FR 0070 - KINGS & QUEENS: FROM VIKINGS TO THE GUILLOTINE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description French Vikings. A wicked Italian queen. Art, sex, and politics. Guillotines. The history of the French monarchy has it all. Join us as we study the art, palaces, gender performances, laws, ideas and people who created, and undid, the French monarchy. Explore historical artifacts and art objects from medieval France to the French and Haitian Revolutions. And then put your historical and cultural skills to work in understanding why monarchy is having such a moment now, in television series, music videos, art, pop culture and politics. Course taught in English. No prerequisites. Counts toward the French studies minor and as an English-language course substitute for 1000-level course in the French major and as a course in English for the French minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req.

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