HISTORY OF FRENCH CULTURE

The teaching of the History of French Culture is part of the international literary, cultural and political curriculum of the course of study in Languages, Civilisations and Language Sciences, in line with the aims of the course of study and the learning area of Literature and Cultures.

1. knowledge and understanding: knowledge of the main lines of French history and the socio-cultural and historical-political dynamics which affect the production of certain cultural phenomena and materials; ability to understand the texts and iconographic and audiovisual materials examined, in terms of their content and their socio-cultural, literary and artistic implications.
2. Applied knowledge and understanding: apply the acquired knowledge to the contextualization of textual and iconographic materials in the historical-cultural, literary and political context in which they were produced.
3. Autonomy of judgement: to formulate hypotheses of analysis; to know how to isolate cultural specificities, detailing their components and putting them in relation with the context, also international; to be able to formulate a personal evaluation and comment on the cultural specificities that emerged during the course of the study faced.
4. Communication skills: understand the presentation of an academic discourse; be able to present in a clear and coherent way a studied problem, be able to argue in a coherent and effective way.
5. Ability to learn: to learn to recognize the typology of a text or material and to formulate hypotheses of analysis; to know how to relate what has been read or studied, to argue in a coherent and appropriate way; to learn to establish appropriate links between the facts and materials examined and the ideas and the context of which they are an expression.

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In order to follow this course optimally, students are required of a good knowledge (at least passive) of the French language (oral comprehension and written comprehension).

In addition to the definition of the culture itself, of its modes of expression, the course will focus on 3 macro-themes:

History of ideas;

History of French language and literature;

History of economic and political ideas.

The reference bibliography will be published during the second semester on moodle

1) Individual or collective wrting of a brief text in Italian about key intellectuals (e.g. Rabelais, Montaigne, Diderot, Hugo or writers of the modern and contemporary era, e.g. Barthes, Foucault, Bourdieu) who have conceptualized the concept of culture and its expressions. The card may also deal with political thought, artistic currents or key institutions for the diffusion of French culture and language.

A detailed format will be provided for the layout of the work (content and form).

2) Brief oral on the topic chosen for the card.

Blended learning course (face to face pedagogy and online work on the moodle platform - link available form the first lesson)

Frontal lectures held mainly in Italian, with specific contents and texts examined in French. The lessons will be supported by materials of different nature: images, literary texts, historical documents, videos.
The didactic materials will be made available during the course on the moodle platform.

Italian

Students who are unable to attend classes regularly are required to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course for additional bibliographical information.

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