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PL30887: Politique et esthétique: du futurisme à la réalité virtuelle (VR)

Academic Year: 2018/9
Owning Department/School: Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
Credits: 6      [equivalent to 12 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 120
Level: Honours (FHEQ level 6)
Period:
Semester 2
Assessment Summary: CW 33%, ES 67%
Assessment Detail:
  • Presentation (CW 16%)
  • Write up (CW 17%)
  • Essay (ES 67%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Description: Aims:

* To provide an overview of major artistic and literary movements originating in Paris, capital of the arts, in the first half of the twentieth century.
* To provide an introduction to the radical experimentation carried out by avant-garde practitioners and the influence they have had on contemporary visual and verbal output.
* To pursue a comparative approach to analysis, taking into account a wide variety of genres, both visual and verbal, from prose to poetry, from collage to performance.

Learning Outcomes:
A student who completes the unit will be able to:
* demonstrate understanding of literary and visual cultures, as well as their interaction and development, in the first half of the twentieth century.
* engage in comparative analysis of interdisciplinary production.
* show knowledge of how avant-garde movements have impacted contemporary output and infiltrated everyday life and discourse.

Skills:
Critical analysis, conceptual thinking, precision in the use of written and spoken language, exercise of independent judgement, reasoned argument, teamwork and the planning/ conduct/ reporting of non-quantitative research are taught in this unit. Skills in effective learning and language are also developed. The unit is taught in French.

Content:
Various European avant-garde movements, such as Futurism, Dada and Surrealism, will be examined through representative texts in French, including prose, poetry and manifestos. Their relationship with the visual arts, photography and film will also be investigated. Writers and artists to be studied include: Guillaume Apollinaire, Blaise Cendrars, Tristan Tzara, André Breton, Louis Aragon, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Alberto Giacometti and Man Ray.
Programme availability:

PL30887 is Optional on the following programmes:

Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
  • UHPL-AYB13 : BA(Hons) French and Politics with Year Abroad (Year 4)
  • UHPL-AYB08 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (French and ab initio Italian) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
  • UHPL-AYB09 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (French and ab initio Russian) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
  • UHPL-AYB05 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (French and German) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
  • UHPL-AYB04 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (French and Italian) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
  • UHPL-AYB18 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (French and Spanish) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
  • UXXX-AYB05 : BSc(Hons) International Management and Modern Languages (French) with Year Abroad (Year 4)

Notes:

  • This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2018/19 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2019/20 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2018/19.
  • Programmes and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
  • Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
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