UPS - Kelley

University of
Puget Sound

French

Diane Kelley
Assistant Professor, Foreign Languages and Literature (French)
dkelley@ups.edu

Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century French Literature

Date Awareded: Spring 2001

URL:
Seventeenth-Century France: www.ups.edu/faculty/dkelley/17e
Eighteenth-Century France: www.ups.edu/faculty/dkelley/18e (to be developed over course of the semester)

Project Description:
Course release to support a web project for use with a course on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature. This course will take a cultural approach to literature. The websites will enable students to contextualize the works they read so as to better understand their historical significance. Some of the web materials will be student-generated. These websites will also become valuable resources for courses on French Culture and Civilization. This project builds upon a week of intensive work begun at Middlebury College.

Self-Assessment: Objective and Outcomes review
This is the first significant web project that I have undertaken, and it has been both fun and time-consuming. I greatly appreciate the student technical support made available to use through the Mellon Foundation grants - it has been invaluable to me. In addition to creating marvelously creative websites to which I have been adding the content, the talented student techies have also begun to teach me to manipulate Flash 5, which is integral to the development of my site. Pedagogically, I have yet to see just how students react to the integration of the sites into a literature class as the semester has just begun. So far, the students have responded favorably, but they have had only a little contact with it, since it is only the 2nd week of the semester. I do predict that it will be useful, and allow students to follow their interests as they get lost in the maze and learn about the colorful personalities and themes that decorated early modern France.