MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY FRANCOPHONE TOPICS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None Course Designation: Breadth - Humanities Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: Yes, for 2 number of completions Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize canonical authors (writers and directors), historical forms, genres, and structures, in Africa and its diasporas. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Develop a level of proficiency in the different “ways of knowing” Africa and the diaspora through cinema and/or literature. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Discuss visual and literary texts from various theoretical and critical perspectives, formulate ideas and make connections between visual/cultural concepts and themes. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize canonical authors (writers and directors), historical forms, genres, and structures, in Africa and its diasporas. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Develop a level of proficiency in the different “ways of knowing” Africa and the diaspora through cinema and/or literature. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Discuss visual and literary texts from various theoretical and critical perspectives, formulate ideas and make connections between visual/cultural concepts and themes. Audience: Undergraduate