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This course examines the history and modern advances in health and approaches to health through an anthropological lens.
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This course examines how development in countries is affected by humanitarianism.
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This course studies how humans have communicated verbally, non-verbally, and across distances.
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This course is focused on journalism not just as a study but a practice. It covers the practices of journalistic writing (audience engagement, research, interviewing, hierarchizing and choosing (editing information, headline, portrait writing, reporting, and investigating) while also experimenting with different techniques through assignments and exercises, including a partnered oral press review, an editorial piece, a portrait, and a reporting piece.
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This course presents the current debate on the opening of borders at the time of globalization. Through a comparative analysis of the trade policies of the major powers (Europe, the United States, and China), it allows us to measure the stakes and risks associated with the current resurgence of protectionism. The course studies the evolution of trade since 1948, exposes the main theories of international trade, and presents a comparative analysis of the trade policies in Europe, the United States, and China. It provides an understanding of the challenges of trade relations between nations in the context of both the economic crisis and globalization. Should economies be opened or closed? The course presents economic and political doctrines as well as current events that shed light on the current confrontation between free trade and protectionism.
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This course is dedicated to the study of Dramaturgy of Romantic Drama, a genre that came to the forefront of French stages with the Romantic revolution of the 1830s. After the presentation of the major theoretical texts that founded Romantic Dramaturgy, it focuses on dramaturgical analysis of three major plays from the repertoire covering almost the entire 19th century, from the Golden Age of the 1830s with Hugo and Musset, to the late avatar represented by CYRANO DE BERGERAC in 1897. Theoretical knowledge is mobilized--the poetics of the genre, plot construction, the character system, the management of time and space--and applied to specific to specific works and themes. The transition from text to stage is also addressed with the help of video recordings of historical and modern stagings.
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From the magic lantern to the early cinema, this course explores the context of the 19th-century history of Europe and the United States, told through the various European avant-garde movements. Moving forward, it observes the modernization of filmmaking with a focus on contemporary French cinema, by combining aesthetic and narrative considerations. Learning outcomes include: knowing film history focusing on this major period of its history; mastering specific filmmaking vocabulary; acquiring film analysis and basic methodology.
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This course deals with collective mobilizations of working class men and women (riots, strikes, syndicalism, demonstrations) from the 18th century to today. In history, the study of revolts and revolutions has raised the question of the people's participation in national politics. The revolting working classes are indeed a strong representation, full of meaning, images, and symbols. This image is perhaps all the more central in France where the national narrative is built on the legacy of the French Revolution, when the people imposed democracy. This course presents the very history of these mobilizations, of their action patterns and objects of contestation, while focusing on men and women who revolt. It outlines the history of ideas and political movements (socialism, communism, anarchism, etc) along with the history of political and union organizations that structured part of the popular protests. This course examines collective and popular mobilizations from the revolutionary period to today and analyzes the role of these mobilizations on political, social, and cultural history of contemporary France.
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Taking advantage of the fresh perspective that being abroad offers, this course explores writing in another language, using the specific format of short stories. Themes, places, and formal constraints are given to guide students in discovering the city and producing their own short stories, to make this semester in Lyon not a tourist trip but a unique opportunity to reflect. The workshop, led by a teacher-researcher who is also an author, literary translator, and collection director, provides precise information on the French literary and publishing scene, professions, must-know places, important events, and more. Students are first asked to research stories in their own language, and then to share them with others, each bringing examples from their own cultural background to understand the structure of these short stories. Students then produce their own short stories in French and sharpen them. Lastly, students hand in a portfolio that includes their readings and analysis of literary devices, short stories they have written themselves, and proposals for creative ways of sharing their work. This is not a French writing course but a creative writing workshop; thus, an interest in reading literature (in any language) and an artistic sensibility (in any field) is necessary.
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This course provides an exploration of French language and civilization through several cultural facets: literature, music, news, politics, ecology, media, and cultural traditions. It analyzes various media in France throughout the 20th and 21st centuries and discusses their linguistic, social, and cultural significance.
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