Topics in French Culture II

This subject is not offered in 2008.

116-133.

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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This subject is designed to allow students to explore in depth a particular theme, issue or movement in the cultural development and history of France. Topics will vary according to current research and teaching interests of academic staff and various approaches and methodologies will be used to analyse a particular cultural object. These cultural objects may include, for example, the emergence of gastronomy as an expression of French bourgeois cultural norms and identity, French language policy since the Revolution, or French travel writing in theory and practice.

A 2000-word essay 50% (due during the semester) and either a journal, a mid-semester test, or an exposé to be written up totalling 2000 words 40% (due during the semester). Participation 10%.

Prescribed Texts:

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• Research: through frequent and systematic use of the library and other information sources, the definition of areas of inquiry and familiarisation with research methods;

• Critical thinking and analysis: through required and recommended reading, essay writing and tutorial discussion, and by assessing the strength of arguments;

• Thinking in theoretical and analytical terms: through lectures, tutorial discussion, essay writing and engagement in the methodologies of the humanities and social sciences;

• Understanding of social, political, historical and cultural contexts and international awareness/openness to the world: through the contextualisation of judgements and knowledge, developing a critical self-awareness, being open to new ideas and new aspects of French and Italian culture, and by formulating arguments;

• Communicating knowledge intelligibly and economically: through essay and assignment writing, tutorial discussion and class presentations;

• Time management and planning: through managing and organizing workloads for required and recommended reading, essay and assignment completion and revision for examinations.

Students who have completed 116-218 Matters of Taste: French Eating Cultures may not enrol in this subject.The subject is taught and assessed in French.