University of Bordeaux

This course explores the sociology of organizations. It explores the structures of enterprise, and examines the many historical and contemporary theories that explain these structures. Students examine different critiques of these theories and studies, and how organizations and enterprises work on a sociological level.

This course closely examines the French Presidential Election of 2017 and its potential impact on the future of French politics. Topics include the rise of new political parties and the factors that led to the victory of Emanuel Macron.

The course is an introduction to the Japanese language. The aim of the course is for students to learn the alphabets hiragana and katakana, as well as basic oral and written expressions.

Students are expected to read and understand documents relevant to the "living university" and should be able to produce written (letter, email, etc.) and oral material relevant to university life in Spanish.

This course covers how Africa and its relations with the rest of the world can contribute to our understanding of world politics. The last 15 years have experienced a dramatic shift in the representations of Sub-Saharan Africa on the international scene. Part of this shift lies in the recent economic and diplomatic growing involvement of non-Western states and firms, coming from Asia more particularly. These newcomers induce a new competitive stance among the traditional partners of the sub-continent, arguably providing African actors with new economic opportunities. The course documents these current trends, including their sociological and historical backgrounds, and relates them to key issues explored by International Relations (IR) scholars, regarding the logics of cooperation and conflict, the role of the interstate system in the capitalist world economy, multilateral institutions, regional integration, security communities, the politics of identity, etc.

The city of Pompeii, located in Campania, was brutally destroyed during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. Since its rediscovery in the eighteenth century, it has produced a considerable amount of information on a medium-sized conurbation of the imperial era. This course offers, from various sources (literary, epigraphic, archaeological) and the most recent research, a study of its evolution through its public and private components.

This Q course represents additional work for the course THE FRENCH ECONOMY AND THE STATE. The role of the state has returned as a major issue in today's political debate. It has been at the top of political economists' agenda for over a generation. This course clarifies a number of key facts on the place and functions of the modern state in developed countries taking France as an case-study. It adopts a historical and thematic approach tracing the successive developments of the French state over the last 200 years in order to highlight the logic of today's functions and actions and their determinants and objectives. The lectures weave together major insights from political philosophy, economics, and sociology. The following topics are covered: the modern state in theory and practice; the French status in international perspective; Colbertism, the Ancien regime, and the Revolution; the liberal state; free trade and protectionism; the balance sheet of colonialism; the economy of war; the managed economy; the rise of bureaucracy; the provident state and industrial policy; from capitalism to socialism; European integration.

This course covers a panorama of the genres and the works of the Spanish and Hispanic-American literature of the main literary movements, linking between culture, history, and literature The course is divided into two parts. Part 1 covers literature from Spain's Middle age to Golden Age. Part 2 covers an historical panorama of Latin-American literature, notably in Mexico and Central America. Students read a selection of poems, dialogues, plays, and extracts that reflect these eras. The course is taught in Spanish and French.