France

This is a beginner level French language course for students who have previously completed one or two semesters of French. The course focuses on understanding commonly used vocabulary words and very frequent expressions concerning oneself, the family, and the concrete environment, provided that people speak slowly and distinctly. It covers common names and words as well as very simple sentences, for example those in advertisements, posters, and catalogs. The course builds skills to communicate in a simple way, ask and answer simple questions about familiar subjects or objects of immediate need, use expressions and simple sentences to describe where one lives and the people one knows; and write short, simple postcards and provide personal details on a questionnaire or hotel registration form. Topics include adjectives, possessive and demonstrative pronouns, recent past, past tense, and imperfect past; expressions of time, start, end, intervals, length, interrogative, imperative, present conditional, comparative and superlative, future, near, and simple.

Based on the most recent research, this class retraces the modern history of homosexuality in European and American societies since the late eighteenth century, not only as an individual and collective experience, but also as a medical and theoretical concept, and a social battlefield. The progression is roughly chronological but also focuses on specific issues such as the legal situation of homosexuals, the medical and psychological discourses on homosexuality, the common ground and differences between the history of male and female homosexuality, the role of art, literature, and urban life in shaping homosexual identity and subculture. The course considers how and why Western countries shifted from condemnation to acceptation, though past prejudice and stigma still interfere with the present.

This course studies the methodology of film analysis. It develops analysis skills by analyzing shots and sequences.

This introductory course in social psychology presents the methodological and theoretical issues of the discipline through the acquisition of historical, empirical, and analytical reference points. It explores major issues specific to contemporary societies, such as the formation of norms, social identity, and submission to authority. In particular, the course focuses on the phenomena known as “crowd psychology,” at the crossroads of individual and collective psychology. It explores the specific issues and reasoning in "crowd psychology" through authors, trends, and concrete experiences.

This course provides an overview of the diverse forms of private actors and their contributions to local policy making. It invites a critical discussion of the dynamics that public-private partnerships generate and the outcomes they produce. The course combines theory and empirical evidence from several countries to investigate the influence and intervention of private actors on institutional and economical policies and processes.

This workshop is for students at the C1/C2 level of French. It improves written, oral, listening, and text skills through studies of specific themes. The course looks first at traditional notions of culture and civilization, then redefines the new societal challenges which are crucial and omnipresent, looking at social and political events to analyze their trajectories in today's world. Students learn to understand critical texts, analyze societal questions, present on varying viewpoints, and debate on diverse subjects.