; 2) description of proposed methodology; 3) list of proposed primary works to be studied; 4) justification of the project’s relevance to the field and its interdisciplinary reach. It should be accompanied by a report on your literature search: situate your project within the existing scholarly corpus. 2nd month: prepare an annotated bibliography of primary and secondary works. Expect it to expand significantly during ABD prep as well as after the ABD defense. 3rd month: review and modify the abstract with the co-advisors; develop a provisional outline of your ABD text. Present a reading list for the period between the 1st and 2nd semesters of proposal prep. 2nd semester: Meet with the co-advisors to report on the interim research and revisit if necessary the proposed outline and abstract. Submit proposal for the sample chapter. 1st month: begin writing the sample chapter. 2nd month: in the light of how the sample chapter is progressing, review the outline with the co-advisors, then begin writing a narrative of potential thesis chapters. 3rd month: once the foregoing are drafted, write up the methodological introduction and finalize the annotated bibliography. Finally, review the abstract for completeness and revise the ABD for language and formatting. The ABD must be approved by the ABD co-advisors before it is distributed for defense. Goal:~25 pages of supporting material;~30-page writing sample; an annotated bibliography. ABD is not to exceed 75 pp.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Desormeaux, Daniel
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

1st semester: Develop list of already-read works in your chosen field to develop a thesis subject. Identify 2 co-advisors of the ABD project; the expectation is that 1 will direct the thesis following the ABD defense. Register in this advisor’s section (01: Desormeaux; 02: Anderson; 03: Russo; 04: Schilling). 1st month: Discuss with co-advisors your understanding of the core research question(s) and prepare a provisional abstract (an ongoing working tool). The abstract includes 1) well-articulated thesis statement; 2) description of proposed methodology; 3) list of proposed primary works to be studied; 4) justification of the project’s relevance to the field and its interdisciplinary reach. It should be accompanied by a report on your literature search: situate your project within the existing scholarly corpus. 2nd month: prepare an annotated bibliography of primary and secondary works. Expect it to expand significantly during ABD prep as well as after the ABD defense. 3rd month: review and modify the abstract with the co-advisors; develop a provisional outline of your ABD text. Present a reading list for the period between the 1st and 2nd semesters of proposal prep. 2nd semester: Meet with the co-advisors to report on the interim research and revisit if necessary the proposed outline and abstract. Submit proposal for the sample chapter. 1st month: begin writing the sample chapter. 2nd month: in the light of how the sample chapter is progressing, review the outline with the co-advisors, then begin writing a narrative of potential thesis chapters. 3rd month: once the foregoing are drafted, write up the methodological introduction and finalize the annotated bibliography. Finally, review the abstract for completeness and revise the ABD for language and formatting. The ABD must be approved by the ABD co-advisors before it is distributed for defense. Goal:~25 pages of supporting material;~30-page writing sample; an annotated bibliography. ABD is not to exceed 75 pp.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Wilda
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

1st semester: Develop list of already-read works in your chosen field to develop a thesis subject. Identify 2 co-advisors of the ABD project; the expectation is that 1 will direct the thesis following the ABD defense. Register in this advisor’s section (01: Desormeaux; 02: Anderson; 03: Russo; 04: Schilling). 1st month: Discuss with co-advisors your understanding of the core research question(s) and prepare a provisional abstract (an ongoing working tool). The abstract includes 1) well-articulated thesis statement; 2) description of proposed methodology; 3) list of proposed primary works to be studied; 4) justification of the project’s relevance to the field and its interdisciplinary reach. It should be accompanied by a report on your literature search: situate your project within the existing scholarly corpus. 2nd month: prepare an annotated bibliography of primary and secondary works. Expect it to expand significantly during ABD prep as well as after the ABD defense. 3rd month: review and modify the abstract with the co-advisors; develop a provisional outline of your ABD text. Present a reading list for the period between the 1st and 2nd semesters of proposal prep. 2nd semester: Meet with the co-advisors to report on the interim research and revisit if necessary the proposed outline and abstract. Submit proposal for the sample chapter. 1st month: begin writing the sample chapter. 2nd month: in the light of how the sample chapter is progressing, review the outline with the co-advisors, then begin writing a narrative of potential thesis chapters. 3rd month: once the foregoing are drafted, write up the methodological introduction and finalize the annotated bibliography. Finally, review the abstract for completeness and revise the ABD for language and formatting. The ABD must be approved by the ABD co-advisors before it is distributed for defense. Goal:~25 pages of supporting material;~30-page writing sample; an annotated bibliography. ABD is not to exceed 75 pp.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Russo, Elena
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

