France

This course focuses on the history of South Africa from 1948 and the institutionalization of Apartheid onward. It covers the National Party leaders as well as African National Congress leaders on the way to the fall of Apartheid. It discusses the various ways people fought against the regime as well as the lasting effects of Apartheid on South Africa today.

This course integrates a gender perspective in the studies of societies and politics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). It deploys an interdisciplinary approach and provides a gendered understanding of key issues and concepts such as nation and citizenship, family/kinship, social movements and civil society, violence and conflict. The course is based on two methods: (1) a theoretical framework setting the basis for gender studies in the MENA region; (2) an analysis of case studies and topical issues in order to understand the place of women and gender in the transformations of societies and political regimes in the MENA region.

This course introduces the sociological analysis of gender. It utilizes a gender perspective to systematically apply a gender lens to key topics in sociology. The first part of the course covers basic theoretical dimensions of gender, including the nature versus nurture debate, intersectionality, and various sociological perspectives on gender. The second part of the course examines social institutions (family, the educational system, the workplace, health) with a focus on gender inequalities and gender norms. 

This course focuses on the social, societal, and political issues of today's French society through song, cinema, press, questions of identity, secularism, and cultures in France.

From interpersonal violence to political violence, from sex crimes to organized crime, from the family sphere to the public arena, from “news stories” to historical trials, criminal justice reveals our societies, their obsessions, the norms and values that underpin them and evolve over time. Society protects itself by criminalizing deviance and transgression, and in the courtroom, the repulsive figures of this deviance are forged and assigned to the dock. In contemporary France, the legitimacy and symbolic force of the sanction, in terms of the law but also under the weight of representations, social expectations and media focus, are the subject of constant questioning, as the emergence of the victim figure tends to redefine the balance of penal interactions.

The computer graphics workshop allows students to have a real training in the use of creative tools in computer graphics. The course discusses the principles of modeling used to create objects, characters, and universes in 3D and their rendering in images. The objective is to be able to create a plastic universe by modeling objects in 3D.