Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: UTOPIA AND THE FUTURE

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 OR FREN 312 or permission of instructor

Description: This course will explore utopia and how historical future is anticipated in French literature and philosophy; study of the most important utopists (from Cyrano de Berderac to Fourier and Dejacque): the rise of new expectations and fears in a more technical and globalized world (from Jules Verne to the present). Includes sociological, religious and philosophical interpretations of utopia and of the anticipation of the future.