FRENCH 064 - Exploring French Language in North America through Text, Image, and Culture

In this advanced French language and culture course, students will refine their French language skills as they learn about and discuss the cultural landscape of Francophone North America. Students will journey through Québec, Ontario, across the Great Lakes, down the Mississippi to Louisiana, and circle back to New England as we investigate themes such as identity, visibility, and cultural hybridity, past and present. Through fiction, poetry, art, historic and modern images, films, and music, students will master complex grammatical structures and learn specialized vocabulary through supported opinion, argumentation, and hypothesis based on their interactions with authentic materials. The course includes guest speakers from around French-speaking North America and creating episodes for a student-produced podcast, Le Cramoisi, “The Crimson.”