FREN 3620 - L’experience africaine

Goals: To acquaint students with the literature and culture of French speaking Africa. To introduce students to materials and methods of literary research. To improve their ability to speak and write in French about their reading and their ideas.

Content: Students read novels written by French-speaking writers of West and North Africa. In addition to analyzing texts, they engage in biographical and bibliographical research; they study and political context of the novels; they read critical articles about the texts.
Taught: Fall and spring terms.
Recommended prerequisites: FREN 3510 or 3520; or MODL 1030 and FREN 3420; or equivalent.