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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with FFST Literature and Culture · returned 22 results
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CCST 245 Meaning and Power: Introduction to Analytical Approaches in the Humanities 6 credits
How can it be that a single text means different things to different people at different times, and who or what controls those meanings? What is allowed to count as a “text” in the first place, and why? How might one understand texts differently, and can different forms of reading serve as resistance or activism within the social world? Together we will respond to these questions by developing skills in close reading and discussing diverse essays and ideas. We will also focus on advanced academic writing skills designed to prepare students for comps in their own humanities department.
Formerly LCST 245
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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At least one 200- or 300-level course in Literary/Artistic Analysis (in any language) or instructor permission
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CCST 245.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Seth Peabody 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 114 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 114 1:10pm-2:10pm
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FREN 206 Contemporary Francophone Culture 6 credits
This course aims to improve knowledge of France and the Francophone world and written and oral expression. Through an analysis of texts written by novelist and sociologist Azouz Begag, journalist Françoise Laborde and novelist Maryse Condé, we will discuss various aspects of national, racial and family identity in France.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2023, Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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French 204 or equivalent
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FREN 206.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Chérif Keïta 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 9:40am-10:40am
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FREN 206.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 202 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 202 1:10pm-2:10pm
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FREN 206.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 243 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 243 9:40am-10:40am
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FREN 206.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:00am-11:10am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 9:50am-10:50am
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FREN 206.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Chérif Keïta 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 243 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 243 2:20pm-3:20pm
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FREN 206.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 9:40am-10:40am
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FREN 208 Paris Program: Contemporary France: Cultures, Politics, Society 6 credits
This course seeks to deepen students’ knowledge of contemporary French culture through a pluridisciplinary approach, using multimedia (books, newspaper and magazine articles, videos, etc.) to generate discussion. It will also promote the practice of both oral and written French through exercises, debates, and oral presentations.
Requires participation in OCS Program: French and Francophone Studies in Paris
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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French 204 or equivalent
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FREN 235 The Human Body in the Francophone World 6 credits
What can a body do? How does it mean? Cultural attitudes elicit distinct responses to this question, and French-speaking cultures in France, North Africa, and West Africa produce particular responses, as do gendered and differently abled bodies. At the same time, isn’t every body like every other body, but different? Through literature, cultural readings, podcasts, and film, this course will examine various aspects of the human body in francophone culture, including gender, athletics, manual labor, artistic expression, sexuality, dance, and “personal development.” Taught in French.
- Winter 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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French 204 or the equivalent
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FREN 235.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Cathy Yandell 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 330 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
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FREN 239 Banned Books 6 credits
Recent events in France have highlighted the issues of free speech and religious intolerance, among other cultural questions. Some of the most fascinating and now canonized works in French and Francophone literature were once banned because they called into question the political, religious, or moral sensibilities of the day. Even now, books deemed to be subversive are routinely censored in certain Francophone cultures. Through readings of such writers as Rabelais, Voltaire, Sade, Camus, Franz Fanon, Assia Djebar, and Hergé (Tintin), as well as contemporary articles from Charlie Hebdo, we will explore the crucial role of forbidden works in their cultural contexts.
- Winter 2020, Fall 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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French 204 or equivalent
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FREN 239.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Cathy Yandell 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 202 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 202 12:00pm-1:00pm
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FREN 243 Cultural Reading of Food 6 credits
Through the thematic lens of food, we will study enduring and variable characteristics of societies in the French and Francophone world, with a comparative nod to the American experience. We will analyze various cultural texts and artifacts (fiction, non-fiction, print, film, and objects) from medieval times to the present with a pinch of theory and a dash of statistics.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Writing Requirement
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French 204 or equivalent
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FREN 243.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Christine Lac 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 136 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 136 9:40am-10:40am
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FREN 243.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 243 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 243 1:10pm-2:10pm
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FREN 244 Contemporary France and Humor 6 credits
This class is an overview of France’s social, cultural, and political history from 1939 onwards. The core units of this class (WWII, decolonization, May 1968, the Women’s liberation movement, the rise of the National Front, globalization, and immigration) will be studied through their comic representations. Sources for this class will include historical, political, literary and journalistic texts as well as photographs, paintings, videos, blogs, and music. The contrast between comical and non-comical texts and objects will highlight the uses and functions of humor in communicating about history, and illustrate the impact of comic discourses in everyday culture. In French.
- Fall 2020, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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French 204 or equivalent
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FREN 244.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:30am-12:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:20am-12:20pm
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FREN 244.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤 · Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 9:40am-10:40am
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FREN 245 Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean 6 credits
Reading and discussion of literary works, with analysis of social, historical and political issues.
- Spring 2019, Spring 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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French 204 or the equivalent
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FREN 245.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Chérif Keïta 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 136 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 136 12:00pm-1:00pm
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FREN 245.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Chérif Keïta 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 345 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 345 12:00pm-1:00pm
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FREN 246 Contemporary Senegal 6 credits
This course is the second part of a two-term course sequece beginning with French 308. This course will be a critical examination of the Francophone label within the context of literature, education, history and daily life in Senegal. During the December break field trip, students will visit significant cultural sites in Dakar and Saint Louis and meet with writers, artists, and other major thought leaders. During the winter term, students will complete an independent project based on their experience in Senegal as part of this course.