1st semester: Develop list of already-read works in your chosen field to develop a thesis subject. Identify 2 co-advisors of the ABD project; the expectation is that 1 will direct the thesis following the ABD defense. Register in this advisor’s section (01: Desormeaux; 02: Anderson; 03: Russo; 04: Schilling). 1st month: Discuss with co-advisors your understanding of the core research question(s) and prepare a provisional abstract (an ongoing working tool). The abstract includes 1) well-articulated thesis statement; 2) description of proposed methodology; 3) list of proposed primary works to be studied; 4) justification of the project’s relevance to the field and its interdisciplinary reach. It should be accompanied by a report on your literature search: situate your project within the existing scholarly corpus. 2nd month: prepare an annotated bibliography of primary and secondary works. Expect it to expand significantly during ABD prep as well as after the ABD defense. 3rd month: review and modify the abstract with the co-advisors; develop a provisional outline of your ABD text. Present a reading list for the period between the 1st and 2nd semesters of proposal prep. 2nd semester: Meet with the co-advisors to report on the interim research and revisit if necessary the proposed outline and abstract. Submit proposal for the sample chapter. 1st month: begin writing the sample chapter. 2nd month: in the light of how the sample chapter is progressing, review the outline with the co-advisors, then begin writing a narrative of potential thesis chapters. 3rd month: once the foregoing are drafted, write up the methodological introduction and finalize the annotated bibliography. Finally, review the abstract for completeness and revise the ABD for language and formatting. The ABD must be approved by the ABD co-advisors before it is distributed for defense. Goal:~25 pages of supporting material;~30-page writing sample; an annotated bibliography. ABD is not to exceed 75 pp.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schilling, Derek
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Training for professional academic performance.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Wilda
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Provides a multi-faceted approach to teaching language and culture to the novice French student. The first semester emphasizes listening and speaking, while laying the foundation in grammar structures, reading, and writing. This course is designed for true beginners: Students with any previous background must take the placement test: https://learnmore.jhu.edu/browse/ksas/internal/selfenroll/courses/as-french-placement-test. May not be taken on a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis. Contact: Bruce Anderson ([email protected])

• Days/Times: MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Guillemard, Claude H
• Room: Gilman 381
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Provides a multi-faceted approach to teaching language and culture to the novice French student. The first semester emphasizes listening and speaking, while laying the foundation in grammar structures, reading, and writing. This course is designed for true beginners: Students with any previous background must take the placement test: https://learnmore.jhu.edu/browse/ksas/internal/selfenroll/courses/as-french-placement-test. May not be taken on a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis. Contact: Bruce Anderson ([email protected])

• Days/Times: MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Anderson, Bruce
• Room: Hodson 313
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Provides a multi-faceted approach to teaching language and culture to the novice French student. The first semester emphasizes listening and speaking, while laying the foundation in grammar structures, reading, and writing. This course is designed for true beginners: Students with any previous background must take the placement test: https://learnmore.jhu.edu/browse/ksas/internal/selfenroll/courses/as-french-placement-test. May not be taken on a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis. Contact: Bruce Anderson ([email protected])

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Anderson, Bruce
• Room: Gilman 17
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The second semester of this intensive course for beginners provides students with the linguistic tools to read excerpts from a play (Antigone by Jean Anouilh), to polish a written autobiography, and to perform short oral skits. A variety of cultural materials help students acquire grammatical structures and expand their vocabulary. Recommended course background: AS 210.101 or placement test score: https://learnmore.jhu.edu/browse/ksas/internal/selfenroll/courses/as-french-placement-test. May not be taken on a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis. Contact: Claude Guillemard ([email protected])

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Guillemard, Claude H
• Room: Gilman 186
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course develops skills in speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing. Systematic review of language structures with strong focus on oral communication and acquisition of vocabulary; extensive practice in writing and speaking; readings and films from French-speaking countries. Recommended course background: AS.210.102 or AS.210.105 or placement test score: https://learnmore.jhu.edu/browse/ksas/internal/selfenroll/courses/as-french-placement-test. Contact: Suzanne Roos ([email protected])

