FREN 395 - Race,Society and Culture of the Ancien Régime

Institution:

Hobart William Smith Colleges

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Description:

The goal of the course is to become familiarized with various cultural productions of XVIIIth century pre-revolutionary France, to acquire understanding how the representation of race evolved in a cultural context reflecting society's political and economical agendas, and to appreciate the impact of race representation on society. Special attention to the construction of race in visual representations from travel narratives, illustrations, and paintings, as well as textual representations in the writings of the Philosophes (Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, d'Alembert), legal and abolitionist writings, as well as in narratives of the period. This course is crosslisted with Africana Studies, European Studies, and Media and Society; it should be of interest to students of Art, architecture, Comparative Literature, French and Francophone studies, History, Political Science. Prerequisite: open to all, but recommended for sophomores and beyond. (Gallou t , offered alternate years)

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.HWS.EDU

Phone Number:

(315) 781-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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