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Spring 2020 | FREN 3101W Section 001: Methods in French and Francophone Studies (52302)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 355
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (13 of 20 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Taught entirely in French. In this course, you will delve deeply into original stories, lyrics, plays, and films in French, from around the world and across time. What verbal and visual codes carry meaning in a given culture? How do cultures create a space for the subject or the self? As you discuss these questions, you will become a faster and more independent reader, gain sensitivity to the sonorities and rhythms of the French language and the nuances of sense it makes possible, and learn to perceive implicit meaning in texts. Theoretical readings and lessons in developing thesis statements and organizing arguments will enhance your ability to understand and create complex arguments in French. Each individual section of this course addresses these questions with a different selection of readings and films grouped around a specific theme, so please consult the Class Info page to find out more! nonfiction texts, cultural artifacts, and audio/visual media pertaining to France and Francophone communities across the centuries. prereq: 3016 or equiv
- Class Notes:
- Please check out more information on this course! http://classinfo.umn.edu/?FREN3101W+Spring2020
- Class Description:
"Clandestine Migrations" (Section 1)
Aren't we all migrants?
Mass media often presents the "migrant crisis" as a threat portraying clandestine migrants as masculine, anonymous, and potentially violent invaders, stripping them of their identities and reducing them to numbers. This course will provide an account and analysis of more human-centered approaches of what too often culminates in faceless statistics. We will focus on migratory experiences and on representations of mobility across the African and French cultural landscape in the works of Francophone writers, graphic novelists, and filmmakers. The course will be taught in French.
French 3101W is a writing intensive course offering a broad introduction to the critical methods, standards of scholarship, and body of knowledge specific to the discipline of French and Francophone Studies. The course will train students to understand and analyze various documents and media such as literary works, cultural or theoretical texts, cultural artifacts, film, art, audio and visual media pertaining to France and Francophone communities from selected periods. Since this is a writing intensive course, particular attention is given to the content, style and format of written assignments.- Grading:
- 20% mid exam, 60% reports/papers, 10% in-class presentation, 10% class participation
- Exam Format:
- essay
- Class Format:
- 40% Lecture, 50% Discussion, 10% Student Presentations.
- Workload:
- 50 pages reading per week, 15 pages writing per term, 1 exam, 1 presentation.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52302/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2019
Spring 2020 | FREN 3101W Section 002: Methods in French and Francophone Studies (53227)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankFolwell Hall 107
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (16 of 20 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Taught entirely in French. In this course, you will delve deeply into original stories, lyrics, plays, and films in French, from around the world and across time. What verbal and visual codes carry meaning in a given culture? How do cultures create a space for the subject or the self? As you discuss these questions, you will become a faster and more independent reader, gain sensitivity to the sonorities and rhythms of the French language and the nuances of sense it makes possible, and learn to perceive implicit meaning in texts. Theoretical readings and lessons in developing thesis statements and organizing arguments will enhance your ability to understand and create complex arguments in French. Each individual section of this course addresses these questions with a different selection of readings and films grouped around a specific theme, so please consult the Class Info page to find out more! nonfiction texts, cultural artifacts, and audio/visual media pertaining to France and Francophone communities across the centuries. prereq: 3016 or equiv
- Class Notes:
- Please check out more information on this course! http://classinfo.umn.edu/?abder002+FREN3101W+Spring2020
- Class Description:
- "Space/Borders/Limits." In this course, we will examine the notion of space, particularly through artistic works in which mobility is depicted negatively. What is the treatment of trespassing, intruding and overstaying one's welcome in French and francophone literature and cinema? How have travel practices, their regulations and their artistic and cultural representations evolved through time? How is social mobility addressed in literary and cinematographic productions? To answer these and related questions, we will study Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal, Molière's Le Médecin malgré lui, Gisèle Pineau's Un Papillon dans la cité, Abdellatif Kechiche's L'Esquive and André Téchiné's Loin.
- Grading:
- 20% mid exam, 60% reports/papers, 10% in-class presentation, 10% class participation.
- Exam Format:
- essay
- Class Format:
- 40% Lecture, 50% Discussion, 10% Student Presentations.
- Workload:
- 50 pages reading per week, 15 pages writing per term, 1 exam, 2 papers, 6 presentations.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53227/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 November 2016
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