The program begins with a three week practicum focusing on language learning, with special attention paid to the acquisition practical skills for living in Paris. Every week two excursions will allow students to discover the city.

After the practicum students take one language and three upper-division courses in the Social Sciences and the Humanities intended to provide windows into French history, identity, visual culture, literature, politics and economics in relation to a broader European civilization, and to the United States.

The program is intended as rewarding experience abroad, and it is also a gateway for some students who may choose to extend their stay in France for a second semester at the University of Bordeaux.

ATTENDANCE POLICY

Attendance to all classes (including sections and screenings) is mandatory. Students are allowed one unexcused absence per course, after which they will be expected to provide a medical note. Additional unexcused absences will result in a grade penalty equal to:

• 1/4 of a letter grade for courses meeting twice a week and for sections
• 1/2 of a letter grade for courses meeting once a week (i.e. 3 hour class)

* Note that the listed [areas of study] represent EAP recommendations; final decisions about credit for departmental majors remain with individual departments. Courses meet either twice a week (1.5 hour class) or once a week (3 hour class) plus a possible section (1 hour class) run by a UC graduate student.

INTRODUCTORY PRACTICUM

  Practicum - Main Page

FRENCH LANGUAGE COURSES

  PCC 013. French Language, Conversation & Reading  (Section I)
Prof. William Bishop

  PCC 016. Grammar and Literature  (Section II)
Prof. Brice Tabeling

COURSE OFFERINGS FOR SPRING 2006

  PCC 111. Histories of Paris.
Professor Mark Meigs
Using the buildings and space of Paris as a laboratory, this course surveys key events in the histories of Paris and France. The course will focus on the social and cultural history of the city in its material dimensions; the relation of streets and buildings to the unfolding events of French history, and the meanings of local topography within the enduring mythologies of the city. A central goal of the course is to teach students to read and write critically about the history of Paris and the cityscape around them. Includes a one-hour discussion section and some excursions. [History, Architecture, Urban Studies, Sociology] 6.0 credits

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   PCC 115. France and European Integration
Professor Mariam Habibi
This course aims to provide a general introduction to the history, the structure and the current developments of the European Union with a specific focus on France. We shall look at the circumstances after the second World War that once again put the 'Idea of Europe' on the agenda and the role that France played in the rebirth of this idea. The EU will be studied from a theoretical point of view; how do we define its structure? What determines the shape and speed of the integration process? How does this institution maintain its legitimacy? We will evaluate the success of this project by looking at specific policies, such as the common agricultural policy, the economic and social policy and common foreign and security policies. Finally we will consider the role of the EU as a global actor and study the EU's relations with the rest of the world. [Political Science, History, International Relations, Economics] 5.0 credits

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  PCC 116. Debating French Identities
Professor Stéphane Dufoix
This course explores recent political debates about French identity in light of the challenges posed by immigration (especially non-European immigration), feminism, economic and cultural globalization (considered an American-directed movement), and France's peculiar version of “multiculturalism”. Includes a one-hour discussion section. [Political Science, Sociology, History, French] 6.0 credits

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  PCC 120. Paris on Film: The City of Light since 1895
Professor Christian-Marc Bosséno
This course considers the complex networks of links between Paris and French cinema from as many angles as possible - aesthetic, historical, economical, philosophical, social and political - focusing in particular on the question of audience reception. It is at once a panorama of French cinema history since its beginnings, with the Lumière brothers 1895, but also an exploration of how cinema - as one of the principal channels of modern mass culture, and one of the mainstays of today's cultural industry - and the city of Paris are enmeshed in webs of relationships that constitute territorial, political, social, and mythological entities. Includes weekly film screening, a one-hour discussion section and some on-site excursions in Paris (film archives, cinematheques, relevant movie theatres, studios, and famous film locations). [Film, Film Studies, Communication, Media, History, Visual Culture, French Studies, European Studies] 6.0 credits

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  PCC 123. Paris in Literature
Professor Peter Connor
This course looks at the representation of Paris in French literature of the modern period. Readings have been chosen to introduce students to Paris’s multiple and changing identities. Each week is devoted to a theme which will allow us to discuss different myths associated with Paris, with France and with the French. Beginning with Balzac’s powerful representation of the city as the locus of power, corruption and social inequality, we will trace key developments in the way French novelists, poets and filmmakers have conceptualized their capital city. We will in the course of the semester become familiar with some of the important literary movements of the modern period: realism (Balzac), naturalism (Zola), surrealism (Breton) etc. Meets once a week, with a one-hour discussion section and excursion. [Literature, Comp Lit, Urban Studies, History, French] 6.0 credits

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  PCC 127. Women in 2oth Century France
Professor Nadia Malinovich
This course is intended to introduce undergraduate students to the social and political history of women in France from the turn of the twentieth century down to the present-day. Beginning with the political watersheds of the Dreyfus Affair (1898-1906) and the separation of Church and State (1905), the course will examine themes of work, sexuality and politics and explore significant French particularities – notably the struggle between Catholics and republicans over laïcité and the impact of the separation of Church and State, the power of the pro-natalist lobby, the singularly high rate of women’s, and particularly married women’s labor force participation, the weight of agriculture and small-scale, family enterprise on the economy, and notions of Republican universalism – through locating such particularities in a broader, comparative context. [History, Women’s Studies, Sociology, Anthropology] 5.0 credits

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