ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, French
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Classical, French and Italian Philology
Areas: French Philology
Center Faculty of Philology
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
The course will try to provide the student with a reflection and precise knowledge of French culture in the 20th and the 21st centuries..
Introduction: the different schools of historiography.
I. The 20th Century: France at the Belle époque
The new moral order
1. Symbolism; Cubism and primitive art; Abstract art.
2. The theatre: Jacques Copeau and the theatre of the Vieux-Colombier
The beginnings of the cinema: silent cinema. A. Gance.
3. H. Bergson
II. World War I
III. Between the Two World Wars: From 1918 to 1930 and 1930 to 1940
The “Années folles” ; the crisis ; The “années noires”
1. The Vanguards, Dadaism ; Surrealism.
2. Theatre: The Cartel
French cinema. Speaking films. Jean Renoir, Marcel Carné.
IV. World War II: From one Republic to the other. The Vichy regime, the Resistance, and the Liberation.
V. From 1945 to 1968. Decolonisation and the birth of the 5th Republic
French Reconstruction. Modernization. May 1968.
French social transformations and growth
2. Theatre. B. Brecht´s influence. The cinema: The Nouvelle Vague
3 Music. A. Schoenberg´s influence: Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez.
4. Existentialism. J-P. Sartre
VI. From 1968 to 2000. From Liberalism to Socialism
1. Theatre: between 1970 and 1990. The cinema
2. Structuralism.
3. Psychoanalysis: J. Lacan.
4. M. Foucault.
5. G. Deleuze.
6. Deconstruction: J. Derrida.
7. Postmodernism
VI. The 21st Century
AGULHON Maurice, La République 1880 à nos jours. Paris : Hachette, 1990.
GIRARDET Raoul, L´idée coloniale en France de 1871 à 1962. La Table ronde, 1972.
LEQUIN Yves, Histoire des français XIXe-XXe siècles, t.1. Un peuple et son pays ; t2, la société, t.3. Les citoyens et la démocratie, Paris : A. Colin, 1983-1984.
NORA Pierre, Les lieux de mémoire, 7 vol., Paris : Gallimard, 1984-1992.
ORY Pascal, SIRINELLI Jean-François, Les Intellectuels en France, de l´affaire Dreyfus à nos jours, Paris : A.Colin, 1986.
PARODI Maurice, L´Économie de la société française depuis 1945 Paris : A.Colin, 1981.
TOUCHARD Jean, la Gauche en France depuis 1900, Paris : ed. du Seuil, 1977.
RÉMOND René, Les Droites en France, Paris : Aubier, 1982.
RÉMOND René, Notre siècle, 1918-1988. Paris : Fayard, 1989.
Ability to recognize and understand the major historical events ant to discuss socio-cultural aspects of France
The teaching of this course will combine lecture and discussion of literary texts.
The course will be in French; written and oral proficiency in this language is required.
Each student will write a personal essay and make an oral presentation in this course during the semester.
The final grade of this subject will depend on several compulsory tests: 10% of the mark will depend on class participation; 20% of the mark will depend on the two oral expositions. 70% of the mark will result from the sum of the two marks of the mid-term exams or the official exam.
In other words, the final mark will be the result of the sum of the mark for class participation (10% of the total mark), the mark for the two oral presentations (20% of the final mark) and the mark for the mid-term exams (70%). In the June exam, the grade will depend on the written exam (100% of the grade).
As a prerequisite for passing this course, students must have reached a level of B2 in French before the end of the classroom lessons.
In the June exam, 100% of the score will result from the written exam.
Those who are offcially allowed to not attend classes may choose to take both partial exams or only the final exam: in the latter case, 100% of the grade will depend on the written test.
1 h 30 for each hour of class.
Class attendance and continuous study.
The course will be in French. B2 level of French is recommended.
In cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations on the Evaluation of Students' Academic Performance and the Revision of Grades shall apply.
Manuel Garcia Martinez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Classical, French and Italian Philology
- Area
- French Philology
- Phone
- 881811836
- manuel.garcia.martinez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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| 13:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | French | C01 |
| 14:00-15:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | French | C01 |
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| 13:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | French | D10 |
| 01.16.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C01 |
| 01.16.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | C01 |
| 06.16.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | C06 |
| 06.16.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C06 |