FREN 3800 - France and the Muslim World
FREN 3800
France and the Muslim World
Summer 2025 - Term B
ONLINE
Professor Brian Valente-Quinn
Can Islam be French? Does the religion pose a threat to longstanding French traditions of secularism and free speech? Has France failed to integrate the offspring of earlier generations of Muslim immigrants? Is the French nation still paying for the sins of past colonial conquests in the Arab world and elsewhere?
In this course, we will explore these questions and their implications through movies, literature, history and contemporary social debates. Students will develop a critical vocabulary allowing them to contextualize current debates around immigration, the European Union, and the global fight against terrorism
This course fulfills the Global Perspective diversity requirement. All discussions and readings are in English and there are no prerequisites. For more info, email Brian.Valente-Quinn@colorado.edu