French

This course studies theoretical texts regarding communication and media from a sociological standpoint. The course takes both a theoretical and methodological approach to analyzing communication and media.

This course examines the relationship with history using a perpetual round-trip between modern times and its challenges. Modern representations are based on numerous Greek and Roman categories, but the terms "democracy" and "republic,” and the historical relationship with the body, sexuality, religion, and the environment, have been used with various means to an end, depending on immediate news or justification of interests with certain groups. Historical figures have thus become hostages in a world looking for landmarks. Using historical documents (texts, images, films, series) and contemporary sources, this course begins with current problems (the pandemic, democracy in crisis, the refugee issue, the #Metoo movement) to examine their supposed relationship with the antique world, before moving towards a critical reading of the habits we now have that existed during ancient times.

This is a second level beginning French course that covers oral comprehension, grammatical structure, reading, writing, and pronunciation. Students actively engage in conversations in French to gain access to the level of fluency that is spoken among the French population.

This course focuses on the general economic structure of cinema and the audiovisual industry in France. It includes an overview of the production of cinematic film, the CNC (National Center for Cinema and Moving Images), and the financing and distribution of films. The course includes industry professionals as guest speakers.

This course focuses on the geography and impact of the Mediterranean sea on its surrounding countries. It examines the environmental and geopolitical impacts of the Mediterranean.

This course explores the major questions raised by the ambition of today's literature to render justice, as well as the risks of public and even legal contestation to which it is exposed. By browsing works that have given rise to a public debate, scandal, or even lawsuit, and exposing the terms of the controversy and its stakes (the difference between fiction and testimony, the rights of the characters in the face of romantic or family settling of accounts, the limits of the representable, the debates on cultural appropriation, the traumatic risks of reading, the search for transgression, new forms of censorship, etc.), this course introduces contemporary literature in its liveliest and most political form. It also returns to major societal issues (the rise of populism, social crises, the Me Too affair, contemporary family recompositions, debates on postcolonialism, racialism, etc.) from an original angle: that of the story of fiction.