Character notes for "Le rêve et l’amour"
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Talerie Latour -- She has fair skin, blue eyes, and chin-length hair streaked in lighter and darker shades of blonde. She is slim with a heart-shaped face. Her heritage is French Canadian; she speaks French and English, and is learning Abenaki. She is 25 years old in 2014.
At 21, Talerie earned a DEC in Social Sciences - Civilization and Citizenship (profile 300.A1) at LaSalle College in Montréal, Québec. She worked for 3 years at various places around Montréal, mostly serving tourists. Wanting something more substantial, she decided to go back to school at 25 so she could work in translation, teaching, or cultural relations. During the summers, Talerie is studying toward a Master of Arts in French at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. During the regular fall-spring school year, she is working on another bachelor's degree in Vermont Studies with a minor in English and American Literatures: Creative Writing Track. She also belongs to several student groups: the Middlebury College International Students' Organization, French Club, the Free Heelers, Middlebury Cycling, and the Middlebury Mountain Club.
Kind and graceful, Talerie is popular with other students. She meets and falls in love with Ayah Hafez Khalil, a Syrian refugee who shares several of her classes. A condom failure causes an unplanned but mutually pleasing pregnancy. They have a son, Jean-Mohammed Khalil, in 2015. However, Talerie considers prejudice stupid, and has no patience with it.
Qualities: Good (+2) Cosmopolitan, Good (+2) Graceful, Good (+2) Kind, Good (+2) Linguistic Intelligence, Good (+2) Social Sciences
Poor (-2) Prejudice Is Stupid
DEC in Social Sciences - Civilization and Citizenship (profile 300.A1)
at LaSalle College in Montréal, Québec
The Social Sciences - Civilization and Citizenship DEC program prepares students for a wide spectrum of university programs by exposing them to various disciplinary perspectives on humankind and our world. This program allows students to acquire a solid social science education focusing on the fundamental issues of the modern world through subjects such as geography, history, economics, politics, psychology and sociology. Throughout their studies, students will learn to identify, analyse and explain the main issues affecting the contemporary international scene.
The program has three profiles: Civilization and Citizenship, International Studies, and Individual and Society. The first focuses on a solid social science education with a focus on international realities; the second consists of an introduction to the fundamental principles of management and mathematics; and the third comprises prerequisites for psychology and educational psychology programs in universities.
As of now, at LaSalle College, students have the option to study in both French and English. It is our bilingual option.
(Talerie took this.)
Bilingual Option
LaSalle College offers you opportunities to excel. We offer you the possibility of completing your studies in French, English, or now in both languages through our bilingual study program. If you would like to develop and improve your oral and written skills in a second language, yet not commit to total immersion, this program is designed for you. Depending on your program, between 25 to 40% of your studies will be in the second language.
Concentration Courses
• Introduction to Sociology (45 h)
• Quantitative Methods (60 h)
• World Geography (45 h)
• Introduction to Western Civilisation (45 h)
• Introduction to Psychology (45 h)
• Research Methods in Social Sciences (60 h)
• Introduction to Global Economy (45 h)
• Culture and Ethnicity (45 h)
• History of the Americas (45 h)
• International Relations (45 h)
• Québec Society (45 h)
• Geography: Resources and Development (45 h)
• Culture and the Media (45 h)
• Globalization (45 h)
• Integration Activity (45 h)
* The College reserves the right to substitute certain courses.
General Education Courses
• 3 Physical Education courses (90 h)
• 3 Humanities courses (150 h)
• 4 Language and Literature courses (240 h)
• 2 Second Language courses (90 h)
• 2 complementary courses (90 h)
Bilingual Option
This training is offered in English, in French or as a bilingual option. Please consult the Bilingual options section for more details.
During the summers, Talerie is studying toward a Master of Arts in French.
French Master of Arts Degree
The Betty Ashbury Jones MA ’86 School of French
Requirements and Regulations
2020/21
Criteria for Admission
➢BA (or equivalent).
➢Advanced proficiency in French.
➢Four or more years of French language study preferred.
MA Candidacy
After successful completion of the summer of candidacy (three units of credit at the graduate-level), a student is officially recognized as a candidate for the Master of Arts degree.
Course Requirements
Twelve units of credit, minimum grade in each course is B-.
Residence Requirements
Following successful completion of the summer of candidacy on the Vermont campus (three units of credit), students complete the remaining nine units of credit during:
• One academic year of study in Paris, or
• One academic year in Paris and a second summer on the campus in Vermont, or
• Three summers on the campus in Vermont, or
• Two summers on the campus in Vermont and one summer in Paris.
Transfer Credit
After the summer of candidacy, students may transfer in up to three units of credit to complete the required remaining nine units of credit.
General Limitations
All credits toward a Middlebury MA (earned at Middlebury or as transfer credits) expire ten years after the study was completed (i.e. courses taken during the summer of 2020 will no longer be valid toward a Middlebury degree as of August 2030.)
Course Distribution Requirements
General Requirements
• FREN 6511, Applied Stylistics I, or FREN 6512, Applied Stylistics II - if required by results of admission language assessment and essay. (Vermont, during summer of candidacy).
Note: Stylistics courses numbered FREN 6509 and FREN 6510, taken prior to 2015, fulfill this requirement.
• FREN 6514, Applied Phonetics - if required by results of oral assessment.
(Vermont, during summer of candidacy).
• FREN 5611, Advanced Composition and Argumentation (Academic year in Paris only).
• Research Methods Workshop (Academic year in Paris only)
• One methodology course, in the area of intended specialization.
Specializations
Students choose, both in Vermont and in Paris, to pursue one of the following four academic tracks, constructing a program that reflects their academic interests and career goals. Each track assumes completion of the general language and methodology requirements, listed above. Electives may complete the required 12 credit units.
• Generalist: three units in Language and/or Linguistics and Methodology (may include courses from the General Requirements), three units in Literature and three units in Civilization, Culture and Society.
• Specialization in Literature: five units in Literature and two units in Civilization, Culture and Society.
• Specialization in Civilization, Culture and Society: five units in Civilization, Culture and Society and two units in Literature.
• Specialization in Pedagogy and Linguistics: five units in Pedagogy and/or Linguistics, one unit in Literature and one unit in Civilization, Culture and Society.
Research
Academic year in Paris
• All students take a research methods workshop.
• Students in the Generalist, Literature and Civilization tracks are encouraged to write a two-unit research thesis.
• Students in the Pedagogy and Linguistics specialization are required to write a one-unit research paper.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_MvnPqopVZ_ChPPD9fCAtutBPbsLwFZGivdayi7G1Ms/edit
Summer 2014
FREN 6524A-L14 Introduction to Linguistics
Type: Lecture
Term: Summer 2014 Language Schools, LS 6 Week Session
Department: French
Requirements Fulfilled: Linguistics
1.000 Credits
This course is meant to be a first contact with the principles and methods of linguistic analysis. Involving an introduction to linguistics, this course is appropriate for those begining their French linguistic studies as well as to advanced level students willing to increase and systematize their knowledge by means of a structured reflection on certain fundamental concepts of general linguistics.
An introduction to a complex discipline can be dealt with through different approaches. While proposing a view of the organization and functioning of the human language, presenting the great notions of modern linguistics and the main research fields, we will divide the present course into four broad areas: phonetics and phonology, morphology, lexical semantics, and semantics of the enunciation (enunciative and pragmatic approach).
No previous knowledge of linguistics is required. No textbook required
FREN 6644A-L14 The History of Québec
Type: Lecture 1.000 Credits
Term: Summer 2014 Language Schools, LS 6 Week Session
Department: French
Requirements Fulfilled:Civ Cul & Soc
Quebec is a unique society which was born and has evolved at the crossroads of two Occidental empires, France and Great-Britain. This course will cover the major periods in Quebec’s history from its origins as New France (1680-1760), to British North America (1763-1867), the Dominion of Canada (1867-1959), and modern Québec (1960-present). Since the French settlements along the banks of the Saint Lawrence River, Canadians of French origin had to defend their heritage in skirmishes and wars against various First Nation Peoples, British and English-Canadians. Because of this situation, they developed a unique culture, historically founded on the Catholic religion, the French language, and family values. It is interesting to note that Québec presently has health and educational systems unlike any other in North America as well as an unparalleled legal system for the protection of the French language. This course will also cover the critical moments in Québec’s quest for political independence which occurred during the past few decades (in the form of referendums). After nearly 400 years of existence in North America, Québec has become a modern society facing contemporary issues such as the environment, globalization, and a the transformation of social identity.
Required Text:
John A. Dickinson et Brian Young; Brève histoire socio-économique du Québec (4e édition) ISBN : 978-2-89448-602-3; Septentrion
FREN6684A-L14 French Cultural Identities
Type: Lecture 1.000 Credits
Term: Summer 2014 Language Schools, LS 6 Week Session
Department: French
Requirements Fulfilled: Civ Cul & Soc
From the Renaissance onward, specific cultural and language politics has been imposed on the French territory at the expense of regional dialects. This politics was reinforced throughout the entire Ancien Régime and aggravated in the colonial empire era until the 20th century, when it eventually began to crumble due to the decolonization and uprising national and regional demands. Today, France finds itself in an era of strong individuality and communitarianism, responsible for a profusion of cultural identities at the heart of the European community, whose boundaries keep getting blurred.In order to better understand the question of the cultural and national identity, we will study, by looking into relevant texts, what being French and / or francophone has meant for five centuries.
