The course looks at the concepts of appearance, national identity, cultural hybrids and various models of integration through the literature of “the children of immigration” from the early 1980s to the present by way of a variety of expressive codes that range from narrative to comic art.

The course is organized into three primary “chapters”:

1) Immigration and Integration.

2) Writing and Immigration

3) Images of Immigration.

Understanding and comprehension: The student will have a solid understanding of French historical contexts and cultural products, gained through the use of critically, historiographically and methodologically current advanced level texts.
Ability to apply understanding and comprehension: The student will be able to use the necessary tools and will know how to apply methodologies learned to analyse literary texts as well as non-literary texts and documents.
Autonomous evaluation: The student will possess the linguistic, critical and interpretive skills necessary to create autonomous analyses and judgements on broad cultural themes connected to the literary and linguistic areas treated in the course.
Communications abilities: The student will be able to communicate in Italian and in French on general informational topics and on specific topics related to their specific area of study that requires the use of complex syntactic structures.
Learning skills: The student will develop those learning abilities necessary to update and consolidate their knowledge. 

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Teaching

Lectures, student reports.

Activities will include expert guest speakers and use of audio-visual materials. Critical material will be presented in class and uploaded to the Moodle platform.

Attendance

Minimum attendance 70%.

Course books

-http://www.histoire-immigration.fr/ressources/histoire-de-l-immigration/le-film-deux-siecles-d-histoire-de-l-immigration-en-france: 

-Azous Begag, Le Gone Du Chaâba, Paris, Seuil,1986

-Yamina Benguigui, Mémoires d’immigrés : l’héritage maghrébin, Paris, Albin Michel, 1997

Yamina Benguigui, Mémoires d’immigrés : l’héritage maghrébin, Canal plus, 1997 . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXbmjmO5rX8;

Jacques Ruillier, Les Mohamed, Paris, Sabarcane, 2009).

-Abirached, Zeina, Le Piano Oriental, Paris, Casterman, 2015.

Assessment

Oral exam conducted in French.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Attendance

Autonomous study.

Course books

- Sajous, M., Abet, G., Défis et débats français, Bari, Carocci Editore, 2009 : i capitoli 3-4-5 (Loaded on the Blended platform)

-http://www.histoire-immigration.fr/ressources/histoire-de-l-immigration/le-film-deux-siecles-d-histoire-de-l-immigration-en-france: 

-Azous Begag, Le Gone Du Chaâba, Paris, Seuil,1986

-Yamina Benguigui, Mémoires d’immigrés : l’héritage maghrébin, Paris, Albin Michel, 1997

(Yamina Benguigui, Mémoires d’immigrés : l’héritage maghrébin, Canal plus, 1997 . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXbmjmO5rX8;

Jacques Ruillier, Les Mohamed, Paris, Sabarcane, 2009).

-Abirached, Zeina, Le piano Oriental, Casterman, 2015

Non-attending students are required to contact the professor over the course of the second semester.