France

This course introduces students to the field of cultural heritage diplomacy, including the meaning and positioning of culture, art, and heritage to the contemporary foreign policies of European member states, the European Union (European Parliament, European External Action Service, European Commission), the United States, and others. The course discusses several examples of cultural heritage diplomacy, including its practice in the Middle East and Central Asia. The course also explores the governance and international mobilization of heritage in the modern era and distinctions between heritage as diplomacy and in diplomacy in order to reframe ways in which heritage has played a role in nationalism, international relations, and globalization.

This course applies a gender perspective to different sociological objects and illustrates how this perspective can enrich our analysis of society. The course covers how sociology has integrated gender (or not) in the analysis of the family, education, labor markets, or politics. This is a general sociology course that addresses some of the key questions that interest sociologists while systematically applying a gender perspective to these questions. It also studies gender as a social category, discusses how it is produced and reproduced in society, and how it relates to social inequalities. This course provides a new perspective on some of the topics covered in introductory sociology classes, and it covers also some additional ones. Some previous background in sociology is recommended, but not required to follow the course.