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Availability: Not offered in 1996; expected to be offered in 1997.
Credit points: 16.7 2nd or 3rd year
Coordinator: Assoc Prof Monique Burston.
Prerequisite: 116-115 or 116-202, or equivalent.
Contact: Two one-hour lectures and a one-hour tutorial a week.
Objectives:
Students completing this subject should:
- read in French with confidence literary, travel, political, sociological texts dealing with the Pacific;
- demonstrate a general knowledge of the history of the impact of the French presence in the South Pacific;
- appreciate the influence of the Pacific Islands (Tahiti) on the French collective imagination and on literature and the arts;
- be aware of the present political and social problems in New-Caledonia and French Polynesia.
Content:
Voyages of discovery; the Pacific in relation to 18th century philosophical thought; the Tahitian mirage (Loti, Gauguin, etc. ); trade and missions; New Caledonia: history of its colonisation, present political and economic situation; French Polynesia: present situation; the French language in the Pacific.
Assessment:
one 2-hour test (40 per cent); one essay (not more than 1,500 words) (35 per cent); oral presentation and class participation equivalent to not more than 1,500 words (25 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 80)
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