| Course ID: | FREN 4080. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. |
| Course Title: | Studies in French Literature and Culture |
Course
Description: | Topics in French and Francophone studies: themes, movements, problems, artistic and cultural manifestations and their relationship to literary and intellectual developments. Topics can cover individual periods or several centuries, depending on instructor. Given in French. |
| Oasis Title: | Studies French Lit and Culture |
| Prerequisite: | FREN 3030 or FREN 3030H or FREN 3030E |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | To familiarize advanced undergraduate students with important
problems and movements throughout French and Francophone literary
cultural history. The variable topic format will enable
instructors to construct original courses reflecting individual
research interests and main trends in contemporary literary and
cultural studies in different periods. Students will learn to
identify thematic currents, historic trends and broad relationships
between cultural, artistic and literary manifestations. The
specialized nature of this course requires students to develop
their abilities to analyze and discuss specific texts as well as
general cultural and intellectual problems, in class discussions,
written and oral projects, and examinations. |
| Topical Outline: | 1. Individual problems in the literature and culture of particular
periods in French and Francophone history.
2. Periods or movements of special importance or interest.
3. Broad trends over several periods or centuries, centered on
particular themes or problems.
4. Major historical-cultural events and their manifestations in
literature, art and cinema (examples: the discovery of America;
the French Revolution; the German Occupation). |