University of Bordeaux

This course concerns the modification of cultural practices to produce wine products in organic and biodynamic agriculture. It covers regulatory aspects and certification, the biological and physiological impact of organic and biodynamic viticultural practices, cultural aspects of the implementation of certification and conversion period, biodynamic principles, and specific viticultural practices. The course also discusses the economics of the organic, natural, and biodynamic wine market, and the economic impact of the conversion. Additional topics include vinification and conservation without sulfur dioxide, microorganisms in the context of organic wine production, ecology, and diversity. Finally, the course discusses regulations, practices, experiences, and constraints of organic agriculture. 

This course focuses on the practical aspects of the automated processing of human languages. It develops knowledge of useful and logical aspects, as well as useful prototypes of the same nature. The course introduces the basics of the programming language Python.

This is a second level beginning French course that covers: oral comprehension, pronunciation, grammatical structure, reading, and writing simple texts. It also introduces some aspects of French culture.

This course considers destruction and the life and destiny of works of art. It investigates how we understand and describe the gestures or modes of destruction of works of art, a question that seems to arise from the more general problem of iconoclasm, defined as the refusal and destruction of images. It also considers other means of destruction: the effect of time and ruin, of a natural disaster, or the consequence of a voluntary gesture on the part of an artist, whether they are the producer or not. The course discusses how we can distinguish iconoclasm from “vandalism,” “attack” from artistic gesture by offering a philosophical history of the arts and an investigation into the different modes of existence of works of art.

This course covers three main topics: measuring the per capita income of countries; measuring inequalities; and measuring poverty. It examines key indicators, how these indicators are actually constructed using available data, and the conditions for their comparison over time and between countries.

This course explores how literature shapes our perspective on the past and identity. By studying Patrick Chamoiseau's LE DIMANCHE AU CACHOT and Josephy Boyden's DANS LE GRAND CERCLE DU MONDE, this course considers how authors can use fiction to reconquer a painful past to better reconstruct an identity and a perspective that has been hidden.

This course explores the architectural and pictorial inheritance of France, including urban and countryside architecture, sculpture, painting, and decorative arts. It focuses on the architecture of Bordeaux and the region of Aquitaine during the 19th century. It presents the remarkable sites of the New Aquitaine region listed as World Heritage by UNESCO by analyzing some works to better understand them. The course discovers the region and its rich heritage through the ages, from prehistory with the parietal caves of the Dordogne to the contemporary era with the city of Fruges by Le Corbusier, passing through the Middle Age and modern times. Various arts are analyzed, including visual art, painting, sculpture, and the art of space which concerns architecture and heritage. Similarly, the course studies several styles, in particular Romanesque art, Gothic art, and classical art to acquire an artistic culture.

This course observes how speech is orchestrated to a choreography of the human body. It examines how meanings, abstract or concrete, are not only produced but actually performed on the interactional stage. The course provides an opportunity to observe facial expressions and co-speech gestures in silent movies and explore how speech production necessarily comes with gestural action. This multimodal course combines formal research seminars, animated classroom discussions, creative workshop sessions, and film screenings.

This course offers a critical examination of the resurgence of “folk horror cinema” in British cinema since the 2000s. Based on cultural references involving neo-pagan cults, witchcraft, and a largely fantasized rewriting of the national past in terms of pre-Christian heritage, this profoundly ambiguous tradition has variously been re-appropriated by feminist as well as masculinist discourses and has given rise to a range of aesthetic propositions, from exploitation cinema to “elevated horror,” and analyzes how British and American horror cinemas have both developed a subgenre based on stories that resort to some folklore deeply engrained in a country’s traditions. Using recurring themes like religion, hostile landscapes, and supernatural creatures, these films rely on man’s deepest fears, and they may also be a means for some artists to criticize the human tendency to act in some superstitious and harmful ways.

This course is comprised of three components: oral comprehension, oral expression, and phonetics. The comprehension part focuses on enhancing student's oral comprehension though radio, video, note-taking, and oral or written reproduction. The expression part of the course provides an opportunity to give oral presentations alone or in groups, with structured argumentation and role-playing. The phonetics part examines basic concepts of articulatory phonetics and French phonology, including perceptual phenomena, segmental and supra-segmental features, linking, neutralization, assimilation, germination, individual and dialectal variations, written and oral systems, and discourse analysis. Emphasis is placed on the acquisition of French pronunciation, as well as oral and gestural expression.