I. ASCRC General Education Form
Group
VI
Dept/Program
MCLL/French
Course Title
Prerequisite
Course #
French Cultural Identity through the Ages
none
Credits
U MCLG 113
3
II. Endorsement/Approvals
Complete the form and obtain signatures before submitting to Faculty Senate Office
Please type / print name Signature
Date
Mladen Kozul/Chris
Anderson
Phone / Email
4678
christopher.anderson@mso.
umt.edu or
mladen.kozul@mso.umt.ed
u
Program Chair
Linda Gillison
Dean
Chris Comer
III. Description and purpose of the course: General Education courses must be introductory
and foundational. They must emphasize breadth, context, and connectedness; and relate course
content to students’ future lives: See Preamble:
http://www.umt.edu/facultysenate/archives/minutes/gened/GE_preamble.aspx
Instructor
MCLG 113 will introduce students to concepts of cultural and national identity as a
continuingly evolving process. It focuses on France, the iconography, fashions, philosophies,
architectures, art, foods and songs that have framed French cultural imagination during any
given period. Landscape, historical event, and immigration have been tantamount in forming
French regional cultures since their beginnings in the barbarian invasions of Gaul, and they
remain a large part of the continuity of French culture. This course examines and analyses
through historical texts, philosophy, literature, film, and song the myths and ideas that frame
French cultural identity.
IV. Criteria: Briefly explain how this course meets the criteria for the group. See:
http://www.umt.edu/facultysenate/documents/forms/GE_Criteria5-1-08.aspx
MCLG 113 covers a broad range of cultural
representation from the origins of French
identity to the present with an approach that is
both topical and historical; although faculty
may concentrate on a particular period of
French representation of cultural identity, such
periods of cultural representation will be
qualified both by what representations preceded
and how it both diverges from and provides a
continuity with the past (e.g. Delacroix's
revolutionary painting of a semi-nude woman
charging the ramparts provides a new ideal of
feminine political engagement while at the
same time reinforcing previous images as
women as objects of desire). Emphasis will be
on the causes of both stasis and modification of
French cultural identity by analyzing French
institutions, social and regional difference
within their historical and cultural contexts.
V. Student Learning Goals: Briefly explain how this course will meet the applicable learning
goals. See: http://www.umt.edu/facultysenate/documents/forms/GE_Criteria5-1-08.aspx
The course will situate cultural identity within
the context of the causes and consequences of
geographical and historical developments, will
encourage evaluating texts, films, music and
iconography within their historic-cultural
contexts and analyze what are typically French
behavior, institutions and ideas accordingly.
Students will be expected to analyze French
identity as a consequence of historical, political,
and institutional contexts,
VII. Syllabus: Paste syllabus below or attach and send digital copy with form.  The syllabus
should clearly describe how the above criteria are satisfied. For assistance on syllabus
preparation see: http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/syllabus.html
*Please note: As an instructor of a general education course, you will be expected to provide
sample assessment items and corresponding responses to the Assessment Advisory Committee.