This is an intensive program offered in the summer in Caen, France. Arrangements are made by the Fisher faculty coordinating the course. Instructions will take place at the Universite de Caen, Normandy. Classes will meet every weekday for a minimum of three hours. A daily journal, special projects, group discussions, museum visits and excursions are part of the program.
Work is done in French.
This course explores contemporary French literary culture and society through the art and language of French cinema. Films by such directors as Marguerite Duras, Claude Lelouch, Alain Resnais, Franois Truffaut, and others are screened in French with English subtitles. Work is done in French. A study of Neo-Classicism, its vocabulary and presuppositions through the works of Corneille, Racine, Molire, etc. An historical panorama of France from Roman times through the French Revolution.