Environmental Science A15 - Visions de Paris

Institution:

Wheaton College - Massachusetts

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Ah! Paris! The City of Light! The City of Love, French baguettes and croissants, bohemian artists, fashion designers, Notre-Dame, and l'Arche de la Defense. The majestic capital of France, the essence of Frenchness, a city that fights dog droppings with the very refined "moto-crottes"(poop-scooters!). I am inviting you to take a virtual trip to France and for 13 weeks we will "walk" thestreets of Paris, ever so careful as not to step in a dog's contribution to sidewalk art. We will study French history and society while gazing at French cultural patrimony, analyzing the links between architecture and political power. Sitting at the terrace of a well-known café we will discover the Paris of James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway and why they were drawn to this place. We will spend a couple of evenings at the movies. We will read and analyze articles on Paris and France from The New York Times or the Boston Globe and define what vision of Paris, France or the French the authors want to convey, what stereotypes are perpetuated and why. With Paris as our field of investigation we will discover a new country, a new culture and a new people and its struggle to retain its identity in an ever-expanding European Community and a changing world. ( This course will be taught in French.) (Cecile Danehy)

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wheatoncollege.edu

Phone Number:

(508) 285-7722

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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