University of Bordeaux

This course focuses on intensive instruction in written and oral French. The oral part of the course studies pronunciation, vocabulary, and simple sentence structure. Written work includes grammatical basics, syntax, and spelling. The course includes regular exercises to train comprehension and expression.

This course represents additional work for the course FR 129, LITERARY TEXTS. This course explores the difference between the language of literature and the language of general communication. The course examines these topics by conducting close textual analyses on nineteenth and twentieth century literary samples of poetry, novels, and theater.

This course introduces the appropriate use of specific terminology for ecology and provides an awareness and understanding of interactions between the environment and the living beings. It covers the initial approach of ecology and main ecological notions related to terrestrial and marine systems as well as animal and plant domains. Topics include ecology in history, ecological factors, structure and dynamics of populations, and community ecology and structure of ecosystems.

This course consists of three segments. The first part of this course focuses on grammar: logical analysis, tenses, modes, style, and spelling; accompanied by regular dictation and vocabulary building. The second part focuses on writing skills to develop competence in French written expression. The third part focuses on written comprehension and understanding various kinds of texts: informative, argumentative, or authoritative.

This course focuses on fiction and imagination in Renaissance and Baroque romantic poetry. It is taught in French and focuses on French poetry; however, the course also analyzes myths from many different cultures that are referenced throughout the studied poems.

This course provides students with an overview of the shape and organization of the global economy today. It offers a survey of current global trends, supplying their historical background and tackling the interpretations put forward by economists to explain their significance. It examines the economic situation among the various players of the international economy by focusing on different countries and regions to show how they have become interdependent. Teaching and class discussions are fed by recent in-depth summaries supplied by the Economist magazine, which will be made available. Students give a short presentation during the term on the economic situation of a country of their choice, with particular relevance to the present theme (pre-arranged with the instructor).