France

This course endorses an interdisciplinary approach to the various issues that Europe (as European Union and non-European Union) must address, combining traditional and critical security studies, politics, political sociology, media studies, and European studies. It considers whether, through crises, Europe not only builds policies but shapes its collective polity, as well as the risk of European collapse. It looks at key elements related to European unity and disunity to explore various crisis scenarios faced by the continent and create a place for students to exchange ideas about current affairs and the future of Europe. 

This course introduces the lawyer's profession practically and theoretically from an international perspective. The first part of the course explores the provisions governing the exercise of the lawyer's job in various legal systems, across multiple jurisdictions, and at the different levels of courts. The second part of the course focuses on the various manners to practice as a lawyer, from a comparative legal perspective, by studying the traditional missions of advising, representing, defending, and assisting clients in legal proceedings; as well as the lesser-known missions of negotiating, mediating, facilitating, and lobbying. The third part of the course explores the everyday practical reality of the profession of an international lawyer in several areas of law and across various industries and sectors, including the key concepts and technical issues related to the exercise of the legal profession in a disruptive post-Covid-19 world.

This course investigates how states and international actors have responded to new security challenges in response to the speed and scale of climate change, and how their different understandings of the climate-security nexus might shape global responses to climate change. It relies on an innovative theoretical approach spanning traditional security, human security, and existential security that helps to capture the complex dynamics of emerging approaches to dealing with security in the Anthropocene. By comparing how different framings of climate security impact various policy sectors, the course assesses the barriers and opportunities for addressing global climate security.

This course involves building a project using complex installation devices that fundamentally question plasticity, setting and space, and the place of the spectator in relation to the production. Students respond to a subject, incentive, problem, or theme through increasingly personal mediums, postures, gestures, and tools to situate this realization in the field of contemporary creation.

This course has two parts. The first part surveys some of the main stages in the evolution of the American horror film. Starting from its literary influences, it then focuses on its growth and relationship with the then budding television in the 1950s. It analyzes the role of the TV news and the Hays code in the 1960s. And, as it reaches the heydays of horror films in the 1970s (with the involvement of the New Hollywood in the field of horror), it eventually observes how the conventions of the genre have successfully spread into some of the best TV series at the turn of the century. The course provides a mix of theory and practice with the analysis of some scenes, echoing what will have been shown in the first part of the class. The study of these excerpts develop the ability to express skills for commenting on cinematographic works of art and provides an opportunity to write a short file on a film or a TV series. The second part of the course provides an introduction to the formal analysis of comics as a medium based on “sequential” images, to be distinguished from photography’s still images and film’s moving images. It is based on the analysis of various samples of primarily American comics by means of the interpretive grids presented by Scott McCloud’s UNDERSTANDING COMICS: THE INVISIBLE ART (1993), an introductive study of the comics medium presented as a book-length comic. 

This course provides a political analysis of the way in which citizens construct their voting choice, the game of political forces, their evolution, their reassembly, and the impact of institutions on the political system. The class touches on disciplines such as political science, law, history, and sociology to contextualize the political events that shake up and shook up political life under the fifth republic.