French-English Translation I - 60585 - FREN 6504 - A
Lecture Schedule Type 1.000 Credits
Requirements Fulfilled: none
Courses of Interest:
FREN 6522 - Sociolinguistics of French
FREN 6524 - Introduction to Linguistics
FREN 6525 - Methodology:Literature
FREN 6526 - Methodology:Culture & Modern Society
FREN 6633 - Globalized France
FREN 6648 - French Quebecois
FREN 6670 - Writing & Painting: 20th & 21st Century
FREN 6671 - History of Quebec Literature
FREN 6684 - French Cultural Identities
FREN 6694 - Second Language Acquisition
FREN 6726 - Quebec Identities
FREN 6727 - Contemporary Quebec Literature
FREN 6758 - Family: Recent Evolution
FREN 6900 - Research Paper
During the fall-spring school year, Talerie is studying toward another bachelor's degree.
Talerie Fall 2014
FREN 0232 French in North America (Fall 2014)
ENAM 0104 - Literature of Vermont (T-American) (Fall 2014)
ENAM0103A-F14 Reading Literature (Fall 2014)
HIST 0102 - The Making Of Vermont (T-American)
FREN 0335 - Language Ideologies in the Francophone World
Spring 2015
SOAN 0237A-F16 Migration and Food Systems (Spring 2015)
AMST 0223 - Race and Ethnicity in Vermont (T-American) (Spring 2015)
ENAM 0205 - Introduction to Contemporary Literary Theory (Spring 2015)
CRWR 0173 - Environmental Literature: Reading & Writing Workshop
FREN 0379 - Poetry and Painting in France: 1850-1950
Major in Vermont Studies
from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont
(compare with American Studies)
History
Choose one class on history.
HIST 0102 - The Making Of Vermont (T-American) (Fall 2014)
Government
Choose one class on law, politics, and government.
PSCI1029A-W19 Vermont Government and Politics
Natural Sciences
Choose two classes on natural sciences. They must come from different departments.
ENVS 0401 - Community-Engaged Environmental Studies Practicum
FYSE 1400A-S19 The Vermont Landscape
Food
Choose one class on food issues in Vermont.
SOAN 0237A-F16 Migration and Food Systems (Spring 2015)
Creative Arts
Choose one class on creative expression.
CRWR 0334 - Writing Local Color (T-American)
Language
Choose one class on language. Other courses that teach French or a Vermont indigenous language also fill this requirement.
FREN 0232 French in North America (Fall 2014)
Electives
Choose 4 electives from below, or any listed classes not already taken.
AMST 0223 - Race and Ethnicity in Vermont (T-American) (Spring 2015)
EDST 0214 - Reflétant l’école (T-American)
LNGT 0211 - Introduction to Algonkian Linguistics (T-American)
ENAM 0104 - Literature of Vermont (T-American) (Fall 2014)
Capstone
All students take this capstone course.
HIST 0445A-F18 Vermont Life’s Vermont: A Collaborative Web Project
Minor in English and American Literatures: Creative Writing Track
at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont
Requirements for the Minor, Creative Writing Track: Students minoring in English and American Literatures with a Creative Writing focus will take a minimum of six courses, including
1) ENAM 103 or CMLT101;
ENAM0103A-F14 Reading Literature (Fall 2014)
This course seeks to develop skills for the close reading of literature through discussion of and writing about selected poems, plays, and short stories. A basic vocabulary of literary terms and an introductory palette of critical methods will also be covered, and the course's ultimate goal will be to enable students to attain the literary-critical sensibility vital to further course work in the major. At the instructor's discretion, the texts employed in this class may share a particular thematic concern or historical kinship. 3 hrs. lect./disc.
2) ENAM205;
ENAM 0205 - Introduction to Contemporary Literary Theory (Spring 2015)
In this course we will introduce several major schools of contemporary literary theory. By reading theoretical texts in close conjunction with works of literature, we will illuminate the ways in which these theoretical stances can produce multiple interpretations of a given literary work. The approaches covered may include New Criticism, Psychoanalysis, Marxism and Cultural Criticism, Race Theory and Multicultural Criticism, Feminism, Post-Colonial Criticism, Queer Studies, Eco-Criticism, Post-Structuralism, and others. These theories will be applied to various works of fiction, poetry, and drama. The goal will be to make students critically aware of the fundamental literary, cultural, political, and moral assumptions underlying every act of interpretation they perform. 3 hrs. lect/disc. EUR LIT
3) one CRWR 100-level course;
CRWR 0173 - Environmental Literature: Reading & Writing Workshop (Spring 2015)
This course is an introduction to the reading and writing of environmental literature. We will analyze classic and contemporary model works in prose and poetry, in nonfiction and fiction, all directed at human interaction with the natural world. Our writing assignments will explore this theme in personal essays, poems, literary reportage, poetry, and fiction. Workshops will focus on inspiration, form, craft, and thematic issues associated with the environment. This course is a prerequisite to CRWR 0370, CRWR 0375, CRWR 0380, and CRWR 0385. ART LIT
4) one CRWR 300-level course;
CRWR 0363 The French Voice (T-American)
This class focuses on the lyrical qualities of French literature. Readings will include Francophone examples primarily from Quebec and Vermont spanning prose and poetry, fiction and nonfiction, with attention to characteristically French themes such as art and romance. Writing assignments will explore these concepts in personal essays, poems, literary reportage, creative nonfiction, and fiction. Workshops will focus on inspiration, form, craft, and thematic issues associated with Francophone cultures.
5) one 400-level Advanced Seminar; and
ENAM 0462 - Literature of Displacement: Forced Migration, Diaspora, Exile
We will study contemporary postcolonial literature and theory about migration, displacement, exile, and diaspora. Spurred variously by force, necessity and desire, migrants leave their homes and homelands with regret and with hope. Writers address the historical forces that shape these migrations: decolonization and neo-colonialism, globalization, warfare, dispossession, political violence, religious conflict, and environmental catastrophe. These writers experiment with narrative form and poetic language to explore the experiences of undocumented immigrant workers, exiles, refugees and well-to-do migrants. We will examine constructions of identity, history, community and place in texts by Anzaldua, Ali, Darwish, Diome, Patel, Gomez Pena, Said, Rushdie, Spivak, and others. (Diversity) (Rec) AAL CMP LIT SOA SOC
6) one additional elective, which may be ENAM or CRWR.
ENAM 1075 - Debating Global Literature
In this course we will analyze literary texts in the context of current debates on globalization, world literature, colonial and postcolonial theory, ecocriticism, and gender studies. Readings will include Mohsin Hamid’s /How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia/, Helon Habila’s /Oil On Water/, C. N. Adichie’s “Jumping Monkey Hill,” and Madeleine Thien’s /Certainty/, as well as theoretical readings from the fields of postcolonial studies, politics, history, development studies, and anthropology. (Rec) AAL LIT SOA SOC WTR
FREN 0335 - Language Ideologies in the Francophone World
Is French really in danger? Does it need to be defended? Language ideologies have prevailed in France since the foundation of the French Academy in 1635. New waves of language defenders emerged in the 20th century especially against English in the technological and entertainment industry. In this course, we will examine the history of French language ideologies in the Francophone world from the 17th to the 21st century in order to better understand French attitudes toward the “bon usage”. In addition to theoretical works, we will explore language laws, newspaper articles, social media posts, radio news, and documentaries. (FREN 0220, 221, 222, 224, 230) 3 hrs. sem. CMP LNG SOC
FREN 0379 - Poetry and Painting in France: 1850-1950
In this course we will study the relationship between poetry and painting from about 1850 to 1950. Romanticism brings the arts together in redefining the role of the artist and of the creative process. We will examine poets who paint (Hugo, Gautier) and see how their art influences their poetry, before focusing on Baudelaire (his fascination with Delacroix, the visual aspect of his poetry, Manet's resemblance to him). Surrealism will introduce us to poets and painters working together toward a complementary creative expression (for example, Eluard and Man Ray) in which the metaphor is experienced similarly in poetry and in painting. (FREN 0221 or by waiver). 3 hrs. lect./disc. ART EUR LIT LNG
Clubs
The Middlebury College International Students' Organization, an organization for a global community in a small town. Look out for tasty flavorful food, exciting events, and promising programs!
Middlebury ISO is the largest student group in Middlebury College. Our objective is to highlight the presence of our cultural diversity on campus. We bring an international breeze to Midd by organizing from small community events to the annual ISO Cultural Show.
French Club
(T-Middlebury has two meetings per week, one in English, one in French.)
We organize events centered around francophone culture & language. Our events are all in English: we believe in cross-culture exploration, and we welcome non-francophone members.
The Free Heelers are stoked to increase access to the mountains and valleys of Vermont and the surrounding states by making an often prohibitively expensive sport- skiing (of the free heeled variety)- free for members of the Middlebury College community. We maintain a fleet of telemark skis and boots, as well as climbing skins, poles, and tuning equipment to loan out to college community members for free. Throughout the winter, we have open gear hours twice a week to chat about freeing our heels and our minds, loan out equipment, tune equipment, and answer questions. We organize periodic group lessons or skiing nights and coordinate adventures.
Our winter hours are Tuesday and Thursday 7-8:30 in the bike shop.
Middlebury cycling is a student run organization focused on creating community and access to cycling, along with racing in the eastern collegiate cycling conference.
The Middlebury Mountain Club (MMC) is Middlebury’s largest and oldest student organization. Founded in 1931 as a rebirth of the Outing Club established in 1916, the club remains entirely organized and operated by students. The MMC sponsors and encourages Middlebury students to experience and enjoy the out-of-doors responsibly, offering year-round activities throughout Vermont, the Adirondacks, and beyond.
