Please note that seminars are largely student-led.

Week 1 Introduction to the module

Lecture: Historical & Critical perspectives (I)

Week 2

Lecture: Historical & Critical perspectives (II)

Seminar: La Voie royale

Week 3

Lecture: Exploration, Conquest and the Emergence of Colonial Discourses (I)

Seminar: La Voie royale

screening of Pépé-le-Moko

Week 4

Lecture: Exploration, Conquest and the Emergence of Colonial Discourses (II)

Seminar: Pépé-le-Moko

Week 5

Lecture: The 1950s and Claude Lévi-Strauss’s decolonisation

Seminar: Race et histoire

Week 6: Reading Week

Week 7

Lecture: Remembering the Algerian war

Seminar: La Montagne

Weeks 8

Lecture: Remembering Camus's L’Étranger

Seminar: Meursault, contre-enquête

Week 9

Submission of Coursework

Lecture: Remembering Camus's L’Étranger

Seminar: Meursault, contre-enquête

screening Coup de torchon

Week 10

Lecture: France and neo-colonialism

Seminar:Coup de torchon