OCS Winter Break French Program
- Winter 2019, Winter 2022
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French 308 term before
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FREN 246.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Chérif Keïta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- FLanguage & Dining Center 243 8:30am-9:30am
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FREN 250 French History in 10 Objects 6 credits
This class is an overview of French history through the analysis of ten cultural objects borrowed from different socio-political, geographic and aesthetic spaces. Starting with the Gauls, this class will take students across centuries and ask how cultural productions (the Vix Krater, the Versailles Palace, the guillotine, etc.) come to represent a mentalité and often become integrated in the French nationalist project.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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French 204
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FREN 250.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 302 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 302 12:00pm-1:00pm
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FREN 250.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 12:00pm-1:00pm
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FREN 257 French and Francophone Autofiction 6 credits
How to transcribe the self? How is a self created, examined, or reinvented through storytelling? Is cultural context inextricable from self-writing? Our inquiry will be informed by readings from Montaigne, Descartes, Maryse Condé, and the controversial contemporary author Édouard Louis; a film by Agnès Varda; an autofictional graphic novel; and songs by the Franco-Rwandan singer Gaël Faye. During the course of the term, students will also produce their own autobiographical/autofictional projects. Offered at both the 200 and 300 levels, and coursework will be adjusted accordingly.
- Fall 2021
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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French 204 or the equivalent
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FREN 259 Paris Program: Hybrid Paris 6 credits
Through literature, cultural texts, and experiential learning in the city, this course will explore the development of both the “Frenchness” and the hybridity that constitute contemporary Paris. Immigrant cultures, notably North African, will also be highlighted. Plays, music, and visits to cultural sites will complement the readings.
Requires participation in OCS Program: French and Francophone Studies in Paris
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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French 204 or the equivalent and participation in OCS Paris program
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FREN 308 France and the African Imagination 6 credits
This course will look at the presence of France and its capital Paris in the imaginary landscape of a number of prominent African writers, filmmakers and musicians such as Bernard Dadié (Côte d’ Ivoire), Ousmane Sembène (Senegal), Calixthe Beyala (Cameroun), Alain Mabanckou (Congo-Brazzaville), Salif Keïta (Mali) and others. The history of Franco-African relations will be used as a background for our analysis of these works. Conducted in French. This course is part of the OCS winter break French Program in Senegal, involving two linked courses in fall and winter terms. This courses is the first in the sequence, students must register for French 246 winter term.
- Fall 2018, Fall 2021, Fall 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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One French course beyond French 204
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FREN 308.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Chérif Keïta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 244 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 244 1:10pm-2:10pm
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FREN 308.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Chérif Keïta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 243 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 243 2:20pm-3:20pm
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FREN 308.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Chérif Keïta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 202 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 202 9:40am-10:40am
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FREN 340 Arts of Brevity: Short Fiction 3 credits
The rise of newspapers and magazines in the nineteenth century promotes a variety of short genres that will remain popular to the present day: short stories, prose poetry, vignettes, theatrical scenes. In this short course (first five weeks of the term) we’ll study short works by such authors as Diderot, Sand, Balzac, Mérimée, Flaubert, Allais, Tardieu, Le Clézio. Conducted in French.
- Winter 2020, Spring 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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One French course beyond French 204 or instructor permission
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FREN 340.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Scott Carpenter 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 233 9:40am-10:40am
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1st 5 weeks
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FREN 340.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Scott Carpenter 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 233 1:10pm-2:10pm
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1st 5 weeks
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FREN 341 Madame Bovary and Her Avatars 3 credits
Decried as scandalous, heralded as the first “modern” novel, Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (published in 1857) sparked debate, spawned both detractors and followers, and became a permanent fixture in French culture and even the French language. In this five-week course we will read the novel, study its cultural context and impact, and see how it has been variously re-interpreted in film and other media. Conducted in French.
- Fall 2016, Winter 2020, Spring 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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One French course beyond French 204 or instructor permission
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FREN 341.00 Fall 2016
- Faculty:Scott Carpenter 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 302 1:50pm-3:35pm
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2nd 5 weeks
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FREN 341.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Scott Carpenter 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 233 9:40am-10:40am
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2nd 5 weeks
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FREN 341.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Scott Carpenter 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 233 1:10pm-2:10pm
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2nd 5 weeks
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FREN 347 Gender and Sexuality in the Francophone World 6 credits
From Marie/Germain Garnier, an early modern trans figure, to the contemporary singer of Christine and the Queens (aka “Chris”), from Senghor’s “Femme noire” to Sylvie Chalaye’s “Corps marron” [brown body], conceptions of gender and sexuality are essential to the study of francophone cultures. We will explore examples of historical and contemporary manifestations of gender and sexuality in France, francophone Africa, Lebanon, and Québec. “GPS” (Genre, Politique, Sexualité), including the intersectional questions of race and class in context, will be analyzed through novels, films, graphic novels, sociological studies, poetry, and music. Conducted in French.