The Mountain Club leads hiking, boating, climbing, and winter trips free of cost for Middlebury students. Additionally, we reimburse or host classes and workshops, host screenings and presentations, do trail maintenance, fund student trips, host social events at the outdoor house, and run the first-year outdoor orientation programs.
We encourage people both join us in wild ventures and explore the great outdoors on their own or with friends
See Talerie's clothes in black and white, navy and white, all black, bright blue, purple, and French for warm weather and cold weather. She wears accessories in black or navy.
This is Talerie's bicycle and its specs.
Ayah Hafez Khalil -- He has fair skin, brown eyes, and wildly curly brown hair with a short scruff of mustache and beard. His heritage is Syrian. He speaks Arabic, English, Farsi, and French. He picked up bits of German, Italian, and Spanish while traveling. Ayah is Muslim, but only on a casual basis, and comfortable with other traditions. He likes the interfaith aspects of American culture. He is 23 years old in 2014.
Ayah grew up in Damascus, Syria. He was studying toward a degree in English Language and Literature at the University of Damascus. When he was 20, civil war broke out in Syria and he fled the country, escaping with a group of college students from Europe. People were more concerned about getting the kids out of danger than in checking identification. Ayah spent two years in Europe, mostly backpacking from one country to the next with other students. His extroverted nature allowed him to make friends and fit in easily. In time he made his way to America where he settled in Rutledge, Vermont. His experiences have left him reckless, though, and he often jumps into things without thinking ahead.
As Ayah investigated college options nearby, Middlebury offered him a full scholarship if he would agree to tutor students in Arabic. He accepted, and shyly mentioned that he could speak Farsi too, so that got added to his tutoring options. He decided to take a double major in Creative Writing and Vermont Studies, since he already had some grounding in English literature. Ayah began composing poems to create a set of symbolism for Syrians living in Vermont, using local features to express the feelings of refugees in a new homeland. It began with the poem "To a Syrian in Vermont" about maple trees. He also belongs to several student groups: the Middlebury College International Students' Organization, Blackbird Arts Journal, Middlebury Cycling, the Middlebury Mountain Club, and Tinder: Middlebury Traditional Outdoor Skills.
Ayah meets and falls in love with a French-Canadian woman, Talerie Latour, who shares several of his classes. A condom failure causes an unplanned but mutually pleasing pregnancy. They have a son, Jean-Mohammed Khalil, in 2015.
Qualities: Good (+2) Energetic, Good (+2) Extrovert, Good (+2) Linguistic Intelligence, Good (+2) Observant, Good (+2) Poet
Poor (-2) Reckless
He wrote "To a Syrian in Vermont."
Bachelor of Arts in English & American Literatures: Creative Writing Track
at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont
ENAM Creative Writing Track: Students who choose the Creative Writing Track will take a total of 11 classes, as follows:
• ENAM 103 or CMLT101
ENAM0103A-F14 Reading Literature (Fall 2014)
This course seeks to develop skills for the close reading of literature through discussion of and writing about selected poems, plays, and short stories. A basic vocabulary of literary terms and an introductory palette of critical methods will also be covered, and the course's ultimate goal will be to enable students to attain the literary-critical sensibility vital to further course work in the major. At the instructor's discretion, the texts employed in this class may share a particular thematic concern or historical kinship. 3 hrs. lect./disc.
• ENAM 205
ENAM 0205 - Introduction to Contemporary Literary Theory (Spring 2015)
In this course we will introduce several major schools of contemporary literary theory. By reading theoretical texts in close conjunction with works of literature, we will illuminate the ways in which these theoretical stances can produce multiple interpretations of a given literary work. The approaches covered may include New Criticism, Psychoanalysis, Marxism and Cultural Criticism, Race Theory and Multicultural Criticism, Feminism, Post-Colonial Criticism, Queer Studies, Eco-Criticism, Post-Structuralism, and others. These theories will be applied to various works of fiction, poetry, and drama. The goal will be to make students critically aware of the fundamental literary, cultural, political, and moral assumptions underlying every act of interpretation they perform. 3 hrs. lect/disc. EUR LIT
• Three CRWR Writing Workshops, at least ONE of which must be at the 300 level
CRWR 0173 - Environmental Literature: Reading & Writing Workshop (Spring 2015)
This course is an introduction to the reading and writing of environmental literature. We will analyze classic and contemporary model works in prose and poetry, in nonfiction and fiction, all directed at human interaction with the natural world. Our writing assignments will explore this theme in personal essays, poems, literary reportage, poetry, and fiction. Workshops will focus on inspiration, form, craft, and thematic issues associated with the environment. This course is a prerequisite to CRWR 0370, CRWR 0375, CRWR 0380, and CRWR 0385. ART LIT
CRWR 0175 - The Structure of Poetry (Fall 2014)
This course is a workshop for beginning students in the field of creative writing. Students will read a selection of poems each week and write their own poems, producing a portfolio of their work at the end of the term. There will be an emphasis on revision. Students will be introduced to a range of forms as well, including prose poems, epistles, the tanka, the long poem, and the sonnet. While this course is primarily online, on-campus students will have opportunities to meet in person with fellow students and the professor in small groups and during office hours, if circumstances allow. Off-campus students will be accommodated with additional optional online opportunities to connect. 3 hrs. lect. ART
CRWR 0375 - Advanced Poetry Workshop: The Walk of a Poem
As Lyn Hejinian writes, “Language makes tracks.” Poets from Chaucer to Whitman to O’Hara have used walking as a poetic method, thematic subject, narrative device, and pedestrian act. The walk is literal and imaginary, metrical and meandering; it traverses urban grids and bucolic landscapes, junctions of space, time, and lexis. In this workshop we will read the topographies of poems, focusing on lyrical cities from Paris to Harlem, Thoreauvian ambles through woods and field, and other literary wanderings and linguistic itinerancies, in order to examine how language gets made and mirrored in the act of moving through place. Students will also set out on walks through the local landscape as they produce their own work. Students will address crucial questions and challenges focused on the craft of poetry through rigorous readings, in-class writing exercises, critical discussions, collaborations, and the development of a portfolio of writing, including drafts and revisions. By the end of the course, students will have engaged deeply with the practice of poetry, established a writing discipline, honed their skills, generated new work, explored by foot, and extended their sense of the possibilities of a poem. (Approval required; please apply online at http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/enam/resources/forms ) While this course is primarily online, on-campus students will have opportunities to meet in person with fellow students and the professor in small groups and during office hours, if circumstances allow. Off-campus students will be accommodated with additional optional online opportunities to connect. ART
• Five Electives:
o at least ONE of which must be a course carrying the REC (Race, Empire, and Colonialism) tag. Courses fulfilling the REC requirement engage students in the study of black diasporic and African American, Asian diasporic and Asian American, Latinx, indigenous and Native American, and postcolonial literatures.
ENAM 0462 - Literature of Displacement: Forced Migration, Diaspora, Exile
We will study contemporary postcolonial literature and theory about migration, displacement, exile, and diaspora. Spurred variously by force, necessity and desire, migrants leave their homes and homelands with regret and with hope. Writers address the historical forces that shape these migrations: decolonization and neo-colonialism, globalization, warfare, dispossession, political violence, religious conflict, and environmental catastrophe. These writers experiment with narrative form and poetic language to explore the experiences of undocumented immigrant workers, exiles, refugees and well-to-do migrants. We will examine constructions of identity, history, community and place in texts by Anzaldua, Ali, Darwish, Diome, Patel, Gomez Pena, Said, Rushdie, Spivak, and others. (Diversity) (Rec) AAL CMP LIT SOA SOC
o at least ONE of which must be a course carrying the Pre-1800 tag. Courses fulfilling the Pre-1800 requirement include courses in Medieval, Early Modern, and 18th-century literature.
