Firstbridge courses are offered to degree seeking freshmen and registration is done via webform in pre-arrival checklist.
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This course examines cultural (textual and visual) productions about minority identities in Paris. The city has always been a center attracting immigrants and refugees, who, in turn, influence the capital’s life and identity. After a short survey of pre-modern and modern times, the class focuses on the contemporary period with special emphasis on the traumatic legacy of the Second World War and colonial and postcolonial immigrations to the city. The course analyzes diverse representations of the tensions between marginalization and integration, between a universalist French identity and a multiculturalist Paris, and between diverging memories of traumatic histories.
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 engage critically with the intersection of science, storytelling, and filmmaking.
- Students will understand contemporary culture and history of Paris and France through the legacy of the Vichy regime, colonialism, and other inequalities.
- 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)
Syllabus
Book List
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN Number |
|---|---|---|---|
Muslim, a novel | Rahmani, Zahia | 9781941920756 | |
JOURNAL OF HELENE BERR, THE | BERR, HELENE | GARDNERS BOOKS | 9781906694197 |
Schedule
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 13:45 | 15:05 | SD-3 |
Thursday | 13:45 | 15:05 | SD-3 |