France

This course provides a thorough introduction to child protection systems in Europe and how international humanitarian efforts address child welfare in developing regions, with a focus on West Africa. Divided into two modules, the first examines the European Union's child protection priorities—such as digital safety, AI governance, and deinstitutionalization—while the second focuses on the work of international organizations in tackling issues like poverty, gender-based violence, and conflict. Students engage with theoretical frameworks, case studies, and expert guest lectures to develop critical thinking and practical skills grounded in real-world policymaking and service delivery.

This course highlights the political and intellectual bases of the European project since the 19th century to better understand the current transformations.

This course examines health economics and policy. Topics include health insurance regulation, physician pricing, hospital pricing, and the value of health.

This course, which focuses on China's Xi Jinping era, provides keys to understanding Chinese positions on the international stage. It compares official statements with the reality of Beijing's actions to understand the motives, modalities, and consequences of Chinese foreign policy.

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.