France

This course provides an opportunity to listen to and analyze popular French and francophone songs of the 20th and 21st centuries while discovering French society and culture. It discusses the vocabulary and what the lyrics mean from the author's point of view.

This course explores EU enlargement dynamics, focusing on the process, negotiation, and accession of candidate countries. It examines pre-accession processes, enlargement negotiations, and the reasons behind EU expansion from legal, economic, and political perspectives. The course compares past enlargement rounds and assesses their impact on EU institutions and policies, highlighting the evolving nature of enlargement dynamics. It introduces the scholarly debate on conditionality and the EU's approach to current candidates' membership aspirations, emphasizing the need to adapt the EU's institutional structure. Through a simulation exercise, students participate in EU negotiation simulations, discussing and negotiating specific policy domains based on EU acquis chapters. This approach fosters teamwork, critical thinking, and a deeper understanding of the negotiation process. The course also critically analyzes the principles and concepts underlying European enlargement policies, equipping students with comprehensive knowledge of enlargement negotiations, membership conditionality, and the interaction between candidate states and the EU.

This course is a workshop. Students work together to write a press article on subjects or events related to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries using the resources offered by RetroNews (newspapers, magazines) and Gallica (newspapers, magazines, and journals), two online sites belonging to the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF). Students gather and work on a corpus of articles to shed light on a specific historical subject or event, based on published historical research, while analyzing the political and social representations and discourse of the press of the period. Some student articles are then submitted to the RetroNews editorial team for publication.

This beginning Latin course covers common vocabulary, grammar, and morphology. It considers the fundamental mechanisms of the Latin language (use of cases; system of tenses), as well as that of the first elements allowing simple texts to be understood (first declensions and tenses of the indicative, infinitive clause).

This course covers the complete history of cinema. From the Lumière brothers through today, it discusses the full context of the history of cinema, including political climate.

This course covers the main issues at the root of most of the conflicts in Africa. It examines the conflicts and geopolitical dynamics that affect the Horn of Africa and identifies the historical, political, and military regional dynamics of these conflicts, as well as their broader international dimension. The course provides a critical analysis of Horn Africa's relations with the world as the new battle held between emerging powers such as the Gulf, BRICS, and traditional superpowers. It also provides a general overview of violent extremist groups and regional and international responses to the Global War on Terror. Finally, it discusses current wars as well as their strategic implications and connections to the most prominent global security challenges of the post-Cold War and post 9/11 world.

This A1 level Portuguese course involves understanding texts and very simple communication situations to be able to communicate in Portuguese based on real, daily life situations. Through interactive sessions, students acquire specific vocabulary relevant to the topics under study while grasping the foundational structures of the Portuguese language.

This methodological workshop imparts basic reflexes when it comes to thematic cartography. The course focuses on a limited number of skills that are systematically addressed methodologically and then put into practice in subsequent sessions. This dual approach (methodological and practical) develops critical faculties when using, researching, making, and ordering maps, while considering the feasibility and practical difficulties underlying the construction of these images.

This course reflects on the history of the relationship between state, society, and Islam in the Ottoman and Turkish context from the 1750s to the 2020s. The course explores in detail such themes as Muslim reformism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries; Islam in the age of Ottoman reform; modernist and fundamentalist Islamism; pan-Islamism and Ottoman caliphate politics; the Young Turks and Islam; Islam in the secular republic; the question of female emancipation and Islam; plural Islam: Alevism and Sunnism; political Islam in the context of the Cold War; the seizure of power by political Islam and the Islamo-fascist dictatorship in power in Turkey since 2002.

This course reads and analyzes Francophone literature written by those of Black descent in order to understand terms like Afrofuturism and Afroprophetism to connect history with the present. The course examines the literary and narrative histories and structure of African and African-related works and considers how the narratives renew the view of Africa in a philosophical sense through literary works. Works studied include Leonara Miano's ROUGE IMPERATRICE, Abdourrahman Waberi's AUX ETATS UNIS D'AFRIQUE, and an anthology collected through a collective project.