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3.00 Credits
This course offers students windows into Francophone Caribbean cultureand society as a literary construction. We analyze the problem of identity through a study of Caribbean literary movements. Topics include discrimination and violence; exile and identity; the writings of diversity; French civilization and post-colonial literary relations; the search for Africa and metaphors of origin; writing in diaspora; gender, race and memory. (Dahouda, offered occasionally )
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3.00 Credits
Francophone North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia), faces many challenges: national, tribal, linguistic, gender and personal identities, the various faces of Islam, tradition and modernity. Students are introduced to the North African Maghreb, its cultural landscape, its history, its people, through various cultural productions. These will include contemporary North African cinema, with particular emphasis on Tunisian films by women, fiction by Algerian and Moroccan authors such as Djebar, Mokkedem, Kadra, Chra bi, Ben Jelloun, among others. Prerequisite: open to all, but recommended for sophomores and beyond. (Gallou t, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to Modern French Theatre and to the new dramatic forms that appear in the course of the 20th century.The focus is on the revolution that takes place in the performing and visual arts and gives birth to Modern French Theatre. Students learn to analyze the dramatic text and the performance onstage and investigate the relationships between culture, society and theatre.(Etienne, offered occasionally)
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the role played by women in the shaping of tradition and culture in medieval France, Vietnam and Japan. Prerequisite: Open to all, but recommended for sophomores and beyond. For French majors: FRE 251 and FRE 252, or permission of the instructor. (Etienne, offered occasionally)
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3.00 Credits
The Western imagination of the 20th century has evolved in response to, and in spite of, the major traumas of two world wars and their aftermath. This course examines how the particular conceptions of the universe, deriving from the stark realities of a war-torn continent, were formulated in the fictional writing of de Beauvoir, Sartre and Camus, the three voices that resonated with the deepest chords of a wounded nation, continent, world. (Joseph, offered occasionally)
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3.00 Credits
A study of the origins of Francophone African fiction in both French European and African oral traditions. It includes fragmentation of traditional models of identity in both men and women and the call for both master and slave to embrace a new freedom. Prerequisite: FRE 253 and one of FRE 251, FRE 252, or permission of the instructor. (Joseph, offered occasionally)
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3.00 Credits
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)
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3.00 Credits
Each semester this interdisciplinary course is offered, students and faculty gather to read and reflect on topics associated with the current Fisher Center theme under the direction of the Fisher Center Fellow. Readings are selected from amongst those written by visiting speakers, as well as critical reflection on those writings from alternative perspectives. The course requires attendance at the Fisher Center lecture series as well as the morning seminars. ( Offered occasionally)
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3.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary course pursues the Fisher Center yearly theme through the expertise of the Fisher Center Fellow. The course focuses on an aspect of the theme in-depth, offering a thorough understanding of the topics through extensive reading and writing. Courses are cross-listed with other departments or programs as approved on an annual basis.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the form and function of the solid Earth, using plate tectonics as its central theme. From this framework, students explore rocks and minerals, volcanoes, earthquakes, the rise and fall of mountains, the origin and fate of sediments, the structure of our landscape, and geologic time. Students discuss geological resources such as minerals, petroleum and energy. The course emphasizes how humans interact with Earth processes and, in some cases, alter them. Approximately one third of the laboratory work is in the field and one mandatory weekend field trip may be required. No prerequisites; however, this course is a prerequisite for many geoscience courses. (Arens, Kendrick or McKinney, offered each semester)
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