2025 Spring FRENCH 24 001 SEM 001

Spring 2025

FRENCH 24 001 - SEM 001

Freshman Seminars

Games of Love and Hate: “Reading-Performing” Two French Comedies of Misanthropy (in French!)

Nicholas Paige

Jan 21, 2025 - May 09, 2025
Tu
03:30 pm - 04:29 pm
Class #:27640
Units: 1

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through French

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 2
Enrolled: 10
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 12
Waitlist Max: 5
No Reserved Seats

Hours & Workload

2 hours of outside work hours per week, and 1 hours of student-instructor coverage of course materials per week.

Final Exam

FRI, MAY 16TH
07:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Dwinelle 4114

Other classes by Nicholas Paige

Course Catalog Description

The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to freshmen.

Class Description

In this Freshman Seminar, we’ll undertake a kind of “reading performance” of two astoundingly successful French theatrical comedies about friendship and misanthropy, one classic (Molière’s Le Misanthrope [1665]) and one modern (Yasmina Reza’s «Art» [1994]). Rather than discuss or analyze the plays as aesthetic objects, our weekly work will be structured around a “table” performance of them, with the idea being that approaching them practically, from the inside, is a great way to understand and enjoy them. We won’t be “acting” in the sense of using the space of a stage to physically perform from memory. Rather, reading the text before us, our attention to diction, pacing, tone, and accentuation will help us imaginatively bring the characters to life through almost entirely verbal means. This is a great chance to keep up and improve your high school French, to learn something about how the genre of comedy works, and to encounter two great plays. The class itself will be run in English, but reading-performing the texts requires either two years of high school of French, or the completion of French 2 at Berkeley. Students with less experience than this should contact the instructor before enrolling.

Rules & Requirements

Repeat Rules

Reserved Seats

Current Enrollment

No Reserved Seats

Textbooks & Materials

See class syllabus or https://calstudentstore.berkeley.edu/textbooks for the most current information.

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