- Fall 2019, Winter 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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One course beyond French 204 or instructor permission
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FREN 347.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Cathy Yandell 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 132 12:00pm-1:00pm
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FREN 347.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Cathy Yandell 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 12:00pm-1:00pm
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FREN 353 The French Chanson 6 credits
In Beaumarchais’s oft-cited words, “Everything ends with songs.” This course will study the distinctiveness of French chanson (song) and its unique role in French history and culture especially since the post-World War II years. We will examine the rise of the singer-songwriter; the changing dynamics between lyrics (poetry), music, and performance over time; song categories such as yéyé, the politically engaged song, and the eclectic nouvelle chanson française; rap and slam’s poetic affiliation with chanson; and the clout of the music industry. Artists may include Trenet, Piaf, Gréco, Brel, Ferré, Brassens, Barbara, François, Aznavour, Renaud, Goldman, MC Solaar, Zaz, Stromae.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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One French course beyond French 204 or instructor permission
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FREN 353.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Éva Pósfay 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 1:10pm-2:10pm
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FREN 353.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Éva Pósfay 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 202 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 202 2:20pm-3:20pm
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FREN 357 French and Francophone Autofiction 6 credits
How to transcribe the self? How is a self created, examined, or reinvented through storytelling? Is cultural context inextricable from the writing of a memoir? Such readings as Montaigne, Descartes, Nathalie Sarraute, and Assia Djebar, as well as the films of Agnès Varda and Gillaume Galienne, the graphic novel L’Arabe du futur, and the Franco-Rwandan singer Gaël Faye, will inform our inquiry. During the course of the term, students will also produce their own autobiographical/ autofictional projects.
- Winter 2018, Fall 2021
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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One French course beyond French 204 or instructor permission
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FREN 357.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Cathy Yandell 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 12:00pm-1:00pm
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FREN 359 Paris Program: Hybrid Paris 6 credits
Through literature, cultural texts, and experiential learning in the city, this course will explore the development of both the “Frenchness” and the hybridity that constitute contemporary Paris. Immigrant cultures, notably North African, will also be highlighted. Plays, music, and visits to cultural sites will complement the readings.
Requires participation in OCS Program: French and Francophone Studies in Paris
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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French 230 or beyond and participation in OCS Paris program
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FREN 360 The Algerian War of Liberation and Its Representations 6 credits
Over fifty years after Algeria’s independence from France, discourses and representations about the cause, the violence, and the political and social consequences of that conflict still animate public life in both France and Algeria. This class aims at presenting the Algerian war through its various representations. Starting with discussions about the origins of French colonialism in North Africa, it will develop into an analysis of the war of liberation and the ways it has been recorded in history books, pop culture, and canonical texts. We will reflect on the conflict and on its meanings in the twenty-first century, and analyze how different media become memorial artifacts.
- Spring 2020, Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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One French course beyond French 204 or instructor permission
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FREN 360.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 12:00pm-1:00pm
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FREN 370 Cultural Mutations in the Francophone World: Theory and Practice 6 credits
Racisé, transclasse, personne valide, female gaze are all concepts that have emerged recently in the Francophone world even though they reflect experiences that have existed for a very long time. In this class we will work through such concepts and explore how central they are to the contemporary Francophone world. Through theoretical texts and cultural artefacts (films, songs, BD, literature) from Morocco, France, Belgium, Senegal, and other spaces, this class seeks to develop a deeper understanding of the issues that animate the French-speaking world today.
- Winter 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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One French course beyond French 204 or instructor permission
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FREN 370.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 202 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 202 12:00pm-1:00pm
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LCST 245 The Critical Toolbox: Who’s Afraid of Theory? 6 credits
This class introduces students to the various theoretical frameworks and the many approaches scholars can use when analyzing a text (whether this text is a film, an image, a literary piece or a performance). What do words like ‘structuralism,’ ‘ecocriticism,’ ‘cultural studies,’ and ‘postcolonial studies’ refer to? Most importantly, how do they help us understand the world around us? This class will be organized around interdisciplinary theoretical readings and exercises in cultural analysis.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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At least one 200- or 300-level course in Literary/Artistic Analysis (in any language) or instructor permission
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LCST 245.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤 · Juliane Schicker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 305 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 305 1:10pm-2:10pm
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LCST 245.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 345 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 345 2:20pm-3:20pm
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LCST 245.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Juliane Schicker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 242 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 242 2:20pm-3:20pm
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LCST 245.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 330 1:10pm-2:10pm
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LCST 245.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Seth Peabody 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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LCST 245.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Seth Peabody 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WAnderson Hall 323 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FAnderson Hall 323 1:10pm-2:10pm
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LCST 245.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Seth Peabody 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WHasenstab 105 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FHasenstab 105 1:10pm-2:10pm