• Days/Times: MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Gilman 186
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course develops skills in speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing. Systematic review of language structures with strong focus on oral communication and acquisition of vocabulary; extensive practice in writing and speaking; readings and films from French-speaking countries. Recommended course background: AS.210.102 or AS.210.105 or placement test score: https://learnmore.jhu.edu/browse/ksas/internal/selfenroll/courses/as-french-placement-test. Contact: Suzanne Roos ([email protected])

• Days/Times: MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Gilman 75
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course develops skills in speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing. Systematic review of language structures with strong focus on oral communication and acquisition of vocabulary; extensive practice in writing and speaking; readings and films from French-speaking countries. Recommended course background: AS.210.102 or AS.210.105 or placement test score: https://learnmore.jhu.edu/browse/ksas/internal/selfenroll/courses/as-french-placement-test. Contact: Suzanne Roos ([email protected])

• Days/Times: MWF 3:00PM - 3:50PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Shriver Hall 001
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course develops skills in speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing. Systematic review of language structures with strong focus on oral communication and acquisition of vocabulary; extensive practice in writing and speaking; readings and films from French-speaking countries. Recommended course background: AS.210.201 or placement test score: https://learnmore.jhu.edu/browse/ksas/internal/selfenroll/courses/as-french-placement-test. Contact: Suzanne Roos ([email protected])

• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Roos, Suzanne Lois
• Room: Gilman 377
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 14/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course develops skills in speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing. Systematic review of language structures with strong focus on oral communication and acquisition of vocabulary; extensive practice in writing and speaking; readings and films from French-speaking countries. Recommended course background: AS.210.201 or placement test score: https://learnmore.jhu.edu/browse/ksas/internal/selfenroll/courses/as-french-placement-test. Contact: Suzanne Roos ([email protected])

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Roos, Suzanne Lois
• Room: Gilman 400
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students in AS.210.301 will focus primarily on written expression, learning to ‘decipher’ classic and contemporary French texts, in order to expand their vocabulary and communicate their ideas in writing with clarity and accuracy. (A primary focus on oral expression is provided in AS.210.302; the two advanced-level courses may be taken in either order or simultaneously.) Recommended course background: AS.210.202 or placement test score: https://learnmore.jhu.edu/browse/ksas/internal/selfenroll/courses/as-french-placement-test. Contact: Kristin Cook-Gailloud ([email protected])

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Cook-Gailloud, Kristin Anna
• Room: Gilman 443
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students in AS.210.301 will focus primarily on written expression, learning to ‘decipher’ classic and contemporary French texts, in order to expand their vocabulary and communicate their ideas in writing with clarity and accuracy. (A primary focus on oral expression is provided in AS.210.302; the two advanced-level courses may be taken in either order or simultaneously.) Recommended course background: AS.210.202 or placement test score: https://learnmore.jhu.edu/browse/ksas/internal/selfenroll/courses/as-french-placement-test. Contact: Kristin Cook-Gailloud ([email protected])

• Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Cook-Gailloud, Kristin Anna
• Room: Gilman 443
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students in 210.302 will focus primarily on oral expression through individual and group work on contemporary media (music, film, current events) in order to expand their vocabulary and become fluent in conversation across social-cultural contexts. (A primary focus on written expression is provided in 210.301; the two advanced-level courses may be taken in either order or simultaneously.) Recommended course background: AS.210.202 or placement test score: https://learnmore.jhu.edu/browse/ksas/internal/selfenroll/courses/as-french-placement-test. Contact: April Wuensch ([email protected])

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Gilman 443
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students in 210.302 will focus primarily on oral expression through individual and group work on contemporary media (music, film, current events) in order to expand their vocabulary and become fluent in conversation across social-cultural contexts. (A primary focus on written expression is provided in 210.301; the two advanced-level courses may be taken in either order or simultaneously.) Recommended course background: AS.210.202 or placement test score: https://learnmore.jhu.edu/browse/ksas/internal/selfenroll/courses/as-french-placement-test. Contact: April Wuensch ([email protected])

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Bloomberg 172
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course introduces students to the sound system of French: its development over centuries, its standardized Parisian form versus regional and international dialects and accents, and the popularity of "word games" (abbreviations, acronyms, and verlan). The course will include extensive practice in perceiving, articulating, and transcribing sounds, words, and intonation groups through viewing film clips, listening to songs, and completing in class lab assignments. Recorded speech samples obtained at the beginning, middle, and end of the semester will allow students to track their progress in moving toward more native pronunciation and intonation. Recommended Course Background: AS.210.202 or equivalent

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Anderson, Bruce
• Room: Gilman 418
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

This interactive, writing intensive course has a double agenda: 1) to guide students towards linguistic proficiency in French by exposing them to an extended range of stylistic, idiomatic and grammatical expressions; 2) to strengthen students' individual voices in written and oral expression. Recommended Course Background: AS.210.301 and AS.210.302 or permission of instructor. Contact Kristin Cook-Gailloud ([email protected]).

