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We shall also examine the issue of globalisation in art,
Art, Architecture, studying the geopolitics of the image from Warhol’s
icons to artistic representations of Barack Obama.
Music & Cinema
IMPORTANT: ALL OUR ART COURSES ARE ADS1/8a : AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCTION
TAUGHT IN FRENCH UNLESS OTHERWISE Spring Semester
INDICATED
Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
MCC1/4b & 8b : DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
OBJECTIVE:
Fall & Spring Semesters
This class is both theoretical and practical at the same
time. Students will work on producing their own
Classes: 1 hours per week ECTS credits: 1 (per
images and on the production, in small groups, of a
semester)
short film. The students should learn not only how to
produce a film, but also how to justify his/her
OBJECTIVE: Understanding the work of the
narrative and aesthetic choices.
photographer, how to organise a photo session and
master the technical bases of the job.
COURSE PROGRAM:
Lectures : a practical approach to the language of
Equipment
cinema
Students must have a camera – preferably a digital
Lab: Working in groups on real production projects.
one.
Analysis of short films by great producers and
directors. Study of the different stages in film-making
COURSE PROGRAM:
– use of time, space and characters.
1) The artistic photographer
Students will be required to present their work to the
- Difference between an artistic photographer and a
class.
portrait photographer
- Work method : skills required
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
AUMONT, J. 1990 : L’image, Paris, Nathan, coll. "Fac".
2) Relationship between artistic photographer and
GERVEREAU, L. 1997 : Voir, comprendre, analyser les
artistic director
images, Paris, La Découverte, coll. " Guides Repères ".
- Establishing a project and an estimate
JOLY, M. 1993 : Introduction à l’analyse de l’image,
- Planning your work (Draft, rough work etc.)
Paris, Nathan, coll. " 128 ".
- The photo session (terminology and symbiosis)
LEUTRAT, Jean-Louis, Le cinéma en perspective : une
- Post Production
histoire, Paris, Nathan-Université, coll. "128", 1996.
MITRY, Jean, Histoire du cinéma. Paris, Ed.
3) Basic technical elements
Universitaires - J.-P. Delarge, 1967-1980
- Shutter Speed
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- Light
- Framing
- Money LM1/4a : HISTORY OF CINEMA
- Travel and logistics of a shoot Fall Semester
- Photographic jargon : a foreign language
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
4) The picture
- Analysing and interpreting the picture COURSE PROGRAM:
- Seeing behind the final picture (cost, production etc.) Cinema is a synthetic means of expression, never cut
_______________________________________ off from other artistic movements. Cineasts take into
consideration the works of their predecessors, and
MCC1/2a : VISUAL CULTURE (ART) take inspiration from them, or chose to differ from
Fall & Spring Semesters them.
To reflect on a film, you need to be able to put it
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3 precisely into the context in which it was made.
Students will study the history of cinema from the
COURSE PROGRAM: institutional (production context), technical
(inventions) and esthetical (trends in the history of
This class aims to provide the basic information for
cinematographic forms) points of view.
understanding the role of art in our society. We shall
study how the past and the present are connected by
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
art, using the same methodology for four different
- Martin Barnier, En route vers le parlant : Histoire
themes. Each time we shall start with a contemporary
d'une évolution technologique, économique et
advertisement and go back into the past to find what it
esthétique du cinéma (1926-1934), coll. Travaux
can tell us about our cultural heritage.
et Thèses, Les Éditions du Céfal, Liège, 2002.
- Jean-Loup Bourget, Hollywood, la norme et la
This method has the advantage that it questions the
marge, coll. fac. cinéma, Éditions Nathan, Paris,
habitual linear or chronological approach to the history
1998.
of art and allows us to investigate the relationship
- Noël Burch, La Lucarne de l'infini : naissance du
between art and reality. We shall study the question of
langage cinématographique, coll. fac. cinéma,
resemblance/likeness in such varied images as
Éditions Nathan, Paris, 1991.
amateur digital photos, but also sophisticated
photojournalism, self-portraits and representations of
the Shoah.
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- Jean-Louis Leutrat, Le Cinéma en perspective :
une histoire, coll. 128, Éditions Nathan, Paris , OBJECTIVE: Understanding 20th century music as an
1992. art form and placing it in its context.
