2024-2025 Academic Catalog

Mar 15, 2026

2024-2025 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

CMLT 164 - Images of Youth

This is an interdisciplinary seminar examining the popular representation of “coming of age” through two media, literature and film, and across two cultures, France and the United States. We will examine youth as a social category, reading French and American literature and film against one another, exploring similarities and differences between the two genres in the creation of a cultural understanding of the place of youth in society. In addition to the primary sources–novels and films representing French and American notions of youth at various points in the later 20th century–we will read a number of secondary sources dealing with youth, such as G. Stanley Hall’s massive study of adolescence. Students will write several short papers and do two presentations.

Formerly FREN 230. Student will not earned credit for CMLT 164 if FREN 230 was previously taken.

Course Designation/Attribute: GP, DI

Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically