Section Info: FREN-341CF-01

Course Title: Courses in Francophone Studies: 'France Beyond the Mirror: The Image of France in Contemporary Francophone African Literature and Film'
Start Date: 09/09/2026 End Date: 12/22/2026
Term: Fall Semester 2026
Description: The relationship between colonizer and colonized is two-fold: on the one hand a visible, immediate (military, economic, and political) domination, and on the other, a more subtle, less visible (ideological) domination. These will be explored through texts (literature and films) representing both the metropolitan and the native, from the colonizer's point of view. This course will discuss first how, through its writers and filmmakers, France projected itself onto the imagination of colonized Africans and second, how, in response, Africans appropriated the pen and the camera to convey their perception of their French experiences with the metropolitan Other.
Distribution(s): I - Humanities , LANG - Language , MP - Multicultural Perspectives , SI - Speaking-Intensive , WI - Writing-Intensive , TP - Topics Course
Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     Credits:4.00    

Faculty         Phone         Email address        
Samba Gadjigo   413-538-2255   sgadjigo@mtholyoke.edu  

Meeting Dates         Method         Meeting days         Meeting times         Building name         Room     Frequency    
09/09/2026 - 12/22/2026   Seminar   Tuesday   01:30PM - 04:20PM   TBA   TBA   Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses        
Prereq: Two of the following courses: FREN-215, FREN-219, FREN-225. Take previously   Required  

Comments        
Additional Comments        
Course Tags        
CRPE0001   CRPE-1: CRPE - Major Pathway/Minor   This course has been approved to count towards the CRPE major pathway and the CRPE minor.  
CRPE0002   CRPE-2: Africana Studies - Major Pathway/Minor   This course has been approved to count towards the CRPE Africana Studies major pathway and the CRPE Africana Studies minor.  

Cross-listed Sections        
None  

Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted     Capacity: 18     Enrollment: 18     Available: 0     Waitlist: 7
Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List         Required         Publisher Full Price        
To be determined.                    

Additional Book Comments        
This is NOT the complete book list for this class.