ATS3077 Whatever happened to truth?: French literature, thought and visual culture

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Gained an informed knowledge of key aspects of French literature, thought and visual culture in the twentieth century as they relate to themes of truth and meaning;

2. 2

   Improved their reading and analytical skills, and acquired skills in analysing works of visual culture in terms of recognising and understanding features specific to the themes of the unit;

3. 3

   Gained a clearer understanding of the importance and nature of questions of truth and meaning today through having studied the evolution of those questions in France over the past century;

4. 4

   Built skills of self-reflexive questioning in relation to the material studied;

5. 5

   Developed an ability to relate ideas to their literary or visual expression;

6. 6

   Developed skills in written and oral argument and presentation so as to present the analyses and understandings above. Students taking the third-year version of this unit (ATS3077) will be expected to demonstrate in their text analysis and their essay a more explicit and sophisticated understanding of theoretical concepts germane to the analysis of the texts studied