FRAN 303 Contemporary French and Francophone Culture in Media
For students with years of previous study in French as demonstrated by a placement protocol or with a passing grade in FRAN 202, FRAN 303 uses a content-based approach to investigate French and Francophone cultural practices, and perspectives through press articles, film, music, and popular art forms on a variety of topics including but not limited to politics, ideology, family, religion, love, feminism, language, race, ethnicity, gender. The course envisions a cross-cultural study of contemporary topics of interest to the students, and promotes a democratic pedagogy. Using the course's content as the subject of academic inquiry, it also develops the four skills of communication in French (reading, writing, speaking, and listening), with a focus on real-time interpersonal and presentational oral production of cohesive paragraphs featuring narration and description in all tenses and on a variety of increasingly abstract and academic contexts, as well as on interpretive communication and argumentation through expository process writing. This course roughly targets the ACTFL Advanced-Mid rating. Teaching methodologies may include task-based, project-based, and other experiential learning assignments. Taught in French.
Prerequisite
FRAN 202, placement, or special instructor permission.