French Culture I
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
The course aims to introduce students to the most significant aspects of the history of French culture between the 20th and 21st century, by exploring how these aspects developed in light of the changes which impacted on the social and political contexts.
Expected learning outcomes
Students will be able to describe cultural phenomena in the historical and social context in which they occur.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
The course is entitled: 'France between old and new nationalisms'.
By retracing the most significant stages of French cultural history in the 20th and 21st centuries, an attempt will be made to highlight the different ways in which the idea of nation and nationalism have been conceived and have acted in the collective imagination.
By retracing the most significant stages of French cultural history in the 20th and 21st centuries, an attempt will be made to highlight the different ways in which the idea of nation and nationalism have been conceived and have acted in the collective imagination.
Prerequisites for admission
No prior knowledge is required.
Teaching methods
The course will be conducted through lectures in which the exposition of topics will be supported by the analysis of textual, iconographic and multimedia documents.
Teaching Resources
Bibliography for attending and non-attending students:
- J. Cantier, Histoire culturelle de la France au XXe siècle, Paris, Ellipses, 2020
- Nationalisme, antisémitisme et fascisme en France, nouvelle édition augmentée, Paris, Seuil, 2014
- a dossier of texts and documents to be uploaded on the My Ariel portal during the course
- J. Cantier, Histoire culturelle de la France au XXe siècle, Paris, Ellipses, 2020
- Nationalisme, antisémitisme et fascisme en France, nouvelle édition augmentée, Paris, Seuil, 2014
- a dossier of texts and documents to be uploaded on the My Ariel portal during the course
Assessment methods and Criteria
The examination will be in oral form and will start with the analysis of a document (from among those studied in class), and then expand to the more general contexts and themes considered in the course.
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