Spring 2008
French 146X CL107

Voyages to the Unknown
With
Professor Cynthia Skenazi


TR 330-445 p m
Webb 1100
Enroll Code: 52860

First map of California, Gutierrez , 1562

Course description:
This course will focus on the impact of the voyages of discovery on late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe. Readings on real and imaginary voyages by Columbus, Cartier, Lery, More, Rabelais, Las Casas, and Montaigne.


Major and GE credit: This class counts toward area C of the French major. It also satisfies area G and WRT of the General Education Program

Required work for CL:
2 papers (4 to 5 pages each, 40%)
Pop-up quizzes (15%)
Final exam (30%)
Class participation (15%)

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