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Luc Bonhomme

Visiting Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies

French and Francophone Studies

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lbonhomme@bates.edu

Current Courses

Fall Semester 2026

Voix Francophones: Intermediate French

FRE 201

An exploration of the diversity of Francophone voices while developing your own. This course focuses on proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and provides a general review of grammar. Students read and discuss a range of films, short texts, and songs from the French-speaking worl…

Introduction to Contemporary France

FRE 207

This course develops facility in speaking, reading, and writing French by focusing on the evolution of French society and culture. Students explore contemporary France through content-based cultural materials such as magazine and newspaper articles, published interviews, video, film, music, and podc…

Power and Resistance through Writing

FRE 250

A study of French and Francophone cultural production, mainly literary, across time and various genres. The course does not attempt comprehensive, encyclopedic knowledge of a textural canon, but rather a thematic approach that focuses on key works and important authors and creators from the French-s…