Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy

Modern Languages and Cultures

Selected Topics in German
Modern Languages and Cultures

For advanced students of the language, this course features topics typically taught in college. The focus might be on one literary masterpiece, readings from German-language Nobel-prize winners, cinema, or other areas depending on the interests and...

Accelerated Italian for Seniors
Modern Languages and Cultures

This sequence of two accelerated courses in Italian covers all the basic skills, with emphasis on a reading program leading to the study of a work of contemporary Italian literature. The course is for seniors with strong preparation in a first foreign...

Elementary Japanese
Modern Languages and Cultures

This sequence of courses is offered fall (JPN110), winter (JPN120) and spring (JPN130). These courses introduce students to the language of everyday life. Students learn the basic skills: speaking, listening, writing and reading. Conversation skills and...

Accelerated Elementary Japanese
Modern Languages and Cultures

This sequence of two accelerated terms (JPN121/131) covers the material of the first three terms of elementary Japanese (JPN110/120/130). These two courses prepare students for Japanese 210. Students who have satisfied their language requirement in a first...

French: Great Novels
Modern Languages and Cultures

For those students who want to spend a term studying one or two great novels of the francophone world. Possible choices include Roch Carrier, La guerre yes sir! Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary; Cheikh Hamidou Kane, L’aventure ambiguë; Guy de...

Intermediate Japanese
Modern Languages and Cultures

This sequence of courses is offered fall (JPN210), winter (JPN220) and spring (JPN230). This sequence of three courses continues the study of spoken and written Japanese. The students are introduced to more complex grammar and reading, as well as...

French Humanism
Modern Languages and Cultures

This course studies selected works by great francophone writers of the past and present, whose reaffirmation and defense of human dignity, or questioning of it, give them lasting significance. Readings might include works by Albert Camus, Michel de Montaigne,...

Advanced Japanese
Modern Languages and Cultures

This sequence of courses is offered fall (JPN310), winter (JPN320) and spring (JPN400). In this sequence of courses, students consolidate the previously learned material and build new vocabulary and grammar. Various cultural and social topics, such as...

French Change Makers
Modern Languages and Cultures

Tracing the struggle for human rights through current events, literature and film, this course focuses on the crises, upheavals, and moral miscarriages of justice in various countries of the francophone world. Note: This course will be offered every other...

Studies in French Cinema
Modern Languages and Cultures

The readings, discussions and writing in this course will center on a series of French films chosen for their cultural, historical and artistic value. Students will read scenarios, source material or summaries of the films and will discuss and write about...