France

This course focuses on intensive instruction in written and oral French. The oral part of the course studies pronunciation, vocabulary, and simple sentence structure. Written work includes grammatical basics, syntax, and spelling. The course includes regular exercises to train comprehension and expression.

This course covers the concept of law and its sources, purpose, modes of approach, and methods of interpreting legal texts. It also discusses the theories of legal argumentation, the role of logic in law, and the major theories of legal positivism and American realism.

This course represents additional work for the course FR 129, LITERARY TEXTS. This course explores the difference between the language of literature and the language of general communication. The course examines these topics by conducting close textual analyses on nineteenth and twentieth century literary samples of poetry, novels, and theater.

This course covers the history of Islam in France. It explores the great influence of Islam and Islamic nations on the French language and terminology used in France and Francophone cultures as well as the diversity among nations within the Islamic culture and religion. The general focus of this course is the impact that Islam has had in France from long ago to today and how Islamic culture in France is largely underrepresented in French history.

This course introduces the appropriate use of specific terminology for ecology and provides an awareness and understanding of interactions between the environment and the living beings. It covers the initial approach of ecology and main ecological notions related to terrestrial and marine systems as well as animal and plant domains. Topics include ecology in history, ecological factors, structure and dynamics of populations, and community ecology and structure of ecosystems.

This course investigates why advanced democratic states of the Global North have seemingly been unwilling or unable to grapple with migration, and why their societies feel threatened by migrants despite their vast wealth, stability, and ostensible commitment to human rights. Given this overarching question, the course provides a broad understanding of contemporary developments with respect to international migration in democratic states. It introduces major debates surrounding migration at the domestic, regional, and international levels and offers frameworks for analyzing migration politics tied to foundational theoretical debates in comparative politics and international relations. It provides an opportunity to develop research, written argumentation, and public speaking skills.