Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: FRANCE-AMERICA: IMAGE AND EXCHANGE

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course analyzes French and American culture and identity through transatlantic encounters. We study intellectual's observations of American life (Tocqueville, Beauvoir, Baudrillard) and images of America in French novels, comic strips, films. We also examine American gazes toward the French. The course introduces students to interdisciplinary study of intercultural exchange and representation.