University of Bordeaux

This course studies applied cognitive, social, and cultural psychology within the sub concepts of motivation, conflict, diversity, and career. Topics include examining theories about motivation, change and communication within an organization, leadership styles, and social and cultural relations within an organization.

This course is a practical workshop to explore painting based on reflective subjects proposed by the professor. Students complete several paintings while working individually according to a theme or subject of their choosing. The use of various media is welcomed. As well as deepening their technical skills, students develop their pictorial practice, knowing how to situate themselves in relation to the history of painting, and more specifically in relation to contemporary painting.

This course offers an introduction to Francophone cultures by discovering a space of the Francophonie and its components (society, culture, language, history, geography). The work is done from the reading of a literary work in the program. Excerpts from the work are studied in class and illuminated by various documents such as videos, songs, texts, and authentic documents. In this course students discover a region of the Francophonie, learn about francophone literature, develop language skills through literary study, and study documents of various types and how to present them.

This class focuses on the proper pronunciation and enunciation of French words. Students listen to audio files on the computer and respond to various questions that indicate and improve the level of their French auditory distinction.

This course offers rich insights on important issues in international politics: threats to international peace and security, humanitarian crises, and armed conflict prevention and management. Beyond these particular crises, the course examines the changing power relations among states at the global scale. It considers complex forms of political decision-making and social monitoring, involving a diverse group of actors: politicians, national and international bureaucrats, diplomats, militaries, rebels, investors, business(wo)men, consultants, activists, scientists, artists, journalists, etc. The course examines how the multidimensional interactions these actors entertain locally or in faraway headquarters blur the divide between the intervenors on one side and local actors and host governments on the other.

This course introduces moral and political philosophy based on writings of Rousseau. It is divided into two parts: the first part focuses on moral philosophy and the second part on political philosophy. This theoretical path engages Rousseau in a dialogue with the philosophical positions to which he opposes or which oppose him, including after the publication of his writings, in order to address the major problems and concepts of moral and political philosophy.