ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, French
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Classical, French and Italian Philology
Areas: French Philology
Center Faculty of Philology
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
The course will try to provide the student with a reflection and precise knowledge of French culture in the 20th and the 21st centuries..
Introduction: the different schools of historiography.
I. The 20th Century: France at the Belle époque
The new moral order
1. Symbolism; Cubism and primitive art; Abstract art.
2. The theatre: Jacques Copeau and the theatre of the Vieux-Colombier
The beginnings of the cinema: silent cinema. A. Gance.
3. H. Bergson
II. World War I
III. Between the Two World Wars: From 1918 to 1930 and 1930 to 1940
The “Années folles” ; the crisis ; The “années noires”
1. The Vanguards, Dadaism ; Surrealism.
2. Theatre: The Cartel
French cinema. Speaking films. Jean Renoir, Marcel Carné.
IV. World War II: From one Republic to the other. The Vichy regime, the Resistance, and the Liberation.
V. From 1945 to 1968. Decolonisation and the birth of the 5th Republic
French Reconstruction. Modernization. May 1968.
French social transformations and growth
2. Theatre. B. Brecht´s influence. The cinema: The Nouvelle Vague
3 Music. A. Schoenberg´s influence: Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez.
4. Existentialism. J-P. Sartre
VI. From 1968 to 2000. From Liberalism to Socialism
1. Theatre: between 1970 and 1990. The cinema
2. Structuralism.
3. Psychoanalysis: J. Lacan.
4. M. Foucault.
5. G. Deleuze.
6. Deconstruction: J. Derrida.
7. Postmodernism
VI. The 21st Century
AGULHON Maurice, La République 1880 à nos jours. Paris : Hachette, 1990.
GIRARDET Raoul, L´idée coloniale en France de 1871 à 1962. La Table ronde, 1972.
LEQUIN Yves, Histoire des français XIXe-XXe siècles, t.1. Un peuple et son pays ; t2, la société, t.3. Les citoyens et la démocratie, Paris : A. Colin, 1983-1984.
NORA Pierre, Les lieux de mémoire, 7 vol., Paris : Gallimard, 1984-1992.
ORY Pascal, SIRINELLI Jean-François, Les Intellectuels en France, de l´affaire Dreyfus à nos jours, Paris : A.Colin, 1986.
PARODI Maurice, L´Économie de la société française depuis 1945 Paris : A.Colin, 1981.
TOUCHARD Jean, la Gauche en France depuis 1900, Paris : ed. du Seuil, 1977.
RÉMOND René, Les Droites en France, Paris : Aubier, 1982.
RÉMOND René, Notre siècle, 1918-1988. Paris : Fayard, 1989.
Ability to recognize and understand the major historical events ant to discuss socio-cultural aspects of France
The teaching of this course will combine lecture and discussion of literary texts.
The course will be in French; written and oral proficiency in this language is required.
Each student will write a personal essay and make an oral presentation in this course during the semester.
The final grade for this course will depend on several mandatory assessments.
The final grade will result from the sum of the class participation grade (20% of the total grade) and the grades from the midterm exams, which will include an oral and a written component (80%). Students who do not pass the midterm exams may take the official January exam, which will account for 80% of the final grade.
For the June exam, the grade will be based on both the written and the oral exams (100% of the final grade).
As a mandatory prerequisite to pass this course, students must have reached a B2 level in French by the end of the face-to-face classes.
Students exempt from attending classes may choose between two options:
a/ take both midterms, each consisting of an oral and a written part;
b/ take the final exam, which will include both an oral and a written component.
1 h 30 for each hour of class.
Class attendance and continuous study.
The course will be in French. B2 level of French is recommended.
In cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations on the Evaluation of Students' Academic Performance and the Revision of Grades shall apply.
Manuel Garcia Martinez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Classical, French and Italian Philology
- Area
- French Philology
- Phone
- 881811836
- manuel.garcia.martinez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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| 13:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | French | C02 |
| 14:00-15:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | French | C02 |
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| 13:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | French | D06 |
| 01.16.2026 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C01 |
| 01.16.2026 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | C01 |
| 06.11.2026 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | C06 |
| 06.11.2026 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C06 |