Course Details in 2023/24 Session

Module Title	LC Occupation, Liberation, Innovation: France and its people in film and writing B
School	Lan, Cult, Art Hist & Music
Department	Modern Languages
Module Code	09 35106
Module Lead	Nicholas Hunter / Sarah Fishwick
Level	Certificate Level
Credits	10
Semester	Semester 2
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites	LC Occupation, Liberation, Innovation: France and its people in film and writing A - (09 35105)
Restrictions	None
Contact Hours	Lecture-10 hours Seminar-5 hours Guided independent study-85 hours Total: 100 hours
Exclusions
Description	This module offers further discussion of issues of cultural representation across a wider range of genres. Moving beyond the period of the Occupation, lectures and seminars will focus on a diverse range of innovative texts / films produced at historically and /or culturally significant moments, and explore further how artistic / creative / cultural practices have drawn both on events in the recent and less recent past, and on the innovations of earlier canonical works. The module will invite students to consider 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 develop their examination of representations of France and Frenchness further.Students will refine their knowledge of appropriate critical terminology and further 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 (across several written genres); analyse critically how various themes and historical events that are central to modern French culture and identity are represented in these texts and films; demonstrate detailed knowledge of debates and tensions characteristic of the French/Francophone sociocultural and intellectual landscape, acquired through enquiry-based learning; Exhibit a broad knowledge 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	35106-01 : 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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