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Cook-Gailloud, Kristin Anna
• Room: Gilman 443
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course proposes a study of the culture of algorithms for students of the literate space. True (deep) literacy is the ability to interpret a discursive object in its cultural, historical, conceptual, material or political contexts. With the evolution of digital cultures, literate practices have evolved to incorporate the emerging cultural paradigms born of the encounter of algorithms and computability with social practices embedded in the earlier literate traditions. Indeed, modern computational environments invite a new algorithmic hermeneutics grounded in both literate and technical traditions. Multiple modern novels, online games or mangas engage with the algorithmic, and these will form a counterpoint to the technical and philosophical texts. We will consider works such as: • Leibniz, De l’Horizon de la doctrine humaine • Norbert Wiener, God and Golem, Inc. • Alan Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" (chapter 11) • Steven Wolfram: Computation and the Future of the Human Condition • Leslie Valiant, Probably, Approximately Correct • Dominique Cardon, À Quoi rêvent les algorithmes? • G. J. Chaitin, “Life As Evolving Software” • Various novels by Neal Stephenson • Leonid Korogodski, Pink Noise, A Posthuman Tale • Alain Damasio, Les Furtifs • Assassin’s Creed, especially “Unity”

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Anderson, Wilda
• Room: Krieger 304
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

Readings and discussion of texts of various genres (poetry, short story, novel, theatre) covering the time period from the Middle Ages to the present day. The course will expose students to core principles of literary understanding and analysis; the texts themselves are drawn from socio-cultural and historical frameworks that cross the French-speaking world. The two semesters (212.333 and 212.334) may be taken in either order. Students may co-register with an upper level course during this course. 212.333 covers the time period from the Middle Ages to the Revolution. Taught in French and writing intensive.

• Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Russo, Elena
• Room: Gilman 418
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

Readings and discussion of texts of various genres (poetry, short story, novel, theatre) covering the time period from the Middle Ages to the present day. The course will expose students to core principles of literary understanding and analysis; the texts themselves are drawn from socio-cultural and historical frameworks that cross the French-speaking world. The two semesters (212.333 and 212.334) may be taken in either order. Students may co-register with an upper level course during this course. 212.333 covers the time period from the Middle Ages to the Revolution. Taught in French and writing intensive.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Anderson, Wilda
• Room: Gilman 418
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students will explore contemporary French society and culture through a wide variety of media: fiction and non-fiction readings (graphic novels, news periodicals, popular magazines), films, music, art, websites, and podcasts. A diverse range of hands-on activities in addition to guided readings will help students develop cultural awareness as we discuss topics such as education, politics, humor, sports, cuisine, immigration, slang, and national identity, as well as the historical factors that have influenced these facets of French and francophone culture. Recommended course background: AS.210.301 and AS.210.302 or permission of instructor. Contact April Wuensch ([email protected]).

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Wuensch, April
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/12
• PosTag(s): INST-CP

