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Junior Year in France

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Courses Recently Taken by HCJYF Students

The following lists can be used as a reference to establish a tentative program of studies. The HCJYF director will help students refine their program once detailed course offerings and schedules are known in September. Please note that these lists represent a selection of courses HCJYF students elected in the past five years or so; there may be other possibilities. Some courses may not be available from year to year, and some have slightly different names from year to year.

Institutional Abbreviations

ACN	Academie de la Croix Nivert	HCJYF	Hamilton College courses at Reid Hall
AGC	Académie de la Grande Chaumière	HMS	Courses offered by Hamilton, Middlebury and Smith Colleges Consortium
AMI	Atelier Matière et Imaginaire	IC	Institut Catholique
APR	Atelier de Port Royal	IEP	Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po)
CI	Centro Italiano	IMA	Institut du Monde Arabe
CM	Centre de Danse du Marais	SC	Scola Cantorum
CMP	Conservatoires de musique de Paris	SPÉOS	Paris Photographic Institute
CMu	Cité de la Musique	UPIII	Université de Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
EL	Ecole du Louvre	UPVI	Université de Paris VI (Université de Pierre et Marie Curie)
FACO	Faculté d'Economie et de Gestion

Art History

Contemporary French Art (EL)
Egyptology (EL)
European and/or French Art and Architecture of the 17th, 18th, 19th
Centuries (EL, HCJYF, IC)
French Art after WWII (EL)
Greek, Roman and Etruscan Art (EL)
History of Photography (EL)
Ingres and His Century (EL)
Italian and French Renaissance Architecture (EL)
Medieval French Art (EL)
Medieval, Renaissance and Classical French Art (HCJYF)
Nineteenth-Century Landscape and Sculpture (EL)
Paris Church Paintings in the 17th Century (EL)
Picasso and the Arts between WWI and WWII (EL)

Applied Arts

Dance (African, Ballet, Contemporary, Tap) (CM)
Photography (SPEOS)
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Studio Art:
Drawing and Painting (still life; watercolor; figure) (AGC, APR)
Lithography (private studio)
Sculpture (AMI)
Watercolor (ACN)

Economics

Challenges of the European Community (HMS)
Contemporary World Economics (FACO)
Economics of Development (IC)
Economics of Globalization (IC)
International Relations (IC, IEP)
Major Contemporary Economic Issues (IEP)
Methods and Data of Macroeconomics (IEP)

Film Studies and Theater

Aesthetics of Theater (UPIII)
Cinematographic Sequence Analysis (IEP)
Contemporary French Cinema (IC)
Contemporary French Women Filmmakers (UPIII)
French and European Cinema (IC)
The Godard Era (UPIII)
The Golden Age of French Cinema (IC)
History and Aesthetics (UPIII)
The New Wave (IC)
French Theater: History and Aesthetics (HCJYF)
Scenography (UPIII)
Theater: Workshops (UPIII)

French Language/Linguistics

Advanced French Style (IEP)
Applied Phonetics (UPIII)
French Sign Language
Grammar and Methodology (HCJYF)
Introduction to Linguistics (IEP, IC)
Language and Society (IC)
Phonetics and Diction (HCJYF, IC)
Semiology (UPIII)

History

Ancient Roman History (IC)
Colonial France: 1900-1920 (IC)
Contemporary French History (IC)
Cultural History of the Balkans (UPIII)
Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa since 1944 (UPIII)
European History: 1914 to the Present (IC)
France-Europe: 1945 to the Present (HMS)
France 1880-1990: History of a Political Nation (IEP)
France's Colonization in the 18th Century (IC)
French Cultural History: From Napoleon III to the Present (IC)
Foreign Policy of the Second Empire (IC)
History of Political Thought (IC)
History of the 19th-Century French Press (IC)
Nazism and Stalinism (IC)
Spanish Civil War (IC)

Language Studies

Arabic (IMA, UPIII)
Chinese (UPIII)
German (IG)
Iranian (UPIII)
Italian (CCI, IEP)
Latin (IC, UPIII)
Romanian (UPIII)
Russian (IEP)
Spanish (IC, UPIII)

