France

This course focuses on the performance of European firms according to essential external users such as investors and “analysts." It deals with a specific angle of analysis - the financial aspects of the performance - viewed from users like shareholders, bankers, creditors, customer unions, and tax authorities. Comparability of financial information through the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is a key issue in an international environment. Taking a user perspective throughout, whether discussing reporting principles or in the practice of financial analysis, this course is divided in two parts: identifying the financial information provided in the IFRS system, and examining the analysts’ views on this information? The course covers international and comparative accounting, performance indicators, methods for measuring the success of a firm, and evaluation methods for company financing policy. It also discusses comparative differences in international practices, as doing business with European companies requires the ability to analyze the information they provide. Other topics covered include how investors and analysts view the information that companies provide, what they see as its strengths and weaknesses, what information really matters to them and what they all but disregard, and finally, how they estimate the company’s performance through the information provided in IFRS.

This course involves the writing and analysis of screenplays. It discusses the fundamentals involved in writing a film and explores how to analyze a screenplay to build a working vocabulary for communication in the film industry.

This course offers students the methodological foundations to undertake research related to the study of political elites or any other relevant group using secondary data. The course also allows the student to get acquainted with the production of primary data. The approach is multimethodological, and it focuses on the study of political elites. All the sessions include a lecture, but they can also include practical sessions using computers. The first part of the course is devoted to qualitative methodologies, while the remaining part deals with more quantitative approaches to research in political science. The sessions are designed for students who have no prior knowledge and/or background in data analysis or research methods.

This intermediate A2 level Japanese course focuses on the four skills of listening comprehension, spoken expression, reading comprehension, and written expression to enable students to use documentation in Japanese and to practice the language in a non-specialized context. The listening comprehension section focuses on understanding common greetings common greetings and work instructions; more elaborate questions on non-specialized topics; an everyday discussion on topics from ordinary life; the overall meaning of an authentic text (listening); and differences in levels of language (polite or familiar style). The spoken expression section practices greetings, thanks, and apologies with more nuance; making requests and offering responses with a richer vocabulary and level of expression, depending on the degree of politeness; using different conversational techniques to conduct a natural conversation (incomplete sentences, attenuation); producing a structured narrative of an event and be able to describe an unfamiliar visual document (on a theme explored in class); expressing your opinion in a simple way; expressing obligation and interdiction; expressing ability; describing a past experience; using two levels of language according to a given situation; using ageru, kureru, and morau with another verb in -te form. The reading comprehension section builds an understanding of around 300 kanji in context; a text on a topic discussed in class; and an overall understanding of a document using a bilingual dictionary and a kanji dictionary. Finally, the written expression section practices writing 110 new kanji; produces a homogeneous text in terms of style (neutral or polite) according to the type of text; writes a more detailed text on a simple theme, based upon a visual (graph, image); and writes a non-specialized letter.

This course covers the history of racial inequality in the United States from the arrival of the first African slaves in Virginia in 1619 to the recent emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement. Throughout, it considers how unequal the United States is; where racial inequality comes from; and why it has proved so enduring; how it has changed over time; what role the U.S. government played in this process; how racial inequality influences U.S. politics, economics, and culture; and what solutions have been proposed. The course introduces the multiple facets of racial inequality in the United States today, considers the history of racial inequality in the United States, and develops critical reading and writing skills in assessing and crafting complex arguments.

This course studies corporations in relation to the structure of productivity and human relations, the business environment, business as a cultural project, business and the management of human resources, decision making, the spirit and workings of mercantilism, and production and finance. To do so, the course utilizes local, national, generalized, and specialized mass media.

This course examines sexuality and gender in Asia, where there are evidences that in pre-colonial societies, gender pluralism and societal inclusivity persisted and celebrated those within and beyond today's ideas of sexualities and genders. From the matriarchal practices in ancient and pre-colonial societies, to promised marriages, to the prohibition of women in artistic and political spaces, to the binding of feet and being leftover women, as well as the various cultural queer realities such as the Bissu, Maknyah, Asog, Sao Praphet sang, Hijra, among others; this course investigates these phenomena and realities. It also explores migration and diasporic narratives as well as how sexualities and gender are practiced and performed in media and culture.

This course discusses the relationship between text, art, and the nature of the Renaissance. This course demonstrates how, in the 16th century, literature dictated the representation of space and the natural elements.

This course deals with the internal and external history of French. It examines how Latin was transformed to give birth to French and the deep grammatical characteristics that distinguish the two languages. The course also focuses on the survival of Latin as an intellectual language and the competition between Latin and French, particularly during the Renaissance. The history of spelling is also covered.

This course explores the films made during, in between, and immediately after the two world wars. Specifically, it discusses how film can be used as a tool to better understand the wars, and how they were viewed, refuted, or supported by people at that time. It explores what is propaganda and how it is manifested in different ways. Specifically this course concerns the world wars in Europe.