CUPA Course Descriptions 13-14

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_ Course Descriptions 2013-2014

This booklet is not a course catalogue. It provides descriptions for the courses taken by CUPA students during 2013-2014 (courses preceded by an asterisk) and the most popular courses taken over recent years. Unless otherwise specified, all courses listed herein are taught in French and carry full semester course credit recommendation, based on criteria (number of hours and coursework requirements) established by the CUPA program and its Academic Advisory Board.

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ORIENTATION *Orientation/Methodology

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FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS *French Language and Communication *French Writing Workshop: Argumentative Writing Strategies *French Language for Art History Majors *Literary and Journalistic Writing Workshop *Creation of Novels According to the New Dramaturgy and Literary Structure *Creative Writing Workshop: OuLiPo Writing Exercises *Poetry Workshop II *Writing Workshop: Art Criticism History of the French Language from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century *History of the French Lexicon *Grammar and History of the French Language *Poetics and Rhetoric *Introduction to French Linguistics and Style *Linguistics and Literary Critique *French Semantics: Linguistic Theories and Practical Approaches The Sentence and Subordination Morphology Introduction to Phonetics Phonology of French Spoken Communication Historical Sociolinguistics *Grammatical Structure of French Acquisition of Language and Languages The Brain and Language Introduction to Language Production *Introduction to Problematics of Translation *Translation *Literary Translation Workshop *Poetic Translation Translation of Theatrical Texts *Comparative Translation

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FRENCH LITERATURE Introduction to Literary Studies 12th Century French Literature: The Origins of Chivalric Romance Marie de France: Les Lais Merlin: Birth and Deconstruction of a Myth Examining Prologues in Literature: From Antiquity through the Medieval Period Medieval Texts: Studying Image, Figure, and Semblance Les Essais by Montaigne *Modern Perspectives on Renaissance Literature *Poetry of the French Renaissance and the 19th Century: Ronsard and Baudelaire Human and Divine Love in 16th-17th Century French Literature *17th Century French Literature: the Invention of the Moral Comedy *Truth and Lies in 17th and 18th Century French Literature Comedy *17th and 18th Century French Literature *Classical French Literature of the 17th and 18th Centuries 18th Century French Literature: The Enlightenment and the Figure of the Philosopher Art and Literature in 18th Century France

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The French Enlightenment through Literature *Art Critics, from Diderot to Proust Literature, Ideas, and Art *Freudian Analysis of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days and Journey to the Centre of the Earth Genesis and Reception of the Naturalist Novel 19th Century French Literature of Revolutions *The Myth of Pygmalion in 19th Century French Literature Writers' Response to the Dreyfus Affair *The Figure of the Devil and the Concept of Evil in 19th Century French Literature *19th and 20th Century French Literature: Modern Melancholy *Theory and Stylistics in French Poetry: from Lyricism to Modernity *Hopeless, Lawless Children, 19th-20th Centuries *19th and 20th Century French Literature: Nerval and Proust *Nerval's Filles du feu *Texts and Theories: Poems in Prose and Free Verse 20th Century French Poetry: Apollinaire and the Invention of Modernity Introduction to the Writings of Marcel Proust: Un Amour de Swann 20th Century French Poetry *Surrealist Poetry *Writing under the Occupation: The Works of Sartre 1940-1944 *Contemporary Issues in 20th Century French Literature *Sacred and Secular Miracles in 20th Century French Literature Modern Rewritings of the Œdipus Myth in 20th Century French Literature *French Drama and the Avant-Garde: Jean-Luc Lagarce and the Importance of the Text *Writing Degree Zero: The Case of Robert Walser *Places of Memory in Paris and in French Literature *Literature in Film *History of Literary Publishing in the 19th and 20th Centuries *Introduction to Critical Literary Studies *Theories of Literature and Language: The Phenomenon of the Text *Epistemology of Literary History *Genetic Documentation of Literary Texts *Analysis of Poetic Language Linguistic and Stylistic Analysis of French Literature

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FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE Introduction to Francophone Literature *Francophone Literature *Postcolonial Francophone Literature: Women Writing Violence *The Francophone Novel in the Female Perspective *Revolution Through the Eyes of Women: Female Perspectives from North Africa and the Middle East French Orientalism and Arab Occidentalism *Aimé Césaire: Poetry and Politics *Francophone Literature: A History of Quebecois Literature and Literary Discourse *The Politics of Literature: Writings and Theories of Francophone Literatures

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Antigone: Sophocles and Anouilh Bible and Literature: A Survey of Biblical Influence in Western Literature Comparative Literature: Guests, Hosts and Parasites Study of a Movement: The Adventure Novel

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*Children's Literature: The Works of Wonderland Narratives of Dreams and Childhood Memories Comparative Literature: Gogol, Melville and Kafka *Studies of the Far East *European Literature: Poetry and the World War Era European Literature: Writing Consciousness 1880-1920 *The Study of Narrative in Contemporary Fiction Exile in Literature: Writing the Self’s Inner Territory *Semiotics of Comparative Literature: Literature, Visual and Performing Arts Contemporary Literature and Art Literature and Science in the 19th Century: Zola's Docteur Pascal and Darwin's The Origin of Species Literature and Psyche: Rilke and the Margins of Society *Masculine/Feminine: Literature in Context of Gender and the 18th-19th Centuries

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OTHER LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES *History and Literature of Western Culture (Greece, Rome, and France) Latin for Beginners Christian Latin Late Latin Literature Biblical Hebrew Modern Hebrew *Israeli Press *Third-year Arabic Language Arabic Grammar and Linguistics: Year 2 Modern Arabic Thought and Culture Introduction to Persian (Farsi) Bambara Intermediate Japanese *Advanced Chinese 1: Translation Chinese Grammar and Text Analysis 2 Advanced Chinese Fundamental Korean 2 Breton Italian for Beginners Italian Literature and Civilization: Dante Spanish Level 5 Fiction in 20th Century Latin-American History Survey of the Latin American Short Story Roots of Brazilian Literature and Analysis of Brazilian Poetry *German I for Art History Beginning German: Level 3 Identities and Territories: from the Republic of Weimar to Today Advanced Russian: Listening Comprehension and Grammar Early Russian History and Literature *Introduction to Russian Literature Sanskrit Literature: Kalidasa

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ENGLISH STUDIES Theoretical Cognitive Grammar Sir Thomas Malory and the Arthurian Tradition Representing Desire in Shakespeare's Theater *American Gothic: Writings and Rewritings

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Maps And Mazes: Depictions of the City in 20th Century Irish Literature Myths and Metamorphoses in British Literature Poetry and Poetics Bodies on Stage *The Revolution of Modernist Writing *Critical Theory: Feminism and the Origin of the Detective Novel The Interplay of Text and Image in American Literature *American Modernism: Poetics *Contemporary American Imaginations History and Culture of the American West - Fields of Gold: California and the American Dream Environmental History of the United States Historicizing the American Metropolis The Global Influence of Capitalism, Media, and Politics in the United States

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GENDER STUDIES *Gender Theory *The Construction of Gender *Female Education and the Construction of Gender Identity in the 19th and 20th Centuries *Gender and Politics Orientales: Fiction and Femininity Theories of Gender and Writings about Difference Class, Race, Gender and Sexual Difference Representations of Gender and Sexualities in Contemporary Art *Sexuality, Gender, and Religion in the Anglophone World

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HISTORY Introduction to Pharaonic Egypt: History of Egypt and the Middle Kingdom Egypt in the 18th Dynasty * Jews and Judaism in Antiquity History of the Greek City States from Croesus to Alexander (6th-4th Centuries B.C.) Introduction to Ancient History Love in Ancient Greece: From Helen to Cleopatra The Roman Empire from Caesar Augustus to Diocletian Citizenship: Rome and the Modern Era Introduction to Medieval History The Middle Ages in the West History of the Carolingian Empire The Medieval World in the 5th-12th Centuries *Introduction to Medieval Islam *Muslim States of the Medieval Middle East *History of the Ottoman Empire from 1451 to 1516 The Middle Ages from the 13th to the 15th Century Church and Society in the West from 1215 to 1450 Life, Love and Death in the Late Middle Ages The Byzantine Empire History of the Ottoman Empire in Arab Lands: 1516-1830 Europe in the Time of its First Modernity Social and Political History: The End of the Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance Social and Political History of Italy in the Early Renaissance (1380-1500) History of the French Renaissance: War and Faith under Francois Ier and Henri II *The Age of Discovery *France under the Reign of Louis XIV *The Reign of Louis XIV (1643-1715)

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France in the Reign of Louis XV History of 17th Century France *Cultural and Social History of Paris, 1660-1789 *History of Paris from 1660 to 1780: Ways of Life *History of Childhood and Children — 16th to 18th Centuries 18th Century France: Economy and Society The Ancien Regime in France: 16th-18th Centuries Political and Philosophical History of 17th and 18th Century International Relations *European presence in Asia during the 16th-18th Centuries France during the Age of the Enlightenment Introduction to Modern Ways of Thought: Love and Hatred of Kings Conditions of Illness and Death in French Society 16th-19th Centuries Modern Mentalities: Church and State in Modern France *18th Century France: Economy and Society From the Ancien RÊgime to the Revolution Historiography of the French Revolution Europe at War: History of Revolution and the Empire 1792-1815 History of Napoleonic France *Political and Social History of France *French Society and Politics in the 19th Century *Politics and Society in 19th Century France *19th and 20th Century Social Movements in France History of International Migrations in the 19th and 20th Centuries The History of Education in Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries *Revolutions in 19th Century Europe *Remembering 1914-1918: A Socio-Cultural Approach to World War I Understanding Contemporary French Political History, 1815-Present Wars and Crises in France Vichy France Authoritarian and Totalitarian Regimes The International System from 1815 to the Present History of Colonization *The Colonial Empires of the 19th and 20th Centuries The Emergence of the Arab World The Emergence of the Contemporary Arab World *History of the Middle East in the 20th Century History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict : Origins, Actors and Current Stakes *Political History of the 20th and 21st Centuries The United States and the World in the 20th Century Europe in the 20th Century (1900-1945) *Europe and its Nations: 1914-1945 *Political Transitions, Purges, and Societies in Europe at the End of WWII Fascism and Nazism in Europe *History of the European Construction *History of International Relations, 1815-1945 *International Relations since 1946 *The UK in Europe, the UK in the World Conflicts in the 20th Century Analysis of the Contemporary World *Crises and Tensions in the Contemporary World *Media, Information, and Telecommunications in France and the United States 20th Century Wars in History and Cinema Introduction to the History of Science

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POLITICAL SCIENCE, GEOPOLITICS AND GEOGRAPHY Fundamental Political Concepts * Theories of Democracy Comparative Political Institutions and Constitutions History and Analysis of French Elections Norms and Practices of Citizenship Discrimination, Diversity, and Anti-Discrimination Politics *International Institutions and Organizations Careers in Bilateral and Multilateral Diplomacy International Relations *Introduction to International Law Geopolitics: from Theory to Practical Cases Political Geography, Geopolitics, and Geo-Strategies Major Geopolitical Problems of the Contemporary World Political and Historical Geography: Power and Territory *Globalization: Causes, Effects and Alternatives International Migrations *Migration, Discrimination and Public Action European Construction European Institutions Geography of Developed Nations – European Union The Cultural Construction of National Identity in Europe Justice and Internal Affairs in the EU Policies and Coordination of the European Union Common Market *Social Welfare Systems in Europe *The Foreign Policy of the European Union *Cultural Policies and Institutions in Europe Empire, Colonialism and Post-Colonialism The African Sahel *The United States of America: Social, Economic, and Political Approach *African Politics and Society The Arab Spring The Middle East North America and Globalization *Geopolitics of Latin America Contemporary Issues in Latin American Democracies Comparative Sociology of Inequalities between Europe and the Americas The Great (Economic) Issues and Themes of Latin America Sociopolitical Movements in Latin America Mexico, the US and Immigration Geography of Language Geo-History of Urbanism *Urban Politics of Major European Cities *Inequalities and Risks: The Geography of Health Geography of Water Oceans: A Global Study Climatology

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COMMUNICATION, CULTURAL AND MEDIA STUDIES Mythology General Aesthetics Introduction to Media *Media and the Adolescent History of Communication

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History and Sociology of Women and the Press The French Bookstore and its Environment The Museum: between Culture and Commerce Museology: Immersion at Orsay and l'Orangerie The Question of Race: National Constructs and Transnational Circulations Non-Francophone Students in the French Education System History of Food and Cuisine Geography of Food *The Development and Trends of Gourmet and Wine Tourism New Consumer Models: Cuisine, Gastronomy, and Restaurants in France

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SOCIOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY *Social Science 1 *Sociological Theories and Concepts The Frankfurt School Sociology of Political Ideologies The Sociology of Law Sociology of Social Movements *Sociology of Gender *Sociology of the Body *Seminar: Discourse and Argument in the Context of Social Relations History and Social Sciences: Globalization Introduction to the Sociology of Immigration Representations of Poverty and Exclusion in Anglo-Saxon Societies Sociology of the City Public Space and the Urban Theater *Urban Sociology Ecology of the City, Ecology in the City *Readings: Cities and Social Sciences Urban Segregation Introduction to Demography: Population Studies and Immigration in France The Demographics of Family Politics Habitat, Family and Social Practices in Post-WWII France Evolution of French Society Since 1950 *The Evolution of the French Education System and its Social Impact The Sociology of Art Sociology of Religion and Society Divination and Ritual Possession in Africa Funerary Rites Anthropology of Environment in Latin America Anthropology of the Balkans Anthropology of the Berbers Introduction to Islamic Civilizations Humanitarian Action and its Limits: an Anthropological Critique of Development Anthropology of East Asia: China, Korea and Japan Anthropological Studies in an Urban Setting Aesthetic Anthropology: Native American and First Nation Populations Comparative Anthropology of Political Systems *Anthropology of Globalization: The Silk Roads *Representations and Realities of Islam in France *Anthropology of Water Management Introduction to the Anthropology of Health and Disease Ethno-Medicine

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Ethno-Sciences Ethnographic Cinema Ethnographic Terrain Practice Ethnology and Field Work Ethnological Approaches to African Religions Ethnology of Dance

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ART - HISTORY, THEORY AND PRACTICE Mesoamerican Art Archeology and Iconography of Pharaonic Egypt *ArchĂŚology of the Ancient Near East *Athens in the 5th Century BCE *Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art *Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art in situ at the Louvre Art History and Archaeology of the Roman Empire Romanesque and Gothic Art and Architecture (1000-1400) French Art of the Middle Ages Medieval Art: Painting and Funerary Art in France, 13th-15th Centuries *Art of the Middle Ages: Paris & Cyprus *Art History: Art and Nature Introduction to Art History of the European Renaissance Art of the Italian Renaissance Modern Art and Architecture: The Birth of the Classical Style in France Urban Planning and Architectural Development: Paris and Venice, 1585-1755 History of French Architecture: 16th-18th Century *The Architecture of Royal France and the History of Gardens Modern Art 1: Allegory in French Art of the 17th Century A Critical History of the Genres of 17th and 18th Century Painting Introduction to 18th Century European Art Late 18th and Early 19th Century French Art *History of Art 1800-1900: French Painting from David to Courbet *Major Movements in 19th Century French Painting *History of 19th and 20th Century Art *Rodin and Photography: 1880-1917 History of 20th Century Art Kandinsky and the Path to Abstraction Mondrian and De Stijl *Language of Reality: Art of the 1950s *Minimal and Conceptual Art: 1960-Present Panorama of Contemporary Art, 1960-1980 *History of 20th- 21st Century Art: Avant-Garde Photography *History of Photography from 1839 to 1910 *History of Modern Photography *Works of Art and Society, 15th-20th Centuries History of Architectural Theory in the 20th Century The Role of the Viewer in Art, Past and Present Introduction to Modern Aesthetic Theory *Techniques of Artistic Creation *Initiation to Museology *Introduction to Photography *Advanced Photography *Drawing the Nude *Life Drawing

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*Drawing with Live Models *Advanced Figure Drawing Studio Art: The Art of the Comic Strip *Drawing and Illustration *Children's Book Illustration *Enlarged Practices of Drawing: Multimedia Explorations *Drawing to Paint *Painting and Drawing Painting Studio *Contemporary Painting *Fresco Painting I *2-D Composition Studio Graphic Design Studio Mixed Media Studio Art: Articulation and Duration Mail Art and Communication Pottery and Ceramics *Pottery Sculpture *Small Sculpture and Jewelry

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FILM STUDIES History of Film Forms History of Cinema 1928-1965 *The History of Contemporary Cinema *Introductory Film Analysis Film Narrative French Avant-Garde Cinema of the 1920s History of Cinema: Soviet Avant-Garde Cinema of the 1920s Classic French Cinema: 1930-1960 Tod Browning: Cinema and Teratology The Later Works of Charles Chaplin (1930-1957) Hollywood Comedies in the 1930s Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis The Life and Films of Fritz Lang Surrealist Film *The Cinema of Jean-Luc Godard The Films of François Truffaut French New Wave Cinema *The Body in Cinema Modern French Cinema: from the Nouvelle Vague to Militant Cinema *A “Cinema of Sensations”? Reflections on the “New French Extremity” in Contemporary French Cinema France/Hollywood: A Cultural Analysis of Cinematic Exchange *Cinematic motifs: Falling and Rising *Film Noir History of American Independent Cinema from Shadows to the Sundance Film Festival History of the Hollywood Industry from the 1970s to Present Day The Cinema of Martin Scorsese Terrorism in American Cinema American Horror Cinematography: Bollywood (Indian Cinema) Elements of Fantasy in Spanish Cinema *The Golden Age of Japanese Cinema Read, Write, Film: The Adaptation of a Novel into a Screenplay Parody and Pastiche in Film

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Light, Color and Mise en Scène: A History of Cinematography The Soundtrack in Modern Cinema Theories and Functions of Frame and Off-Screen Space in Cinema "Mockumentaries": The Real and the Fake Video Art from 1963 to the Present Semiology in Film Theory Cinema and Philosophy *Fundamentals of Script Writing *Writing Screenplays and Film Production *Economic Aspects of Film Production *Exercise in Production: Fiction

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THEATER *History of Theater I - Antiquity to the 17th Century Theater and Violence Baroque Dramaturgy of the Tragicomedy History of Theatrical Aesthetics *Dramaturgical Analysis Professor Chehilita.

Analysis of Theatrical Works Theater and Politics, Ancient and Modern Tragedy Drama Theory: Writing and Memory The Tools of Theater - Theater and Cinema Photography and the Theater Theatrical Analysis: Models for Directing Dada and Surrealist Theater The History of the Moscow Art Theater From Text to Stage: Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard Theater Arts: Monsters and Monstrosity Theater and Storytelling Risk and Value Analysis of Theatrical Projects *Classical Theater Workshop *Corporeal Theater Program Cours Jean-Laurent Cochet: Professional Training Program Acting Workshop : Scene Study *Practical Approach to Mime *Theater of the Oppressed: Workshop *From Classical Theater to the Contemporary Stage Theater Workshop: Body and Voice Introduction to Performance Scene Design Workshop

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MUSIC Medieval Musical Notation The Compositional Œuvre of Guillaume de Machaut History of Music (Middle Ages and Renaissance) Music and Poetry of the 16th Century Chanson History of Music in the 17th Century Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Baroque Sources History of Music 17th - 19th Centuries Opera in the Age of Mozart Gluck's Reform of Opera in 18th Century Paris/Rhetoricity and Tonal Analysis Art and Music in France (1789-1931) Evolution of 19th Century Musical Language

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Opera and Drama in the 19th Century Berlioz: An Exploration of Symphonic Forms The History of 19th and 20th Century Opera The Invention of OpÊra Comique *Music and Modernity in Europe at the Turn of the 20th Century *Music and Technological Mutation from the 1920s to the 1970s Jazz Techniques and Styles Deciphering Music through Theory and Performance Psychoacoustics Introduction to Ethnomusicology *Music of the Mediterranean and Balkan Regions *Music and Dance Ear Training *Studio Ear Training: Recording, Mixing, and Mastering Audio *Private piano instruction Private Violin Lessons Cello Lessons Private Cello Study Private Double Bass Lessons Private Viola Study Private Study - Viola da Gamba Flute Flute Lessons Chamber Music Ensemble Symphony Orchestra *Private Voice Lessons *Voice Lessons: French Repertoire *Voice Lessons: Italian Repertoire *Voice Lessons/Ear Training Jazz Combo *Workshop: Ethnomusicology, Experimentation, and Musical Creation Grand Chœur de la Sorbonne: The Sorbonne Choral Society Baroque Chorus and Orchestra

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DANCE History of Contemporary Dance *Ballet *Advanced-Level Ballet Advanced Ballet Technique *Ballet and Modern Jazz Dance Advanced Modern Technique *Dance Improvisation

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ARCHITECTURE Long-Span Structural Systems Architectural Studio: Scenography and Architecture of Performance Spaces City and Environment: Historical and Critical Perspectives Architectural Studio: Sustainable Development and Youth Housing in Vitry-Sur-Seine Emerging Public Space: Use and Perceptions of Transportation Systems Public Edifice

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PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION Definitions of Philosophy The Philosophy of Nature

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Philosophy of Love *Modern Philosophy Kant: Critique of Pure Reason History of Contemporary Philosophy: Marx, Nietzsche and Freud Propositional Logic Submission Perception, Imagination, and Memory The Philosophy of Science Philosophy of Science and Technology Hegel and Heidegger: Identity and Difference Phenomenology and the Notion of the Other Bergson and French Culture 1914-1940 History of Contemporary Philosophy from Fichte to Kierkegaard Ethics and Morals The Idea of Moral Progress: Reading Kant Ethics and Society The Human Condition and Society Introduction to Political Philosophy *Political Philosophy: Evolution of the Concept of Political Liberty *The Political Texts of Karl Marx Who are the "People" of a Democracy?

Philosophy of Economics *Critical Thought and its Critics: Bruno Latour Metaphysics: Faith and Knowledge Love in the Political Philosophy of Hegel Philosophy of Art: What Is Modern Art? *Reading Foucault’s History of Sexuality I: The Will to Knowledge Indian Philosophy Symbols, Myths and Rites in Religions *Religions, Modern Thought and Secularism The Doctrine of the Trinity Judaism in France Christians and Muslims in History Foundations of Buddhism Religious Texts of Asia: Great Hindu and Buddhist Texts Introduction to Hinduism

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ECONOMICS History of Economic Thought *History of Economic and Social Thought *History of Economic and Social Thought in the 19th Century Social and Economic History *History of Economic Policy in France since 1945 *Major Economic Doctrines *Economic Theory *Contemporary Economic Issues *International Economics International Political Economy *International Political Economy: Rethinking Europe in a Globalized World Economics of the European Union Economy of European Labor Markets Development Economics International Economics and Globalization

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Economic Aspects of Globalization Inequality and Redistribution European Economic Integration Public Economics *Labor Market and Employment Policy Social Economics *Business Economics *Doing Business with the Chinese *Macroeconomics of Europe Microeconomics Intermediate Microeconomics *International Finance and Recent Financial Market Crises Economics of Financial Markets Monetary Institutions and Mechanisms *Decision Science Professors Baccelli and Cozic Quantitative Methodology: Descriptive Statistics Taxation

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PSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE *Introduction to Developmental Psychology Development of Emotional, Gestured, Postural and Verbal Communication Language Processes Development of Personality in Childhood and Adolescence Child and Adolescent Psychopathology Today The Development of Friendship and Relationships Learning at School: Processes and Assessment Methods The Cognitive Aspects of Memory and Learning School Failure and Remediation Cognitive Psychology Cognitive Functioning *Machine Learning Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion *Hemispheric Specialization and Nervous System Pathologies Neuropharmacology and Brain Plasticity Neuropsychology and Language *Behavior and Genetics Introduction to Social Psychology Social Psychology Social Psychology of Gender *The Psychology of Groups Social Psychology: Opinion, Beliefs, and Collective Life Social Psychology of Health Introduction to Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology *Introduction to Clinical Psychology *Introduction to Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology Clinical Psychology: Traumatic Experiences Approaches to Psychological Disorders Evaluating Personality in a Clinical Setting through Projective Methods and Questionnaires Psychology of Consumer Behavior The Psychology of Food and Nutrition Psychology of Space and Environment

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The Psychology of Music Psychological Research Basics

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SCIENCES Algebraic Topology Diophantine Geometry Abelian Varieties Probability and Statistics *Introduction to Programming in Java Geophysics Biochemistry Cellular Biology *Intermolecular Forces Organic Chemistry Human Physiology Human Cellular Function *Immunology Evolutionary Ecology Interactions between Plants and their Environments *Chemical Kinetics and Reactivity *Thermodynamics *Thermodynamics and Statistical Aspects *Geotechnical Engineering Fluid Mechanics

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INTERNSHIPS/INDEPENDENT STUDIES/ Urban Renewal in the Parisian Banlieue Independent Study: Evolution of French Cuisine in the 1920s Independent Study: Research at the Quai Branly Museum on the Relationship between the Collections and the Public Independent Study: The New Islamic Art Galleries of the Louvre in a Post-9/11 World Research internship: International Arms Trade and Political Strategy: the US, Russia, and China and the Sale of Weapons to the Middle East, Israel, and Western Africa The New Anti-Semitism in France Traditional Authorities and the Evolution of State and Democracy in Africa Individual Research Project: Street Art, from Sidewalks to Galleries Cultural Policymaking Internship Student Teaching Internship

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ORIENTATION

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*ORIENTATION/METHODOLOGY

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The orientation session is obligatory for all program students. Orientation includes intensive classes devoted to the methodology used in the French university classes and in particular the commentaire composĂŠ and the dissertation, as well as specific grammar review and conversation practice. Students must also attend the complete series of supplementary lectures/visits that exposes them to the French University, the educational system, registration procedures, culture in Paris, practical information, security in Paris, etc. 50 hours total.

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Professors Boisdron, Bondurand, Petitjean and Renard

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FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS

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*FRENCH LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION ENSAAMA Through close readings in French literature, including novels, short stories, plays, and poems, ranging from Balzac to Camus, this course explores the themes of the “artistic life” and the view of the “outsider”. Discussion includes the problems and themes of translation and students produce their own translation of texts.

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*FRENCH WRITING WORKSHOP: ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING STRATEGIES Center for University Programs Abroad An intensive writing workshop designed for students who wish to perfect their written French, with a focus on the techniques of strategic and argumentative writing. In order to improve sentence construction, encourage vocabulary building, and better understand complex structures in French grammar, students work on analytical writing as-

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signments of various lengths for each class meeting: dissertations, persuasive essays, written reactions to current events, and a research report. By examining the methods of rhetoric and argumentation, students refine their ability to create a convincing discourse in French.

Professor Petitjean.

*FRENCH LANGUAGE FOR ART HISTORY MAJORS École du Louvre This two-semester course is structured around arthistory-related vocabulary, methodology, conversation, and grammar. Each week, a different set of grammar structures and vocabulary is discussed and weekly worksheets are handed out to be completed for the following meeting. The in-class graded assignments are designed as practice for content courses exams at the École du Louvre.

Professor Miquel.

*LITERARY AND JOURNALISTIC WRITING WORKSHOP Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course covers three styles of writing: creative, journalistic and literary. Students explore the journalistic genre (titles, abstracts, editorials, interviews, etc.), creative writing (Oulipian constraints and other exercises) and the literary genre (autobiography, correspondence, etc.). Each week, students share their written work with the class and receive feedback. Assignments include visiting a museum exhibition and writing an analytical critique, choosing a current event in the news and writing a comparative press review, and writing a creative piece on a topic of choice.

Professor Sommant.

*CREATION OF NOVELS ACCORDING TO THE NEW DRAMATURGY AND LITERARY STRUCTURE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis As the boundaries of literature expand, the ways by which it is taught must do the same. Twitter, blogs, and journals have proven to be successful forms of expression and should not be overlooked. This course thus gives students the opportunity to witness the power of such mediums through their own creations and those of their peers.

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*CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP: OULIPO WRITING EXERCISES Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Authors involved in the OuLiPo movement (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle) were required to write under a variety of literary restrictions: Georges Perec, for example, wrote La Disparition without the letter "e". Students in this class take a hands-on approach to the Oulipo movement by writing a short piece under a different constraint each week. The course also focuses on writing theory.

Professor Montalbetti.

*POETRY WORKSHOP II Université de Paris-Sorbonne This workshop is intended as a forum in which students can receive feedback on their work. Each week students learn about a different poetic form or subject, using the works of other poets ranging from Baudelaire to Michaux as examples. Students then write a poem using the form or subject as a prompt, to be workshopped in class the following week. The semester concludes with an open class where students can present their poems to the public.

Professor Durain.

*WRITING WORKSHOP: ART CRITICISM Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Through the writing of original pieces of art criticism, this course provides students with the opportunity to explore their writing through a consideration of contemporary art in Paris. Courses are devoted to the methods and techniques of creative art criticism as well as readings and peer critiques of the students' work.

Professor Masanès.

HISTORY OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE 21ST CENTURY Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis A course tracing the roots and evolution of the French language, from the period just before the Middle Ages to the present day. Bernard Cerquiglini’s La naissance du français offers an introduction to the origins and transformation of French, beginning with the monumental Serment de Strasbourg.

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guage as a means of establishing ideology, political dogma, and above all socio-economic division. The French of Francophone countries is given particular attention in the second half of the semester.

in the construction of style. Extracts from texts include those of Zola, Proust, Flaubert, and Duras.

Professor Séguy.

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Professor Paillet.

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Literary texts are analyzed through the science of language in this two-fold course. Literary works are seen as a source of literary discourse and analyzed with the concepts and methods of discourse analytics. Also seen is the way in which literary discourse develops, through the constraints and possibilities defined by the system of a language. In order to analyze poetry, theater, and novels taking a linguistic approach, students learn to use the different tools linked to the study of enunciation, deictics, classification, polyphony and pragmatic theories.

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Professor Barbéris.

A crash-course in IPA (the international phonetic alphabet) and a comprehensive study of French grammar, including its syntactic and semantic components. Students become familiar with the IPA and learn to transcribe passages. Following this understanding is the study of morphology, and lexicology.

Students develop an understanding for how words in the French language are formed and have developed, and finally what role, grammatically, a word plays within a sentence.

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Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis A general survey of the various elements that contributed to the development of the French lexicon, beginning with the transition from Vulgar Latin to Old French, up to modern developments of French arising from foreign borrowings.

Professor Lucken.

Professor Legrain.

*POETICS AND RHETORIC ENS Beginning with the origins of the concepts of poetics and rhetoric in the texts of Plato and Aristotle, this course traces the genealogy of poetics and rhetoric from the ancient world to their forms in the modern West. Students should expect a combination of historical framing and close reading, particularly regarding the Ancient Greek and Roman texts.

Texts studied include those of Longinus, Quintilian, and Horace, De Mann and Barthes.

Professors Combe & Judet de la Combe.

*INTRODUCTION TO FRENCH LINGUISTICS AND STYLE ENS This course joins grammatical study of the French language with the detailed examination of its exercise in literature. Linguistic rules and structures are probed in order to understand the role they play

Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course presents current approaches to syntax and semantics using applied field data from the French language. It aims to investigate the concepts and methods that structure linguistic analysis and promote the understanding of current approaches to language. In the study of syntax, the focus is on the architecture of several important aspects of formal grammar and the processing of problems in different theories. It also examines structures of components, sub-categorization, and relations between sentences. In the study of semantics, the course considers key elements for the analysis of meaning, relying deeply on tools borrowed from logic (propositional logic and predicate logic) and assessing the virtues and limitations for the analysis of natural languages.

Professors Beyssade & Corblin.

THE SENTENCE AND SUBORDINATION Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense Subordinate clauses exhibit many functions and forms in the French language, and this course is dedicated to carefully distinguishing and identifying them. Students use the tools acquired in previous syntax courses to construct parse trees of subordinations, thus furthering their understanding of the many functions of the subordinate clause.

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rogative, imperative, and exclamatory) will be constructed more explicitly and precisely.

Professor Desmets.

MORPHOLOGY Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course studies flexional phenomena, the variations of lexical units and their insertion in specific environments (syntactic combination, etc.) The course examines how these variations are organized in languages (through paradigms and eventually flexional classes), and specifically describes verbal morphemes in French. It also touches upon the functions of flexional marks in a phrase and the conditions they impose, as well as morpho-phonological analysis.

Professors Kihlstedt and Coumier.

INTRODUCTION TO PHONETICS Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense Phonetics is a study of sounds in accordance with their physical characteristics. The course begins with an introduction to three areas of phonetics: auditory phonetics, articulatory phonetics, and acoustic phonetics. It focuses primarily on the elements of articulatory phonology (the classification of vowels and consonants with regards to their articulatory traits), and the general characteristics of French phonetics. Exercises cover the teaching of the production of French sounds to non-native francophones.

Professor Klein.

PHONOLOGY OF FRENCH Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense Dedicated to a description of the phonetics of French, this course concentrates on three areas: principles and techniques of phonological analysis, the phonetic and phonological system of French, and characteristics in the pronunciation of words and syntagma in French. Starting with the basics of phonology, including the concept of phoneme, allophone, free variants and sounds, the phonology of French is examined through corpus studies to explore the phonological systems in French regarding vowels, consonants, and liaison. The course also discusses syllables and the prosodic structure of French.

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SPOKEN COMMUNICATION Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course focuses on three types of phonetics: articulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics and perceptive phonetics. Articulatory phonetics explores how the supraglottic (mouth, lips, nasal cavity and pharyngeal cavity), glottic (vocal folds) and the subglottic (lungs) systems all interact to produce sound.

Focus is put on the sounds of French as indicated in the International Phonetic Alphabet. Acoustic phonetics deal with the nature of the sound that is produced: the properties of the wave (periodic/aperiodic, simple/complex, pulse/continued, intensity, pitch, timbre and duration) are discussed. The spectrograms of different sounds are analyzed and the concept of formants — and how they are loosely related to certain positions of the articulators — introduced. Perceptive phonetics examines how the sound produced can be perceived. After discussing the actual functioning of the ear, the phenomena of phonemic restoration and the role of vocabulary in speech perception are examined.

Professors Audibert and Ly Van Tu.

HISTORICAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course explores the linguistic variations in French from the 17th century until modern day. It attempts to define the nature of linguistic evolution and the social parameters at play. The course is situated at the crossroads of two connected disciplines: historical sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. From a sociolinguistic point of view, it is a reflection on the manner in which society manages its relationship with language throughout history, on the relationship between social actors and the standardization of French, on political linguistics in France since the 16" century, and on the problems of "colinguilism", etc. From the point of view discourse analysis, it attempts to articulate the emergence of discourse on language in dictionaries, grammar and scholarly manuals, and in ideological positions and situations of enunciation.

Professor Pagnier.

*GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE OF FRENCH Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis The nine parts of speech are explored within the French language and examples are used to determine how an overreaching rule can be applied to each part of speech and to each category within a

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type of speech. The course focuses on the French language, with links constantly made with other languages to indicate similarities and differences.

Students are expected to be able to analyze any given word category and be able to detail its function, its categorization as a specific part of speech, how it can properly function, and any inherent constraints. Other topics include immediate constituent analysis.

Professor Hertz.

ACQUISITION OF LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course takes an in-depth look at the stages of linguistic development in children from infancy to adolescence. Central topics include the consolidation and evolution of children's first linguistic systems, introduction into writing, and language acquisition in multilingual environments. Students also reflect on the process of language learning in and out of the classroom, and think critically about effective methods in this domain. Specific difficulties, disability, and language acquisition during adulthood are also discussed.

Professor Kihlstedt.

THE BRAIN AND LANGUAGE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course is a linguistics-based introduction to cognitive science. Major theories regarding the origin, nature, and study of language in humans are covered in lectures and the following questions are raised: What is human language and how does it differ from animal communication? When did language originate and why? How is the cerebral basis of language studied? How does hemispheric specialization affect language comprehension and production? What is brain aphasia and what are its consequences? What is the cerebral basis of the written word? What are some of the most common language troubles that arise in humans? These questions are answered throughout the course of the semester.

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competing theoretical models. It also considers the phonetics of speech and the articulatory gestures involved in its production. The course ends with an investigation of written language production and case studies of language production in aphasic patients.

Professor Colonna.

*INTRODUCTION TO PROBLEMATICS OF TRANSLATION Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis A comparative literature class which studies the ethics of translation, questions of textual violence and fidelity, and the multitude of different approaches to translation, as well as the political role of translation in today’s society. Texts and translations in a number of different languages are examined and the techniques of various translators discussed, providing multiple perspectives on the notions of fidelity, adaptation, destruction, hypertextuality, and normativeness. The political aspects of translation are addressed through the study of “untranslatables” and the concept of ethnocentric translation.

Writings on traductology and translation theory by authors including Barbara Cassin, Antoine Berman, and Michel Foucault are discussed in class and used to enhance the analysis of translations studied.

Professor Verger.

*TRANSLATION Université de Paris-Sorbonne This translation course focuses on improving students' ability to translate from English into French and from French into English. It aims to equip students with the tools to achieve literary sophistication while maintaining both accuracy and the author's style. Students translate excerpts of classic and contemporary texts in the English and French literary canon, and experience firsthand the translator's work, finding practical responses to questions of authorial intention, textual fidelity, and creative liberty.

Professor Lagae-Devoldère.

Professor Colonna.

*LITERARY TRANSLATION WORKSHOP INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE PRODUCTION Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course examines how speech is produced, from intention to enunciation. It covers the different stages of language production and evaluates

Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Working with texts in both French and English from a wide variety of genres, periods, and literary styles, this masters-level translation course focuses on the continued development of literary translation skills.

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translations each week, a thème (French to English) and a version (English to French), which are then discussed and analyzed in class. Specific syntactical, grammatical, and stylistic challenges of translating into each language are addressed, as well as questions of textual fidelity and literary style.

Professor Karsky.

*POETIC TRANSLATION Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Introduction to both the practice and theory of English-to-French translation in poetry, covering a wide range of poetic genres. The focus is primarily on practice, with most of the sessions revolving around review of the students' translations, but discussions on theory are also an integral part of the course.

Professor Hersant.

TRANSLATION OF THEATRICAL TEXTS Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This class is a workshop dedicated to the translation of theater from English into French. Students are expected to prepare translations of scenes from wellknown Anglophone playwrights, which are then discussed in class, comparing theoretical approaches and choices as well as existing translations. Emphasis is placed on oral tradition and diction, as well as vocabulary and translation theory.

Professor Génin.

*COMPARATIVE TRANSLATION Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This Masters-level translation course focuses on the vast array of challenges facing literary translators and the diverse strategies employed to resolve them. French translations of works written in English, Spanish, Arabic, Italian, Russian, and Portuguese are studied, both in relation to the original texts and in comparison with other French translations, when possible. The simultaneous analysis of original texts and their translations provides a starting point for the discussion of problematics in the field of literary translation, including the translation of rhymes and rhythms, authorial style, the use of dialects, neologisms, cultural context, and syntactical incompatibility between languages. Literary texts studied are supplemented by readings on translation theory (André Lefevere, Henri Meschonnic, Susan Bassnett) and several symposiums with professionals in the field of literary translation.

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This course is a survey of French literature and its critiques. It starts by touching on structuralist thought and practice, and progresses historically, examining various movements in literary thought. Suggested readings are given during each session, in relation to poetry, history, philosophy, important literary movements and the masterpieces of French literature. Authors include Baudelaire, Todorov, Jakobson, Lévi-Strauss, Starobinski, Sainte-Beuve, Sartre, and Duras. The methods of compte-rendu, lecture analytique and commentaire composé are explained.

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Professor Clément.

12TH CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE: THE ORIGINS OF CHIVALRIC ROMANCE Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course explores the rich history of medieval (predominantly 12th century) French literature, with special focus on differentiating the specific genres that were prevalent during this period. In addition to reading Chrétien de Troyes' Chevalier de la ChaInformation in this document is proprietary. Communication, duplication, or reproduction of any kind is expressly prohibited without prior written consent and permission from the center for university programs abroad (CUPA).

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rette, students are expected to read one romance of Antiquity (Le roman de Thèbes, Le roman d'Enéas, Le roman de Troie, Le roman d'Alexandre). The course focuses on the notion of roman - a word that implies both a hearkening back to Antiquity (Rome) and a shift to a vernacular written form. The course aims to help students identify the major characteristics of this unique and widely known genre of French literature.

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authority, or in the duty to preserve and transmit knowledge (such as the inspiration of the Muse(s) and also analyzes the symbolism linked to the rise of written texts and libraries. Texts studied include epic poetry, short stories and tales, the novel, fables, and lyric poetry. Classical works include those of Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Virgil, Ovid, and Thucydides, while medieval French works include those of Saint-Jérôme, Marie de France, Chrétien de Troyes, Guillaume IX of Aquitaine, Jaufré Rudel, La Chanson de Roland (author unknown), and the Saga of Charlemagne (author unknown).

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Professor Lucken.

Professor Tanniou.

The twelve lais attributed to Marie de France, written in the 12th century are studied in this course which focuses on specific themes and uses close reading techniques to look at the ambiguities and meanings lost in the translation from ancient French to modern French.

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This course focuses on the status of the image in the Middle Ages, with a focus on France, Great Britain and Italy. It analyzes the complex and ever-changing relationship between text and image, as well as the importance of image, figure and semblance in a religious context.

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Professor Ducos.

Professor Séguy.

Two works are used to compare and contrast the theme of the figure of Merlin in literature: Robert de Boron’s Merlin en prose from the 13th century and a contemporary text, Michel Rio’s Merlin (1989).

The medieval text, which furnishes an example of a founding text of the Arthurian legend in terms of the representation of power, royalty, lineage, and the origins of the legend and fictional writing, is compared with Michel Rio’s version of the work.

