Institute for Global Studies
214 Social Sciences
269 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-624-9007
Fax: 612-626-2242
E-mail: igs@umn.edu

French FLIP

Courses

  • You may enroll for Global Studies 3920-001 as stand-alone elective course without being in the FLIP.
  • To complete FLIP, you are required to take Global Studies 3920-001 and mix and match at least 9 credits or more from French elective courses listed below.
  • You will also register for Global Studies 3906: FLIP completed, S/N, 1 credit, which you will pass when all FLIP courses are completed with C- or better grades.

Global Studies Immersion Course

Required for FLIP, 3 credits

GloS 3920: Section 1/Fren 3650, Section 0021

Topics in European Studies: "De la balade à la ballade: La Nouvelle Vague et le cinéma du Sénégal"


Instructor: Vlad Dima , dima0027@umn.edu

TWhen told that he loved Rear Window because he was a foreigner and did not know anything about New York and Greenwich Village, François Truffaut answered, “Rear Window is not about Greenwich Village, it is a film about cinema, and I do know cinema.” While knowing cinema may be somewhat of an ambitious goal for this course, beginning to understand it is not out of reach. So what does it mean to understand movies? What connections are established between the world we live in and the world we watch on the screen and what happens when the two collide? Where does this collision leave us, the spectators, and how does it affect our formation as subjects?

This course looks at the seminal cinemas of the French New Wave and Senegal, and will provide you with the basic tools that will allow you to attempt to answer some of these questions. We will look at a number of films that have shaped the field of contemporary cinema and we will try to map out their historical trajectory and to reveal the aesthetic and cultural tensions produced by and through their complex inter-relationships. The artistic proximity of the two cinemas will allow for the contextualization of such thematic concerns as: images of the city, narrative techniques, and the female subject. At the same time, we will acquire and learn to apply basic technical terminology used in film studies (editing, narrative, point-of-view or sound).

All readings, discussions, presentations, and papers will be in French.

GloS 3906

FLIP c ompleted, S/N, 1 credit

French Courses for FLIP: Spring 2007

  • 3014 French Phonetics
  • 3016 Advanced French Composition
  • 3022 Language and Culture of Business in France
  • 3101 Introduction to Literature
  • 3350 Topics in Literature, 2 sections
  • 3410 Literature of Quebec
  • 3531 Sociolinguistics
  • 3650 Topics in French Culture, Section 1
  • 3650 FLIP course, Section 2
  • 3705 Atlantic Crossings
November 10, 2008