University of Bordeaux

This course covers technical-commercial language in English used in the field of eonology (wine-making). It covers vocabulary used to discuss sensory analysis and tasting comments. It also focuses on professional communication techniques used in presentations, writing a CV, composing emails, engaging in sales, as well as interviews and promotions. 

This course offers a journey through the history of cinema through the prism of the notion of auteurs. It discusses when we start talking about filmmakers and directors, how they have established themselves over time, and when the director becomes an author. The course returns to the texts and films which marked the major stages of this history. Far from accepting this terminology as a fact, it discusses and retracing its history through American and European cinematography, demonstrating to what extent this history has contributed to shaping our contemporary understanding of cinema and cinema categories still widely used by the industry and institutions. Alongside the lecture course, the tutorial sessions focus on author-filmmakers who have favored improvisation work with the actors or alternative ways of considering the classic sequence between writing a script and work of the direction during filming. It examines how everyone finds themselves unique within a true cinematographic tradition inherited from the theater. This perspective makes it possible to go beyond the categories of documentary and fiction. This course notably address the works of Mike Leigh, Lionel Rogosin, Marguerite Duras, John Cassavetes, Maurice Pialat, Nicholas Ray, and Jean-François Stevenin, as well as the contemporary works of Abdelatif Kechiche, Rabah Ameur Zaïmeche, Tariq Teguia, Jean-François Stevenin, and Charles Hue.

This course covers how to select and control the implantation of a yeast strain; control fermentation kinetics by controlling temperature, oxygen, activators, and nutritional factors; follow the progress of alcoholic fermentation and malolactic fermentation using appropriate techniques and analyses to determine the time of runoff and the method of racking; remedy fermentation stops, select and control the implantation of a strain of lactic acid bacteria, control fermentation kinetics by controlling temperature and nutritional factors, and remedy fermentation stops; carry out microbiological control of the product adapted to market demand; and carry out microbiological analyses adapted to monitoring populations of yeasts, fermentative bacteria, and spoilage microorganisms at all stages of production.

This course introduces the issues associated with demographic growth, which has accelerated very significantly over the last half century to soon reach eight billion individuals today. It covers the issues of population geography which vary around inequalities in the distribution and evolution of the population; the challenges of sometimes too rapid growth in the urban population; and the consequences of increased life expectancy. The course studies new societal behaviors to decipher the issues associated with the evolution of pronatalist and matrimonial behaviors. Population migrations, although they are no longer the source of new settlements, constitute a major aspect of this course, and are examined under demographic, societal, and political facets. Finally, the course examines the environmental consequences.

This course introduces the basic economic rationale of major innovation policy measures as well as the principles and methods used for their evaluation. It covers simple treatments of the key economic problems addressed by the most important among such policies, coupled with data and examples on how they are implemented and evaluated. Topics include: key vocabulary, market-failure versus systemic policies, supply- versus demand-side policies, knowledge as a public good, supply-side policies; R&D policies: public science, public support to private R&D; intellectual property rights: classic model (dynamic versus static welfare trade-off), advanced topics (cumulative innovation), demand-side policies; and diffusion of innovations.

This course is divided into two parts: civilization and literature. The civilization part covers the history of Australia since the beginning of the 20th century. It studies the major events that shaped Australian identity: the world wars and their impact on Australia's place within the British Empire, the major stages of indigenous activism, and the socio-cultural impact of immigration. The literature part of the course introduces the main paradigmatic change of 1980s Britain: the advent of shifting, plural, unstable identities. Hanif Kureishi’s THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA is the perfect introduction to these themes and also, at the time, brought a new light on the political and cultural period. The importance of drama and television writing is also discussed. Additional topics include Thatcher’s Britain, postcolonialism, marketing marginal voices, suburbia, and the pop scene.

This course has two parts. The first part deals with the methodology of formal visual analysis through the study of paintings from nineteenth-century Britain. It provides the opportunity to apply this methodology by analyzing a specific painting and giving a presentation on its history and composition. The second part of the course involves an in-depth analysis of British photographs and the themes that they represent. It explores the politics of representation and as what is at stake in terms of ethics and positioning when pictures are taken, in the process when they are made, and in their conditions of production. Themes discussed include the representation of class, ethnic minorities, women, disabilities, poverty, national identity, and collective representations, particularly through the prism of portraits and self-portraits.

This course considers labor and its exploitation. It discusses the labor theory of value and the concept of exploitation in Marxian theory, as well as the criticisms and the ways they are overcome by analytical Marxism.

This course covers how to differentiate wine-growing soils and understand how, along with the climate, they influence the functioning of the plant and maturation. It also discusses how to characterize maturation and the biochemical processes involved in deciding the harvest date; understand the organization and functioning of the plant to produce quality grapes in a given pedo-climatic context; and use all the data on the organization and functioning of the plant to produce quality grapes in a case study context.

This course introduces the broad literary genre of science fiction, with a particular focus on postwar American science fiction from the classics to cyberpunk. The first part of the course focuses on BLADE RUNNER and analyzes excerpts from various science fiction films of the period, including Ridley Scott's 1982 film adaptation. The second part of the course focuses on BURNING CHROME. The course strengthens literary analysis through close reading and considers how the thematic components of science fiction have developed over time.