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Course Schedule - Fall Semester 2025
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FREN 359 001 (CRN: 14814)
BLACK PARIS
Long Title: BLACK PARIS
Department: Modrn & Classicl Lit & Culture
Instructor: Fache, Caroline
Meeting: 2:30PM - 3:45PM TR (25-AUG-2025 - 5-DEC-2025)
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Section Max Enrollment: 25
Section Enrolled: 3
Waitlisted: 0 (Max 99)
Current members of the waitlist have priority for available seats.
Enrollment data as of: 20-APR-2025 6:53PM
Final Exam: No Final Exam
Description: This course examines Black experiences in Paris, France’s capital city, in the 20th century, through an in-depth analysis of literary, cultural, and artistic productions.
We will study how the African American, Caribbean and African presence in the “City of Lights” contributed to the city’s image and culture from the Jazz Age to today’s Hip-Hop era. We will pay equal attention to young American expatriates, exiled intellectuals and political activists, and to young West Indian and African intellectuals from the French colonies and examine how their fruitful “encounters on the Seine” (James Baldwin) gave birth to the Negritude movement, but also generated tensions among the African diaspora.