G45.1067Spring 2008 Course: French Civilization: History, Method, PedagogyStéphane Gerson This course teaches doctoral students to conceptualize, organize, and teach an undergraduate course in French civilization. It is an excellent opportunity to deepen one’s knowledge of French history and society, acquire new pedagogical skills, and establish one’s credential as a French civ. teacher. The course resembles an internship. Students sit in on Stéphane Gerson’s UG course ‘Contemporary France’ (an introduction to 20th-c. French history and sociology); meet with him for bi-monthly discussions of that course (and broader issues); and teach one UG class. For the final paper, each student chooses a ‘civilizational’ topic; writes a twelve-page overview of that scholarly field; and devises an UG syllabus on the topic. Past topics have included France and Europe, and the Memory of the Second World War. This course is limited to three students and will be offered in spring 2008, but not in 2009. French department and IFS Ph.D. students are eligible. Some background in French history is helpful, but not required. One must also be free Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00-12:15, when Contemporary France will meet. This course, which counts towards the certificate in French Studies, is presently offered under the rubric ‘French Cultural History’ (G45.1067), though this may change. Students who take this course will increase their chances of obtaining their own section of Contemporary France in future years. A call for applications will go out in November. For more information, please email prof. Gerson. |
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