Rio’s text is examined in the light of its being considered a “scandalous appropriation” of the original, a distortion of the esthetic and political questions underlying the medieval text. Also seen is the question of a complex intertextuality existing between medieval and 20th-century texts.

Professor Rosenthal.

EXAMINING PROLOGUES IN LITERATURE: FROM ANTIQUITY THROUGH THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis In close reading and study of the numerous prologues contained in ancient and medieval works, this course examines the principal arguments and methods developed therein to justify the work's existence. It also analyzes various motifs placing the origin of a work in an instance of granted divine 24

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LES ESSAIS BY MONTAIGNE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course examines the writing style and thematic nature of Montaigne in Livre Trois of Les Essais. Each class meeting focuses on an essay as a whole and on close analysis (close reading) of a short extract. Special focus is given to Montaigne's use of rhetoric and to the idea of contradictions and paradoxes within his narrative.

Professor Rosenthal.

*MODERN PERSPECTIVES ON RENAISSANCE LITERATURE Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course is presented in two parts: the first is an in-depth study of Pierre de Ronsard's Les Amours and the Petrarchan tradition in which it is situated, and the second is a study of Ronsardian influence in Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal. While studying Les fleurs du Mal students consider how the work might be approached as a Petrarchan canzoniere, i.e. a collection of poems written in the vernacular dedicated to a particular woman. Particular attention is paid to Neo-Platonic themes shared between the two authors.

Professors Monferran & Milliet.

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*POETRY OF THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE AND THE 19TH CENTURY: RONSARD AND BAUDELAIRE

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Université de Paris-Sorbonne In 1552, Pierre de Ronsard published the most famous “canzonière” of the French Renaissance, Les Amours, following the poetic tradition started by Petrarch. Several centuries later, Charles Baudelaire, who had read Ronsard, published Les Fleurs du Mal, a sort of modern and paradoxal “canzonière”. This course considers the rapport between these two great Renaissance and modern collections, as well as the differences between them.

Through the study of Molière's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, Corneille's Le Menteur, Marivaux's Les Acteurs de bonne foi, Diderot's Contes and La Fontaine's Fables, students analyze how these different authors develop the common theme of truth versus lies, in a comedic environment that serves to instruct as much as to amuse. Fiction becomes a medium to show the reality plaguing society, the work becoming a stronger and purer representation of truth than real life itself.

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The opposition between human and divine love has an important role in the literature of the 16th and 17th centuries, questioning the relationship between man and woman, human and god, and the different forms of love. What is the difference between sacred love and earthly love? between sacred and earthly lovers? Is love equal between man and woman or human and divine? Is love painful or harmonious? These questions guide an in-depth study of L'Heptaméron

by Marguerite de Navarre, Polyeucte by Corneille, La Princesse de Clèves by Madame de Lafayette, and Les amours de Psyché et Cupidon by La Fontaine and attempt to provide an understanding of the culture and society of the 16th and 17th centuries in France.

Focusing mostly on theater, this course is a study of five plays — Racine’s Andromaque, Corneille’s La Place Royale, Beaumarchais’ Le Mariage de Figaro, Marivaux’s La Double inconstance, Molière’s Dom Juan — and a novel, Crébillon fils’ Les Égarements du Cœur et de l'Esprit, this course presents an overview of 17th and 18th Century French Literature. Each work is situated within its historical and literary context, and students also explore the transition from drama to comedy in French theater.

Professor Nancy or Tabeling.

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*17TH CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE: THE INVENTION OF THE MORAL COMEDY Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense In the 17th century, Molière reinvented comedy as an established theatrical and literary genre. This course analyzes the literary and historical significance of two moral comedies: L’École des Femmes and Le Misanthrope. Through lecture, class discussion, and viewing of a range of stage productions, the class explores Molière’s groundwork on the essence of comedy and its purpose within society.

Professor Robic.

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Professors Cagnat, Forestier and Franz.

*CLASSICAL FRENCH LITERATURE OF THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES A study of classic works of 17th and 18th century French literature, such as Molière’s Tartuffe, Lesage’s Turcaret, Cyrano de Bergerac’s Les États et Empires de la lune, Diderot’s La Religieuse, and Voltaire’s plays L'Ingénu and Zaïre. Lectures provide background, literary history, themes and keys to analysis, while work sessions focus on close readings of passages.

Professors Géhanne-Gavoty, Berchtold & Frantz.

18TH CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE: THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE FIGURE OF THE PHILOSOPHER Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis The course objective is to examine 18th century French literature, taking a cursory view of its overall chronology and analyzing in depth several works whose importance rests paramount to the study

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of the literary period. Rather than taking a broad, second-hand approach to 18th -century literature, the course constitutes a personal journey through several key works, allowing students to examine the various forces at the heart of the Enlightenment, sometimes in agreement, often in conflict, and always in motion. The figure of the philosopher is the focus of the course; because this year marks the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of JeanJacques Rousseau, the course texts are The Discours sur les sciences et les arts (1750), Discours sur les origines et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes (1755), Les Rêveries d'un promeneur solitaire (1778).

Professor Brasart.

Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course explores the appearance of art critics in the 18th century, especially Diderot, and the circumstances under which their theories developed, as well as their implications. The resulting polemics, discussion of art and the profound relationship developed between the work of art, literary critique and spectators are seen in the course, along with the revolutions which resulted from this new trend.

Professor Barde.

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Université de Paris-Sorbonne In this course, the artistic and literary movements of the 18th century are studied through an in-depth examination of celebrated French artistic and literary works. Emphasis is placed on the works of Rousseau, Diderot, Chardin, Boucher, and Fragonard.

Literary movements such as the development of the novel, the encyclopedia, and the emergence of epistolary novels, are discussed through the works of Abbé Prévost, Rousseau, and Laclos. Artistic movements of the 18th century are evaluated through examination of engravings, paintings, sculpture, architecture and interior design.

Professor Llort-Llopart.

THE FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT THROUGH LITERATURE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis A study of the representative works of the key writers of the French Enlightenment, including historical, philosophical and literary significance of the works.

Texts studied include Voltaire: L’Ingénu, Rousseau: Discours sur les sciences et les arts, Vivant Denon: Point de lendemain, and Diderot: Supplément au voyage de Bougainville. Overview of the major literary works of the French Enlightenment and organized class-trip to an exhibit at the Bibliothèque Nationale.

Professor Brasart.

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This course examines the links between literature and art in the 18th and 19th centuries, placing emphasis on the historical, political, and social context of the works of Diderot and Balzac, and exploring the role of institutions and the status of the artist in Paris. Diderot readings include his Essais sur la peinture, as well as his writings on the Salons of 1761, 1763 and 1765. Balzac readings include short stories that make up his greatest work, La Comédie Humaine. They include Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu and Pierre Grassou. Diderot is analyzed as the first writer-critic, presenting art criticism for the first time as a genre in its own right, while Balzac is studied as an artist among writers, not only depicting living artists in his fictional works, but crafting a number of his own fictional characters.

Professors Cavallaro, Marchal and Vouilloux.

*FREUDIAN ANALYSIS OF JULES VERNE'S AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS AND JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis An examination of two of Jules Verne's works: Around the World in 80 Days and Journey to the Center of the Earth. The lectures analyze these texts using Freudian theories.

Professor Bayard.

GENESIS AND RECEPTION OF THE NATURALIST NOVEL Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This masters-level seminar explores the creation of novels, specifically of the Naturalist movement, with a focus on Emile Zola’s series Les Rougon-Macquart.

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Dossiers préparatoires, the drafts, notes, correspondence, etc. that contain elements related to the development of the novels, and also introduction to the study of the reception of the works. Students are required to complete their own in-depth study, to be presented to the class and the professor.

Professor Pagès.

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Dreyfus Affair set the ground for a volatile political climate in the years to come.

Professors Basch and Charpentier-Poisson or Piantoni.

*THE FIGURE OF THE DEVIL AND THE CONCEPT OF EVIL IN 19TH CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle

19TH CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE OF REVOLUTIONS Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course focuses on the writing that was inspired by three revolutions of the 19th century: the revolution of 1848, Napoleon III's coup of 1851, and the Commune of 1871. Three novels are read in order to better understand the progression and effects of these events: Flaubert's L'Éducation sentimentale, Zola's La Fortune des Rougon, and Hugo's Quatrevingt-treize. The question of the romantic novel, direct vs. indirect discourse, and intertextuality are all explored as well.

This course examines the representations of the devil and evil in Romantic literature, through a diverse corpus of poetry, prose, and plays including Théophile Gautier's La Morte amoureuse and Deux acteurs pour un rôle, Barbey d'Aurevilly's Les Diaboliques, Goethe's Faust and Hugo's vast epic poem “La Fin de Satan”. These texts are supplemented by readings depicting earlier representations of the devil such as excerpts from Milton's Paradise Lost, and contemporary retellings of the myth of Satan, such as Vigny's “Eloa”. Emphasis is also placed on the study of poetics and literary theory, through analysis of the studied texts.

Professor Philippot.

Professors Heyraud or Pagès.

*THE MYTH OF PYGMALION IN 19TH CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle A course centered around the ancient Greek myth of the sculptor Pygmalion, as seen in versions by Ovid and Rousseau and in works by Balzac, Théophile Gautier and Villiers de l’Isle-Adam. In analyzing the original myth and comparing it to other versions, several major themes are developed, such as Art vs.

Nature, the deification of the artist, the Ideal, conflicts between lovers and artists, beauty as religion, the cult of artifice.

Professor Heyraud.

*19TH AND 20TH CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE: MODERN MELANCHOLY Université de Paris-Sorbonne Focusing on the modern illness of melancholy, this course delves into three particular works by notable authors who experienced this condition: La Nausée

by Sartre, Le Spleen de Paris by Baudelaire, and Fin de Partie by Beckett. Students analyze the history of melancholy in its literary, historical, religious, and symbolic contexts, and then apply this history to the three works, while also finding thematic connections between them. Students also use these works to question the idea of modernity with regards to form, particularly the form of poetry in prose.

Professors Lyon-Caen and Louette.

WRITERS' RESPONSE TO THE DREYFUS AFFAIR Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course examines the political and cultural climate in French society through the lens of the Dreyfus Affair and the many writers who took a particular interest in writing about the Dreyfus Affair. The main author studied is Émile Zola but other readings include Proust, Anatole France, Octave Mirbeau and Maurice Barrès. Through these writers the course focuses on the foundations and manifestations of anti-Semitism in France at the turn of the 20th century and how the polarizing effect of the

*THEORY AND STYLISTICS IN FRENCH POETRY: FROM LYRICISM TO MODERNITY Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis During the second half of the 19th century, France was marked by a high concentration of political and artistic development. This era also coincided with the eve of modernism in French poetry, and this transition was wrought with profound questions about subjectivity, emotion, and the use of descriptive language. Many French poets also challenged the idea of the poet as the communicator of God's will, thus undermining an age-old connec-

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tion between religion and literature. As authors like Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Baudelaire, and Nerval made changes in their style of writing, they also engaged in new philosophies of the creative process. In this way, the advent of modern French poetry revolutionized the world of art, and altered the public consciousness of what it means to be an author.

Professor Illouz.

*HOPELESS, LAWLESS CHILDREN, 19TH-20TH CENTURIES ENS The figure of the feral child in literature is at the core of this course, including child soldiers, wolfchildren, and psychological studies of feral children including that of Victor of Aveyron.

Professors Lévy-Bertherat and Nascimento.

*19TH AND 20TH CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE: NERVAL AND PROUST Université de Paris-Sorbonne Within a century, Gérard de Nerval and Marcel Proust published two texts which diverged from the literature of their time. Nerval's Voyage en Orient fictionalized autobiographic travels, considering the cultures, histories, and religions of the Hellenic and Middle-Eastern 19th century from a personal perspective. The first volume of Proust's major opus, Du Côté de chez Swann, offers an incredibly complex consideration of the human consciousness, and of the capacity of writing to offer an ideal work of art.

Professors Evesque & Basch.

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20TH CENTURY FRENCH POETRY: APOLLINAIRE AND THE INVENTION OF MODERNITY Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course proposes a study of the works of Guillaume Apollinaire, seen as a figure of modernity and innovation in 20th-century French literature, focusing in particular on his rupture with the classical poetic form. Selected poems from Alcools and Caligrammes introduce students to the diversity of Apollinaire's work, with special focus on important poems such as “La Chanson du Mal-Aimé”, “La Synagogue”, and “Zone”. Apollinaire's poetry is studied in an attempt to fully understand the underlying themes and motivations created by the poet, and key aspects of Apollinaire's innovations are identified, such as rhythm and sonority of each verse, his themes of eroticism, the removal of punctuation, and the organization of poems. Apollinaire's contribution to the liberation of poetry as literary expression, in its ultimate rupture with traditional form, is also seen. Works by Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Verlaine are also examined, and parallels with theories of cubist and surrealist art are drawn to discuss emerging modernity in the 20th century.

Professor Rubio.

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In-depth reading of Nerval's novel Les Filles du feu, in which the story is analyzed, not only independently, but in the context of the author’s life and other writings.

Through a close reading of Un Amour de Swann, students are introduced to the major themes of À la Recherche du temps perdu and Proust's other writings. Students examine the themes of jealousy, identity, solipsism, and capacity for love/desire that play an essential role in Proust's writings, as well as important motifs found throughout La Recherche, from references to color, vegetation, and aesthetics. While providing students with a comprehensive study of Un Amour de Swann, the course equips students with important foundations for further readings of Proust.

Professor Illouz.

*TEXTS AND THEORIES: POEMS IN PROSE AND FREE VERSE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This class analyzes the works of the major French poets Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud, who all influenced each other, whether directly or indirectly.

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20TH CENTURY FRENCH POETRY Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course examines two of the greatest and most influential works of French poetry of the 20th century. First, Alcools (1913), the noted work of Guillaume Apollinaire, is explored. It affirms the brilliant, new cosmopolitan lyricism that the author infused into his poetry. Great emphasis is placed on the broader influence he had upon society, particularly in light of the society’s changing political and artistic scene.

The course then moves on to a study of La nuit remue (1967), by Henri Michaux, a collection of poems noted for its formal variety and strange and inventive curiosity. Together, these two works reaffirm the integral role that French poetry captured and perpetuated over the course of the 20th century.

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to the life of Sartre, placing his works in a historical context and examining the connections — both intentional and unintentional — between life and literature. Works studied include L’Âge de raison, Le Sursis, Lettres au Castor, Carnet de la drôle de guerre, Les Mouches, Huis clos, L’Imaginaire, L’Être et le néant, et Situations I. Professor Noudelmann.

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Students read Giraudoux’s Siegfried et le Limousin and La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu and discuss the relationship between France and Germany as described in both works. Literary elements are discussed, as well as the references they make to historically notable events and people. Emphasis is placed on Franco-German relations.

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Professor Conort.

After the end of WWI, surrealism dominated the artistic and literary scene in Paris. Influenced by the psychological milieu and the politics of their time, the Surrealists considered their creations to come from what André Breton called, in the First Surrealist Manifesto, “pure psychic automatism...to express...the true function of thought.” This seminar surveys the collections and reviews created by Breton, Éluard, Aragon, Tzara, Soupault, Desnos and others from the years leading up to the movement's inception (including the influence of Apollinaire and Dadaism) through its inner schism at the end of the 1920s and its gradual decline throughout the 1930s.

Professor Murat.

*SACRED AND SECULAR MIRACLES IN 20TH CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle An examination of the representation of miracles in 20th century literature. Does a miracle create faith, or is it caused by faith? How can a playwright portray a miracle on stage? On a broader level, how can the miraculous be translated into something literary? The course focuses on three major works: L'Annonce faite à Marie by Paul Claudel, Miracle de la Rose by Jean Genet and Misérable Miracle by Henri Michaux, and also includes a discussion on the depiction of miracles in the Bible.

Professor Schaffner.

*WRITING UNDER THE OCCUPATION: THE WORKS OF SARTRE 1940-1944 Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Through a close study of the works of Sartre written between 1940 and 1944, this course addresses the challenges faced by Sartre and his contemporaries during World War II. The writings of Sartre from across all genres — theater, philosophy, literary criticism, private journals, correspondence, screenplays — provide insight into the multitude of questions confronting writers in occupied France: Could and should one continue to write during the Occupation? If so, what should one write about? What did it mean to write “resistant” literature, as opposed to “collaborative” literature? How to remain “engaged” during World War II? Attention is also given

MODERN REWRITINGS OF THE ŒDIPUS MYTH IN 20TH CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle La machine infernale by Jean Cocteau and Les Gommes by Robbe-Grillet are studied in depth in the context of the study of myths, and in particular the importance of different versions of the Œdipus myth in 20th-century French literature. Themes include: Sophocles’ interpretation of this narrative, the adaptations of the myth to speak to the modern condition, conflict between mythical world and modern world, the relevance of irrational myths today.

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*FRENCH DRAMA AND THE AVANTGARDE: JEAN-LUC LAGARCE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE TEXT Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis The texts of playwright Jean-Luc Lagarce exemplify a type of theater that pushes the limits of its genre, offering a narrative that is both minimalist and superfluous. With characters that all resemble one another, plots that are comprised entirely of dialogue, and an utter lack of dramatic context, Lagarce provokes a serious reconsideration of what theater is, and what it can be. Studying Lagarce also reveals the plasticity of language as it applies to action, time, and people, and how subjects interact with their own language to give it new meaning.

Professor Dessons.

*WRITING DEGREE ZERO: THE CASE OF ROBERT WALSER ENS This course focuses on the various works of Robert Walser, the enigmatic 20th-century Swiss writer whose reputation in intellectual circles has begun to solidify in the last several decades. Much critical work remains to be undertaken, and this seminar hopes to suggest several paths along which students might embark. Students will read Walser’s novels, poetry, prose pieces and drama.

Professor Covindassamy.

*PLACES OF MEMORY IN PARIS AND IN FRENCH LITERATURE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis While offering a treatment of various theories of cultural memory by such scholars as Assmann, Halbwachs, Bergson, Arendt and Ricœur, the primary focus of this seminar is to reflect upon the treatment of places of memory within French literary works as well as their physical commemoration within Paris.

Through a series of on-site visits, supplemented by historical or literary texts (Baudelaire, Balzac, Hugo…) discussing these locations (such as Notre Dame de Paris, the Marais, and Père Lachaise), the goal of the course is to reflect upon and understand the ways in which members of a society remember the shared elements of their past.

Professor Mégevand.

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*LITERATURE IN FILM Université de Paris-Sorbonne The course focuses on the adaptability of literature in a cinematic context, with an emphasis on the process of transforming the original work onto the big screen. Students explore how different types of novels present various challenges when being adapted into a different medium, and question if certain types of novels are more appropriate for adaptation than others.

Professors Koskas and Jeannelle.

*HISTORY OF LITERARY PUBLISHING IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES Université de Paris-Sorbonne The course explores the history of publishing in the 19th and 20th centuries in France, with a focus on the evolution of editorial practices from the rise of the “publisher”, “author”, and “reader” concepts in the late 18th century to the present day. Students are introduced to the great figures of publishing and explore how each continues to influence the publishing world and feed the literary imagination today.

Professors Géhanne-Gavoty and Védrine.

*INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL LITERARY STUDIES Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This class focuses on applying literary theory to the study of a number of prominent works. Students learn to analyze a wide variety of prose and poetry using the techniques and concepts proposed by celebrated literary critics. Because of its introductory nature, the course spans many decades and does not focus in-depth on one literary movement, but rather on the theme of the evolution of language as a whole. Most works presented are French, but American and German works in translation are often presented as examples.

Professor Clément.

*THEORIES OF LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE: THE PHENOMENON OF THE TEXT ENS The materiality of language confronts the writer with the necessity to invent his own language and meanings from the infinite possibilities of language. Spanning criticism and theory, within their philosophical, political, historical, and social milieu,

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Valéry, Benjamin, Blanchot, Sartre, Barthes, Foucault, Mallarmé and others wrestled with the question of language and its literary implications.

Professor Combe.

*EPISTEMOLOGY OF LITERARY HISTORY ENS Study of the theory of knowledge of literary history.

Students see major literary movements and analyze how literary history is constructed and understood in theory and literary criticism.

Professor Murat.

*GENETIC DOCUMENTATION OF LITERARY TEXTS ENS Students analyze manuscripts and rough drafts of major texts using the technique of genetic documentation. Emphasis is placed on how one can analyze a text outside of traditional methods of literary criticism, and instead focus on the process of writing and the origin of textual documents.

Professors de Biasi, Ferrand and Mauriac-Dyer.

*ANALYSIS OF POETIC LANGUAGE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis A written work does not speak, it acts. Working under this fundamental philosophy allows language to be analyzed as establishing the norms of its time, rather than subscribing to them. The course discusses extracts from French poetry and theater of various time periods (Hugo, Maeterlinck, Apollinaire, Rimbaud, etc.), using analysis of rhythm, meter and rime to deconstruct both its form and contents.

Professor Dessons.

LINGUISTIC AND STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF FRENCH LITERATURE ENS Both a pragmatic treatment of French linguistics and a course in stylistic analysis of standard French works, including texts by Beaumarchais, Bossuet, Zola, Proust and Pagnol, this course gives students the bases from which to work on close analysis of stylistic devices in literary texts. Linguistic and stylistic vocabulary, and language theory and its effect on textual analysis are covered, as are choice of mode and tense, stylistic and thematic coherence of a text.

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INTRODUCTION TO FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis A world-spanning look at Francophone authors, as well as the history of the French-speaking world and the literature that has been produced are all covered in this course. Topics discussed include French dominance in the literary world, as well as the role of francophone literature through the lens of language security and post-colonial writings and theories.

Professor Simasotchi-Brones.

*FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course examines francophone literature of Africa, Europe, and the Americas through the works of Hubert Aquin, Aimé Césaire, Ahmadou Kourouma, Kateb Yacine, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and others.

Topics include négritude, as well as colonialism, post-colonialism, francophone identity and religion, independence, and the role of literature in colonial society regarding the evolution of indigenous cul32

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Professors de Saint Chéron & Fonkoua.

*POSTCOLONIAL FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE: WOMEN WRITING VIOLENCE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis A close study of the works of four female Francophone authors — Mariama Ba, Chahdortt Djavann, Shenaz Patel, and Kettly Mars — and the way in which violence (and violence towards women in particular) is represented in their writings. The work of these authors from diverse backgrounds and ethnicities (Senegalese, Iranian, Mauritian, and Haitian) allows students to perform a multifaceted examination of the concept of Francophonie and of the lasting cultural, political, and linguistic reverberations of colonialism that continue to shape former colonies. The authors’ relationship with the French language, the role of women in postcolonial societies, and the different forms of violence (structural, historical, symbolic, cultural, physical) constitute the central themes of this course.

Professor Simasotchi-Bronès.

*THE FRANCOPHONE NOVEL IN THE FEMALE PERSPECTIVE Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle FAn exploration of francophone novels written by women about gender relations and problems that afflict women or the female world. Novels by Kaoutar Harchi, Nelly Arcan, Calixthe Beyala, and Marie NDiaye. The course uses feminist and post-colonial discourse and theory to explore the francophone female perspective in the novel form and the “female” story.

Professor Shango-Lokoho.

*REVOLUTION THROUGH THE EYES OF WOMEN: FEMALE PERSPECTIVES FROM NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course takes as its starting point the role(s) of women in the Arab Spring uprisings, and goes on to work backwards in time to examine the female experience during various revolutionary periods in North Africa and the Middle East during the 19th and 20th centuries. While primarily a literature course, a variety of sources are examined to provide context, depth, and contrast for the literary texts studied:

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newspaper articles, blogs, photos, historical documents, and theoretical writings. Emphasis is placed on the importance and public visibility of women in revolutionary societies, in contrast with the difficulty of speaking or writing this experience from a position of “subalternity” imposed by gender as well as cultural and political circumstances. Topics addressed include the place of history vs. the place of memory in writing, the notion of the unspeakable, the structures of domination, and the question of the subaltern's power of expression. Authors studied include Assia Djebar, Maïssa Bey, Leila Marouane, Calixthe Beyala, and Maryse Condé.

Professor Ali-Benali.

FRENCH ORIENTALISM AND ARAB OCCIDENTALISM Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course studies the evasive concepts of the “Orient” and “Occident” through “Orientalist” and “Occidentalist” literature: that is, European authors who write about their concept of the Orient, and Arab authors who used their concept of the Occident as inspiration as well. The first half of the semester is devoted to studying Victor Hugo’s book of poems: Les Orientales. Through study of this and other works by authors such as Chateaubriand and Taha Hussein, the class attempts to discover what “orient” and “occident” mean to each author, and how that author’s view was formed. Theories of “Orientalism” and “Occidentalism” (such as Said’s Orientalism and Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations) are also taken into account.

Professor Horchani.

*AIMÉ CÉSAIRE: POETRY AND POLITICS Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course surveys Césaire's major works from a literary, historical, and biographical perspective, considered inseparable when approaching Césaire’s oeuvre. It covers everything from his poetry to his theater to his speeches and other nonfictional texts in order to show the common themes of négritude, colonialism, language, and the power underlying these concepts.

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*FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE: A HISTORY OF QUEBECOIS LITERATURE AND LITERARY DISCOURSE Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle A study of the use of Quebecois dialect/language in literature and the discourse that surrounds the history and development of this literature, with a focus on the collection of poetry and essays by Gaston Miron, L’Homme rapaillé — a major work in Quebecois literature. The course also studies Quebecois and, more generally, French-Canadian culture and society, in juxtaposition to the English-speaking community in Canada.

Professor Suchet.

*THE POLITICS OF LITERATURE: WRITINGS AND THEORIES OF FRANCOPHONE LITERATURES Université de Paris-Sorbonne This Master’s-level course addresses the role of writing and literature in colonial and post-colonial francophone societies, in Africa and elsewhere. Special attention is paid to the power of orality, particularly in regard to race and class, and to the long-standing debate over the distinction between French and Francophone; these themes are examined through both literary and theoretical lenses. Other topics include the act of writing French in dialect, the relationship between culture and language, and the intersection of indigenous culture and religion with colonial influences.

Professor Fonkoua.

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ANTIGONE: SOPHOCLES AND ANOUILH

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This course explores the similarities and differences between the play Antigone written by Sophocles in the 5th century BC, and the play of the same name written by French playwright Jean Anouilh in 1942.

The different social and political contexts of the two works are emphasized to explain the ways in which Anouilh reinterpreted the classic Greek myth.

In-depth analysis of the two texts and exercises in close reading of pertinent excerpts are used to identify important elements of both plays. Themes explored include happiness, purity, compromise, childhood, family, obligation, freedom and honor.

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Professor Djuric.

BIBLE AND LITERATURE: A SURVEY OF BIBLICAL INFLUENCE IN WESTERN LITERATURE Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course identifies and analyzes biblical themes that permeate the history of Western literature. In

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addition to a brief lesson on the history of the Bible, the course visits a number of major works that shaped European literature including texts from Milton, Voltaire, Baudelaire, Hugo, Kafka, Dostoevsky and Thomas Mann. These works and their biblical themes are analyzed through a logical progression of the Bible's major episodes (Creation, Cain and Abel, sacrifice of Isaac, the life of Moses, the life of Christ, the Passion, etc.) Students are expected to read and have a working knowledge of all parts of the Bible that correspond to these chapters, so as to make the most of this study in biblical-Western intertextuality.

communication between an adult author and a child reader. It defines the writing traits and literary positions of children's books. The conception of "wonderland" (le merveilleux) is seen through an examination of the literary notion of realism and credibility. The central works studied are Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, and Les Contes bleus du Chat perché by Marcel Aymé.

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: GUESTS, HOSTS AND PARASITES Université de Paris-Sorbonne The theme of guests, hosts and parasites is discussed through the works of Homer (The Odyssey), Molière (Le Tartuffe), Hoffmann (Le Spectre fiancé), and Toni Morrison (Beloved). Students examine the ways in which specific characters act as parasites within the hospitable context of another. When does a guest become a danger to the house that is hosting him/her? What relationships are established between hospitality and hostility? For each work, the existing practices of hospitality as well as related political issues are considered in the analysis of the host/parasite couple.

Professors Tomiche, Lebourg-Leportier and Casagrande.

STUDY OF A MOVEMENT: THE ADVENTURE NOVEL Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course examines classic “adventure novels” of Alexandre Dumas and Robert Louis Stevenson. Students read and discuss The Three Musketeers and Kidnapped in order to better understand what constitutes an adventure novel. In addition to close analysis of various passages, the course involves a deeper analysis of how these authors combine historical and fictional events within their works. The biographical information of the author and the historical contexts and influences of their works are also considered.

Professors Letourneux and Dumoulié.

*CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: THE WORKS OF WONDERLAND Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course examines the singularity of children's literature and its production, with a focus on the 36

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NARRATIVES OF DREAMS AND CHILDHOOD MEMORIES This course begins with an introduction to Freud's Interpretation of Dreams. Freud's work forms a basis to understanding how beliefs about the purpose and meaning of dreams have evolved and how these beliefs have made an impact on writers. The course then goes beyond the psychological context and analyzes the function and use of dreams in comparative literature. Texts such as W. Jensen's Gradiva, and excerpts from Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Racine's Athalie, Rousseau's La Nouvelle Heloïse, Jainendra Kumar's Un amour sans mesure, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Herman Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund and Goethe's Poésie et vérité, are examined to understand how one can determine the significance of dreams in literary works.

Professor Le Blanc.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: GOGOL, MELVILLE AND KAFKA Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense Selected novellas and short stories studied in this literature seminar included works by Gogol, Melville and Kafka. The course comprehensively reviews each of the selected works, and evaluates the historical and artistic context of the period. Discussion is focused on the notion of fantastic, as all three of the works share unusual plot elements.

Professor Labia.

*STUDIES OF THE FAR EAST Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis As it looks at how European writers in the 19th and 20th centuries viewed and imagined the Far East (China and Japan) in their works, this course covers a wide range of genres and authors (travel journal, novel, notebook, poetry etc.), focusing on a different piece or group of pieces each week. The goal of the course is to analyze how the lens of orientalism af-

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fected authors' depictions and writing styles about this particular region.

Professor Barral.

*EUROPEAN LITERATURE: POETRY AND THE WORLD WAR ERA Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course examines the poetry of Wilfred Owen, Guillaume Apollinaire, Giuseppe Ungaretti, and Nelly Sachs in the context of World Wars I and II. Each of these poets was directly involved in the war — Owen, Apollinaire, and Ungaretti as soldiers and Sachs as a victim of a Nazi concentration camp. All their poems are attempts at documenting war in a rapidly changing world. Students compare the work of these four poets and evaluate how language and writing evolved in this World War Era. Professors Gendry, Watier & Masson.

EUROPEAN LITERATURE: WRITING CONSCIOUSNESS 1880-1920 ENS A comparative literature seminar considering the narration of consciousness in three texts and using the theme of jealousy (and of the jealous man as central character), thus exploring how authors employ direct speech and indirect modes in order to render the “consciousness” of their characters.

Main texts: Svevo’s Senilità, Tolstoy’s La Sonate à Kreutzer and Proust’s Un Amour de Swann. Specific focus on the internal monologue, and the structuring/destructuring of it by each author. Painting and music (and sculpture in the case of Senilità) also provide examples of consciousness.

Professor Lévy-Bertherat.

*THE STUDY OF NARRATIVE IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle A study of narrative form and style in contemporary French fiction, including short stories (J.M.G. Le Clézio), autofiction (Annie Ernaux), and other experimental forms (Assia Djebar’s Le Blanc de l’Algérie and Pierre Michon’s Vies minuscules). There is specific focus on the idea of litany as a literary form.

Professor Bedrane.

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Clézio’s Onitsha. Themes common to both works are explored, including (self)-exile, language, the art of writing, the boundaries between self and other, subject and object, and similarity/foreignness. Comparison is made between the original English text by Nabokov and the French translation in terms of syntax, expression, and grammatical structure. The patterns and enigmas that lie within each of the texts are discussed.

Professor Savova.

*SEMIOTICS OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: LITERATURE, VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS Université de Paris-Sorbonne What exactly is literature? It cannot be confined simply to words. This class explores the intersections of music, cinema, painting and dance in order to perform an in-depth analysis of the intrinsic qualities of literature.

Professor Vallespir.

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND ART Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course discusses the symbiotic evolution of contemporary literature and contemporary art, representations of art in literature (through parody, homage, ekphrasis) and representations of literature in art. Two questions that are posed throughout this course are: How and why is this literature?

How and why is this art? By the end of the course, the line between art and literature (in their present incarnations) begins to blur.

Professor Zenetti.

LITERATURE AND SCIENCE IN THE 19TH CENTURY: ZOLA'S DOCTEUR PASCAL AND DARWIN'S THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis An exploration of the literary presence of scientific thought regarding heredity in the 19th century, this course focuses on the relationship between Darwin's The Origin of Species and Zola's Docteur Pascal. Docteur Pascal is discussed at length as a work fiction that includes scientific thought, and its own generational status as the last novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series is examined.

Professor Noudelmann.

Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course concentrates on in-depth analysis of Nabokov’s The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and Le

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LITERATURE AND PSYCHE: RILKE AND THE MARGINS OF SOCIETY Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle A reading of The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

An analysis of the ties between solitude, depression, hypersensitivity and marginality. The course encourages liberal intertextuality and interdisciplinarity, allowing students to compose oral presentations on a wide variety of authors, literary movements and traditions, and themes.

Professor Hamard.

*MASCULINE/FEMININE: LITERATURE IN CONTEXT OF GENDER AND THE 18TH-19TH CENTURIES Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This class discusses the importance and influence of gender, gender roles and their definition in literature from the 18th to the 20th century. The writers of these times were generally heterosexual men, and the class discusses the impact of that normalization. Through definition, “gender” and “sex” are understood and applied to general themes that appear through literary history such as women and creation in Greek mythology, women writers, or the homosexual word.

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*HISTORY AND LITERATURE OF WESTERN CULTURE (GREECE, ROME, AND FRANCE) Université de Paris-Sorbonne A study of the classic literature of Western culture.

Students read myths, epic poems, and classical theatre by Greek, Roman and French authors, learn about the birth of various genres, and their political and historical contexts, and analyze how texts and themes are treated differently by authors of diverse cultures. Works studied are taken from Homer (Iliad), Sophocles (Œdipus Rex), Virgil (Eclogues), Plautus (Amphytrion), Horace (Epodes), and Seneca (Medea).

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LATIN FOR BEGINNERS Université de Paris-Sorbonne An introductory level course for Latin, covering basics of Latin grammar: declensions, conjugations, tenses, moods, and sentence construction. Students are called upon to translate in front of the class.

Professor Riocreux.

CHRISTIAN LATIN Institut Catholique de Paris This course covers the basics of Latin grammar for beginners. Starting with the case system, the first several weeks are dedicated to grasping the Latin understanding of declensions. Gradually, verb conjugation paradigms, vocabulary, and syntax are studied. On a weekly basis, the course introduces new elements of Latin grammar accompanied by lectures on Roman history, and the history of the Latin language.

Professor Biclet.

LATE LATIN LITERATURE Université de Paris-Sorbonne An in-depth study of the De Reditu suo by Rutilius Namatianus, coupled with an analysis of the literature concerning the Christian martyrs.

Professors Zarini and Berger.

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ics ranging from military security to modern dance, and learn to understand and grasp the main ideas of texts written in formal, relatively advanced level Hebrew. In class, the professor goes over details in order to enrich the students' vocabulary and calls their attention to useful expressions and frequently used phrasings.

Professor Furman.

*THIRD-YEAR ARABIC LANGUAGE Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course focuses on the grammatical study of modern standard Arabic. Through translations of relevant texts, students work on finer points of Arabic grammar and build their vocabulary.

Professor Mlih.

ARABIC GRAMMAR AND LINGUISTICS: YEAR 2 Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This second-year grammar course addresses the grammatical structures found in verbal sentences and simple and complex nominal sentences. Students learn to analyze sentences, identifying the part of speech served by each word. The linguistics component of the course begins with the pre-Islamic roots of the Arabic language and covers its subsequent evolution into different dialects, ultimately serving as a sociological component of the Arabicspeaking world.

Professor Ben Gharbia.

Study of Biblical Hebrew and its alphabet, grammatical structure and evolution in a historical context.

Introduction to reading and writing in the language.

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Professor Hadas-Lebel.

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MODERN HEBREW Université de Paris-Sorbonne The second half of an introductory course in the Hebrew language. Students focus on oral learning, and each student must participate in Hebrew during each class. Vocabulary building and grammar.

Professor Friedman.

This course analyzes cultural heritage, westernization, Arabization, secularization, tradition, and technological progress of contemporary Arabic societies.

It then applies these aspects to the political ideology governing Arab states, and asks whether a move to modernity is possible with Islam as its guide.

The course focuses on the works of Nasr Abu Zayd, Burhan Ghalioun and Denys Cuche.

Professor Hamda.

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The focus of this course is the contemporary Israeli press. Students are asked to read a variety of articles from Israeli newspapers like HaAretz, on top-

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into elementary-level vocabulary and grammar points. It covers the present, past, subjunctive, and imperative tenses, as well as vocabulary for basic conversation and communication. It also presents the word order and syntax unique to Persian.

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ADVANCED CHINESE Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense A Chinese language course designed for advanced students who have already spent time in China. The main goal of the course is to perfect speaking and listening skills.

Professor Wang.

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This second-semester Bambara course allows students to pursue their training in grammar and oral practice while also studying civilization and important texts.

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Professors Vydrin and Traoré.

INTERMEDIATE JAPANESE Institut Tenri The course covers topics in intermediate-level Japanese using lessons 6 through 10 of the textbook Shin-nihongo no chuu-kyuu written by the Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS).

Areas of study include formulas used in social situations: visiting a superior's house, writing a polite letter of self-introduction, explaining one's symptoms at a hospital, buying and returning items at a store, asking for and understanding directions, giving directions, understanding abbreviated language on signs, understanding user manuals for simple appliances, asking precise questions when one does not understand, and writing or explaining one's own recipe. Students learn to read and write 100 kanji.

Professor Watanabe.

*ADVANCED CHINESE 1: TRANSLATION Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Advanced Mandarin language course focusing on complex grammatical structures, new vocabulary in pinyin and characters, and developing oral skills.

Professor Liu.

CHINESE GRAMMAR AND TEXT ANALYSIS 2 INALCO This course aims to introduce students to fundamentals of Chinese grammar. It builds on grammar points such as the expression of time, comparisons, directions, as and expression of intention and capacity.

Professors Marc and Wu.

This course aims to provide students with a fundamental knowledge of Korean grammar. Topics covered include the nominalization of clauses, coordinating conjunctions, and varying levels of formality.

Students also practice pronunciation and learn how to read and speak with proper intonation.

Professor Jeong.

BRETON Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis An introductory course on Breton, the Celtic language spoken in Brittany. The language portion of the course covers basic grammar, vocabulary, and conversation skills, while the sociolinguistic section surveys the history of Celtic languages and the politics of minority languages in France. Course material is supplemented with analysis of Breton poetry, particularly haiku.

Professor Caraes.

ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This yearlong introductory Italian course starts with the basics like numbers and alphabet and then progresses up to reflexive verbs, articles and compositions. Working with the exercise book, the course enforces oral skills as well as reading and writing. Activities include listening comprehension, partner work, creating dialogues, working as a class to complete exercises in the workbook. The class is conducted mainly in Italian.

Professor Charton.

ITALIAN LITERATURE AND CIVILIZATION: DANTE Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle An in-depth study of Dante’s work and culture. The course, taught in the original language, starts with his minor works and political writings and proceeds

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to an analysis of the Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise. Convivio, Monarchia, and some minor writings are also studied, looking at cultural themes, major influences in Dante’s life and the political situation of his time period.

Professor Guimbard.

SPANISH LEVEL 5 Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis An advanced Spanish language course, organized around contemporary Spanish history and politics, with a focus on the Spanish Civil War. Class materials include weekly readings from Spanish newspapers, current events discussions, and films.

Professor Coale.

FICTION IN 20TH CENTURY LATINAMERICAN HISTORY ENS An investigation of Latin America's revolutionary past, primarily focusing on one figure: Simón Bolívar.

The main works are historical fiction, including Gabriel Garcia Marquez's El general en su labirinto and Álvaro Mutis' El último rostro. While focusing on historical facts and fictional representations of these facts, the course is an analysis of Latin-American historiography, whether it be through state or academic historians, and the relationship between history and fiction is problematized, notably through Paul Ricœur's theory of narrative.

Professor Jiménez.

SURVEY OF THE LATIN AMERICAN SHORT STORY Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Through the use of an anthology, this course studies the major works of the principal short-story writers of Latin America during the 20th century, including but not limited to Rubén Dario, Julio Cortázar, and Gabriel Garcia Márquez. Emphasis is placed on the study of elements such as technical construction, the author's background as reflected in his work, and the study of elements characterizing a specific style or movement. The course also contextualizes these stories through an examination of the major literary and historical movements that form their backdrop.

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ROOTS OF BRAZILIAN LITERATURE AND ANALYSIS OF BRAZILIAN POETRY Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle The course begins with the earliest Brazilian literature and follows the development of the different schools up to Romanticism. Emphasis is given to the analysis of poetry as the representation of the country’s literary development. Substantial knowledge of the technical elements of poetry is stressed.

Professor Toledo.

*GERMAN I FOR ART HISTORY École du Louvre This course provides an introduction to the German language through a study of its introductory vocabulary and grammar. Special attention is given to art historical inquiry through assignments such as visual analyses and presentations of artworks.

Professor Woescher.

BEGINNING GERMAN: LEVEL 3 Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course corresponds to the European A2 language level. It continues to build on students' acquisition of German vocabulary and grammar as well as oral and written skills. Main themes covered are expressions of time especially in the past tense (both simple past and preterit) as well as new usages of differing German declensions.

Professor Hessenberger.

