Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2011-2012
FREN 323 - EXISTENTIALISM TO CYBERPUNK
Long Title: FROM EXISTENTIALISM TO CYBERPUNK
Department: French Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 OR FREN 226 or placement test or permission of instructor
Description: Films and novels. Investigations of human consciousness, subjectivity and identity -- from Sartre's existentialism of the "absurd", through Robbe-Grillet's "anti-humanism", to the cyberpunk science-fictional studies of "post-humanity", genetic manipulation, environmental collapse and post-religious mysticism, by contemporary figures like Dantec and Houellebecq.