Spring 2027

Literature and Medicine in French-speaking Cultures

Explores health and illness in French-speaking cultures through literature and biomedical texts, including fiction, film, and comics. Taught in French.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2018: 3.37 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Fall 2020: 3.64 GPA, 81.8% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Spring 2022: 3.80 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate that you can analyze literary and non-literary texts in French.

  • Express yourself effectively in spoken and written French.

  • Recognize and explain how the meanings of health and illness varied during the period studied and the ways in which they were grounded in personal as well as collective experience.

  • Appreciate some of the rich and complex interactions between medicine and literature during the period studied.

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FRENCH 321 or 322

FRENCH 464 used by

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2018: 3.37 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Fall 2020: 3.64 GPA, 81.8% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Spring 2022: 3.80 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Meanings of health and illness in French and Francophone cultures
  • Literature responding to biomedical knowledge
  • Genres including fiction, theater, film, comics, and medical popularization
  • Interactions between medicine and literature

Skills

  • Analyze literary and non-literary texts in French
  • Express oneself effectively in spoken and written French
  • Explain variations in meanings of health and illness across periods and experiences
  • Interpret interactions between medicine and literature

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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