ENAM 0227 - Encounters With the Wild: Nature, Culture, Poetry (I) (Pre-1800) (Spring 2015)
Civilization is often defined against wilderness. The two ideas are not exclusive but mutually constitutive, for wilderness and the wild turn out to be central to notions of the civil and the civilized. Poets have long been preoccupied by the boundaries and connections between these ideas. The word "poetry" itself comes from a Greek word for "craft" or "shaping"; thus, poetry implies the shaping of natural elements into an artful whole. In this course we will examine the literary history of this ongoing dialectic by reading and discussing masterpieces of Western literature, from ancient epics to modern poetry and folklore. As we do so we will rethink the craft of poetry, and the role of the poet, in mapping the wild. Readings will include Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, sections of The Bible and Ovid's Metamorphoses, Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, and poems by Wyatt, Marlowe, Jonson, Donne, Marvell, Pope, and Thompson. (This course counts toward the ENVS Literature focus and the ENVS Environmental Non-Fiction Focus) lect./disc. CMP EUR LIT
ENAM 0317 - Poetics of Translation
In this course we will explore the philosophical and linguistic questions raised by translingual discourse [with an emphasis on poetic writing] by surveying the most important theoretical writings on translation as we compare selections of poetry in multiple translations. Selections will include both “classic” texts such as the Psalms, the Illiad, Catullus, Li Bo, Rumi, Clément Marot, and/ Eugene Onenin/ as well as new experimental translingual poetry. We will discuss such questions as: How does language shape thought? How does culture shape language? Is poetry “untranslatable” by definition? What are the challenges of translating sacred or “exotic” poetry? 3 hrs. lect/disc. AAL CMP LIT NOA
ENAM 0316 - Poetry and the Spiritual Tradition
In this course we will examine the long and intimate connection between poetry and spirituality, looking especially at the influence of Christian thinking on such English and American poets as John Donne, George Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T.S. Eliot. The course will begin with a study of the King James Version of the Book of Psalms, which deeply affected later British and American poetry. We will also read early Taoist and Islamic poets, including Lao Tse and Rumi. The course will conclude with a look at the work of several contemporary poets: Charles Wright, Louis Glück, and Mary Oliver. While this course is primarily online, on-campus students will have opportunities to meet in person with fellow students and the professor in small groups and during office hours, if circumstances allow. Off-campus students will be accommodated with additional optional online opportunities to connect. 3 hrs. lct. CMP LIT PHL
• Advanced Seminar (all 400-level ENAM courses are Advanced Seminars)
ENAM 0459 - Poetics of Protest: Political Poetry from Sonnet to Slam
In this course we will study the art, history, theory, politics, and practice of American poetry that is explicitly aimed at protesting various forms of social injustice, beginning with the Harlem Renaissance and through the most recent experiments in the spoken word form. Students will write a research essay integrating a range of critical sources with their own analysis, but the course is also designed to help students develop techniques for powerfully expressing political dissent through poetry. The flexible syllabus will include the likes of Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Helene Johnson, Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bernstein, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audrey Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Claudia Rankin, Ashley Jones, Saul Williams, Denice Frohman, Alysia Harris, Rachel McKibbens, Taylor Mali, and others. Coursework will include reading poetry and critical essays, viewing videos, listening to recordings, composing and performing (or recording) one poem, and attending one live event. 3 hrs. sem. (Diversity)/ AMR LIT NOR
• Optional Senior Thesis (required for students seeking to graduate with Honors, and strongly recommended for those students interested in pursuing graduate work in writing-intensive fields)
ENAM 0701 - Senior Essay: Creative Writing
Discussions, workshops, tutorials for those undertaking one-term projects in the writing of fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction.
ENAM 0115 - Multi-Ethnic American Literature (Fall 2014)
This course introduces ethnic American literature by investigating how cultural representations of “ethnic America” are formed in relation to its social, political, and material histories. We will begin by critically analyzing the nested issues of labour, legality, and immigration that have shaped Black, Asian, and Indigenous presence within North America. From there, we will move on to the themes of assimilation, multiculturalism, diaspora, and U.S. empire in order to track the trajectory of ethnic American literature in the late-20th and 21st centuries. Authors include: Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Tomson Highway, Toni Morrison, and Viet Nguyen. 3 hrs. lect./disc. (Diversity) (Rec) AMR CMP LIT NOR
ENAM 0240 - Captivity Narratives (II) (Pre-1900 AL)
Captivity narratives—first-person accounts of people's experiences of being forcibly taken and held against their will by an "other"—were immensely popular and important in early America; the captivity motif has been perpetuated and transformed throughout later American literature and film. In this course we will explore what these types of tales reveal about how Americans have handled the issues of race and racism, religion, gender, violence and sexuality that experiences of captivity entail. Beginning with classic Puritan narratives (Mary Rowlandson) and moving forward through the 19th and 20th centuries, we will consider the ways that novels (The Last of the Mohicans), autobiographies (Patty Hearst, Iraqi captivity of Pvt. Jessica Lynch) and films (The Searchers, Little Big Man, Dances with Wolves) do cultural work in shaping and challenging images of American national identity. 3 hrs. lect. (Diversity) AMR ART LIT NOR
Major in Vermont Studies
from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont
(compare with American Studies)
History
Choose one class on history.
AMST 0314 Vermont Collaborations Public Humanities Lab
Government
Choose one class on law, politics, and government.
PSCI1029A-W19 Vermont Government and Politics
Natural Sciences
Choose two classes on natural sciences. They must come from different departments.
BIOL 0302A-F18 Vertebrate Natural History
ENVS 0401 - Community-Engaged Environmental Studies Practicum
Food
Choose one class on food issues in Vermont.
SOAN 0237A-F16 Migration and Food Systems (Spring 2015)
Creative Arts
Choose one class on creative expression.
CRWR 0334 - Writing Local Color (T-American)
Language
Choose one class on language. Other courses that teach French or a Vermont indigenous language also fill this requirement.
FREN 0232 French in North America (Fall 2014)
Electives
Choose 4 electives from below, or any listed classes not already taken.
AMST 0223 - Race and Ethnicity in Vermont (T-American) (Spring 2015)
ART 0301 - Vermont en Plein Air (T-American)
DANC 0277A-S19 Body and Earth
ENAM 0104 - Literature of Vermont (T-American) (Fall 2014)
Capstone
All students take this capstone course.
HIST 0445A-F18 Vermont Life’s Vermont: A Collaborative Web Project
Clubs
The Middlebury College International Students' Organization, an organization for a global community in a small town. Look out for tasty flavorful food, exciting events, and promising programs!
Middlebury ISO is the largest student group in Middlebury College. Our objective is to highlight the presence of our cultural diversity on campus. We bring an international breeze to Midd by organizing from small community events to the annual ISO Cultural Show.
Blackbird Arts Journal
Middlebury's oldest literary magazine! A biannual publication comprised of student poetry, prose, and visual art. Middlebury students may submit their work to blackbird@middlebury.edu. All submissions are reviewed anonymously by their respective student-run boards.
Middlebury Cycling is a student run organization focused on creating community and access to cycling, along with racing in the eastern collegiate cycling conference.
The Middlebury Mountain Club (MMC) is Middlebury’s largest and oldest student organization. Founded in 1931 as a rebirth of the Outing Club established in 1916, the club remains entirely organized and operated by students. The MMC sponsors and encourages Middlebury students to experience and enjoy the out-of-doors responsibly, offering year-round activities throughout Vermont, the Adirondacks, and beyond.
The Mountain Club leads hiking, boating, climbing, and winter trips free of cost for Middlebury students. Additionally, we reimburse or host classes and workshops, host screenings and presentations, do trail maintenance, fund student trips, host social events at the outdoor house, and run the first-year outdoor orientation programs.
We encourage people both join us in wild ventures and explore the great outdoors on their own or with friends
Tinder: Middlebury Traditional Outdoor Skills
Tinder is a community of people dedicated to learning from and experiencing the lifestyles, primitive technologies, and cultures of indigenous people. We want to explore the gifts that nature has given us without destroying it or wasting what we have been given. Our primary purpose is to live with the land and to utilize the knowledge of those who do the same in order to live in harmony with nature. A few of the skills we practice are fire making with bow drills, burning and carving tools out of wood, creating shelters from natural materials, flint knapping, gourd making, bushcraft, foraging, trapping, cordage, and many more. We are open to learning from the experiences of our group members as well as the spoken and written knowledge of our elders. This is our way of giving back to the community what we have learned from survival and wilderness experiences.
See Ayah's business essentials, poet shirts, Rumi T-shirt, winter sweaters, cold weather gear, and Vermont sweaters.
This is Ayah's bicycle.
Garcelle De Guignes -- She has pale skin, brown eyes, and chin-length hair streaked in lighter and darker shades of blonde. She is tall and sturdy with modest curves. She lives in Ville de Roses, a village just outside of Rutledge, Vermont. She makes rustic French clothes, mostly for other villagers but sometimes for sale in nearby towns. Deft and practical, she does quite well at it. However, she's no good with fancy electronics and dislikes most modern technology.
Qualities: Good (+2) Christianisme lyonnais (Christianity of Lyon people), Good (+2) Dexterity, Good (+2) Interpersonal Intelligence, Good (+2) Practical, Good (+2) Seamstress
Poor (-2) Handling Electronics
Ville de Roses is a village just outside of Rutledge, Vermont. Its residents practice Christianisme lyonnais (Christianity of Lyon people), a Terramagne-French branch of Christianity originating in Lyon, France.
Lyon or Lyons (UK: /ˈliːɒ̃/,[4][5] US: /liˈoʊn/,[6][7][c] French: [ljɔ̃] ( listen); Arpitan: Liyon, pronounced [ʎjɔ̃]; Italian: Lione, pronounced [liˈone]) is the third-largest city and second-largest urban area of France. It is located in the country's east-central part at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône,[9] about 470 km (292 mi) south of Paris, 320 km (199 mi) north of Marseille and 56 km (35 mi) northeast of Saint-Étienne. Inhabitants of the city are called Lyonnais.
Evening Starr -- She has fair skin with freckles, blue eyes, and auburn hair to her shoulders. She is 32 years old in 2014. She is the mother of Morning Starr, a lovechild conceived at a festival. They live in the Emerald Mountain Glen intentional community near Rutledge, Vermont. Evening is a seamstress, making clothes for the community and selling others in Rutledge and at festivals.
Qualities: Good (+2) Dexterity, Good (+2) Mother, Good (+2) Nature Lover, Good (+2) Seamstress, Good (+2) Visual-Spatial Intelligence
Poor (-2) Book Learning
Morning Starr -- She has fair skin, blue eyes, and long hair of light brown that bleaches to blonde in the sun. She is 10 years old in 2014. She is the daughter of Evening Starr, conceived at a festival. They live in the Emerald Mountain Glen intentional community near Rutledge, Vermont. Morning enjoys running free across the land. She is learning to sew.
