From Colonial France to Multicultural France

Code:

LLC025

Acronym:

FCFM

Instance: 2014/2015 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LLC	1	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2013_2014	2	-	6	52	162
			3
LRI	2	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2013_2014	2	-	6	52	162
			3

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To offer fundamental authors for a diachronic reflection founding Postcolonial Studies, in Francophony, focusing on historically essential texts, in order to provide a reasonable critical position about our time by this way founded on the illustrated memory of the empire. Each author`s and each one of their crucial moments justified articulation will offer to the student a panoramic vision to be deepened in the contexty of rigorous tutorial singular methodology.

Learning outcomes and competences

To introduce Francophony through a selected literary, philosophical and cultural corpus elaboration gives students the capacity of identifying French language exceptionnaly diverse contemporary production so that it will be critically evaluated even in the singularity of outstanding expressions, such as Andrei Makine`s, or of more predictable exercises of distructuring nowadays romance cartography. These two particular axes practice, as a consequence, the primordial stimulus for a grater curiosity individual supervised researches will develop.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Colonialism and Neo-colonialism: SARTRE Jean- Paul, Situations, Paris, Gallimard, 1964 2. Fear and the denial of the other: MAALOUF Amin, Les Identités meurtrières, Paris, Grasset, 1998 3. Understanding Black and White: FANON Frantz, Peau noire, masques blancs, Paris, Seuil, 1952

Mandatory literature

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980; Situations. ISBN: 2-07-032782-5
Maalouf, Amin; Les^identités meurtrières. ISBN: 978-2-253-15005-3
FANON Frantz; Peau noire, masques blancs, Seuil, 1952
FRÉMEAUX Jacques; Les Empires Coloniaux dans le processus de mondialisation, Maisonnneuve et Larose, 2002
LIAUZU Claude ed.; Dictionnaire de la colonisation française, Larousse, 2007
SEMPRINI Andrea; Le Multiculturalisme, PUF, 1998
TAYLOR Charles; Multiculturalisme, différence et démocracie, Aubier, 1992
KATUSZEWSKI Jacques; Réseaux d`immigrés. Ethnographie de nulle part, les éditions ouvrières, 1981
BADIE Bertrand; La fin des territoires: Essai sur le désordre international et sur l`identité sociale du respect, Fayard, 1995

Teaching methods and learning activities

Expository classes, stimulating discussions among students and the presentation of supervised research.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	50,00
Participação presencial	20,00
Trabalho escrito	30,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	108,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Total:	162,00

Calculation formula of final grade

Weighted average of the various tests and student’s effort, according to each student’s learning path.