This course will meet three times during the semester to enable all French majors to prepare their thesis subject, thesis bibliography, and abstract prior to the writing of the Senior Thesis (AS.212.430). This course is required of all French majors and must be taken during the Fall semester of their senior year. Schedule TBA upon consultation with the class list, as there are only three group meetings. The rest of the meetings are in individual appointments with the DUS or another chosen French professor. Prerequisites: AS.212.333-334 and either prior enrollment or concurrent enrollment in AS.210.417 Eloquent French.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Russo, Elena
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course will meet three times during the semester to enable all French majors to prepare their thesis subject, thesis bibliography, and abstract prior to the writing of the Senior Thesis (AS.212.430). This course is required of all French majors and must be taken during the Fall semester of their senior year. Schedule TBA upon consultation with the class list, as there are only three group meetings. The rest of the meetings are in individual appointments with the DUS or another chosen French professor. Prerequisites: AS.212.333-334 and either prior enrollment or concurrent enrollment in AS.210.417 Eloquent French.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Wilda
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course will meet three times during the semester to enable all French majors to prepare their thesis subject, thesis bibliography, and abstract prior to the writing of the Senior Thesis (AS.212.430). This course is required of all French majors and must be taken during the Fall semester of their senior year. Schedule TBA upon consultation with the class list, as there are only three group meetings. The rest of the meetings are in individual appointments with the DUS or another chosen French professor. Prerequisites: AS.212.333-334 and either prior enrollment or concurrent enrollment in AS.210.417 Eloquent French.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Desormeaux, Daniel
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course will meet three times during the semester to enable all French majors to prepare their thesis subject, thesis bibliography, and abstract prior to the writing of the Senior Thesis (AS.212.430). This course is required of all French majors and must be taken during the Fall semester of their senior year. Schedule TBA upon consultation with the class list, as there are only three group meetings. The rest of the meetings are in individual appointments with the DUS or another chosen French professor. Prerequisites: AS.212.333-334 and either prior enrollment or concurrent enrollment in AS.210.417 Eloquent French.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schilling, Derek
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

An in-depth and closely supervised initiation to research and thinking, oral and written expression, which leads to the composition of a senior thesis in French. Recommended Course Background: AS.212.429

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Desormeaux, Daniel
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

An in-depth and closely supervised initiation to research and thinking, oral and written expression, which leads to the composition of a senior thesis in French. Recommended Course Background: AS.212.429

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Wilda
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

An in-depth and closely supervised initiation to research and thinking, oral and written expression, which leads to the composition of a senior thesis in French. Recommended Course Background: AS.212.429

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Russo, Elena
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

An in-depth and closely supervised initiation to research and thinking, oral and written expression, which leads to the composition of a senior thesis in French. Recommended Course Background: AS.212.429

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schilling, Derek
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Une exploration des diverses manières de produire et réguler l'amour de l'autre au sein d'une société hiérarchique et compétitive: que cet autre soit un concitoyen ou un étranger, un inférieur ou un supérieur, qu'il nous ressemble ou non. Du roman, à l'anthropologie, à la sociologie, au débats sur le vivre-ensemble à l'Assemblée Nationale, nous examinerons les rêves pacificateurs de la politesse aristocratique, l'institution de la solidarité républicaine, les blessures de la socialité coloniale. Cours et textes à lire en français.

• Days/Times: MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Russo, Elena
• Room: Gilman 443
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Comme le Canada ou les Etats-Unis, la France est une grande terre d’immigration qui depuis le 19e siècle a accueilli sur son sol des populations du monde entier. En examinant témoignages, textes de fiction et films documentaires, nous suivrons les expériences contrastées de diverses vagues de migrants chassés par la faim, le chômage ou les persécutions. Quels mécanismes ont favorisé ou freiné l’intégration économique, sociale et civique de ces migrants qui ont rejoint la République française? Que veut dire “être immigré” aujourd’hui? Recommended Course Background: AS.212.333 OR AS.212.334

• Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Schilling, Derek
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This seminar examines the diverse body of texts that served to generate a sense of Québec collective identity from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. We will begin to chart the ever-shifting notion of Québécité with the histories of colonial New France, proceed to explore the journalism engagé of Étienne Parent and Arthur Buies as well as the anti-British writings of François-Xavier Garneau and the celebrated novel of Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, Les Anciens Canadiens (1863). Other works to be studied include the supernatural tales from late nineteenth-century folklore, the modern roman du terroir (novel of the countryside), and the documentaries of Albert Tessier from the second quarter of the twentieth century. Taught in French.