Qualities: Good (+2) Free Spirit, Good (+2) Nature Lover
Poor (-2) Sitting Still
Talerie Latour -- She has fair skin, blue eyes, and chin-length hair streaked in lighter and darker shades of blonde. She is slim with a heart-shaped face. Her heritage is French Canadian; she speaks French and English, and is learning Abenaki. She is 25 years old in 2014.
At 21, Talerie earned a DEC in Social Sciences - Civilization and Citizenship (profile 300.A1) at LaSalle College in Montréal, Québec. She worked for 3 years at various places around Montréal, mostly serving tourists. Wanting something more substantial, she decided to go back to school at 25 so she could work in translation, teaching, or cultural relations. During the summers, Talerie is studying toward a Master of Arts in French at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. During the regular fall-spring school year, she is working on another bachelor's degree in Vermont Studies with a minor in English and American Literatures: Creative Writing Track. She also belongs to several student groups: the Middlebury College International Students' Organization, French Club, the Free Heelers, Middlebury Cycling, and the Middlebury Mountain Club.
Kind and graceful, Talerie is popular with other students. She meets and falls in love with Ayah Hafez Khalil, a Syrian refugee who shares several of her classes. A condom failure causes an unplanned but mutually pleasing pregnancy. They have a son, Jean-Mohammed Khalil, in 2015. However, Talerie considers prejudice stupid, and has no patience with it.
Qualities: Good (+2) Cosmopolitan, Good (+2) Graceful, Good (+2) Kind, Good (+2) Linguistic Intelligence, Good (+2) Social Sciences
Poor (-2) Prejudice Is Stupid
DEC in Social Sciences - Civilization and Citizenship (profile 300.A1)
at LaSalle College in Montréal, Québec
The Social Sciences - Civilization and Citizenship DEC program prepares students for a wide spectrum of university programs by exposing them to various disciplinary perspectives on humankind and our world. This program allows students to acquire a solid social science education focusing on the fundamental issues of the modern world through subjects such as geography, history, economics, politics, psychology and sociology. Throughout their studies, students will learn to identify, analyse and explain the main issues affecting the contemporary international scene.
The program has three profiles: Civilization and Citizenship, International Studies, and Individual and Society. The first focuses on a solid social science education with a focus on international realities; the second consists of an introduction to the fundamental principles of management and mathematics; and the third comprises prerequisites for psychology and educational psychology programs in universities.
As of now, at LaSalle College, students have the option to study in both French and English. It is our bilingual option.
(Talerie took this.)
Bilingual Option
LaSalle College offers you opportunities to excel. We offer you the possibility of completing your studies in French, English, or now in both languages through our bilingual study program. If you would like to develop and improve your oral and written skills in a second language, yet not commit to total immersion, this program is designed for you. Depending on your program, between 25 to 40% of your studies will be in the second language.
Concentration Courses
• Introduction to Sociology (45 h)
• Quantitative Methods (60 h)
• World Geography (45 h)
• Introduction to Western Civilisation (45 h)
• Introduction to Psychology (45 h)
• Research Methods in Social Sciences (60 h)
• Introduction to Global Economy (45 h)
• Culture and Ethnicity (45 h)
• History of the Americas (45 h)
• International Relations (45 h)
• Québec Society (45 h)
• Geography: Resources and Development (45 h)
• Culture and the Media (45 h)
• Globalization (45 h)
• Integration Activity (45 h)
* The College reserves the right to substitute certain courses.
General Education Courses
• 3 Physical Education courses (90 h)
• 3 Humanities courses (150 h)
• 4 Language and Literature courses (240 h)
• 2 Second Language courses (90 h)
• 2 complementary courses (90 h)
Bilingual Option
This training is offered in English, in French or as a bilingual option. Please consult the Bilingual options section for more details.
During the summers, Talerie is studying toward a Master of Arts in French.
French Master of Arts Degree
The Betty Ashbury Jones MA ’86 School of French
Requirements and Regulations
2020/21
Criteria for Admission
➢BA (or equivalent).
➢Advanced proficiency in French.
➢Four or more years of French language study preferred.
MA Candidacy
After successful completion of the summer of candidacy (three units of credit at the graduate-level), a student is officially recognized as a candidate for the Master of Arts degree.
Course Requirements
Twelve units of credit, minimum grade in each course is B-.
Residence Requirements
Following successful completion of the summer of candidacy on the Vermont campus (three units of credit), students complete the remaining nine units of credit during:
• One academic year of study in Paris, or
• One academic year in Paris and a second summer on the campus in Vermont, or
• Three summers on the campus in Vermont, or
• Two summers on the campus in Vermont and one summer in Paris.
Transfer Credit
After the summer of candidacy, students may transfer in up to three units of credit to complete the required remaining nine units of credit.
General Limitations
All credits toward a Middlebury MA (earned at Middlebury or as transfer credits) expire ten years after the study was completed (i.e. courses taken during the summer of 2020 will no longer be valid toward a Middlebury degree as of August 2030.)
Course Distribution Requirements
General Requirements
• FREN 6511, Applied Stylistics I, or FREN 6512, Applied Stylistics II - if required by results of admission language assessment and essay. (Vermont, during summer of candidacy).
Note: Stylistics courses numbered FREN 6509 and FREN 6510, taken prior to 2015, fulfill this requirement.
• FREN 6514, Applied Phonetics - if required by results of oral assessment.
(Vermont, during summer of candidacy).
• FREN 5611, Advanced Composition and Argumentation (Academic year in Paris only).
• Research Methods Workshop (Academic year in Paris only)
• One methodology course, in the area of intended specialization.
Specializations
Students choose, both in Vermont and in Paris, to pursue one of the following four academic tracks, constructing a program that reflects their academic interests and career goals. Each track assumes completion of the general language and methodology requirements, listed above. Electives may complete the required 12 credit units.
• Generalist: three units in Language and/or Linguistics and Methodology (may include courses from the General Requirements), three units in Literature and three units in Civilization, Culture and Society.
• Specialization in Literature: five units in Literature and two units in Civilization, Culture and Society.
• Specialization in Civilization, Culture and Society: five units in Civilization, Culture and Society and two units in Literature.
• Specialization in Pedagogy and Linguistics: five units in Pedagogy and/or Linguistics, one unit in Literature and one unit in Civilization, Culture and Society.
Research
Academic year in Paris
• All students take a research methods workshop.
• Students in the Generalist, Literature and Civilization tracks are encouraged to write a two-unit research thesis.
• Students in the Pedagogy and Linguistics specialization are required to write a one-unit research paper.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_MvnPqopVZ_ChPPD9fCAtutBPbsLwFZGivdayi7G1Ms/edit
Summer 2014
FREN 6524A-L14 Introduction to Linguistics
Type: Lecture
Term: Summer 2014 Language Schools, LS 6 Week Session
Department: French
Requirements Fulfilled: Linguistics
1.000 Credits
This course is meant to be a first contact with the principles and methods of linguistic analysis. Involving an introduction to linguistics, this course is appropriate for those begining their French linguistic studies as well as to advanced level students willing to increase and systematize their knowledge by means of a structured reflection on certain fundamental concepts of general linguistics.
An introduction to a complex discipline can be dealt with through different approaches. While proposing a view of the organization and functioning of the human language, presenting the great notions of modern linguistics and the main research fields, we will divide the present course into four broad areas: phonetics and phonology, morphology, lexical semantics, and semantics of the enunciation (enunciative and pragmatic approach).
No previous knowledge of linguistics is required. No textbook required
FREN 6644A-L14 The History of Québec
Type: Lecture 1.000 Credits
Term: Summer 2014 Language Schools, LS 6 Week Session
Department: French
Requirements Fulfilled:Civ Cul & Soc
Quebec is a unique society which was born and has evolved at the crossroads of two Occidental empires, France and Great-Britain. This course will cover the major periods in Quebec’s history from its origins as New France (1680-1760), to British North America (1763-1867), the Dominion of Canada (1867-1959), and modern Québec (1960-present). Since the French settlements along the banks of the Saint Lawrence River, Canadians of French origin had to defend their heritage in skirmishes and wars against various First Nation Peoples, British and English-Canadians. Because of this situation, they developed a unique culture, historically founded on the Catholic religion, the French language, and family values. It is interesting to note that Québec presently has health and educational systems unlike any other in North America as well as an unparalleled legal system for the protection of the French language. This course will also cover the critical moments in Québec’s quest for political independence which occurred during the past few decades (in the form of referendums). After nearly 400 years of existence in North America, Québec has become a modern society facing contemporary issues such as the environment, globalization, and a the transformation of social identity.
Required Text:
John A. Dickinson et Brian Young; Brève histoire socio-économique du Québec (4e édition) ISBN : 978-2-89448-602-3; Septentrion
FREN6684A-L14 French Cultural Identities
Type: Lecture 1.000 Credits
Term: Summer 2014 Language Schools, LS 6 Week Session
Department: French
Requirements Fulfilled: Civ Cul & Soc
From the Renaissance onward, specific cultural and language politics has been imposed on the French territory at the expense of regional dialects. This politics was reinforced throughout the entire Ancien Régime and aggravated in the colonial empire era until the 20th century, when it eventually began to crumble due to the decolonization and uprising national and regional demands. Today, France finds itself in an era of strong individuality and communitarianism, responsible for a profusion of cultural identities at the heart of the European community, whose boundaries keep getting blurred.In order to better understand the question of the cultural and national identity, we will study, by looking into relevant texts, what being French and / or francophone has meant for five centuries.
