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116-234/334 "French, Foreigners, and Aliens: Culture and Identity in Contemporary France" appears differently in several places - choose the one you want:
1. French, Faculty of Arts (v3, p81) : Next:116-235 | Prev:116-232
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Dr Bernadette Dejean de la Bâ tie.
Prerequisite: 116-115 or 116-202 or equivalent
Contact: 3 hours per week (two one-hour lectures and one one-hour seminar).
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- analyse critically and synthesise coherently the various and often contradictory arguments discussed in the current debate on immigration in France;
- discriminate among statements of evidence, interpretation, opinion, and fact, regarding the definition and redefinition of the notions of culture, identity, and Frenchness;
- develop and present coherent arguments to support their own interpretations, opinions and definitions, while acknowledging the contribution of others to their ideas.
Content:
The range of topics to be covered are French identity, assimilation and integration of the regions, the colonisation and decolonisation of Algeria, early and contemporary immigration in France, immigration policies, North-African migrants, their sons and daughters, racism and antiracism, nationality and citizenship.
Assessment:
one seminar paper (30 min), subsequently written up (1500-2,000 words); one essay (2,000 words); one one-hour class test (document analysis).
Prescribed texts:
1. French, Faculty of Arts (v3, p81) : Next:116-235 | Prev:116-232
2. French, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p108) : Next:116-235 | Prev:116-231
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Dr Bernadette Dejean de la Bâ tie.
Prerequisite: 116-115 or 116-202 or equivalent.
Contact: 3 hours each week (two one-hour lectures and one one-hour seminar).
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- analyse critically and synthesise coherently the various and often contradictory arguments discussed in the current debate on immigration in France;
- discriminate among statements of evidence, interpretation, opinion, and fact, regarding the definition and redefinition of the notions of culture, identity, and Frenchness;
- develop and present coherent arguments to support their own interpretations, opinions and definitions, while acknowledging the contribution of others to their ideas.
Content:
The range of topics to be covered are French identity, assimilation and integration of the regions, the colonisation and decolonisation of Algeria, early and contemporary immigration in France, immigration policies, North-African migrants, their sons and daughters, racism and antiracism, nationality and citizenship.
Assessment:
One seminar paper (30 min), subsequently written up (1500-2,000 words); one essay (2,000 words); one one-hour class test (document analysis).
Prescribed texts:
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2. French, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p108) : Next:116-235 | Prev:116-231
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