University of Bordeaux

This course allows the development of a personal graphic practice. Students choose tools and gestures among those offered in their training and learn to situate their practice in the field of creation. The course provides an opportunity to consider the openness, deepening, and methods of presentation (material support, framing, hanging, installation, public perception of the work) of the student's personal practice.

This course is a study of three components: grammar, written comprehension, and written expression. The course examines sentence structure and verb systems and focuses on complex notions of time, causality, and argumentation. The course analyzes literary texts from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries for their grammatical properties, literary style, and practice of written expression.

Based on the analysis of philosophical texts, artists' writings, and works of art, this course studies the first major themes of aesthetics and philosophy of art (imitation, judgment). The course provides the basics of a general culture in the aesthetic field and promotes mastery of the techniques of dissertation and commentary from a methodological point of view.
 

This course analyzes the comic, a narrative art that reads not only in each successive box but also in a complex system relating to the space of the board and album as a whole. It applies literary tools to the media to take into account the image and sequencing. The course focuses on the theme of “the quest” using comics from the French-Belgian domain: set in a medieval universe more fantasized than properly historical. It considers quests and conquests in antico-medieval fictions including literature, cinema, and games.

This course studies traditional open macroeconomic models and the role of monetary policy and exchange rates. It discusses currency and sovereign debt crises and the role of international coordination.

From the study of monuments to the archeology of buildings, this course provides an up-to-date view of the specific investigative methods applied to ancient monuments that have developed over the past few decades. These will be the subject of a broad historical perspective, methodological initiation, and practical approaches. The course builds skills that any art historian required to study architectural works must have today: knowing and understanding the history of monumental studies and the evolution of their methods, up to the implementation of building archeology in its various facets, and creating an aptitude to go beyond disciplinary limits to consider collaborations with neighboring disciplines (Archaeology, Archaeometry, History). 

Based on a historical approach, this course questions the various theoretical models of development and their extensions in economic policy. It discusses the various "developmental" approaches of the 1950s and 1970s which made underdevelopment an international problem and whose solution must be found at the national level. It then examines the vision adopted from the 1980s onwards which saw it as a national problem to be tackled at the international level, leading to a homogenization of development strategies underlying structural adjustment. Finally, faced with the (at least relative) failure of the various decades of development, and while underdevelopment remains one of the major issues of the 21st century, the course considers the current focus on reducing poverty and inequality, while the concept of sustainable development is being promoted.

This course focuses on the study of contemporary texts and recordings drawn from the French media (radio, television, newspapers, and films), as well as on the function and place of media in the French society. Exercises give students the opportunity to practice document analysis, grammar, phonetics, and general comprehension. Students also work on a project for the semester with two professors on a media topic of their choice.

This beginning French course focuses on developing oral and written competencies and understanding the basic sentence structure of French. Students learn the basics of introducing oneself in French, simple vocabulary, basic verbs, and conjugations in the present form.

From the contemporary to the extreme contemporary, this course offers a journey through literature. It provides an opportunity to discover, through the study of a few authors and excerpts from various works, how French literature of the last decades takes on a form of engagement and disengagement in the uncertainty that creates our present. The course sharpens sensitivity and broadens knowledge in the literary and cultural fields. It improves mastery of the French language to develop the capacities of analysis, synthesis, and criticism essential to intellectual work. The course focuses on the novel, the short story, and the theater on the path of renewal at the borders of reality and fiction: telling again and again, telling the real in times of crisis.