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FA 2007
French
FRENCH 270 -  French and Francophone Literature and Culture
Section 003
Disease & Community
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Course Note: A student who misses either of the first two meetings of any course offered by the Department of Romance Languages may be dropped from the course for non-attendance.
Credits: 3
Requirements & Distribution: HU
Waitlist Capacity: unlimited
Consent: With permission of department.

Course Attributes
Enforced Prerequisites: FRENCH 235 with a grade of C- or higher
Repeatability: May be elected twice for credit. May be elected more than once in the same term.

 
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This course will study how various concepts of health and disease have been used throughout French literary, social and political history.

  • What is normal and what is deviant?
  • What are the links between medical science and literature?
  • How was medicine used to define race and sexuality?
  • If disease can be used as exclusion, can it also be used in a positive way?
  • What is the AIDS crisis telling us about French society?

Readings: Montaigne, Chateaubriand, Zola, Maupassant, Barrès, Gide, Dreuilhe.

Film: La bête humaine, by Jean Renoir.

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