French Culture I
A.Y. 2020/2021
Learning objectives
The course aims to guide the knowledge of the general lines of the history of French culture of the twentieth and twenty-first century, in relation to changes in social and political contexts.
Expected learning outcomes
Ability to describe cultural phenomena and to insert them in their historical-social context.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Lesson period
Second semester
Teaching methods
Class can be attended on MICROSOFT TEAMS both synchronously (following the schedule for the Second Term) and asynchronously (every lesson will be recorded and made available to students for personal fruition).
Program and material
The same as the traditional course
Exam
The final exam will be oral. The platform MICROSOFT TEAMS might be used if the conditions do not make ti possible to have a traditional face-to-face exam.
Learning objectives are the same as for the traditional course.
Class can be attended on MICROSOFT TEAMS both synchronously (following the schedule for the Second Term) and asynchronously (every lesson will be recorded and made available to students for personal fruition).
Program and material
The same as the traditional course
Exam
The final exam will be oral. The platform MICROSOFT TEAMS might be used if the conditions do not make ti possible to have a traditional face-to-face exam.
Learning objectives are the same as for the traditional course.
Course syllabus
The final exam will be oral only.
Students are expected to recognize, analyze and comment on the various documents studied during the year, also in the light of the French history and the development of Paris as a city.
The course "Imagine (in) Paris" is composed of three modules.
1) Politics and culture
The first module aims at providing a bird's eye view of the connection between Culture (a multi-faceted notion) and the French State, from the onset of the Nation-State until 1989. It will supply students with basic knowledge about the historical-cultural panorama; also, the fundamental coherence of certain cultural policies devised by the various governments will be emphasized, together with the historical reasons that legitimize Paris as the cultural center of the nation.
2) Imagine Paris
The second module will focus on the period 1850-1940 when both baron Hausmann's urban works and the manifold activities connected to the Universal Expositions shaped Paris into the economical, social and ideological icon of the leadership, and also provided manifest evidence of their power in the eyes of the citizens.
3) Imagine in Paris
The last module will concentrate on the works by some major authors, from Baudelaire to the Surrealists. The selection will showcase a number of key-places in the French metropolis, some of them forgotten, secluded, rejected or even dismissed as ludicrous. We will follow the authors along fancy itineraries of their own making where the simple act of loitering can even become a revolutionary stance against the image of the new urban order forced on the citizens.
Students are expected to recognize, analyze and comment on the various documents studied during the year, also in the light of the French history and the development of Paris as a city.
The course "Imagine (in) Paris" is composed of three modules.
1) Politics and culture
The first module aims at providing a bird's eye view of the connection between Culture (a multi-faceted notion) and the French State, from the onset of the Nation-State until 1989. It will supply students with basic knowledge about the historical-cultural panorama; also, the fundamental coherence of certain cultural policies devised by the various governments will be emphasized, together with the historical reasons that legitimize Paris as the cultural center of the nation.
2) Imagine Paris
The second module will focus on the period 1850-1940 when both baron Hausmann's urban works and the manifold activities connected to the Universal Expositions shaped Paris into the economical, social and ideological icon of the leadership, and also provided manifest evidence of their power in the eyes of the citizens.
3) Imagine in Paris
The last module will concentrate on the works by some major authors, from Baudelaire to the Surrealists. The selection will showcase a number of key-places in the French metropolis, some of them forgotten, secluded, rejected or even dismissed as ludicrous. We will follow the authors along fancy itineraries of their own making where the simple act of loitering can even become a revolutionary stance against the image of the new urban order forced on the citizens.
Prerequisites for admission
No previous knowledge is required.
Teaching methods
Classes will be held face-to-face.
Teaching Resources
Module I
Jean-Claude Barreau, Toute l'histoire de France, Paris, Editions du Toucan, 2011
Ph. Poirrier, L'État et la culture en France au XXème siècle, Paris, le Livre de Poche, 2009
Lecture notes on Ariel
Module II
Yvan Combeau, Histoire de Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2016
Patrice De Moncan, Le Paris d'Haussmann, Paris, Éditions du Mécène, 2009.
Norma Evenson, Paris, Les héritiers d'Haussmann, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1983.
Lecture notes on Ariel
Module III
Lecture notes on Ariel
Jean-Claude Barreau, Toute l'histoire de France, Paris, Editions du Toucan, 2011
Ph. Poirrier, L'État et la culture en France au XXème siècle, Paris, le Livre de Poche, 2009
Lecture notes on Ariel
Module II
Yvan Combeau, Histoire de Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2016
Patrice De Moncan, Le Paris d'Haussmann, Paris, Éditions du Mécène, 2009.
Norma Evenson, Paris, Les héritiers d'Haussmann, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1983.
Lecture notes on Ariel
Module III
Lecture notes on Ariel
Assessment methods and Criteria
The final exam will be oral only.
Students are expected to recognize, analyze and comment on the various documents studied during the year, also in the light of the French history and the development of Paris as a city.
Students are expected to recognize, analyze and comment on the various documents studied during the year, also in the light of the French history and the development of Paris as a city.
L-LIN/03 - FRENCH LITERATURE - University credits: 9
Lessons: 60 hours
Professor:
Di Bernardini Gian Luigi