FR 1036 - GREEN FRANCE: SITUATED ECOLOGIES

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The Paris Climate Agreement. Climate change’s effect on French wine and cheese. Nuclear energy in France. French green political parties. “Agro-ecology.” Environmental rights in French philosophy. French climate fiction. French culture has always been closely connected to environmentalism and sustainability and to questions around climate change. Taught in English for a broad audience, “Green France” allows students from a variety of fields to consider French and Postcolonial French ecological and environmental challenges. We will adopt an interdisciplinary perspective, from disciplines such as sociology, economics, political science, cultural studies, philosophy, film and media studies, and literary studies. Students will consider French philosophical approaches to these issues as well as land- and energy-related issues in geographical spaces situated in specific historical, political, geographical, and anthropological contexts (including the French Hexagon, the French Caribbean, and Algeria). Students will study and analyze cultural materials, bringing in their own disciplinary interests to formulate a final research project on a topic related to sustainability/environmentalism, and they will share their work with their peers and online.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req.

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