This course addresses the critical issues for France in the new European Union, and examines a spectrum of attitudes among French people towards European integration since 1950. It reviews the major stages of postwar European construction and traces the evolution of a European cultural identity. After a survey of French society in 1996, the challenges to France's status as a nation-state will be discussed. Special attention will be given to current debates over the nature of French national identity, the country's future in the EU, the weakening of the Jacobin tradition, and the implications of the newly implemented European citizenship. Students who have taken or plan to take French 323 at the University of Pennsylvania may receive credit for this course as well.
Class meets four days a week for a total of six hours a week.