An intermediate-level exploration of the contemporary French cultural landscape through a variety of genres, such as literature, drama and film.
You are invited to a rich voyage through diverse contemporary cultural landscapes in French and Francophone worlds! Come and explore a variety of modern, postmodern and contemporary sources - such as short literary texts, drama and film - in a global contemporary perspective!
| Paper title | Crossroads in French Cultural Space |
|---|---|
| Paper code | FREN250 |
| Subject | French |
| EFTS | 0.15 |
| Points | 18 points |
| Teaching period | Not offered in 2023 (On campus) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees (NZD) | $955.05 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Prerequisite
- 36 100-level points
- Restriction
- FREN 350
- Schedule C
- Arts and Music
- Contact
- languages@otago.ac.nz
constantin.grigorut@otago.ac.nz - Teaching staff
Dr Constantin Grigorut, Senior Lecturer, Languages and Cultures programme, University of Otago
- Teaching Arrangements
- There are two lectures a week and one tutorial.
- Textbooks
- Annie Mignard: "7 histoires d'amour"
- Yasmina Reza: "L'Homme du hasard"
- E-E Schmitt: Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran"
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Global perspective, Scholarship, Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
While the students will read and watch, discover and analyse hidden cultural allusions inside these wonderful and touching stories, together, we will discuss particular links to guilt and solitude, suffering and healing, angels and demons generated by hope and despair in our contemporary world, looking at cultural bridges, from Greek mythology and oriental religion to postmodern landscape of the Western world as expression of natural connections between individual/collective trauma, myth and modern/postmodern being.
Students who successfully complete this paper will:
- Express an understanding of the relevance of the critical Humanities in approaching the modern/contemporary French/Francophone cultural space
- Understand and engage with intertextual theory
- Understand culturally and historically diverse approaches within contemporary film
- Recognise and discuss critically the cultural assumptions about "otherness" in contemporary French/francophone film
- Engage in critical debates on myth as cultural connector in film
- Critically engage with both theory and method in the development of an advanced reflective essay
