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French and Italian (FRIT) Courses

Academic Unit: French & Italian

FRIT 1601 - Migrants and Refugees in Mediterranean Cinema [AH GP]

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Spring)

This course deals with films made in France, Spain, Italy, the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia), sub-Saharan Africa and the Levant (mostly Syria). All of the films tackle migration and most of them deal with the crossing of the Mediterranean Sea in particular. It focuses on how migrants, regular and clandestine migrations, as well as related themes, including globalization, hospitality and transnational modes of transportation have been filmed, discussed and written about in various types of discourses. Why and how do people emigrate? Where are the major destinations of migrants? What is Fortress Europe? What is the ?global South?? What is the so-called refugee crisis? Who is a refugee? What impact has the Arab Spring had on contemporary migrations to Europe? How does mass media portray the global South? What do political discourses tell us about the European and North African handlings of recent human migratory movements? Can artists effectively put forward an alternate take on such issues? What types of responses in artistic productions as well as in the political and humanitarian arenas have failed attempts at crossing the Mediterranean Sea triggered? These are some of the questions we will address. Among the films that we will analyze?all shown in class?are Chus Gutierrez?s Return to Hansala, Reem Kherici?s Paris or Perish, Ismael Ferroukhi?s The Grand Voyage and Gianfranco Rosi?s Fire at Sea. All films have English subtitles. The class will be conducted in English.

FRIT 3656 - Existentialism [CIV HIS]

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Spring Even Year)

Equivalent courses: PHIL 3009, PHIL 5009 (inactive, starting 18-JAN-22), GSD 3656, PHIL 4009 (inactive, starting 18-JAN-22, was PHIL 4009W until 02-SEP-03)

What do we mean when we call something "existential?" What do we mean when we speak of an "existential" crisis? We seem to mean that our core beliefs and assumptions are affected and the relationship with our environment is ruptured; we have fallen out of normalcy. The term existentialism -- turning existential into a noun -- came into being in the 1940s in France, reflecting the collective experience of societal breakdown, of Nazism, and WW2. It has since been applied to all modes of philosophical inquiry that take an individual's experience of alienation from society as their point of departure. The advantage of making alienation the focus of this class, too, is that it allows us to recognize the precise historical and sociological index of the emergence of an existentialist mode of thought and practice. Existentialism looks very different when it responds to a 19th century crisis of faith (S?ren Kierkegaard), to 1950s colonialism (Frantz Fanon), to Weimar Germany's new democracy and the specter of a mass society (Martin Heidegger), or to the neo-authoritarian French society of the 1960s (Simone de Beauvoir). Existentialism then is understood in this class not as a conversation between great thinkers or ideas across time and space, but as a response to a specific crisis of norms and values. It only exists in plural. If existentialist concepts -- like being-in-the world, being-towards-death, or the gaze of the other -- are carried forward, then not without being repurposed. Such situatedness is inherent to existentialism itself. Accordingly, existentialist writers have no creed or ethical stance in common; they are found both on the far (fascist) right and on the Marxist left. They do share though a keen interest in a new language and in literary forms of expression and subsequently, they insist on the individuals' capacity of "world-making" -- in rupture and rebellion -- against seemingly compromised societal norms.

FRIT 3850 - Topics in French and Italian Cinema (Topics course)

(3 cr; Prereq-Knowledge of [French or Italian] helpful but not required; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Summer; may be repeated for 9 credits; may be repeated 3 times)

Theme, problem, period, filmmaker, or topic of interest in French/Italian cinema. See Class Schedule. Taught in English.

FRIT 5999 - Teaching of French and Italian: Theory and Practice

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall)

Theoretical and practical aspects of language learning and teaching applied to French and Italian. Includes history of foreign language teaching in 20th-century United States. Taught in English.

FRIT 8999 - Advanced Teaching Methods: Integrating Language and Disciplinary Content

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall)

Equivalent courses: GSD 8103

This course explores theoretical and practical approaches to cultivating students' advanced literacies in a second language through the integration of language proficiency development and the study of disciplinary content in upper-level literature, linguistics, and culture courses. Students must have passed FRIT 5999 or GSD 5103 or SPPT 5999 or have permission from the instructor in order to take this course.

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