Outside modules in SMLC Questions about nonlanguage modules
Outside modules in SMLC
Questions about non-language modules? Drop in session Cathy Hampton’s office: H 4. 36, 2 – 3 pm Tuesday (tomorrow)
Module information available here: GE 108 The Changing Face of Germany in Film and Text GE 109 Aspects of German Culture in the Age of Enlightenment FR 121 The Story of Modern France FR 119 Society and Business in Modern France FR 122 French Cultural Landmarks: Love, Language and Power Texts taught in translation. Available to students with A levels (or equivalent) in any Humanities subject (language, History, English, Theatre, film etc. . . ) FR 105 Approaches to Reading. IT 105 Working Italian (for beginners) HP 103 Language, Text and Identity in the Hispanic World (Spanish not necessarily required, but consult module convenor) HP 104 Images and Representations of the Hispanic World (Spanish not required, but consult module convenor)
Fr 121 The Story of Modern France (A level French required) Ist lecture Friday 1 – 2, L 4 Why is modern France so obsessed by the past? What do we mean by 'Frenchness'? What are the major landmarks in the creation of modern France? What is 'culture générale’?
How? A level French required Political texts De Gaulle’s speeches Mai 68 posters Literary texts: Medieval: La Chanson de Roland (extracts) Renaissance: Montaigne’s ‘Des Cannibales’ Enlightenment: Voltaire’s Candide Post-colonial: Condé, Le Coeur à rire et à pleurer
How? Filmic texts: Audiard; Un héros très discret (Occupation, memory, propaganda) Musical texts: Abd Al Malik, Gibraltar
FR 122 Cultural Landmarks: Love, Language, Power First lecture: Thursday 10 – 11, H 1. 02 Cultural landmarks: key social / cultural moments in pre-20 th Century France and the francophone world Language of love and desire Mapping of emotional / psychological landscape The genres used to explore this: medieval love lyric, short story, novel, theatre, poetry
How? No pre-requisite: texts taught simultaneously in French and in translation Medieval romance: Marie de France, Guigemar Anon. , La Chalelaine de Vergy Short Story Marguerite de Navarre, L’Heptaméron Maupassant, ‘Boule de Suif’ The Novel Mme de Graffigny, Lettres d’une Péruvienne
How? Theatre Racine, Phèdre Molière, Les Précieuses ridicules Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac Poetry –sonnet, gender, muse 16 th century sonnets: Ronsard, Louise Labé 19 th / 20 th century sonnets: Verlaine, Baudelaire, Apollinaire
FR 119 Society and Business in Modern France (A level French required) 1 st lecture: Wednesday, 9 – 10, H 0. 03 Develops business French language skills and cultural / political knowledge: Cultural material studied and examined in English French business language studied and examined in French Focus on the contemporary: Hollande post 2012 – Macron presidency Looked at through the prism of the history of the 5 th Republic
How Politics, society and ideas: Journalistic texts Video Contemporary non-fiction writing French language Study of vocabulary, syntax, idiom in the domain of French business Business-related tasks in French
FR 105: Approaches to Reading in English and French(A level French required) First lecture: Thurs 5 th Oct, 2 – 3 pm, H 0. 56 uses the medium of poetry to explore a range of topics relating to translation practice and literary criticism. Working with poems allows students to explore topics and techniques in relation to complete works, instead of extracts students develop skills related to focused analysis through three specific sets of exercises: translation; close reading; and comparative criticism.
How? Students consider the problems, benefits and shortcomings of literal translations of original-language texts by translating French poems into English and discussing the difficulties that arise in terms of linguistic and cultural transmission to an anglophone audience. Students also practise close criticism, both of single poems and of French and English pair-texts, to hone their appreciation of poetic forms and literary methods.
HP 103 Language Text and Identity in the Hispanic World How has the Spanish language travelled around the world and what happens when it coexists with other languages? How do writers exploit language to explore identity, and what happens when they work between two (or more!) languages? What skills do we need as readers to interpret the nuances of texts that travel between languages?
How? Exploring different varieties of Spanish spoken around the world the writing of Junot Díaz, a Dominican-American writer and activist who uses Spanish in his (mainly) English-language texts as a way of expressing, exploring and questioning ideas of identity. two plays from the 'Golden Age': Tirso de Molina's Don Gil de las calzas verdes, and Lope de Vega's El Caballero de Olmedo
HP 104 Images and Representations of the Hispanic World Where did the familiar stereotypes of Spain and Latin America come from? How have they circulated and been received at different times and in different places? And how have Spaniards and Latin Americans represented themselves to travellers, tourists, artists, and even invaders?
How? 'Imagining Spain', we will explore how travellers, tourists, artists and writers tried to explain and represent Spain’s difference from ‘the West’. The second half, 'Colonising and Decolonising Nature in the World', will offer insights into the process of colonisation and the subsequent one of decolonisation of the Americas through visions and conceptions of its natural and anthropological features. close textual and film analysis
GE 108 The Changing Face of Germany in Film and Text an introduction to the intellectual history of post-war Germany (principally the Federal Republic but also the German Democratic Republic). considers the development of the mass media in Germany and in particular the role played within the media by writers and intellectuals.
How? The restoration of West German society; writers and the political reconstruction of Germany; coming to terms with the Nazi past; the West German Women's Movement; migration and settlement; introducing the German Democratic Republic; German Unification and the intellectual debate.
GE 109 Aspects of German Culture in the Age of Enlightenment social background of the late eighteenth century how the rising middle class sought to establish its cultural and intellectual identity in the face of the established feudal order of the Absolutist state in Germany.
How? the early poetry (1770 -1786) of Johann Wolfgang Goethe's novel Die Leiden des jungen Werther (1774), the international success that established his literary reputation the two dramas, Emilia Galotti (1772) by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and Kabale und Liebe (1784) by Friedrich Schiller
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