A great and easy GE to take! The professor is the best lecturer I've had- the lectures always feel very well prepared and fluid. Professor Brozgal also very genuinely cares about her students and is very kind and approachable! Homework is 1-2 movies per week to watch at home and some readings, so about 3-5 ish hours of hw every week. There's a course reader you can buy for the readings, but all the readings are also online for free (as are the films) so there's no real need. Grade was based on a midterm and a final that were both worth 30%, two essays both worth 10%, participation (basically going to discussion) worth 10%, and a five minute presentation you have to do for your discussion worth 10%. The midterm and final are both taken online over the weekend and the questions are pretty easy if you've watched all the movies/read the important readings. Attendance is only taken for discussion, and all the lectures are bruincasted in case you miss one. If you're interested in French culture or cinema at all, I highly recommend this class! It's very easy to get an A as long as you put some effort into the class.

This is a pretty straightforward class with a really wonderful set of films chosen by Professor Brozgal that really exemplify the themes found in French cinema. It's also not a particularly difficult course although the grading depends solely on your TA, I was really fortunate to get Connor, who is amazing and really helped me out with my essay writing. 9/10 great GE to take.

Dr. Brozgal really cares about her students and the material she puts forth, as well as her clear, well thought-out lectures show this. The class is broken into movie viewings (which you can watch on your own on CCLE, later, so missing class isn't a huge issue), and then a lecture in which she expands on the topics in the film and the readings (this lecture is super helpful to go to). There are discussion sections once a week, where participation is taken into consideration. The workload is very manageable and the grading for the two essays seemed reasonable. Definitely would take again, as I learned a lot about film and led me to consider lots of racial questions in the context of France and the U.S. Great class overall.

I loved this class! The class format is a movie in lecture on Tuesday, a lecture on the movie on Thursday, and section on Friday. The class focuses on film as a way of understanding culture, and the lectures are more focused on French culture, although there is some discussion of film terms and techniques. The specific focus is on the French understanding of race, which I found super interesting. The professor is amazing, super nice and accessible, and a very clear lecturer. The readings were generally pretty short and easy but interesting, and the two essays for the course were short and easy. The class has a midterm and a final, but both are online, multiple choice, 50 questions, and really easy, and the final isn't cumulative. I would definitely recommend this class for a GE or the French minor. Connor was a great TA and was super helpful.

Professor Brozgal and the TAs for this class are really amazing! I had Connor and he was so helpful and would help me on the essays ( there are two and I got a 95 and 97). One thing about this class that I wasn’t fond of was that I thought the midterm and final were a little too tricky and too specific. Besides that, the class wasn’t bad at all and Connor was seriously an angel! So helpful and so dedicated to helping students!!! Would definitely take this class again if I could! Easy GE but expect the midterm and final to be a tad tricky! Don’t just not study for them even though they are just online.

Very entertaining class with amazing TA's! One of the best classes I've taken so far, very rare to have TA's and Professors who care so much about every single student! (Students in the class tend to be more on the try-hard side). Would recommend 10/10 for diversity GE.

FRENCH 141 was so easy and I loved it! Class mainly consisted of watching movies and going over them. The movies were good, thought-provoking movies and had English subtitles (The Intouchables, La Haine, Chocolat, Pepe Le Moko, etc). Brozgal is very elegant and clear in her lectures, and was a very kind professor. The tests were multiple choice and a piece of cake, concerning basic movie plotlines, film techniques/terms, and analyses/themes that Brozgal made sure we knew. Section was not super hard either, but did require participation. Would highly recommend !

I thought Professor Brozgal was a very good professor, but the class itself was difficult with both multiple choice exams and 2 papers. I had Josh as my TA and he was a very difficult TA and didn't give many people in his sections A's on their papers

Professor Brozgal is amazing! She really cares about her students and it shows. The TA's we had were also very engaging and hosted study session that greatly helped for the midterm and final.

There's a course reader for the class, but she provides the articles on the CCLE website, so if you don't want to shell out $60 for some fancy binding, you can do without it and just print everything yourself (I did this by using up all my free printing at the LGBTQ center, SAC, and the Hill).

Word of advice though, if you were expecting a general French cinema class, this is not it. It is very race oriented, which at first I wasn't too thrilled about, but found it very relevant. Also French racial concepts and their perspective of "the other" is very interesting, which I'm glad I got to explore a little through this class. Some general cinema techniques were covered, and you're required to know them and explain them in your essays, but I would definitely say that race was a bigger aspect of the class (then again, it seemed like 1 TA was really into cinema, and the other was really into French culture, which I had, so that may be the reason for my perspective on this).

The midterm and final is online, and basically everything covered in lecture is fair game. The hardest part were the readings, which were a bit dense sometimes. In terms of it being on the test, just know the name, author, and general gist of it (it would be helpful to go to the professor or TA's if you don't get them).

Brozgal really is a fantastic lecturer, and very very eloquent, but sometimes her lectures got a bit boring, and I felt like she spent too much time trying to set up the "point", but not always hitting the point on it's head. Also, it was after lunch, so I often fell asleep LOL. But the good thing is that everything is podcasted and the movies are online. You could almost do everything by yourself, except that showing up to each lecture counted for your grade.

Overall, Professor Brozgal is really admirable, and this class really opened up a worldview that I personally, barely have any contact with. She also is very friendly, and it genuinely feels like she cares about each and every one of us, which is a rarity sometimes, and something I truly appreciated.

Professor Brozgal was amazing. She made great effort to make the class feel smaller than it was. She tried to learn everyone's name and often gave us time to discuss concepts and topics during lecture. It was a very open environment.

The class grade was broken down into a midterm, 2 response papers, discussion participation/discussion leading, and the final. Response papers are pretty easy, only 1000 words each. The midterm and final were not difficult at all, especially if you went to the review hosted by the TAs where they basically reviewed every question without mentioning them outright. So not too hard to do well in the class.

On top of that the class if very interesting. It's all about race, colonialism, and culture and France, and is very eye-opening. We discussed a lot of interesting things in discussion and lecture and both were very engaging despite the lecture being 2 hours. Professor Brozgal is one of the most eloquent speakers I've heard in my life, I could listen to her talk about anything for days.

Despite how enjoyable this class was in almost all it's aspects (discussion, easiness of work, good/though-provoking films, learning about film techniques for the first time in depth, and the lectures) there were a lot of, I guess to put it as best as I can, pretentious students in the class. It could make discussions in lecture and sometimes discussion uncomfortable. I'm not sure what it was about the class, maybe it was just that quarter. Just beware that's the experience I had with the other students. A lot of them were very nice and brought up amazing discussion points though, so don't let that deter you! Overall a really good GE and a good class to fulfill the Diversity requirement with!