1. CLASS SYLLABUS : Let’s go !

2. Chap 1 : media as the 4th Estate : Black power versus white power
Doc 1 > The working of the media institution
Video : “What happened to the news?”.
Local coverage versus big media networks
Media institution
Doc 2 > Media prejudices : news analysis
Video news : BBC news report on Saint-Denis
CNN’s “muslim 2005 riots” in suburbian Paris
Doc 4 > media-manufactured prejudices : Newsreel movement
Video : “Newsreel”, Paul Mac Isaac > Oral presentation
L.A 1945 riots
Rodney King riots
The Newsreel movement founded by Paul Mac Isaac
Doc 5 > Racial issue : Media-manufactured riots
Doc iconographique : L.A riots
Text : “The Merchants of Chaos”, Angel’s flight, Michael Connelly
Media-manufactured riots
L.A riots
Doc 6 > Media as the 4th Estate : Media-manufactured elections in the USA
Video news : “Obama under Fox attack”.
2012 US elections > news
Doc 7 > Black revolution versus white power
Song : “The Revolution Won’t be televised”, Gil Scott Heron > Oral presentation
White media
The Last Poets and the Black Revolution / Black Panthers

3. Chap 2 : Heroes of the Black Revolution : Power of speech
Doc 1 > Jim Crow laws and white power
Video : Rosa Park (Film The King)
Rosa Park : A hero standing against the law > Oral presentation
Racial Act (1954)
Doc 2 : From emancipation to KKK executions
Doc iconographique 1 : “Abolition of slavery”
Doc iconographique 2 : “necktie parties”
Long lasting myth of white supremacy > Oral presentation
KKK / WASP > White supremacy revisited > Oral presentation
Abolition of slavery > emancipation proclamation
The Jim Crow 1900’s hit music
Doc 3 > Standing against White supremacy
Text : Southern Trees, Lady sings the blues, Billy Holiday
Billy Holiday : a committed blues singer and a hero > Oral presentation
The roots of the blues > a black-American music > Oral presentation
“Separate but equal” doctrine
Malcom X ‘s speech on his name
Doc 4 : From Rosa Park to Obama : Heroes making history
Doc iconographique : “Making History”
Martin Luther King as the hero of the Civil rights
Obama as the 1st Black president : a mythical figure
From the outhouse to the White House
Obama as a Black president ? > Class interaction

4. Chap 2 : Heroes of the Black Revolution : power of speech
Doc 5 : From Martin Luther King to Obama : Luther King’s dream versus the American Dream
Video and text : Martin Luther King’s speech “I have a Dream” (1963)
Video and text : Obama’s inauguration speech “yes we can” > oral comprehension
March on Washington
Right to vote (1964)
The White House as a symbolic place of power
Founding myth of the American dream / the Founding Fathers
Martin Luther King as a civil rights leader > Oral presentation
Doc 6 : “From the outhouse to the White House” DM
Doc iconographique “From the outhouse to the White House”
Text “Inauguration speech” Obama
Obama’s election
Doc 7 : Black power and words as weapons
Song : “When the Revolution comes”, The Last Poets
Harlem Renaissance > Oral presentation
The first rappers and engaged singers

5. Chap 3 : Colonialism and imperialism  The British Empire : colonial spaces and conquests 
Doc 1 >The remains of the British Empire in India
Video : Gandhi (film)
The British empire / The commonwealth
Gandhi as a non-violent hero and nobel peace prize > Oral presentation
British conquest
War for independence in India
Doc 2 : Independence
Audio : Gandhi’s speech on religious belief
Buddhism
Submissiveness rooted in religion
Doc 2 > Insight on India (DM)
Doc iconographique : “All equal” > Oral presentation
The caste system
The Commonwealth and economic exchanges today
Doc 3 > Colonizers versus colonized : domination and submission
Text : “The Reception”
British colonizers and white supremacy
Submissiveness and power balance
Cultural and ideological conflicts

