FRE390:Languages and Cultures Course description French Cultural Studies


"French Cultural Studies" is probably unlike most courses offered at Oswego. It is being planned to provide students today with an experience of what future college courses may be like as we embark upon the electronic age and travel more extensively (and more easily) on the information highway. Students will work in teams and will do their investigations and explorations of the course's topics primarily with the assistance of the products and processes of the information highway. Homework will be done using email, collaborative writing software, and Web pages and gopher entr ies. The professor is transformed from the proverbial"sage on the stage to guide on the side" as students explore the world and their chosen topics in seminar style discussions in dialouge with the resources which the world provides us electronically. "French Cultural Studies" class meetings will be film screenings, coaching sessions, launching sites, and touch base and sharing meetings designed to assist students both with their searches and the communication of their findings. The course meetings will also feature guest discussants from Africa and the Caribbean.

In short, "French Cultural Studies" will offer rewards and challenges to any student specializing in any major across the college curriculum. The brief Module descriptions which follow form a partial listing of the opportunities offered by this course. The course syllabus details the structure of the course and course assignments

"French Cultur al Studies" has no pre-requisites and may be taken as FRE 380, an upper-division course conducted in English or as FRE 480 (or 580), an upper-division (or graduate) with a French language component. Through the Languages Across the Curriculum Program (LAC), students in the English sections who have a course background in French may do some of their readings and research in French.

Whether you are a cyberpunk or a techno-phobe--- this course will instruct you, amuse you, challenge you, and fascin ate you throughout the semester. It will be the one course you look forward to every week as you explore the connections, electronic and human, which unite the global village in the information age.



Cour se Modules


Algeria
Antilles
Indochina
Québec
West Africa
 For further information:
email fichera@oswego.edu or call Dr. V. M. Fichera at 315-341-2468. Welcome aboard!