French

This course highlights the political and intellectual bases of the European project since the 19th century to better understand the current transformations.

This course provides an opportunity to listen to and analyze popular French and francophone songs of the 20th and 21st centuries while discovering French society and culture. It discusses the vocabulary and what the lyrics mean from the author's point of view.

This course is a workshop. Students work together to write a press article on subjects or events related to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries using the resources offered by RetroNews (newspapers, magazines) and Gallica (newspapers, magazines, and journals), two online sites belonging to the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF). Students gather and work on a corpus of articles to shed light on a specific historical subject or event, based on published historical research, while analyzing the political and social representations and discourse of the press of the period. Some student articles are then submitted to the RetroNews editorial team for publication.

This course covers the complete history of cinema. From the Lumière brothers through today, it discusses the full context of the history of cinema, including political climate.

This methodological workshop imparts basic reflexes when it comes to thematic cartography. The course focuses on a limited number of skills that are systematically addressed methodologically and then put into practice in subsequent sessions. This dual approach (methodological and practical) develops critical faculties when using, researching, making, and ordering maps, while considering the feasibility and practical difficulties underlying the construction of these images.

This course reflects on the history of the relationship between state, society, and Islam in the Ottoman and Turkish context from the 1750s to the 2020s. The course explores in detail such themes as Muslim reformism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries; Islam in the age of Ottoman reform; modernist and fundamentalist Islamism; pan-Islamism and Ottoman caliphate politics; the Young Turks and Islam; Islam in the secular republic; the question of female emancipation and Islam; plural Islam: Alevism and Sunnism; political Islam in the context of the Cold War; the seizure of power by political Islam and the Islamo-fascist dictatorship in power in Turkey since 2002.

This course reads and analyzes Francophone literature written by those of Black descent in order to understand terms like Afrofuturism and Afroprophetism to connect history with the present. The course examines the literary and narrative histories and structure of African and African-related works and considers how the narratives renew the view of Africa in a philosophical sense through literary works. Works studied include Leonara Miano's ROUGE IMPERATRICE, Abdourrahman Waberi's AUX ETATS UNIS D'AFRIQUE, and an anthology collected through a collective project.

This course is designed specifically for international students. It focuses on the history of France and its Presidents.

This course provides an overview of the biological mechanisms behind psychology. It covers such topics as: neuroanatomy, neuropharmacology, psychopharmacology, depression and its effects on the brain, neurobiology of the memory-emotion interaction, as well as clinical neurobiology of attachment. The course also provides an opportunity for hands-on experience with electrophysiological equipment.

This course represents additional work for the course FR 124, FRANCOPHONE CULTURE AND LITERATURE. This course offers an introduction to Francophone cultures by discovering a space of the Francophonie and its components (society, culture, language, history, geography). The work is done from the reading of a literary work in the program. Excerpts from the work are studied in class and illuminated by various documents such as videos, songs, texts, and authentic documents. In this course students discover a region of the Francophonie, learn about francophone literature, develop language skills through literary study, and study documents of various types and how to present them.