French-English Translation I - 60585 - FREN 6504 - A
Lecture Schedule Type 1.000 Credits
Requirements Fulfilled: none
Courses of Interest:
FREN 6522 - Sociolinguistics of French
FREN 6524 - Introduction to Linguistics
FREN 6525 - Methodology:Literature
FREN 6526 - Methodology:Culture & Modern Society
FREN 6633 - Globalized France
FREN 6648 - French Quebecois
FREN 6670 - Writing & Painting: 20th & 21st Century
FREN 6671 - History of Quebec Literature
FREN 6684 - French Cultural Identities
FREN 6694 - Second Language Acquisition
FREN 6726 - Quebec Identities
FREN 6727 - Contemporary Quebec Literature
FREN 6758 - Family: Recent Evolution
FREN 6900 - Research Paper
During the fall-spring school year, Talerie is studying toward another bachelor's degree.
Talerie Fall 2014
FREN 0232 French in North America (Fall 2014)
ENAM 0104 - Literature of Vermont (T-American) (Fall 2014)
ENAM0103A-F14 Reading Literature (Fall 2014)
HIST 0102 - The Making Of Vermont (T-American)
FREN 0335 - Language Ideologies in the Francophone World
Spring 2015
SOAN 0237A-F16 Migration and Food Systems (Spring 2015)
AMST 0223 - Race and Ethnicity in Vermont (T-American) (Spring 2015)
ENAM 0205 - Introduction to Contemporary Literary Theory (Spring 2015)
CRWR 0173 - Environmental Literature: Reading & Writing Workshop
FREN 0379 - Poetry and Painting in France: 1850-1950
Major in Vermont Studies
from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont
(compare with American Studies)
History
Choose one class on history.
HIST 0102 - The Making Of Vermont (T-American) (Fall 2014)
Government
Choose one class on law, politics, and government.
PSCI1029A-W19 Vermont Government and Politics
Natural Sciences
Choose two classes on natural sciences. They must come from different departments.
ENVS 0401 - Community-Engaged Environmental Studies Practicum
FYSE 1400A-S19 The Vermont Landscape
Food
Choose one class on food issues in Vermont.
SOAN 0237A-F16 Migration and Food Systems (Spring 2015)
Creative Arts
Choose one class on creative expression.
CRWR 0334 - Writing Local Color (T-American)
Language
Choose one class on language. Other courses that teach French or a Vermont indigenous language also fill this requirement.
FREN 0232 French in North America (Fall 2014)
Electives
Choose 4 electives from below, or any listed classes not already taken.
AMST 0223 - Race and Ethnicity in Vermont (T-American) (Spring 2015)
EDST 0214 - Reflétant l’école (T-American)
LNGT 0211 - Introduction to Algonkian Linguistics (T-American)
ENAM 0104 - Literature of Vermont (T-American) (Fall 2014)
Capstone
All students take this capstone course.
HIST 0445A-F18 Vermont Life’s Vermont: A Collaborative Web Project
Minor in English and American Literatures: Creative Writing Track
at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont
Requirements for the Minor, Creative Writing Track: Students minoring in English and American Literatures with a Creative Writing focus will take a minimum of six courses, including
1) ENAM 103 or CMLT101;
ENAM0103A-F14 Reading Literature (Fall 2014)
This course seeks to develop skills for the close reading of literature through discussion of and writing about selected poems, plays, and short stories. A basic vocabulary of literary terms and an introductory palette of critical methods will also be covered, and the course's ultimate goal will be to enable students to attain the literary-critical sensibility vital to further course work in the major. At the instructor's discretion, the texts employed in this class may share a particular thematic concern or historical kinship. 3 hrs. lect./disc.
2) ENAM205;
ENAM 0205 - Introduction to Contemporary Literary Theory (Spring 2015)
In this course we will introduce several major schools of contemporary literary theory. By reading theoretical texts in close conjunction with works of literature, we will illuminate the ways in which these theoretical stances can produce multiple interpretations of a given literary work. The approaches covered may include New Criticism, Psychoanalysis, Marxism and Cultural Criticism, Race Theory and Multicultural Criticism, Feminism, Post-Colonial Criticism, Queer Studies, Eco-Criticism, Post-Structuralism, and others. These theories will be applied to various works of fiction, poetry, and drama. The goal will be to make students critically aware of the fundamental literary, cultural, political, and moral assumptions underlying every act of interpretation they perform. 3 hrs. lect/disc. EUR LIT
3) one CRWR 100-level course;
CRWR 0173 - Environmental Literature: Reading & Writing Workshop (Spring 2015)
This course is an introduction to the reading and writing of environmental literature. We will analyze classic and contemporary model works in prose and poetry, in nonfiction and fiction, all directed at human interaction with the natural world. Our writing assignments will explore this theme in personal essays, poems, literary reportage, poetry, and fiction. Workshops will focus on inspiration, form, craft, and thematic issues associated with the environment. This course is a prerequisite to CRWR 0370, CRWR 0375, CRWR 0380, and CRWR 0385. ART LIT
4) one CRWR 300-level course;
CRWR 0363 The French Voice (T-American)
This class focuses on the lyrical qualities of French literature. Readings will include Francophone examples primarily from Quebec and Vermont spanning prose and poetry, fiction and nonfiction, with attention to characteristically French themes such as art and romance. Writing assignments will explore these concepts in personal essays, poems, literary reportage, creative nonfiction, and fiction. Workshops will focus on inspiration, form, craft, and thematic issues associated with Francophone cultures.
5) one 400-level Advanced Seminar; and
ENAM 0462 - Literature of Displacement: Forced Migration, Diaspora, Exile
We will study contemporary postcolonial literature and theory about migration, displacement, exile, and diaspora. Spurred variously by force, necessity and desire, migrants leave their homes and homelands with regret and with hope. Writers address the historical forces that shape these migrations: decolonization and neo-colonialism, globalization, warfare, dispossession, political violence, religious conflict, and environmental catastrophe. These writers experiment with narrative form and poetic language to explore the experiences of undocumented immigrant workers, exiles, refugees and well-to-do migrants. We will examine constructions of identity, history, community and place in texts by Anzaldua, Ali, Darwish, Diome, Patel, Gomez Pena, Said, Rushdie, Spivak, and others. (Diversity) (Rec) AAL CMP LIT SOA SOC
6) one additional elective, which may be ENAM or CRWR.
ENAM 1075 - Debating Global Literature
In this course we will analyze literary texts in the context of current debates on globalization, world literature, colonial and postcolonial theory, ecocriticism, and gender studies. Readings will include Mohsin Hamid’s /How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia/, Helon Habila’s /Oil On Water/, C. N. Adichie’s “Jumping Monkey Hill,” and Madeleine Thien’s /Certainty/, as well as theoretical readings from the fields of postcolonial studies, politics, history, development studies, and anthropology. (Rec) AAL LIT SOA SOC WTR
FREN 0335 - Language Ideologies in the Francophone World
Is French really in danger? Does it need to be defended? Language ideologies have prevailed in France since the foundation of the French Academy in 1635. New waves of language defenders emerged in the 20th century especially against English in the technological and entertainment industry. In this course, we will examine the history of French language ideologies in the Francophone world from the 17th to the 21st century in order to better understand French attitudes toward the “bon usage”. In addition to theoretical works, we will explore language laws, newspaper articles, social media posts, radio news, and documentaries. (FREN 0220, 221, 222, 224, 230) 3 hrs. sem. CMP LNG SOC
FREN 0379 - Poetry and Painting in France: 1850-1950
In this course we will study the relationship between poetry and painting from about 1850 to 1950. Romanticism brings the arts together in redefining the role of the artist and of the creative process. We will examine poets who paint (Hugo, Gautier) and see how their art influences their poetry, before focusing on Baudelaire (his fascination with Delacroix, the visual aspect of his poetry, Manet's resemblance to him). Surrealism will introduce us to poets and painters working together toward a complementary creative expression (for example, Eluard and Man Ray) in which the metaphor is experienced similarly in poetry and in painting. (FREN 0221 or by waiver). 3 hrs. lect./disc. ART EUR LIT LNG
Clubs
The Middlebury College International Students' Organization, an organization for a global community in a small town. Look out for tasty flavorful food, exciting events, and promising programs!
Middlebury ISO is the largest student group in Middlebury College. Our objective is to highlight the presence of our cultural diversity on campus. We bring an international breeze to Midd by organizing from small community events to the annual ISO Cultural Show.
French Club
(T-Middlebury has two meetings per week, one in English, one in French.)
We organize events centered around francophone culture & language. Our events are all in English: we believe in cross-culture exploration, and we welcome non-francophone members.
The Free Heelers are stoked to increase access to the mountains and valleys of Vermont and the surrounding states by making an often prohibitively expensive sport- skiing (of the free heeled variety)- free for members of the Middlebury College community. We maintain a fleet of telemark skis and boots, as well as climbing skins, poles, and tuning equipment to loan out to college community members for free. Throughout the winter, we have open gear hours twice a week to chat about freeing our heels and our minds, loan out equipment, tune equipment, and answer questions. We organize periodic group lessons or skiing nights and coordinate adventures.
Our winter hours are Tuesday and Thursday 7-8:30 in the bike shop.
Middlebury cycling is a student run organization focused on creating community and access to cycling, along with racing in the eastern collegiate cycling conference.
The Middlebury Mountain Club (MMC) is Middlebury’s largest and oldest student organization. Founded in 1931 as a rebirth of the Outing Club established in 1916, the club remains entirely organized and operated by students. The MMC sponsors and encourages Middlebury students to experience and enjoy the out-of-doors responsibly, offering year-round activities throughout Vermont, the Adirondacks, and beyond.
