European Studies

This course examines post-war French politics and society through the study of objects. It explores issues such as race, class, gender, and sexuality in the context of modernization and urbanization, colonization and globalization, social movements and revolt. The course assesses the rebuilding of France in the aftermath of collaboration and occupation, looking at the expansion of the French state, the emergence of new social groups and categories, and the way in which conflicts emerge over social, political, and cultural questions. It charts these processes by focusing on the study of objects, drawing on a range of perspectives developed by historians, sociologists, and critical theorists.

This course examines the main aspects of intra-European mobility, whether legal, political, socio-economic, or cultural. It introduces the paradigm shift in intra-community migration and living together that goes hand in hand with this specific way of conceiving the cohesion of the European Union and its relationship with its neighborhood, making Europe at the beginning of the 21st century a laboratory for experimenting with a post-national citizenship. Analysis of reference texts and figures is supplemented by discussion time to help students reflect on their own experience as mobile citizens or, comparatively, on their experience of migration outside Europe and interculturality. Several case studies illustrate the analysis and highlight the diversity of situations that intra-European mobility can involve.

This course offers an introduction to Galician language including pronunciation, intonation, orthophony, and spelling. It discusses standard lexicon, fundamental morphosyntactic structures, verbs, and elementary aspects of pragmatics and phraseology.