OLLI 0078 - French SIG
Course Description
If you have had three or more years of college level French or the equivalent, such as study and travel in Francophone countries, you are ready to improve your proficiency in Advanced French SIG. Together we will select, read and discuss literary works and articles on current events, focusing on pronunciation, comprehension, and communication and reviewing grammar and idioms. Meets weekly Wednesdays.
Group Contact
Born in Shanghai, of French and Russian parents, Professor Emerita Gabrielle Verdier has lived in China, Madagascar, France, Spain, California and New York and has traveled throughout Europe, North Africa and Latin America. Her academic credentials include a master's degree from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Yale in French literature. Her scholarly and teaching interests range from early modern French fiction and drama, with a special focus on women writers, to contemporary food studies. After teaching at NYU for fifteen years, she joined the faculty of the Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature at UW-Milwaukee in 1993. In addition to coordinating the UWM M.A. program in Language, Literature, and Translation (2002-2012), she directed the Wisconsin French Connections Sesquicentennial project and founded and organized the Festival of Films in French at UWM for fifteen years. Since retiring in 2012, Gabrielle divides her time between Milwaukee and Paris.
Contact Gabrielle Verdier at verdier@uwm.edu.