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2018-2019 Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

FREN 33500 - W. Afr. & France:Encounters since 1900 Africa

Course Credit: 1
(AFST, CMLT)
WEST AFRICA & FRANCE: ENCOUNTERS SINCE 1900 This course explores complex encounters that have shaped both France and francophone West Africa, a region that includes the present-day countries of Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Benin, Togo, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger. Tacking back and forth between West African and French contexts, we will examine themes such as colonialism, decolonization, nation-building, migrations, immigrant communities, diaspora, and francophonie. As part of these various course units, we will be working with many different kinds of materials, including historical readings, two novels, a selection of films, photographs, and iconography. This course gives particular emphasis to questions relating to cultures and identities. Students will be challenged to think more critically and historically about the diversity of the French-speaking world and about the making of multicultural France. Prerequisite(s): FREN-22000 or FREN-224xx [AH, C]