IDENTITIES AND TERRITORIES: FROM THE REPUBLIC OF WEIMAR TO TODAY Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course covers the history of Germany from 1918 to the present day, and includes topics such as the Weimar Republic, the 3rd Reich and World War II, and the division and reunification of Germany. In the discussion session, students analyze primary sources that accompany the topics reviewed in lectures.

Professor Goudin-Steinmann.

ADVANCED RUSSIAN: LISTENING COMPREHENSION AND GRAMMAR Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course covers the recognition and formation of participles, past and present, active and passive.

Gerunds and short-form adjectives are also taught.

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Watching a Russian soap-opera supplements this grammar study with general vocabulary, improves listening comprehension, and opportunities for oral expression. Weekly oral presentations on the content of this soap opera count towards the final grade.

Professor Mouratova.

EARLY RUSSIAN HISTORY AND LITERATURE Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course discusses Russian history, from the earliest traces of Russia (Kievan Rus') up to the formation of the Russian state of Muscovy; cultural and social aspects are studied alongside the historic timeline, and the history of Russian literature from its origins (though many centuries later) is also studied in depth.

Professors Gonneau and Coldfey-Faucard.

*INTRODUCTION TO RUSSIAN LITERATURE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis A study of Russian literature from blynes and folklore to Pushkin. All texts are in Russian and French.

Professor Blinova.

SANSKRIT LITERATURE: KALIDASA Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle Selected readings from Kalidasa’s Kumarasamblhava. The course also covers the social and aesthetic aspects of Kalidasa’s works.

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UniversitĂŠ de Paris-Sorbonne This seminar explores past and current research in the realms of cognitive grammar and construction grammar and the relation between semantics and syntax. It focuses on the English language, but usually compares its history and constructions to other romance languages, especially French.

Professor Cotte.

SIR THOMAS MALORY AND THE ARTHURIAN TRADITION UniversitĂŠ de Paris-Sorbonne This course is a masters-level seminar centered upon Sir Thomas Malory's seminal Morte Darthur, although other important texts of the medieval Arthurian tradition are also discussed, from many different genres of literature, including alliterative poems, social allegories, dramatic writings, and histories. Textual analysis is linguistic, histori44

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Professor Carruthers.

REPRESENTING DESIRE IN SHAKESPEARE'S THEATER Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle In this masters-level seminar, students explore the works of one of the greatest authors in the English language, from a French perspective. Through extensive research and discussion of four of Shakespeare's most iconic plays — Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello and The Taming of the Shrew — the class explores themes such as: desire and conflict in Romeo and Juliet, political ambition and romantic passion in Antony and Cleopatra, and female sexuality in Othello and The Taming of the Shrew.

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focusing around two works, Joyce's classic novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Cieran Carson's book of poetry Belfast Confetti. According to the professor, both of these authors were heavily influenced by an ancient technique developed by Greek Philosophers called the “Art of Memory”, by which an individual associates facts with different parts (streets, stores, corners, parks etc.) of a city, thereby allowing the individual to remember vastly more information than through memorization alone. In both Joyce's and Carson's works characters have a seemingly innate knowledge of their urban surroundings. In this course the students explore this idea of an “Art of Memory” and the implications of this technique in both works. Through analyzing the facts or memories associated with each geographical location mentioned, the students are able to better understand historical, philosophical, religious, and literary allusions.

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MYTHS AND METAMORPHOSES IN BRITISH LITERATURE Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense

*AMERICAN GOTHIC: WRITINGS AND REWRITINGS Université de Paris-Sorbonne This Masters-level seminar explores the Gothic movement in American literature, examining the qualities that make it distinct from its English counterpart. Building off of the formula of the unreliable narrator, a genre is developed in which dreams and the supernatural are replaced by instability of perception. No longer just stories of superstition and fear, American Gothic latches onto psychology of the era, creating a story driven by doubt and insanity. The course examines the origins of American Gothic literature and traces its influence in contemporary fiction. Works studied include Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, Edgar Allen Poe's short stories, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Works selected by the professor are supplemented by selections made by students through their own research.

This course focuses on Shakespeare’s Henry V and Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound. Themes such as hero worship and patriotism, irony and satire, and the play as an epic are discussed, and the romantic vision of Prometheus, as well as politics and revolution, quest figures, quest patterns and allegorical figures are analyzed within passages from each of the works.

Professor Déprats.

POETRY AND POETICS Université de Paris-Sorbonne Starting with Aristotelian philosophy on poetry, this course analyzes the role and importance of poetry as a literary form. Underlying all aspects of study is the concept that literary critique is all interpretation. From this concept, students discuss how and why poetry affects each reader subjectively. Structure, style, linguistics, and subject are all examined as the basic forms of a poem.

Professor Amfreville.

Professor Aquien.

MAPS AND MAZES: DEPICTIONS OF THE CITY IN 20TH CENTURY IRISH LITERATURE

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Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle “Maps and Mazes” is a course in Irish Literature

Université de Paris-Sorbonne This master's seminar focuses primarily on contemporary/experimental theater. By examining works from authors including Beckett, Brecht, Crimp, Pin-

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ter and Kane, students discover how modern works have deconstructed the traditional “play”, and how new and diverse systems of representation have been formed, ranging from the neo-absurd to the “theater of voices” and the “in-yer-face” genre.

Professor Angel-Perez.

*THE REVOLUTION OF MODERNIST WRITING

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Students read major modernist texts, primarily James Joyce's Ulysses and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, with focus on genetic documentation analysis as well as narrative and stylistic techniques introduced through Modernist literature.

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Professor Ferrer.

*CRITICAL THEORY: FEMINISM AND THE ORIGIN OF THE DETECTIVE NOVEL Université de Paris-Sorbonne Through readings in theory and study of works of fiction from the 19th and 20th centuries, the course aims to deepen students' understanding of the dynamics of narrative and the appeal of detective novels. Each week, this course examines new theories contributing to detective novels.

Professor Regard.

THE INTERPLAY OF TEXT AND IMAGE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE Université de Paris-Sorbonne Devoted to the study of the relationship between text and image in American literature, this seminar aims to identify its lines of force, both critical and theoretical. It seeks to combine a broad perspective with precise textual analyses of major works of the 19th through 21st centuries. From the described image to the concretely present image, between figuration and abstraction, this course examines various modalities of registration in the text and explores how American literature explores or subverts the power of images. Consideration is given the connection of the visible to the legible, focusing on texts that represent and re-present the world. It focuses in particular on the role of description and portrait in fiction (e.g. the spectacle of nature in Thoreau's Walden) and references to painting and the visual arts in fiction since Poe. The latter part of this course examines the relationship of fascination and tension between American contemporary 46

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A study of poetics in American modernism from a linguistic point of view. Works studied include e.e. cummings’ No Thanks and Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons, and supplementary readings by Saussure and Derrida. The course focuses on the more “unreadable” poetry that made up the modernist period. Roland Barthes’ theory of the texte de plaisir versus the texte de jouissance is examined to understand the poetics of authors who were concerned with the nature of language itself.

Professor Alfandary.

*CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN IMAGINATIONS Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis In this seminar, students attempt to trace the creation of an “ultra-contemporary” in the American literary imagination. Through the fiction of authors squarely situated at the crossroads of digital technology and printed text, this course attempts to study the ways in which these new technologies have not only created new writing techniques but also fabricated and informed an entirely new “imagination” where invention and disaster, humor and horror, and human and machine no longer have important, or even defined, delineations. Without denying the properties of each individual writer’s fictional universe, students examine how each author’s work creates a dialogue with a world that is a priori hostile to it. The dystopian tendency of these works, not only in their themes but also in the language they deploy, leads to a discussion of the ethical and political implications of 21st century literature. Authors include: Blake Butler, Shelly Jackson, Stephen Tomasula, Ben Marcus.

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Professor Lagayette.

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES Université de Paris-Sorbonne This masters level seminar is dedicated to the environmental history of the United States, from the Colonial period to modern day. The goal of environmental history is to discern and analyze the effects of natural constraints on the development of human societies. The course thus explores and analyzes the fluctuations of the often problematic and ambiguous relationship between Americans and their natural environment. Subjects discussed include the symbolic dimensions of this relationship, the issues regarding the representation of nature, the economic exploitation of natural resources, and important regional variations, past, present, and future. Students examine what is at stake in the preservation and the development of the American natural space, in order to gain a better understanding of the debates on ecology, environment, and the perspective of sustainable development.

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science, geography, criminology, and media studies. While "politics," broadly defined, is at the center of the interpretive framework, the approach still possesses a strong cultural dimension incorporating film, television, popular literature, advertising, and other resources to discern how metropolitan people make sense of the politics of their everyday lives. Some of the key areas of study include: the hyper ghetto, street gangs, and the urban drug economy; policing, law and order, and the carceral state; urban subcultures; globalization, gentrification, and the new economy of tourism.

Professor Diamond.

THE GLOBAL INFLUENCE OF CAPITALISM, MEDIA, AND POLITICS IN THE UNITED STATES Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense In this course, the global influence of American capitalism is studied. The curriculum traces the major events in recent US history and examines the global repercussions of its economic system and how the media has helped spread this influence. Attention is also given to the evolution of the US media and their impact and perception abroad.

Professors Arnaud and Cusset.

Professor Figuereido.

HISTORICIZING THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS Université de Paris-Sorbonne This seminar investigates the history and dynamics of metropolitan spaces in the United States from the 1890s to the present, and seeks to better understand the political cultures that have shaped the ideas, sensibilities, political activities, and passions of urban and suburban peoples. Readings draw from the fields of sociology, anthropology, political

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This course has the objective of introducing students to the problematic of gender as a social relation, a principle of regulation, and a category of analysis of social and political facts. It presents the diversity of analyses of gender, according particular attention to the evolution they generate in the methodology used in social sciences and political theory, but also to the evolution of the chosen topics of study. It thus works to reveal and discuss the possibilities opened by these theories for rethinking classic categories (democracy, representation, work, family) and dualisms of social sciences and political theory: universal/particular, private/public, reason/ emotion, political/moral. In this sense, it poses questions about the feminist contribution to this change of paradigm in the social sciences.

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Examining gender through an anthropological rather than strictly historical lens, this course covers the work of both French and American social scientists who have studied the question of gender, including Foucault, Sartre, and Delphy. In particular, it analyzes the difference between sex and gender, if such difference really exists, whether gender is a socially constructed concept or if it is rooted in biology, and whether gender inequality is distinct and should be treated distinctly from other social inequalities, such as those founded in socioeconomic class and race. The major issue this course seeks to address is how female inferiority can be both universal and unnatural, and how this tension factors into the arguments pursued by the various waves of the feminist movement.

In this Masters-level course focusing on social sciences, students are exposed to topics related to gender and sexuality and their political implications. The course begins with a general introduction to gender theory, then examines the debates about the place of women in public life (politically as well as artistically). Much of the discussion topics are determined by current events in France, including new laws concerning sexual harassment and the legalization of same-sex marriages. The discussions open up to international debates concerning gender theory in the public sphere. Other topics include Family Planning, the teaching of Gender Studies in elementary schools, and portrayals of masculinity in politics.

Professor Fassin.

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*FEMALE EDUCATION AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER IDENTITY IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This class analyzes the history of the French education system from the angle of gender. What place does school — often considered by its promoters a place of civic and republican cultivation — hold for girls in Third Republic France, where women were not granted the right to vote until the end of World War II? What place does education, particularly that of women, hold within the context of the feminist movement? How has coeducation been debated by educators since the 19th century? What role does education play in the construction of sexual identities, as well as in the development of preferences, ambitions, and professional and family plans traditionally thought of as exclusively feminine? In a society that largely confined women to the domestic sphere, up until the 1960s, by restricting them to the tasks of childbirth and childrearing, how does the education of girls, within and outside of school, encourage them to become mothers? How do they learn to be what is considered a good mother and spouse today? How might we explain the differences we observe between girls and boys, even today, in terms of school success and choices? These are just a few, among many, of the questions that future teachers, as well as students, must consider.

Professor Rivière.

Professor Fassin.

Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis If, as Edward Said claimed in his book, Orientalism, the Orient is a construction of the Occident, whether imagined or theorized, the exotic experience is seen as having contributed to the founding of modern discourse on culture, community, diversity, and identity. A European genre is created: the Oriental or Orientalist novel, and it is not an accident that the “Orient” of fiction lifts the veil from the hidden woman in history. This seminar investigates how certain 18th century French authors depict Eastern cultures in their works and how those depictions correspond to their vision of womanhood and gender relations. Some of the specific questions raised in the seminar are: how does this type of novel problematize the links between fiction, femininity, sexuality, and alterity? In what way does it contribute to the elaboration (and the complication) of an intellectual and political program of the Enlightenment?

Works studied in the course include Les Lettres persanes by Montesquieu, Histoire d'une grecque moderne by Prévost, and Les Bijoux indiscrets by Diderot, as well as a number of recommended theoretical works such as Foucault's Histoire de la sexualité and Said's Orientalism.

Professor Berger.

THEORIES OF GENDER AND WRITINGS ABOUT DIFFERENCE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This seminar focuses on a series of theoretical and poetic works that question subjectivity, the concept

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of gender and sexual difference. Texts proposed are situated at the intersection of philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature. The goal of the course is to provide better knowledge of European and American theoretical productions and to extend their reflection to other experiences. Discussion of the derivations and ruptures often manifest in the elaboration of modular conceptions of difference, in the contexts of culture, history and contemporary politics. Also seen are the problematic of sexual and gender difference and the relation between literature and femininity in traversing theoretical and fictional texts. Works include those of de Beauvoir, Butler, Freud, Fouque, Derrida, Irigaray, Wittig and Lacan.

Professor Setti.

*SEXUALITY, GENDER, AND RELIGION IN THE ANGLOPHONE WORLD Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This Masters-level seminar is an in-depth exploration of how issues of gender and sexuality are expressed in and come into conflict with Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. During the first half of the semester, students discuss the role of women in religious communities, focusing on issues of ordination and prayer-leading. The second half of the semester focuses on the place of sexual orientation in religious communities — for instance, the performance of gay marriage ceremonies or the ordination of LGBT clergy.

Professor Bethmont.

CLASS, RACE, GENDER AND SEXUAL DIFFERENCE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis A graduate-level seminar providing both an investigation and a discussion of race, class, gender and sex, from Marx to today. Issues include the tradition of material feminism, the concept of gender throughout history, the question of science and gender, the sexual body, sexuality, history of “heterosexuality”, the phenomenology of domination, transidentity, sex and power, inter-sexuality, epistemology of resistance, semiotics of power and violence.

Professor Dorlin.

REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER AND SEXUALITIES IN CONTEMPORARY ART Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course proposes a concrete approach to questions of gender and sexualities by using contemporary works, taken from different artistic domains.

It helps students to enlarge their field of reflection and to construct methods and tools of critique. The concept of representation is studied with respect to the public and its various receptors. The artistic works reviewed vary from advertisements to dance to live performances attended as a class. Each study focuses on the methods of gender analysis specific to each art form..

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INTRODUCTION TO PHARAONIC EGYPT: HISTORY OF EGYPT AND THE MIDDLE KINGDOM UniversitĂŠ de Paris IV-Sorbonne A course providing an introduction to geography, sources, terminology and periodization of Ancient Egyptian history. Also covered in depth are the role played by religion in Egyptian life and the influence and power of Egypt, seen chronologically from the beginning of the Middle Kingdom up to the Ramesside period. Analysis of historical sources, such as the tomb of Ramose, the Great Harris papyrus and the tomb of Amenhotep II at Giza. An extensive bibliography for the course covers general history, architecture, art history, civilization, and religion.

Professor Pfirsch.

EGYPT IN THE 18TH DYNASTY UniversitĂŠ de Paris-Sorbonne This course takes a close look at the beginning of the New Kingdom in Egypt, with a focus on the 18th Dynasty. Beginning with the turmoil of the

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Second Intermediate Period, the course covers the life, accomplishments and legacy of each pharaoh (Thutmose I, II, III, Hatshepsut, Tutankhamen and Akhenaton) of the 18th dynasty. In addition, students examine the international politics of Egypt, its festivals and ceremonies, and Egyptian architecture of the time period. Primary source readings range from tablets to tomb engravings and are an integral part of in-class commentary.

Professors Somaglino and Valbelle.

* JEWS AND JUDAISM IN ANTIQUITY Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course is a survey of Greco-Roman attitudes towards Jews in the Roman Empire, focused around the conflicts in Jerusalem and Alexandria. Students analyze classical source texts in translation in order to piece together the differing treatments of Jews in Rome, Judea, and diaspora communities. Students also examine the Jewish response to these texts, both through synagogue inscriptions and writers such as Flavius Josephus. It uses these texts and their historical contexts as a springboard for discussing the ultimate question of how the phenomena of anti-Semitism and “judeophobia” emerged in the Western world and whether hostility towards Jews in the Roman Empire is linked to more modern expressions of anti-Semitism.

Professors Pont and Baslez.

HISTORY OF THE GREEK CITY STATES FROM CROESUS TO ALEXANDER (6TH-4TH CENTURIES B.C.) Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course follows the political, social and economic development of Greek city states and their relations with each other and rival empires from Croesus to Alexander. It examines the creation of the Ionian league as well as the league of Delos, and explores the central role of Athens and its mounting imperialism toward other city states in the League of Delos. This course also examines the role of Sparta in its roles as a counterweight and rival to Athens.

In tracing these histories, the course relies mainly upon ancient sources such as Thucydides, Herodotus, Plutarch, etc.

Professors Marcellesi and Couvenhes.

INTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT HISTORY ENS This course covers both Ancient Greek and Roman civilization, with emphasis on the latter, and it offers studies of various artifacts that deepen our knowledge both of the past and of our own historiographical approaches. Artifacts include the Lapis Satricanus, the Tomb of the Scipios, and the Lex Irnitana.

Professor Estienne.

LOVE IN ANCIENT GREECE: FROM HELEN TO CLEOPATRA Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course explores amorous relationships in Ancient Greece in order to reveal the history and laws of the ancient State. By reading about characters such as Alcibiades and Sophocles, the course brings out laws governing behavior both within the home and within the public realm. Students also examine the role of women in Athenian society and how love shaped their lives, as well as issues of sexuality and gender, and how sexuality was perceived very differently in ancient Greece.

Professor Lejeune.

THE ROMAN EMPIRE FROM CAESAR AUGUSTUS TO DIOCLETIAN Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course explores the creation of the Roman Empire in the aftermath of the civil wars at Rome and the increasing prominence of Octavian. After examining the foundations of the empire established by Caesar Augustus, the course then focuses on the social and economic institutions of the empire. It studies the agricultural methods used throughout the Empire and examines the production, trade and consumption of the three stables of the roman economy: wheat, olive oil and the vine. It also explores the artisanal industries throughout the provinces and examines the different levels of production throughout the empire using archaeological evidence. In examining the social institutions, this course studies the evolving relationships between the plebe, the senate and the emperor as well as the role in society of underrepresented classes such as women and slaves.

Professors Le Bohec and Vigourt.

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CITIZENSHIP: ROME AND THE MODERN ERA Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course is a discussion of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations and conceptions of citizenship and how these notions were carried out in practice.

Readings include works by Aristotle and historians of the time. The second half of the course concentrates on political thought in the modern era, focusing on the idea of citizenship, including readings from Rousseau and Benjamin Constant.

Professor Moatti.

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HISTORY OF THE CAROLINGIAN EMPIRE Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course deals with the Carolingian Renaissance, namely, the dissemination of texts, religious practices and ideas from Italy, their incubation in the court of Charlemagne, the growth of monasteries, and the flowering of literacy. It closely examines how different cultural objects (writings, buildings, etc) were integrated into Carolingian rulers’ strategies of power.

Professors Shimahara and Sot.

THE MEDIEVAL WORLD IN THE 5TH-12TH CENTURIES Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense

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This course examines the history of civilizations from a global perspective, focusing on the Arab, Byzantine, and Occidental Roman empires after the fall of Rome in 476 AD. By exploring the intermingling histories of these three empires, often rivals, the course challenges the dominant notion of a powerful Western Europe, subjugating other regions of the world. Reflecting on the histories of four regions — Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East — this course investigates the evolution of civilizations in the Middle-Ages, an era that was diverse and important, serving as an incubator for the growth of the modern Church, the Islamic empire, the feudal system and the great empires of Europe.

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ENS As a survey of medieval European history aimed at future scholars, this course provides an invaluable historical base to anyone interested in the study of history, literature or politics of the time. Feudalism, chivalry, monasticism, violence, law and order are among the many topics extensively explored. French medieval sources are emphasized: a study of the medieval city takes Paris as its case study, while monastic excess is studied via the decadence of Cluny.

Professors Menant and Chamboduc.

This course begins with two sessions serving as a survey of medieval history, from the last days of the Roman Empire until just before the start of the period recognized as the Renaissance in Italy. After this, each week will be devoted to a major theme.

Themes to be covered include religious history, the development of national identities (specifically in France and Germany), the culture of chivalry and courtly love, as well as an examination of shifting property relations. This course contains a strong historiographical component, as students will look at changes in scholarship over the years. The reference texts for this course are Le Moyen Âge en Occident, by M. Balard, J-P Genet and M. Rouche; and La Civilisation de L'Occident Médiéval by Jacques Le Goff, to be supplemented by additional topic-specific readings.

Professors Menant and Lassalmonie.

*INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL ISLAM ENS This course provides a chronological and historical base with which to chart the rise of Islam. Beginning before Mohammed’s birth in the 7th century and ending with Ottoman power in the 15th, it presents a vast introduction to those unfamiliar with the Middle East as well as a welcome complement to students of medieval Europe.

Professors Gareil & Tuil.

*MUSLIM STATES OF THE MEDIEVAL MIDDLE EAST Université de Paris-Sorbonne Beginning with the Ayyubid dynasty in the 13th century, this course follows the transitions in power in between Muslim dynasties throughout the Middle Ages. Other dynasties covered include the Zengids, Mamluks, Mongols, and Timurids. Emphasis is placed on methods and techniques used by Mus-

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lim leaders to maintain power over the vast and varied territories of the East. Interactions between sultanates and the west are also explored. Primary sources including letters between sultans of medieval dynasties and observations of Eastern scholars support and expand upon information provided in lecture.

Professor Bresc.

*HISTORY OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE FROM 1451 TO 1516 Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course covers the history of the Ottoman Empire (economic, social, cultural, and political) from the fall of Constantinople to the apogee of the Ottoman Empire. The major themes of the course are the Empire's organization under various Sultans, the centralization of its power and the Empire’s foreign policies towards conquered territory. It explores how the Empire began (the conquest of Constantinople), its growth (1453-1500) and its peak of power and efficacy (1500-1516). The course gives a broad understanding of the Ottoman Empire's economic and social structure but also examines the specific reigns of sultans Mehmed II, Bayezid II, Selim, and Suleiman the Magnificent and the politics and diplomatics of each reign.

Professor Lellouch.

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Université de Paris-Sorbonne A chronological study of the Middle Ages from the Carolingians to the Renaissance, focusing on the personal rapports between the nobles and the power holder of the Church. A variety of primary sources are analyzed, from papal bulls to the Magna Carta to accounts of espionage.

es and complementary discussion groups will allow students to become familiar with the realities of western Christianity: the institutions in periods of development and centralization; the various ways of life consequently generated; the new orders, notably the mendicant Franciscans and Dominicans; the ways in which clergy and laity appropriated the Christian message; and the abundant and diverse spiritual experiences that span this rich period.

Professors Vincent and Sère.

LIFE, LOVE AND DEATH IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course covers Great Britain, France and Italy from the 14th century to the Renaissance. Three chronological distinctions are made: the period prior to the Black Death, the period of the Black Death and its aftermath. Primary texts covering examples from the three countries and analysis of specific phenomena are used, with a strong emphasis on the themes of lineage, marriage and childhood. The work of Georges Duby is also largely used.

Professor Dauphant or Vissière.

THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE Université de Paris-Sorbonne A course focusing on Constantinople itself, the development of the Byzantine court, its culture, customs and diplomacy, starting in late Antiquity and ending in the early modern era. Of special importance are different observations that show how culture within the city changed over time and how the power of the emperor was projected and translated into symbols and ceremonies such as his clothing and his coronation. Also of importance are the economic organization and taxation of the city.

Professors Cheynet and Caseau.

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CHURCH AND SOCIETY IN THE WEST FROM 1215 TO 1450 Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense The class provides the fundamentals necessary to an understanding of the history of the institutional Church, religious practices, and social diffusion of Christianity, between the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215, the culmination of the Gregorian reform and turning point in the Western Church, and the middle of the 15th century, when papal power recovered from the crisis of the Great Schism, 1378-1417. Cours54

HISTORY OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN ARAB LANDS: 1516-1830 Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course examines the impact of the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Arab lands, focusing on North-Africa, Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean. These areas are studied with respect to their individual histories prior to Ottoman invasion and the evolving relationship with the center of the empire. Themes include the expansion of the Ottoman Empire through the region via conquest, the demographic composition of the provinces, the integra-

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tion of Ottoman and local culture, and the disintegration of the Empire.

Professor Lellouch.

EUROPE IN THE TIME OF ITS FIRST MODERNITY Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense An overview of modern European history, from the early 1400s to the Thirty Years' War and the reign of Louis XIV. Professors Croq and Maldavski.

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY: THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course studies the Italian Renaissance through a cultural and political lens. From a country divided into City-States, to power struggles between princes and condottieri, to religion in the midst of the Great Schism, Humanism on the rise, and new thoughts on art and science, each of the subjects discussed demonstrates an Italy in the midst of cultural flourishing and political instability.

Professors Dutour and Crouzet-Pavan.

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Ier’s reign, followed by the steady centralization of monarchical authority. Life at the French court, reforms in the judicial system, the state of governmental finances, and the effect of the Reform are closely analyzed using primary sources. Art of the period and popular reactions to major events are also covered.

Professors Crouzet and Le Roux.

*THE AGE OF DISCOVERY Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course covers the discovery and colonization of the New World, Africa, and Asia by the great European powers during the Renaissance. It begins with an in-depth examination of the contributing factors to the European expansion and the advantage of the Portuguese in becoming the first and largest maritime empire. The course then focuses on the interactions between Europeans and the natives they colonize, and the cultures of conquered peoples including the Aztecs, Incans, Africans, and Indians. It ends with an analysis of the consequences and influence of colonization on the societies of the conquered and conquerors, and in the development of a new, globalized world.

Professor Duteil.

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF ITALY IN THE EARLY RENAISSANCE (13801500) Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course examines demographic, economic, and political circumstances in Italy at the end of the Middle Ages and attempts to nuance the vision of an emerging Italian renaissance in the 14th and 15th centuries. Particular focus is given to the political and economic dynamics between major cities, prominent families, and surrounding empires. The discussion section focuses on topics such as the political influence of humanist teaching, religious life, the concepts of marriage and education, death, and civic ideals in Italy between the 13th and the 15th centuries.

Professors Kikuchi and Crouzet-Pavan.

HISTORY OF THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE: WAR AND FAITH UNDER FRANCOIS IER AND HENRI II Université de Paris-Sorbonne In this course, major political, social, cultural and religious developments in France during the Renaissance period are seen. The course covers the disastrous effects of the Italian wars on young Francois

*FRANCE UNDER THE REIGN OF LOUIS XIV Université de Paris-Sorbonne France during the second half of Louis XIV's reign was marked by long wars and economic and demographic crises. This course examines how the monarchy reacted to these situations, which include the War of Spanish Succession and the expulsion of the Protestants from France, and how the figure of the king transformed. Particular attention is also paid to court culture under Louis XIV. Professor Couhault and Bély.

*THE REIGN OF LOUIS XIV (1643-1715) Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course covers the political history of the reign of Louis XIV, from the debut of his minority rule during the Fronde in 1643 to his death in 1715. Analyses of primary sources like letters, paintings, and prints, as well as readings from the latest historical research, provide an in-depth perspective of the period. Topics addressed include public discontent with absolute rule, Protestantism and Jansenism, international war, and Versailles.

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FRANCE IN THE REIGN OF LOUIS XV Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course deals primarily with the set-up of the French monarchy and government, with a focus on policy-making rather than cultural issues. Main topics include a brief introduction to Louis XV’s personal history, the French court, and the structure and hierarchy of the king’s men, ranging from his ministers to his men dispersed throughout France to uphold law and order. The course also deals with foreign relations and war during the reign of Louis XV, from the viewpoint of Louis XV and his advisors.

Professors Vajda and Chaline.

HISTORY OF 17TH CENTURY FRANCE Université de Paris-Sorbonne This class covers the religious history of France during the 17th century, with an emphasis on Protestantism, religious persecution, and the transition to a multifarious religious community. Study of numerous primary historical documents.

Professors Souriac and Tallon.

Professor Le Person and Abad.

*HISTORY OF CHILDHOOD AND CHILDREN — 16TH TO 18TH CENTURIES Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course examines the history of children from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, with a focus on historiography, source analysis, and recent works. There is a particular emphasis on children in France, but children in countries like Great Britain and Italy are studied as well. By drawing on primary sources and the writings of historians, the reality of childhood is examined within a social and political context. Topics include abandoned children, orphans, illegitimacy, sibling relations, and parenting.

Professor Robin Romero.

18TH CENTURY FRANCE: ECONOMY AND SOCIETY Université de Paris-Sorbonne

*HISTORY OF PARIS FROM 1660 TO 1780: WAYS OF LIFE

This course aims to go beyond the chronology and the facts about 18th-century history, looking at France during the Ancien régime from a cultural rather than historical perspective. The time period covered is the 18th century prior to the French Revolution, with a view to understanding the conditions in France at this time that may have led to a conflict.

The course looks at the role of Paris as a commercial center, the function of smaller towns and villages in the countryside and on the sea. On a more anthropological and detailed level, the professor explains the social hierarchy and the dynamics of everyday life in France, whether it be through a study of education, family, high society or commercial life. The class requires certain prior knowledge of the main events of the 18th century, as a framework for what is a much more detailed study of the individual people of France and how it functioned as a collective, yet also often divided, body.

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*CULTURAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF PARIS, 1660-1789 Université de Paris-Sorbonne Survey of cultural, social, and political events in prerevolutionary Paris, culminating in the overthrow of King Louis XVI with the storming of the Bastille. This course examines the social and economic structure of 17th and 18th century Parisian life, with particular emphasis on class disparity, privilege, and growing civil unrest. Topics include the cours des miracles, the lives of mendicants and nobles, the establishment of a police force, the tension between Church and stage, and the roots of social and economic discontent/turmoil leading to the Revolution.

Professors Le Person & Abad.

Providing an in-depth examination of the society and culture of Paris during the Ancien Régime, this course explores how Paris transformed itself into an urban center during the mid-17th and 18th centuries.

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THE ANCIEN REGIME IN FRANCE: 16TH18TH CENTURIES Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course presents France during the 16th through 18th centuries. It presents structural characteristics of the period and devotes specific attention to their evolution as well as to important conjunctures. Af-

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ter presenting the physical and demographic framework of the country, political institutions and the characteristics of the economy, as well as societal changes, are seen. The final focus is on major religious and cultural conflicts looking at examples, across French history of specific traits of the preRenaissance period.

Professors Meyzie and Duma.

POLITICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY OF 17TH AND 18TH CENTURY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course examines political and theoretical frameworks in the historical analysis of international relations between major European powers in the 17th and 18th centuries. It reviews, in historical progression, the most significant events and conflicts in the realm of international relations in Europe during that period, such as the conquests

by France, Spain, and the Ottoman Empire and the eventual rise of Russia and the Kingdom of Prussia. Key influences and theories are also presented, used as a theoretical lens for the study of the advent of international relations in the 17th century, when the issues of sovereignty, diplomacy, and the nation-state began to appear after the Peace of Westphalia of 1648. Theorists studied include Hobbes, Machiavelli, Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Hume.

Professor Bély.

*EUROPEAN PRESENCE IN ASIA DURING THE 16TH-18TH CENTURIES Université de Paris-Sorbonne A study of European involvement in Asia from the initial conquest by Vasco de Gama at Calicut in 1498. Topics covered include a study of the powers involved in the Indian Ocean trades, conflicts between the European forces for stronger monopolies, reasons for European interest in Asia, and the changes that occurred culturally and politically during the period.

Professors Ferrier & De Alencastro.

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lonial trade. A number of different factions began to contest the power of the absolutist monarchy, weakened by its inability to achieve reform. The philosophers of the Enlightenment questioned both the doctrine and power of the Catholic Church. It was the "reign of criticism" and the affirmation of the "tribunal of public opinion". The course examines the state of France during this century of silent revolution, focusing on how economic, social and intellectual changes transformed the nation.

Professor Minard.

INTRODUCTION TO MODERN WAYS OF THOUGHT: LOVE AND HATRED OF KINGS Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course examines the relationship between a monarch and his subjects during the early modern period. In particular, the class studies the genesis, evolution, and historical significance of the hatred of a king. With a focus on French history, students study the ways in which sovereigns become despised in the eyes of the people and the consequences that this public ire have on a king's reign.

The course presents its theme through the use of numerous examples that illustrate the contrasts and similarities between public opposition to the king in different places and times. Class meetings consist of lectures presenting the historical events that led to and occurred during a period of displeasure with a specific monarch as well as an analysis of the importance of these events. Time for discussion is allowed at the end of class. Students read selections from four books over the course of the semester: Les rois thaumaturges by Marc Bloch, Le roi caché by Yves-Marie Bercé, Les rois de papier by Annie Duprat and La vie politique en France XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe siècles by Monique Cottret.

Professor Cottret.

CONDITIONS OF ILLNESS AND DEATH IN FRENCH SOCIETY 16TH-19TH CENTURIES Université de Paris-Sorbonne The conditions related to illness, suffering and death in traditional society are the focus of this course. Statistical analysis is used, as well as a number of texts allowing students to better understand the history of medical discoveries, their evolution, and their impact on society. Examples of texts studied: Le choléra raconté par Chateaubriand, La peste à Digne and Paracelse et les médecins.

Professors Bardet and Le Person.

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MODERN MENTALITIES: CHURCH AND STATE IN MODERN FRANCE Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course examines the changing relationship between Church and State in the modern period of French history (1500-1789). Conflicts between Protestants and Catholics, and between Jansenists and Jesuits are examined as the vehicle of the evolution of the relationship between Church and State.

The course begins with a short introduction to the relationship between the monarchy and religious power in France at the beginning of the 16th century.

It then proceeds chronologically, with a focus on major influential events such as the Edict of Nantes and its revocation, while also discussing the effects of Enlightenment philosophy on the relationship between Church and State. The mindsets of people of all social strata throughout the modern period are also seen, and the question of tolerance is seen in particular.

Professor Cottret.

*18TH CENTURY FRANCE: ECONOMY AND SOCIETY Université de Paris-Sorbonne Social, political, and cultural changes in the last century of Ancien Régime France to the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, are the focus of this course. Topics include State building, court culture, civility, the Enlightenment, the public sphere, religious life, realities and activities of daily life, evolution of mentalities and the causes of the Revolution.

Professors Lloret and Abad.

FROM THE ANCIEN RÉGIME TO THE REVOLUTION Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course deals with the history and historiography of the French Revolution, its origins, its major themes, and its causes and effects. Topics proceed chronologically but are presented in a thematic manner rather than according to the sequence of events, in an attempt to address major questions in the historiography of the French Revolution. Was it part of a larger Atlantic Revolution? What was the role of the Enlightenment? Was the period of radicalization inevitable? The treatment of issues and differing analyses by different historians are always emphasized, as it is their interpretations are that drive the study of the subject. Authors referenced include Jacques Godechot, François Furet, Georges 58

Lefebvre, Timothy Tackett, Timothy Blanning, and Jean-Pierre Jessenne. Proper historiographical methods are also reviewed.

Professor Dunyach.

HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This master's seminar is designed as an introduction to the historiography of the French Revolution. Each week guest lecturers focus on a different aspect of this question. Topics include: Enlightenment and Revolution, teaching the French Revolution, diplomacy and the French Revolution, the French Revolution and the colonies, gender during the Revolution, republicanism(s), and the question of the French Revolution as a cultural revolution.

Professor Belissa.

EUROPE AT WAR: HISTORY OF REVOLUTION AND THE EMPIRE 17921815 Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course explores the period at the end of the French Revolution and the transitional period leading up to the Napoleonic Empire, through the study of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, key figures involved, and economic and social changes of the era. It examines the period chronologically through primary documents such as treaties, letters from soldiers and key military leaders, descriptions of specific events, such as the battles of Valmy and Waterloo, and documents written by important figures of the time such as Saint-Just, Napoleon and William Pitt. A number of secondary sources are also used outside of class (Boudon, Jean-Paul Bertaud, Jean Tulard, and others).

Professors Boudon and Hême de Lacotte or Anceau.

HISTORY OF NAPOLEONIC FRANCE Université de Paris-Sorbonne French society under the Consulate and the Empire (1799-1815) is seen in this course providing a social history of educational, administrative and religious reforms and covering the question of the elite formed by Napoleon during this period. Topics include: the Civil Code, the Concordat, the press, Imperial nobility and conscription. Readings in political and military history provide background relevant to Napoleon’s conquests and European empire.

Professors Boudon and Anceau.

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*POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF FRANCE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This class studies the social and political history of France, starting with the French Revolution up to the late 20th century. Studying the influences of key historical periods such as the French Revolution, the age of Empires, and World Wars I and II, the class seeks to understand the development of France under the rise and fall of the Empire. This class also analyzes the causes of certain historical events that led to key moments in the progression of France as a world power.

Professor Pattieu.

*FRENCH SOCIETY AND POLITICS IN THE 19TH CENTURY Université de Paris-Sorbonne An analysis of the political and economic causes and effects of major events in France, starting with the French Revolution up to the end of the 19th century. The class moves chronologically, focusing on specific actors and phenomena that led to the many transformations of France during this period.

Professor Grondeux.

*POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN 19TH CENTURY FRANCE Université de Paris-Sorbonne A study of major themes in the history of 19th -century France, beginning in 1814 with the fall of Napoleon and the Restoration of the Bourbon aristocracy and ending in the 1914 with the beginning of the French involvement in World War I. Major social topics covered include Romanticism, the working class, universal voting rights, Haussmannian style in architecture, and school systems.

Professors Cariou & Dasque.

*19TH AND 20TH CENTURY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN FRANCE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis As an overview of the different forms of collective action in France, this course examines the causes of mobilization and engagement in different social movements. It also analyzes the relationships existing between public powers and social movements and the degree of autonomy held by various movements. The first half of the course covers the evolutions of the 19th century (the beginning of the

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industrial revolution, Republican banquets, and the birth of the 3rd Republic). The second half of the course studies social movements in the 20th century, such as the economic crises of the 1930s and 1970s, the rise of the social state, and the mass movements of 1936 and 1968. Students use tools from history, sociology and political science to answer questions regarding the evolution and importance of these movements.

Professor Pattieu.

HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATIONS IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Before becoming countries of immigration in their own right, European countries were zones of departure, oriented in particular towards America. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the entire Mediterranean entered a phase of intense mobility, reflecting and shaping new economic and political patterns. This course aims to present transnational and mass migrations in all their dimensions, considering what migrations represent for the country of origin as well as what migrations bring to the country of arrival. Students analyze the demographic, economic, political, social and cultural aspects of migrations, with emphasis placed on primary sources. Themes addressed include geography, citizenship, racism, conditions for immigrant laborers, political exile, refugees, the exploitation of children and women, and the effects of decolonization and the World Wars on immigration.

Professor Douki.

THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN EUROPE IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course explores the way in which education and youth became an important concern in European societies in the 19th and 20th centuries. Students examine the role of families, professionals, political parties, religious institutions, and States as actors in educational institutions during times of change. The course primarily covers the history of education in France, and to a somewhat lesser degree Great Britain and Germany, though changing systems of education in other European states are also discussed.

Professor Douki.

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*REVOLUTIONS IN 19TH CENTURY EUROPE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Starting with the French Revolution of 1789, this course examines every European revolution, revolt and insurrection up to the Paris “Commune” in 1871. Beyond their evident historical interest, these events also provide indispensable background for ideas and realities that we take for granted in the 21st century, such as nationalism, republicanism, socialism, capitalism, and the people. Every revolution is examined along with and in contrast to its contemporaries and placed in a larger historical context. Established historiography is commented upon and often criticized. Finally, the very idea of a revolution is always questioned both from a practical and a philosophical perspective.

Professor Diaz.

*REMEMBERING 1914-1918: A SOCIOCULTURAL APPROACH TO WORLD WAR I Université de Paris-Sorbonne Taking an in-depth look at the way in which the World War I shaped the political and social landscape of Europe in the 1920s and 1930s, the class focuses on how the Treaty of Versailles not only changed the international political landscape, but created tensions amongst European countries leading to the rise of Hitler's Germany in the 1930s and the disintegration of the French political system.

Students use a number of historical primary sources to analyze the social and cultural implications of WWI, including pro-war propaganda, newspaper articles, peace conference speeches, etc. Emphasis is placed on the development of post-war monuments honoring the dead and their various classifications, as well as their modern-day locations in France.

Other topics explored include the change in the hierarchal structure of French family life, and the ways in which WWI is portrayed in the cultural life of the 1920s and 1930s.

Professors Houte, Dasque and Mension-Rigau.

focuses on a period of French contemporary history, and is organized into three parts: historical points, a presentation of methods and an inventory of principal advances, thus allowing students to discover a major work of the last quarter century. Strong emphasis is placed on political regimes. Themes discussed include: monarchies (1815-1848), democratic apprenticeship (1848-1870), the Third Republic (18791940), the Franco-Prussian War and the two World Wars, constitutions and institutions, the State and public politics, the concept of Nation, politics and religion, colonial politics, history and memory.

Professor Anceau.

WARS AND CRISES IN FRANCE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis A course focusing on European crises from the beginning of the 20th century until the end of the 1940s. Throughout the semester, the course material analyzes the political, economic, financial, and social causes and effects of various crises within the European and global political system. Questions discussed include: How did the Great War begin?

