Spotlights on French Culture and Society

This required course is resolutely interdisciplinary in nature, exploring France through historical, political and sociological perspectives. It offers both a theoretical introduction through a series of lectures/discussion sessions, as well as onsite visits venue and a series of formal presentations by students. Students will come to terms with why France is what it is today: its tensions, aspirations and challenges and enquire how the present has evolved out of the past, and how the past has led to the present in France of today.