Learning Outcomes:
1) Students will learn about the iconic city of Paris from a variety of new, expert perspectives
2) Students will hone their French listening skills by focusing on spoken French or French audio materials
3) Students will practise their French reading skills by focusing on short written texts and materials in French
4) Students will focus their interpretative skills by answering weekly quizzes on the topics covered
5) Students will present an in-depth study in a Zoom Presentation project on one of a list of topics relating to materials studied
Indicative Module Content:
In any given year, weekly topics will study Paris from a different perspective. Topics may include some of the following:
-Géographies parisiennes: Mapping the City of Paris through the ages
-Paris and Song
-Paris: a space of Immigration (lieu de mémoire de l'immigration)
-Paris and the Crusades
-Breaking Rules in 18th-century Paris
-Paris in 1789: Revolutionary Spaces
-Dubliner in Paris: Samuel Beckett
-Paris, Capital of Modernity (19th-century visual art)
-Paris in Poetry (Jacques Prévert)
-Cultural Cannibalism and French Cuisine in Paris
-Paris Nightlife
et bien d'autres...