POL 3265 is also offered in Fall 2023
POL 3265 is also offered in Fall 2022
Spring 2020 | POL 3265 Section 001: Ideas and Protest in French Postwar Thought (65344)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- 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 Session
Tue,
Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 115
- Enrollment Status:
Closed (33 of 33 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- France witnessed a number of extraordinary events in the 20th century: the carnage and trauma of World Wars I and II; the Vichy regime's collaboration with German Nazis; the general strike and student protests of the 1960s; the tensions prompted by anti-colonialism and later decolonization in North Africa; and the challenges of post-colonialism and racial politics. This course will examine these events, the political and ethical challenges they raised, and the intellectuals who shaped the ensuing public debates. It will draw on historical documents, cultural media (e.g. posters, art, film), and philosophical texts to explore contemporary France in its century of politics and protest. Thinkers range from film-maker Gillo Pontecorvo, to philosopher-playwright Jean-Paul Sartre, to philosopher Michel Foucault.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?luxon+POL3265+Spring2020
- Class Description:
- France witnessed a number of extraordinary events in the 20th century: the carnage and trauma of World Wars I and II; the Vichy regime's shameful collaboration with German Nazis; the general strike and student protests of the 1960s; the tensions prompted by decolonization in North Africa; and the challenges of contemporary multiculturalism and identity politics from the 1990s to the 2015 Charlie Hebdo tragedy. This course will examine these events, the political and ethical challenges they raised, and the intellectuals who shaped the ensuing public debates. It will draw on historical documents, cultural media (e.g. posters, art, film), and philosophical texts to explore contemporary France in its century of politics and protest. Thinkers range from novelist Albert Camus, to philosopher-playwright Jean-Paul Sartre, to philosopher Michel Foucault.
- Exam Format:
- 20% Midterm Exam
50% Reports/Papers
20% Special Projects
10% In-class Presentations
- Class Format:
- 40% Lecture
10% Film/Video
50% Discussion
- Workload:
- 75-100 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
3 Paper(s)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65344/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 24 March 2015
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2020 Political Science Classes