University of Bordeaux

This course studies civil procedure. It focuses on the organization and functioning of civil justice, including the organization of the court and the trial system. Topics include how cases (mostly non-criminal) are brought before a judge, the criteria for gaining an audience with a judge, the roles of various members of the court, and the general rules for conducting court proceedings.

This course presents theories on the diversity of languages. Through a theoretical approach, it focuses on the relationship between language, culture, and geographical environment to study the representation of the world in relation to languages. The first part of the course deals with the categories of linguistic variation and the importance of translation and language learning. It presents characteristics common to languages or invariants, investigating the universals of language. The course then introduces the genetic classification of languages and revisits its history and related theories. It also discusses the typological classification and the areal method. The first part of the course serves as a theoretical foundation to lay the groundwork for the second part on sociolinguistic structures, which studies the contact of languages to explain the formation of mixed dialects.

This course clarifies a number of key facts on the place and functions of the modern state in a selection of “advanced” or “developed” economies, mostly in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development sample. It adopts an approach by main themes of government intervention. It also traces the successive developments of the modern state over the past 200 years in order to highlight the logic of today’s functions and actions and their determinants and objectives. The lectures, along with economic data, weave together major insights from political philosophy, history, and sociology.

This course takes the form of a tour of the city and the environment near the Maison des Arts. Each session refers to two or three artists, photographers, or painters. Students learn to handle the device, exercise the gaze, and situate their work in relation to old or current references. This course alternates short exercises with visits to exhibitions and artistic places and meetings with actors of contemporary art. Topics such as device, document and fiction, photography and identity, and certain salient elements of the history of photography are discussed. Students design, produce, and present a photographic project that demonstrates a unique approach to the subject and a required minimum mastery of the photographic tool, and reflects on the place of the optical image in the field of art not as a goal to be achieved but as an exchangeable form open to the subjectivity of the spectators.

This course analyzes the media’s construction of historical discourses and their representations according to the type of media. This interdisciplinary workshop analyzes historical content from a semi-discursive approach.

This course provides an introduction to artificial intelligence including its challenges, revolution, and achievements, and covers topics within machine learning and deep learning. Topics in machine learning include principles, supervised learning, unsupervised learning, Bayesian methods, linear regression, logistic regression, K-means, and decision trees. Topics in deep learning include foundations, architectures, and algorithms.

This course studies key aspects of contemporary French culture and civilization. The course covers topics that are pertinent to the functions of French society such as state organization, the educational system, the press and media, and demographics.

This course introduces Francophone literature through the reading of two different works: Tahar Ben Jalloun's L'ENFANT DE SABLE (1985) and Marima Bâ's UN SI LONGUE LETTRE (1979). Through these texts, the course examines the themes of sexuality, the question of masculine and feminine roles in francophone society (notably in Morocco and Senegal), while also analyzing how their culture and religion may have affected the author's upbringing and writing.