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French Artistic and Cultural History
Courses Degree in Humanities
Cod: 51163
Department: DH
ECTS: 6
Scientific area: Sem Área Científica
Total working hours: 156
Total contact time: 15

  This course unit is subtitled "From Romanticism to Modernism" and it offers an overview of French cultural and artistic history, from Romanticism to Modernity through the most representative literary and aesthetic movements. Based on a comparative approach, the Symbolist movement (in Belgium This course unit is subtitled "From Romanticism to Modernism" and it offers an overview of French cultural and artistic history, from Romanticism to Modernity through the most representative literary and aesthetic movements. Based on a comparative approach, the Symbolist movement (in Belgium and France) will be analyzed in its complexity and specificity, given their invaluable contribution to Modernity, 

Comparative Studies
Symbolism
Aesthetics of Modernity

Competences:
• Understanding the guiding lines of the literary and aesthetic movements of the19th and 20th centuries.
• Understanding the fundamental ideological and aesthetic senses of these movements.
• Analyze the Symbolist movement (France-Belgium) and its contribution to the aesthetics of Modernity.

1. Overview of the French cultural history (19th and 20th cent.)
2. Main  literary and aesthetic trends
3. French Symbolism and Belgian Symbolism

E-learning

Continuous assessment is privileged: 2 digital written documents (e-folios) during the semester (40%) and a final digital test, Global e-folio (e-folio G) at the end of the semester (60%). In due time, students can alternatively choose to perform one final exam (100%).