French History and Culture 3304-1DP1O-HIKF-004
Lecture on history and culture of France is an introduction to issues related to the history of France from the earliest times to the twenty-first century and to the issues of the wider history of French culture. The range of the subject makes it necessary to choose the topics discussed in class and the degree to develop them.
The planned thematic scope of the course in the first semester are as follows:
- France before France
- Selected issues concerning the history of France until the end of the fifteenth century
- Society and Culture of the Middle Ages
- Selected issues concerning the sixteenth century France
- Society and Culture Renaissance France
- The Birth and Evolution of absolute monarchy
- Times of Louis XIV - the French court
- Society and Culture for the ancien regime
- Selected issues concerning the history of the eighteenth century France
- Culture and Art of French Enlightenment
- France in crisis (late eighteenth century.)
- Selected issues of revolutionary France
Filed under second semester includes:
- France times of the restaurant - politics and economy
- France and half of the nineteenth century - culture and art
- Challenges of the July Monarchy and its collapse
- Second Republic and the Second Empire - foreign and domestic policy
- France Second Empire - society, culture and art
- Third Republic to World War I.
- France Belle Epoque
- World War and the problems of post-war France
- Annees Folles and the Great Depression - Society and Culture
- The Second World War
- The Fourth Republic - foreign and interior policy
- Fifth Republic - birth, institutions
- Intellectual and artistic life of post-war France
The course involves regular work of students both through participation in lectures and through activity in the e-learning platform www.kampus.uw.edu.pl. Posted where the materials will help expand the knowledge of the audience with knowledge of additional issues.
Students will be required to approach short text after each lecture, which will include questions on topics discussed during the lecture as well as issues of source texts and texts proposed for the e-learning platform. The scheduled dates for the test will be approached repeatedly, and the final grade will be the average of all approaches.
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Learning outcomes
After completing the course the student will be able to:
- Replace in order all the political systems of France from the Revolution to the Present
- Provide basic characteristics of each system, specifying the most important historical figures
- Describe the basic cultural phenomena from every era
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Assessment criteria
The final grade (semester credit) consists of the following:
- class attendance. 4 absences are allowed, regardless of whether they are excused or not. In synchronous lectures attendance can also be checked. In case of asynchronous lectures, the attendance is considered watching the video lecture posted on the platform.
- Activity on the e-learning platform - during the semester students will perform a certain number of tasks. The average of these tasks will be a component of the final course grade. Sub-tests may be taken several times within the time limit.
- result from two in-class tests - the first will be a mid-term test covering the material from the first half of the class, the second will be a semester test covering all topics covered from the beginning to the end of the semester. These tests may be taken only on the scheduled dates.
If it is not possible to organize stationary tests (one or both), it is expected to be done remotely.
The final grade will be calculated according to the following proportions:
- result from tasks completed on the platform - 40%
- result from the in-class tests - 60%.
In order to receive a credit in the first term, a minimum of 60% of points is required.
NOTE - in order to receive a pass in the second term, a minimum of 70% of points should be collected.
Depending on the current epidemic situation the form of classes and conditions for passing may be modified.
Bibliography
Aprile Sylvie, Histoire de France. 1815-1878, Belin, 2014
Baszkiewicz Jan, Historia Francji, Ossolineum, 2008
Beaupré Nicolas, Histoire de France. 1914-1945, Belin, 2014
Beaurepaire Pierre-Yves, Histoire de France. 1715-1789, Belin, 2014
Drévillon Hervé, Cornette Joël, Histoire de France, 1629-1715, Belin, 2014
Duby Georges, Mandrou Robert, Historia kultury francuskiej, PWN, Hewitt Nicholas The Cambridge Companion to Modern French Culture, Cambridge University Press, 2003
Duclert Vincent, Histoire de France. 1870-1914, Belin, 2014
Dulewicz Andrzej, Encyklopedia sztuki francuskiej, WAiF/PWN, 1997
Dybeł et al. Historia literatury francuskiej, PWN, 2006
Hamon Philippe, Histoire de France. 1453-1559, Belin, 2014
Kidd William, Contemporary French Cultural Studies, Routledge, 2000
Kowalski Jacek et al. Dzieje kultury francuskiej, PWN, 2007
Le Roux Nicolas, Histoire de France. 1559-1629, Belin, 2014
Prost Antoine, Zarys historii Francji w XX wieku, Universitas, 1997
Zancarini-Fournel Michelle, Delacroix Christian, Histoire de France. 1945-2005, Belin, 2014
Additional information
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