This course is a 2-credit support seminar that was created for student teachers of French who are simultaneously completing their full-time student teaching practicum (FrenchEd 500U) in a public middle or high school in Massachusetts. The purpose of this seminar is to provide a supportive place where initial licensure candidates reflect upon and articulate their developing identity as teachers, and explore and reflect upon the complexities of teaching within their particular classrooms and communities, as well as within the broader social context of education.

This seminar will explore the literary works that have shaped our understanding of childhood in French culture. We will study the cultural and historical contexts in which literatures on and for children were created, as well as how they reflected and shaped the values and attitude of French society towards childhood. Our study will include works such as the following: Saint Exupery, Le Petit Prince; Perrault?s Contes de ma mere l?Oye; Valles, L?Enfant; Goscinny, Le Petit Nicolas; Cocteau, Les Enfants terribles; Christiane Rochefort, Les Petits enfants du siecle; Mourlevat, L?Enfant ocean.

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The objective of this course is to offer a panoramic vision of French literature from the Middle Ages to the 21st century through a wide variety of representative literary texts, plays and films centered on the problematic of identity. We examine major currents and literary genres from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the 21st century, studying political, social, and cultural contexts in conjunction with different conceptions of the modern subject in operation during each of the different time periods.