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Loiselle, Ken
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Dans tout un secteur de la création littéraire de langue française, la trinité générique « roman, poésie, théâtre » ne fait guère plus la loi. Depuis les années 1960, époque où l’on théorisait l'écriture comme site de transgression et de jouissance ludique, ont surgi des formes hybrides refusant toute attribution à un genre littéraire défini. Le montage, le recyclage, la traduction intermédiale, l'écriture sous contrainte ou la «factographie» émergent comme principes de création et de ressourcement. Quelle attitude prendre face à ces textes livrés sans mode d'emploi et qui semblent inventer, parfois au prix de la lisibilité, leurs propres règles? Comment poursuivre une lecture raisonnée lorsque les repères habituels nous font défaut et que les grilles interprétatives d’usage ne s’adaptent guère à l’objet? Peut-on éviter de réduire ces textes à des symptômes de la postmodernité ou d’une ère où pointe le post-humanisme? Le «(re)mixage» contemporain des genres a sans conteste renouvelé le champ littéraire en ouvrant la pratique sur des esthétiques plurielles parfois contradictoires. Dans ce séminaire doctoral nous aborderons quelques oeuvres – majeures et mineures, narratives et descriptives, en prose ou à dominante poétique – ayant contribué à dissoudre les modèles génériques consacrés. Diverses approches d'une «même» question intéressant les créateurs nous préoccuperont: le rapport entre mimésis littéraire et représentation visuelle; entre les sous-genres paralittéraires et le récit au deuxième degré; entre le travail de la langue et la langue au travail ; entre le geste autobiographique et sa rature; entre les assignations de genre sexué et leur critique. OEuvres de Cadiot, Deck, de Kerangal, Echenoz, Garréta, Levé, Montalbetti, Perec, Simon, Sorman, Viel et Wittig entre autres. N.B. La langue du séminaire ainsi que de la plupart des textes à lire est le français.

• Days/Times: T 3:30PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Schilling, Derek
• Room: Gilman 479
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for a graduate students pursuing an independent research project with a faculty mentor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Desormeaux, Daniel
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for a graduate students pursuing an independent research project with a faculty mentor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Wilda
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for a graduate students pursuing an independent research project with a faculty mentor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Russo, Elena
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for a graduate students pursuing an independent research project with a faculty mentor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schilling, Derek
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Research work toward dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Desormeaux, Daniel
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Research work toward dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Wilda
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Research work toward dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Russo, Elena
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Research work toward dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Schilling, Derek
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

1st semester: Develop list of already-read works in your chosen field to develop a thesis subject. Identify 2 co-advisors of the ABD project; the expectation is that 1 will direct the thesis following the ABD defense. Register in this advisor’s section (01: Desormeaux; 02: Anderson; 03: Russo; 04: Schilling). 1st month: Discuss with co-advisors your understanding of the core research question(s) and prepare a provisional abstract (an ongoing working tool). The abstract includes 1) well-articulated thesis statement; 2) description of proposed methodology; 3) list of proposed primary works to be studied; 4) justification of the project’s relevance to the field and its interdisciplinary reach. It should be accompanied by a report on your literature search: situate your project within the existing scholarly corpus. 2nd month: prepare an annotated bibliography of primary and secondary works. Expect it to expand significantly during ABD prep as well as after the ABD defense. 3rd month: review and modify the abstract with the co-advisors; develop a provisional outline of your ABD text. Present a reading list for the period between the 1st and 2nd semesters of proposal prep. 2nd semester: Meet with the co-advisors to report on the interim research and revisit if necessary the proposed outline and abstract. Submit proposal for the sample chapter. 1st month: begin writing the sample chapter. 2nd month: in the light of how the sample chapter is progressing, review the outline with the co-advisors, then begin writing a narrative of potential thesis chapters. 3rd month: once the foregoing are drafted, write up the methodological introduction and finalize the annotated bibliography. Finally, review the abstract for completeness and revise the ABD for language and formatting. The ABD must be approved by the ABD co-advisors before it is distributed for defense. Goal:~25 pages of supporting material;~30-page writing sample; an annotated bibliography. ABD is not to exceed 75 pp.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Desormeaux, Daniel
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

