ATS3235 · The French Pacific: Immersion into (post)colonial francophone cultures

Overview

This study tour offers a unique opportunity to experience francophone cultures of the South Pacific. You will undertake a two-week intensive program in New Caledonia or French Polynesia where you will stay with a host family/in a university residency, participate in language classes, engage in global and intercultural learning through seminars and excursions. You will come out of this experience equipped with a solid understanding of the diversity of postcolonial societies and their particular priorities and challenges in the French-speaking Pacific situations.

Areas of study: European languages

Offerings

The Handbook publishes no offerings for this unit.

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Explain with nuance the diverse postcolonial situations in New Caledonia/French Polynesia;
2. Critically examine the cultural artefacts and discursive frameworks of political and cultural discourses which accompany and frame the situations of various groups in a postcolonial environment;
3. Extrapolate such discourses and artefacts to broader global challenges;
4. Relate these challenges to their own field of interest or discipline;
5. Deploy theoretical tools to analyse relevant case studies on topics provided or chosen for assessment;
6. Competently employ digital literacy skills.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.