French 311 - Topic: Moliere in Context

Viewing multimedia material of the digital age, we will approach vintage Moliere's plays, and watch him go after the vices of his time: tyranny of fathers, hypocrisy of church people, absurdity of social and literary snobs. We will focus on women and servants, prime victims of absolutism. Context will be provided through films such as Moliere, Le Roi Danse, Vatel, La Princesse de Cleves,The Rise to Power of Louis XIV. We will study Tartuffe, Don Juan, L'Ecole des Femmes, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Les Femmes Savantes. In this multimedia course students will achieve digital literacy, therefore the final project is a digital narration in iMovie. Technical support is provided in Audacity, Photoshop, iMovie, and iDVD, through scheduled workshops in LRC.

Prereq: Two of the following courses: FREN-215, 219, 225, 230