University of Bordeaux

This course studies the methodology of film analysis. It develops analysis skills by analyzing shots and sequences.

This course provides an overview of the diverse forms of private actors and their contributions to local policy making. It invites a critical discussion of the dynamics that public-private partnerships generate and the outcomes they produce. The course combines theory and empirical evidence from several countries to investigate the influence and intervention of private actors on institutional and economical policies and processes.

This course provides a critical analysis of European Union institutional structure and political functioning from the point of view of political science. It reflects on the nature of the European Union political system and policies by looking at its historical and constitutional design. The course then examines how European Union institutions are appointed, how they function, their respective powers, and how they interact with each other and with the national political institutions and civil society actors. The course also describes European policy making, examines the process of institutional reform, and the challenges the European Union is facing today.

This translation course is taught at the second-year level. The course focuses on training students how to translate both the tone and grammar of Francophone and Anglophone literature and/or journalistic texts. Students first translate from English to French, and then from French to English. Students are given abstracts from English and French writers, mostly from the latter half of the twentieth century.

This course covers European economic integration including definitions, connections, stages, and political integration. The impact of economic integration is reviewed, taking into consideration trade and financial integration, through empirical evidence of the integration process in Europe. Also discussed is the Divergence/Convergence debate. Students are given an overview of the Economic and Monetary Union in Europe including its involvement in the Impossible Trinity Principle and the Theory of Optimal Currency Areas. Finally, the course covers macroeconomic principles in the EMU which includes governance in the EMU, monetary policy in the time of crisis, fiscal policies in the EMU and the exchange rate policy for the Euro.

Postcolonialism first emerged as a discipline in the United States in the 1980s, but it has its roots in the work of anticolonial writers from the first half of the twentieth century. Postcolonial theory looks at the interaction between European nations and the societies they colonized and, in doing so, raises questions about concepts such as power, race, language and identity. Literature plays a key role in the anti-colonial struggle as it can offer an alternative vision to the official history of colonization. This course introduces students to some of the key concepts in postcolonial theory through the study of two novels, THE SECRET RIVER (2005) by the white Australian author Kate Grenville and THE WHALE RIDER (1987) by the Maori writer Witi Ihimaera.