French

This course discusses the relationship between text, art, and the nature of the Renaissance. This course demonstrates how, in the 16th century, literature dictated the representation of space and the natural elements.

This course deals with the internal and external history of French. It examines how Latin was transformed to give birth to French and the deep grammatical characteristics that distinguish the two languages. The course also focuses on the survival of Latin as an intellectual language and the competition between Latin and French, particularly during the Renaissance. The history of spelling is also covered.

This course explores the films made during, in between, and immediately after the two world wars. Specifically, it discusses how film can be used as a tool to better understand the wars, and how they were viewed, refuted, or supported by people at that time. It explores what is propaganda and how it is manifested in different ways. Specifically this course concerns the world wars in Europe. 

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.