1st semester: Develop list of already-read works in your chosen field to develop a thesis subject. Identify 2 co-advisors of the ABD project; the expectation is that 1 will direct the thesis following the ABD defense. Register in this advisor’s section (01: Desormeaux; 02: Anderson; 03: Russo; 04: Schilling). 1st month: Discuss with co-advisors your understanding of the core research question(s) and prepare a provisional abstract (an ongoing working tool). The abstract includes 1) well-articulated thesis statement; 2) description of proposed methodology; 3) list of proposed primary works to be studied; 4) justification of the project’s relevance to the field and its interdisciplinary reach. It should be accompanied by a report on your literature search: situate your project within the existing scholarly corpus. 2nd month: prepare an annotated bibliography of primary and secondary works. Expect it to expand significantly during ABD prep as well as after the ABD defense. 3rd month: review and modify the abstract with the co-advisors; develop a provisional outline of your ABD text. Present a reading list for the period between the 1st and 2nd semesters of proposal prep. 2nd semester: Meet with the co-advisors to report on the interim research and revisit if necessary the proposed outline and abstract. Submit proposal for the sample chapter. 1st month: begin writing the sample chapter. 2nd month: in the light of how the sample chapter is progressing, review the outline with the co-advisors, then begin writing a narrative of potential thesis chapters. 3rd month: once the foregoing are drafted, write up the methodological introduction and finalize the annotated bibliography. Finally, review the abstract for completeness and revise the ABD for language and formatting. The ABD must be approved by the ABD co-advisors before it is distributed for defense. Goal:~25 pages of supporting material;~30-page writing sample; an annotated bibliography. ABD is not to exceed 75 pp.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Wilda
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

1st semester: Develop list of already-read works in your chosen field to develop a thesis subject. Identify 2 co-advisors of the ABD project; the expectation is that 1 will direct the thesis following the ABD defense. Register in this advisor’s section (01: Desormeaux; 02: Anderson; 03: Russo; 04: Schilling). 1st month: Discuss with co-advisors your understanding of the core research question(s) and prepare a provisional abstract (an ongoing working tool). The abstract includes 1) well-articulated thesis statement; 2) description of proposed methodology; 3) list of proposed primary works to be studied; 4) justification of the project’s relevance to the field and its interdisciplinary reach. It should be accompanied by a report on your literature search: situate your project within the existing scholarly corpus. 2nd month: prepare an annotated bibliography of primary and secondary works. Expect it to expand significantly during ABD prep as well as after the ABD defense. 3rd month: review and modify the abstract with the co-advisors; develop a provisional outline of your ABD text. Present a reading list for the period between the 1st and 2nd semesters of proposal prep. 2nd semester: Meet with the co-advisors to report on the interim research and revisit if necessary the proposed outline and abstract. Submit proposal for the sample chapter. 1st month: begin writing the sample chapter. 2nd month: in the light of how the sample chapter is progressing, review the outline with the co-advisors, then begin writing a narrative of potential thesis chapters. 3rd month: once the foregoing are drafted, write up the methodological introduction and finalize the annotated bibliography. Finally, review the abstract for completeness and revise the ABD for language and formatting. The ABD must be approved by the ABD co-advisors before it is distributed for defense. Goal:~25 pages of supporting material;~30-page writing sample; an annotated bibliography. ABD is not to exceed 75 pp.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Russo, Elena
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

1st semester: Develop list of already-read works in your chosen field to develop a thesis subject. Identify 2 co-advisors of the ABD project; the expectation is that 1 will direct the thesis following the ABD defense. Register in this advisor’s section (01: Desormeaux; 02: Anderson; 03: Russo; 04: Schilling). 1st month: Discuss with co-advisors your understanding of the core research question(s) and prepare a provisional abstract (an ongoing working tool). The abstract includes 1) well-articulated thesis statement; 2) description of proposed methodology; 3) list of proposed primary works to be studied; 4) justification of the project’s relevance to the field and its interdisciplinary reach. It should be accompanied by a report on your literature search: situate your project within the existing scholarly corpus. 2nd month: prepare an annotated bibliography of primary and secondary works. Expect it to expand significantly during ABD prep as well as after the ABD defense. 3rd month: review and modify the abstract with the co-advisors; develop a provisional outline of your ABD text. Present a reading list for the period between the 1st and 2nd semesters of proposal prep. 2nd semester: Meet with the co-advisors to report on the interim research and revisit if necessary the proposed outline and abstract. Submit proposal for the sample chapter. 1st month: begin writing the sample chapter. 2nd month: in the light of how the sample chapter is progressing, review the outline with the co-advisors, then begin writing a narrative of potential thesis chapters. 3rd month: once the foregoing are drafted, write up the methodological introduction and finalize the annotated bibliography. Finally, review the abstract for completeness and revise the ABD for language and formatting. The ABD must be approved by the ABD co-advisors before it is distributed for defense. Goal:~25 pages of supporting material;~30-page writing sample; an annotated bibliography. ABD is not to exceed 75 pp.

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• Instructor: Schilling, Derek
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Training for professional academic performance.

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• Instructor: Anderson, Wilda
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