Classes Start Tomorrow!

Now that the intensive 2 week course is over, real classes begin this week.  Just thought I'd share what classes I'm taking...

Topics in French Literature: Autobiography and First Person Narration in French and Expatriate Literature 

This course explores the ways in which Paris plays a role in the representation of the subject. Through the study of novels and autobiographies by Breton, Hemingway, Stein, Duras, Modiano, de Beauvoir, and Baldwin.  What is the role of place in the imagining or invention of the self? How does the experience of a specific city, Paris, influence the formation of identity? How do these authors represent, or subvert, the notion of 'real? 

Conversation and Composition

Systematizes and reinforces language skills presented in earlier level courses through an intensive review of grammar, written exercises; an introduction to composition, lexical enrichment, and spoken skills.

Paris Monuments and Political Power in the 19th and 20th Centuries

This course examines aspects of political and social change in France from the end of the French Revolution to the present day.  Through an exploration of Paris neighborhoods, monuments and museums, we will look at how the city's evolution has been inscribed on the urban landscape, and reflect on how history and national identity are imagined, produced and contested through the carving up of urban space.  Classes include walking tours and sites in and around Paris.

And lastly, I'm taking a course at the Universite de Paris VII in their Anglophone Studies Department.  

American Literature: The Classic Text

This course studies The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye.

I'll let you know how my first day was...