Exploring French Wine, Food and Culture

This subject is not offered in 2014.

340 hours

To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted in the Graduate Certificate in Global Wine Studies or the Professional Certificate in Global Wine Studies. This subject is not available for students admitted in any other courses.

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The subject would consist of three preparatory learning sessions before embarking on the French field trip. Following this field trip students will be required to complete an assignment on the French wine industry and how it reflects on French culture, influences the global wine industry, and in effect, wine business culture in Australia. Students will also complete tutorial style sessions on the basics of French culture and language taught by French Studies in the Faculty of Arts prior to embarking on the field trip. On the 14 day field trip to France, students will visit the 3 iconic wine regions; Champagne, based in Reims; Burgundy based in Dijon; and Bordeaux, based in Bordeaux. The field trip will focus on vineyards, viticultural practices, wine production, wine styles and the wine, food and business culture of these regions.

The objective of this subject is to provide:

• an international capstone component to the current breadth sequence in wine
• students with a greater depth of understanding within wine while situating knowledge in a broad and international intellectual and cultural framework, developing capacity for graduates to work adaptively in settings that are professionally, culturally and geographically diverse.
• an opportunity for students to experience the international wine industry in situ in France and explore the evolving patterns of global interconnection within the wine industry together with its cultural diversity
• students with experiences in foreign languages (French) which explicitly address cross‐cultural communication issues and provide training in language and intercultural skills

• 40% pre-assignment essay (3500 words)
• 10% oral group presentation (10 mins)
• 20% field trip journal
• 30% blog to be developed from journal (2500 words)

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.