ATS3962 · Feasts for the eyes: French and francophone taste, style and fashion

Overview

This elective unit provides you with the opportunity to develop your French language speaking, listening, reading and writing competencies and your knowledge of French and Francophone societies through the central theme of fashion. You will explore a range of historical, philosophical, cultural, political and environmental questions that all position fashion and taste as key vectors for individual and collective expression and freedom. The material used in this unit is drawn from authentic French and/or Francophone contexts with a specific emphasis on literature, film and popular culture. This unit will enable you to better understand the centrality of fashion and its multiple applications throughout the world as well as how your own personal fashion choices can have important impacts in an age of global environmental crisis.

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. discuss the importance of fashion in contemporary French and Francophone societies;
2. critically examine contemporary global issues related to fashion (such as inequality, discrimination and sustainability) as they emerge in specific localities;
3. analyse different types of cultural texts and narrative constructs;
4. critically read complex texts in French and in translation.

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.