French

This course discovers dance works to expand students' body of references. It trains the eye by examining different cases (and repeating the experience); mobilizes concepts and tools to think about the notion of dance works; allows students to be creative in the practice of analysis; prepares students to situate their point of view, explain their analytical tools, and clarify their approaches. The course methodological principles include investigation, experimentation, and analysis of practice. The corpus of works studied in class include Nijinsky's THE RITE OF SPRING (1913) about choreographic writing; Boris Charmatz's LA LEVÉE DES CONFLITS (2010) on question of interpretation; Mickaël Phelippeau's NUMÈRO D'OBJET (2011) on the notion of spectacular dispositif; Steve Paxton's CONTACT IMPROVISATION (from 1972 to the present) on kinesthetic empathy; Odile Duboc's PROJET DE LA MATIÈRE (1993) on the creative process; and Jean-Claude Pinault's LE DEFI DE LA MATIÈRE (2000) on the concept of the “matter” of the work.

Since the 1980s, Lyon has undergone major transformations aimed at adapting to the context of globalization. Becoming a European metropolis has become the common thread that gives meaning to public interventions in the urban space. What are the results of these public policies? Has Lyon become a European metropolis? After an introduction in the classroom, the teaching takes the form of urban walks in the neighborhoods most marked by these changes. Students learn to read the cityscapes of a large European city, identify the actors of the production of urban spaces, and understand the typology of metropolitan areas.

This course introduces the fundamental equations of perfect and Newtonian fluid mechanics within the framework of continuum mechanics. It covers fluid kinematics and deformation, followed by the dynamics of ideal and viscous fluids through the Euler and Navier–Stokes equations. The course also provides an introduction to dimensional analysis and concludes with the Saint‑Venant equations and related analogies, highlighting applications to real fluid flows.

This course focuses on the general culture of artificial intelligence. It teaches the basics of logic for asking and resolving complex problems, obtaining knowledge, using that knowledge, through applying intelligent systems (chat bots, moving through the system), applying and building upon knowledge. It includes an introduction to AI coding.

This thematic course is designed for complete beginners at Pre-A1 level. It covers grammar and vocabulary in French through games and fun activities that are designed to be progressive.

This course explores the psychological foundations of risk‑taking behaviors and violent conduct from a clinical and psycho-pathological perspective. It examines the psychological, social, and developmental determinants of these behaviors, as well as the main conceptual frameworks used to analyze them.

This course focuses on the major issues raised by the literature of the so-called “classical” period, a time that saw the invention of the principles of modern science (Descartes) and the establishment of the French language, with the first grammar and dictionaries of the vernacular developed within the Académie française. It examines the material and sociopolitical conditions of the development of cultural and intellectual life during this period, and studies its transformations, with the growing openness to new authors, including female authors, and to new audiences, with the publication of the first literary journals. Works studied: Pierre Corneille’s LE CID; Molière’s LES FEMMES SAVANTES; Antoinette Deshoulières’s POÉSIES; Racine’s PHÈDRE; Madeleine de Scudéry’s ARTAMÈNE OU LE GRAND CYRUS.

This course covers the issues surrounding public policy on internal security in France, at a time when these questions are at the heart of public debate. It introduces the often overlooked actors responsible for implementing these public policies, as well as their diverse and complex missions and the challenges they face today—and those that await them tomorrow.

This theoretical course is dedicated to the relationships between the concepts of indigenismo, indianismo, colonialism, coloniality, and decoloniality in recent Latin American cinema. It studies decolonial cinematographic aesthetics and practices based on the work of Jorge Sanjinés and other filmmakers representative of these movements

This course offers a chronological overview—from the Enlightenment to the Dreyfus Affair, from May 1968 to contemporary “culture wars”—and addresses the dynamics of the French intellectual, scientific, and artistic fields, the relationships between religion and science, between science and ideologies, sociology and the commitments of intellectuals and artists, the metabolism of intellectual debates—from publishers to the media and social networks. It covers various areas of intellectual history (history of intellectuals, political ideas—liberalism, Marxism, etc., theoretical bodies of work—positivism, structuralism, post-structuralism, etc., and artistic productions), in light of new approaches in the humanities and social sciences (social history of ideas, sociology of intellectuals, Science Studies, gender, transnational history). Precise knowledge of the French political and intellectual context are required.