COURSE PROGRAM:
LM1/8a : HISTORY OF CINEMA - What sort of music are we talking about ?
- Electricity in music : amplification and microphones
Spring Semester
- Blues, Rythm’ n’ blues and Rock’ n’ roll
- Pop and Folk
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
- Soul, Funk and Disco
- Kraut rock and other variations on the rock theme
COURSE PROGRAM: Continuation of LM1/4a.
- The music industry
- The alternative music press
- Rock and cinema
ADS1/2b : AESTHETICS OF STATIC ART - Punk and DIY ; New and Cold Wave
Fall Semester - Musical experimentation
- Amateur and professional musicians
Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
COURSE PROGRAM: - « La production industrielle de biens culturels », La
We shall be studying the culture of the static image, dialectique de la raison, Théodor W. Adorno et Max
which means the way in which the monocentric linear Horkheimer, Gallimard, 1974
perspective we inherited from the humanist tradition - Outsiders. Etudes de sociologie de la déviance,
has influenced our understanding of art until the Howard Becker, Métailié, 1985
modern period with its new perceptions of reality - Œuvres III, Walter Benjamin, Gallimard, 2000
(photography, flânerie …) - La presse musicale alternative, Copyright Volume,
Flânerie (the term is untranslatable) in the artistic vol. 5.1, Editions Séteun, 2006
sense requires standard photography, - Histoire des industries culturelles en France XIXe-
chronophotography and film. It is one of the art forms XXe siècles, Patrick Eveno et Jacques Marseille (dir.),
which emerged in the latter half of the 19th century, ADHE, 2002
based on the moving picture as well as on architecture - Rock/music Textes, Dan Graham, Les presses du
and the more classic art exhibition. Different from réel, 2002
perspective work, flânerie offers us a new way of - Les nouveaux courants musicaux : simples produits
regulating our vision and hearing, concentrating on the des industries culturelles ?, Gérôme Guibert, Editions
off-centre and the sequence. Cuts, clusters and Séteun, 1998
repetitions: the aesthetics of the artistic sequence - Sweet soul music, Peter Guralnick, Allia, 2003
breaks with realistic, perspective-based forms of - Rock, de l’histoire au mythe, Antoine Hennion et
perception, with their logical linkages and establishes Patrick Mignon (dir.), Anthropos, 1991
the reign of signs with no fixed significance – each - Lipstick Traces. Une histoire secrète du XXe siècle,
element in the chain may or may not carry meaning. Greil Marcus, Allia, 1998
- Mystery Train, Greil Marcus, Allia, 2000
- Rock et cinéma, Copyright Volume, Hors-série #1,
Editions Séteun, 2004
ADS1/1d : ACTING THEORY 1 - Great Black Music, Philippe Robert, Le mot et le
reste, 2008
Fall Semester
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d) The stage… M-C HUBERT, Le théâtre, Armand Colin, 1989.
e) … and the auditorium STANISLAVSKI, La Formation de l’acteur, O. Perrin,
f) The backstage 1958 à 1979
3) The live show professions
a) The administrative staff
b) The technical staff ADS1/7a : FROM THE PAGE TO THE STAGE
c) The show team
Spring Semester
4) The events in the live shows
a) The rehearsal
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
b) The representation
OBJECTIVE: This course will clarify the notion of
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
staging and more specifically the role of a director
A bibliography will be given during the first class.
regarding the text. Indeed, the audience is often
surprised, after having attended several mise-en-
scene, by the diverging result on the stage.
ADS1/3d : THEATRE CRITICISM
Fall Semester COURSE PROGRAM:
1) Preamble
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2 - Since when, in the theatre history, did the director
imposed himself as the leader?
OBJECTIVE: In this course the students will learn the - What means staging a text and what makes it
codes, stakes, evolutions and limits of the theatrical. different from a simple personal reading of a dramatic
The goal will be to draw up an observation grid work?
through which you will analyse the theatrical signs. - What is a staging stance?
