France

This course provides an overview of the fundamental works of British and American literature. It provides an opportunity to read and reread texts and analyze and argue both orally and in writing. The course includes reading and discussing two assigned works: William Shakespeare, TWELFTH NIGHT; and Vladimir Nabokov, PNIN.

This course covers Europe's foreign and security policies since the end of the Cold War with a focus on political, strategic, and foreign policy challenges. It combines historic understanding and political analyses of the main challenges faced by the European Union and clarifies several concepts such as European diplomacy, Europe's grand strategy, EU hard versus EU soft power, the EU in its regional dimension, and the EU in a multipolar world.

This course examines French society through the lens of social justice in three main areas: economic, social, and political. Through various authentic materials and linguistic activities, it introduces the main French historical, administrative, social, and political foundations to facilitate the understanding of the themes presented in this course and better decipher the national and local reality. Guest speakers include experts and actors in these areas.

This course studies the history of civilization in the United Kingdom. The first part of the course examines the development of British politics, society, and empire. It discusses the Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 which paved the way for parliamentary monarchy; political life (parties, elections) and the political and social integration of Scotland into Great Britain as important elements in the construction of British identity; and commercial growth and imperial expansion, in particular slavery and abolitionism (the movement against the slave trade) at the end of the century. The second part of the course studies various movements, tendencies, and artistic modes to analyze the question of representation of the nation and the empire. Topics include satirical engravings, caricatures, landscape paintings, war paintings, architectural elements, clothing, and musical works. It explores how the vision that the British had of their nation and their empire, from the 18th century to the 20th century, evolved within what can be called a "display culture."

This course focuses on the influence of Islam in Southeast Asia. It examines how Islam as a religion, and a political one at that, has played a role in the development of countries such as Indonesia, Birma, the Philippines, and Thailand.

This course critiques the popular narrative of "growth" and "development" globally. It reviews various criticisms of global growth with an emphasis on the most radical, considering whether infinite growth is desirable, in order to better understand the ecological, social, and political issues at stake.

This course introduces the current state of political economy. It discusses the theoretical models of voting, electoral competition, interest group politics, non-democratic politics, and political transition. The course provides an understanding of the main theoretical models and the recent empirical research testing these models.