Spring 2027

Topics in French Literature and Culture

Explores French and Francophone cultures through literature, film, and graphic novels, examining historical concepts and cultural representations including gender, race, and colonization.

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Summary

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Past student reviews · Jan Miernowski

The course was rated as having low difficulty.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Conceptualize a specific topic as a historical concept, a literary topic, and a cultural phenomenon in French and Francophone cultures.

  • Understand how artistic imagination and philosophical reasoning creatively intersect.

  • Discuss fundamental questions pertaining to cultural phenomena, based on an informed dialogue with thinkers and writers of the past and present.

  • Understand cultural differences and apply this knowledge to the French and Francophone cultures.

  • Show understanding on how to closely read and critically analyze literary texts, films, and artistic works in relation to a cultural topic.

  • Learn how to write interpretative analyses of a foreign culture.

  • Identify key thinkers and artists associated with the topic of the course.

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Prerequisites

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LITTRANS 103

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Professors

Spring 2027

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JAN MIERNOWSKI is recorded teaching in Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Jan Miernowski

Students found the course structure, pacing, and content excellent, describing it as the best class they had taken at UW Madison.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.78 GPA, 84.8% A/AB (n=46 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Jan Miernowski

The course was rated as having low difficulty.

Past student reviews · Jan Miernowski

Jan Miernowski was knowledgeable, helpful, and encouraging, knowing every student by face and demonstrating deep care for them.

Topics

  • Technology, humanism, gender relations, race, ethnicity, and social justice.
  • Immigration, colonization, aesthetic ideals, and historical memory.
  • Education, acculturation, social rituals, and the role of language.

Skills

  • Close reading and critical analysis of literary texts, films, and artistic works.
  • Writing interpretative analyses of foreign cultures.
  • Conceptualizing topics as historical, literary, and cultural phenomena.
  • Understanding and applying knowledge of cultural differences.

Grades

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Sources & history

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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