France

This course focuses on the question of public policy in education. It examines what it means to evaluate educational public policies and studies the large international actors in educational politics.

This course explores the right to truth from an interdisciplinary perspective. It critically engages with truth as a right in transitional justice scenarios, focusing on the exploration of the construction of truth through law and its relation to justice. Through the foundational tenets of memory, reconciliation, and punishment, the course enquires into the assumed exceptionality of the right to truth in transitions, examining if and how it operates in ordinary settings. Simultaneously, the course offers an overarching view of the consolidation of the right to truth in the framework of international human rights, and the specific obligations it entails for states. Drawing on a broad variety of cases of ongoing and past transitional justice processes in the Global South, the course fosters challenging and critical perspectives on the right to truth as a legal claim.

This course explores the intricate relationship between climate dynamics, economic systems, and sustainable policies that can be put in place (Global Perspectives, 2030 Agenda, Climate Agreements, Paris Agreement, EU Green Deal) to innovation and behavioral interventions. It provides an understanding of the climate and sustainability debate, and the economic concepts that form the basis for analyzing climate-related issues and actionable policies. It also develops the ability to analyze, interpret, and possibly contribute to the ongoing discourse on climate change.

This course discusses how social science is concerned with issues of environmental justice. It provides an opportunity to carry out a short survey through interviews and/or observations with actors involved in the organization of the Olympic Games in Paris and the environmental contestations to which this event gives rise. The course highlights inequalities of race, gender, and class, and the role of the state, the market, and certain professional groups in the construction of environmental problems. At the same time, the survey conducted provides a fresh perspective on the event.

This course introduces the broad questions of development economics, such as why some countries are poorer than others and why some people in some countries are poorer than others. It covers a broad range of issues, including education, health, gender, and environment. The course discusses different markets and their imperfections; for example, credit, insurance, labor, and land markets. It also discusses important policy responses to poverty and their effectiveness; for example, micro-credit, social protection, environmental regulation, transportation infrastructure provision. Course prerequisites include microeconomics (covering utility maximization models and market equilibrium) and a course in statistics or econometrics (covering hypothesis testing and regression models).

This is a tutorial to the lecture course INTRODUCTION TO ART HISTORY. This course offers an introduction to the major questions in the history of modern and contemporary art in the West, based on a historical and artistic panorama ranging from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century. It addresses several themes and questions, including what art history is; what roles figure, movement, and nature play in representation in the West; what an artist and an art critic is; what place the museum and the market occupy in our relationship to art; and what the terms "modern art" and "contemporary art" mean. The course identifies the descriptive and critical terminology developed in France and abroad to comment on artistic productions, as well as the history of terms within the art world. It also mobilizes the fields of general knowledge in art history and archaeology to document and interpret an artistic production and an archaeological object.

This course examines the history of France from the Old Regime to the present day through a constitutional lens to provide a better understanding of current political events.

This course is specialized for international students. This class studies typological variations between languages spoken in different areas of the world whose linguistic roots are diverse. It examines the similarities and differences between these languages and how they show in several conceptual fields (spatial relations, movement, sensory perception); the link between language, culture, and cognition; as well as the effects of typological variations on the way we conceptualize our experiences with the world around us. This course draws on linguistic, anthropological, and cognitive studies carried out in different languages and cultures around the world.

This course offers a comparative and connected history of the British and French imperial experiences, from the mid-eighteenth century until the end of the twentieth century. The British and French empires are usually considered as arch-rivals. By contrast, the course emphasizes Anglo-French collaboration as a key mechanism of Western expansion overseas, and examines how the two empires often influenced each other. Special attention is paid to ideas about race and cultural difference and how they shaped British and French colonial societies. The traditional view that the British favored indirect rule and the French assimilation is tested and its limits highlighted. The course provides the opportunity to engage with recent scholarship on European colonialism, key contemporary texts about imperial expansion, and visual sources.

This course focuses on understanding how photojournalism contributes to the news landscape and how images shape our comprehension of current affairs and history. The course looks at images from contemporary events as well as studying the history of photojournalism and its different fields of engagement in order to give context for its role today. The course also focuses on how Artificial Intelligence is changing the game for the viewers as well as the professional photographers. It discusses questions such as what makes us an ethical photojournalist? Are there ways we should act while covering stories worldwide? Is it always appropriate to make an image or are there times when a conversation needs to happen first? What messages are we trying to convey through our photographs? How do we remain transparent and inclusive as photographers while working in the field?