University of Bordeaux

This course introduces the roles and functioning mechanisms of two major remote communication systems between the cells of the organism: the nervous system and the endocrine system. It covers the mechanisms and consequences of membrane permeability to electrolytes, the bases of cellular excitability (neurons, endocrine cells, muscles), cellular communication (Ligand-receptor interactions: receptors for neurotransmitters (synapses) and hormones), and the muscular excitation-contraction coupling.

This intensive language course focuses on oral and written French, review of grammar, language, and written expression. Oral French focuses on enhancing vocabulary of selected fields, and sentence structure. Written work includes intermediate grammar, syntax, and spelling, with a focus on academic writing for French universities. Texts on contemporary French society are used as a base for discussion topics.

This course introduces students to international questions of security and policing. In light of an interdisciplinary approach, the course thus focuses on the way in which current topics of interest are politically and operationally addressed, from criminal and political violence to illicit finance and global infectious diseases. In this regard, it fosters a capacity of analysis and independent judgement on the politics and everyday practices of transnational policing, border and migration control, surveillance, and security intelligence in the digital age.

This course provides a broad and sweeping history of British literature, while also giving historical context (such as important wars, elections, etc.) that is necessary for understanding the evolution of British literature. Spanning from its early beginning with BEOWULF, the course touches upon some great British playwrights, such as Shakespeare, as well as its later novelists, such as Dickens and Wilde, from the tenth century to the Modern Era.