French

This is a tutorial course for the course FRENCH LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY. This course provides a broad overview of modern French society in the 21st century. In each session, a different French song or aspect of French civilization is discussed followed by a presentation. The topics of the presentation are: ecology in France; media in France; political parties in France; press in France; cinema in France; French literature; languages in France; immigration in France and more. 

Through examples of natural resources (minerals, oil, water, and rare earths) this course assesses the current situation of these resources at the quantitative level. It demonstrates various and often competing uses of these resources by our societies, and the current quantitative and qualitative problems in different regions of the world. The course investigates the tensions (past, present, future) that exist around these resources due to their distribution in relation to need, and sometimes due to their scarcity. It highlights the complexity of managing these resources, as will the complexity of the solutions to be implemented.

This course is the tutorial for FR 126. It is a study of poetry with an emphasis on poetic structures and their evolution to strengthen skills in line-by-line textual analysis. The course focuses on sonnets and studies the authors Louise Losé and Rimbaud.

This course examines the distribution of land and people across Latin America in the context of the continent's natural geography. It explores the impact of the location of major cities, industrialization, urbanization, rural development, social inequality, and globalization. The course pays special attention to the possibility of the diplomatic and economic integration of the Latin American world. Methodologies are interdisciplinary, with concepts and techniques drawn from sociology, geography, anthropology, and history.

This course focuses on intensive instruction in written and oral French. The oral part of the course studies pronunciation, vocabulary, and simple sentence structure. Written work includes grammatical basics, syntax, and spelling. The course includes regular exercises to train comprehension and expression.

This course covers the concept of law and its sources, purpose, modes of approach, and methods of interpreting legal texts. It also discusses the theories of legal argumentation, the role of logic in law, and the major theories of legal positivism and American realism.