Literature

French and Francophone Literature

Advanced Literary Analysis (UPIII)
The African Novel and Narrative (UPIII)
Art in Crisis: Manet and Zola (UPIII)
Aspects of the Francophone Novel (UPIII)
Autobiography and Exile in 20th-Century French Literature
(HCJYF, IC, UPIII)
The Bourgeois in 19th-Century French Literature (UPIII)
Caribbean Poetics: Women's Perspectives (UPIII)
Comedy and Drama in 18th-Century Literature (UPIII)
Childhood and Adolescence in 20th-Century French Literature (UPIII)
Cinema and Literature: Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris (UPIII)
Francophone Arab Literature (UPIII)
The Good Savage in 18th-Century Literature (UPIII)
History and Destiny in Travel Literature (UPIII)
Introduction to French Literature (HCJYF)
Irony and 19th-Century French Literature (UPIII)
The Libertine in 18th-Century Literature (UPIII)
Madness in 19th-Century Literature (UPIII)
Medieval Beasts Fables (UPIII)
Medieval French Literature (UPIII)
The Nouveau Roman (UPIII)
The Myth of Androgyny (UPIII)
The Myth of Icarus in 20th-Century Literature (UPIII)
The Myth of Oedipus in 20th-Century Literature (UPIII)
Paris in 19th-Century French Literature (UPIII)
Passion and Happiness in 18th-Century French Literature (UPIII)
Portraits of Women by Women (IC)
Romance and Short Fiction in Medieval French Literature (UPIII)
The Round Table (UPIII)
The Servant in 20th-Century Literature (UPIII)
Single Author Seminars: Beckett, Ionesco, Proust, Claudel, etc. (UPIII)
Surrealist French Literature (UPIII)
Survey: Hugo, Sartre, Senghor, Voltaire (IC)
Violence and History in 20th-Century French Literature (UPIII)
Women in Renaissance French Literature (UPIII)

Comparative Literature

The City in French and Chinese Literature (UPIII)
The Criminal in the Early 20th Century (UPIII)
The Fantastic and the Marvelous in 20th-Century Literature (UPIII)
Fiction and History in French and Italian Literature (UPIII)
Irony in 20th-Century French and Italian Literature (UPIII)
Literature and Exile (UPIII)
Literature of Revolt (UPIII)
Travel in Japanese Literature (UPIII)
Women and their Travels (UPIII)
Writing Desire (UPIII)
20th-Century Theater and Politics (UPIII)

English and American Literature (taught in English for English majors only; maximum one course per semester)

British Romantic Poetry and Fiction (UPIII)
The Irish Novel (UPIII)
Poetics of Space in Modern American Literature (UPIII)
Politics and Literature in Modern American Literature (UPIII)
The Representation of the City in the 20th-Century American Novel (UPIII)
19th-Century American and English Novel (UPIII)

Music

Ethnomusicology (CMu)
History of Music (UPIII, CMP)
Instruments: Flute, French Horn, Piano, Violin (SC)
Musical Composition (SC)
Vocal Jazz (AIM)

Philosophy

Classical Philosophy (IC)
Existentialism (IC)
History of Ancient Philosophy: Plato (IC)
Medieval Philosophy (IC)
Moral Philosophy (IC)
Multiculturalism and Philosophy (IC)
Nietzsche (IC)
The Passions (IC)
Phenomenology (IC)
Philosophy of Knowledge (IC)

Political Science

Comparative Politics: France/USA (HMS)
Comparative Politics of the Member States of the European Union (UPIII)
Conflict Resolution and Prevention (IC)
Contemporary Africa (IC)
Elements of Analysis of Political Life (IEP)
Europe Past and Present (IEP)
The European Union: Stakes and Perspectives (IC, IEP, UPIII)
France-Europe: 1945 to the Present (HMS, IC)
Franco African Relations from the 15th-Century to the Present (HMS)
French Political Institutions and Mentalities (HMS)
French Political Life Under the Fifth Republic (IEP)
Foreign Policy of the Soviet Union (IC)
History of Feminism (HMS)
History of Political Thought (IC)
International Relations: The Stakes of Globalization (IC)
Introduction to Politics (IC)
Islam and Problems of the Middle East (IC)
Modern China: Political, Economic and Cultural Perspectives (IC)
New International Relations: Regionalism (IEP)
NGO's in the International System (IC)
Political Thought from the 17th Century to the Present (IEP)
Soviet Political History (IC)
Theory of International Relations (IEP)Transition in Central and Eastern Europe (IEP)
Women and Politics in Europe (IC)

Religious Studies

Africa and Modernity: Anthropological and Theological Aspects (IC)
Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism (IC)
Divination and African Religion (IC)
Early Christian Church History (IC)
Ethnological Approaches to African Religions (IC)
Hinduism (IC)
Religious Diversity (IC)
Rites, Myths and Symbols (IC)
Sociology of Judaism (IC)

Science

Animal Physiology (UPVI)
Biology of Evolution (UPVI)
Cellular Physiology (UPVI)
Chemistry I and II (UPVI)
Multivariable Calculus (UPVI)
Physics (Experimental; Electromagnetism; Thermodynamics) (UPVI)
Plant Biology, Evolution and Biodiversity (UPVI)
Thermodynamics (UPVI)

Sociology

Comparative European Society (IEP)
General Sociology (IC)
Sociology of International Relations (IEP)
Sociology of Jewish Religion and Culture (IC)
Urban Sociology (IC)