The Mountain Club leads hiking, boating, climbing, and winter trips free of cost for Middlebury students. Additionally, we reimburse or host classes and workshops, host screenings and presentations, do trail maintenance, fund student trips, host social events at the outdoor house, and run the first-year outdoor orientation programs.
We encourage people both join us in wild ventures and explore the great outdoors on their own or with friends
See Talerie's clothes in black and white, navy and white, all black, bright blue, purple, and French for warm weather and cold weather. She wears accessories in black or navy.
This is Talerie's bicycle and its specs.
Ayah Hafez Khalil -- He has fair skin, brown eyes, and wildly curly brown hair with a short scruff of mustache and beard. His heritage is Syrian. He speaks Arabic, English, Farsi, and French. He picked up bits of German, Italian, and Spanish while traveling. Ayah is Muslim, but only on a casual basis, and comfortable with other traditions. He likes the interfaith aspects of American culture. He is 23 years old in 2014.
Ayah grew up in Damascus, Syria. He was studying toward a degree in English Language and Literature at the University of Damascus. When he was 20, civil war broke out in Syria and he fled the country, escaping with a group of college students from Europe. People were more concerned about getting the kids out of danger than in checking identification. Ayah spent two years in Europe, mostly backpacking from one country to the next with other students. His extroverted nature allowed him to make friends and fit in easily. In time he made his way to America where he settled in Rutledge, Vermont. His experiences have left him reckless, though, and he often jumps into things without thinking ahead.
As Ayah investigated college options nearby, Middlebury offered him a full scholarship if he would agree to tutor students in Arabic. He accepted, and shyly mentioned that he could speak Farsi too, so that got added to his tutoring options. He decided to take a double major in Creative Writing and Vermont Studies, since he already had some grounding in English literature. Ayah began composing poems to create a set of symbolism for Syrians living in Vermont, using local features to express the feelings of refugees in a new homeland. It began with the poem "To a Syrian in Vermont" about maple trees. He also belongs to several student groups: the Middlebury College International Students' Organization, Blackbird Arts Journal, Middlebury Cycling, the Middlebury Mountain Club, and Tinder: Middlebury Traditional Outdoor Skills.
Ayah meets and falls in love with a French-Canadian woman, Talerie Latour, who shares several of his classes. A condom failure causes an unplanned but mutually pleasing pregnancy. They have a son, Jean-Mohammed Khalil, in 2015.
Qualities: Good (+2) Energetic, Good (+2) Extrovert, Good (+2) Linguistic Intelligence, Good (+2) Observant, Good (+2) Poet
Poor (-2) Reckless
He wrote "To a Syrian in Vermont."
Bachelor of Arts in English & American Literatures: Creative Writing Track
at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont
ENAM Creative Writing Track: Students who choose the Creative Writing Track will take a total of 11 classes, as follows:
• ENAM 103 or CMLT101
ENAM0103A-F14 Reading Literature (Fall 2014)
This course seeks to develop skills for the close reading of literature through discussion of and writing about selected poems, plays, and short stories. A basic vocabulary of literary terms and an introductory palette of critical methods will also be covered, and the course's ultimate goal will be to enable students to attain the literary-critical sensibility vital to further course work in the major. At the instructor's discretion, the texts employed in this class may share a particular thematic concern or historical kinship. 3 hrs. lect./disc.
• ENAM 205
ENAM 0205 - Introduction to Contemporary Literary Theory (Spring 2015)
In this course we will introduce several major schools of contemporary literary theory. By reading theoretical texts in close conjunction with works of literature, we will illuminate the ways in which these theoretical stances can produce multiple interpretations of a given literary work. The approaches covered may include New Criticism, Psychoanalysis, Marxism and Cultural Criticism, Race Theory and Multicultural Criticism, Feminism, Post-Colonial Criticism, Queer Studies, Eco-Criticism, Post-Structuralism, and others. These theories will be applied to various works of fiction, poetry, and drama. The goal will be to make students critically aware of the fundamental literary, cultural, political, and moral assumptions underlying every act of interpretation they perform. 3 hrs. lect/disc. EUR LIT
• Three CRWR Writing Workshops, at least ONE of which must be at the 300 level
CRWR 0173 - Environmental Literature: Reading & Writing Workshop (Spring 2015)
This course is an introduction to the reading and writing of environmental literature. We will analyze classic and contemporary model works in prose and poetry, in nonfiction and fiction, all directed at human interaction with the natural world. Our writing assignments will explore this theme in personal essays, poems, literary reportage, poetry, and fiction. Workshops will focus on inspiration, form, craft, and thematic issues associated with the environment. This course is a prerequisite to CRWR 0370, CRWR 0375, CRWR 0380, and CRWR 0385. ART LIT
CRWR 0175 - The Structure of Poetry (Fall 2014)
This course is a workshop for beginning students in the field of creative writing. Students will read a selection of poems each week and write their own poems, producing a portfolio of their work at the end of the term. There will be an emphasis on revision. Students will be introduced to a range of forms as well, including prose poems, epistles, the tanka, the long poem, and the sonnet. While this course is primarily online, on-campus students will have opportunities to meet in person with fellow students and the professor in small groups and during office hours, if circumstances allow. Off-campus students will be accommodated with additional optional online opportunities to connect. 3 hrs. lect. ART
CRWR 0375 - Advanced Poetry Workshop: The Walk of a Poem
As Lyn Hejinian writes, “Language makes tracks.” Poets from Chaucer to Whitman to O’Hara have used walking as a poetic method, thematic subject, narrative device, and pedestrian act. The walk is literal and imaginary, metrical and meandering; it traverses urban grids and bucolic landscapes, junctions of space, time, and lexis. In this workshop we will read the topographies of poems, focusing on lyrical cities from Paris to Harlem, Thoreauvian ambles through woods and field, and other literary wanderings and linguistic itinerancies, in order to examine how language gets made and mirrored in the act of moving through place. Students will also set out on walks through the local landscape as they produce their own work. Students will address crucial questions and challenges focused on the craft of poetry through rigorous readings, in-class writing exercises, critical discussions, collaborations, and the development of a portfolio of writing, including drafts and revisions. By the end of the course, students will have engaged deeply with the practice of poetry, established a writing discipline, honed their skills, generated new work, explored by foot, and extended their sense of the possibilities of a poem. (Approval required; please apply online at http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/enam/resources/forms ) While this course is primarily online, on-campus students will have opportunities to meet in person with fellow students and the professor in small groups and during office hours, if circumstances allow. Off-campus students will be accommodated with additional optional online opportunities to connect. ART
• Five Electives:
o at least ONE of which must be a course carrying the REC (Race, Empire, and Colonialism) tag. Courses fulfilling the REC requirement engage students in the study of black diasporic and African American, Asian diasporic and Asian American, Latinx, indigenous and Native American, and postcolonial literatures.
ENAM 0462 - Literature of Displacement: Forced Migration, Diaspora, Exile
We will study contemporary postcolonial literature and theory about migration, displacement, exile, and diaspora. Spurred variously by force, necessity and desire, migrants leave their homes and homelands with regret and with hope. Writers address the historical forces that shape these migrations: decolonization and neo-colonialism, globalization, warfare, dispossession, political violence, religious conflict, and environmental catastrophe. These writers experiment with narrative form and poetic language to explore the experiences of undocumented immigrant workers, exiles, refugees and well-to-do migrants. We will examine constructions of identity, history, community and place in texts by Anzaldua, Ali, Darwish, Diome, Patel, Gomez Pena, Said, Rushdie, Spivak, and others. (Diversity) (Rec) AAL CMP LIT SOA SOC
o at least ONE of which must be a course carrying the Pre-1800 tag. Courses fulfilling the Pre-1800 requirement include courses in Medieval, Early Modern, and 18th-century literature.
