Course Details in 2023/24 Session

Module Title	LC Occupation, Liberation, Innovation: France and its people in film and writing A
School	Lan, Cult, Art Hist & Music
Department	Modern Languages
Module Code	09 35105
Module Lead	Nicholas Hunter / Sarah Fishwick
Level	Certificate Level
Credits	10
Semester	Semester 1
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites	LC Occupation, Liberation, Innovation: France and its people in film and writing B - (09 35106)
Restrictions	None
Contact Hours	Lecture-10 hours Seminar-5 hours Guided independent study-85 hours Total: 100 hours
Exclusions
Description	This module examines how France and its people are represented across various written and audio-visual genres. Student-led seminars supported by lectures will focus on a diverse range of innovative texts produced at historically and /or culturally significant moments. The module will begin with texts / film produced during and in response to the traumatic period of the Occupation of France and its Liberation. Students will encounter relevant historical documents including audio-visual and visual material and investigate the tensions and debates from which the texts emerged and to which they contribute. They will then begin to examine how "innovation" can also mean rethinking the status of cultural artefacts/texts as they become liberated from dominant modes of thinking about them, in newer social contexts. This will build on material encountered in the Core and help them to interrogate representations of France and Frenchness. Students will be helped to familiarise themselves with appropriate critical terminology and develop their research, presentational and close analysis skills.
Learning Outcomes	By the end of the module students should be able to: Show understanding of, and interpret in their contexts, a variety of films and texts; analyse how various themes and historical events that are central to modern French culture and identity are represented in these texts and films; demonstrate knowledge of debates and tensions characteristic of the French/Francophone sociocultural and intellectual landscape, acquired through enquiry-based learning; demonstrate an understanding of the importance of a range of historical source documents and how new social contexts can lead us to rethink the status of earlier texts and artefacts.
Assessment	35105-01 : 2,000 word assignment : Coursework (100%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions	Assessment: 1 x 2000 word assignment in English (100%). Reassessment: Resubmission of failed element(s) in the Supplementary session.
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