FRIT Upcoming Courses
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Fall 2026 Electives
Explore how the idea of Paris has changed and stayed the same from the 1700s to today. Examine how different generations have imagined Paris as a center of art, modern life, political change and global culture.
Watch films from Francophone Africa south of the Sahara, the French Caribbean and the black populations in France. Discuss issues including migration, race, colonial legacy, postcolonial identities, gender, sexuality, globalization and development. Course taught in French.
Why and how do people emigrate? Where are the major destinations of migrants? What is Fortress Europe? What is the "global South"? These are some of the questions this course will address.
Italian and Italian-American culture, history and society through film. Weekly guest lectures and critical readings expand from different disciplinary perspectives upon issues raised by films.
Italian literary, cultural, and symbolic practices from the Enlightenment to the present.