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May 14, 2024
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FREN189A PO - Metro TalesWhen Offered: One-time only; fall 2015.
Instructor(s): L. Yoshioka-Maxwell
Credit: 1
How has the Parisian metro become a symbolic and literal zone of regulating and policing French national identity? How are this local transportation system and its commuters, and their experience of the metro as a site of quotidian trajectories, related to the voyages of travelers coming from outside of France? This course will explore these questions in a variety of French and Francophone texts, drawing from different genres (films, novels, travel narratives, photography, etc). Moving beyond Paris, the course will have a practical and community-based component thanks to the Draper Center. Students will draw comparisons between transportation systems and the way they structure urban space and social relations in Paris and the Los Angeles area. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: FREN 101 PO or equivalent.
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