SUMMER-ABROAD.UCDAVIS.EDU July 09, 2008 04:00 AM
This Program carries a total of 8 units. Enrolled students must take both courses listed. Auditing is not an option.
Americans in Paris Syllabus - Subject to change
Week 1: The Tourist in Paris
Traveling to and through Paris
Understanding the city’s history. The importance of Paris in American life, culture and especially literature, music, art and the movies and its importance as the world’s #1 tourist destination.
What is the difference between a tourist, a traveler, an expatriate and an immigrant?
Readings; Hemingway, A Moveable Feast; from Reader, Jefferson’s Paris—maps, letters, journal; McCannell, on Tourism.
Journal Work: Using Hemingway as a template.
Fieldwork: Walking Hemingway’s Paris
Monday: introduction to course; beginnings of discussion of Hemingway; journal work: explore Montparnasse area; locate locales Hemingway visited (Coupole, Dôme, Rotonde, Closerie des Lilas); locate historic buildings or buildings where someone famous lived (usually marked with a small plaque: e.g., Modigliani’s studio on rue de Chevreuse; find at least 5 plaques and record); locate a post office, a laundromat, a supermarket, an organic foodstore; a cheese store; a patisserie; a pharmacy; a shoe repair store; a tobacconist, an internet café. You are to sit in one of the Hemingway cafes and do whatever French people do in cafes. In the café, you will write down what you observed on your walk and what you observed as you sit in the café. Imagine you were writing down impressions which will later become your ‘Moveable Feast’. Think about why Hemingway entitles his work ‘A Moveable Feast.’
Tues: class discussion: Hemingway and McCannell.
Wed: Readings from newspapers, Herald Tribune and Le Monde (UK edition)
Thurs: Twain
Fri: Midterm
Journal Work for Week: TBA
Fieldwork TBA
Oral Reports on Group Projects
Week 3 The Expatriate in Paris: The Lost Generation and All that Jazz
Mon: James, readings from newspapers
Tues: Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas:
Wed: Anais Nin, Henry Miller
Thurs: ‘L’art nègre’, Jazz, Surrealism, Paris as a refuge from Prohibition and The Great Depression.
Journal Work: TBA
Field Work: TBA
Week 5 The Post War Years to Present
Mon: Richard Wright
Tues: James Baldwin
Thurs. Group Presentations
Final Exam
Please Note: Syllabus is subject to change
Grades are Based on The Following Percentages
Journal: 20%
Midterm: 15%
Oral Presentation: 25%
Final Exam: 20%
Class Participation: 20%
Though the instructors do not take the students on field trips, students receive detailed instructions for visits to specific sights. Students will keep logs, read extensively, write reports, watch movies, and do in class presentations.
Site for instruction is Columbia University’s Reid Hall, Rue de Chevreuse, in the heart of the Montparnasse expatriate district.
Textbooks
Ordering / Bookstore Information
You can purchase your books from the UC Davis MU Bookstore or another bookseller online. If you are mail-ordering your books, make sure to order them from the bookstore by June 1, ensuring you get them before you depart. You cannot get books sent to your address abroad. Instructions on how to order books from the bookstore are located at https://bookstore.ucdavis.edu/textbooks/.
Course Reader
The course will use a course reader. The cost is included in the program cost. All participants will receive their course readers with their orientation materials.
Travel Guide
Summer Abroad is supplying a copy of a Lonely Planet travel guide. Participants will get their guidebooks at the May 17th orientation. If you are unable to attend the orientation (non-Davis students), we will mail your guidebook with the orientation materials.
