France

This course introduces students to EU competition law. It examines agreements which may restrict competition such as cooperation agreements between competitors, vertical agreements, and cartels. It also examines abuses of dominant position and merger control regulations. Through each of these issues, the course provides an understanding of how EU competition law views the market and competitors. It also emphasize the central role of concepts such as market power, efficiency, and market entry. Finally, the course introduces students to the Digital Market Act.

This course provides a solid and global understanding of contemporary developments and challenges in the field of energy. It provides insight and overview to the particularities of the oil and gas industry, climate developments, renewables, the electricity sector, energy efficiency, and international energy affairs. Resource management in major producing countries is outlined. Energy economics and regulation is discussed both for renewable and non-renewable resources, for the environment and the prospects for a greener economy.

At a time of economic and health crises, structural unemployment and the densification of international labor flows, the forms of employment, and the work situations that result from them, are very heterogeneous. While the "Northern" countries largely exploit the labor force of the Southern countries, inequalities in employment and working conditions are also growing within each country. A large proportion of the workforce is vulnerable on the labor market, and subject to precarious employment that calls into question the most protective forms of employment. In Europe, for example, full-time salaried work on open-ended contracts is becoming less and less the norm, while new service jobs are flourishing, offering only very low paid working hours to workers. This course asks how we can explain the massification of low-quality jobs and work situations around the world. Students consider how the globalization of the labor market increases inequalities between workers. Prerequisites: Two years of Sociology coursework is recommended. A previous course of Sociology of Work is not especially required.

This translation course is taught at the second-year level. The course focuses on training students how to translate both the tone and grammar of Francophone and Anglophone literature and/or journalistic texts. Students first translate from English to French, and then from French to English. Students are given abstracts from English and French writers, mostly from the latter half of the twentieth century.

This course covers European economic integration including definitions, connections, stages, and political integration. The impact of economic integration is reviewed, taking into consideration trade and financial integration, through empirical evidence of the integration process in Europe. Also discussed is the Divergence/Convergence debate. Students are given an overview of the Economic and Monetary Union in Europe including its involvement in the Impossible Trinity Principle and the Theory of Optimal Currency Areas. Finally, the course covers macroeconomic principles in the EMU which includes governance in the EMU, monetary policy in the time of crisis, fiscal policies in the EMU and the exchange rate policy for the Euro.