6. Chap 3 : Colonialism and imperialism  The British Empire : colonial spaces and conquests
Doc 4 > Nigerian revolution against British domination
Song : “Authority robber”, Fela Kuti
Black movement in Nigeria
Dictatorship
Fela Kuti : a hero and a scapegoat > Oral presentation
Doc 5 > Biafra’s independence
Nigeria versus Biafra
Civil war in Nigeria
Doc 6 > The remains of colonialism today in Britain
Text : “The refugee”, By the Sea, Abdul Razak Gurnah
Zanzibar
Immigration to the UK
Multiculturalism in Britain and cultural gaps

7. Chap 4 : Globalization and Glocalization Cultural gaps, world exchanges and disparities
Doc 1 > Big megamarketers as world powers
Doc iconographique : “Coca-cola’s global strategies” (Times)
History of the brand and branding strategies
Packaging and advertizing
marketing strategies
 Doc 2 > Marketing startegies
Video : “History of Coca-cola”
Marketing strategies > the 4 Ps
History of the product > oral presentation
Global startegies
Doc 3 > “Think global, think pepsi” (DM)
Text : “Coca-cola and Pepsi in India”
Glocalization > oral presentation
Marketing strategies
Cultural disparities
 Doc 4 > Think global : Americanizing the world
Text : “Coca-cola in Mexico” (Times)
Tradition versus modernity
Westernization
Cultural shifts and western values
Pros or cons globalization ? > class interaction
 Doc 5 > The big ones : Big America
Video : The Big Ones, Michael Moore (film)
The American bald eagle

8. Chap 5 : Science and ethics : dangers The end of the world : a myth ?
Doc 1 > Global warming
Doc iconographique : “An inconvenient truth” > movie poster
Global warming
Al Gore’s commitment
World divide
Pollution and greenhouse gaz
Natural disasters
Doc 2 > Mother Earth going wild
Text : The Mist, Stephen King
Civilization versus wilderness
Natural disasters and hurricanes in the USA
Global warming as a fiction ?
Political and scientific commitment > class debate
Sci-fi literary genre rooted in reality
Doc 3 > The end of the world : a fiction ?
Video : “The road” (movie trailer)
Mythical frontier civilization / wilderness
The end of civilization
Nuclear disaster
Survival of the fittest
William Blake : Songs of innocence / songs of experience
Doc 4 > The fall of man : man praying upon himself
Text : The Road, Cormac Mc Carthy
The myth of the Apocalypse
The descent into hell
The remains of civilization / wilderness
Back to nature

9. Chap 6 : New technologies and new utopias
Doc 1 > New technologies and social mutations
Video : The social network (movie trailer)
Facebook and other social networks
Marc Zuckerberg as a self-made-man and hero
Internet and social mutations
New means of communication
Ethics : private space and public space
Doc 2 > social mutations : the public eye
Text : “A self-made hero”, Times
Mark Zuckerberg as a self made man > oral presentation
The facebook company
Ethics and law suits
American Dream
Myth of the self made man in America
Doc 3 > “Big Brother is watching you” (DM)
Doc iconographique : “Facebook is watching you”
Facebook
Private and public spheres
Blogs and lobbies
Dissidence and opposition
Government control
Doc 4 > Big Brother’s government : a utopia ?
Text : 1984, George Orwell
Orwell as a visionary writer : “Big brother is watching you” > class debate
Sci-fi genre and utopia
Language as an instrument of power > newspeek

10. CHECK-UP TIME ! Compréhension écrite : Expression écrite :
1 à 3 documents écrits pouvant relever de différents genres (extraits œuvres littéraires, articles de presse) et renvoient à des notions du programme.
Expression écrite :
Rédiger un ou plusieurs textes construits à partir des indications données et en prenant appui sur des faits ou des prises de positions identifiées dans les documents écrits.
Compréhension orale :
Document audio ou vidéo lié à une des notions du programme d’1m30 > 3 écoutes
10 min pour restitution écrite en français
Expression orale :
10 min de préparation
5 min de prise de parole en continu autour de la notion du programme présentée .
5 min de conversation en interaction.