French

This course offers a chronological presentation of French literature from the 19th through the 20th centuries. It focuses on genres, major works, and authors, grounding them in significant events in French history.

This course represents additional work for the course FR 101A, FRENCH CIVILIZATION. This course studies key aspects of contemporary French culture and civilization. The course covers topics that are pertinent to the functions of French society such as state organization, the educational system, the press and media, and demographics.

This course provides knowledge of the chemical composition of wine and its evolution to master enological practices and wine treatments. It covers enological treatments, practices, and products; disorders and deposits; filtration and stabilization techniques; wine transfer and processes; and preparation and treatment before filling and bottling. The course includes a practical component regarding filtration and stabilization. 

This course deals with the French political and administrative system: the different local and national public institutions; relationships between the state and local authorities; and the democratic issue. It presents the various institutions involved: the European Union, states, regions, departments, inter-communalities, and municipalities. Its also explains the overall functioning of this system: role of the central state and the European Union, relations between local authorities, public-private cooperations. Finally, it introduces the main topics and issues which have been explored in recent years in the field of academic research about the French political and administrative system.

This course focuses on analyzing 19th century poetry from authors such as Emily Dickenson and Henry David Thoreau.

This course focuses on mental processes such as memory, problem solving, and decision making. It discusses the ideas and experiments of major psychologists who studied cognition, such as Ivan Pavlov and Albert Bandera. The main focus of the course is learning about cognition and internal mental processes. It studies the birth of scientific psychology, behavorism to cognitivism, memory, and metacognition.

This course focuses on writing that addresses places of memory by transfiguring them into "happiness machines," recycling the poetics deployed in the works of the program, which become literally a way of reintroducing into a new cycle fragments saved from oblivion in order to achieve a renewed perception of the world.

This course covers the history of fashion from antiquity to the present day, since its first expressions in ancient times to its latest contemporary evolution. Through the study of fashion trends, clothing manufacturers, and critical commentary, the course analyzes the evolution of masculine and feminine silhouettes, as well as the links between the textile economy, clothing design, and the materials used to make clothing. These studies are based on emblematic visual and material objects to identify tools for describing the history of fashion and its obsessions. Each session revolves around one chronomatic issue in order to retell the history of clothing, silhouette, and the culture of fashion.

This course is specialized for international students. It studies basic texts of French and francophone literature, with a particular focus on the different styles used and topics approached. The course also discusses French history and how it is reflected in an authors' writing.

This course provides a historical, financial, political, and institutional overview of international financial architecture. The first part of the course reviews the progressive construction of the multilateral system over the last few centuries, with a specific focus on the main UN organizations, the Bretton Woods institutions, and multilateral development banks. In the second part, the course focuses on the limits of the current architecture in the face of the multiplicity of new global challenges (the fight against poverty and inequality, global warming and the protection of biodiversity, food and energy security, the response to pandemics). The course concludes with a reflection on possible ways forward for the current architecture, in an increasingly volatile economic, financial, and geopolitical context.