GBPGBP (Global Business Program)

This course explores topics in the history of France from a global perspective. In recent years, global history, alongside connected history or transnational history, has revealed complex interactions between goods, ideas, people across nation-states and regions.
The aim of this course, thus, is to provide students with an overview of the History of France, not as a nation-state per se but as a part of a connected, global world. The course will principally follow the (mainly) acclaimed France in the World - A New Global History, edited by Patrick Boucheron and Stéphane Gerson.

By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- understand and explain key concepts and ideas about the history of France in a global perspective;
- critically read and analyse academic readings on the history of France by incorporating the framework of global history;
- discuss their ideas on the history of France with others;
- deploy appropriate analytical tools to critically examine various historical materials.

英語 / English

The course consists of lectures, class discussions, group activities, and student presentations (depending on the number of enrolled students).
All work is carried out in English in class and that includes interaction between students and from students to teacher. Students will deal with reading various historical and academic texts, looking at visual documents such as pictures and diagrams, watching videos, then they will discuss these, try to answer questions, and apply strategies to solve problems.
The format of the course will be as interactive and participatory as possible, with the help of screened slides in order to explain important facts and/or concepts.
The key to success in this course is weekly preparation and review of the class content, and active participation during class discussion and group works, in order to build a common knowledge about the history of France in a global perspective.

あり / Yes

なし / No

授業形態/methods of teaching：対面/face to face

※各回の授業形態は予定です。教員の指示に従ってください。

1[対面/face to face]：Introduction

- Self-introductions
- Overview of the syllabus
- Introduction of the course: "Early stirrings in one corner of the World"

2[対面/face to face]：From one Empire to another

- Romans like the rest
- The Franks choose Paris as their capital
- Africa knocks at the Franks' door

3[対面/face to face]：The feudal order triumphs

- When languages did not make kingdoms
- Normans in the four corners of the World
- Troyes, a Talmudic capital

4[対面/face to face]：France expands

- The two Europes, and the France of Bouvines
- Universitas: the "French model"
- Saint Louis is born in Carthage

5[対面/face to face]：The great Monarchy of the West

- An image of the World in a library
- An enslaved black man in Pamiers
- Jacques Cartier and the new lands
- The Empire of the French language

6[対面/face to face]：Absolute power

- Spain cedes supremacy and cocoa to France
- Versailles, capital of French Europe
- 1492, French-style?
- Siam: a missed opportunity

7[対面/face to face]：Enlightenment Nation

- A Kingdom for an Empire
- The World's a conversation
- The Global Revolution
- Plantations in Revolution

8[対面/face to face]：A homeland for a universal Revolution

- Many nations under one code of law
- Utopian year
- Paris, Revolution ground zero
- Penal colonization

9[対面/face to face]：Globalization in the French style (1)

- The other free trade country
- The inauguration of the Suez canal
- Local revolution, global myth

10[対面/face to face]：Globalization in the French style (2)

- Measuring the world
- Dreyfus, a European affair
- France hosts the World

11[対面/face to face]：Modernizing in troubled times (1)

- The view from New Caledonia
- Two World-changing conferences
- Naturalizing

12[対面/face to face]：Modernizing in troubled times (2)

- Empire at the gates of Paris
- A French New Deal
- Reinventing feminism
- The end of the federalist dream and the invention of Françafrique

13[対面/face to face]：Leaving the colonial empire, entering Europe

- "The wretched of the Earth": mourn Frantz Fanon
- "A specter haunts the planet"
- The other 9/11
- Socialism and globalization

14[対面/face to face]：Today in France

- France and multiculturalism: "Black-Blanc-Beur"
- "This message comes to you from an old country"
- The return of the flag

Students are required to read all the assignments (given in advance) and be ready for class discussions, group activities and presentations in class.
University guidelines suggest preparation and review should be around two hours a week for a two-credit course like this one.

There is no textbook to be bought for this class.
However, reading and viewing assignments will be made available in the reserve section of the library and/or uploaded to the course website on Hoppii (student information management system).

France in the World - A New Global History, edited by Patrick Boucheron and Stéphane Gerson, Other Press, 2019.

50% - Attendance, class participation, short tests (in class)
30% - Homework, "preparation sheets"m etc. (at home)
20% - Final group presentation or report or final exam (depending on the number of enrolled students)

Based on the grading criteria set by the instructor, students that successfully achieve 60% or more of course goals will be able to earn a passing grade for the course.
* Regular attendance is essential in order to benefit from the interactive nature of this course. Therefore, you will not be able to pass this course if you miss more than three classes. Moreover, full score for regular attendance is only given to those students attending all classes. Each absence will result in a 10% lowering of your final grade. If you are absent for any reason, you must contact the lecturer through e-mail and explain.

n/a (First time the instructor is teaching this course.)

- The course will be given in English, therefore students are expected to have a basic knowledge of English at university level. But perfect English is NOT required to take this class (the lecturer does not use himself a perfect English). The will to develop your English skills and an interest in history and historical texts is also expected. When necessary, additional explanations (e.g. difficult terms) may be given in Japanese or other languages.
- Students being late more than 15 minutes for no valid reason will be counted as being absent!
- Depending on the number of enrolled students and on the rhythm of the class, the above schedule is subject to change.
- Please refrain from private conversations during class, but feel free to ask any questions you may have.