French

The course examines a firm's core management activities in an international context, including various stages of production, purchasing, marketing, as well as cost analysis and budgeting.

French 50 is the 11-day practicum portion of the fall program in Paris. The practicum is an intensive grammar course intended to immerse students in French language and culture and to equip them with practical skills for their semester of study and living in Paris. This 11-day course includes three-hour daily class instruction alongside a series of four afternoon excursions to introduce students to both historical and practical aspects of the city. While students learn how to speak the language, they continue their introduction to the culture of the French-speaking world. To immerse students in the language, only French is spoken in class. Although students are not expected to understand every word, they should try to follow the gist by paying attention to the context. Students find their comprehension increasing as the course progresses. The practicum sections are organized by the course levels students have been assigned for their fall semester program. In addition to the objectives stated here, the practicum introduces the preliminary material and prepares students for their semester French language course.

French, as well as international, political life is built on quantitative data which is supposed to guide public action. This workshop proposes to familiarize students with the practice of quantitative analysis. This shows the advantages, but also the traps, inherent with quantitative analysis in public action. The students learn to collect and analyze data. Learning outcomes: to build a quantitative database and perform analyses. The course stresses reflection in the use of statistics and favors the growth of a citizen-based analysis of the data and its use.

This course examines international politics and institutions between the United States, France, and Europe since 1945. Current events are analyzed in relation to this political history.

Arabic Level Three: Fourth Semester Arabic- Fall B2. At the end of this level, students have acquired the following within comprehension skills: Listening comprehension, can understand announcements and everyday messages spoken at a normal speed; a good part of what is said in a long conversation; an animated conversation between native speakers; the main ideas of a television or radio program, a documentary, identify the point of view and the mood of the speaker, the main ideas of a relatively complex presentation provided that the topic is fairly familiar to me and the outline of the presentation is indicated by explicit markers, and elements of a discussion in dialectal Arabic; Reading comprehension: can understand relatively complex texts, written in modern language (press, literature, other) with the help of a dictionary, sensitive to the difference in the register of language between texts or linguistic situations of a different nature: press reports/analytical articles; an economic / literary topic; a conversation between students / television debate between politicians, etc.; spoken expression: can communicate and interact, despite hesitation and mistakes by participating in relatively long conversations with native speakers, by stating point of view and feelings, by interviewing a person or by being interviewed, by having a simple discussion in dialect, can produce a clear and well-argued presentation, a clear and detailed description on a known subject, the narrative of a story or of an event in a more detailed and elaborate way than at the previous level, expressing feelings or a personal opinion, elementary statements for practical needs in dialectal Arabic; written expression, can write summaries (text, information, film, presentation), detailed texts on subjects related to my interests, giving the reasons for or against a particular opinion, a synthesis of various documents dealing with the same subject. Also covered are syntax (conditional sentences, exceptive sentences, exclamatory sentences), and morphology (The jussive [al-majzûm], the imperative, assimilated verbs [al-mithâl], final weak defective verbs [al-nâqis], doubled verbs [al-muda‘‘af / al-'asamm], diptotes). Other concepts in syntax and in morphology are studied in context, according to the teaching materials used. The aim is not to study Arabic grammar in a systematic and exhaustive manner, but rather to clarify certain points according to needs.

This course studies the factors that influence the language a person uses, such as gender, age, ethnicity, social class, level of education, and emotion. Perhaps most importantly, it examines how these qualities can change over time and how these changes affect the dialect of a person. The course identifies the following: codes and styles of language; the social system and sub-groups in relation to these codes; variations of social codes and theIR sociolinguistic effects. In doing so, students better understand worldwide societies through language, and even more so, how language shapes societies.

This is the tutorial for PSY 121. The course is divided into three segments. The first segment is a discussion of the psychology and clinical psychology professions. The second segment explores approaches to clinical psychology. The third segment studies theoretical contributions to methods for observing the psychic apparatus and the construction of the psyche from individual experiences.

This course helps students understand the history of international relations in Asia, the issues central to Asian policies, and the historical foundations of current issues in Asia, such as historical controversies, territorial representations of the “other”, and conflicts between Asian nationalities. Emphasis in this course is place on East Asia and the course covers the origins of the two World Wars, the Second World War, the history of decolonization, communism, nuclear war, and the post-Cold War.