French 230 - COLLOQUIUM IN FRENCH STUDIES

Fall
2014
02
4.00
Dawn Fulton
MWF 11:00-12:10
Smith College
17974-F14
HILLYR 109
dfulton@smith.edu
A gateway to more advanced courses. These colloquium develop skills in expository writing and critical thinking in French. Materials include novels, films, essays, and cultural documents. Students may receive credit for only one section of FRN 230. Enrollment limited to 16. Basis for the major. Prerequisite: FRN 220 or permission of the instructor. An introduction to works by contemporary women writers from Francophone Africa and the Caribbean. Topics to be studied include colonialism, exile, motherhood, and intersections between class and gender. Our study of these works and of the French language will be informed by attention to the historical, political, and cultural circumstances of writing as a woman in a former French colony. Texts will include works by Mariama Ba, Maryse Conde, Yamina Benguigui, and Marie-Celie Agnant.
Topic: Women Writers of Africa and the Caribbean.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.