FRENCH/FRANCOPHONE FILM

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: FRENCH 321 or 322 Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate knowledge of key films and trends in French and Francophone cinema from a variety of historical and cultural contexts. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze cinematic techniques and narrative structures in French and Francophone films by using advanced French language skills. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Develop and present well-supported arguments about films through coherent written analyses and oral presentations in French. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Enhance linguistic proficiency and film-specific vocabulary in French by writing and speaking with greater accuracy and stylistic sophistication. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Engage critically with films as cultural texts by discussing issues such as identity, memory, colonialism, race, gender, and nation. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate knowledge of key films and trends in French and Francophone cinema from a variety of historical and cultural contexts. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze cinematic techniques and narrative structures in French and Francophone films by using advanced French language skills. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Develop and present well-supported arguments about films through coherent written analyses and oral presentations in French. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Enhance linguistic proficiency and film-specific vocabulary in French by writing and speaking with greater accuracy and stylistic sophistication. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Engage critically with films as cultural texts by discussing issues such as identity, memory, colonialism, race, gender, and nation. Audience: Undergraduate