Rich Watts will launch an Exploration Seminar in early Fall Quarter 2018 that mixes intensive French-language study at Laval with a course on language and cultural identity in Qu\u00e9bec. At Laval, Watts met with Rachel Sauv\u00e9, Director of the \u00c9cole de langues de l’Universit\u00e9 Laval and her colleague, Nicolas Diotte. \u00c9cole de langues offers French at a variety of levels and boasts of a staff of\u00a0animateurs\u00a0<\/i>(cultural guides) to help integrate UW students into school, cit, and provincial life. Qu\u00e9bec City also provides a wealth of cultural opportunities relevant to the program focus. It is home to the Mus\u00e9e de l\u2019Am\u00e9rique francophone and the Mus\u00e9e de la civilization, where an exhibit titled C\u2019est notre histoire: Premi\u00e8res Nations et Inuit du XXIe si\u00e8cle (It\u2019s Our History: First Nations and Inuit in the 21st Century) offered a compelling mix of anthropological objects and contemporary testimony in the form of text, video and visual art. This last exhibit speaks to the aim of Canadian Studies to offer the inflection of First Nations linguistic and cultural challenges in a context where the dominant language, French is itself understood to be a minority language. More details on the study abroad program in Qu\u00e9bec \u2013 a joint offering between French and Italian Studies and Canadian Studies \u2013 will be forthcoming once it is approved, likely in Winter 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rich Watts will launch an Exploration Seminar in early Fall Quarter 2018 that mixes intensive French-language study at Laval with a course on language and cultural identity in Qu\u00e9bec. At Laval, Watts met with Rachel Sauv\u00e9, Director of the \u00c9cole de langues de l’Universit\u00e9 Laval and her colleague, Nicolas Diotte. \u00c9cole de langues offers French<\/p>\n