Exploring Montreal and Quebec

A course that uses cinema, television, and literary texts to study Montreal and Quebec, with emphasis on identity, cultural history, the Quiet Revolution, and cultural diversity.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Ritt Deitz4.4/5

Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify key writers, filmmakers, and other major storytellers working in or on the subject of Quebec.

  • Discuss how Quebec storytelling, as a practice and an industry, relates to those practices in the rest of Canada.

  • Identify major ways in which literature shows Quebec, as a society, as distinct from other parts of the French-speaking world.

  • Apply basic concepts of literary and film appreciation to the understanding of fiction, essays, music, film and television produced in Quebec.

  • Explain how contemporary social, cultural, and artistic practices associated with Quebec have been influenced by historical events, especially in the 20th and 21st centuries.

  • Identify how the "national conversation" about cultural diversity in Quebec is different from and similar to those conversations in the rest of Canada and in the U.S.

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FRENCH 281

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Spring 2027

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LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 800

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the class

Examine Montreal and the province of Quebec through cinema, television, and literary texts. Explore historical and social themes central to Quebec identity, including evolving conceptions of French Canadian and Quebecois identity, particularly in intellectual and cultural life. Analyze how storytelling reflects and critiques cultural traditions rooted in France, as well as the impact of the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s on national identity. Investigate cultural diversity in Quebec through the perspectives and voices of selected authors and filmmakers.

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Topics

  • Quebec identity and the evolution of French Canadian and Quebecois self-understanding.
  • Cinema, television, and literary texts as lenses for studying Montreal and Quebec.
  • Cultural traditions rooted in France and their representation or critique in Quebec storytelling.
  • The Quiet Revolution and its effects on Quebec national identity.
  • Cultural diversity in Quebec through selected authors and filmmakers.
  • Comparative cultural conversations about diversity in Quebec, Canada, and the United States.
  • Literary and film appreciation applied to Quebec fiction, essays, music, film, and television.
  • Major Quebec writers, filmmakers, and storytellers.

Skills

  • Identify major writers, filmmakers, and other storytellers connected to Quebec.
  • Compare Quebec storytelling practices and industry with those in the rest of Canada.
  • Use literature to identify what makes Quebec socially distinct within the French-speaking world.
  • Apply literary and film appreciation concepts to Quebec fiction, essays, music, film, and television.
  • Connect contemporary Quebec cultural practices to twentieth- and twenty-first-century historical developments.
  • Compare debates about cultural diversity in Quebec, Canada, and the United States.
  • Analyze how storytelling reflects and critiques cultural traditions rooted in France.

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FRENCH 281 · Spring 2027

Exploring Montreal and Quebec

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