Goals and Objectives for French and Francophones Studies Majors and Minors<\/p>\n
Goal 1<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Proficiency in reading and analyzing French and Francophone literary texts, films or other cultural productions.<\/p>\n Curricular Objectives 1<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 1a) Provides evidence of a critical, methodological “toolbox” for appreciating, decoding, analyzing cultural representations. Use of specific analytical concepts for literature or film\/screen analysis.<\/p>\n 1b) Provides evidence of a dialogue between the student\u2019s voice and voices of secondary sources.<\/p>\n 1c) Is able to describe, narrate, express abstract ideas with advanced proficiency in French both orally and in writing.<\/p>\n 1d) Demonstrates proficiency in research and citation in the field (MLA style).<\/p>\n Goal 2<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Shows awareness of cultural biases and ethnocentric views with particular attention to race, power, privilege, and colonization in the Francophone world.<\/p>\n Curricular Objectives 2<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 2a) Shows ability to contextualize (at least some) French and Francophone cultures socio-historically across time periods and geographic and political location.<\/p>\n 2b) Demonstrates self-knowledge and awareness about one\u2019s own subject position and that of others in their written essays and oral contribution to class discussion.<\/p>\n Aspirational Goals <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Develop various forms of purposeful engagement within various French and Francophone communities and cultures.<\/p>\n Aspirational Objectives <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 3a) Has the ability to live and function\/flourish within various cultural contexts (France, Morocco, Madagascar, Senegal, Qu\u00e9bec, Lewiston, Mali…) and can evaluate and interpret cultural differences beyond stereotype.<\/p>\n 3b) Provides evidence of civic or community engagement.<\/p>\n 3c) Culminates their major with evidence of a purposeful education. The capstone may serve as a meaningful and impressive \u201ccarte de visite\u201d (calling card) for future employers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Goals and Objectives for French and Francophones Studies Majors and Minors Goal…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":312,"featured_media":0,"parent":79,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-1139","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/french-francophone-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/french-francophone-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/french-francophone-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/french-francophone-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/french-francophone-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/french-francophone-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1737,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/french-francophone-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1139\/revisions\/1737"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/french-francophone-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/french-francophone-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}