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Jun 14, 2026
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Catalogue 2024-2025 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Film: II. Intermediate
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• FILM 260 - Documentary: History and Aesthetics
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• FILM 265 - German Film in English Translation
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• FILM 266 - Genre: Asian Horror
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• FILM 271 - Creative Film Theory
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• FILM 280 - Israeli and Palestinian Cinemas: The Films of Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan
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• FILM 281 - Film Editing
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• FILM 290 - Community-Engaged Learning
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• FILM 298 - Independent Work
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Film: III. Advanced
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• FILM 300 - Film Research Thesis
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• FILM 301 - Film Screenplay Thesis
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• FILM 317 - Introduction to Screenwriting
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• FILM 319 - Advanced Screenwriting
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• FILM 324 - Cinema Modes
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• FILM 325 - Writing the Short Film
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• FILM 326 - Senior Project: Non-Fiction
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• FILM 327 - Senior Project: Fiction
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• FILM 331 - Compilation Films: The Uses of Cinema and the Archive
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• FILM 335 - Celebrity and Power: Stardom in Contemporary Culture
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• FILM 336 - African Cinema: A Continental Survey
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• FILM 337 - The Films of Ousmane Sembene
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• FILM 339 - Contemporary Southeast Asian Cinemas
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• FILM 391 - Sensuous Theory Writing Workshop
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• FILM 392 - Research Seminar in Film History and Theory
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• FILM 399 - Senior Independent Work
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French and Francophone Studies: I. Introductory
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• FFS 105 - Elementary French
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• FFS 106 - Elementary French
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• FFS 109 - Basic French Review
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• FFS 170 - Perspectives in French and Francophone Cultures
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• FFS 184 - Questions of Character
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French and Francophone Studies: II. Intermediate
The intermediate level comprises three ascending levels: 1) FFS 205 and FFS 206 2) FFS 210 and FFS 212 and 3) 200-level courses numbered above 212. Rotating topics courses may be taken more than once.
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• FFS 205 - Intermediate French I
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• FFS 206 - Intermediate French II
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• FFS 210 - The Francophone World Through Text, Sound, and Image
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• FFS 212 - Reading Literature and Film
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• FFS 228 - Tellers and Tales
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• FFS 230 - The Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
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• FFS 231 - Revolutionary France and Its Legacies
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• FFS 232 - The Modern Age
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• FFS 233 - Monsters and Marvels, Medieval to Modern
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• FFS 235 - Contemporary France
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• FFS 240 - Grammar and Composition
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• FFS 244 - French Cinema and Media
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• FFS 280 - Decentering La Parisienne
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• FFS 290 - Community-Engaged Learning
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• FFS 292 - Monuments: Commemoration and Community in the Francophone World
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• FFS 294 - Cyber France: Media, Politics, History
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• FFS 295 - Voices of Exile and Migration
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• FFS 296 - La chanson engagée: Songs of Protest and Hope
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• FFS 298 - Independent Work
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• FFS 299 - Literature, Sound and Music
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French and Francophone Studies: III. Advanced
Prerequisite for all advanced courses: Two units of 200-level work above FFS 212 , or equivalent, or by permission of the instructor. Rotating topics courses may be taken more than once.
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• FFS 300 - Senior Thesis
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• FFS 301 - Senior Translation
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• FFS 302 - Senior Project
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• FFS 303 - Senior Project
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• FFS 332 - Literature and Society in Pre-Revolutionary France
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• FFS 348 - Modernism and its Discontents
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• FFS 355 - Cross Currents in French Culture
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• FFS 366 - Francophone Literature and Cultures
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• FFS 370 - Stylistics and Translation
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• FFS 391 - Flâner dans Le Spleen de Paris
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• FFS 392 - Exile, Migration and Community
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• FFS 393 - Advanced Independent Projects in French and Francophone Studies
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• FFS 394 - Independent Work on Post-Study Away Projects
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• FFS 396 - Subtitling French Films
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• FFS 397 - Student-Staged Surrealism: Liberty, Provocation, and Scandal
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• FFS 399 - Senior Independent Work
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Geography-Anthropology
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• GEAN 290 - Community-Engaged Learning
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• GEAN 302 - Senior Thesis
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• GEAN 399 - Senior Independent Work
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Geography: I. Introductory
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• GEOG 102 - Global Geography: People, Places, and Regions
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• GEOG 110 - Climate Action: Tales from the Front Lines
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• GEOG 111 - Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene
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• GEOG 151 - The Solid Earth: Physical Geology
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• GEOG 153 - Fluid Earth: Oceans, Atmosphere, & the Climate System
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Geography: II. Intermediate
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• GEOG 202 - Public Policy and Human Environments
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• GEOG 220 - Cartography: Spatial Data Visualization with GIS
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• GEOG 221 - Soils
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• GEOG 224 - GIS: Spatial Analysis
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• GEOG 226 - Remote Sensing
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• GEOG 228 - Web Mapping: Advanced Approaches to Publishing
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• GEOG 230 - Research Methods: Studying Sustainability at Vassar
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• GEOG 231 - Geomorphology: Surface Processes and Evolution of Landforms
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• GEOG 234 - Race, Space and Nature
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• GEOG 238 - Environmental China: Nature, Culture, and Development
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• GEOG 242 - Brazil in Crisis: Continuity and Change in Portuguese America
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• GEOG 246 - The U.S.-Mexico Border: Nation-State and Nature
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• GEOG 248 - Housing Crises and Activism
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• GEOG 250 - Urban Geography: Space, Place, Environment
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• GEOG 252 - Cities of the Global South: Urbanization and Social Change in the Developing World
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• GEOG 254 - Environmental Science in the Field
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• GEOG 256 - Geographies of Food and Farming
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• GEOG 258 - Sustainable Landscapes: Bridging Place and Environment in Poughkeepsie
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• GEOG 262 - Mapping Climate Change and its Impacts
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• GEOG 266 - Population, Environment, and Sustainable Development
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• GEOG 272 - Geographies of Mass Violence
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• GEOG 274 - The Political Geography of Human Rights
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• GEOG 276 - Economic Geography: Spaces of Global Capitalism
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• GEOG 280 - Reading New York City: Landscapes of Power
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• GEOG 282 - American Landscapes: History, Politics, & Built Environments
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• GEOG 284 - History of American Environmentalism(s)
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• GEOG 288 - Planning History and Thought
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