FREN 388: Socio-Cltrl Iss Contemp France

Course Description

The course concentrates on a series of socio-cultural issues that are debated in France today, as well as on a number contemporary cultural and artistic phenomena. Particular attention is given to discourses on otherness and on the ways in which French cultural production and media constructions have reflected, reinforced, reshaped and, in some instances, contested the country’s past and current dominant ideologies, and identities.