ENAM 0227 - Encounters With the Wild: Nature, Culture, Poetry (I) (Pre-1800) (Spring 2015)
Civilization is often defined against wilderness. The two ideas are not exclusive but mutually constitutive, for wilderness and the wild turn out to be central to notions of the civil and the civilized. Poets have long been preoccupied by the boundaries and connections between these ideas. The word "poetry" itself comes from a Greek word for "craft" or "shaping"; thus, poetry implies the shaping of natural elements into an artful whole. In this course we will examine the literary history of this ongoing dialectic by reading and discussing masterpieces of Western literature, from ancient epics to modern poetry and folklore. As we do so we will rethink the craft of poetry, and the role of the poet, in mapping the wild. Readings will include Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, sections of The Bible and Ovid's Metamorphoses, Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, and poems by Wyatt, Marlowe, Jonson, Donne, Marvell, Pope, and Thompson. (This course counts toward the ENVS Literature focus and the ENVS Environmental Non-Fiction Focus) lect./disc. CMP EUR LIT
ENAM 0317 - Poetics of Translation
In this course we will explore the philosophical and linguistic questions raised by translingual discourse [with an emphasis on poetic writing] by surveying the most important theoretical writings on translation as we compare selections of poetry in multiple translations. Selections will include both “classic” texts such as the Psalms, the Illiad, Catullus, Li Bo, Rumi, Clément Marot, and/ Eugene Onenin/ as well as new experimental translingual poetry. We will discuss such questions as: How does language shape thought? How does culture shape language? Is poetry “untranslatable” by definition? What are the challenges of translating sacred or “exotic” poetry? 3 hrs. lect/disc. AAL CMP LIT NOA
ENAM 0316 - Poetry and the Spiritual Tradition
In this course we will examine the long and intimate connection between poetry and spirituality, looking especially at the influence of Christian thinking on such English and American poets as John Donne, George Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T.S. Eliot. The course will begin with a study of the King James Version of the Book of Psalms, which deeply affected later British and American poetry. We will also read early Taoist and Islamic poets, including Lao Tse and Rumi. The course will conclude with a look at the work of several contemporary poets: Charles Wright, Louis Glück, and Mary Oliver. While this course is primarily online, on-campus students will have opportunities to meet in person with fellow students and the professor in small groups and during office hours, if circumstances allow. Off-campus students will be accommodated with additional optional online opportunities to connect. 3 hrs. lct. CMP LIT PHL
• Advanced Seminar (all 400-level ENAM courses are Advanced Seminars)
ENAM 0459 - Poetics of Protest: Political Poetry from Sonnet to Slam
In this course we will study the art, history, theory, politics, and practice of American poetry that is explicitly aimed at protesting various forms of social injustice, beginning with the Harlem Renaissance and through the most recent experiments in the spoken word form. Students will write a research essay integrating a range of critical sources with their own analysis, but the course is also designed to help students develop techniques for powerfully expressing political dissent through poetry. The flexible syllabus will include the likes of Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Helene Johnson, Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bernstein, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audrey Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Claudia Rankin, Ashley Jones, Saul Williams, Denice Frohman, Alysia Harris, Rachel McKibbens, Taylor Mali, and others. Coursework will include reading poetry and critical essays, viewing videos, listening to recordings, composing and performing (or recording) one poem, and attending one live event. 3 hrs. sem. (Diversity)/ AMR LIT NOR
• Optional Senior Thesis (required for students seeking to graduate with Honors, and strongly recommended for those students interested in pursuing graduate work in writing-intensive fields)
ENAM 0701 - Senior Essay: Creative Writing
Discussions, workshops, tutorials for those undertaking one-term projects in the writing of fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction.
ENAM 0115 - Multi-Ethnic American Literature (Fall 2014)
This course introduces ethnic American literature by investigating how cultural representations of “ethnic America” are formed in relation to its social, political, and material histories. We will begin by critically analyzing the nested issues of labour, legality, and immigration that have shaped Black, Asian, and Indigenous presence within North America. From there, we will move on to the themes of assimilation, multiculturalism, diaspora, and U.S. empire in order to track the trajectory of ethnic American literature in the late-20th and 21st centuries. Authors include: Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Tomson Highway, Toni Morrison, and Viet Nguyen. 3 hrs. lect./disc. (Diversity) (Rec) AMR CMP LIT NOR
ENAM 0240 - Captivity Narratives (II) (Pre-1900 AL)
Captivity narratives—first-person accounts of people's experiences of being forcibly taken and held against their will by an "other"—were immensely popular and important in early America; the captivity motif has been perpetuated and transformed throughout later American literature and film. In this course we will explore what these types of tales reveal about how Americans have handled the issues of race and racism, religion, gender, violence and sexuality that experiences of captivity entail. Beginning with classic Puritan narratives (Mary Rowlandson) and moving forward through the 19th and 20th centuries, we will consider the ways that novels (The Last of the Mohicans), autobiographies (Patty Hearst, Iraqi captivity of Pvt. Jessica Lynch) and films (The Searchers, Little Big Man, Dances with Wolves) do cultural work in shaping and challenging images of American national identity. 3 hrs. lect. (Diversity) AMR ART LIT NOR
Major in Vermont Studies
from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont
(compare with American Studies)
History
Choose one class on history.
AMST 0314 Vermont Collaborations Public Humanities Lab
Government
Choose one class on law, politics, and government.
PSCI1029A-W19 Vermont Government and Politics
Natural Sciences
Choose two classes on natural sciences. They must come from different departments.
BIOL 0302A-F18 Vertebrate Natural History
ENVS 0401 - Community-Engaged Environmental Studies Practicum
Food
Choose one class on food issues in Vermont.
SOAN 0237A-F16 Migration and Food Systems (Spring 2015)
Creative Arts
Choose one class on creative expression.
CRWR 0334 - Writing Local Color (T-American)
Language
Choose one class on language. Other courses that teach French or a Vermont indigenous language also fill this requirement.
FREN 0232 French in North America (Fall 2014)
Electives
Choose 4 electives from below, or any listed classes not already taken.
AMST 0223 - Race and Ethnicity in Vermont (T-American) (Spring 2015)
ART 0301 - Vermont en Plein Air (T-American)
DANC 0277A-S19 Body and Earth
ENAM 0104 - Literature of Vermont (T-American) (Fall 2014)
Capstone
All students take this capstone course.
HIST 0445A-F18 Vermont Life’s Vermont: A Collaborative Web Project
Clubs
The Middlebury College International Students' Organization, an organization for a global community in a small town. Look out for tasty flavorful food, exciting events, and promising programs!
Middlebury ISO is the largest student group in Middlebury College. Our objective is to highlight the presence of our cultural diversity on campus. We bring an international breeze to Midd by organizing from small community events to the annual ISO Cultural Show.
Blackbird Arts Journal
Middlebury's oldest literary magazine! A biannual publication comprised of student poetry, prose, and visual art. Middlebury students may submit their work to blackbird@middlebury.edu. All submissions are reviewed anonymously by their respective student-run boards.
Middlebury Cycling is a student run organization focused on creating community and access to cycling, along with racing in the eastern collegiate cycling conference.
The Middlebury Mountain Club (MMC) is Middlebury’s largest and oldest student organization. Founded in 1931 as a rebirth of the Outing Club established in 1916, the club remains entirely organized and operated by students. The MMC sponsors and encourages Middlebury students to experience and enjoy the out-of-doors responsibly, offering year-round activities throughout Vermont, the Adirondacks, and beyond.
The Mountain Club leads hiking, boating, climbing, and winter trips free of cost for Middlebury students. Additionally, we reimburse or host classes and workshops, host screenings and presentations, do trail maintenance, fund student trips, host social events at the outdoor house, and run the first-year outdoor orientation programs.
We encourage people both join us in wild ventures and explore the great outdoors on their own or with friends
Tinder: Middlebury Traditional Outdoor Skills
Tinder is a community of people dedicated to learning from and experiencing the lifestyles, primitive technologies, and cultures of indigenous people. We want to explore the gifts that nature has given us without destroying it or wasting what we have been given. Our primary purpose is to live with the land and to utilize the knowledge of those who do the same in order to live in harmony with nature. A few of the skills we practice are fire making with bow drills, burning and carving tools out of wood, creating shelters from natural materials, flint knapping, gourd making, bushcraft, foraging, trapping, cordage, and many more. We are open to learning from the experiences of our group members as well as the spoken and written knowledge of our elders. This is our way of giving back to the community what we have learned from survival and wilderness experiences.
See Ayah's business essentials, poet shirts, Rumi T-shirt, winter sweaters, cold weather gear, and Vermont sweaters.
This is Ayah's bicycle.
Garcelle De Guignes -- She has pale skin, brown eyes, and chin-length hair streaked in lighter and darker shades of blonde. She is tall and sturdy with modest curves. She lives in Ville de Roses, a village just outside of Rutledge, Vermont. She makes rustic French clothes, mostly for other villagers but sometimes for sale in nearby towns. Deft and practical, she does quite well at it. However, she's no good with fancy electronics and dislikes most modern technology.
Qualities: Good (+2) Christianisme lyonnais (Christianity of Lyon people), Good (+2) Dexterity, Good (+2) Interpersonal Intelligence, Good (+2) Practical, Good (+2) Seamstress
Poor (-2) Handling Electronics
Ville de Roses is a village just outside of Rutledge, Vermont. Its residents practice Christianisme lyonnais (Christianity of Lyon people), a Terramagne-French branch of Christianity originating in Lyon, France.
Lyon or Lyons (UK: /ˈliːɒ̃/,[4][5] US: /liˈoʊn/,[6][7][c] French: [ljɔ̃] ( listen); Arpitan: Liyon, pronounced [ʎjɔ̃]; Italian: Lione, pronounced [liˈone]) is the third-largest city and second-largest urban area of France. It is located in the country's east-central part at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône,[9] about 470 km (292 mi) south of Paris, 320 km (199 mi) north of Marseille and 56 km (35 mi) northeast of Saint-Étienne. Inhabitants of the city are called Lyonnais.
Evening Starr -- She has fair skin with freckles, blue eyes, and auburn hair to her shoulders. She is 32 years old in 2014. She is the mother of Morning Starr, a lovechild conceived at a festival. They live in the Emerald Mountain Glen intentional community near Rutledge, Vermont. Evening is a seamstress, making clothes for the community and selling others in Rutledge and at festivals.
Qualities: Good (+2) Dexterity, Good (+2) Mother, Good (+2) Nature Lover, Good (+2) Seamstress, Good (+2) Visual-Spatial Intelligence
Poor (-2) Book Learning
Morning Starr -- She has fair skin, blue eyes, and long hair of light brown that bleaches to blonde in the sun. She is 10 years old in 2014. She is the daughter of Evening Starr, conceived at a festival. They live in the Emerald Mountain Glen intentional community near Rutledge, Vermont. Morning enjoys running free across the land. She is learning to sew.
Qualities: Good (+2) Free Spirit, Good (+2) Nature Lover
Poor (-2) Sitting Still
