Overview
Description
Selected themes, ideas, authors, works or periods in French language or literature. Topics vary from semester to semester.
Requirements
Prerequisites
FREN 305
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): FREN 305
Units
LectureN/A
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Other
Attributes
StandardRepeatable up to 6 credits
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate expanded French vocabulary by producing a weekly list of new words and expressions encountered in the readings.
- articulate orally and in writing how the Special Topic perspective presented in the course connects with other cultural aspects of its time.
- compare and contrast the literary manifestations of the Special Topic presented in two or more novels of the course.
- observe and analyze how secondary characters of the texts or films support, hinder or differ from the main character’s actions and personality.
- identify and analyze the nature of the connections between the individual identities presented in the novel, and the socio-cultural context in which they take place.
- produce a written analysis of how gender, race, or class play or don’t play a distinctive role in the novel or the film, and discuss the significance of their presence or absence.