Part of the peace studies concentration and the literature concentration and also may be taken as an elective. The literature is supplemented by readings from such disciplines as psychology, philosophy, history and theology. Reading English translations of short stories, novels, drama, poetry, and essays of modern French-speaking writers from France, the Caribbean, Canada, and Africa, as well as viewing modern French film, enables an exploration of the richness, variety, and validity of written and filmed art composed in a shared global language. Such a focus also reveals the profound tensions arising from highly contested constructions of culture and identify as they are shaped in and by that very language. Such a focus also reveals the profound tensions arising from highly contested constructions of culture and identity as they are shaped in and by that very language.
Emphasis is on both technical and aesthetic aspects of the films.
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