In-Depth: Paris, Capitol of Modernity: A Digital Nineteenth Century
FRENCH 5701
The French assert that the world learned to be modern in nineteenth-century Paris. Even though this is not entirely true, the Paris we observe today owes a great deal to nineteenth-century interventions in the city's physical fabric, and our ideas about modernity are informed by the ways in which the French learned to observe and describe the radical changes in their capitol. This course will examine maps, guidebooks, urban descriptions, and fiction to see how Paris changed in the century that brought us urban modernity, including anonymity, city crowds, cycles of boom and bust, huge-scale public works, energy, and anomie. It will also introduce students to some of the tools for digital scholarship and the presentation of academic work to non-academic audiences. Students will collaborate in the creation of a textual database on Paris monuments, and learn to present their research on urban sites via ArcGIS's StoryMaps. Prereq: FR 308.
Graebner
Course Attributes: EN H; BU IS; AS HUM; AS LCD; FA HUM; AR HUM
