France

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.

This course examines current environmental and climate change movements in Europe and the United States, including their background and their significance. At the same time, it utilizes these movements as a lens to understand the politics of climate change and social movements more generally. Specifically, this course investigates the main political ideas driving environmental and climate activism; analyzes the main features, forms, developments, and challenges of environmental and climate activism; discerns their impact and relevance in sustainability politics today; and introduces an understanding of social movements as key drivers of social change. The course provides a thorough understanding of climate and environmental activism: its origins, pathways, and diversity, as well as its relevance for sustainability politics in general. Through an interdisciplinary approach that draws on research and theories of social movement studies and environmental politics from several of the social sciences, there is an empirical focus on Europe and the United States, as well as links with other continents and global politics.

This course focuses on the early centuries of both Islam and Christianity which involved an intensive confrontation with Greek philosophy and often led to the emergence of rival sects and theological schools. The first part of this course covers the history of the emergence of these different approaches and the philosophy and theology implied by each, with a special focus on the branches of Islam. The second part of the course traces the history of these branches up to the present day, looking at them particularly in light of the advent of liberalism in the West with its separation of the public and private spheres; the cultural dynamics that emerged from colonialism, imperialism, and also decolonization; and finally, globalization and the resurgence of political theologies that seem to reject the modern idea of the nation-state.