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FREN 3025 - VIEW COURSE PROPOSAL – NEW COURSE

Approvals Received:

Department on 10-14-04 by Jayne Hacker (hackerje@umn.edu)

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Curriculum Committee on 10-26-04 by Karen Van Horn (vanhornk@umn.edu)

Approvals Pending:

Curriculum Committee > Campus Assembly > Catalog > PeopleSoft Manual Entry

Effective Status:

Active

Effective Term:

1063 - Spring 2006

Course:

FREN 3025

Institution:

UMNMO - Morris

Career:

UGRD

College:

MDHU - UMM-Humanities, Div of

Department:

233 - UMM-Humanities, Div of-Adm

General

Course Title Short:

EMS: Wonder and the Marvelous

Course Title Long:

EMS: Wonder and the Marvelous

Max-Min Credits
for Course:

4.0 to 4.0 credit(s)

Catalog
Description:

This course examines "le merveilleux" in French literature in medieval and early modern texts. Examples will be taken from the work of Marie de France, Rabelais, Ambroise Paré, Descartes, and several baroque dramatists. Meets Early Modern Requirement.

Additional Course
Information
(for catalog
production):

offered when feasible

Grading Basis:

Stdnt Opt

Honors Course:

No

Delivery Mode(s):

Classroom

Years most
frequently offered:

Other frequency

Term(s) most
frequently offered:

Spring

Component 1:

DIS (with final exam)

Auto-Enroll
Course:

No

Graded
Component:

DIS

Academic
Progress Units:

Not allowed to bypass limits.
4.0 credit(s)

Financial Aid
Progress Units:

Not allowed to bypass limits.
4.0 credit(s)

Repetition of
Course:

Repetition not allowed.

Course
Prerequisites
for Catalog:

prereq or coreq 3011 or #

Course
Equivalency:

No course equivalencies

Consent
Requirement:

No required consent

Enforced
Prerequisites:
(course-based or
non-course-based)

prereq or coreq 3011 or #

Editor Comments:

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Proposal Changes:

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History Information:

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Assessment
and Goals:

This course will acquaint students with different types of the marvelous in medieval and renaissance texts--supernatural and divine interventions, "mirabilia" observed and reported from distant and exotic lands. Students will learn how to analyze a variety of texts, research secondary sources, and write their own responses to the works under consideration. Students will write 4-5 papers in which they demonstrate proficiency in French expository prose and mature rhetorical strategies for convincing readers. They will also reinforce oral proficieny by giving at least two presentations in class.

Rationale for
Changes or
Exceptions:

THIS COURSE ALLOWS STUDENTS TO STUDY THE QUESTION OF WONDER AND THE SPIRIT OF INQUIRY IN SCIENTIFIC AND LITERARY TEXTS FROM THE MIDDLE AGES UNTIL THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION.

General Education

Faculty
Sponsor Name:

Matt Senior

Requirement
this course fulfills:

HUM - HUM Communication, Language, Literature & Philosophy

Provisional
Approval:

No

Regular
Approval:

Yes; date: Oct 14, 2004