University of Bordeaux

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.

This course focuses on oral comprehension. Within this course, activities and assessments are centered on listening to texts and conversational methods employed by French speakers to then accurately determine the content and context of what is being spoken in real time.