Student Learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to analyze the historical, social, and philosophical background of French-speaking movies from different francophone countries as well as the psychological motivations of the characters in the movies.
• Students will be able to analyze different themes of the French culture through movies by comparing them with a non-French movies (American, Chinese, Arabic, Hispanic...)
• The history of French (and to a lesser degree of American) Cinema, from its start in Paris, to the present time.
• Students will be able to analyze the historical, social, and philosophical background of French-speaking movies from different francophone countries as well as the psychological motivations of the characters in the movies.
• The history of French (and to a lesser degree of American) Cinema, from its start in Paris, to the present time.
• Students will be able to analyze the historical, social, and philosophical background of French-speaking movies from different francophone countries as well as the psychological motivations of the characters in the movies.
• Students learn vocabulary associated with making movies and with discussing movies as works of art.