University of Lyon 2

This course deals with the French political and administrative system: the different local and national public institutions; relationships between the state and local authorities; and the democratic issue. It presents the various institutions involved: the European Union, states, regions, departments, inter-communalities, and municipalities. Its also explains the overall functioning of this system: role of the central state and the European Union, relations between local authorities, public-private cooperations. Finally, it introduces the main topics and issues which have been explored in recent years in the field of academic research about the French political and administrative system.

This course focuses on analyzing 19th century poetry from authors such as Emily Dickenson and Henry David Thoreau.

This course focuses on mental processes such as memory, problem solving, and decision making. It discusses the ideas and experiments of major psychologists who studied cognition, such as Ivan Pavlov and Albert Bandera. The main focus of the course is learning about cognition and internal mental processes. It studies the birth of scientific psychology, behavorism to cognitivism, memory, and metacognition.

This course focuses on writing that addresses places of memory by transfiguring them into "happiness machines," recycling the poetics deployed in the works of the program, which become literally a way of reintroducing into a new cycle fragments saved from oblivion in order to achieve a renewed perception of the world.

This course covers the history of fashion from antiquity to the present day, since its first expressions in ancient times to its latest contemporary evolution. Through the study of fashion trends, clothing manufacturers, and critical commentary, the course analyzes the evolution of masculine and feminine silhouettes, as well as the links between the textile economy, clothing design, and the materials used to make clothing. These studies are based on emblematic visual and material objects to identify tools for describing the history of fashion and its obsessions. Each session revolves around one chronomatic issue in order to retell the history of clothing, silhouette, and the culture of fashion.

This course is an examination of Shakespeare's work and the cultural and literary background of the two plays HAMLET and AS YOU LIKE IT, studied in the accompanying tutorial course, SHAKESPEARE TUTORIAL. The course explores particularly the various genres of the plays, the theatrical conditions in Shakespeare's times, as well as more general cultural issues such as the Elizabethan world picture and the religious reformation.

This course is specialized for international students. It studies basic texts of French and francophone literature, with a particular focus on the different styles used and topics approached. The course also discusses French history and how it is reflected in an authors' writing.

This course covers the complete history of cinema. From the Lumière brothers through today, it discusses the full context of the history of cinema, including political climate.

This course reads and analyzes Francophone literature written by those of Black descent in order to understand terms like Afrofuturism and Afroprophetism to connect history with the present. The course examines the literary and narrative histories and structure of African and African-related works and considers how the narratives renew the view of Africa in a philosophical sense through literary works. Works studied include Leonara Miano's ROUGE IMPERATRICE, Abdourrahman Waberi's AUX ETATS UNIS D'AFRIQUE, and an anthology collected through a collective project.

This course is designed specifically for international students. It focuses on the history of France and its Presidents.