France

This course introduces the basis of privately run maritime trade; the threats faced by ship owners, ports, and seafarers; and the systems in place to protect them. It tells the story of mercantile trade on the world's seas focusing on the modernization and formalization of the merchant fleet in the 20th and 21st centuries; its governing systems under UN agreements; and its practical business considerations versus the geopolitical priorities of governments and the intentions of criminals and terrorists to profit from shipping's loss, from gray zone aggression to kidnaps at sea. The course draws upon international maritime law and trade agreements, international business standards, and national level government policies. Throughout, it maintains a practical approach on what these issues mean for the seafarer, the ship owner, the policy maker, and the consumer to illustrate the real-life impact of maritime polices – and the very real impact when there are no policies – as well as the career paths available in the maritime sector.

This course connects fashion to law through different expanses. It offers an analytical and critical perspective by indulging in the creative intricacies of the fashion industry to applying it to the rigid, robust nature of politics and law. It covers law and civil rights from the 18th to 21st century through key expressions of fashion, gender law, environmental and sustainability law, intellectual property, new technologies, social and labor law.

This course offers a chronological presentation of French literature from the 19th through the 20th centuries. It focuses on genres, major works, and authors, grounding them in significant events in French history.

This course represents additional work for the course FR 101A, FRENCH CIVILIZATION. This course studies key aspects of contemporary French culture and civilization. The course covers topics that are pertinent to the functions of French society such as state organization, the educational system, the press and media, and demographics.

This course examines the concept of security and governance of security, and its application in different contexts and at different levels of analyses with a focus on developing societies, particularly Africa. It considers key theories and relates them to particular contexts. The course provides an intellectual and practical context to the notion of the security sector and the governance of security and develops and demonstrates knowledge, understanding, and skills to investigate the various ways through which "security" can be brought under "democratic governance."

This course provides knowledge of the chemical composition of wine and its evolution to master enological practices and wine treatments. It covers enological treatments, practices, and products; disorders and deposits; filtration and stabilization techniques; wine transfer and processes; and preparation and treatment before filling and bottling. The course includes a practical component regarding filtration and stabilization. 

This course deals with the French political and administrative system: the different local and national public institutions; relationships between the state and local authorities; and the democratic issue. It presents the various institutions involved: the European Union, states, regions, departments, inter-communalities, and municipalities. Its also explains the overall functioning of this system: role of the central state and the European Union, relations between local authorities, public-private cooperations. Finally, it introduces the main topics and issues which have been explored in recent years in the field of academic research about the French political and administrative system.

This course focuses on analyzing 19th century poetry from authors such as Emily Dickenson and Henry David Thoreau.

This course focuses on mental processes such as memory, problem solving, and decision making. It discusses the ideas and experiments of major psychologists who studied cognition, such as Ivan Pavlov and Albert Bandera. The main focus of the course is learning about cognition and internal mental processes. It studies the birth of scientific psychology, behavorism to cognitivism, memory, and metacognition.

This course focuses on writing that addresses places of memory by transfiguring them into "happiness machines," recycling the poetics deployed in the works of the program, which become literally a way of reintroducing into a new cycle fragments saved from oblivion in order to achieve a renewed perception of the world.