FREN 415 - Francophone Europe

Credits: (3)
This course explores the importance of linguistic and cultural diversity of the French-speaking cultures in Europe outside of France, including Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and the Vallée d’Aoste. What especially distinguish these francophone communities from their French neighbors is the official multilingual environments in which these cultures have taken shape. This course examines the diverse nature of each of these multilingual environments and considers the role that such issues as language contact, language prestige, multilingualism, regional variation, diglossia, and language socialization have played in the shaping of the cultural identity in each of these French-speaking communities. Materials studied include short stories, essays, newspaper articles, scholarly articles, film, documentary video and song. Prerequisite(s): FREN 301 or equivalent.