FAS 230/WST 235/WST501
Franco American/Women’s Studies:
Franco-American Women's Experiences
Online, Asynchronous course
Course Description: This course will examine the immigration experience and subsequent lifestyles of the present-day Franco-American woman and her cultural ancestors.Following their immigration from France to New France, Canada, and across the border into the United States, through reading of literature and discussion,the class participants will become informed of the historical and cultural implications for the women immigrants and the definition they impartedto the culture through their contributions from the 1600s to the present.These women braved the new worlds of the wilderness, farmlands and the industrial settings to help establish the French culture as we know it today on the North American continent. In addition, to the readings, this course will use film, slide presentations, guests lecturers, and music to examine the artifacts, crafts, rituals, folklore and more of the daily lives of the women following their ocean and border crossing as the route to discovering the meaning of their lives. 3 Credit Hours
Course Topics
• Les Filles des Roi, French Women of North America
• Nuns
• The Pioneers
• The Pioneers continued
• The Acadian Diaspora
• The Acadians, 'Cajuns, Return
• Les Québécoises
• Choices--Home, Mill, Office, or Nunnery...
• Work and Family
• Journalism
• The Farm Wife/Daughter/Maman/Mémère

To register, contact:
UMaine Continuing & Distance Education
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Instructor:
Rhea Côté Robbins, M.A.
WIC
Fernald Hall
University of Maine
Orono, Maine 04469
or
641 So. Main St.
Brewer, Maine 04412-2516
Rhea_Cote@umit.maine.edu
or
RJCR@aol.com
Phone: 207-989-7059
FAX: 207-989-7059