| Unit name | Arts in Contemporary France |
|---|---|
| Unit code | FREN10028 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | C/4 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
| Unit director | Professor. Shilton |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of French |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
Using slide presentations, tape presentations, film showings and dossier material, the unit will introduce students to recent and contemporary French artistic and cultural developments. Coverage will include the visual arts including architecture, major developments in museum and library provision, serious and popular music, film and aspects of popular culture. These surveys will both transmit information and give rise to discussion sessions on the politics of cultural provision, the images and traditions of the French cultural heritage, elitism and popular culture and other related topics. All presentations, discussions and assessment exercises will be in French.
Aims:
This unit is followed ONLY BY SINGLE HONOURS FRENCH STUDENTS, and will take place in the first Teaching block. Using slide presentations, film showings and dossier material, it will introduce students to recent and contemporary French artistic and cultural developments in a wide range of fields, including the visual arts and architecture, serious and popular music, film, bande dessinée. Specialist knowledge will not be required, but an intelligent and cultured interest in all aspects of French creativity will be taken for granted! Presentations will give students the essential facts and aim to generate discussion about cultural issues, which will be followed up in seminars which will be structured around exposés in French by students.
Full reading lists, and instructions about the assessment and delivery of the unit, will be distributed at the first class.