What were the foreign policy failures that brought about its outbreak? What was the origin, the expansion, and the forms of the Great Depression of 1929?

What social and political consequences did it generate? The course also studies the Second World War and examines operations from the Liberation up to the Marshall Plan.

Professor Verheyde.

VICHY FRANCE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course explores Vichy France from its creation to its effect on the present. Specific areas studied include Collaboration, the economic and financial management, daily life under the Vichy government, French opinion, discrimination, and the aftermath of Vichy. Bibliographical resources include: Le syndrome de Vichy (Rousso), La France de Vichy (Paxton), and De Munich à la libération (Azéma).

Professor Verheyde.

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This course proposes a panoramic view of the evolution of historiographical trends over the past twenty years, starting with Rene Rémond's Pour une histoire politique contemporaine in 1988. Each session

Providing a history and historiography of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, with specific focus on Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, this course discusses the following questions: What is fascism and how

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historical documents and presentations on recent articles in the field of colonial studies.

Professor Sibeud.

Professor Musiedlak.

THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM FROM 1815 TO THE PRESENT Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course offers an extensive overview of international relations from 1815 to the present, covering topics including but not limited to the notion of an international system and the European concert, the Berlin Conference, the Munich Conference, European immigration to the Americas, the question of prisoners of war, the League of Nations, Bolshevik Russia, Japan as a partner to Europe, fascism, communism, and the Locarno Conference.

Professors Dasque or Davion and Forcade.

HISTORY OF COLONIZATION Université de Paris-Sorbonne Study of the European colonization of Africa between the Conference of Berlin in 1885 and the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, through general lectures on the subject, and analysis of texts by contemporary European journalists and colonists. The class deals principally with French and British imperial advances in the region. Assigned readings include primary sources such as extracts from treaties, letters and testimonials of European officers.

Professors Dasque and Frémeaux.

*THE COLONIAL EMPIRES OF THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis A survey history course on the formation and operation of the colonial empires during the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular focus on the British and French empires. This broad topic is treated through the lens of certain themes prevalent during the colonial era: wars of conquest and “pacification”, colonial administrations, racial ideology, migrations, economical logistics, assimilation and cultural hegemony, religion, and rebellions. The course aims to provide an overview of the development of the colonial empires, the motivations and ideologies behind colonialism, the logistics of governing an empire, and the experience of colonized peoples, thus offering an important historical context for today's geographical, political, and societal environment.

Lectures are supplemented with the analysis of

THE EMERGENCE OF THE ARAB WORLD Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course examines the development of the modern Arab world (The Middle East and North Africa, including Israel) from the First World War through the process of decolonization (1914 through the 1950s).

Attention is paid to key events and evolutions on various levels, from World War I to the role of women in nationalist movements. Primary source documents are analyzed in detail.

Professor Dupont.

THE EMERGENCE OF THE CONTEMPORARY ARAB WORLD Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course focuses on the individual regions under the control of outside powers like the Ottoman Empire and Europeans. It looks at the individual players and thinkers of the time who contributed to the growing Arab nationalist sentiment from Beirut to Morocco.

Professors D’Andurain and Dupont.

*HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST IN THE 20TH CENTURY Université de Paris-Sorbonne A geographically wide-ranging survey of Middle Eastern political, economic, and social history after the proclamation of the State of Israel in 1948. Emphasis is placed on the development, growth, and decline of Arab nationalism, the key roles of regional political leaders, and the evolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Discussion is organized around relevant primary source documents, including newspaper articles, speeches, and literary excerpts.

Professors Le Gallic and Dupont.

HISTORY OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT : ORIGINS, ACTORS AND CURRENT STAKES Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis To understand the burning question of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, it is necessary to understand the long history behind it. This course seeks to trace, through the study of both history textbooks and primary sources (maps, diaries, newspaper articles),

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the stakes of this regional and international conflict. Particular emphasis is placed on the comparative study of Arab and Israeli nationalism, and on the past and present living conditions of the Israelis and Palestinians.

Professor Pouzol.

*POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE 20TH AND 21ST CENTURIES Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course focuses on the political history of France, making frequent comparisons with other Western countries, in order to provide an assessment of the political history of the 20th century. The history of political life, regimes and governments is studied, with an overview of the major political figures of the second half of the 20th century, as well as an analysis of political forces, electoral structures and partisan systems.

The class places particular emphasis on the increasing importance of opinion polls and media coverage and their effects on the work of politicians. Political institutions and administrations are also examined, with focus on the importance of decentralization and the creation of a European coalition. Finally, major intellectual currents and public debates in the context of political history are considered.

Professors Bouvier, Dard and Coursiéras-Jaff.

THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD IN THE 20TH CENTURY Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course is an overview of American foreign and diplomatic policy in the 20th century, with a focus on political trends and interactions, from the end of the 19th century to the end of the 20th century. It also examines the social history of the United States as it relates to the decisions made in the realm of foreign policy.

Professor Portes.

EUROPE IN THE 20TH CENTURY (19001945) Université de Paris-Sorbonne Beginning with an introduction to Europe at the start of the 20th century, just before World War I, this course examines the economic, social, and political aspects concerning the periods before, during, and after both World Wars. The context of World War I, and in particular the apparent “security” of the European countries and their nationalism, patriotism and pacifism, are exposed and followed by a more detailed study of the war itself. Aspects of the Treaty 62

of Versailles and the economic and political effects of World War I are then explored. An investigation of the period between the two World Wars and specifically the newly defined powers in Europe, the Crisis of the 1930s, and the implications and sources of totalitarianism, are also examined, followed by a more detailed look at the Second World War, and the effects of Germany's domination.

Professors Jeannesson and Nardelli.

*EUROPE AND ITS NATIONS: 1914-1945 Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course focuses on the politics and diplomacy of World War I and World War II, and on the interwar years. While adhering to chronology, it takes a "cause and effect" approach to the important events that took place during the period. Students cover the traditional treaties, dates, and historical characters, but also examine the economic, sociological, and international challenges faced by the European community during some of the darkest decades in its contemporary history.

Professor Manigand.

*POLITICAL TRANSITIONS, PURGES, AND SOCIETIES IN EUROPE AT THE END OF WWII ENS From the perspective of comparative history, this research seminar offers the chance to study different processes of purges linked with political transitions after 1945 in Western as well as Eastern Europe. It covers problems raised by an evaluation of the breadth of the purges, the different participants involved, the judicial, administrative, and political mechanisms, as well as the limits of these processes as seen in different ways in each country. The seminar invites students to decompartmentalize national historiographies, reflecting at the same time on methodological problems that such an approach poses. Reflections on these themes alternate with guest lectures. A day of study at the national archives is part of the course.

Professor Daviet-Vincent .

FASCISM AND NAZISM IN EUROPE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course examines the development of fascist movements in Europe in the first half of the 20th century. The fascism of Italy and the Nazism of Germany are the privileged examples, but other countries,

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such as Spain, Romania, France, and Belgium are touched on as well. Tracing the beginnings of fascist movements back to the industrialization, nationalism, and imperialism of the 19th century, the course then examines the social and political impact of World War I and the Treaty of Versailles on European nations, and sees how these two factors contributed to the spread of fascism. Critically examining the spread of fascism in European countries during the inter-war period, the course makes sure to complexify common stereotypes and misconceptions about the rise of fascism, such as Mussolini's “coup d'état” and Hitler's “landslide electoral victory.” Different aspects of the fascist state are also critically examined as the course tries to determine the elements necessary for the success of a fascist state Finally, the course analyzes how fascist states interfaced with the war effort during World War II, and traces their eventual decline.

Professor Pattieu.

*HISTORY OF THE EUROPEAN CONSTRUCTION Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course traces the formation of various institutional constructions that led to the European Union, as well as the evolution of the EU from 1957 through 1990. Topics covered include the intellectual origins of European federation; the multilateral organizations set up in Europe in the immediate postwar period (OEEC, NATO, Council of Europe); the founding of the Coal and Steel Community; the EEC; the 1960s crises under De Gaulle; and the founding of the Single Market in the 1980s.

Professor Bozo.

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*INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SINCE 1946 Université de Paris-Sorbonne Since 1946, society has witnessed several ruptures and innovations in world relations. This course explores the evolution of international society along with the organizations, mechanisms and principles that have been implemented since WWII. Focus is directed towards crises and men who have defined the international system in this period. This course ultimately aims to evaluate the emergence of a “new” international system in the wake of the Cold War. Professors Dasque and Forcade.

*THE UK IN EUROPE, THE UK IN THE WORLD Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course follows British history from 1945 until the present day. It traces major political, economic and cultural events within the UK and throughout the world, and how these events have affected British domestic and foreign policy. The class focuses on the dynamics of the UK's three major relationships in modern years — with the Commonwealth, the United States and Europe.

Professor Alix.

CONFLICTS IN THE 20TH CENTURY Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense Analysis of the major crises of the 20th century in international relations: WWI, the crash of the 1930s, WWII, nuclear weapons, the Cold War, the creation of the State of Israel, decolonization, along with more contemporary debates about globalization, terrorism, and the growth of the third world.

Professor Ambroise-Rendu.

*HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, 1815-1945 Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course offers an extensive overview of international relations from 1815 to 1945, with a focus on tracing the development of diplomatic relations from the Concert of Europe through the advent of multilateralism with the League of Nations. Topics covered include the Congress of Vienna, humanitarian interventions, the Berlin Conference and colonization of Africa, the rise of Japan and the US, pre-WWI rivalries, the post-WWI reparations negotiations, and the League of Nations.

Professors Dasque & Forcade.

ANALYSIS OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course examines the geopolitics of contemporary international relations following the post-Cold War period. The approach is thematic, covering topics such as globalization, religion, weapons, as well as regional (Europe, the United States, Middle East, Asia, and Africa). The end of a bipolar system and the move to a multilateral world order are highlighted, along with changing politics and priorities. International relations of Europe and the United States are especially prominent.

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country's perception of the war - and of France's role - differed.

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Professor Pattieu.

This study environmental crises and tensions, conflicts over resources and their exploitation, territories and populations in the contemporary world deals with the following issues: Global warming: myths and realities; Is the global forest being exploited? Is the blue planet lacking water? Geopolitics of a finite resource: oil; Nuclear; Global agriculture; Disputed borders; Border areas: between tension and integration; Migrations; City and urban tensions.

INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Professor Viney.

*MEDIA, INFORMATION, AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES Université de Paris-Sorbonne Post-WWII saw a boom in the growth of new technologies and forms of communication. This course explores the rise in new forms of media and their effects on society and culture from 1940 to 2000, emphasizing the global influence of the United States and the “American way of life”. Topics range from the rise of cinema and television to the birth of the Internet.

ENS An introductory course to the history of science examining the evolution of scientific inquiry from the Renaissance to the contemporary period. The seminar takes into account both literary and scientific aspects, and analyzes the issues and methods that constitute a historian's approach to the sciences.

The themes studied in depth include the myth of Galileo, the invention of the printing press, Darwin and The Origin of Species, Mendel, scientific collections, replication of experiments, Émile Duclaux and the Pasteur institute, N rays, and the discovery of DNA. Professors Pinon and Morange.

Professors Le Gallic and Griset.

20TH CENTURY WARS IN HISTORY AND CINEMA Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Through the lens of history and film, this course examines wars of and around the 20th century. Beginning with the American civil war and the innovative military techniques first used in it, the course then examines the Commune de Paris, first and second World Wars, and finally the war in Algeria. Short film extracts illustrate the themes of propaganda, pacifism, hyper-militarization, and nostalgia; films created during or shortly following the war in question are compared to films created many years later.

Movie clips, and excerpts from novels and comic books show how various authors and directors have chosen to portray 20th-century wars and how these portrayals reflect on specific values and the cultural perception of war and France. Most works studied pertain to France's role in these wars, but the authors and directors chosen are of a variety of nationalities, thus allowing students to see how each

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This class interrogates the relationship between violence and politics from a theoretical approach. Key issues include: the difference between le politique et la politique (loosely translated as the difference between theoretical and practical politics), the role of violence in the formation of the state, violence or war as a political instrument, and political violence.

It also provides a survey of some of the principal authors in this field, including Hannah Arendt, Max Weber, Karl Marx, Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, G.W.F. Hegel, Sigmund Freud and Emile Durkheim.

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Professor Baudot.

* THEORIES OF DEMOCRACY Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis An introduction to classic writers, texts, and issues in democratic theory, from Pericles to Žižek. Readings explore contractualist, procedural, and deliberative understandings of democracy and democratic

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participation. Discussion focuses particularly on themes of nationhood, accountability, revolution, crisis, dictatorship, and state structure.

Professor Accetti.

citizenship. These themes are studied through the analysis of various examples, with special emphasis on states within the European Union and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Professor Zobel.

COMPARATIVE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONS Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course studies the major political institutions in France and their foundation in constitutional law, examining these institutions in comparison with those of the United States and other countries in the European Union. Some of the topics examined in the course include separation of powers, political party systems, the electoral process, and a comparison of parliamentary and presidential regimes. Different themes are examined through the study and discussion of academic journal articles.

Professors Cadot and Meyer.

HISTORY AND ANALYSIS OF FRENCH ELECTIONS Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense The first half of this course focuses on electoral history in France, such as the first voting procedures and how they evolved through the different regimes. The second half of the course focuses on contemporary voting, and how factors such as geography, electronic voting, and campaign tactics affect the results of an election.

Professor Voilliot.

NORMS AND PRACTICES OF CITIZENSHIP Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course focuses on theories and practices of citizenship throughout the world, with an emphasis on France and the European Union. The primary objectives of this course are (1) to give the student an indepth understanding of the fundamental problems and theories of citizenship throughout the world, and (2) to discuss historical shifts in norms and institutions that accompany the emergence of new types of citizenship. Themes discussed include but are not limited to: diverse concepts of citizenship in multiple nations; political systems and changing models of citizenship that emerged with the Renaissance; citizenship and its relationship with colonialism and racism; the effect of migration on citizenship and cultural preservation; and the difficulties of transnational citizenship and multiple

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DISCRIMINATION, DIVERSITY, AND ANTIDISCRIMINATION POLITICS Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This masters-level seminar takes a socio-historical approach to examining discrimination and the multiple forms of domination that minority groups face in France today. The course examines how and why discrimination, previously absent from political debate in France, has now come to the fore. Topics of study include the current paradigm of integration as the French immigration model, the conflicts posed between diversity and the republican ideals of French government, the corporate co-option of diversity, and the efforts put in place by the government and associations to fight discrimination. The course also offers a comparison between French policies and affirmative action in the U.S. The professor regularly invites speakers and authors of the course readings to discuss their findings in depth.

Professor Tissot.

*INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis An introduction to the principles, history, theory and diversity of major international organizations, both within and outside the United Nations system.

Institutions of particular focus include those active in the areas of trade, public health, justice, and environmental protection; class discussions address questions of norm development and enforcement, functionalism and technocracy, and the articulation of institutionalism with international law.

Professor Laumond.

CAREERS IN BILATERAL AND MULTILATERAL DIPLOMACY ENS This course has a seminar-style structure. Each week a different figure in French diplomacy is invited to present on their career and their opinion on the future of French diplomacy. Presenters include a consultant on the development of Sorbonne-Abu Dhabi, the general inspector of administration of national

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education and research, the French ambassador to Malta, and the former cultural ambassador to Germany.

with the study of a number of concrete examples of geopolitical situations with a variety of actors on both the local and global levels.

Professor Schlosser.

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Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis An introduction to international political end economic relations, the main themes studied in this course include: the formation of the Inter-State system, the diverse types of actors involved in International Relations, strategic stakes in a global political and economic system (wars, empires, decolonization, systemic inequalities, international law), and the principal theories in the field of International Relations.

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*INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL LAW

This course aims to introduce students to the large themes surrounding political geography (spatial dimensions of power), geopolitics (territorial power rivalries), and geo-strategy (the effect of war on the formation of territory). It examines the relationships between contemporary political powers and geographical spaces, and focuses on spatial politics and patterns at various scales (state to international).

Themes discussed include: the women trade, drug and arms trafficking, surveillance systems throughout the world, walls to create boundaries and separation, conflicts, and resistance.

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Professor Cohen.

A presentation and discussion of the international rules and judicial values imposed upon States with careful consideration of States' positions in the international arena (considering their status of development, geography, and political power). In particular, the legal activity of the BRICS (contestation, defense, and interpretation) within international law (dominated by the values of Western states) is examined. The first part of the course focuses on a general presentation of the history, organization, and procedures of the international community and its law.

Professor Couveinhes .

MAJOR GEOPOLITICAL PROBLEMS OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle The course analyzes the structural elements and determining factors of the current international system, as well as the shifting balances of power that have transformed the geopolitical landscape in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. An overview of organizational, economic, and defense issues is provided through lectures and course readings, and near the end of the semester, students undertake a closer look at developments in a particular area of the world.

GEOPOLITICS: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICAL CASES

Professor Campagnola.

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POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY: POWER AND TERRITORY

The word "geopolitics" has had an impressive comeback since the 1990s. But it has often been used incorrectly. This course attempts to correct this conceptual problem by answering several questions. When and how did "geopolitics" first come into use? How has it evolved until today? What are the modern-day geopolitical trends? The objective is to establish a clear definition of this discipline by exploring its objectives and how its methods have changed over the years, while comparing it to other disciplines (an in particular to international relations). This theoretical presentation is combined

Université de Paris-Sorbonne Exploring the structure of States and nations around the world requires a comprehensive understanding of both the political geography and the geopolitics (two different terms) for various territories. Exploring these entities involves a historic view and then an analysis of how the people, borders, language, and resources affect the populations that inhabit those territories.

Professors Viney and Trochet.

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This course aims to identify the different definitions of globalization, to evaluate its effects and to come to a better understanding of its causes and the present crisis. It focuses on the evolution of the world since World War II, the Conservative revolution and neoliberalism in the 1970s and 1980s, and the crisis of capitalism and its regulation. .

This course examines the foundation and expansion of the European Union from the end of the Second World War. Course material focuses on the structure of European institutions and the integration of Nation-States. In addition to the structure of the EU, the course examines the historiography of its creation and the roles of “founding fathers” from various nations.

Professor Nikonoff.

Professor Cadot.

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The phenomenon of international migration is seen in depth in this seminar. After an overview of the types of migration, the motives of the migrants, and the historical development of the migration process, the course examines migration networks and immigration policies of “countries of departure” and “countries of reception”, economic and political repercussions of international migration, judicial issues (including illegal/clandestine migration), and social/cultural difficulties of assimilation. While this course seeks to uncover the major tendencies of the phenomenon, emphasis is also placed on the unique character of specific migrations throughout the world. Individual case studies are presented, including Latin American migration to the United States (and the effect of labor on the country of reception), North African migration to Europe (and the presence of diasporas), and Southeast Asian migration to China (and the growing attraction of its seaboard cities) .

This course examines the stages of the creation of the European Union, as well as the function and structure of its main institutions, such as the Commission, Council, Parliament, jurisdictional organs and various committees. It focuses on currents of thought relating to state building, federations and international cooperation. Sources of law and mechanisms of control are also discussed.

Professor Yapi-Diahou.

*MIGRATION, DISCRIMINATION AND PUBLIC ACTION Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course proposes an analysis of the multiple logics of discrimination, their effects, and their interaction with socioeconomic inequalities in the contemporary French context. Areas of particular focus include the legal and statistical regimes at play; the experiences of the Black, Muslim, and Rom communities; and the construction and representation of “immigration” as a political issue in media and public discourse.

Professor Fassin.

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GEOGRAPHY OF DEVELOPED NATIONS – EUROPEAN UNION Université de Paris-Sorbonne This class focuses on the physical, political, and financial boundaries of the European Union, as well as its impact on, and place within the world. The class analyzes the softening of technological and physical borders within the EU, and their effect on the development of inter and intra-national travel, particularly the growing interconnectedness of railways and the competition they can now represent to airways.

Professor Woessner.

THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL IDENTITY IN EUROPE Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course is structured around the thesis that authors, grammarians, linguists, and anthropologists all played a fundamental role in the formation of national identity throughout Europe in the 19th century. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the course fuses political science, history, and literature, allowing students to examine the ways in which writing or collecting stories can be considered a political act. Class topics include: the origins of a national conscience, the role of intellectual elites, national

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history, national language, European romanticism, national literature, the historical novel in Europe, and vectors and supports of national culture. Discussions also touch on the contemporary parallel of the struggle to create a collective European identity.

Professor Moussakova.

JUSTICE AND INTERNAL AFFAIRS IN THE EU Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course centers on immigration and asylum policies in the European Union and how they have developed. The creation of the Schengen Zone and tensions between the dissolution of internal borders and strengthening of external borders are the main themes, as is the question of how States are coping with legislation on a supranational level.

Other topics include development of surveillance at European borders and conditions of asylum in various European countries.

Professor Basilien-Gainche.

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*THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis A comprehensive study of the evolution of the European Union's foreign policies, this course starts by examining its relations with other international actors (states, international or regional organizations, NGOs…). It moves on to explore the diverse range of its actions on the international scene (in the fields of defense and security, trade, development…). It then considers the EU’s capacity to develop its own (common) foreign policy, taking into account the pluralist institutional framework leading to the elaboration of European foreign policy, which mixes the intergovernmental and the non-governmental, the European, national and sub-national levels. This class tackles the institutionalization of EU foreign policy, the fields of EU external actions and the contrasted impacts of these policies, in order to understand how the EU projects itself on the international scene.

Professor Guilbaud.

POLICIES AND COORDINATION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION COMMON MARKET Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course examines the consequences of enforcing and coordinating a single, common market in the European Union beginning with an overview of the establishment of free trade and a European common market, then moving on to an analysis of industrial policy and the performance of European countries in serving the general economic interest.

It concludes with discussion of the politics of market competition.

Professor Guyader.

*SOCIAL WELFARE SYSTEMS IN EUROPE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis The “European social model” is a form of economic organization that aims at conciliating economic efficiency and social solidarity. Successful until the 1970s, the European social model was confronted with the Welfare State crisis in the early 1980s and with globalization from the 1990s on. After a review of the different social models in Europe (including references to those of the US and Canada), and the response they give to current challenges, the class studies the EU policies on employment, pensions, education and health care. It reflects on the future development of the French social model.

Professor Raveaud.

*CULTURAL POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONS IN EUROPE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course examines the definition of culture and its political manifestations, and studies how various countries within the European Union promote “culture” on a local, national, and international level. It compares various projects within the EU, and studies how they are funded, at what political level they have the biggest impact, and whether or not they are successful. This course illustrates how culture, when used a political tool, can serve as a means of expressing the shared European identity that all of the member countries of the EU constantly attempt to distinguish and reinforce.

Professors Bouquerel & Autissier.

EMPIRE, COLONIALISM AND POSTCOLONIALISM Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This second-year masters' seminar introduces the field of post-colonial studies. It explores the roots of this relatively new field of academic study, examining the works of major scholars such as Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Spivak. The course attempts to understand why the fields of colonial studies and post-colonial studies developed within Anglophone universities (but not among their

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French counterparts) and analyzes the state of postcolonial studies in French universities today.

Professor Zobel.

THE AFRICAN SAHEL Université de Paris-Sorbonne This study of the geography of the African Sahel is based largely around the climate and geographic conditions in the region, notably the droughts that occurred in the 1960s and 1970s and continue to occur to this day on an irregular basis. A knowledge of culture, traditions, language and politics in post-colonial Africa is integral to understanding the situation of the people that live, work, and survive in the Sahel.

Professor Brondeau.

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ates a framework in which students can understand the evolution and specificity of each postcolonial State. Special emphasis is placed on the politics of structural adjustment and democracy.

Professor Zobel.

THE ARAB SPRING IRIS - Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques The Maghreb and the Middle East and the historic circumstances leading to changes occurring in these regions is the focus of this seminar which provides a thorough analysis of complex events, starting off with the beginnings of the revolution, and including a discussion of the situation in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the case of Iran.

Professors Bitar, Billion and Boniface.

Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis The United States of America is a complex nation whose diversity is due to the immensity of its territory as well as to the successive immigration flows throughout its history. From WASP New England to the mainly Hispanic California, this diversity has constantly been asserted. And yet the Union is indivisible and unanimously respected. The class tries to depict this America — often misperceived on this side of the Atlantic — from Justin Vaïsse's point of view of “Neither Todd, nor Revel,” neither rejection nor angelism. It focuses on some core aspects of the country: its political system (Constitution, political parties, lobbies, etc.), the social model (education, healthcare, insurance systems), integration, identity, economic power, and foreign policy amongst others. Historical light is shed in order to understand these constantly changing issues and to comprehend the place and peculiarities of the leading world power in today's international political game and global society.

Professor Le Chaffotec.

*AFRICAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This is a general introduction to the political and social orders of the African continent. It includes the identification of the principal evolutions that have taken place across the post-colonial States and their theoretical concerns. By examining socio-political pre-colonial diversity, as well as the variety of colonial regimes, the course cre70

THE MIDDLE EAST Université de Paris-Sorbonne A geography class that explores the Middle East via maps, photos, diagrams and tables, using scientific, demographic, economic, and social concepts and history to explain the Middle East of today.

Professor Cariou.

NORTH AMERICA AND GLOBALIZATION Université de Paris-Sorbonne The course analyzes various defining characteristics of Canada, the United States and Mexico, separate countries forming a continent; it also examines their role in the process of globalization, while focusing on several emblematic questions including the power of the American food-processing industry and its impact on Mexico's economy, NAFTA, the role of wilderness in the formation of the nations in question, relations with the first occupiers, the somewhat vague history of the "natives", American diplomacy in the world, the development model of Quebec and its limits, the essential question of energy, etc. The North American “neo-empire” is compared to its growing Chinese rival/partner.

Professor Brunel.

*GEOPOLITICS OF LATIN AMERICA Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course focuses on the geopolitics of Latin America and the political, economic, and social developments and struggles that the countries of

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Latin America have experienced since colonization.

Some of the main themes of the course are regional and economic integration efforts of Latin American countries, social struggles and persistent poverty, inequalities and illegal activities, the key presidencies of each of the countries, and the important social movements that have occurred on the continent. The course also focuses on the political and economic relationship between Latin America and the US and its interaction with the rest of the world (European Union, China, etc.).

Professors Ventura & Manneveau.

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN LATIN AMERICAN DEMOCRACIES Institut des Hautes Études d’Amérique Latine Based on inter- and intra-regional comparative analysis, the first goal of this course is to define and analyze basic concepts such as democracy, authoritarianism and dictatorship, as applied to the last thirty years and in conjunction with more specific concepts such as transition, consolidation, destabilization, and populism. The second goal is to study specific cases in Latin America, an ideal region to explore the current issues that afflict modern democracies. Through students’ individual readings and interpretations, a deeper understanding of research and analysis in the field of Political Science is acquired.

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these are constantly changing and being redefined by several factors.

Professor Zagefka.

THE GREAT (ECONOMIC) ISSUES AND THEMES OF LATIN AMERICA Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course is an introduction to the principal themes of contemporary Latin America, including: the development of social inequalities, the state between democracy and authoritarianism, the question of economic emergence, international relations, environmental resources, and cities and their role in integration and exclusion.

Professors Mourier and Velut.

SOCIOPOLITICAL MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course studies the role of social movements in the development of Latin American democracies from 1970 to the present by examining the political, social, and cultural conditions in which they developed, with particular focus on women's movements during this time period, including populist movements, feminist movements, and indigenous movements. To this end, the study of press articles is especially emphasized.

Professor Ludec.

Professor Fregosi.

COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY OF INEQUALITIES BETWEEN EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course examines the principal inequalities of class, race, ethnicity, sex, and region from a comparative and historic approach. These themes are contextualized in both European and American examples, focusing on the notion of social class, the role of the employment market (both formal and informal), and the repercussions that aggravate existing inequalities and generate new ones. Slavery, especially the Atlantic trade, is spotlighted as an emblematic example of inequality and exploitation of human rights. Gender issues are discussed with regards to the social sphere, education, health, justice, function of the State, and family dynamic.

The overarching theme is that social inequalities depend on power relations (of domination and oppression) at several levels (macro and micro) and

MEXICO, THE US AND IMMIGRATION Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle From a historical perspective, this course analyzes Mexican immigration to the US since 1900, focusing on the period after 1965. The five fundamental points discussed are: the development of the political and economic conditions in Mexico that provoke immigration to the US, the conditions in the neighboring country that attracts Mexicans, the role of the US creating conditions in Mexico that encourage the migratory flow to the north, the reaction of North America to Mexican immigration, and the political, economic, social, and cultural impact of immigration in both countries. The themes of sex, racism, and geography are also central to the discussion. Specific lessons include: debates over immigration theory, the Bracero Program, the US immigration law of 1965 and its impact, changes in the work force, economic inflation and recession in both countries, the new North American economy, agrarian reform in Mexico, the Oil Shock of 1973,

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neoliberal policies, and the surge of anti-immigration policies.

Professor Saragoza.

GEOGRAPHY OF LANGUAGE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This anthropology course combines a study of geography and history with a study of racial, social, and linguistic communities to provide a specific understanding of the composition of the world. The first part of the course explains the historical and theoretical importance of language, emphasizing how language issues (i.e. for deciding borders, intercommunity conflicts, education systems) are a major factor in a society's or a State's politics. The second part of the course consists of a global review of the history and development of all current languages (or language groups) to understand the specific interactions between social/racial groups and the languages with which they have come into contact.

Professor Jeanjean.

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*INEQUALITIES AND RISKS: THE GEOGRAPHY OF HEALTH

Université de Paris-Sorbonne The goal of this class, which begins as a general overview of the concepts of Urbanism and evolves by the end of the term into an introduction to urban development bureaucracies in France, is to establish a basic but intricate understanding of cities and other urban and rural complexes. This is achieved through a study of geography and the question of why cities develop where they do, the structural patterns that most cities adhere to, the effects of industrialization, innovation and transportation, the relationship of a city to its rural counterparts, and the city's role on a grander, more global scale. A series of dossiers, or collections of texts (graphs, charts, excerpts, etc) supplement a suggested reading list.

There is specific focus on the growth and development of the French city of Orléans, which serves as a case study in examining the urban phenomenon, the evolution of the economic roles of cities and current urban development practices in France.

Students are expected to have basic familiarity with the urban structures commonplace in France.

Professors Comin and Geppert.

*URBAN POLITICS OF MAJOR EUROPEAN CITIES Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis A study of urban planning of major European cities 72

from medieval times to the present. Major European cities are currently undergoing dynamic development, in a context of economic globalization and increasing competition, forcing territories to become efficient entities. Today, new urban dynamics linked to the emergence of new social practices and types of activities have generated acceleration in the evolution of the physical environment. Social and economic centers produce a gradual shift to new organizational systems, where the traditional notion of the metropolitan city is anachronistic to account for the transformation at work. Based on these premises, the course examines major European cities at present through a study of three separate components: 1) governance systems implemented to manage new territorial entities 2) new spatial organization systems in a context of increasing complexity 3) evolution of organizational systems and alternative urban policies defined for finding innovative solutions.

Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis A study of health from a geographical perspective, focusing on how a particular phenomenon such as the spread of disease or access to healthcare is dealt with on different levels, by actors within different political, economic, and demographic realms. Using the concepts, methods, and tools of geography, students analyze the pathogenic system and the factors that affect the state of health of a population, and conduct spatial analysis of health disparities.

Examples of diseases studied include the cholera epidemic in Haiti, malaria in Africa, and the worldwide HIV epidemic.

Professors Pilkington and Furtado.

GEOGRAPHY OF WATER Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course provides an advanced exploration of the mechanisms governing continental hydrology and fluvial hydrosystems. It addresses the issues of fluvial dynamics, both dynamically (that is, the phenomena of floods and droughts, and an exploration of hazards) and morphologically (in terms of fluvial adjustments). It also includes an evaluation of the impact of modifications both natural (primarily climatic) and anthropological on the form and functioning of rivers. The course also includes pre-

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sentations of case studies on the physical characteristics and economic and political impacts of rivers throughout the world.

Professor Gramond.

OCEANS: A GLOBAL STUDY Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course is an introduction to the oceans and their interactions with the atmosphere. The ocean covers two-thirds of the surface of the Earth and plays an important role in the Earth's chemistry, water cycles and carbon cycles. The course is organized into three parts: physical properties and structure of the ocean, the process of offshore and coastal systems, and past and current ocean changes, with emphasis on the dynamic relationship between the ocean and the Earth's atmosphere. Themes include El Niño, hurricanes, tsunamis, tropical storms, and weather systems. Students learn to place major ocean currents, explain tides and varying water temperatures and the different geographical phenomena created by oceans. Climate change and its consequences in the past and the present are also discussed.

Professor Bertrand.

CLIMATOLOGY Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course is an introduction to the science of climatology and meteorology. Along with current concerns about global environmental change and the Earth's climate history, different aspects of weather and climate are presented, so that students may gain a basic understanding of interactions between the various parts of the Earth's atmosphere, the biosphere and hydrosphere, temperatures and the influence of the Sun and the Oceans on the Earth, the water cycle and precipitations, atmospheric pressure, and extraordinary climatic events. Defining climates and placing them geographically is an important part of the course, and students must be able to identify or define a climate based on given information. Methods of observation and analysis are covered, and there are weekly viewings of information from different weather stations throughout France. Current events are explored throughout the course. The issue of greenhouse gases and global warming is discussed.

Professors Metzger and Magnier.

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The cultural, religious, and philosophical impacts of Greek myths on both ancient and present society are analyzed in this mythology course.

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GENERAL AESTHETICS UniversitĂŠ de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle Created in the 18th century, the term "aesthetics" covers two main fields of investigation: that which deals with the experience of sense and taste, and that which touches upon the definition and finality of art as well as the pertinence of the concept of "art". Scholars of both classic and contemporary art, whether they like it or not, and sometimes unknowingly, are dependent on the discipline of aesthetics.

They depend on the concepts and vocabulary used in aesthetics ("art", "artist", "beautiful", "sublime") as well as the surrounding institutions which organize artistic learning, production and access to works of art (schools, museums, galleries, journals, universities). Beginning with the study of fundamental texts, 74

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en, and controversies regarding representations of women's bodies and social roles in the press. General press and women's magazines are examined.

Professor Bernard.

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The history of the development of media technologies in France, legal changes, and major figures in the history of French media are studied in this course, which also discusses media theory: the motivation behind presentation, and the effect of media on reality and daily life.

A course on the bookstore and the bookseller in France elaborating on the economic and legal structures in place that create a unique environment for the book, the literary culture and tradition that supports specialized and expert independent stores over large, commercialized business. Also seen is the day-to-day role of the bookseller as a "cultural mediator" selling not products, but creative works that have multi-faceted relevance (news and politics, history, art and music, gastronomy, scholarship and academia, travel, etc.). Students create and bring to fruition a project in partnership with a local bookstore in order to learn first-hand the challenges and pleasures involved in the book business.

Professors Demurger and Renucci.

*MEDIA AND THE ADOLESCENT Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle A psychology/anthropology course that examines how adolescents interact with media, how they are influenced and how they subsequently influence media, how they express themselves through forums, blogs and social networks, and how media has shaped adolescent culture in France.

Professor Bernard.

HISTORY OF COMMUNICATION Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course focuses primarily on the advent of the printing press and its effects on Europe. It begins with a brief history of books in general, including who wrote them, what they were made of, and for whom they were intended. Following this introduction, the class focuses on the changes that the printing press created among the intellectual elite, within political systems, and its significant role in the protestant Reformation.

Professor Saillot.

THE MUSEUM: BETWEEN CULTURE AND COMMERCE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis An overview of the role of museums throughout history, focusing on the changing relationship between cultural institutions and the market. The commodification of culture and expanding definition of culturally significant museum objects are discussed. The class uses the new Louvre in Abu Dhabi as a case study.

Professor Eyssartel.

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An introduction to the other face of the museum — administration, communication, education, security, etc. — this course shows how a museum functions as a cultural, political, and educational institution in France. The first half of the course is spent in the classroom covering the history of museums, with a focus on the Musée d'Orsay as a paradigm of the contemporary cultural institution. The second half is spent visiting Orsay and its neighbor across the Seine, the Musée de l'Orangerie. On site, students are encouraged to notice everything that presents the artwork: signage, architecture, use of

Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle The objective of this course is to retrace the representation of women in the media — and particularly of female journalists — from the 17th century to modern times. It raises questions about gender, the place of women in society, and feminist writing. Topics of discussion include important female figures who have made significant changes in the role of women in the press, media created for and by wom-

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color, structural planning, placement, interactivity.

The museum is analyzed and understood as an experience, one that requires much cooperation and communication among various, and usually unseen, administrative departments. Students also have the opportunity to participate in a "soirée at Orsay", giving short presentations of selected works designed for a younger audience.

Professor Chatillon-Pierront.

THE QUESTION OF RACE: NATIONAL CONSTRUCTS AND TRANSNATIONAL CIRCULATIONS EHESS This course is taught by Eric Fassin (De la Question raciale à la question sociale) and Pap Ndiaye (La condition noire) two experts on race and minority issues on national and transnational levels. Each class addresses a different facet of the construction of minority identity. Invited guest speakers, from a variety of backgrounds, discuss topics of interest such as the racialisation of Islam in France, or the construction and origins of “whiteness” in Ireland.

The main objective of the course is to break down European approaches to race, culture, and identity by engaging diverse points of view.

Professors Fassin and Ndiaye.

NON-FRANCOPHONE STUDENTS IN THE FRENCH EDUCATION SYSTEM Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course examines the issue of allophone students in the French Education system through the lenses of sociological theory, literature, and politics.

Beginning with a history of immigration in France and its relation to changing educational policies, the course proceeds to examine the cultural heritage, hospitality, and plurilinguism represented in the system today. The course culminates with a day spent in a French classroom and an analysis of the visit using readings from authors such as Bourdieu, Fanon, Alexakis, Ernaux, Sebbar, Benguigui, Weil, Pena-Ruiz, and Derrida.

Professor Blondeau.

velopments and representations of the human body in each era and civilization, are examined. Reading includes writings of Jean-Louis Flandrin, Massimo Montanari, Pascal Ory and Florent Quellier.

Professor Faugeron.

GEOGRAPHY OF FOOD Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course explores the relationship between geographical factors affecting food production and preparation and specific cultural, religious and social practices characterizing a region. Food, as a global societal element that applies to multiple geographic dimensions, is a powerful factor of identity, and is strongly linked to territory. Products and beverages consumed, cuisines and culinary systems, methods and places of consumption, all reveal that food is an important cultural marker, even if globalization is currently leading to an evolution of many food-related practices. Topics addressed include, among others: analysis of "bread" and "oil" cultures in France, the sociology of French luxury restaurants, and the symbolic function of food and food products across the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish faiths in Europe and the Mediterranean region. Sources include statistical and cartographic reviews, analysis of geographers in the field, as well as primary sources, such as restaurant publications, biblical texts, etc.

Professors Lignon-Darmaillac and Bruckert.

*THE DEVELOPMENT AND TRENDS OF GOURMET AND WINE TOURISM Université de Paris-Sorbonne To add value to the land and strengthen the local development of rural areas in crisis, food tourism, and particularly wine tourism, has grown in multiple varieties around the world. This course covers the promotion of culinary and viticultural heritage, an analysis of the policies for classifying sites known for their cuisine or products, UNESCO rankings, new labels highlighting local tourism, and the impact of large commercial and festive events around the world.

Professor Lignon-Darmaillac.

HISTORY OF FOOD AND CUISINE Université de Paris-Sorbonne The evolution of practices surrounding food preparation and consumption from antiquity to our days is covered in this course. Economic, social and cultural aspects of food history, as well as medical de76

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general overview of different types of restaurant establishments and the history of their presence in France, covering every type of institution, from high-end restaurants to fast food joints, and from the classic French bistro to different kinds of ethnic restaurants. The study of these different restaurant categories is followed by more in-depth discussion of French gastronomy and also analyzes how gastronomy relates to an establishment's location, actors, and products.

Professors Marcilhac and Dubucs.

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*SOCIAL SCIENCE 1 Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis The course delves into the social culture of France, with both a historical and political context, while discussing the culture of other societies to create a contraposition. It begins with an analysis of certain key events in French history, with a specific focus on the French Revolution, so as to help the student understand the historical context of the early years of sociology. It also discusses sociological figures and their works, with particular emphasis on Auguste Comte, Emile Durkheim, and Karl Marx. The course also discusses the definition of sociology.

Professor Soulié.

*SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES AND CONCEPTS Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course focuses on the theme of consumption and cultural practices in the sociological context of defining social groups. Particular emphasis is placed

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on the concept of cultural legitimacy and individualized tastes. Key concepts are presented through the study of classic and contemporary texts, then illustrated through concrete examples such as tastes in music, fashion, “youth culture” or appearance standards, among others.

Professor Amadieu.

THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis A sociology seminar providing an overview of the Frankfurt School. Although the sociological aspect of their work is addressed, attention is also given to philosophical implications of this movement. The first half of the course presents some background in German philosophy and intellectual history with special attention given to Kant and Marx but also other socialist thinkers.

Professor Diener.

SOCIOLOGY OF POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This class uses a wide range of theories (most importantly Marxist, Weberian, and Hegelian) in order to analyze potential causes and manifestations of mass ideologies in both modern and late pre-modern contexts, and seeks to deal with the phenomena of beliefs, ideas, and collective representations in strictly social terms. The reading list includes works

by Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Michel Foucault, and Maurice Halbwachs.

Professor Trigano.

THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course introduces the student to the origins and development of the sociological study of law.

The Western concept of "the law" is defined in contemporary and historical terms, and its importance in the works of classic sociologists such as Weber and Durkheim is explored in depth. Weber's The Sociology of Law serves as the course's primary text, with emphasis placed on the interplay of his theory of rationalization with the development of the Western legal system. Further discussion includes analyses of his descriptions of public and private law, contractual liberty, and judicial norms.

