Queer French (in French)

Learning Outcomes

• • Define, analyze, and appraise key terms and concepts in Queer Studies (queer time, queer utopianism, anti-relationality, queer archive, etc.)
  • Interrogate sexuality and gender as historical and social constructs.
  • Examine representations of sexuality and gender in the French language and in French/Francophone literature/culture.
  • Understand how sexual and gender identity intersect with nationality, race, ethnicity, religion, and socio-economic class in the context of French and Francophone societies.
  • Build your proficiency in spoken and written French:
  o Discussion in class will offer the opportunity to progress in spontaneous, interactive communication.
  o Readings and written assignments will challenge you to enrich your vocabulary and develop an ease with increasingly complex syntactical structures.
  o mastery of narration in the present, past, and future,
  o narrating, describing, and arguing in paragraph-level connected discourse
  o drawing hypotheses
  o defending opinions
  o discussing abstract ideas.