This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
This module, to be taught at the Paris School of Arts and Culture, looks at Paris' revolutionary and resistance past. We cover a two-hundred-year period, beginning with the revolution of 1789 and ending with the student protests of May 1968. We will explore Paris during the two world wars, the Commune of 1871, the 1848 revolution and advances in medicine, science, painting and literature.
The aim of this module is to examine the ways in which Parisian culture, which has long been at the centre of innovation in the fields of architecture, film, literature, art, philosophy and drama, has been transformative. The module is interdisciplinary and will include the analysis of memoirs, oral histories, memorials, instruments, paintings, literary texts, cartoons, posters, film, newspapers, radio and the internet.
The module will be taught by weekly two-hour seminars plus visits to sites of interest.
Seminars will entail group work, individual and group presentations, document analysis and extract discussion, reflection on sources and research.
Students will be encouraged to discuss their research aims with the convenor and session leaders in office hours.
Students will also be expected to engage in substantial independent study, including researching materials in the library and on the Internet, examining a variety of primary sources, in preparation for seminars, seminar presentations and written assignments.
Students will be expected to complete roughly twenty-two study hours per week (260 for the module) as a minimum, excluding contact hours.
The module will be assessed by 100% coursework.
Students will be required to produce one 2000-word critical analysis of a source (equating to 33% of the overall module mark) and one essay of 4000 words (equating to 66% of the overall module mark).
K. Alder (2002). The Measure of All Things: The Seven Year Odyssey that Transformed the World. New York: Little, Brown
P. Davies (2001) France and the Second World War: Occupation, Collaboration and Resistance. London: Routledge
C. C. Gillispie (1980/2004). Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years. Princeton: Princeton University Press
G. L. Gullickson (1996). Unruly Women of Paris: Images of the Paris Commune. Ithaca: Cornell University Press
J. Jackson (2003) France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944. Oxford: OUP
E. Kennedy (1991). A Cultural History of the French Revolution. London: Yale University Press
S. E. Melzer and L. W. Rabine (eds.) (1992). Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution. Oxford: OUP
M. Ozouf (1991) Festivals and the French Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
D. M. Rothschild (1991) Picasso's Parade: From Street to Stage. London: Sotheby's Publications
K. E. Silver (1989). Esprit de Corps: The Art of the Parisian Avant-Garde and the First World War, 1914-1925. Princeton: Princeton University Press
T. Stovall (2012) Paris and the Spirit of 1919: Consumer Struggles, Transnationalism, and Revolution. Cambridge: CUP
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
The intended subject specific learning outcomes.
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1. Appreciate the history of Paris, with special regards to its revolutionary and resistance past.
2. Navigate the social, cultural, literary and medical literature of revolutionary and resistance Paris, recognising how scholars have responded to key issues in these areas.
3. Explore key cultural sites and be able to assess and evaluate their significance in a critical and sophisticated manner.
4. Produce (and reflect on) written assignments and oral arguments situated within the discourses of revolutionary and resistance Paris.
5. Critically analyse, critique and assess scholarly arguments pertinent to revolutionary and resistance Paris.
6. Critically analyse literary and visual sources including memoirs, films, posters and cartoons about revolutionary and resistance Paris.
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The intended generic learning outcomes.
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1. Participate in discussion, make their own contributions to discussion and listen to and respect the contributions of others.
2. Engage in group work, cooperating on set tasks toward answering scholarly questions.
3. Communicate their own ideas clearly and coherently, orally and in writing, assisted by peer and teacher feedback.
4. Reflect on their own learning, plan their use of time, and identify appropriate directions for further study, encouraged by the tutor.
5. Research issues independently and productively.
6. Produce assignments that are of a high scholarly standard in terms of presentation and professionalism.
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