University of Bordeaux

From a specifically aesthetic perspective, this course focuses on the sound parameters of cinema. It first involves questioning the characteristics of our listening in relation to our capacities for visual analysis, and then defining the notions of sound image and point of listening, as they have been formulated by sound theorists (Pierre Schaeffer, Michel Chion, Daniel Deshays, Peter Sendy). The course combines a historical perspective on theories and techniques of sound in cinema with a taxonomy of cinematic sounds (voice, speech, music, noise, silence) and an examination of the relationships between image and sound (direct sound, post-synchronization, counterpoint).

This course explores the rise and decline of democracy since the “third wave” of transitions in the late 20th century. It examines the causes of democratic backsliding, the resilience of democratic institutions, and strategies of resistance against authoritarianism. The course analyzes regime dynamics, civil society roles, and alternative authoritarian models shaping global politics today.

This course is designed to develop professional English skills for students in economics, management, and information systems. It focuses on the language and communication strategies required in international business environments, with an emphasis on practical application in economic analysis, project management, and IT-related contexts.

This course explores the fundamental cellular and developmental processes that drive the formation and organization of animal organisms. It combines cell biology and developmental biology, providing both theoretical foundations and practical laboratory experience. The cell biology section covers mitosis, the cell cycle, apoptosis, cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions, and the cytoskeleton, as well as main cell biology techniques. The developmental biology section explores gametogenesis, fertilization, early embryonic stages, and examples of organogenesis.

This course offers a broad survey on Modern European political, intellectual, social, and cultural history, from the end of the 18th century to the aftermath of the Cold War. The topics covered include the age of Revolutions (the French Revolution and its consequences, the Napoleonic era, the Industrial Revolution), the age of Nationalism, the age of Imperialism and Colonialism, World War I and II and the Cold War.

This course is designed to provide a thorough overview of Critical Security Studies. It introduces and discusses theoretical perspectives and research objects at the heart of this burgeoning academic field. In doing so, the course supports a reflexive approach to the transformation of security, its related concepts and their empirical applications in close connection with key issues such as development, environment, migration, citizenship, and finance. It is organized in two main sections: the first section looks at the variety of theoretical perspectives in critical security studies; the second section introduces students to ongoing critical security research objects.

This course provides a foundational understanding of dynamic oceanography, including both global and regional ocean circulation, ocean–atmosphere interactions, as well as the basic equations used to describe fluid motion. A field-based component, involving embarkation on research vessels, familiarizes students with real working conditions in the marine environment and introduces them to observational techniques and data collection at sea.

At the age of global ecological crisis, this course looks at the environment in its historical dimension in order to understand not how we got here, but rather, where exactly we stand. By examining this history over a long 20th century and in various geographical areas, from North America to Asia, this course examines the environment for what it has become today: the most political issue in the contemporary world.

This course introduces the core methods of grammatical analysis through data from various languages presented in translation. Students learn to segment the speech stream into words, identify rules of agreement and phrase structure, and analyze syntactic units such as noun phrases and verb phrases. The course also covers the Leipzig Glossing Rules for precise morphological and syntactic annotation. Fundamental linguistic concepts—such as sentence structure, word categories, gender, number, case, person, constituents, and word order—are introduced through a comparative approach. These analytical tools are then applied to spoken French, where students produce morphosyntactic glosses and examine key features of French grammar. By the end of the course, students acquire essential skills for understanding how languages encode grammatical information.