Professor Tirbois.

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SOCIOLOGY OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course offers an in-depth analysis of the definition of a true social movement and how it differs from a protest or any other reactionary movement.

Special emphasis is placed on the history of the social movement and its foundations in the labor movements of the early part of the 20th century.

Specific examples are taken from movements in French history.

Professor Vakaloulis.

*SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Gender and gender relations are examined from a sociological perspective. The course begins by discussing the origin and social construction of gender, while analyzing and applying a variety of theoretical perspectives (including those of Mead, de Beauvoir, and Delphy). Having explored the foundations of the concept of gender, the course then begins to investigate and discuss the role of gender in different social institutions and spheres of society.

Topics include intersections between the state and gender relations, gendered division of labor, gender and violence, and gender and collective action.

Professor Damamme.

*SOCIOLOGY OF THE BODY Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis A lecture course based on selected readings, this course attempts to analyze the ways in which the body constitutes a sociological object, becoming a product of socialization, a place of power and domination, a type of silent language and a tool of resistance to social order. After discussing how the body became an important part of sociological thought, the course analyzes how it participates in a system of apprenticeship, incorporating certain “techniques” over others. The second part of the course addresses the construction of the body as an object of power, used to reproduce relations between class, sex and race. Finally, the course discusses how bodily practices can create a specific type of language and a means of resistance. To analyze these different elements, students use sociological studies of various spheres and social processes including sport, education, penal institutions, eating habits and sexuality.

Professor Cardi.

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*SEMINAR: DISCOURSE AND ARGUMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIAL RELATIONS EHESS This course examines the disciplines of language and discourse, and the formation of arguments, within the framework of sociological studies and histories, using collections, archives and field work.

It seeks to understand the conditions for producing discourse or argumentation and analyzes the role of social context and communication. It examines various types of arguments and their uses, the sociology of controversy, and the rhetoric of social binaries. The role of social actors is questioned as well as the presence of ethos in the production of discourse, and in rhetoric and sociology in general.

Finally, the course analyzes the “multimodal” approach to the formation of arguments, including the use of body language, gestures, and images.

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HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES: GLOBALIZATION ENS This course examines the history of globalization from the 15th century onwards, beginning with commercial exchange and merchant networks, then surveying global migration, the spread of various technologies, and the spread of ideologies and cultural practices. Also discussed is the topic of bias toward the Western world in the context of globalization. Authors include Jerry Bentley, Richard Drayton, Pierre-Yves Saunier, and Anthony Hopkins.

Professor Wilfert-Portal.

INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF IMMIGRATION Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis An overview of the sociology of immigration, beginning with the Chicago School in the US and Abdelmalek Sayad in France, and moving up to the present.

Students use the tools and approaches they learn to perform their own interview of an immigrant.

Professor De Barros.

REPRESENTATIONS OF POVERTY AND EXCLUSION IN ANGLO-SAXON SOCIETIES EHESS American and British sociologists created a field to study the causes and nature of poverty since the

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beginning of the 20th century, most notably in the Chicago School of Sociology. This seminar analyzes landmark studies from the early 20th century until today. What methods are used to study poverty in the US and UK? How has the nature of poverty evolved in these societies in the last century? Readings include works by Drake and Clayton, William Julius Wilson, and Étienne Balibar.

Professor Duvoux.

SOCIOLOGY OF THE CITY EHESS A seminar examining the evolution of sociology’s increasingly interdisciplinary approach to studying the city as an object in itself, as opposed to a simple setting or theater of everyday life. Case studies are drawn from historians, sociologists, and anthropologists studying France and Italy from the 1950s to the present. Much emphasis is placed on Bourdieu’s influence on urban sociology.

Professor Magri.

PUBLIC SPACE AND THE URBAN THEATER Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense The course investigates the use and manipulation of public space through the metaphor of the theater, treating the city as a backdrop for public expression and the citizens and residents of that city as the actors upon its stage. Themes studied include the notion of identity, the mise en scène of power, and the significance of various manifestations of power and expression (such as carnivals, cafés, demonstrations and the celebration of national holidays). Authors studied include Goffman, Joseph, Habermas, Tartakowsky, Balandier and Halbwachs.

Professor Raulin.

*URBAN SOCIOLOGY Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course presents the principal empirical contributions to urban sociology and an overview of contemporary urban forms. Students engage in an analysis of a diverse range of urban forms including social problems in the city, studies of small cities and their communities, the role of the suburbs, crowded districts, urban sprawl, the inner city, ghettos and ethnic enclaves.

Professor Lapeyronnie.

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sible effects of globalization on urban segregation are analyzed in detail.

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Professor Costes.

This course explores the intersection between society, the environment, and the city. General ecological and environmental concepts are discussed within the framework of the city, and dichotomies between nature/culture, modernity/tradition, and urban/rural are studied within the context of urbanization and the societal appropriation of nature.

Also seen are current urban environmental issues including: the place of nature in society, environmental practices and representation are analyzed with specific attention paid to practices of energy consumption linked to the urban lifestyle.

Professor Busquet.

*READINGS: CITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ENS This seminar aims to present the major themes of urban studies and the approaches that they gave rise to in the social sciences. Particular attention is given to the ways in which scientific discourse is articulated in public action. The seminar takes the form of a workshop on readings in history, sociology, politics, economics, geography, and anthropology. Classes first focus on the historical moments of the contemporary city, and then on objects (the shapes of the city, the real-estate market, processes of social segregation, neighborhoods, local mobilizations, etc.).

Professor Steinmetz.

URBAN SEGREGATION Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense Study of the diversity of approaches taken by sociologists in the field of urban sociology and specifically concerning urban segregation from the 1950s to the present. The course begins with a general introduction to the study of urban segregation, and then covers how representations of the city have evolved. Themes include social division and the effects of social construction from the 1950s to the 1970s. The development of the banlieue and cités sensibles is seen through the studies of Touraine and Donzelot, and comparison is made with urban segregation in the U.S. The situation today and the laws passed in France during the 1990s to combat urban segregation, the future of the city and the pos-

INTRODUCTION TO DEMOGRAPHY: POPULATION STUDIES AND IMMIGRATION IN FRANCE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course focuses on the origins, philosophy, and practical consequences of social statistics, beginning with the history of demography, study of the theories and works of John Graunt and Thomas Malthus, then tracing demographic transition and immigration patterns. Debates and readings center around the polemical issue of statistics of race and ethnicity in France, and its intersection with the concept of the immigré. Students learn how to define and calculate population, mortality, fecundity, migration, and nuptiality. This course combines the mathematical procedures of statistics, census, and equations with the social and political contexts and consequences of historical and modern demography.

Professor Cussó.

THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF FAMILY POLITICS Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course is an in-depth discussion of government policies regarding family, and the effect these policies have on the demographics of a country.

Multiple case studies, as well as different theories of population cause-and-effect, are explored over the course of history and in several countries. For example, one might explore how China’s “One Family, One Child” policy affects the male-female ratio in the population of that country.

Professor Garcin.

HABITAT, FAMILY AND SOCIAL PRACTICES IN POST-WWII FRANCE Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense The course investigates the period of reconstruction in Paris after WWII through architectural and sociological perspectives: the conflict between the bourgeois and the working class, reconciling the intellectualism of architects and the needs of the public they serve, and the evolving conceptions of “home” as opposed to "lodging". In light of these renovations, the course examines the corresponding changes in social practices: the organization of

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space within the home, practices and customs of the family, and socialization and sociability. Authors studied include Marx, Chombart, Lefebvre, and Durkheim.

Professor Dussart.

EVOLUTION OF FRENCH SOCIETY SINCE 1950 Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis The course covers the evolution of the French society over the past fifty years, from a sociological point of view. Topics include demographics, the family, social relationships, the home environment, as well as questions of immigration. Coursework involves use of graphs and statistics.

Professor Lévy-Vroelant.

*THE EVOLUTION OF THE FRENCH EDUCATION SYSTEM AND ITS SOCIAL IMPACT Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Up until the end of the nineteenth century, education in France was a privilege reserved for the children of the wealthiest families. Due to the strong link between the state and the Catholic Church, it also had a distinctly religious component. The laws of the Jules Ferry, enacted between 1880 and 1885, however, changed this entire system by making school (up until the equivalent of about 5th or 6th grade) obligatory, secular, and free. Nonetheless, the divide between the rich and poor was still clearly engrained into the education system, with students from affluent families continuing their education through the end of high school. In fact, it was not until the mid-twentieth century that school in France began to resemble its current model. The launching of Sputnik sent the ministry of education of France into a panic as they realized that the Russian school system was superior to their own. In the hopes of competing at the international level in terms of innovation and technology, France once again remodeled its education system so that it would be equally accessible to all citizens and foster the kind of advanced learning demanded by modern society. Looking at learning material from today and the 1950s, these changes are evident.

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classes, despite receiving the "same" education as their wealthier classmates, consistently underperforming in school. Over the course of this class, therefore, we seek to analyze why this discrepancy occurs within the classroom, despite the significant evolution the French education system as a whole has undergone.

Professor Bonnery.

THE SOCIOLOGY OF ART ENS This course aims to complete the artistic and aesthetic education of students using an approach that focuses on art through a sociological perspective. Students try to understand art from creation to reception: the working conditions of artists, cultural policies and the national context of creation.

Through the analysis of texts of great authors and sociological research on the world of art, students see how sociology offers a new perspective on art and culture.

Professor Monier.

SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION AND SOCIETY Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense One of the first challenges that sociological theory has faced was understanding the religious phenomenon. As witnesses and actors of the passage from traditional society to modern society, sociologists deploy all of their methods to construct religion as a sociological object instead of one that is purely theological or metaphysical. The goal is to understand and analyze this theoretical work, placing emphasis on the sociological point of view of religion.

Professor Trigano.

DIVINATION AND RITUAL POSSESSION IN AFRICA Institut Catholique de Paris This course examines the span of rituals and religious practices in Western Africa, mainly focusing on the Gulf of Guinea. Students explore ancient rituals of divination and healing, rituals of exorcism, and newer religious movements. Each class session focuses on a different area, examining the practices of its people through a combination of lecture and film analysis. Each week a documentary film is shown in order to help students visualize and thus better understand the practices of the people studied.

Professor Duchesne.

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The meaning of death and health is explored through the history of medicine in order to gain insight on how modern medicine defines these two concepts. Funeral rites among different cultures are then studied to bring into perspective how diverse civilizations have dealt with death. Students gain another perspective on contemporary Western society in which more people die alone in a hospital bed than accompanied at home, calling into question societal norms on death.

Professor Kebir.

The primary focus of this seminar is the connection between colonialism and the development of the discipline of anthropology in the 19th century as it pertains to the Berber population of North Africa. It is thus meant to shed light on the uses of anthropology for political means. Attention is also given to the organization of the Berber community, tribe, and society at large. The course deals exclusively with present-day Algeria and Morocco. It is based on the works of mostly French scholars including Robert Montagne, Germaine Tillon, and Charles-Robert Ageron.

Professor Le Saout.

ANTHROPOLOGY OF ENVIRONMENT IN LATIN AMERICA Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis A course exploring the origins and domestication of important American plant species, focusing on Mesoamerica and covering the development of agricultural systems and the type of climate and topography needed for certain plant species. Also studied are the use of plants by the people who domesticated them, past and present, and the plants’ significance since the colonial era when indigenous animistic beliefs were combined with those of the Roman Catholic Church.

Professor Katz.

ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE BALKANS Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense Offering an introduction to the history of the region and its peoples, this seminar covers many of the complex issues that have come across in the media: the war in Kosovo, the general political instability, historical animosities between Balkan nations, and their move from Communism toward the European Union. Balancing articles written by Western anthropologists with those written by Romanians, Bulgarians, Serbians, Albanians, etc., the course explores the history of war between Croats and Serbs, the way in which the communist effigies have been dealt with after 1989, the emergence of nationalism, ideological diversions of religion orchestrated by the political regimes and conflicts over split identities in places like FYROM. Taking the form of an Europeanist debate, the seminar examines current issues faced by anthropologists who study Europe, such as how to integrate university departments to the new social changes in response to the EU enlargement.

Professors Augustins and Couroucli.

INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC CIVILIZATIONS Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis The course retraces the birth of Islamic civilizations, from their origins in the Arabian Peninsula in the early 7th century among Arab societies, both nomad and sedentary. It examines the political, economic and cultural structure of Arab societies, as well as the complex relationships and interactions between these diverse Arab populations. It then discusses the status and place of the Arabic language in the 7th century, because it is at the core of the revelation of the Koran and the birth of Islam. The formation of the Koranic text (9th-11th centuries) is discussed, and the major trends of Islam - Sunni, Shi'a and Kharijite - are described. The fast expansion of Arab-Muslims out of the Arabian Peninsula (Al-Jazeera) raises many questions that are addressed in the course, especially with respect to Iran.

Professor Gazagnadou.

HUMANITARIAN ACTION AND ITS LIMITS: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL CRITIQUE OF DEVELOPMENT Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course analyzes the nature of humanitarian action by studying the difference between urgent response and development efforts, as well as a variety of historical examples of humanitarian intervention and the manner in which the very concept has evolved over time. It also studies current challenges in the international community, ranging from malnutrition to post-war reconstruction, and discusses how a humanitarian team has dealt with and proceeds with administering aid and witnessing the short and long-term effects.

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Throughout the semester students research a current challenge of their choosing, create an NGO and present a plan to effectively respond to said challenge. Students use anthropological analysis to critique humanitarian action and discuss its limits.

Professor Djire.

ANTHROPOLOGY OF EAST ASIA: CHINA, KOREA AND JAPAN Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Providing an introduction to anthropological analysis of Chinese, Korean and Japanese society, this course examines contemporary practices through the perspective of historical traditions, with particular attention paid to the development of relations with European states during the first half of the 19th century. Topics include the history of the idea of East Asia as a cultural and political area, family and social relationships, collective or individualist ideas, and contemporary economic, social and political developments.

Professor Pettier.

ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES IN AN URBAN SETTING Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course focuses on urban anthropology in France, with strong emphasis on practice rather than theory. Students are expected to choose a site to carry out a short, necessarily limited anthropological study. The focus is on urban security measures and their effects on marginalized groups like the homeless and youths. Class sessions are used to discuss the origins of urbanism and urban anthropology in France, methods for carrying out an anthropological study, and current literature about the homeless and other urban populations in France. Students are encouraged to research, observe, take photos and video footage, and conduct interviews to carry out their study.

Professor Terrolle.

AESTHETIC ANTHROPOLOGY: NATIVE AMERICAN AND FIRST NATION POPULATIONS Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course studies the use of costumes, art, and other visual representations of Native American and First Nation populations in the northwest region of North America. Studying primarily the works of Franz Boas and Claude Levi-Strauss, students ex84

amine how ceremonial masks and costumes, totem poles, and sculptures portray the most essential values constituting a population's fundamental beliefs. The class is held at the Musée du Quai Branly, and thus benefits from use of the museum's collections to study objects from these cultures. Also using slide shows and extracts from films, the professor discusses similarities and differences across tribes, analyzing an object's aesthetic value as well as its practical uses.

Professor Hémond.

COMPARATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course uses various ethnographies to study political systems throughout history in an attempt to understand why human groups form political systems. These systems of power are analyzed through the ideas of Foucault, Deleuze and Braudel. Political systems studied include Beber tribes, the Nuer, China, and the original Greek state. This wide range of examples allows for dynamic discussion about what politics can mean for a specific group of people. Students are thus exposed to thinking about politics in different ways.

Professor Gazagnadou.

*ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBALIZATION: THE SILK ROADS Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Globalization is not a recent phenomenon, but a process that has been going on since the first human migrations. This course follows the exchange of techniques, ideas, religions, and, of course, products, along the Silk Roads, a prime example of pre-modern encounters that spanned across what was then thought to be the entire world. Since roughly the 1st century BCE until the decline of the Mongol Empire in the 14th century, everything that happened on the Silk Roads affected every society they reached.

Through history and historical anthropology, this course explores how Eurasian populations handled these changes.

Professor Gazagnadou.

*REPRESENTATIONS AND REALITIES OF ISLAM IN FRANCE Center for University Programs Abroad This course examines the presence of Islam in France as a social phenomenon, existing on two levels: as an

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objective reality (demographic, economic, sociological) and as a subject of representation (in the media, the arts, the academy). Students are introduced to the historical, social, religious, and cultural realities of Islam within contemporary French society, through an analysis of various texts, images, films, and media events from the last twenty years. The following issues, among others, are discussed: How and why has a dominant French historiography effaced previous centuries of exchange with the Islamic world? What relationships exist between Islam and gender/sexuality in France? What are the discourses between the Muslim minority and the majority?

What is the reality of political Islam in France? This course draws both from history and current events to provide an in-depth analysis of Islam in France.

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institutions. The ties between poverty, systemic oppression and health crises are seen in depth, and possible solutions and problems are envisaged.

Professor Atlani-Duault.

ETHNO-MEDICINE Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course is an anthropological approach to the perception of illness and its causes in different cultures. It begins with a description of our own perceptions of illness and the human body, the evolution of Western ideas and the important influence of bacteriology. Also discussed is the “therapeutic triangle” or the difference between illness, sickness and disease, before studying the perception of illness and its causes in non-western cultures, particularly in Africa and Siberia, with focus on its shamans.

Professor Lozinski.

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Water management is a central issue for societies throughout the world, and its location at the intersection of ecological and social domains makes it an ideal topic for anthropological study. This course studies different dimensions of water management, from the technical aspects to their symbolic significance. Water is used as a vehicle for studying the anthropological concepts of kinship and gender, as well as ecology and political relations, by drawing on perspectives from the fields of anthropology of development and anthropology of techniques.

Readings include theoretical texts as well as specific ethnographies and case studies.

Introduction to ethno-sciences. This course deals primarily with ethno-botany, or the relationship between primitive human societies and the plants of their environment. The class studies basic botany and how to classify and select plants, plant classification, and certain societies’ interaction with their environment (in Guadeloupe, in the Ardèche region of France and in Nazi Germany.)

Professor Casciarri.

INTRODUCTION TO THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF HEALTH AND DISEASE Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense Focusing on the distinctions - and similarities - between medical anthropology and the wider field of the anthropology of health, this course discusses the evolution of these fields over the last century and examines the work of specific anthropologists and trends of thought. Specific issues in international health are studied, and tied into current trends in anthropology. The international AIDS crisis is dealt with in depth, as are other diseases and health trends. The course aims to introduce students to anthropology of health on both an individual and a systemic level, by analyzing the effects of individual communities and beliefs and the work of global

Professor Benoit.

ETHNOGRAPHIC CINEMA Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense A two-part course covering theoretical and practical aspects of the history of cinema in general and ethnographic cinema in particular, from the Lumière brothers and Pöch and Flaherty to the modern works of Jean Rouch, Bob Connolly and Stéphane Breton. It also covers basic vocabulary and concepts as well as the changes that the genre has seen since its beginnings. Students learn about technical aspects involved in making an ethnographic documentary, and work in groups to script, shoot and edit short films (10 minutes long) on a variety of ethnographic topics that are then shown and analyzed in class.

Professors Roche and Connan.

ETHNOGRAPHIC TERRAIN PRACTICE Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course guides students through an individual ethnographic project that is carried out over the

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course of the whole semester. Class time is used to share progress and to learn about the use of interviews, photography and video within ethnographies, but the vast majority of work happens outside the classroom, in the field. Students are also provided with readings pertaining to their terrain during class and with critique from their fellow classmates.

participate in dance activities outside of the classroom and write a memoire of these experiences.

Professor Bertuzzi.

Professor Lecourant.

ETHNOLOGY AND FIELD WORK Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course is a seminar on fieldwork in ethnology, combining theoretical readings with first-hand ethnographic fieldwork. Readings of works by Geertz, de Sardan, Descola and Schwartz allow students to learn about the ethics of ethnology and the methods for observing, interviewing and taking field notes. Students also choose a specific framework such as the Avicenne French-Muslim hospital just outside of Paris and base their fieldwork report on practical experience.

Professor Camelin.

ETHNOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO AFRICAN RELIGIONS Institut Catholique de Paris Focus in this class is on the major threads of African cultures/civilizations through a study of religious beliefs in specific regions and in Africa. In order to reach an all-encompassing understanding of African culture, religious practices and beliefs are considered in terms of their cultural significance. In this way, religion and region, language and historical setting are linked. The bibliography for the course includes texts pertaining to anthropology and ethnology, as well as African literature, language, dance and art.

Professor Coulon.

ETHNOLOGY OF DANCE Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This class gives a general introduction to the ethnology of dance. It covers a wide variety of dances from various cultures and time periods. Analysis of the movement extends to explore the social structures and symbolism in which dance plays a part.

Students are also exposed to the different forms of dance notation, and dance is studied through various mediums including texts, film, and corporal movement. Students are strongly encouraged to

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HISTORY AND THEORY MESOAMERICAN ART Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course is a survey of Mexican and Central American art and architecture from the pre-classic period until the Spanish conquest, including lectures on the Olmecs, Maya, and Aztecs. The section on Mesopotamian Art places heavy emphasis on the cities of southern Iraq during the 3rd millennium B.C. This course is not limited to the discussion of objects of art; rather it explores topics such as the birth of the city and the invention of writing.

Professor Fauvet-Berthelot.

ARCHEOLOGY AND ICONOGRAPHY OF PHARAONIC EGYPT Université de Paris-Sorbonne Major architectural and iconographical innovations throughout Egypt, from the Old Kingdom through the Middle and New Kingdoms are seen in this course which focuses on building projects, architec-

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tural innovation, and iconography throughout all three kingdoms.

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Pofessors Tallet and Payraudeau.

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*ARCHÆOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST Université de Paris-Sorbonne This introduction to monumental architecture in the ancient Near East begins with an overview of typical palace structure, exploring the palaces of Zimri-Lin and Kush in detail, before tracing the development of the palace through the end of the NeoBabylonian and Persian empires. Students also analyze in detail key artifacts such as reliefs and statues, and learn how the religious culture of the ancient Near East is linked to its monumental architecture.

Professors Dalix and Monchambert.

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A study of Roman art (from the empire of Augustus to Severus), this course focuses on how Roman art developed from Greek precedents in visual forms. It covers some archaeological theories in addition to art history.

Professors Rouveret and Augris.

ROMANESQUE AND GOTHIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE (1000-1400) Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense A survey course, which examines civil and religious architecture and iconographic programs in Europe during the Medieval Period up to the end of the 15th century.

Professors Blondeau and Alexandre.

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This archeology course covers the architecture and sculpture of Athens in the 5th century BCE, with special attention to existing literary descriptions of the works of art discussed. The course assumes preexisting knowledge of classical art. Analyses of each work use multiple theories (both current and past) to highlight the complexity involved in interpreting this artistic period. Main texts analyzed include works by Pliny the Elder and Plato, amongst others.

The course considers the historical and social implications of each œuvre discussed.

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Professor Laugier.

*GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND ROMAN ART École du Louvre This course serves as a survey of Greek, Etruscan and Roman histories of art to provide an introduction to these early artistic traditions.

Professors Haumesser, Laugier and Roger.

*GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND ROMAN ART IN SITU AT THE LOUVRE École du Louvre Focusing on object-based methodologies, this course provides a close study of Greek, Etruscan and Roman artworks in the collection of the Musée du Louvre. Material is situated within a historical context with particular interest in teaching students to present works of art to their peers.

A close study of the art and architecture of Europe during the 12th-16th centuries, this class examines in precise detail the history and construction of NotreDame cathedral in Paris. It surveys medieval stain glass production methods and iconography and pays close attention to the relationships between workshops, tracing the exchange of iconography and artistic idioms. It also includes a thorough introduction to relevant artistic and architectural vocabulary.

Professors Ferré, Sandron, Lorentz and Balcon.

MEDIEVAL ART: PAINTING AND FUNERARY ART IN FRANCE, 13TH-15TH CENTURIES Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne The first half of this two-part course searches to define the nature of French painting during the 15th century, devoting particular attention to the historiography of the field. The political and social history of France throughout the century is discussed in an attempt to understand artistic shifts and currents in France. In the second half of the course, historiography is problematized and used to analyze funerary monuments. The funerary monument and the surrounding practices and ceremonies for the dead are examined in an attempt to understand medieval society and culture. Particular attention is devoted to

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ing and sculpture of the Italian Renaissance during the Quattrocento. Major themes are: the Florentine masters – Brunelleschi, Masaccio and Donatello, development of linear perspective, chiaroscuro, urban architecture, important patrons of the arts, and the influence of Flemish portraiture.

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Professors Gady and Peng.

Professors Ferré and Lorentz.

This course is divided into two sections, one on the medieval urban structure of the city of Paris and the other on medieval painting in Cyprus. The course on Medieval Paris considers the development and urban expansion of Paris from the 8th to the 15th century. The second part of the course looks at frescoes produced on the island of Cyprus from the 8th to the 12th century..

Professors Berger, Yota and Sandron.

*ART HISTORY: ART AND NATURE ENSAAMA Focusing on the relationship between art and nature, this course traces the history of frescoes, painting, and stained glass beginning in the Byzantine Empire in Europe and explores the legacy of these techniques in European art since the Renaissance.

The aim of the course is to give students concentrating on fresco and stained glass an understanding of the origins of their craft, the larger artistic movements that influenced it, and an ability to locate their own contemporary practice within history.

Professor Dorothée.

INTRODUCTION TO ART HISTORY OF THE EUROPEAN RENAISSANCE Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course gives an overview of major schools and artists during the Renaissance, focusing on Italy as the center of the artistic revolution, but also on the dissemination of the Renaissance to other European nations. The major issues of modern art, such as the statute of the artist, the creation of the notion of “art” and the relations between art and politics, and between art and religion, are highlighted. Various forms of art are discussed, including sculpture, painting and architecture, as well as the techniques used to produce such works.

MODERN ART AND ARCHITECTURE: THE BIRTH OF THE CLASSICAL STYLE IN FRANCE Université de Paris-Sorbonne The first part of this course proposes an overview of architecture in 16th century Europe as well as an introduction to French architecture of the same period, through in-depth analysis of the works of Serlio, Delorme, Lescot, and Du Cerceau. Particular attention is given to architectural method and theory and to the development of a French architectural language.

The second part of the course explores 18th century French artist François Boucher's artistic innovations and his role in the birth of a new artistic genre.

Professors Gouzi, Gerard-Powell and Mignot.

URBAN PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURAL DEVELOPMENT: PARIS AND VENICE, 1585-1755 Université de Paris-Sorbonne The course focuses on the birth of modern cities, with Paris and Venice as primary examples. Covering the period between the late 16th century and the early 18th century, students examine the emergence of urbanism and its effects on the architecture and structure of cities.

Professors Mignot and Gady.

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Detailed study of French architecture from the 16th to the 18th century (the early modern period). Major constructions of the era including castles, hôtels particuliers, and religious buildings are discussed in detail, as are the architects who designed them. The history surrounding each construction is explored: the building’s purpose, inhabitants, renovations, current function, etc. The architectural structure and details of each building are also discussed. Students receive training in the methods of formally analyzing the architecture of a variety of constructions.

Major artistic innovations in the architecture, paint-

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*THE ARCHITECTURE OF ROYAL FRANCE AND THE HISTORY OF GARDENS Université de Paris-Sorbonne This courses provides an overview of 16th-18th century art, with focus on two specific aspects. First, students examine the architectural discourse produced by the French monarchy from Louis XIV up to the neoclassical revolution. During this long century, which was the zenith of French power, the monarchy and the nobility played an important role in elaborating the architecture of the era. The course examines the characteristics of this architecture as it played out in the creation of monumental spaces that served as representations of power. The second area of study concerns the history of gardens from the beginning of recorded horticulture until today, with a large focus on 16th-18th century gardens in Italy and France. In this introduction to the emerging discipline of garden history, students learn about the methodology as well as the questions produced by this field. The formal vocabulary, technical aspects (from conception to maintenance), and aesthetic issues of these complex and ever-changing works are discussed.

Professors Brunon, Gady and Wolvesperges.

MODERN ART 1: ALLEGORY IN FRENCH ART OF THE 17TH CENTURY Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course examines allegorical art in the 17th century, focusing on French artists but also drawing from Italian and Northern European examples.

Sculptures adorning cathedrals, frescoes from Versailles, Italian history paintings and Dutch interiors are all use allegorical figures whose meanings this course seeks to illuminate. Using Cesare Ripa's 16thcentury text Iconologia as a starting point, students learn the visual language of allegory. A supplemental course is offered about chinoiserie in the court of Louis XIV.

Professor Faure-Carricaburu.

INTRODUCTION TO 18TH CENTURY EUROPEAN ART Université de Paris-Sorbonne Unlike many periods in the history of art, the 18th century – the century of Boucher, Hogarth, and Houdon – does not inspire one coherent narrative of development but is rather characterized by the disunity of its artistic output across boundaries of geography, medium, and genre. This survey class thus explores the diversity of artistic production in 18th century Europe from the end of Louis XIV’s reign through the rise of Neo-Classicism and Romanticism with David and Goya. Primary attention is given to painting and sculpture, as well as architecture in France, Italy, England, and Spain. Themes considered include the heritage of the 17th century, the hierarchy of genres, the myth of the Rococo, the impact of tourism, and the role of patronage and the court. Special attention is devoted to works at Paris sites and in Parisian collections.

Professors Magnier and Gérard-Powell.

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Professors Gouzi, Mérot and Wolvesperges.

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A CRITICAL HISTORY OF THE GENRES OF 17TH AND 18TH CENTURY PAINTING

The main focus of this two-part course is European landscape painting in the first half of the 19th century. The political aspects of monuments in France in the first half of the 19th century are also examined.

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hierarchy of painting genres was given structure by the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpting in Paris. This course analyzes the social, political, and moral function of the classification of subjects. In addition, the hierarchy of genres is studied through the lens of art history, beginning with the Greeks and Romans, in order to better understand the developments of the 17th and 18th centuries. A brief study of the Flanders, whose development allowed for of a new market for art in the 16th century, explains the appearance of certain genres considered minor in other parts of Europe. Altogether, the class tackles the relationship between public power and painters.

Professors Ameille, Laugée and Jobert.

*HISTORY OF ART 1800-1900: FRENCH PAINTING FROM DAVID TO COURBET Université de Paris-Sorbonne This art history course focuses on French paintings

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produced between the Neoclassicism of pre-French Revolution era and the Realism of the late 19th century. Emphasis is placed on major French painters such as David, Ingres, Delacroix, Delaroche, and Courbet, with in-depth discussion of major paintings in the context of their time period and artistic movement.

Professors Levy and Goetz.

*MAJOR MOVEMENTS IN 19TH CENTURY FRENCH PAINTING Center for University Programs Abroad Beginning with Neoclassicism and covering the movements of Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Symbolism, this course follows major movements in French painting of the 19th century as they relate to the expression of the individual and to artistic institutions and conventions.

Study of the socio-political context and its influence on the artists, and emphasis on analysis of style, technique, color, and light. Half of the course is held on site at museums (Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, Musée Marmottan, Musée Gustave Moreau and Orangerie).

Professor Baudouin.

*HISTORY OF 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY ART Université de Paris-Sorbonne This two-part course covers aspects of 19th and 20th art. The first part deals with painting in the Third Republic, focusing mainly on Impressionism, and then progressing to post-impressionism and neo-impressionism. The second part explores Minimalism and Post-minimalism, their complexity and their effect on contemporary art, especially conceptual art. It discusses these movements in their variety of expressions: sculpture, painting, as well as dance and experimental film and video art. Special emphasis is given to theoretical issues.

Professors Dryansky, Goetz & Ameille.

*RODIN AND PHOTOGRAPHY: 1880-1917 École du Louvre This course considers photography's relatively early history through the lens of French sculptor Auguste Rodin. As a means of both circulating and re-interpreting his work, Rodin's commitment to photographic practice vis-à-vis emerging photographers allows for a study of the intersecting fields of sculpture and photography.

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HISTORY OF 20TH CENTURY ART Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course is an overview of major artistic movements such as Abstract Expressionism, New Realism, Neo Dadaism, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art. It focuses on themes such as transformability and metamorphosis, and the evolution of movement in op art and cinematic art after 1945, involving a wide range of media and experiments, from optical illusions to innovations with color and mixed media that encourage the participation of the spectator.

Beginning with artists such as Duchamp, Agam, and Tinguely, the course progresses until the end of the 20th century with the integration of cinematic movement in art.

Professors Pierre and Simoniello.

KANDINSKY AND THE PATH TO ABSTRACTION Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course traces Kandinsky’s life, focusing on his path to abstraction, and his gradual move away from figurative elements. It also covers Malevich’s influence on the work of Kandinsky, as well as their different approaches. Five texts are used in class, most of them being Kandinsky’s writings on art. Indepth analysis of the rapport between Kandinsky’s theories and his own work.

Professor Morizot.

MONDRIAN AND DE STIJL Université de Paris-Sorbonne The evolution of Mondrian’s artistic practices is traced from his early landscapes through his Cubist period, the development of the doctrine of Neoplasticism, to the complex Boogie-Woogie series before his death in 1944. Attention is given to both formalist interpretations of Mondrian’s art, as well as the spiritual and philosophical aspects of his work within the framework of his theoretical writings. Mondrian’s role in the group De Stijl provides the impetus for the second portion of the class, in which the realization of a “new plasticity” in painting, sculpture, architecture, typography, and furniture is studied. Emphasis on key members of De Stijl’s group including Van Doesburg, Vantongerloo, and Rietveld; the ideal of the synthesis of the arts; and the relationship between De Stijl and other avant-garde movements. The lecture component of the class is accompanied by a section contextualiz-

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ing Mondrian’s work within the history of abstraction in the first half of the 20th century.

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Professors Poirier, Pierre and Ducros.

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*LANGUAGE OF REALITY: ART OF THE 1950S

This course aims to explain the birth, development and diffusion of photographic technique, in order to understand its various uses and its involvement in contemporary artistic practices.

École du Louvre This course addresses the plural histories of art that took place during the 1950s and the ways in which visual reality was negotiated through a questioning of figuration and material. By considering the role of realism amid a changing conception of modernism, this course looks at the art of the mid 20th-century from an international and inter-generational perspective.

Professor Dryansky.

*MINIMAL AND CONCEPTUAL ART: 1960-PRESENT École du Louvre Considering the impact of 1960s minimalism and conceptualism on contemporary artistic practice, this course uses fundamental writings by critics, theorists and artists as a lens for understanding more recent artworks. Topics include exhibition history, the work and legacy of Frank Stella, and the French interpretation of these contemporary artistic approaches. A monthly session is also held on current Parisian exhibitions reflecting ideas discussed in class, providing a wide and relevant view of the impact of minimalism and conceptualism.

Main texts discussed include those by James Meyer, Michael Fried, Robert Morris, Frank Stella and Carl Andre.

Professor Maldonado.

PANORAMA OF CONTEMPORARY ART, 1960-1980 Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course examines the sources, developments, and manifestations of contemporary art, focusing on the years 1960-1980, as well as its roots in the past and effects on future artistic movements. Through the treatment of specific groundbreaking artists, works, and art critics, this course discusses such themes as text and image, the quotidian and the banal, body in tension, attitude as form, ephemeral and precarious works, concept/idea/language, absence of object, space/temporality, and landscape.

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*HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY FROM 1839 TO 1910 Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis The official invention of photography can be dated to 1839 in Paris. Since then, the technology of photography, its public perception and the uses of photography have been constantly evolving. This course covers the development of photography up to 1910 — the “official” date of the start of modern photography. It covers important dates, artists and photographs to examine both the goal of photography itself, whether as an art or a form of scientific documentation, and the role it played in society (promoted at its beginning as being “so easy, even women can do it”). Students also learn how to analyze a given photograph in terms of chronology, purpose and reception by the public.

Professor Roubert.

*HISTORY OF MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course spans photographic history from 1910 to 1980, placing particular focus on documentary photography, experimental photography, and staged photography, as well as the interaction, overlaps and disconnections between these frameworks.

The course then uses modern photographic history to illuminate the cohesion and tension between esthetic and ethic value in photography. Rather than approaching the history of modern photography chronologically, this class seeks to thematically explore trends and movements that mark photography's ever-shifting position in the modern art world.

Professor Roubert.

*WORKS OF ART AND SOCIETY, 15TH-20TH CENTURIES Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Through the lens of the human figure, this course addresses the relations between an art object and

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its production. Looking toward the foundations from which an artistic culture emerged, students examine the canons of ancient Greece — Apollonian physical nudity and the emergence of feminine beauty — and their reemergence during the Italian Renaissance. By exploring the history of representations of the body, students analyze the exemplary virtue that is associated with it, and retrace the birth of the museum of and “the original” in art, the movement from ideal beauty to realist beauty, the place hesitantly given to the ordinary body, and possible definitions of realism within artistic practice.

Professor Laborie.

HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURAL THEORY IN THE 20TH CENTURY Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Against the backdrop of contemporary architectural practice and theory, this course explores the major evolutions of western architectural theory over the past century — from Le Corbusier and Bauhaus to De Stijl and Brutalism. Focus is placed on the examination of important architectural works in their historical and theoretical contexts, and the development of a comprehensive understanding of basic technical elements such as construction, decoration, and proportion, and historical significance.

The course provides indispensable contextualization for the study of contemporary architecture and the arrangement of space. Students also participate in lectures and seminars with architects and professionals involved in the field today.

Professor Leygonie.

THE ROLE OF THE VIEWER IN ART, PAST AND PRESENT Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis The course examines the role of the viewer in the comprehension and appreciation of art, with a special emphasis on the interaction between art and the public on the contemporary art scene. The class focuses on the notions of artistic commitment, militant artists, and the transgression of the public from passive viewer to active participant. Lectures are based on major texts of modern art theory and history, as well as regular museum visits and gallery tours. The political, social, and/or esthetical commitment of selected artists from the 1900s to the present is studied, and students create a portfolio based on both research and creative work introducing

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three fictional works of art that commit the viewer to active participation.

Professor Lauraire.

INTRODUCTION TO MODERN AESTHETIC THEORY Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course provides students with an introduction to aesthetic theory and the philosophy of art, exploring questions such as: What is art? When does an object take on an aesthetic value? What are the criteria for evaluating art? To what extent are the intention of the artist and the reception of the public significant in our aesthetic judgment? Readings come from the anthologies Esthétique contemporaine, Philosophie analytique et esthétique de l'art, and Questions d'esthétique and include authors such as Nelson Goodman, Arthur Danto, Alex Neill, Dominic Lopez, W.K. Wimsatt, and Monroe Beardsley.

Professor Popelard.

*TECHNIQUES OF ARTISTIC CREATION École du Louvre Taught by curators and scholars from French museums and institutions including the Louvre, the Château de Versailles and the Grand Palais, this course aims to enrich students' understanding of works of art by detailing the techniques behind their creations. Mediums addressed include printmaking, painting, sculpture, architectural construction, ceramics, porcelain, glass-making, photography, furniture and the conservation of contemporary art. Each lecture on a specific technique is enriched with discussion of works of art from the 17th through 20th centuries.

Professors Baudequin, Lavédrine, Leroy-Jay-Lemaistre, Menu, de Rochebrune, Courtin, Salé, Barabant and Rondot.

*INITIATION TO MUSEOLOGY Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle Students learn about museology by studying texts, visiting museums, and preparing commentaries on the museums studied. The four principal themes of study in each museum are its architecture, history of collections, museography, and cultural mediation. To prepare for class visits, students read about the history and design of each museum.

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STUDIO COURSES

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*INTRODUCTION TO PHOTOGRAPHY

*LIFE DRAWING

Studio Vermès

Atelier de la Miroiterie

Students are introduced to the usage of 35mm cameras, and encouraged to develop an individual approach to photography through weekly class meetings either in the studio or around Paris. Emphasis is placed on the creation of black and white photographic prints through weekly darkroom sessions, where students learn the basics of developing film and producing prints. Work is critiqued on an ad hoc basis to give critical insight into editing of individual work and the use of the appropriate photographic materials necessary to give coherence to that work. Study of various photography exhibitions around Paris supplement students’ knowledge of the photography world, while helping to develop their personal style. At the end of the semester, students produce an exhibition of their own work..

This course provides practice for artists of all skill levels. The nude figure offers an unceasing challenge to the student of drawing as it presents a constant exercise of proportion, line, weight, and contour. This course requires students to practice the most basic elements of figure drawing and to examine rhythm and composition through regular critiques of student work.

Professors Vermès and Nizet.

*ADVANCED PHOTOGRAPHY Studio Vermès This advanced-level photography course is intended for students who are already familiar with the basics of using a camera and comfortable with darkroom work. The aim of the class is to help the students develop a critical sense and allow them to establish a more coherent personal style, working in a fully equipped indoor studio. Students learn how to use all equipment: backdrops, flashes, lights, light meters, tripods, digital cameras, different types of film cameras, and large format view cameras, and experiment in class using different lighting techniques.

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*DRAWING THE NUDE Atelier Terre et Feu This studio course provides an opportunity for students of all skill levels to work on the challenges of drawing the nude. The nude figure offers an unceasing challenge to the artist as it presents a constant exercise in proportion, line, weight, and contour. Working with the mediums of graphite and charcoal, students are required to study a different model each week, in poses of three, five, and ten minutes, providing the opportunity to improve skills of perception and composition while building 94

spatial relationships and exploring the transfer of weight and light into the drawing.

Professor Athané or Pommot.

*DRAWING WITH LIVE MODELS Atelier Foranim This course focuses on the development of artistic technique through exposure to a variety of artistic mediums and areas of study. Every week, the professor presents a new theme: sculpture, faces, hands etc., followed by a short explanation of how this theme has been dealt with by other artists or how it has been developed and manipulated over time.

