Faculty Profile
Dominique Laurent
Associate Professor of French (1995)
Contact Information
Bosler Hall Room 221
717-245-1299
http://users.dickinson.edu/~laurent
Bio
Professor Laurent's research examines the image of America in the French press in the XIXth and XXth centuries. He teaches French language and civilization classes (Intermediate French, Communications in French and Francophone Contexts, Introduction to Cultural Analysis) and senior seminars on "The French Press," "France between the Wars," and "America in French Eyes." In addition he has taught First-Year Seminars on "The Great War" and, more recently, on "America in the Eyes of the World". Professor Laurent is currently working on the image of Woodrow Wilson in the French press during the Paris Peace Conference (December 1918-June 1919).
Education
- Licence, Universite Catholique de L'ouest, 1978
- M.A., Vanderbilt University, 1985
- Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1996
2025-2026 Academic Year
Fall 2025
FREN 101 Elementary French
Complete first-year course. Intensive study of the fundamentals of French grammar, with special attention given to pronunciation and oral expression. Cultural readings in the context of language acquisition.
FREN 302 Issues in Contemp Fr Society
This course is designed to give students an understanding of the main tensions and controversies of contemporary French culture. Focusing on political, social, and economic topics such as Americanization, regionalism, immigration, France's place in the European Union, the course facilitates acculturation in France or provides an academic substitute for that experience. Prerequisite: FREN 231 or FREN 232.