French

French Beginners is a French task-based language course for students with no knowledge of the French language. This course involves sets of grammatical, lexical, and phonological items. Communicative tasks are used to develop speaking, reading, listening, and writing skills. An important aspect of the course is the culture knowledge of French and other French-speaking countries. The French language course for beginners aims at the A1/A2 level of the Common European Framework (CEFR). By the end of this course, students are able to: understand and use familiar everyday expressions and basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type; introduce him/herself and others and can ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, people he/she knows, and things he/she has; can interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.

This course focuses on contemporary art and architecture. Students examine the historical and cultural background of the contemporary art movement in the United States in the 1960s and discuss artworks and artists from this period as well. The course examines the relationships between visual arts, historicity, and issues both at the aesthetic as well as the socio-political level in order to revisit a history of contemporary art of the 20th century structured according to a succession of movements. It observes the distinctions that exist between West Coast art and East Coast art in the United States.

This course is a practical workshop where students create a methodological reading grid to allow them to decode with certainty what news is factual and what can sometimes be used for propaganda purposes. The course covers how to review images, sources, publication dates, itineraries, virality, and context to authenticate the veracity of content.