University of Bordeaux

This course presents the fundamentals of descriptive linguistics. It focuses on the study of language and grammar and bases this study on the French language. It also provides an overview of important works by modern linguists such as Saussure, Chomsky and Jakobson. Finally, it covers the overlap between linguistics and other fields of study including neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and history.

This course gives students an overview of the history of the English-speaking world from the end of the eighteenth century to the onset of globalization during the twentieth. It studies such themes as the slave-trade, industrial revolution, imperial expansion, military conflict, Commonwealth, culture and identity. The course is designed to help students understand the major ideas, events and social/political movements which have sometimes brought the English-speaking countries together, and sometimes driven them apart. The main objective is to provide students with a synthesis of the evolution of the British World and to enable them to understand better how the challenges of a more diverse international system have progressively and profoundly affected the character and geopolitical role of the United Kingdom.

This course is divided in two parts: Economy of the Media and Marketing of the Media. In the economy of the media part of the course, the following topics are covered: operating rules common to the media industry and specific to the media industry, the economic models of the media and the actors present in the media, the causes of the press crisis and the solutions provided by various stakeholders. The course explains the conditions of creation, production and diffusion of the products of the different media. Through the course, students are able to understand the economic specificities of the media companies (diffused products and characteristics of the markets). In the marketing of the media part of the course, new modes of communication and marketing are presented through numerous audiovisual examples. Students analyze new forms of advertising discourse and new types of advertising funding developed by the media. The objective is to sensitize the students to the new forms of advertising communication and to explain the intricate link between marketing and the media.

The course is divided into four parts. Topics include poverty measurement and analysis; studies regarding social transfer programs; methods of impact assessments of development interventions; studies regarding poverty reduction programs; and microfinance services for the poor.

Through French literature, this course details the relationship between literature and politics, examining literature's ability to establish political order as well as moments in history wherein the political overtakes the literary. The course also asks the broad questions such as: what is literature and what is politics.

This course is a study of the rise and fall of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth French Republics. The focus is on the crisis leading to the failures of the Third and Fourth Republics, major political and philosophical actors with each republic, and the rise of the Fifth Republic. The course also addresses questions of stability and democracy.

This course provides students with a foundation on programming with C++, with the purpose of teaching them how to apply this language to scientific calculations. The first chapters cover a thorough introduction to the language, and familiarize students to programming using Oriented Object Programming. By the end of the semester, students have learned how to use this type of programming to solve differential equations and numerical methods.

This course studies the concepts and major stages of criminological ideas, explanatory models of deviance and their limits, secondary criminalization and application of the law, and contemporary perspectives of research on criminology. This course is worth 3.0 units but students can earn and extra 1.0 unit by writing an additional paper.