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FRE235

Advanced French Language and Introduction to Film Analysis

Subject code

FRE

Course Number

235

Instructor(s)

L. Balladur

Course Long Title

Advanced French Language and Introduction to Film Analysis

Description

The course is designed to develop facility in conversing and writing in idiomatic French with ease and fluency. Students review linguistic structures and develop new analytical skills to develop their critical thinking in French with attention to written expression. In addition to reading short essays by French and Francophone theorists, students acquire specific conceptual vocabulary to analyze films and explore questions of language, power, and privilege; constructions of gender, national, and racial identities; and their intersectionalities.

Modes of Inquiry

Analysis and Critique [AC], Creative Process and Production [CP]

Writing Credit

W2

GEC This Course Belongs To

-

Offering Frequency

Normally offered every semester