Students are encouraged to experiment with a wide variety of available media. A different nude model is present every other week.

Professor Jeunon.

*ADVANCED FIGURE DRAWING Atelier Terre et Feu This course seeks to use the human form as a complex and dynamic basis for understanding exchanges of movement, energy, form and volume. Through the exploration the human body, in short poses of 15 minutes or less, students develop illustrative spontaneity, and a deeper understanding of weight, force and form. With time, inclusion of shadow, texture, and personalized mark-making is expected. Individualized as well as class assignments are given, as well as critique throughout class. Previous figuredrawing experience is assumed.

Professor Pestarque.

STUDIO ART: THE ART OF THE COMIC STRIP Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Various styles, conventions, and uses of the comic strip medium are studied, with a particular concentration each week. Subjects covered include simple

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rather than placed in solid zones of juxtaposed color.

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*DRAWING AND ILLUSTRATION Atelier Terre et Feu This course is an exploration in the technical aspects of drawing, from perspective to human proportions. Students learn to draw figures without the aid of a live model and learn the techniques of illustration and design.

Professor Grycan.

*CHILDREN'S BOOK ILLUSTRATION Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This workshop focuses on exploring the literary and pictorial communication between adult and child, through children's books. Students begin by analyzing a children's book of their choosing in order to examine illustration style as well as narrative elements of a particular story. Students then create their own book of images and a narrative, forging a smooth integration between the two. The subtleties and importance of the front and back covers of a book are also discussed.

Professor Ye.

*ENLARGED PRACTICES OF DRAWING: MULTIMEDIA EXPLORATIONS Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Students are asked to respond, practically and in reference to their personal universe, to the proposed projects, starting from different themes using all sorts of media (drawing, painting, sculpture, photo, video, installation, performance). These works are analyzed, commented on, and put into historical perspective during the course, by the students themselves and by the professor.

Professor Monvoisin.

*DRAWING TO PAINT Atelier Terre et Feu This class views drawing as the basis for painting, thus students are expected to develop their drawing and painting skills simultaneously. Beginning by studying and copying works of the masters, students are asked to expand their visual boundaries, with new uses of color, technique, mark-making and paint. A particular emphasis is set on acrylic as a medium that can be layered to create visual depth,

*PAINTING AND DRAWING Atelier Foranim The purpose of this course is to give students an introduction to the basic techniques of both drawing and painting. Students develop their knowledge of the color wheel, and apply this knowledge to their own abstract painting, using one color family of their choice. The concept of the color wheel is further applied in portraiture, wherein colors of varying brightness are employed to recreate the shadows in the subject's appearance. This course also emphasizes the dimensions of the human face as they pertain to drawing, and students are expected to recreate portraits drawn by other artists as well as create portraits of their peers.

Professor Jeunon.

PAINTING STUDIO Atelier La Miroiterie Each session of this painting studio provides short exercises with group discussion and critique, then longer projects followed by discussion and critique. The choice of medium is flexible; acrylic and charcoal are the most commonly used mediums, although watercolor and oil are used as well, and mixed mediums is acceptable. The weekly topic alternates between still life and models. Emphasis is placed on the classical concepts of proportions and composition, but also on individual creativity in portraying movement.

Professor Cordilhac.

*CONTEMPORARY PAINTING Atelier Terre et Feu In creating a free environment in which students can explore the practice of contemporary painting, students create projects and work independently.

With the aid of the professor, they explore the possibilities of painting in the contemporary era.

Professor Chompré.

*FRESCO PAINTING I ENSAAMA Painting with efficacy, focus and spontaneity are all integral to the process of fresco painting. This intensive studio course seeks to introduce students to

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the traditional techniques of fresco painting, including wall preparation, drafting, painting with natural pigments, egg tempera, sgraffito, and lissage au savon. Students learn these techniques through fullscale reproduction exercises and implement them in their own original compositions. Outside sketchbook work and research work is also required..

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A studio art class focused on the mail art trend, with discussions of the manifestos and radical aspirations of mail artists, and their explorations into modes of communication. The history of mail art in France, the US, and other countries is covered, along with other movements like copy art. Visits to the Paris postal museum and participation in mail art exhibitions are encouraged. Artists working in this medium are brought in to contribute to the discussion, and numerous examples of mail art are presented.

Working both from imagination and observation, students respond to assigned projects that provide them with creative constraints to develop the widest possible range of composition in as many diverse material approaches as possible. They then develop final works from the products of their experimentation and research. The class includes field trips to sketch from observation.

Professor Cornaille.

GRAPHIC DESIGN STUDIO ENSAAMA A studio course during which students work individually on a long-term graphic design project. Occasionally there are short lectures (on design principles, software, etc).

Professors Chauzy and Barrois.

MIXED MEDIA ENSAAMA This course allows for experimentation and a broad range of mediums to complete out-of-class longterm assignments. Mediums include mixed media collage, painting, drawing, video, digital media, etc.

Professor Tourriol.

STUDIO ART: ARTICULATION AND DURATION Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis The course explores duration in art by means of studio practice. Students experiment with the notion of time that puts into motion, delays, constructs, reveals, and connects images, sounds, objects, and words. The first project is based on the progression of “action - repetition - articulation”, proposed both as creative process and as theme of reflection. The second project should lead to a “conversation” of various media on the same topic or, conversely, of various ideas subordinated to a dominating mate96

rial. In both bodies of work, the challenge is to make all the elements co-habit the art space and uphold a time frame. All media are acceptable. Students will draw on the theoretical framework of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, as well as on relevant examples in contemporary art, music, and dance.

Professor Hamard-Wang.

POTTERY AND CERAMICS Atelier Terre et Feu This course provides an in-depth introduction to the arts of pottery and ceramics, with subjects such as pottery and the wheel, manipulation of craft, mixing varieties of clay, basic sculpture, and glazing techniques. Over the course of the semester, students move from basic pottery techniques — the creation of a simple cylinder — on to more advanced shapes and styles, from bowls to a variety of vases.

Professor Dessag.

*POTTERY Un Jour d'Atelier A studio introduction to the materials and methods of ceramics. Students learn how to model clay and porcelain on a pottery wheel, and how to finish by trimming. They also are given the freedom to explore sculptural expression, and are encouraged to play with forms, textures, and the material process (or making pots through hand-building). Hand-made glazes are applied to the clay pieces, allowing for experimentation with color and decoration, before the pieces are fired at 1280°C. Professor Lance.

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SCULPTURE Atelier Terre et Feu This course, which welcomes beginning and advanced artists alike, focuses on capturing individual impressions of 2D models (paintings, drawings) in clay. The themes of movement and emotion are emphasized, and the individual creative process is encouraged. The class works on one given model at a time, although each student is encouraged to create his/her own interpretation of the subject. The subjects are usually depictions of the human form, but can also be very abstract, allowing for more individual artistic interpretation. Sculpting anatomically perfect replicas is not the goal of this course, in which an atmosphere of modern creativity gives the artists the freedom to develop their own style with the guidance of a professional sculptor.

Professor Oulès or Picard.

*SMALL SCULPTURE AND JEWELRY Ateliers Paul Flury Students self-define projects and work with the instructor to develop both their ideas and the techniques needed to achieve them. Frequent conversation with other students and with the instructor help to inspire new avenues of sculpting and challenge projects conceptually and aesthetically. The studio has a very wide variety of tools available, including a small-scale lost-wax foundry, run once per trimester.

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HISTORY OF FILM FORMS Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle Centered on the development of technical aspects of cinema, this course analyzes these techniques in a variety of films. Subject material includes closeup, camera movement, depth of field, and flashback. Emphasis is placed on how these techniques change and enhance the relationship between spectator and image, and also how the director communicates with the audience.

Professors Deville and Gaudin.

HISTORY OF CINEMA 1928-1965 Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course examines the invention of sound in cinema and its subsequent impact on the cinema industry in terms of film production. Students also examine the issues and new esthetics brought about by the arrival of sound in cinematographic production up to the French New-Wave films.

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*THE HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY CINEMA Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle The history of contemporary cinema is explored in this course, which focuses on French New Wave Cinema, British Free Cinema, and American Cinema of the 1960s. The manner in which the Second World War influenced the understanding of film as an art form is also seen, as are Direct Cinema, Youth Theaters in the East, and the "New Hollywood".

Professor Layerle.

*INTRODUCTORY FILM ANALYSIS Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course introduces basic elements of film structure and vocabulary through the analysis of both American and French films. From important works in the history of cinema, it allows the study of different visual and audio components of a film and stages of its production such as scenario, shooting, and editing. The course helps students develop their own analytical skills by delving into the relationship between methodology and theme.

Professor Verraes.

FILM NARRATIVE Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense A film course designed to provide in-depth analysis of the narrative structure of various films and value of the narrative itself to the film. The course addresses problems of temporality, space, and metaphor, as well as visual, rhetorical, dialogue, sound and narrative elements. It also discusses perspective, flashbacks, rhythm, character, point of view, and adaptations of literary works for the cinema, through a study of the following films and texts: Nosferatu, Citizen Kane, Hiroshima mon amour, Pulp Fiction, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, The Seven Samurais, Rashomon.

Professor Sallenave.

FRENCH AVANT-GARDE CINEMA OF THE 1920S Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Exploration of the themes inherent to the French avant-garde cinema movement of the 1920s and in particular the themes of cinema and modernity. The birth of cinema in 1895, and the cinema of Edison and the Lumière brothers are discussed, leading into the study of Impressionist, Surrealist, Dada,

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and documentary schools of cinema, and analysis of the themes of technology, landscape, and urbanism and the idea of “pure cinema”. Directors studied are: Delluc, Dulac, L'Herbier, Gance, Epstein, Clair, Buñuel, Cocteau, and Painlevé. The course ties diverse ideas and opinions together through the notion of cinema as “movement”.

Professor Hillairet.

HISTORY OF CINEMA: SOVIET AVANTGARDE CINEMA OF THE 1920S Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course involves a detailed study of the Soviet Avant-Garde cinema of the 1920s. General history of the USSR after the Bolshevik revolution is linked to cinematic accomplishments through observing and researching the works of Vertov, the F.E.K.S., Eisenstein and others.

Professor Demarcy.

CLASSIC FRENCH CINEMA: 1930-1960 Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense Between 1930 and 1960, French directors created and directed films that were extremely different, but that collectively contribute to represent the imagination of the time, outlining the intricacies of France's cultural identity, and enabling today's society to understand this period's history and dreams.

This course focuses on two legendary filmmakers, Jean Renoir and Marcel Carné, each of whom contributed in his own manner to the constitution of the classic school of thought in French filmmaking.

Professor Godier.

TOD BROWNING: CINEMA AND TERATOLOGY Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis The œuvre of Tod Browning, director of the absurd, carnivalesque and bizarre is examined in this course which also discusses the history of the monster in philosophy, art and cinema. Sigmund Freud’s The Uncanny and Foucault’s Abnormal (lectures at the Collège de France) serve as touchstone texts for the course. Studies of Browning’s films The Unholy Three, The Unknown, and Freaks, as well as extracts from other films in his career (1921-1939) present cinema’s origins in the world of the freak show and Victorian voyeurism. Browning is seen as a precursor of the Film Noir genre as well as the fantastic filmmaking of Tim Burton and David Lynch.

Professor Risterucci.

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THE LATER WORKS OF CHARLES CHAPLIN (1930-1957) Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course is an in depth analysis of the later works of Charles Chaplin and his representations of American life. It studies the historical, cultural, and personal background of his feature film career from 1930 to 1957. Films viewed are: A Woman of Paris, City Lights, Modern Times, The Great Dictator, Limelight, Monsieur Verdoux, and A King in New York, as well as numerous documentaries and extras.

Professor Delage.

HOLLYWOOD COMEDIES IN THE 1930S Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis A cinema class that discusses the various comic genres of the 1930s (musical comedies, burlesque, screwball, romantic), the evolution of these genres, and the influence of many famous actors, actresses, directors, and filmmakers. Lectures are complemented by weekly film viewings.

Professor Dreux.

THE LIFE AND FILMS OF FRITZ LANG Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course delves deeply into some of the major works of Fritz Lang, and examines his influences and techniques, discussing not only Fritz Lang as a director but also as a scriptwriter. Fritz Lang's films are seen in relation to the time period and to major historical references.

Professor Kleinberger.

SURREALIST FILM Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course presents the founding works and themes of the surrealist movement and its manifestation in film. Using André Breton's Les Manifestes du Surréalisme as a starting point, it focuses on the question of dream and the emergence of a personal and poetic genre of cinema. Finally, the course explore the influences of surrealist film on contemporary films.

Professor Hillairet.

*THE CINEMA OF JEAN-LUC GODARD Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Analysis of the cinema of Jean-Luc Godard through six principal phases: the formation of cinema criticism through the Cahiers du cinéma in the 1950s; the rise and fall of New Wave cinema; political cin100

ema after the events of May 1968 (the Dziga Vertov group); criticism of the media in the 1970s; the “Trilogy of the Sublime” in the 1980s; and test videos. In exploring these six phases, this course evaluates Godard's contribution to the development of modern cinema and his ability to challenge the traditional Hollywood and contemporary French cinema.

Professor Schweitzer.

THE FILMS OF FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle An analytical study of French filmmaker François Truffaut, encompassing nineteen out of his twentyone films; biographical elements, production of his works and dialogues, and images from his films are analyzed in depth, as is Truffaut’s role in the cinema of the New Wave in France. Films studied include: Les 400 coups, Jules et Jim, Fahrenheit 451, La sirène du Mississippi, Les deux Anglaises et le continent, La nuit américaine, La femme d’à côté.

Professor Gillain.

FRENCH NEW WAVE CINEMA Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle The directors of La Nouvelle Vague are well known for having “re-invented” cinema at a time of stylistic stagnation. However, Truffaut, Godard, and their compatriots at the Cahiers du Cinéma also wrote copious amounts of film criticism. This course is an introduction to this critical period of film history, but also specifically orients itself around the relationship between the films and the critical texts produced during the Nouvelle Vague. Articles by all of the main Nouvelle Vague directors are analyzed in conjunction with clips from their films, in order to examine the connections between them.

Professor Guigue.

*THE BODY IN CINEMA ENS A study of atypical representations of the body in contemporary French cinema. Specifically, “monstrous” (as conventional society sees them) and post-human forms of the body are studied, including transgender and intrasexual bodies, mutilated bodies, bodies afflicted by obsessive pathologies.

Films analyzed include Claire Denis’ Trouble Every Day, Bruno Dumont’s Twentynine Palms, Bertrand Bonello’s Tiresia, Marina de Van’s Dans ma peau.

Professor Walon.

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MODERN FRENCH CINEMA: FROM THE NOUVELLE VAGUE TO MILITANT CINEMA

*CINEMATIC MOTIFS: FALLING AND RISING

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Exploration of aspects of the Nouvelle Vague from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. These aspects include the growth and decline in popularity of the Nouvelle Vague and the subsequent emergence of cinéma militant. The course closely examines the films of the Nouvelle Vague in style, content, acting, cinematography, and script.

This course analyzes the visual motif of the falling and rising of the human body in cinema. It begins with analysis of the representation of the body in movement in Renaissance and baroque painting, followed by a discussion of specific scenes throughout French and American cinema. Main texts referenced include those by Guattari, Deleuze & Arasse.

Professor Schweitzer.

*A “CINEMA OF SENSATIONS”?

REFLECTIONS ON THE “NEW FRENCH EXTREMITY” IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH CINEMA ENS A study on the new tendency within French transgressive cinema focuses on sensation or sensorial experience rather than narrative, and favors the haptic gaze in cinema over Cartesian/rational observation and objective distancing. The course explores how certain French directors such as Claire Denis, Gaspar Noé, Catherine Breillat, Bertrand Bonello, Philippe Grandrieux and others seek to return to the most essential and distinct aspects of cinema, image and sound in real time, in order to create tactile images that will create a highly complicit, sensorial experience for the viewer. It studies the implications of such a cinema, its effectiveness, and how it may be analyzed.

Professor Walon.

FRANCE/HOLLYWOOD: A CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF CINEMATIC EXCHANGE Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course explores the complex and impassioned cultural exchanges that took place between French and Hollywood film industries during the twentieth century. Topics include: representations of the French or American “Other” within the two cinemas; the question of the remake; the cross-cultural careers of French and American actors and directors; and more generally, the context of simultaneous rejection, distrust, and fascination within which these exchanges occurred.

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*FILM NOIR École du Louvre This course focuses on the work of Jean-Pierre Melville. Each week, selections of clips are screened and discussions center on the cinematography of Melville's work. Analysis relies heavily on theoretical readings and critical film studies. At the end of the semester, the course considers the impact of Melville and Film Noir on Japanese film of the 1970s, as well as on American cinema.

Professor Trujillo.

HISTORY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENT CINEMA FROM SHADOWS TO THE SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis At the end of the 1950s, far from Hollywood, a new generation of American directors (John Cassavetes, Alfred Leslie, Robert Frank, and Jonas Mekas) was filming with total independence. Today, the label “independent cinema” refers primarily to films shown at the Sundance festival. How has independent American cinema evolved over the past 50 years?

The goal of this course is to retrace this history by focusing on one or two cinematic works each week, starting with Shadows and working chronologically until the present, with a heavy focus on Midnight Movies from the 1960s and 1970s. The course also deals with the notion of “independent film” and how use of the term has changed over the years.

Professor Ivanovic.

HISTORY OF THE HOLLYWOOD INDUSTRY FROM THE 1970S TO PRESENT DAY Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course provides a history of the Hollywood film industry since the turn of the 1970s. Students learn about the development of independent productions, the emergence of a new generation of direc-

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tors, the development of new markets, and the new form known as "blockbuster".

CINEMATOGRAPHY: BOLLYWOOD (INDIAN CINEMA)

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THE CINEMA OF MARTIN SCORSESE

This course is a broad overview of the hindi-language Cinema based in Mumbai. The class consists of studying recurring themes and watching clips from various movies as examples of those themes.

Students are also encouraged to learn the names of actors, directors, and singers that dominate the industry.

Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course focuses on the presentation and analysis of iconic stylistic principles and themes in the films of Martin Scorsese. Special attention is paid to the choice of music in the films such as the recurring use of The Rolling Stones, as well as the specific style of filming intrinsic to Scorsese. Students are asked to explore the minute details of the films such as movie clips, song lyrics, clothing choices, etc. in order to better understand their deliberate relation to the films. Films discussed include but are not limited to Mean Streets, Who's That Knocking at my Door, Good Fellas, Casino, The Departed.

Professor Seknadje.

TERRORISM IN AMERICAN CINEMA Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course examines the representations of terrorism and terrorists in Hollywood film from the 1980s to present day, using a sociocultural lens, and following the development and transformation of racial stereotypes and notions of terrorism in American culture. The course draws on feminist and gender theory, Edward Said's Orientalism, and race theory in order to understand the changing face of terrorism and its relation to American political history. Particular attention is given to the depiction of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (A Mighty Heart, Redacted, In the Valley of Elah, Lions for Lambs), torture (Body of Lies, Five Fingers), mass destruction (GI Joe), and gender and race relations (War Inc., Standard Operating Procedure, The Kingdom).

Professor Bondurand-Mouawad.

AMERICAN HORROR Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle A study of the æsthetics and imagery of horror films by observing the works of several famous cinematographers and directors, such as Romero, Craven, Cronenberg, and Lewis.

Professor Aubron.

Professor D'Azevedo.

ELEMENTS OF FANTASY IN SPANISH CINEMA Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle Religion, sexuality, innocence, motherhood, and death are all recurring themes explored by Spanish filmmakers in the past hundred years by using horror or other fantasy genres. In this course, Spanish cinema is studied by examining scenes from several key films for elements of fantasy. The evolution of Spanish cinema and its popular currents is thus traced from the 1950s to contemporary film. These evolutions are also examined in the general context of how the Spanish nation has changed, moving from dictatorship to constitutional monarchy.

Professor Rodriguez.

*THE GOLDEN AGE OF JAPANESE CINEMA Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course considers Japanese Cinema from the 1930s to the 1970s. Structured chronologically, lectures focus on the development of the cinematography of Japanese film and the historical, social, political and economic factors involved. The course delves deep, beyond Kurosawa, Mizoguchi and Ozu, in order to illustrate a multi-layered picture of Japanese cinema. B-series films, musicals, and historical pictures are all discussed. This course offers not only a cinematographic view of Japanese cinema, but also a historical view of Japan as seen through film.

Professor Vincent.

READ, WRITE, FILM: THE ADAPTATION OF A NOVEL INTO A SCREENPLAY Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle At the beginning of the semester, students choose a novel or short story to adapt into a full-length screenplay. Each week, a different problem con-

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cerning how to properly adapt a novel is addressed.

Students learn how to stay true to the text while discovering where to take liberties with the author's words. Each week, the class focuses on a different aspect of the adaptation (e.g., the characters, temporality, etc.).

listening. To evaluate these processes the course draws from films by Welles, Resnais, Antonioni, Godard, Visconti and others, and draws from the writings of Roland Barthes and P. Schaeffer.

Professor Gournay.

THEORIES AND FUNCTIONS OF FRAME AND OFF-SCREEN SPACE IN CINEMA

PARODY AND PASTICHE IN FILM

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Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Complex and nuanced practices of parody and pastiche are examined in this course. Relying at once on a theoretical approach and on film analysis, it presents the various forms that parody and pastiche can assume in a film, and how they may be distinguished from one another. The goal is to understand the motivations behind the use of these techniques, and to see how they enrich the viewer's understanding of the work of art. Moreover, because the theory behind parody and pastiche is, at its essence, a literary theory, the course seeks to present the extent to which a film may be parsed as a complex text.

From the first films by the Lumière brothers to the complexities of modern cinema, the concept of the cinematic frame and the resulting issues of on and offscreen space have been a crucial area of artistic and formal development, and a starting point for philosophical inquiry into the cinema. The various theories put forth by philosophers and filmmakers such as Noël Burch, Gilles Deleuze, Pascale Bonitzer, Sergei Eisenstein and Roland Barthes are examined as are their applications to films by Hitchcock, Lynch and others, in order to see how these concepts can open up new representative and figurative possibilities for the cinema.

Professor Sorin.

Professor Vancheri.

LIGHT, COLOR AND MISE EN SCÈNE: A HISTORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHY

"MOCKUMENTARIES": THE REAL AND THE FAKE

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This course outlines a history of cinematography and surveys basic lighting and camera techniques.

The curriculum is chronological but not comprehensive; it addresses certain directors of photography in depth: Lee Garmes, Gregg Toland, Joseph Ruttenberg, and Michael Ballhaus. The professor places priority on their technical and aesthetic innovations: Garmes’ work with Joseph von Sternberg in filling the “dead zone” between the lens and subject, Toland’s depth of field work, Ruttenberg’s use of fog and mist, and Ballhaus’ camera movement and techniques involving mirrors. Transcribed interviews with cinematographers and directors, as well as the books they wrote themselves, supplement weekly screenings.

Woody Allen developed the "fake documentary", making fun of the genre of documentaries. The course offers a reflection on the true virtues of combining a historical look with the various approaches documenters have taken with their mockumentaries, and analyzes the techniques used by the director/actors involved.

Professor Luciani.

THE SOUNDTRACK IN MODERN CINEMA Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course examines the specificity of sound in modern film as an element that conveys much more than pure information. Refusing the traditional opposition real/imaginary, modern film transgresses audiovisual codes and renews the experience of

Professor Mari.

Professor Steinle.

VIDEO ART FROM 1963 TO THE PRESENT Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Since 1963, artists have been using and manipulating video (images and sound) as a medium for their art. This course explores the field of video art, from its origins to the works of contemporary video artists. It also explores the incorporation of video in installation and performance art. Each week, new artists and their work are discussed including Paik, Viola, Kuntzel, Nyst, Vasulka, Jaffrennou, Cahen, Sorin and Jean-Dit-Pannel.

Professor Fargier.

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SEMIOLOGY IN FILM THEORY Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course offers an introduction to the theory of semiology, looking at its objectives and methodology, and focusing in particular on its application to film theory. Students engage in close readings of fundamental theoretical texts in the semiology of cinema, including works by Roland Barthes and Christian Metz.

Professor Grünberg.

CINEMA AND PHILOSOPHY ENS A theoretical overview of the history and evolution of cinema, from early critiques condemning it as the engine propelling mass culture, to later, more serious philosophical concepts. Readings include works

by Walter Benjamin, André Bazin, Stanley Cavell, and Gilles Deleuze, and explore several themes through presentation of individual research by students including: ethical influences of cinema, cinema as a representation of thought and philosophical reflection, film's divergence from other forms of art.

Professor Walon.

*FUNDAMENTALS OF SCRIPT WRITING Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis The secret to a perfect script lies in poetry rather than in understanding film techniques. Students first explore poetry and how it can be employed in different forms of storytelling (tale vs. theater), each method being analyzed in depth. The story of King Kong is studied as a prototype for classical film and students explore its typical structure (beginning, middle, end) in addition to the importance of characters.

*ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF FILM PRODUCTION Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle First providing an overview of the factors of film production, this course focuses on its economic aspects, such as budgets and financial plans of feature films. The financial plans of specific films are examined, along with their gross profits. The larger relationship between films and the film industry is also examined by describing economic mechanisms of cinema, analyzing the economic news of the industry and putting it in perspective.

Professor Schmitt.

*EXERCISE IN PRODUCTION: FICTION Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis The course serves to provide transition between theory and practice. In addition to exploring movement, image, lighting, frame, editing, point of view, and narrative structure of different filmmakers, students shoot a short film from a scenario excerpt of an existing film. The film is unknown to students so as not to influence their work (but will be revealed at the end of the course). The short film is directed by groups of six. Each group has to imagine a coherent storyboard after defining the issues and challenges of the given scene, shoot for a maximum of two days and then show the film to the entire class.

Professor Chauvin.

Professor Mercier.

*WRITING SCREENPLAYS AND FILM PRODUCTION Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course offers an introduction to the fundamentals of screenwriting: scenes, acts, narrative structure, character development, genres, and dialogue, through intensive study of major, award-winning Hollywood films, classics in their genre. Students watch exemplary films and then read and analyze their original screenplays.

Professors Fabre & Renucci.

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HISTORY AND THEORY *HISTORY OF THEATER I - ANTIQUITY TO THE 17TH CENTURY Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense The main stages in the evolution of theater in Europe, from antiquity to the 17th century: staging, genres of representations, relationship between the theater and past societies, great authors and theorists who marked each age.

Professor Besson.

THEATER AND VIOLENCE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This class examines the changing role violence has held in theater, from Greek tragedies to contemporary drama. Students read different translations of German, Greek, French and English playwrights.

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bolic function of dramatic elements, and options for performance.

BAROQUE DRAMATURGY OF THE TRAGICOMEDY

Professor Zerarga.

Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course examines and compares the 17 century tragicomedies of England, France and Spain with attention to both literary analysis and history of performance. In grappling with conflicting definitions of tragicomedy as proposed by critics and playwrights, students attempt to make sense of a fascinating if often underappreciated genre. th

Professor Cavaillé.

HISTORY OF THEATRICAL AESTHETICS Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle An overview of the major texts in theatrical aesthetics from ancient times to the present. Several seminars are devoted to Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Poetics, and a strong basis is laid for the examination of theater aesthetics during the age of French Classicism and the Enlightenment. In the modern age, the course focuses on a more international range of theoreticians, such as Antoine (France), Stanislavski (Russia), Craig (Great Britain) and Brecht (Germany). Main themes include: mimesis in the theater, styles of acting, directing, and the importance of the aesthetic tradition.

Professor Garcia.

*DRAMATURGICAL ANALYSIS Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense In this course, students determine and analyze the constitutive characteristics of several dramatic texts, chosen in relation to the time periods studied in lecture.

Professor Chehilita.

ANALYSIS OF THEATRICAL WORKS Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense Students learn how to analyze works of theater through discussion of six plays that all students attend. The goal of this class is for students to be able to analyze dramatic scenes from a performance perspective. The study of a dramatic text implies a specific type of analysis because of the fact that the text exists primarily in order to be presented on stage. It is therefore necessary to draw out the “latent representations” within the text: analysis of space, scenic time span, theatrical role of certain objects (set, costumes, props, etc.), dramatic relationships between characters, the referential and sym106

THEATER AND POLITICS, ANCIENT AND MODERN TRAGEDY Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle Three plays are studied in the first part of this course: Michel Vinaver's Les Huissiers (1958) Jean Genet's Les Paravents (1961) and Andre Benedetto's Napalm (1966-1968), with a close look at the political and historical context of each play and a discussion of the stylistic choices of each author. The second part of the course examines both modern and ancient tragedies - for example Sophocle's Antigone vs.

Anouilh's Antigone. It raises the question of what defines a tragedy and how what is perceived as tragic evolves in a society.

Professors Brun and Kadari.

DRAMA THEORY: WRITING AND MEMORY Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course examines, from a theoretical point of view, texts written for the contemporary theater which seek to externalize memory. Ten plays are studied throughout the semester, with a group of students presenting each play orally. Analysis of time, characters, subjects and space. Authors include Beckett, Botho Strauss, Koltès, Noëlle Renaude and others.

Professor Lesage.

THE TOOLS OF THEATER - THEATER AND CINEMA Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course compares the forms of representation of theater and cinema, with a special focus on France.

Through an intense comparative study of technical aspects of both media, it provides a complete background on the advent of cinema in France, coupled with a study of the influences of theater on cinema as a new form of media and art.

Professors Deutsch and Robic-Diaz.

PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE THEATER Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course focuses on the history of photography in the theater and studies the work of theater photographers. The terminology of photography/ camera terms is studied. Students learn to analyze a

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of each director’s interpretations. Students watch and analyze clips of numerous videotaped productions, including that of Peter Brook.

Professor Banu.

Professor Meyer-Plantureux.

THEATRICAL ANALYSIS: MODELS FOR DIRECTING Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle A different director is the subject of each week’s lecture, with focus on specific plays and history of theater from 1967 to 1977, and concentration on French directors. Different movements of the period are studied in the discussion section of the course such as the Théâtre du Soleil, Grotowski, and Wilson.

Professors Rivière and Ertel.

DADA AND SURREALIST THEATER Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course is conducted as a theater workshop; students are asked to improvise their own skits based on Dada theory. Lectures on drama theory and the Dada movement provide a basis for the students’ work. Class time is primarily devoted to physical exercises in which students use Dada principles to inform their own spontaneous decisions. Students are also asked to imagine their own Dada happenings that are acted out and critiqued by the class.

Professor Noury.

THE HISTORY OF THE MOSCOW ART THEATER Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle A course tracing the rise of Constantin Stanislavski and his creation of the Moscow Art Theatre in the early part of the 20th century. The course looks at his biography and that of his partners, with study of some of the work of his contemporaries. The principal text used is Ma vie dans l’art, Stanislavski’s autobiography.

Professor Autant-Mathieu.

FROM TEXT TO STAGE: CHEKHOV’S THE CHERRY ORCHARD Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle A course concerning major productions of The Cherry Orchard since its publication. How does one mount a live production while keeping in mind the literary imperatives of the play? Study of the characters, motifs and settings of the play, and discussions

THEATER ARTS: MONSTERS AND MONSTROSITY Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle An in-depth exploration of both the historical image and the manifestation of the monster as its theatrical counterpart. Examination of what was considered monstrous at various points in history and how this influenced and gave birth to the theatrical monster. By examining various theatrical traditions, and from the analysis of various plays such as Les Bacchantes by Euripides, Cromwell by Hugo, or La Machine Infernale by Cocteau, the course proposes a journey into the themes of the monster and the monstrous from ancient times to the present day.

Professor Hersant.

THEATER AND STORYTELLING Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course mixes theory and practice in order to explore the different ways stories are told in the theater. Whether referring to a narrator, an actor or an author, all theater artists are seen as coming together to create and present stories. Student participation is necessary, as the professor refers to the class as a “research group”, examining the different ways theater is used to present stories and ideas.

The class focuses on socio-cultural elements of theater, and how to present these complex ideas on the stage.

Professor Haddad.

RISK AND VALUE ANALYSIS OF THEATRICAL PROJECTS Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Taking a theoretical approach to theater, this course looks at the history of theater performances originating in ancient Greece and Rome and their impact on society. Part of the class is devoted to conducting an economic cost-benefit analysis of plays or other types of art performance. The following questions are raised: what are the financial risks involved?

What are the personal risks one may take? Do the benefits outweigh the risks? Finally, is the demand for theater today sufficiently strong so that directors and producers are willing to take these risks?.

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PRACTICE *CLASSICAL THEATER WORKSHOP Université de Paris-Sorbonne Students explore the art of classical theater by performing an interpretation of Sophocle's Œdipus Rex that is strongly rooted in ancient Greek performative traditions. The text is performed in both French and ancient Greek, allowing students to both gain fluency in ancient Greek theatrical verse and understand how translation can help or hinder the source text. Learning songs, dances, and chants representative of those performed during ancient Greek plays also enable students to understand the multifaceted nature of Greek drama.

Professors Brunet and Cam.

*CORPOREAL THEATER PROGRAM Studio Magénia This program proposes the creation of a unique form of scenic expression by providing students the opportunity to explore different performing arts techniques: mime, classical dance, jazz, theater, singing and history of performing arts. For the dance part of the program, students work on improving their flexibility and strengthening their core muscles. They also learn how to place the body on its axis using floor, center and barre work. The musical and vocal part of the program supports the dance/physical approach by teaching students to use proper breathing techniques, to develop their listening skills and their sense of rhythm. Finally, for the theater part of the program, students work analyzing and read texts, do improvisation exercises, and work on breathing and speech.

and consistent performance. The course consists of daily acting/text classes with Jean-Laurent Cochet (a luminary of French theater, Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, director, actor, author, and master teacher, and his assistants, bi-weekly breathing classes, and monthly presentations for the public. Each student is expected to pursue his/her own professional projects, as well as spend significant time reading and rehearsing in preparation for class.

Professors Cochet, Blind-Capdeville, Cristalle, Darnay, Delavène, Le Gars, Leymarie.

ACTING WORKSHOP : SCENE STUDY Théâtre de la Bruyère A workshop where troupe members practice selected scenes on stage under the direction of Francine Walter. Offstage, actors are asked to watch others perform and to critique the performances. Scenes studied are taken from a repertoire of classic and modern texts and include passages from Britannicus, Roberto Zucco, and Macbeth.

Professor Walter.

*PRACTICAL APPROACH TO MIME Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis As an introductory course to the art of mime, this course uses a fusion of dance and theater, where students learn to control and master different muscles in their body and convey different emotions to create a scene and tell a story. The lessons are structured with a hands-on approach. The professor demonstrates a concept on which students work individually, in pairs, or in groups. Concepts covered include emotion, object manipulation, and combat.

Students are evaluated based on both written and practical work.

Professor Turjman.

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COURS JEAN-LAURENT COCHET: PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM Cours Jean-Laurent Cochet In texts from the French literary and dramatic canon (from La Fontaine to Hugo, from Corneille to Racine, from Molière to Anouilh), students find rich fodder for the application of theatrical principles throughout this conservatory-style course.With special emphasis on text and technique - breathing, physical presence, poetic quality, natural speech rhythms - and above all, practice, the student is empowered to produce just, truthful characterization and lively 108

*THEATER OF THE OPPRESSED: WORKSHOP Théâtre de l'opprimé “Being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it”, said Augusto Boal, who created the Theater of the Oppressed method in Latin America during the 1970s, with the objective of making social and political conflicts visible. This course puts this vision into action by using activities and exercises from the Theater of the Oppressed. It focuses on analyzing, reading and breathing texts, while encouraging students to discover and explore the pleasure found in expressing their emotions. Students develop the

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following techniques: breathing, relaxation, vocal work, reading, emotional memory, image theater, improvisation, rainbow of desire, thematic research, play and forum. They support their work using a wide variety of texts, such as novels, poems, songs, scripts and theater pieces.

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resent concepts of space on the stage, reflect the themes of a play in their scene design, present their concepts to a larger group, and construct a model of their design.

Professor Chevanne.

Professor Dey.

*FROM CLASSICAL THEATER TO THE CONTEMPORARY STAGE Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense The study of reading aloud and the practice of bringing classical texts to the stage: whatever the nature of the work, students learn to bring it into an immediate rapport with the audience. Work includes vocal, physical, and mime exercises and rehearsing scenes from Molière's Dom Juan, with a public representation at the end of the semester.

Professor Buchvald.

THEATER WORKSHOP: BODY AND VOICE Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course is a workshop that makes the students more aware of each gesture - vocal and physical - in theater. Each week, group activities force students to trust one another and question why something works or doesn't work on stage. Each student must complete a self-choreographed dance, a monologue or piece of prose of choice, and an a cappella song.

Professor Ha Van.

INTRODUCTION TO PERFORMANCE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis In this experimental theater course, students' own textual explorations nourish their creation and performance of a group theater play. Students are asked to find, propose and develop a text into a play and all plays are then assembled into a single, fulllength experimental theatre performance. During the in-class sessions, students coach each other in the disciplines of dance, body movement and voice, as well as the use of various 'materials' in their work, be it textual, physical or emotional.

Professor Kokosowski.

SCENE DESIGN WORKSHOP Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This course introduces students to the art of scene design. Through the careful reading and analysis of one work of theater, students learn how to rep-

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MEDIEVAL MUSICAL NOTATION Université de Paris-Sorbonne In this upper-level musicology course, students investigate the development of Western musical notation from approximately the 9th century through the end of the Middle Ages, learning to identify and read different types of notation while discovering how and why these notations developed musically and historically. Transcription and investigations of manuscripts are assigned weekly, and students are expected to supplement their learning with readings from the bibliography.

Professor Ragnard.

THE COMPOSITIONAL ŒUVRE OF GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT Université de Paris-Sorbonne The course begins with a historical account of Machaut’s career as a singer and prolific composer and delves quickly into his compositional œuvre, from 110

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Le Remède de Fortune to his 5-voice motets. The two assigned projects are designed to gauge the level of the student’s understanding of how to approach and analyze vocal works such as Machaut’s in the mid-14th century context, and also to sharpen the student’s listening in terms of contemporary recordings.

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covers both secular music and religious music of the epoch, with attention to both text and music.

Composers include Monteverdi, Bach, Schütz and Purcell. The course operates on two levels: the first is a conceptual explanation of the elements of the music with attention to the cultural and historical context, while the second involves close listening of the music itself; the professor isolates certain passages and plays them on the piano to draw attention to certain aspects. The course covers music from 1600 to 1750.

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Professor Accaoui.

Professor Ragnard.

This course provides an overview of musical development throughout both the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and practice in transcribing music from each of these eras into modern notation, with particular focus on the composer Guillaume DuFay. Basic knowledge of music theory is applied to analyses of the pieces of music that are studied. A final project asks students to transcribe into modern notation a madrigal by Luca Marenzio.

Professors Deutsch and Tacaille.

MUSIC AND POETRY OF THE 16TH CENTURY CHANSON Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course is a survey of the historical, political, and religious developments of the 16th century and their impact on secular song in France. A hands-on introduction to the textual and musical sources reinforces the cultural context for the artistic output of formative poets, musicians, and printers such as Ronsard, Marot, Scève, Attaingnant, and Janequin.

Weekly transcription and text setting assignments require an in-depth understanding of French Renaissance verse and mensural notation. A workshop in Finale and Sibelius provides discussion of the pitfalls and issues of transcribing, formatting, and preparing editions of this repertoire. The historical and practical components culminate in the presentation of a portfolio of settings of two poems from Ronsard's Amours as formatting templates, and a transcription of an unpublished chanson along with a commentary on its historical and cultural significance.

Professor Tacaille.

HISTORY OF MUSIC IN THE 17TH CENTURY Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Beginning with the madrigal of the 17th century and continuing on to the evolution of opera, this course

MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER AND BAROQUE SOURCES Université de Paris-Sorbonne The career and music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier are used as a case study of the musical and theoretical problems of the second half of the 17th century.

Despite being considered as representative of the “Italian” style, Charpentier spent his entire career working at various institutions in Paris. Through description, study and comparison of baroque sources, including manuscripts, printed editions and texts, students' understanding of 17th century musical repertoire is enriched. The ability to analyze and contextualize sources is emphasized. These skills are applied through visits to the music research department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Professors Psychoyou and Ruffatti.

HISTORY OF MUSIC 17TH - 19TH CENTURIES Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course is divided into two parts, one focusing on the second half of the baroque period, the other focusing on the second half of the classical period.

Both follow the chronological development of opera during these eras, and in particular the evolution of the recitative, arioso, and aria. Other vocal genres such as the oratorio and the motet are also studied.

The course proceeds with the study of instrumental music, placing emphasis on the development of symphony. It uses examples from works by Purcell, Porpora, Rameau, Bach, Handel, Hasse, Haydn, Pergolesi, Jommelli, Gluck, Mozart, and Beethoven and also draws from the writing of contemporary authors, such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Charles Burney.

Professors Deutsch and Monnier.

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OPERA IN THE AGE OF MOZART Université de Paris-Sorbonne The evolution of opera between 1760 and the 1790s is seen in this course, including applied musicology exercises such as analyses of formal aspects of an aria, tonal plan of an act’s finale, the function of a choir in a dramatic context, etc. The course covers operas by Mozart, Gluck, Cherubini, and Grétry, among other figures that created a specific style of opera in the second half of the 18th century. Students are expected to be able to demonstrate historical facts through musical examples, for instance the reformation of opera that started with Gluck or the creation of a new national style such as the German singspiel.

Professor Noiray.

GLUCK'S REFORM OF OPERA IN 18TH CENTURY PARIS/RHETORICITY AND TONAL ANALYSIS Université de Paris-Sorbonne An examination of the operatic reform that took place in the 1770s in Paris through a close study of his two revolutionary operas, Orphée and Alceste, and the music reviews, treatises, and polemics that surrounded their performances. Lectures focus on late 18th century transformations in choreography, dance, music, and singing through primary and secondary materials. The course is supplemented by a master's seminar, taken in conjunction with this course, which explores the application of semiotics and linguistic models to tonal analysis.

