University of Bordeaux

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of international management, focusing particularly on the cultural, social, and organizational challenges that arise when conducting business across national borders. The course develops foundational competencies needed to understand, analyze, and navigate cultural diversity in professional contexts. Through theoretical frameworks, case studies, and practical exercises, students learn to interpret how cultural values shape managerial behavior, organizational structures, communication styles, and decision‑making processes around the world. The course provides the analytical tools necessary to understand why managerial practices differ across countries and how to adapt their own approaches when operating in international environments.

This course presents the main geological characteristics of marine environments (excluding the water column). It examines the dynamics of the various structural entities that make up oceanic domains—mid‑ocean ridges, subduction zones, abyssal plains, continental margins, oceanic plateaus, and islands—and the sedimentary processes that occur within them. These elements are situated within the broader framework of lithospheric plate dynamics. The course combines classroom lectures, guided practical sessions involving the analysis of oceanographic data, and fieldwork. In addition, a guest lecture addresses current global issues affecting marine domains at the international scale.

Through an exploration of texts and visual representations of Fortune, this course examines how instability and change were represented and written about during the Renaissance.

Beyond the idea that revolutions are the driving forces of social and political transformation, this course examines revolutions in their historical time as well as across history from the perspective of political anthropology. It uses the concepts of liminality, social dramas, crowd behavior, imitation, tricksters, and meaning formation. These concepts disentangle the study of revolutions from structures and the search for causes and outcomes, as well as from ideology, culture, and agency, opening them to a comparative analysis at the level of process, form, and symbolism. After a theoretical introduction, the course turns its focus on historical experiences of the major socio-political revolutions of the modern era: the "big three" revolutions (French, Russian, and Chinese revolutions); the "third world" (Mexico, Cuba) to eastern Europe in 1989; from Iran (1978-1979) to the Arab Spring (2011). The course concludes by looking back at the main themes covered by the class and examining the prospect for revolutionary change in the contemporary world, thus considering whether the concept of revolution should be consigned, or not, to the "dustbin of history." Students are encouraged to develop comparisons across time and space.

This course is a theater workshop to develop new skills and knowledge. It strengthens the spirit of group cohesion through the feeling of belonging to a team. It allows students to free up speech through “doing” and thus gain confidence in speaking. It facilitates active, practical, and collaborative learning. Finally, it is an opportunity to discover texts and authors of French literature. Students develop oral skills through theatrical play: acting and interpreting, speaking in public; adapt to different communication situations: self-awareness and letting go; write theatrical dialogue; and discover French theater and theatrical techniques.

Building on concepts such as ecosystem structure, biogeochemical cycles, and the principles of ecological succession, this course further clarifies, through concrete examples, the interactions between the functioning of natural environments and their development and use by humans. Using case studies, primarily focused on hydrosystems, the course addresses the functioning of water‑related environments and the management challenges they present. Special attention is given to how ecological processes (matter cycling, species interactions, and habitat evolution) shape these environments over time. Lacustrine systems, rivers, and wetlands—ecosystems particularly sensitive to climate disturbances—are emphasized. These case studies may be complemented by field-based investigations

This course provides an in-depth exploration of fundamental and emerging concepts in cancer biology through a combination of lectures, student-led seminars, and hands-on laboratory work. It is designed to develop both theoretical knowledge and critical analysis skills essential for understanding cancer mechanisms and research methodologies. Topics include: cell cycle; chromosome segregation; cell-matrix interactions; cell death; Ubiquitin-Proteasome System; asymmetric cell division; DNA replication; signaling pathways; tumor microenvironment; energy metabolism; stem cells; biosynthetic pathways. 

This course introduces the fundamental principles of microcontroller systems and their peripherals. It combines theoretical foundations with practical training in the design and implementation of application software using the C programming language. Emphasis is placed on developing control-oriented applications and understanding the interaction between microcontrollers and their peripheral modules. The course builds skills to design, program, and manage microcontroller-based applications, and apply knowledge across a range of typical use cases. The course concludes with two integrative mini-projects that serve as capstone exercises, synthesizing the concepts acquired and demonstrating abilities to implement effective microcontroller solutions.

This course introduces past and present-day economic phenomena. Its scope consists in an examination and analysis of the successive stages of development of market capitalism and its variants. After a discussion of the terms used to describe an economic “system,” the enquiry proceeds by examining “primitive” or incomplete prototypes of capitalist enterprise as well as the mercantilist “system” in the preindustrial era. The emergence of industrial capitalism, the first wave of globalization, the emergence of financial capitalism and the attendant slumps as well as the regulations introduced by political authorities provide matter for discussion in the following chapters. All along this journey the connection between the diffusion of market mechanisms and political dynamics is underscored.

Based on the study of selected marine ecosystems, this course analyzes the environmental forcing variables and constraints that shape them, in order to explain the different factors structuring biological communities and to situate biology within the broader field of oceanography. A field course at a marine station illustrates several of these concepts, such as adaptations to aquatic life and the relationship between spatial heterogeneity and biodiversity. The field component includes embarkation aboard Planula 4, an INSU–CNRS research vessel (FOF).