France

This course is comprised of three parts: conversation, monologue production, and discussion and monologue comprehension. The conversation section encourages students to converse and articulate ideas in French with the help of the teacher and audio text. The monologue production part of the course focuses on discerning and replicating proper French sounds. And finally, in the discussion and monologue comprehension section, students practice both French comprehension and French discussion.

This course provides an introduction to memory studies, an interdisciplinary field encompassing sociology, political science, anthropology, and history, among other disciplines. The course introduces the main theoretical concepts in memory studies and the historical development of different approaches while focusing on recent debates on the relationship between memory politics and contemporary political developments (the rise of populism; nostalgia in the post-socialist world; Brexit; tearing down of colonial statues; return of looted artifacts from the Global North). The course provides an understanding of the basic notions of memory and its relation to identity formation, both individual and collective; the role of memory in institutional politics through memorialization rituals; the importance of monuments; and the role of memory and nostalgia as sites of resistance in everyday politics of contemporary world. Through lectures, selected readings, media screenings, group discussions, and student presentations, the course provides insight into the importance of power interplays of different memory and history narratives and critically engages in understanding contemporary memory discourses.

This course investigates the evolution of relations between the United States and European states with a focus on the strategic and security-related dimensions of this relationship. It seeks to analyze the driving factors behind recent transatlantic crises and divergences and the implications for the future of international security. The first part of the course introduces several theoretical approaches to transatlantic relations based on the main International Relations schools of thought. The second part of the course applies these approaches to current challenges facing the transatlantic partnership, ranging from defense burden sharing to responding to Russia's assertiveness, from China's rise to crises in the Middle East and Africa.

This course provides the historical background to the recent intensification of global exchanges, helps assess the significance of these developments, and draws comparisons between past and present experience. The course examines many different chapters of global history and travel on various continents including medieval Europe, pre-Columbus America, and the great civilizations of Asia. It acquaints students with the social, environmental, political, and economic debates and controversies surrounding the emergence of “global capitalism.”

This course focuses on beginning French writing. Students are expected to produce written texts using the new vocabulary and grammar structure they learned in the oral comprehension class.