The Francophone World

Catalog description

This course is an introductory course for the Francophone Studies major while serving simultaneously as a language and culture course for French majors organized around the notion of "Francophonia." There are four major intellectual components to the course: 1) the historical background of French and Belgian colonization (through research and readings), with particular reference to North America, to the Caribbean, to North Africa and to Subsaharan Africa; 2) a sampling of critiques of French colonialism; 3) select texts in postcolonial theory; 4) an overview of the contemporary Francophone world.