University of Bordeaux

This course is divided into two parts: civilization and literature. The civilization part covers the history of Australia since the beginning of the 20th century. It studies the major events that shaped Australian identity: the world wars and their impact on Australia's place within the British Empire, the major stages of indigenous activism, and the socio-cultural impact of immigration. The literature part of the course introduces the main paradigmatic change of 1980s Britain: the advent of shifting, plural, unstable identities. Hanif Kureishi’s THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA is the perfect introduction to these themes and also, at the time, brought a new light on the political and cultural period. The importance of drama and television writing is also discussed. Additional topics include Thatcher’s Britain, postcolonialism, marketing marginal voices, suburbia, and the pop scene.

This course has two parts. The first part deals with the methodology of formal visual analysis through the study of paintings from nineteenth-century Britain. It provides the opportunity to apply this methodology by analyzing a specific painting and giving a presentation on its history and composition. The second part of the course involves an in-depth analysis of British photographs and the themes that they represent. It explores the politics of representation and as what is at stake in terms of ethics and positioning when pictures are taken, in the process when they are made, and in their conditions of production. Themes discussed include the representation of class, ethnic minorities, women, disabilities, poverty, national identity, and collective representations, particularly through the prism of portraits and self-portraits.

This course considers labor and its exploitation. It discusses the labor theory of value and the concept of exploitation in Marxian theory, as well as the criticisms and the ways they are overcome by analytical Marxism.

This course covers how to differentiate wine-growing soils and understand how, along with the climate, they influence the functioning of the plant and maturation. It also discusses how to characterize maturation and the biochemical processes involved in deciding the harvest date; understand the organization and functioning of the plant to produce quality grapes in a given pedo-climatic context; and use all the data on the organization and functioning of the plant to produce quality grapes in a case study context.

This course introduces the broad literary genre of science fiction, with a particular focus on postwar American science fiction from the classics to cyberpunk. The first part of the course focuses on BLADE RUNNER and analyzes excerpts from various science fiction films of the period, including Ridley Scott's 1982 film adaptation. The second part of the course focuses on BURNING CHROME. The course strengthens literary analysis through close reading and considers how the thematic components of science fiction have developed over time. 

This course focuses on the history of Rome from the foundation of the Republic until the commencement of the imperial era. It explores how the Roman Republic’s political structures allowed it to become the primary power of the Mediterranean and Western worlds. It also explores in depth the authors and historiography of this period.

This course covers how to establish the relationship between chemical and physicochemical mechanisms and the evolution of the quality of a wine. It also covers how to choose the analyses adapted to control or respond to a given problem, carry them out, interpret the results, and give the necessary advice and prescriptions.

This course focuses on the history of Central and Eastern Europe during the mid-15th to mid-17th centuries. Topics include the Holy Roman Empire, The Ottoman Empire, the protestant reformation, Scandinavia, and Russia at this time. Furthermore, it explores the complex relations between these states after the Middle Ages and the creations of the states that would continue into the contemporary era.

This course presents a broad picture of international migration in recent history and a detailed picture of its recent trends. It introduces the analytical and empirical tools that are necessary to evaluate its impact on the host countries.

The course provides a fundamental knowledge of genetics. It covers how traits are passed from one generation to the next, the role of genes in biological functions, methods for mapping genes to chromosomes and predicting risk of transmission of monogenic pathologies, and methods to characterize and/or create an animal model for a genetic disease.