Firstbridge courses are offered to degree seeking freshmen and registration is done via webform in pre-arrival checklist.
Course Master:
Term:
Fall 2025
Discipline:
CL (Comparative Literature)
Credits:
4 credits
Type:
CCI
Level:
Undergraduate
Can be taken twice for credit?:
No
Exam Date:
Friday, December 12, 2025 - 12:30
Pre-requisites:
None
Co-requisites:
None
Professor(s)
Notes
This course takes a look at queer journeys through Paris. Using a range of texts, we will explore how LGBTQ+ people have variously moved through the city and why this matters. We will look at different kinds of journeys – liberatory and oppressive - including migration, country to city, marching, expulsion, flânerie, cruising, dancing, as well as moving backwards through queer history, and movements for change.
Learning Outcomes
- Students will comprehend how information is produced and valued in order to discover, evaluate, use, and create information and knowledge effectively and ethically. In FirstBridge, students will demonstrate the conversational nature of scholarship, and recognize their potential role and responsibilities as contributors to that conversation. For each discipline taught in FirstBridge, students will identify reference works, journals, databases and/or major works in history, in order to start effective research in the field. (FB LO1)
- Students will acquire the study skills, time management, and interpersonal skills needed to meet the demands of university-level academic work at a Liberal Arts College individually or as a team. Students will value the multiple meanings of place through experiential learning at AUP and beyond in the Parisian or global context. (FB LO2)
- Students will encounter a diverse, interdisciplinary range of texts (literature, painting, photography, performance, film) dealing with intersectional aspects of identity and othering; in texts which are either of or about, Paris.
- Students will visit several locations in Paris connected with the texts studied and reflect on their surroundings and relation to the city.
- Students will learn to apply some of the core ideas and methods of queer studies to their own work and interaction with Paris.
- Students will create original creative and critical work informed by course readings and their own interactions with Paris.
- Students will enhance their intercultural understanding of languages, cultures, and histories of local societies and the global issues to which these relate. (CCI LO1)
- Students will engage with artistic or creative objects (e.g., visual art, theatrical works, film) in different media and from a range of cultural traditions. (CCI LO2)
- Students will think critically about cultural and social difference. Students will identify and understand power structures that determine hierarchies and inequalities relating to race, ethnicity, gender, nationhood, religion or class. (CCI LO3)
- Students will demonstrate awareness of ethical considerations relating to specific societal problems, values, or practices (historical or contemporary; global or local) and learn to articulate possible solutions to prominent challenges facing societies and institutions today so as to become engaged actors at various levels in our interconnected world. (CCI LO4)
Syllabus
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Book List
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN Number |
|---|---|---|---|
ALL MEN WANT TO KNOW | BOURAOUI, NINA | PENGUIN | 9780241447734 |
GIOVANNI'S ROOM (PMC) | BALDWIN, JAMES | PENGUIN | 9780141186351 |
Schedule
Start Date:
Monday, September 1, 2025
End Date:
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 13:45 | 15:05 | PL-5 |
Friday | 13:45 | 15:05 | PL-5 |