Professor Bartoli.

ART AND MUSIC IN FRANCE (1789-1931) Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course illuminates the connection and mutual influences between Visual Art (painting and sculpture) with music in France during the long 19th century. Each week, the course focuses on a different pair of artist and composer and the ways in which their works are linked, be it through certain popular trends at the time, or the inspiration of a particular work of literature.

Professor Laugée.

EVOLUTION OF 19TH CENTURY MUSICAL LANGUAGE Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course is divided into three parts: lecture, analysis, and commentary. The course lecture looks at for112

mal structure, and more specifically at the evolution of sonata form and harmonic vocabulary, examining in particular the increased use and variety of 7th and 9th chords. This analysis requires students to apply the vocabulary discussed in lecture in the context of specific works. Roman numeral analysis, structural diagrams, and short written analyses, with respect to harmony, instrumentation, orchestration, motivic development, and text representation (in the case of lied and opera) are all seen. Commentary requires students to discuss form, motivic development, and basic harmonic structure after listening to an unidentified excerpt. Composers studied in analysis and commentary include: Berlioz, Beethoven, Weber, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Schubert, Brahms, Liszt, Chopin, Dvorak, Mahler, Wagner, and Strauss.

Professor Roger and Bartoli.

OPERA AND DRAMA IN THE 19TH CENTURY Université de Paris-Sorbonne A survey of 19th century Romantic opera, beginning with the Italian bel canto tradition, the German folkloric roots and the French privilège, and observing the evolution of each tradition. The course covers the shift in aesthetic goals of music, from extolling the virtuosity of the singer towards realism and emotional resonance, from recitative secco towards the predominance of the role of the orchestra, from traditional mythological themes to fantasy and folklore, from pride in national tradition to a combination of traditions. Themes also include the French structure, the importance of Italian melody and German rich harmonic structure, and the forming of the Grand Opéra Historique. Composers include Glück, Rossini, Meyerbeer, Bellini, Spontini, Wagner, Berlioz, Bizet, Puccini and Debussy.

Professor Velly.

BERLIOZ: AN EXPLORATION OF SYMPHONIC FORMS Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course explores the compositional style of Berlioz, taking into consideration his unique position as a true innovator in 19th century music. Discussions cover his unusual treatment of themes (including his well-known idée fixe), novel harmonic devices, unique methods of development, programmatic content, and grand forms, as well as his use of stylistic devices, such as coloration and timbre. In addition, Berlioz’s position as a master of orchestration is

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seen. Principal works studied include La Symphonie fantastique, Harold en Italie and Roméo et Juliette.

*MUSIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL MUTATION FROM THE 1920S TO THE 1970S

Professor Bartoli.

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Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course looks at the changing styles and movements in opera over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. By studying historical documents from the period, as well as the text and composition of a variety of well-known works, students develop a better understanding and appreciation of how opera has been created and how it has evolved over the past two centuries.

Professor Agnello.

THE INVENTION OF OPÉRA COMIQUE

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the continual appearance of new technologies has given rise to radical evolutions in music. This class retraces the technological history of music that has given us not only the “organized sound” of Varèse and the research music of today, but also a great number of other practices such as serialism, the first electroacoustic music, the “art science” of Xenakis, technology and popular genres, and spectral music. In examining these innovations and evolutions, students are better equipped to understand the rich history of music that has formed over the last century, as well as the practices that will give rise to the music of the next.

Professor Solomos.

Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course covers the invention of a new musical and theatrical genre in Paris in the 1700s: the opéra comique, through a study of individual authors, composers and work as well as the historical and social contents surrounding the development of the genre, its merging with the Italian theater in Paris and its diffusion in Europe. Readings are drawn from a selection of contemporary critics, compilations of composers’ works and specialized documents.

Professor Legrand.

*MUSIC AND MODERNITY IN EUROPE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis As a detailed introduction to the music of the 20th century in Europe, this course studies the evolution of musical language with emphasis on the extension of tonality during the Romantic and post-Romantic periods, the Second Viennese School, and other atonal approaches. Musical developments are considered within Europe's historical, social, and political context as well as in the overall discourse of modernity in art and culture. Music examples played in class, as well as pieces of art from concurrent visual movements when applicable, are used to illustrate the various aesthetics discussed in lectures.

Professor Duhautpas.

JAZZ TECHNIQUES AND STYLES Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course covers the history of Jazz from the viewpoint of musicology, through an overview of the changing styles of jazz throughout the last century, and particular focus on five personalities within that time-period. Students analyze numerous pieces, taking into account melody, instrumentation, style, influences, rhythms, and harmony.

Professor Baudoin.

DECIPHERING MUSIC THROUGH THEORY AND PERFORMANCE CRR de Saint-Maur Solfège courses, as the French prefer to call their fixed-do music theory classes, are often coupled with performance classes, but are otherwise kept completely separate from practice in the mind of a performer. This course aims to change that status quo. Through a practice of sight-singing and analyzing the harmonies and history of orchestral and chamber works before playing them at the instrument, students improve their capacity to sight-read and interpret music, often at the same time. Further practice involves playing in the conservatory orchestra. Works studied include pieces by Proto, Piazzolla, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Bizet, Debussy, Ravel, and Dukas.

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PSYCHOACOUSTICS Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course focuses on the physiology of the ear and how it interprets sound. The class ranges from minute details of the structure of the ear to explanations of different forms of deafness and different reactions to sound levels by varying age groups.

Through explanation of logarithms and sound tests, interpretation of rhythm, tones, sound, timbre, duration, and intensity are presented.

Professor Léothaud.

INTRODUCTION TO ETHNOMUSICOLOGY Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course offers a survey of ethnomusicology from a French perspective. The anthropological and musicological origins of ethnomusicology are discussed, as well as the birth of the discipline. The three ethnomusicological schools are introduced, as well as eminent ethnomusicologists, such as Jérôme Cler and Alan Miriam. The course also offers a thorough examination of ethnomusicological approaches to standard elements of music such as rhythm, timbre, and melody.

Professor Félix.

*MUSIC OF THE MEDITERRANEAN AND BALKAN REGIONS Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course examines the music of the Mediterranean and Balkan regions from a theoretical and cultural standpoint. The class is divided into anthropological and musical lessons, complemented by student presentations on traditional and popular music from specific countries.

Professor Borneuf.

*MUSIC AND DANCE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Guided by Béjart's idea that dance is “music for the eye”, this course examines the relationship between the composers and choreographers who made their mark on both the history of dance and the history of music. Students take a closer look at music's effect on the body and the way in which music resonates aesthetically, poetically, and technically through dance.

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EAR TRAINING Université de Paris-Sorbonne This class is for musicians who can read music and have at least a basic knowledge of music theory. It provides the skills that a musician uses in melodic and rhythmic sight-reading (horizontal and vertical), melodic and rhythmic dictation, memorization, dictation of chord progressions, and sight-singing in 4 parts.

Professor Paolacci

*STUDIO EAR TRAINING: RECORDING, MIXING, AND MASTERING AUDIO Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course provides an overview of the necessary tools and techniques involved in recording and audio post-production. In addition to lectures, students present their own recording projects to the class to be discussed and critiqued in a workshop format. The course also addresses the vocabulary necessary to discuss sound in a theoretical and precise manner.

Professor David

*PRIVATE PIANO INSTRUCTION Private Instruction Piano repertoire is selected prior to the beginning of the semester. Each weekly lesson focuses on one piece in depth or reviews several pieces more briefly, and may begin with a sight-reading/sight-singing exercise. Additional technical exercises are provided and are to be practiced between lessons along with the performance repertoire. Final evaluation is based on the student's musical progress, work ethic, attentiveness and openness over the course of the semester.

Professor Giret.

PRIVATE VIOLIN LESSONS Private Instruction Concert violinist and professor at the CNSMDP (national conservatory), Olivier Charlier gives intensive instruction over a period of 10 months. Work over each semester includes the development of a

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more beautiful tone, a more solid technique, and most importantly, the development of finesse and a polished, nuanced performance. Principal works studied include Ernest Chausson’s Poème, Ysaÿe’s Sonata n° 3, Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto n° 2 in g minor and Beethoven’s Violin Concerto.

its included a performance by François Rabbath at the Théâtre de l'Athénée and attendance of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at the Opéra Garnier.

Professor Charlier.

Private Instruction

CELLO LESSONS Private Instruction Study of one scale, as well as thirds and octaves, Popper études, and one to two solo works (sonatas, concertos, Bach suites) are covered during private instruction in Cello. Strong emphasis is placed on technique, particularly of the left hand. Study of at least one work by a French composer (e.g. Debussy) is highly encouraged, as is performance in a student recital at the end of the semester.

Professor Bailly.

PRIVATE CELLO STUDY Private Instruction Private cello study was undertaken with renowned cellist Jérôme Pernoo and included exploration of a range of techniques and methods of interpretation. Traditional French-school playing styles are developed, such as left-hand articulation, keeping right-hand knuckles parallel to bow, and shifting before the bow change. So as to improve interpretation, an actor's mentality is developed so that one searches for the character of the music within and uses memory of personal experience to trigger the correct physical movements. Study of a variety of repertoire, such as Chopin's Introduction and Polonaise, Poulenc's Sonata, Bach's Suite n° 6, Paganini's Caprice n° 6, Popper's Étude n° 9, Carter's Figment, and more.

Professors Pernoo and Simpson.

Professor Barbé.

PRIVATE VIOLA STUDY Private study with two prominent French violists from the CNSMDP (national conservatory). Repertoire studied includes Stravinsky’s Élegie, Bartok’s Concerto, Bach’s Cello Suite III in C, Kreisler’s Preludium and Allegro, Rode’s Caprices, and Kreuzter’s Études. Coursework focuses on sound production, bow speed/distribution, octaves, scales, arpeggios, physical setup, and shifting.

Professors Xuereb and Caussé.

PRIVATE STUDY - VIOLA DA GAMBA Private Instruction Private study of Viola da Gamba with multiple gambists. A range of techniques and methods of interpretation is explored, along with a substantial body of repertoire. History of music allows for deeper understanding of the works performed. Students develop bow technique and left-hand precision.

Professors Bernfeld, Cheatham, Sakai and Coin.

FLUTE Private Instruction Private Lessons with Catherine Cantin of the Opéra National de Paris. Objectives for the semester : to improve and refine technique (speed), achieve equal balance of all registers, increase precision of articulation and finally, attain the expressivity of a singer with the precision of a pianist. Repertoire: André Jolivet, Concerto; J.S. Bach, Partita; C.P.E. Bach, Sonata; S. Prokofiev, Sonata; Kohler, Études.

Professor Cantin.

PRIVATE DOUBLE BASS LESSONS CRR de Saint-Maur Private lessons with Thierry Barbé, principal bassist of the Opéra Bastille. Main themes include vibrato, hand position, and spicatto exercises to achieve a colorful sound. Also studied are interpretation of 3 sonatas (Schubert's Arpeggione, Misek's Sonata for the Double Bass, Desenclos' Aria and Rondo), the first Bach cello suite, and the first Bottesini concerto, as well as excerpts from Schubert's Unfinished Symphony and Mozart's The Magic Flute. Studio vis-

FLUTE LESSONS CRR Weekly Flute Lessons with Magali Mosnier, of the Orchestre Philarmonique de Radio France, with a focus on improving sonority and attaining a homogenous tone in all registers. Specific activities include the preparation of various orchestral excerpts and solos for orchestra auditions.

Professor Mosnier.

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*VOICE LESSONS/EAR TRAINING

Conservatoire Municipal Camille Saint-Saëns

Conservatoire Municipal Camille Saint-Saëns

Focus on technique and performance skills in the simultaneous presence of different instruments.

Live audition performances: a rigorous repertoire is prepared throughout the semester to be judged by the teaching staff and administration of the conservatory.

This course is a combination of weekly voice lessons and weekly ear training lessons at the Conservatoire Camille Saint-Saëns. Over the course of the semester, students are expected to practice a series of breathing exercises together with a series of vocalizes to sustain a healthy, flexible sound necessary for the performance of standard classical repertoire. Students then employ this sound in the performance of the following pieces: “Le Soir”

by Charles Gounod, “Intorno al'Idol Mio” by Antonio Cesti, “Quando m'en vo” by Giacomo Puccini, among others. These voice lessons are supplemented by weekly ear-training lessons in which students are expected to beat double and triple meters, sing a series of minor scales, and sight-read one to three lieder by Bach.

Professors Jeandroz and Sun-Perge.

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CRR The student participates in a concert cycle at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional, in which over 40 hours of sectionals and rehearsals are conducted over an intensive 2-week period. Students are required to acquire and learn all parts before the first rehearsal. The success of the student, as well as of the entire ensemble, depends on the student's comprehension in a timely and thorough manner of what the conductor, sectional coach, or section leader requires. Through rehearsals and interaction with other French conservatory students, the student learns how to better converse about music and how conservatories and orchestras function in France, compared to those in the United States. Application to the concert cycle must be made in the spring semester prior to participation.

Professors Sullé and Bodeux.

JAZZ COMBO Conservatoire Municipal Frédéric Chopin In this 5-8 person combo, styles played include straight-ahead standards, Latin, odd-time signatures, and some pop. Students perform in two concerts, and complete one individual project transcribing a solo of their choice.

Professor Patrois.

Professor Durand.

*PRIVATE VOICE LESSONS Conservatoire Municipal Georges Bizet (20e arr.)

Formal, conservatory-style private voice lessons, focusing on Italian arias and French art songs. Examples of composers studied: Caldara, Pergolesi, Hahn.

Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis

Weekly vocal lessons with work on vocalise and repertoire, especially Italian arias.

From the analysis and practice of varied musical processes — as they are described by the scientific recordings and visual catalogs created by international ethnomusicologists — students examine the possibilities for music to create and characterize new communities, through explorations of forms of listening, movement, and relation that are unfamiliar to our own Western (musical and theatrical) culture. In incorporating their own musical practices with others observed around the world (for example the musical “battles” of the Chácabo in Bolivia, the choral rounds of the Toraja in Indonesia, or the collective ensemble instruments of Bali) students develop together a collective method of relating these practices critically, musically, and politically to our own present.

Professor Bouveret.

Professor Bonini Baraldi.

Professor Sullé.

*VOICE LESSONS: FRENCH REPERTOIRE Conservatoire Municipal de Vincennes Weekly vocal lessons with work on vocalise and repertoire, with emphasis on the traditional French repertoire.

Professor Saint-Palais.

*VOICE LESSONS: ITALIAN REPERTOIRE Private Instruction

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GRAND CHŒUR DE LA SORBONNE: THE SORBONNE CHORAL SOCIETY Université de Paris-Sorbonne A standard choral singing class, in which students learn sight-singing, vocal technique, dynamic control, and harmonization. Students memorize the Verdi Requiem for repetition in an individual exam and performance in a group concert.

Professor Rouger.

BAROQUE CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course has for object the exploration of the baroque repertoire by a group of 30-40 singers and instrumentalists. The repertoire is chosen based on the instruments and tessitura of the participants, as well as students' skill level, with some opportunity for solos. The orchestra is divided into two groups, one with modern instruments and one with baroque instruments. The two groups rehearse different works with the chorus. One to two concerts take place at the end of the semester. The main work studied this semester was Come Ye Sons of Art by Purcell.

Professors Silvio and Monnier.

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N.B.: Students may take classes in modern dance and ballet or other dance forms at approved studios in Paris. The number of hours depends upon each student’s home university requirements.

THEORY HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE UniversitĂŠ de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course examines major movements, pieces, and choreographers in the history of dance, beginning with the development of the ballet Gisele at the Paris Opera in 1841. Primary focus is given to French, Russian, German, and American work.

Through video recordings, readings, and outings to current Parisian performances, students analyze the development and transmission of dance. Guiding questions for the course include: How/why does choreography get transmitted? What is the role of the historian in the preservation and continuation of the arts?

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ADVANCED MODERN TECHNIQUE Studio Harmonic

*BALLET Centre de danse du Marais This course teaches classical technique using both the barre and free-standing exercises to progress in learning classical dance movements and build body strength and flexibility, essential for future ballet development.

Professor Rajchmann.

*ADVANCED-LEVEL BALLET Académie des Arts Chorégraphiques In this advanced-level course, students continue their ballet training with a focus on improving body and facial expression and harmony. Barre work consists of reinforcement of students' bodies, legs, pelvis and arms. Students work on pliés, battements, degagés, increasing leg extension and flexibility. On the center work, students work on jumps, pirouettes and fluidity of movement.

Professor Glegolski.

ADVANCED BALLET TECHNIQUE Studio Harmonic Professor Wayne Byars teaches this advanced ballet course for men and women with a focus on gaining a theoretical and practical understanding of ballet technique. Study and in-class rehearsal of ballet technique from the Danish and American schools is designed to provide a sophisticated understanding of the skills that produce a high level of artistic excellence in rehearsal and performance. For the experienced dancer only; women on pointe and on flat.

Corinne Lanselle teaches an advanced modern technique and repertory course for men and women.

She focuses on solo work, working to maximize a dancer’s control, natural flow, and dynamic range.

Floor and center work help build strength and flexibility. Daily choreographed combinations aid in performance skills. The class helps students gain sophisticated understanding of artistry in modern dance. For the experienced dancer only.

Professor Lanselle.

*DANCE IMPROVISATION Centre de Danse du Marais In this course, the professor builds a rich and open environment through proposed exercises, music, themes and concepts, so as to invite students to explore, research and expand their very own movement language, dynamics and creativity. Students work with space (including floor, walls, etc.) props, music and performance concepts, individually as well as in connection with colleagues. From totally abstract movement, bordering on 'non-dance', to performance quality movement, from focus on different methods of communication with an audience to the literal use of music and lyrics, all possible forms of creating, performing and connecting with oneself and/or an audience are studied to find a diverse array of movement, creation and performance possibilities.

Professor Boogaart .

Professor Byars.

*BALLET AND MODERN JAZZ DANCE Centre de Danse du Marais This dance class is comprised of two separate parts.

The ballet course starts with exercises at the barre, and moves on to short combinations across the floor. All movements are aimed to improve technique and flexibility. The first third of each Modern Jazz class is a warm-up for flexibility, the second third is comprised of combinations across the floor for technique, and the last third is dedicated to a longer combination.

Professors Rajchman & Villain.

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From the pantheons of ancient Greece to the stadiums and factories of today, architects and engineers have worked to solve the problem of increasingly longer spanning structures. This course begins with a historical look at the solutions to these problems, the evolution of the arch in particular, and how these ancient solutions are applied today.

Structures are presented through the three categories: wood, metal, and concrete and are analyzed at multiple scales from the overall forces of the building to the joints and connections that compose the individual components. Organized site visits (both in and outside of Paris) allow students to personally observe and better understand these systems. In addition to site visits and lectures, each student is given an individual system to study and must propose several structural solutions to be corrected through the duration of the course.

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The program of performance spaces is, through its functional and technical complexity, a rich field for study within the architectural studio. It requires focus on hierarchy and articulation of the interior and the exterior, as well as an understanding of set design and its architectural and urban application. This course studies the material and technical issues of performances and the relationship with their creative representation through a series of exercises concerning the theater spaces and the application of scenography to architecture in the broader sense: theater, choreography, and the plastic arts. This course analyzes the architectural history of the theater through an in-depth study. Since the birth of perspective and the proscenium stage to the present, theatrical architecture, in its relationship between the auditorium and the stage, has undergone significant changes. The study of these various typologies of the auditorium and the stage show the evolution of these spaces and provide important tools for their modern design.

Vitry-sur-Seine, just fifteen minutes outside of Paris, is currently undergoing urbanization and as such is an ideal location to study the arising conditions of development. This studio seeks to understand and develop the unique relations between youth and public spaces, in particular the questions of youthcentered housing as it fits into the larger urban fabric. Analyzing spatial relationships such as circulation, access, and thresholds, in a hierarchy from private to public, the studio focuses on the global nature of everyday life rather than the disjunction of the private and the public. The studio seeks to define architectural and urban solutions that allow youth to become the actors in entirety in their quarter, so that their presence describes their environment and avoids the risk of spatial and social segregation. Beginning with urban and environmental analysis from several dimensions and scales (the politics of the city, the quarter, the neighborhood, and the building) the students then go into depth at the technical and environmental scale with an individual design that meets HQE standards.

Professors Mazlouman, Chassard and Gautel.

Professors Biriotti and Philippe.

CITY AND ENVIRONMENT: HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ENSAPLV Some theoreticians of environmental history propose to define the city as a “metabolism”, characterized by the functions of nourishment, digestion, and excretion. This course studies the facilities established underground and above ground to perform these functions - supply of water, food, and energy, transformation and production, transportation and waste - in terms of formal expression and impact on the urban form. How have the facilities for these functions evolved with the industrial transformations of the last two centuries? What can be their place in our current environment? The course proposes to strengthen and develop the student's knowledge of the history of the city while exploring another dimension which questions the subjects and disciplines involved in the fabrication of the city. Students engage both their historical knowledge and their critical skills, addressing the multiple and often contradictory sources that evoke the many environmental issues related to the city today.

Professor Bowie.

EMERGING PUBLIC SPACE: USE AND PERCEPTIONS OF TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS ENSAPLV Through a sociological approach, this course seeks to understand the ways in which people inhabit transport space, and how systems of transport act on those that use them. Students are asked to choose one or two aspects of the Parisian transport system to thoroughly investigate by conducting interviews, on-site observations, recordings, and multi-media analysis. The main focus of the course is the RER (the Parisian commuter rail network), but other inquiries are also made in the metro, the buses, the tramway and the Vélib' bicycle lending system. At the conclusion of the course all students compile their findings and form a small portfolio.

Professor Desmier.

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public performance space. At the beginning of the studio, students are asked to design an open-air theater, with specific attention to its structural elements. The second assignment entails beginning the design of a music school incorporation an independently functioning concert hall. Students build up to their final project by completing a series of weekly assignments focusing on certain facets of this project, such as circulation and structure.

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All French students have taken philosophy courses at the secondary school level – students are thus expected to have some background in philosophy to take courses at the college level.

DEFINITIONS OF PHILOSOPHY Université de Paris-Sorbonne An introduction to philosophical thought, posing the question “What is philosophy?” and covering the schools of thought of a handful of primary philosophers. Readings include Nietzsche's writings on Socrates, Heidegger's lecture “What is Metaphysics?”, and Montaigne's “That to Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die”.

Professor Villevieille.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE Université de Paris-Sorbonne The philosophical relationship between man and nature is seen in this course, which covers many time periods and schools of thought, including the En-

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lightenment, American transcendentalism and the modern ecological movement. Texts studied include classic works of Rousseau, Kant, Thoreau and others, along with modern writers in ecology such as Arne Næss and less conventional works such as graphic novels and films. In observing the physical and psychological interaction between man and nature, several central themes arise, including the debate between dominating nature, the regression to a natural state and the definition of the state of nature.

Professor Gayraud.

PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE Université de Paris-Sorbonne A chronological survey of critical philosophical conceptions of love, seen from an occidental perspective, beginning with the Greeks. The course takes the distinction between Eros, Philia, and Agapè as its foundation and then explores shifts in those categories through medieval, modern, and contemporary philosophy. Texts include Plato's Symposium, selections of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, and passages from canonical philosophical works

by Leibniz, Aquinas, Spinoza, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Sartre. The course's professed goals are to arrive at a definition of love, then find out to what extent love can be considered an essential element in man's existence.

Professors Cherif-Zahar and Tavoillot.

*MODERN PHILOSOPHY Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course focuses on the concept of the “idea” in modern philosophy. The first half of the semester is spent on Descartes' Méditations métaphysiques; the other half of the semester moves on to Malebranche, Leibniz and Spinoza, among others.

Professors Verhaegue and Carraud.

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essential source for contemporary thought, whether that be idealist, phenomenological, or analytic.

Professor Cerutti.

HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY: MARX, NIETZSCHE AND FREUD Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course studies the question of civilization and culture in the works of Marx, Nietzsche and Freud, beginning with a Marxist analysis of Capitalist society and the concept of alienation. European nihilism is also covered, as is the Freudian concept of societal repression.

Professor Marmasse.

PROPOSITIONAL LOGIC Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This introductory course in formal logic focuses on propositional logic. Students examine the syntactic properties of propositional logic, the semantic properties (analyzing truth values of propositions), as well as the rules of natural deduction and formal proofs.

Professor Halimi

SUBMISSION Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course explores philosophic theories regarding the submission of societies to an authoritarian government. The question of why societies willingly surrender their liberties is explored through the interpretations of Rousseau, Nietzsche, La Rochefoucauld, Hobbes, among others. What motivates submission to an ultimate authority is also examined.

Professor Pingeot.

KANT: CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON

PERCEPTION, IMAGINATION, AND MEMORY

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This course is taught as a deepening of a principal course of modern philosophy focused on the idea of the critique. It consists in a close reading integral to the masterwork of Kant. It is asked of students if not to read the work in all its details, then to at least acquire a vision of the work as a whole and to understand its overarching ideas. For this, a reading of Prolegomena or, at least, a reading of Cohen's summary, is indispensable. More generally, the course attempts to understand how the first Critique is an

The relations between perception and other faculties or kinds of presentation and representation, (e.g. imagination and memory) are seen in this seminar, which examines the question of the influence of diverse kinds of representations and capacities traditionally thought of as exterior to perception (beliefs, social and cultural representations, our again states of imagining or remembering) on our experience. The question of the modularity of perception, in forms synchronic and diachronic, is reex-

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amined in light of specific examples. Class meetings are linked together by texts chosen in advance and falling into the domain of philosophy and cognitive science.

to help understand why Husserl works towards his particular goal; Descartes’ Méthode and philosophy as seen in Husserl’s Méditations cartésiennes are analyzed.

Professors Dokic and Arcangeli.

Professor Pradelle.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE NOTION OF THE OTHER

Université de Paris-Sorbonne The philosophical questions raised by science, specifically physics, logic, and mathematics from the time of Descartes to the theories of Einstein, and conversely the scientific questions raised by philosophical inquiries are the main focus of this course.

Covering a broad range of authors, the course discusses topics such as the idea of demonstration, experience, and experimentation as it applies to mathematics, physics, and cosmology. The concepts of epistemology, induction, deduction, falsification, verification, instrumentalism, realism, and the theory of physics are all covered. Authors include Popper, Kuhn, Kant, Hume, Mill, Canguilhem, Koyré, Russel and Descartes.

Professors Chareix and Cruveiller.

Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course serves as an introduction to the phenomenological movement in 20th continental philosophy with a special focus on the question of the other: how can I know that there are other minds?

How can I relate to them? Thinkers examined include Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas, with great attention paid to the influence they had on each other.

Professor Marmasse.

BERGSON AND FRENCH CULTURE 19141940 EHESS

This course examines historical combinations of science and technology (science in ancient Greece, the astronomical revolution of the 17th century, the birth of human sciences in the late 19th century, the emergence of technoscience in the late 20th century) that had great impact on essential philosophical concepts (truth, method, causality, law, theory, model, space and time). Specific fields of culture (ethics, anthropology, religion) are discussed through contemporary issues such as evolutionary biology and ethics, medicine and ethics, ecology and ethics, neuroscience and anthropology, evolutionary biology and Christian theology.

The new roles assumed by Bergson starting in 1914 are the focus of this seminar, and in particular that of Ambassador of France close to the president of the United States at the beginning of World War I, and that of member of the Society of Nations during the Interwar period. While Bergson stops teaching, he certainly does not cease publishing: he produced four important books between 1919 and the time of his death. This seminar analyzes how his work penetrated into the worlds of philosophy and psychology/psychiatry. Also discussed is how the Catholic community managed reconciliation with Bergson and how artistic, literary and cultural movements of the avant-garde interacted with the thought of Bergson. Some of Bergson’s most important works, notably Matter and Memory, Creative Evolution, The Creative Mind and The Two Sources of Morality and Religion are studied.

Professor Charmetant.

Professor Azouvi.

HEGEL AND HEIDEGGER: IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE

HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY FROM FICHTE TO KIERKEGAARD

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Facultés Jésuites de Paris

Université de Paris-Sorbonne A course focusing on a comprehensive study of the history of phenomenology as created by Husserl.

The lecture explains the historical context of Husserl and his work toward the creation of phenomenology as a philosophical method. Contemporaries such as Fichte and Heidegger are discussed in detail

Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course deals with the history of post-Kant philosophy, focusing on the question of man and the philosophies of Fichte, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Feuerbach and Kierkegaard. It offers a description of their theories, focusing on how man’s knowledge of self

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and the world plays a role in the philosophical system, and presents each philosopher through close readings of excerpts from his works.

Professor Marmasse.

ETHICS AND MORALS Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course is a chronological overview of ethics, starting with the Greeks, moving through the Enlightenment, and concluding with an approach to modern ethicists. Among the works studied are the major texts of Plato, Aristotle, and Kant.

Professor Cohen-Halimi.

THE IDEA OF MORAL PROGRESS: READING KANT Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense A chronological overview of ethics, starting with the Greeks, moving through the Enlightenment, and concluding with an approach to modern ethicists. Among the works studied are the major texts of Plato, Aristotle, and Kant — in particular, Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784) and Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785). This course intends to be at the intersection between moral philosophy and the philosophy of history, to understand Kant's question of the fate and moral progress of men. Key themes include a study of the conditions under which, in a rational being, one's intention and action can be recognized as purely and strictly moral, as well as an analysis of the historical and political conditions that bring forward the moralization of mankind and citizens.

Professor Boudet

THE HUMAN CONDITION AND SOCIETY Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course seeks a critical understanding of human nature and the human condition in society. Two different angles complement each other: on the one hand, a close study of Schiller's letters on the æsthetic education of man; on the other, an analysis of how the Frankfurt School took up traditional philosophical themes and criticized them thus placing them in their proper historical context.

Professors Marmasse and Nicodème.

INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course introduces students to contemporary liberal philosophy. Although it touches on the work of classic philosophers such as Locke and Mill, the vast majority of the course focuses on 20th century philosophers. Students see, among others, the work of Harsanyi, Nozick, Habermas, and Rawls. From John Rawls' proposed veil of ignorance to Habermas' work on the ethic of discussion, students gain new insight into one of the key philosophical currents of contemporary times, and learn different perspectives on the presence of inequalities in a modern world, on social justice, and on the role of the state and individuals. Liberal political thought continues to impact today's laws and institutions, and students gain deeper insight into the diverse viewpoints that shape this philosophical tradition.

Professor Lauvau.

*POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: EVOLUTION OF THE CONCEPT OF POLITICAL LIBERTY Université de Paris-Sorbonne

ETHICS AND SOCIETY Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense By analyzing the arguments at the forefront of the equality debate in its various manifestations, the course examines existing states of inequality and the legitimacy or illegitimacy of maintaining these inequalities. Topics studied include: equality as a natural and human right, slavery, equality of the sexes, Marxist views of exploitation and domination, and Affirmative Action and the notion of positive discrimination. Authors studied include: Aristotle, Plato, Rousseau, Kant and Marx.

Professor Chamayou

From Antiquity to contemporary debates, the question of political liberty has always been central, if not contentious. At the beginning of the 19th century, Benjamin Constant rejected the idea of a dichotomized concept of liberty between Ancient and modern thinkers, as the distinction between liberty as freedom to civic participation and as the enjoyment of individual rights. This course explores the complexities inherent to this question. By reading texts starting from the classical era of Plato's The Republic, Aristotle's Politics, Epictetus' Manual, and including works across the centuries such as Machiavelli’s The Prince, Hobbes' Leviathan, and Locke's Treatise of Civil Government, the class thus studies the evolution of the concept of political liberty.

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*THE POLITICAL TEXTS OF KARL MARX

METAPHYSICS: FAITH AND KNOWLEDGE

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Examination of the texts of Marx, specifically, On the Jewish Question, The Communist Manifesto, The Capital, and The Civil War in France. From these texts students discuss and examine Marx's ideas on political application.

This metaphysics course deals with the questions “What can I know?” and “How can I know?” These questions, seemingly epistemological, become metaphysical from the moment one questions the knowledge of the existence of something: “How can I know if Carthage existed? How can I know if God exists? Or still, how can I know if something like my inner nature (my desires, my thoughts) actually exists?” After readings of canonical texts in the tradition, students examine the relationships between belief, ontology, and epistemology. Central problematics include the relation between belief and other cognitive states, belief as a theoretical or practical attitude, logico-semantic analyses of belief, the psychology of belief (affection, desire, will), the status of the objects of belief (future/present/ past; existent/inexistent; visible/invisible; demonstrable/indemonstrable). Authors studied include Aristotle and Plato, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Locke, Kant, J. H. Newman, Ch. S. Pierce, W. James, Montaigne, Charron, La Mothe le Valay, Descartes and Pascal.

Professor Birnbaum, Ogilvie and Christ.

WHO ARE THE "PEOPLE" OF A DEMOCRACY? Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course explores the concept of representation in various forms of government. By reading a variety of authors including Hobbes, Rousseau, Madison, Hamilton, Marx and Mill, this course seeks to approach an understanding of how the "People" wield power and are represented in a variety of forms of government.

Professor Pozzi.

PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMICS Université de Paris-Sorbonne This masters-level seminar studies the development of economic theory from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century. The course begins with a brief review of ancient and medieval economic thought, including that of the mercantilists. The main movements covered by the course are the Physiocrats, Classical Economics, and Socialism. Authors consulted include Quesnay, Smith, Ricardo, Say, and Marx.

Professors Lauvau and Chauvier.

*CRITICAL THOUGHT AND ITS CRITICS: BRUNO LATOUR Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Through a thorough analysis of Bruno Latour's most read work, Nous n’avons jamais été modernes (We Have Never Been Modern), this course attempts to approach modern critical thought through the eyes of the great contemporary French philosopher. Excerpts of Descartes, Rousseau, Hobbes, Serres, and some of La Fontaine's fables are examined and given new meaning. Parts of other works by Bruno Latour are also discussed, in an effort to better understand Latour's new blend of philosophy, anthropology and sociology and its application to both modern critical theory and the real, practical world.

Professors Arbib and Schmutz.

LOVE IN THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF HEGEL ENS The seminar starts with a study of the early Hegelian texts which were drafted and published before The Phenomenology of Spirit, and which have a marked theologico-ethico-moralistic orientation. This leads to a discussion of love in all of its modalities, beginning with the ancient Greeks' tripartite distinction of eros, philia, and agape. The body politic is a community of human beings and as such, has an intimate relationship with love, the sentiment of union — or rather, the desire thereof — between individuals. In more traditional Hegelian thought, the word "love" disappears altogether, seemingly replaced by "spirit". How does this ideological shift reflect the political implications of Hegel's philosophy? This highly intertextual course examines excerpts from literature, poetry, historical texts, and popular songs.

Professor Abdelmadjid.

Professor Ramond.

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PHILOSOPHY OF ART: WHAT IS MODERN ART? Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course examines the foundations and development of modern art within the Western tradition, specifically the imitation of the antique model in the visual arts since the 18th century, and the definitive split with the past in the 19th century. Modernity’s aesthetic is seen as a vision of the future, the avant-garde. Approaches to the critical works of Diderot, Hegel, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Jauss, Compagnon, Fumaroli, and Starobinski, among others.

Professor Darriulat.

*READING FOUCAULT’S HISTORY OF SEXUALITY I: THE WILL TO KNOWLEDGE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis The main objective of this course is a comprehensive reading of the first volume of Michel Foucault’s Histoire de la sexualité, devoting special attention to the Foucault’s method, his redefinition of the concept of power in light of the critique of the “repressive hypothesis”, and the idea of a “deployment of sexuality”. The course then moves on to an analysis of the reception of Foucault's works in the relatively recent domain of Gender Studies, mainly in the Unites States .

study of religions in an anthropological context.

This course discusses the role of language and the meaning of a symbol; language as cultural mediation and epistemology; the difference between a sign and a symbol; the Christian use of symbols; the science of myths with allusions to different theories including those of Lévi-Strauss and Ferdinand de Saussure; the study of Greek myth, logos and organization of code systems; the human view of rituals; the specific laws and language of rites; the sacred as compared to the profane; pagan and Christian initiation rites.

Professor Chauvet. .

*RELIGIONS, MODERN THOUGHT AND SECULARISM Institut Catholique de Paris This course explores the genesis of the concept of secularism. It takes a pluralistic view and while giving most importance to secularism in France, it also considers its status in other parts of the world (United States, Middle East, India). It uses a large number of documents such as works of Enlightenment philosophers and authors of constitutional texts as well as the contributions of contemporary thinkers.

Professor Tardan-Masquelier.

THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY

Professor Marcos.

Facultés Jésuites de Paris

INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

This course provides an in-depth study of the doctrine of the Trinity. Beginning with an introduction situating the doctrine in the context of the modern debate with atheism and other religions, it then looks backward to the historical development of the Church’s position on the Trinity. Excerpts from numerous writings from theologians are discussed within their historical context, and the various debates, councils and controversies that took place are examined. Formulas of the doctrine are brought forth and examined in the light of Biblical revelation. Also covered are the work of Karl Rahner and the relation of the doctrine of the Trinity with current social and religious situations.

Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne This course provides a basic overview of Indian philosophies, focusing largely on the Hindu worldview. It also serves as an introduction to Hinduism, as Indian philosophy is in many ways entwined with religion. The course begins with ancient Hinduism and works its way through the more classical and then modern forms of Hinduism, eventually arriving at Indian Buddhism. Studies focus on philosophies rather than specific philosophers, as the former are rarely attributable to a single person or group.

Professor Chenet.

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SYMBOLS, MYTHS AND RITES IN RELIGIONS

JUDAISM IN FRANCE

Institut Catholique de Paris

Institut Catholique de Paris

An anthropological investigation of the major religious expressions using symbols, myths and rites.

Religious language is above all symbolic, thus the importance of understanding the symbolic for the

This course studies the history of Judaism in France, with a focus on the way Judaism has changed and adapted to conform to developments in the country.

Professor Berder.

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INTRODUCTION TO HINDUISM

Institut Catholique de Paris

Institut Catholique de Paris

This course provides an overview of Christian and Muslim interactions from the birth of Islam, with a focus on comparative theologies. It examines the rise of the Islamic empire while analyzing the interactions between the Muslim peoples and Christians.

Some focus is placed on Islamic practices and law, generally in comparison to Christian practices, and information is shared in order to understand current religious controversies between Abrahamic faiths today, and to find possible areas to broach dialogue between peoples.

This comprehensive course analyzes important aspects of the spiritual life of the Indian sub-continent, covering the historical development of contemporary Hinduism from its earliest archeological manifestations, early Vedic philosophy, and Hinduism’s diverse contemporary forms. Its starting point is the detailed study of major Hindu texts, including the Ramayana, the Mahabarata, the Bhagavad-Gita and the Upanishads. It then moves into a closer study of Hinduism in practice today. Evolution of Vishnuism, Shivaism and goddess cults is also explored, as are the caste system, the Hindu conception of life stages and specific rites of passage. Also seen are the exclusions or counter-models to these systems such as untouchables and tantric practitioners. The interaction between contemporary Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity in India is also addressed.

Professors Marin, de la Hougue and Cherif.

FOUNDATIONS OF BUDDHISM Institut Catholique de Paris This comprehensive course traces the foundations of the Eastern religion of Buddhism. Beginning with the life of Siddhartha Gautama, Buddha himself, students learn of the doctrines that create the roots of the Buddhist world. This course will explain through dharma (Buddha's teachings) the ability to escape Dukkha (suffering) of human desires to transcend Samsara (the involuntary cycle of life and death) to reach enlightenment and inner peace. We also discover how Buddhism has evolved and changed to become a religion present the world over. Study of contemporary texts in order to understand the varying practices of modern Buddhism, from Japanese Zen to Tibetan Buddhism.

Professor Tardan-Masquelier.

Professor Courau.

RELIGIOUS TEXTS OF ASIA: GREAT HINDU AND BUDDHIST TEXTS Institut Catholique de Paris “All that which is below the sky and within the depths of the heart”: this course builds upon knowledge of the "other" through the discovery of several sacred texts, and approaches the diverse faces of enlightenment across written works and prominent schools of thought. Among the Hindu texts, the experience of the self in the Upanishads is explored, including a study the Brhadaranyaka and the Chandogya-Upanishad. During the study of Buddhism, the course covers texts from the Dhammapada to the chants of Milarepa.

Professors Vinson and Sigiuer-Saune.

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This course covers the fundamental economic theories proposed by philosophers throughout the centuries, beginning with Plato and Aristotle, continuing through Smith, Ricardo, Say, Pigou and Coase, then ending with Keynes and other modern-day perspectives on game theory, general equilibrium, and monetarists and neo-keynesians. Original texts by each of the economic philosophers provide the student with a general idea of the theories.

UniversitĂŠ de Paris-Dauphine

Professor Keppler.

*HISTORY OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL THOUGHT UniversitĂŠ de Paris-Sorbonne This course offers a comprehensive survey of the history and development of economic ideas, from the 16th to the end of the 19th century, with a particular focus on mercantilism, classical liberalism, and socialism. Readings are drawn from authors

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such as Montchrestien, Quesnay, Turgot, Malthus, Smith, Say, Ricardo, Saint-Simon, Tocqueville, Bastiat, Proudhon and Marx.

Professors Grondeux & Barjot.

*HISTORY OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL THOUGHT IN THE 19TH CENTURY Université de Paris-Sorbonne The course begins with an overview of the foundation and development of liberal economics (Smith, Malthus, Ricardo, Say). The socialist schools of thought (Fourier, Proudhon, Saint-Simon) are then studied, followed by marginalism and Cournot, Marshall, Walras, Pareto, as well as a study of Karl Marx, Max Weber and the German school of thought. Modern sociology is approached contextually with the Keynesian revolution (Comte, Le Play, Durkheim, Pareto, de Tarde, Simmel), the totalitarian view of economics and society, neo-liberalism, neo- and post-Keynesian thought, and finally, monetarism and current debates.

