French

This course improves conversational French at some of the highest levels of French grammar, such as the subjective, conditional, and simple forms. Grammar worksheets, in-class videos, debates, and class discussions are used to improve oral and reading comprehension to reach proficiency goals and prepare for language competency certification at the B2/C1 level.

This course is designed for beginners in the French language (i.e. no prerequisites or prior knowledge are needed). The content of this course consists of the basics of French taught through interactive listening, speaking and reading tasks. At the end of the course, students will be prepared for French A2 according to CEFR standards.

This course covers economic strategy and management in a business context. It also addresses theory of economics in the perspective of business management.

This course studies how art and culture exist in France. It examines the various aspects, institutions, and movements that make up art and culture from an anthropological and sociological point of view.

This course examines the fundamentals of French contemporary civilization. Topics include the functions of French society, such as the state organization, educational system, press and media, and demographics. Students are required to keep a diary in French and complete a 10-page written report on one of the following topics: political and administrative institution, economy, architecture, history, tourism, or gastronomy.

This course studies and analyzes anthropological aspects of the modern world, including sports, video games, movies, and social media, among others. From an ethnographic point of view, it examines how these aspects manifest themselves in the world both culturally and socially.

This course explores the literary and artistic foundations that contribute to the construction of the cultural space and the politics we inhabit. It examines how sources are managed, interpreted, and renewed over time; the architecture and art they inspired; and how they have been adapted to the religious and political installation of Christianity; all of which have informed our unique identity today. The French model is at the center of these lineaments of cultural anthropology. The artistic representations (literary, pictorial, architectural) that endure over time reveal how people in the Middle Ages viewed the world and will influence the identity of future European nations over time.

The course presents the major questions and themes around which the social sciences have built a view of psychiatry and mental health. It discusses mental illnesses and societies, including the history of mental illness in our societies, the link between mental illnesses and social dynamics, and social distribution of mental illnesses and disorders. The course then reviews the sociology of mental illness and the mentally ill, including the experience of the illness, social and political treatment of the sick, and social mobilization around the illness. It explores new epidemics of mental health disorders (Autism, ADHD, depression, stress), the role of diagnostic tools and pharmaceutical laboratories, and social demand for mental health. The course then covers the sociology of psychoanalysis (theories, market, public, professional trajectories); asylum, coercion, and consent (organization, confinement, patient rights, ethics); and the political uses of psychiatry in a totalitarian situation (Soviet Russia, control of slaves, elimination of dissidents).

This course explores French language through the medium of the radio. It discusses the various types of podcasts and examines the forms that these can take. Students write scripts which are then made into a podcast for the final project. The course provides an opportunity to learn and use sound and podcast software.

This course focuses on the climate crisis and, more broadly, the ecological issues, environmental struggles, and social movements that participate in it. It studies how sociology has taken hold of ecological problems (subjects, issues, methodologies), notions and concepts (risks, Anthropocene, transition/transformation, environmental inequalities, justice), and theoretical frameworks to identify the postures (scientific, ethical, committed, neutral) endorsed by sociologists. The course first reinscribes these current dynamics of mobilizations and research in a double chronology: that of environmental struggles and that of the constitution of a sociological field dedicated to the environment. It then considers recent works on environmental policies and controversies relating to industrial and agricultural pollution to illustrate scientific results and actions that sociological approaches can produce on issues of environmental justice.