Sciences Po Reims

This is a highly interactive elective seminar course encouraging maximum student participation and leadership. Grounded in the concept of praxis (learning by doing, education for use), the course explores the nature of influence, legitimate and non-coercive methods of influence, and different ways of exercising that influence. Ranging from the academic and philosophical to the practical and personal, the course considers forms, methods, and networks of influence, weighs questions related to messaging, visibility, and the power of example, as well as offering training on how to give a successful speech, how to go on television with no time to prepare, how to exercise influence in organizations, and how to create your own persona as an influencer.

From the lenses of cultural studies and gender studies, this course examines how fiction throughout various eras has treated, whether directly or indirectly, questions of seduction, femininity, masculinity, and the meaning of virility. It explores the manner in which political and ideological disruptions have modified the figure of the seducer and vamp, and how this is presented in various cultural productions of stories, novels, poems, frescoes, paintings, opera, film, television series, and video games. 

This is an intermediate level French language course. Fourth semester French- B1.2. This course is for students who have completed through the B1.1 level of French. At the end of this semester-long course, students are expected to: know how to write texts focusing on simply articulated opinions; write simple, detailed descriptions; tell an anecdote and create a story; write personal letters description experiences, feelings, events, or express their thoughts on an abstract idea; write an administrative letter; summarize a factual event; summarize information from diverse sources; write a simple essay; explain a problem; emphasize certain points; conjugate and use the future tenses (simple future, anterior future), the conditional (present, past), the subjunctive (impersonal simple phrases + subjunctive), expression of feelings, of obligation, possibility + subjunctive, the conjugations of pour que, afin que, avant que + subjunctive, pronominal verbs in the passive. The course covers: nouns, pronouns and indefinite adjectives; adverbs with –ment, phrases(relative pronouns, phrases with “if”); speech Lexical content; Diplomacy careers; Europe; talk about numbered date; define a political group; United Nations; express oneself (to talk about an event in the past); describe with precision a place, a person, an object; develop an argument; formulate a hypothesis; evaluate a possibility (doubt, certainty, possibility); introduce, develop arguments, categorize by hierarchy, conclude; expose reasons and explanations of opinions, projects and actions; explain a phenomenon/fact/societal event/natural phenomenon; take part in a conversation, start or restart one; exchange information, negotiate, ask or give advice/tips/a favor/an authorization; express a feeling (surprise, joy, sadness, curiosity, indifference), an emotion, tastes; give or ask for a personal point of view, express one's agreement or disagreement, to explain why something is a problem and discuss how to find solutions, in a formal or informal framework; lead or join a discussion, use an adequate expression to take over the conversation, invite someone to join in the conversation or give their point of view, sum up during a conversation, ask someone to clarify or further develop a point; sum up a short story, an article, a presentation, an interview (synthesize and reformulate); recount a speech.

This course introduces the main contemporary debates around human reproduction and discusses their potential impact on society, particularly as regards gender roles and family diversity. The course reflects on issues such as the possibility of diverse families and individuals to have children by using assisted reproductive technologies, the question of whether surrogate motherhood or social egg freezing are liberating or on the contrary oppressive for women, and the social implication of whether parents should be allowed to choose some attributes of their future offspring (such as eye color, height, or IQ) if able to do so. The course explores how current events such as the COVID-19 pandemic or the war in Ukraine have impacted the reproductive rights of various categories of individuals and the regulation of human reproduction in different countries, as well as at international level. The course builds on several disciplines, particularly law, gender studies, sociology, and bioethics. It discusses court cases (especially from the European Court of Human Rights), pieces of legislation, media articles and videos, and sociological and philosophical writings and other sources. Students work on topics related to human reproduction as policy makers, law makers, or gender and LGBT+ human rights specialists.