Professors Coursiéras-Jaff, Piquet and Barjot.

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY Université de Paris-Dauphine This course examines social and economic activity from the Roman Republic to the Industrial Revolution, covering the major turning points and transitions to different economic ideas, and their social impact. The second part of the course mainly deals with the 20th century. Over the course of the semester, students explore the origins of the Western social and economic model, its points of prosperity and its debacles.

ECONOMICS

ics include the effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policies, growth and productivity.

Professor Oheix.

*ECONOMIC THEORY Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense Exploring the foundations of economic thought and theory by examining the works of Smith, Ricardo, Marx, and Keynes, the course examines the philosophical backgrounds of major economic models, and provides close readings of selections from the works of Marx and Ricardo.

Professor Rebeyrol.

*CONTEMPORARY ECONOMIC ISSUES Université de Paris-Dauphine This course attempts to situate and analyze some of the great socio-economic issues of the 20th century, and in particular the nature and permanence of the dominant model of economic development, the current North-South/East-West relationship, the new poverties and inequalities, the emergence of the new economic giants (BRIC countries) and the construction of new economic groups.

Professor Granger.

*INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS Université de Paris-Dauphine

Studying the history of economic policies in France since the end of WWII, this course examines the social and economic impact of these policies. Topics include the effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policies, growth and productivity.

The increasing openness of economies requires decision-makers in business and public services to take stock of the phenomena associated with globalization. This course aims to provide key readings for understanding the causes, manifestations and effects of such globalization. It also provides the conceptual foundations necessary to understand international economic issues: international trade and balance problems and imbalances of payments.

The first part is devoted to theories of international specialization: comparative advantages and the HOS model, and new theories of international trade (economies of scale and imperfect competition). The second part deals with monetary and financial issues: exchange rate, balance of payments and macroeconomic analysis in an open economy.

Professor Oheix.

Professors Sztulman and Lavallée.

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Studying the history of economic policies in France since the end of WWII, this course examines the social and economic impact of these policies. Top-

This class studies the making of modern international political economy by looking at its evolution over time, as well as seeing how it functions in the

Professors Bezbakh and Chalmin.

*HISTORY OF ECONOMIC POLICY IN FRANCE SINCE 1945 Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense

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modern international economic system. It tackles multiple topics in international economics in political terms, making sure to differentiate approaches to international economics and international political economy. International political economic theory and questions related to the political economics of globalization are also studied. The theories studied and questions raised are used as a tool to study international business, and the international financial and banking systems.

Professor Kébabdjian.

*INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY: RETHINKING EUROPE IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle This research seminar introduces students to the growing academic subfield of international political economy (IPE) and asks students to put it into practice through writing a substantive research paper on an EU-related topic. Readings, mostly in the form of recent journal articles, are drawn from various currents of IPE, with a particular focus on the heterodox approach of Susan Strange.

Professor Delteil.

ECONOMICS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION Université de Paris-Dauphine This course is an in-depth look at the political and economic theory behind the formation of the European Union and the resulting current policies and market changes in Europe. It covers the microeconomics of customs taxes, subsidies and quotas, in particular in the context of the agricultural market since this topic is the most pertinent for France. It discusses the current policies in effect under the World Trade Organization and their tangible consequences on the European Union’s trade patterns, both internally and externally.

Professors Venet and Peltrault.

ECONOMY OF EUROPEAN LABOR MARKETS Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle The course starts with a general study of models for grouping social welfare states, models of social regulation, and the influence of labor unions and social dialogue on social policy-making. The second half of the course is more country-specific, covering specific EU directives, treaties, and organizations that affect Europe's social sphere.

Professor Delteil.

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DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS Université de Paris-Dauphine This course teaches the fundamental principles in the field of economic development. Topics covered include dualism, the Lewis-Ranis-Fei model, Pareto efficiency and the theory of justice, rational decision-making, the fragmentation of economy, the effects of the green revolution, etc.

Professor Raffinot

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS AND GLOBALIZATION Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle Providing an introduction to the effects of globalization on the international economic sphere, this course provides analysis of individual regional approaches to globalization and of the contrasts between countries in their adoption of and responses to globalization. Also discussed are the future advantages and disadvantages of globalization on various industries and parts of the world.

Professor Richet.

ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF GLOBALIZATION Université de Paris-Dauphine This calculus-based course examines the fundamental theories of international trade and analyzes their application within the context of the current debate on globalization. Other topics examined include foreign direct investments, exchange rates, the International Monetary Fund, balance of payments and international companies.

Professors Legendre and Mouhoud.

INEQUALITY AND REDISTRIBUTION Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense After a brief introduction to theories of justice (Hobbes and Rousseau, Rawls), and theories of social choices and public policies (Smith, Condorcet, Bentham, Marx, Mill), this course analyzes and compares societies and institutions, and discusses how to help justice progress, in the process trying to find a reasonable agreement on equality and equity in terms of public reasoning.

Professor Meurs.

EUROPEAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course studies the degree of integration of the EU and how that integration has been achieved by

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determining which areas of macroeconomic control have been concentrated on a supranational level, which have been made cooperative, and which have been left exclusively to the national arenas.

four themes: innovation, investment, employment, and distribution of wealth – in order to learn about the dynamism, success and failure of an economy, through the context of how businesses behave.

Professor Coudrat.

Professors Pichon-Mamère, Barry and Cancade.

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This course aims to help students master the concepts and analytical tools of public economics, and clarifies important contemporary debates, such as growth and pollution, competition and public services, and fiscal harmonization in Europe. Through review and study of analytical tools for public economics, students learn how to analyze important contemporary problems of public regulation. The course begins by looking at the economic roles attributed to a modern state, and the way these roles translate into public spending. Course material then progresses from an analysis of individual utility to the criteria and methods for utility aggregation. A subsequent look at public goods and their optimal production is followed by a discussion of externalities. The course concludes with a section on the theory of taxation and a section on public services.

A case study of the modern Chinese market and traditional business practices. It explores and answers the following questions: What attitude must French businessmen and entrepreneurs adopt towards China and the Asian continent's rapid growth? What are the opportunities they must seize and the errors they must avoid? How should they go about selecting Chinese business partners and trading with them?

Professor Wittwer.

*LABOR MARKET AND EMPLOYMENT POLICY Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course examines the labor market in France in comparison to other countries. Topics also include new theories of labor markets and the impact of employment policies.

Professor Jeleva.

SOCIAL ECONOMICS Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense Specific questions raised by the field of social economics, in favor of a more democratic, egalitarian and fraternal approach to socioeconomic organizations, are discussed in this course. Students build a capacity for analysis and interpretation.

Professor Frossard.

*BUSINESS ECONOMICS Université de Paris-Sorbonne Economic study of the business environment, with emphasis on the way in which markets function.

From a historical perspective, the class focuses on

Professor Blachier.

*MACROECONOMICS OF EUROPE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This class gives students a common core of knowledge on monetary and fiscal policies in the EU. After an introductory session on macroeconomic scales and objectives (GNP, growth, inflation, unemployment, exchange rate, sovereign debt, etc.), the principles of macroeconomics as they apply to the European Union are studied: who steers monetary policy and how does it impact the “real” economy? What is a budget policy and what means of action do the member States have in that respect? The main macroeconomic issues of Europe are analyzed in order to understand how the weaknesses and flaws of European integration have been harming the European Union in its crisis management since 2008 Professor Orain.

MICROECONOMICS Université de Paris-Dauphine This course is a calculus-based introduction to microeconomics. Major themes discussed during the course are the theory of production (production function and constraints, demand of production factors, supply function), the consumer (preferences, marginal substitution cost, exchange, budgetary constraint, optimal choice, utility function, substitution and revenue effect) and general equilibrium.

Knowledge of multivariable calculus is a prerequisite for the course.

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INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS Université de Paris-Dauphine This course provides an in-depth analysis of the goods market, labor market, financial investments market and money supply market. Emphasis is placed on mathematical derivations of all market curves and graphical representations of changes brought about by monetary or fiscal policy or other factors. Major models and laws are reviewed, and economic growth theories are analyzed.

Professor Fabre.

*INTERNATIONAL FINANCE AND RECENT FINANCIAL MARKET CRISES Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis The goal of this course is to familiarize students with the operation of financial markets and provide them with a better understanding of their crises.

Two crises in particular are examined: the 20072009 subprime crisis and the EU and Eurozone crisis that started at the beginning of 2010. The following aspects are considered with a critical approach: financial market actors (pension funds, mutual funds, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds...); Stock Exchanges, portfolio management, intermediaries (credit rating agencies, brokers and traders...); the different markets (stocks, bonds, monetary obligations and currencies, derived products...); the public debt problem; financial techniques and portfolio management; regulatory problems; the links between financial markets and multinational firms; the role of banks and reserve banks; the euro and the dollar..

Professor Nikonoff.

ECONOMICS OF FINANCIAL MARKETS Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course analyses the workings of financial markets. It focuses on the money market, the market for stocks, the market for bonds, risk and return, and portfolio management. The quantitative component of the course requires the comprehension and correct application of mathematical models and formulas used to estimate value, price, etc. The qualitative component aims at providing an understanding of how the different markets interact and a familiarity with the specific actors in the French financial Markets.

Professor Toullec.

MONETARY INSTITUTIONS AND MECHANISMS Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course provides the foundation and tools necessary for the comprehension of monetary mechanisms and the institutions that fuel them. Subjects reviewed include: different forms and functions of money; monetary creation and the role of the central bank; monetary aggregates; financial instruments and technologies; the circulation of money; direct and indirect financing; financial institutions and the stock market; the history of financial globalization and regulation. The course also covers important theories, such as the quantitative theory of money and Keynesianism, leading toward a better understanding of the stakes involved in contemporary debates about monetary politics.

Professor Depoortere

*DECISION SCIENCE ENS This course discusses primary economic theories of decision under risk, under certainty, under temporal discounting, etc., inviting different professors to lecture each week. The weekly work session consists of logic exercises and algebra that follow the topics of the lectures.

Professors Baccelli and Cozic

QUANTITATIVE METHODOLOGY: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense The objective of this course is to familiarize students with fundamental concepts and statistical methods that are used in many disciplines (psychology, social sciences, history, geography...) as well as in the working world. Students learn how to analyze data obtained from statistical variables and make causal relations from a mathematical angle. At each stage, they are led to reflect on the range and limits of scientific tools and form coherent applications and reasoning to solve concrete problems.

Professor Morien

TAXATION Université de Paris-Dauphine The objective of this course is to examine the fundamental principles of taxation in France and introduce the main European directives.

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*INTRODUCTION TO DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course introduces students to the field of developmental psychology through both a theoretical and historical approach. The first half of the course is about the modern practice of developmental psychology and is based on readings from more contemporary figures in the field. The second half of the course is based on historical figures in the field and how they marked the evolution of the discipline.

Freud, Wallon, and Piaget are the three primary figures studied.

Professor Habib

DEVELOPMENT OF EMOTIONAL, GESTURED, POSTURAL AND VERBAL COMMUNICATION Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course covers the construction of communication in relation to thought, the different develop-

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mental levels of children, and the perceptions of others. Focus is on non-verbal communication in infants and toddlers, and the development of this communication and its variation in terms of disorders, nationality, and special cases. Theories are discussed in terms of other related fields such as artificial intelligence, ethnology, ethics, sociology, linguistics, and philosophy.

results; consequently, the pros and cons of numerous observation/data-gathering techniques are discussed and compared.

Professor Garritte

From a number of current problems in society, such as school failure, delinquency, child abuse, sexual abuse or addiction, this course introduces major concepts in child and adolescent psychopathology.

It discusses the effects of modernity on children, and how advancements in technology, drugs, and society have affected children and young teens. In addition, the development of autism and other disorders with respect to current findings and breakthroughs are analyzed.

LANGUAGE PROCESSES Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis Taking a cognitive approach to linguistic studies, this course concerns the theories and models of the psychology of language. Though language acquisition and language of aging adults are both mentioned, the bulk of this course focuses on the language processes of the healthy adult. Structured around experimental findings that form the backbone of teachings on constructed language models, the course provide students with a firm grasp of cognitive processing principles at three levels of language treatment: lexical, syntactical, and semantic. For each of these three parts, the current principal models and experimental paradigms are presented.

Professor Guéraud

DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY IN CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course covers the history of the concepts of person, personality and temperament. Starting from the role of the “person” in Greece and Rome through its perception in Christianity, the development of the individual among tribal groups and the various theories pertaining to this development are discussed in detail. The history of the issue remains the backdrop for the modern conception of the person and personality. The conception of personality as theorized by Bashaw, Cannon, Rogers and others is subsequently discussed, and their various definitions of personality are compared. The development of temperament, its origins and its interaction with the environment and personality is also a major theme of this course. Various conceptions of personality and temperament such as the model of the Big Five, those of Block and Block, Bussi and Plomen, Rothbart, and Thomas and Chess, are examined in depth. The methodology used to study personality and temperament has substantial influence on the 136

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Professors Andronikof and Fontan

THE DEVELOPMENT OF FRIENDSHIP AND RELATIONSHIPS Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense The general objective of this psychology course is the acquisition of theoretical frames, concepts, methods, and a solid knowledge of the research concerning the development of friendships and romantic relationships over the course of childhood and adolescence. The course more specifically examines the conceptions of love, the perception of friendships, their relationship with sexual identity, differences according to sex, drawing friends from either the same or opposite sex, the stability of friendships, their effects on psychosocial adjustment, their relation to our understanding of others, and similarities and differences when dealing with romantic relationships as opposed to friendships.

It further engages in the study of the development of romantic relationships, including differences according to sex and sexual identity, and their role in the functioning of psychosocial and emotional development. Also seen are the particularities of peer groups, romantic relationships, parents, culture, physical maturity and physical attraction.

Professor Mallet

LEARNING AT SCHOOL: PROCESSES AND ASSESSMENT METHODS Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense How does a student construct, store, and apply what he or she learns in school? In turn, how does

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one evaluate this behavior? This course considers the different processes involved in learning, and their evaluation, in a school context. It explores the psychology of learning through the examination of different theories of learning and evaluation, methods and strategies used in schools, and the roles students and teachers play in a school context.

Professor Bruckert

THE COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF MEMORY AND LEARNING Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course looks into two major subjects in cognitive psychology: memory and learning. Lectures are split between learning and memory. The meaning and styles of learning, past studies on conditioning, the development of mental representations, problem-solving procedures, day-to-day learning and reinforcement are some of the topics explained during the half of the class concerned with learning.

During the memory portion of the course, the three different facets of human memory are described in detail. The strengths and weaknesses of these subcategories are discussed. Examples (figures or videos) are used during lectures and more hands-on exercises are mobilized during discussion sections.

Professors Moscardini, Cuisinier and Imberty

SCHOOL FAILURE AND REMEDIATION Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense The course begins with an exploration of the history of the French school system, focusing on when and how failing school began. The different factors of school failure are presented through the diversity of different approaches within psychology. During the second part, the course reflects on the existence and the relevance of different paths of remediation.

Professors Saliba and Bruckert

COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course covers different mental processes behind behavior, thinking, information processing and decision-making. These include: memory, attention, perception, knowledge representation, reasoning, creativity and problem-solving. Students also discuss the evolution of psychology as a science, behaviorism, the birth of cognitive psychology, Freudian thought, the use of scientific methods, and the state of research in artificial intelligence.

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COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course covers different mental processes behind behavior, thinking, information processing and decision-making. These include: memory, attention, perception, knowledge representation, reasoning, creativity and problem solving. Students also discuss the evolution of psychology as a science, behaviorism, the birth of cognitive psychology, and the use of scientific methods in the field of cognitive psychology.

Professors Guéraud and Frey

*MACHINE LEARNING ENS An advanced course which goes over generative models, representational learning, supervised learning, and interpolation. Work sessions teach different methods using MatLab software, such as principal component analysis, probabilistic distributions, and regression functions.

Professor Denève

COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF EMOTION Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course examines the neurobiological bases of human emotion, beginning with a theoretical discussion of emotion as both a biological and cognitive process. The presentation of basic human emotions (fear, pain, anger and desire) is then studied on a physiological level by examining neurological circuitry. The course then investigates the effects of attention and consciousness on emotions. Among the issues addressed are the following questions: What is consciousness? Is there an animal consciousness?

What is the role of attention as a bridge between unconscious and conscious? What are the brain structures underlying the emergence of consciousness?

How is impaired consciousness (agnosia, unilateral neglect, blind sight) associated with brain damage?

Professors Vallet and Hallé

*HEMISPHERIC SPECIALIZATION AND NERVOUS SYSTEM PATHOLOGIES Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense The first half of this two-part course investigates how specialized cortical regions work, the disorders that arise when those functions are impeded and the role played by hormones. Studied functions include: language, gesticulation, spatial represen-

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tation, object and facial recognition, emotional expression, music recognition, and lateralization.

The second half of this class addresses neurological symptomology and organization of the nervous system. Motor, vegetative, sensory and cognitive functions are explored in detail. Students then apply the knowledge they have acquired by examining relevant case studies. The course focuses on both human and other vertebrate species.

Professors Béguin & Amy.

NEUROPHARMACOLOGY AND BRAIN PLASTICITY Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense The first part of the class is devoted to brain plasticity, the brain's ability to change the organization of neural networks. The course then focuses on development in children and adolescents and how plasticity allows the environment to influence brain function. The acquisition of memories and expertise in adults is also studied, as well as the phenomena of recovery following a brain injury. Ways in which brain plasticity is responsible for the phenomenon of addiction, and development of plasticity, following repeated consumption of psychoactive substances, are both also studied. The second part of the course is devoted to the presentation of the short-and longterm effects of substances as well as their effects on the brain, especially in structures involved in maintaining a state of well-being and in decision-making.

Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis The fundamental theoretical and methodological bases of social psychology are studied in the scope of influence and social cognition. This course is focused around the intricate issue of individual autonomy vs. conformance to societal norms, pressures and expectations. How truly free are we to make our own choices for ourselves? To what extent are our choices influenced by our need to belong through conforming to the expectations of our societal group? These are the types of questions explored in this course that uses theories developed by some of the most renowned sociologists as well as modern-day examples, in order to explore a theme found in the cross-section between the fields of sociology and psychology.

Professor Masse

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This course is focused around the intricate issue of individual autonomy vs. conformance to societal norms, pressures and expectations. How truly free are we to make our own choices for ourselves? To what extent are our choices influenced by our need to belong through conforming to the expectations of our societal group? These are the types of questions explored in this course that uses theories developed by some of the most renowned sociologists as well as modern-day examples to explore a theme lying in the cross-section between the fields of sociology and psychology.

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Professor Polin

A graduate course beginning with a detailed study of the functions and regions of the brain and the functions of language with relations to communication in general, and the specific regions of the brain involved in communication. Also seen are problems with language functions and their neurological causes. The phenomena of aphasia, alexia and dyslexia are examined in depth.

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF GENDER

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*BEHAVIOR AND GENETICS Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course employs an empirical lens to pinpoint the physiological mechanisms underlying motivated behaviors across species. It explores the influences of genetics, hormonal pathways, and the environment.

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Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense The sexed polarization of identity is a dynamic process; it is not just a passive adoption of normative psychosocial models of femininity and masculinity, but a personal construction. This course explores how individuals ‘sex’ their identity in different ways, based on situations in which they find themselves, whether scholarly, professionally, introspectively, seductively, etc. Several important psychology case studies on gender are presented.

Professor Aebischer

*THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GROUPS Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course makes use of case studies and selected

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research to illustrate the major theories and discoveries of group psychology. It aims to examine what intrinsic and extrinsic factors drive an individuals to categorize themselves, how they comport themselves with respect to that group, and how that group behaves in relationship to other groups.

Professor Finkelstein

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: OPINION, BELIEFS, AND COLLECTIVE LIFE Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This social psychology course focuses on concepts and theories of social cognition. It examines the psychological and social fabrications of opinion and beliefs. Strong emphasis is placed on questions of social bias: How much of what we perceive as our “reality” is actually socially constructed? How are social prejudices formed, and how are they maintained? What are the consequences of such prejudices? The course examines various psychological studies that provide further insight into such topics as first impressions, self-fulfilling prophecies, cognitive dissonance, attraction, judgment, and cultural/ ethnic identities.

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*INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense This course seeks to provide a basic understanding of the theories and techniques used in clinical psychology and an overview of its historical background. Three fundamental methods are explored: evaluation/investigation, intervention (psychotherapy), and evaluation of the intervention (research).

Various interview methods are closely examined and discussed in the context of diagnosis. Problems and weaknesses of current diagnostic methods are also mentioned. Students are asked to analyze patient observations and determine their psychopathological characteristics.

Professor Coeffec

*INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course introduces clinical psychology and psychopathology through a historical lens, from the Middle Ages until today.

Professor Kozakai

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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF HEALTH

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY: TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES

Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense In this course, the theories, concepts, and models that constitute the field of social psychology are studied and applied to various health concepts, such as the communication of persuasion. The major theories and models of health psychology are also discussed such as the Health Belief Model, the Biomedical Model, etc. The psychological elements of health risk and prevention are studied, through analysis of the factors driving one for or against adopting behaviors that are beneficial for one's health.

These psychological concepts are applied to specific social cases, such as preventative campaigns.

Professors Mazé and Chekroun

Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis A course covering various psychological conditions resulting from traumatic experiences. Multiple psychologists’ theories are discussed and case studies are often used to demonstrate the symptoms of these disorders. Students learn what circumstances constitute traumatic events; they look at the effects of these experiences and at treatment of disorders resulting from them.

Professor Sironi

APPROACHES TO PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis

INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course deals with the history, objectives and methods of clinical psychology, through a study of various schools of psychotherapy. It focuses on four fundamental areas: classification, etiology, semiology and the diagnosis of mental disorders.

An overview of the main approaches to mental troubles in the adult patient, this course covers psychoanalysis, behaviorism, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and medication. It focuses on the efficacy of each approach in dealing with certain sources of psychological troubles, and in particular the unconscious, neurobiology, the family, and the environment.

Readings include theoretical, historical, and scien-

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tific articles by authors such as Freud and Beck, as well as more contemporary research articles.

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF FOOD AND NUTRITION

Professor Grandsard

Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense

EVALUATING PERSONALITY IN A CLINICAL SETTING THROUGH PROJECTIVE METHODS AND QUESTIONNAIRES Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense Through in-depth analysis and examples, students learn about personality tests for “abnormal” and “normal” behavior. The course begins by examining the Big-5 Factor test for “normal” personality, through readings concerning the relationship between neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeability and consciousness, and the ten personality disorders tested by the DSM-IV. Students learn how to interpret test results by deconstructing two patients’ hypothetical responses as well as taking the exam themselves. While the larger lectures discuss other methods for determining abnormal behavior, including intelligence tests, WAIS-III, and neuropsychological exams, the discussion section walks students through an actual Rorschach exam, reemphasizing how to code and interpret each response. The course thus provides detailed introduction into several clinical tests, giving students the tools to begin attempting their own analyses.

Professors Paillot and Petot

PSYCHOLOGY OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense Consumer psychology concerns any situation in which a consumer decides to buy a product or service in any domain (transportation, health, insurance, food, education, etc.) This course aims to shed light on the methodologies and professional practices that utilize psychology, from the research and development of a product, to studying preferences and behavior in relation to available products and services. It also seeks to understand affective, cognitive and behavioral processes that persuade a consumer to make a value judgment, to have a desire, to choose to consume a specific type of object, and even to regret his choice. Social contexts that influence such decisions, such as normal pressures, persuasive advertising influences and resources are also examined.

Professors Meyer and N'Gbala

This course addresses human interaction with food.

The first half of the semester examines basic developments in the growth of normal eating habits, such as how we develop preferences for certain foods, how our bodies register tastes, and how children develop neophobia regarding what they eat.

The second half of the course examines abnormal eating behaviors covering topics such as bulimia and anorexia as well as obesity.

Professor Rigal

PSYCHOLOGY OF SPACE AND ENVIRONMENT Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense The theories behind the psychology of space form the focus of this class, which highlights some of the main concepts and research in the field. Students carry out personal research projects, collecting data in the field and/or doing a bibliographical dossier.

Professor Bonnefoy

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense Concepts of cognitive psychology are applied to the perception as well as production of music in this course. In the first half of the course, the relationship between music and language is examined using Gestalt theory and Chomsky's theory of generative grammar. In the second half the course, the innate human predisposition to listening to and creating music is explained with the help of methodology borrowed from both developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Other topics include the differences between tonal and atonal music, the emotionality of music, and the universality of music.

Professors Imberty and Gratier

PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH BASICS Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis This course is focused on increasing familiarity with and implementation of psychological research methods and practices, through traditional lecture as well as personal, first-hand experience. Students participate in psychological studies/questionnaires, are taught different methods and basics required to conduct research, and eventually form their own hypothesis and body of work.

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This course provides a study of algebraic topology, starting with homotopy theory: fundamental groups, covering spaces, universal covering spaces, and the Van Kampen theorem. The homology theory section covers: chain complexes, homology of chain complexes, exact sequences, Mayer-Vietoris sequences, cell complexes, equivalence of simplical and cellular homology. Applications include: no retraction theorem, fixed-point theorem, degree of maps f: Sn - Sn, and uniqueness of dimension.

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DIOPHANTINE GEOMETRY UniversitĂŠ Pierre et Marie Curie Diophantine geometry is the study of Diophantine equations and the use of algebro-geometric methods to solve them. In this course, students examine a series of related conjectures (now theorems), the Mordell-Lang, Manin-Mumford, and AndrĂŠ-Oort

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conjectures, important to the solution of many Diophantine equations. Each conjecture roughly states that a sub-variety of an algebraic variety, that contains enough “special points” of that variety, must be of a special form. Diverse ways of approaching these problems are studied, ranging from Galois theory, degrees, heights, and model theory to differential Galois theory.

Professor Bertrand.

ABELIAN VARIETIES Université Pierre et Marie Curie The course begins by studying the Jacobian of a Riemann surface, one of the most basic methods of constructing Abelian varieties. It then covers the general theory of complex tori, of which Abelian varieties form a special class, namely those arising as the complex points of an algebraic curve. Using multiple tools of complex analytic geometry, the course shows that this is equivalent to certain bilinear relations satisfied by the lattice of the torus, and their properties are thus studied.

Professor Bertrand.

PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS Université de Paris-Dauphine Distributions and definitions of populations, variables, histograms, frequencies and functions/ curves are seen in the first half of the course, followed by problems dealing with indicators of central tendency, potion and dispersion (mean, mode, median, quartiles, range and variance). Statistical indices and distributions with two variables, correlation and least squares laws are also seen. Additional themes: chronological series, models of compositions and determinations, and probability which is largely covered in terms of laws, discrete/continuous variables, indicators and statistical models.

Discrete and continuous models and their laws and distributions are also seen.

Professor Lada.

*INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING IN JAVA Université de Paris-Sorbonne This course serves as an introduction to Java, beginning with learning the language's basic functionality and syntax, covering topics like variable affectation, loops, switches, and arrays. The course then seeks to give a more in-depth understanding of

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object-oriented programming, in terms of the basic functions of packages, classes and methods, which is applied in writing static functions.

Professors Tesseidre and Laublet.

GEOPHYSICS Université Pierre et Marie Curie An introductory course in the methods of geophysics, with a prerequisite in elementary physics and calculus. Prior knowledge of geology is helpful but not required. Topics covered include: gravimetry, seismology, mechanics of solids, electricity and magnetism, and heat flow.

Professors Mechler and Santeuil.

BIOCHEMISTRY Université Pierre et Marie Curie This course provides an extensive look at the structure and behavior of proteins (including individual amino acids and enzymes) and sugars (both simple and complex). The metabolic breaking down of glucose via glycolysis and the subsequent generation of energy via the Krebs cycle and the electron transport chain are discussed, as well as the regeneration of glucose via gluconeogenesis.

Professors Hountondji, Woisard, Betuing and Ona-Nguema

CELLULAR BIOLOGY Université Pierre et Marie Curie This class focuses on three major themes of cell biology – signal transduction, apoptosis or programmed cell death and the mitochondria. In signal transduction, the structures of different types of receptors are seen, as are the different pathways of signal transduction, and regulation of transduction and communication between the different pathways of transduction. In the section on mitochondria, the class explores the importation of protein into the mitochondria, concentrating on the specific examples of cytochrome b2 and cytochrome C. Also seen are the role and structure of chaperon proteins and the system that controls the movement of protein across the inner and outer mitochondrial membrane (TIM and TOM). The section on apoptosis begins with the functions of apoptosis and differences between apoptosis and necrosis. Also seen are the different families of enzymes that play a role in apoptosis, their activation, and their regulation.

Professors Larcher, Vergé and Bernard.

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Students work in groups to prepare a course and a presentation on such topics as “Condensation of counter-ions and applications to DNA compaction”.

This student-produced course transmits essential concepts in a constructive and educational manner, focusing on the theories and equations underlying the following sub-topics: (1) Electrostatics in solution: Debye-Huckel Theory and its consequences; (2) Polyelectrolytes strongly charged in solution, and (3) relevance to the condensation of DNA. Each group illustrates the theme studied based on a dozen assigned articles and two or three articles of their choice.

Subjects approached in this course include cellular physiology, inter- and intra- cellular communication, electrically excitable cells, hormonal transduction, synapses, renal and cardiac function, metabolism regulation. Topics treated in biochemical depth, illuminating biochemical structure of cellular components as well as of cell messengers in the context of larger systems (hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, kidneys, heart).

Professor Baigl

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY Université Pierre et Marie Curie The first part of this course covers structure and reactivity of organic molecules, stereochemistry, mechanisms of reactions and methods of preparation of major classes of organic compounds (alkanes/alkenes/alkynes; alcohols; ketones/aldehydes; amines; esters, ether; derivatives of carboxylic acid, etc). Laboratory sections cover preparation and purification of such organic compounds and analysis of nuclear magnetic resonance spectra for molecule identification. The second part of the course provides a more in-depth treatment of organic chemistry: mechanisms, acid/base reactions, nucleophiles and electrophiles, redox reactions.

Functional groups covered include alkenes, halogens, organometallics, alcohols, epoxides, amines, alkynes, and carbonyl derivatives. Laboratory sections include spectroscopic methods of analysis, preparation and purification of compounds and reagents covered in class.

Professors Rivot and Blanc.

*IMMUNOLOGY Université Pierre et Marie Curie An introductory course in immunology. Students learn about the organs, cells, and molecular processes of the immune system, as well as the techniques used in the field. Students apply their knowledge to analyze complex problems faced by laboratory researchers in immunology.

Professor Fellah.

EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY Université Pierre et Marie Curie The diversity of life is expressed at all levels of the evolutionary tree as within populations of a given species. In particular, this diversity can be seen in the characteristics of organisms: life history traits, reproductive systems, strategies of habitat choice, social behaviors, etc. This course discusses the evolutionary mechanisms at the origin of this diversity by examining the fitness value of these behaviors and characteristics. Topics covered include fitness and trade-offs, the evolution of sex, sexual selection, cooperation and sociability among organisms, the evolution of senescence, and co-evolution.

Professors Jacquot, Leduc and Poli.

Professor Laloi.

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Université Pierre et Marie Curie The course is divided into three sections: neurology, hormonal communication and metabolism, and digestion and nutrition. Students practice calculations with equations (such as Nernst), apply theories presented during lecture sections to specific situations, and conduct experiments.

Professors Orsal, Serradas, Siaussat, Grassi and Guettet.

Université Pierre et Marie Curie Exploration of different types of plants, the environments in which they are found and how these plants have adapted to their environment with particular focus on adaptation of plants in difficult environments (deserts, high soil salinity, etc.). The first section of the course is an overview of plants including xerophytes, mesophytes, aquaphytes and

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halophytes, and their respective adaptations; the nine major biomes, as well as C4, C3 and CAM photosynthesis, water potential and plant pathogens are also discussed. The second section focuses on more specific topics including rhizobia, mycorrhiza, protection against mildew, effects on plants caused by pollution, plants in the semi-deserts and the tropical rainforest, and the effects of heavy metals.

Professors Baudouin and Jeannette.

*CHEMICAL KINETICS AND REACTIVITY ENS Topics covered in this course are: (1) The reactional mechanism: a simple model for a complex transformation; (2) chemical potential and molecular structure; (3) tools for mechanistic analysis: experimental techniques, solvent effects, isotopic effects, free energy relations; (4) Transition State Theory and kinetic constant of a reaction, reaction coordinate; (5) kinetics of unimolecular reactions; (6) solvent effects on the kinetic constant of a reaction, especially SN1 and SN2 reactions; electron transfer and proton transfer in solution. Lectures are followed by 15-minute oral exams where students are asked to solve problems posed by the professor and provide theoretical explanations to specific phenomena.

Next, students work in pairs to prepare a 40-minute presentation to teach the theories and applications of an assigned topic based on a specialized article.

During the preparation, each pair meets individually with their TA and submits written answers to theoretical and quantitative problems based on the article.

Professors Jullien and Laage.

*THERMODYNAMICS Université Pierre et Marie Curie Applications of the First law of thermodynamics, including the properties of ideal gases, as well as isobaric, isochoric, and isothermic transformations.

An introduction to entropy, static and semi-static approach. Spontaneity, reversibility and irreversibility in transformations. Van der Waals gases, kinetic temperature, and pressure. State equation and state functions, intensive or extensive variables, thermoelastic coefficients. Work, heat, heat capacities, and internal energy. Concept of micro states, statistical entropy principle of evolution, thermodynamic identity. Application of the Boltzmann formula. Application of the second thermodynamic principle and its consequences (monothermic and dithermic).

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Potential thermodynamics, Maxwell relations, free energy and enthalpy. Applications: heat engines, phase change of a pure substance.

Professors Grosman & Debregeas.

*THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL ASPECTS Université Pierre et Marie Curie The themes covered in this course are: (1) Intensive and extensive properties, work, heat, thermo-elastic and calorimetric coefficients, reversible and irreversible transformations, functions of state, total differential, general expressions of the 1st and 2nd principles; (2) Continuous and discrete probability laws, law of big numbers. Microscopic description of a physical system: micro-state and macro-state, quantum and semi-quantum representations; (3) Isolated systems in equilibrium, micro-canonical distributions, entropy and 2nd principle, thermodynamic identity; (4) Systems in equilibrium with a thermostat, canonical distribution, partition functions, systems composed of independent particles, Gibbs paradox; (5) Kinetic theory of perfect gases. Examples of canonical systems. (6) Thermodynamic potentials: definitions, exploitations of extreme properties; (7) Real gases: experimental results, energetic properties, introduction to microscopic studies, Van der Waals equation; (8) Changes in phrase of a pure body, phase diagrams, critical points, triple points, latent heat, examples; (9) Gaseous mixtures and solutions. Generalized chemical potential.

Professor Beugnon.

*GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING Université Pierre et Marie Curie The objective of this course is to learn the basic models used in geotechnical engineering, and know how to identify the most commonly used parameters from conventional tests (oedometer, triaxial, pressuremeter). Using Plaxis V8.6 software, students examine the behavior and engineering design of geotechnical structures and solve practical problems of dimensioning and verification (excavation, retaining structures, tunnels). The course concludes with a large project where students use Finite Element Analysis software dedicated to the study of problems of deformation and stability in geotechnical engineering. The specific issues addressed in the scope of the project include the following: settlement calculations related to construction works of superficial or deep foundations, consolidation prob-

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lems and permanent flow problems, sizing of structures of various support (bulkheads, diaphragm walls) and construction of embankments, excavations, and tunnels.

Professor Bouchelaghem.

FLUID MECHANICS UniversitĂŠ Pierre et Marie Curie The objective of this course is to give students a basic idea of the fundamentals of fluid mechanics through a general introduction, recalling thermodynamics and local equilibriums. Statics and kinematics of incompressible flow as well as compressible flow. Calculating the flow rate, divergence, gradients, and rotational of flow, in Euler and Lagrange, speed of sound and Mach, Compressible Aerodynamic flow in one dimension and Tubular flow rates are also seen.

Professors Dudeck and Leib.

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URBAN RENEWAL IN THE PARISIAN BANLIEUE EHESS/Independent Study Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted in this independent study, focusing on a housing project in the suburbs of Paris, examining an urban renewal project. History of urban policies in France, urban ethnography and utopian cityscapes in architecture were also studied.

Research advisor: Professor Agier.

INDEPENDENT STUDY: EVOLUTION OF FRENCH CUISINE IN THE 1920S Université de Paris-Sorbonne Participation in a doctoral seminar in the History department and faculty guidance throughout the semester in order to elaborate an independent research project on the history of French cuisine in the 1920s.

Research advisor: Professor Drouard.

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INDEPENDENT STUDY: RESEARCH AT THE QUAI BRANLY MUSEUM ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE COLLECTIONS AND THE PUBLIC Université de Paris 8-Saint-Denis In this project, the student undertakes a study of the ways in which museum visitors understand and interpret objects on display when these objects are presented in a manner that differs from their original context. The goal of this project is to better understand the processes of cultural translation that occur when an object is placed in a new context.

The student focuses on the permanent collections at the Quai Branly Museum, an ethnographic museum in Paris that presents works from Oceania, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The student studies the scenography and the design of the exhibition space and observes visitors as they move through the collections. He conducts brief interviews with visitors, asking them to describe their impressions of the museum and how they move about the hall.

He also interviews an agent at the museum who answers visitors' questions and helps the public navigate the museum space. This latter set of interviews takes the form of discovery ethnography and gives the student a conception of the agent's experience at the museum from his own perspective. The student is thus able to understand the collections from a different point of view. If possible, the student conducts an interview with a museum curator on the subject of the display of works and the aesthetic choices that are evident in the exhibition space. The student conducts research at the Quai Branly's archives to supplement his fieldwork and meets with his project advisor, several times throughout the semester for guidance and feedback.

Professor Hémond.

INDEPENDENT STUDY: THE NEW ISLAMIC ART GALLERIES OF THE LOUVRE IN A POST-9/11 WORLD

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lenges the prevailing stereotypes existing in abundance in Western media. Given the tense political scenery of Islam in France, the Louvre's new galleries provide a particularly pointed case study of the attempt to create a dialogue between Islam and the West through artistic endeavors. By examining the museography and design of the exhibition space, as well as the surrounding literature and curatorial choices, this project aims to gauge the extent of the Louvre's success in creating such a dialogue.

Research advisor: Michel Bondurand-Mouawad.

RESEARCH INTERNSHIP: INTERNATIONAL ARMS TRADE AND POLITICAL STRATEGY: THE US, RUSSIA, AND CHINA AND THE SALE OF WEAPONS TO THE MIDDLE EAST, ISRAEL, AND WESTERN AFRICA IRIS - Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques In this internship, research is conducted regarding the international sale of arms by the US, Russia, and China to the Middle East, Israel, and Western Africa, culminating in a final paper addressing how the arms trade contracts of the past decade are consistent with or contradict the political strategies of the US, Russia, and China in these regions. The presence of these contracts in light of human rights issues in these regions is also discussed.

Professor Mikaïl.

THE NEW ANTI-SEMITISM IN FRANCE Independent Study/EHESS This independent study was composed of research on the rising presence of anti-Semitism in France since 2000. The press was read daily for articles pertaining to anti-Semitism, and interviews conducted with a Rabbi and several Jewish students. The question “Is anti-Semitism a real threat to French Jews?” was the research topic.

Research advisor: Sylvie-Anne Goldberg.

Center for University Programs Abroad This independent research project examines the emergence of Islamic art galleries in the Western world during a time of particular political tension with regards to Islam. Taking the newly opened galleries at the Louvre as a case study, it aims to analyze the way in which museums, as educational institutions, attempt to create a certain representation of Islam as a religion and culture that chal-

TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES AND THE EVOLUTION OF STATE AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA Independent Study/Université de Paris I This independent study was elaborated under the direction of a specialist in African democracy from the Université de Paris I, Professor Banégas, within the context of the Sorbonne’s research center focus-

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ing on this question. An investigation was carried out on the relationship between traditional authorities and the State in Africa. By focusing on the evolution of the State from pre-colonial times to the contemporary democratic state in South Africa, Benin and Uganda, the complex political, economic and social relationships between traditional authorities and the State can be best understood. Understanding traditional governance in its historical continuity, and its simultaneous transformation as a result of its multi-faceted relationship with the State, helps to explain the complex role that traditional authorities play in the contemporary African State.

STUDENT TEACHING INTERNSHIP Various Institutions Serious, motivated students may participate in a program that permits them to assist French professors of English in secondary schools in the teaching of spoken English, either in class with the professor or independently in small discussion groups. A graded evaluation from the school attests to satisfactory performance and sense of responsibility.

Internship advisor according to institution.

Research advisor: Richard Banégas.

INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH PROJECT: STREET ART, FROM SIDEWALKS TO GALLERIES Center for University Programs Abroad Individual research project studying how and why street art has become a recognized, popular, and commoditized art form for many artists in Paris.

More specifically, how and why has street art evolved from its experimental and marginal origins to become an institutionally recognized and prized art form? What effect does the evolution of street art into a marketable art form have on its original purpose as a tool for social awareness and action?

Research advisor: Nicolas Baudouin .

CULTURAL POLICYMAKING INTERNSHIP Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos The student is exposed to diverse aspects of the Paris art world and acquires hands-on experience.

Students’ activities include: research in museums, specialized libraries, and the Internet pertaining to expertise in the acquisition of art works, contact with artists, foundations, and various cultural organizations, involvement in cultural projects (La Nuit Blanche, AIDES charity auction), attendance of openings and auctions, preparation of exhibits, and gallery work. While a majority of the work involves contemporary art, there will also be some work involving Old Masters.

Research advisor: Pascal Odille.

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