Beyond the analysis of these signs and to have a 2) Initiation to analysis methods
better understanding of the theatrical lines, a question - In a practical and concrete perspective, how can a
concerning the text and its stakes will regularly be show be analysed?
suggested. - The Pavis questionnaire
- Anne Ubersfeld’s three levels of analysis of a live
COURSE PROGRAM: By teaching how to watch and show
observe, the course will be centred on several axes: - Short introduction to the theatre semiological
the study of theatrical codes, theatrical analyses and analysis
comments, arts contribution in the theatrical fields 3) Case study: Moliere’s Le Misanthrope
(dance, circus, video, contemporary art). - Having a good knowledge of the work is a
compulsory step
BIBLIOGRAPHY: - 3 staging styles:
A list of shows and a bibliography will be given during - Pierre Dux, Comédie-Française, 1958.
the first class. - Antoine Vitez, Théâtre des Quartiers d’Ivry,
Festival d’Avignon, 1978.
- Jean-Pierre Miquel, Comédie Française,
ADS1/7b : HISTORY OF MODERN ART 2000.
Spring Semester - Does staging rhymes with modernity?
4) Elaborate and comparative analysis act by act.
Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2 In this part, the students will try to analyse the
differences between each staging and to identify each
COURSE PROGRAM: director’s staging stance.
After looking at some notions of the history and theory
of vision, we shall launch into a chronological history ASSESSMENT:
of modern art. Starting with the works of Gaëtan Picon One written exam and an oral presentation.
(1863) and the birth of modern art, we shall move on
to the avant-garde movements. BIBLIOGRAPHY:
_______________________________________ A list of shows and a bibliography will be given during
the first class.
ADS1/6b : ACTING THEORY 2
Spring Semester
ADS1/7c : AESTHETICS OF CINEMA
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2 Spring Semester
OBJECTIVE: This course will help the students Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
acquire the technical terminology of the acting
profession. It will present an overview of various OBJECTIVE: At the end of the course the student
theories of acting and enable the students to identify should be able to place the cinema within a continuity
the different schools of thought in this area. of forms and questionings about the figure, the
motive, the rhythm, the perspective, etc. This
COURSE PROGRAM: systematic interaction between the cinema and other
Acting technique in the 20th century. An overview of media should enable the student to widen his/her view
the main theories of acting from the Stanislavski of art and to consider the cinema as an art of
method to the living theatre and other alternative synthesis and a meeting place.
currents.
COURSE PROGRAM:
BIBLIOGRAPHY: - Cinema as an art? (sketch: philosophy of art and
J-J ROUBINE, Introduction aux grandes théories du cinema)
théâtre, Armand Colin, 2004 - Cinema and photography (the origins)
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- Cinema and painting (motives and abstraction) BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- Cinema and dancing (the motion) AUMONT, J. 1990, L’image, Paris, Nathan, coll. " Fac ".
- Cinema and music (theories of the cinegraphics) AUMONT,J.,MARIE M., 1989, L'Analyse des films,
- Cinema and theatre (the theatrical matter) Nathan Université, Paris
- Cinema and architecture (blockbusters, political AUMONT,J. BERGALA A., MARIE M., VERNET,M.,
stakes) 1993, Esthétique du film, Nathan Université, Paris.
- Cinema and literature (subject’s implication) GARDIES A., 1993, Le Récit filmique, Hachette
- Cinema and organization of an art event Supérieur, Collection Contours Littéraires, Paris.
- Exposed cinema GARDIES A, BESSALEL J., 1995, 200 mots-clés de la
théorie du cinéma, Cerf, Septième Art, Paris.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: __________________________________________
AMIEL, Vincent, Esthétique du montage, Paris, A.
Colin, 2005 ADS1/3c : SCRIPTWRITING
AUMONT, Jacques, L’oeil interminable : peinture et Fall Semester
cinéma, Paris, Seguier, 1995.
AUMONT, Jacques, L’Analyse de films, Paris, A. Colin, Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2
2004.
AUMONT, Jacques, Moderne ? Comment le cinéma est OBJECTIVE:
devenu le plus singulier des arts, Paris, Cahiers du How to write a film script. At the end of the class
Cinéma, students should be able to write a synopsis, a script
2007. summary and a full script.
BAZIN, André, Qu’est-ce que le cinéma ?, Paris, Cerf,
1999. COURSE PROGRAM:
BELLOUR, Raymond, L’Entre-Images, Photo – Cinéma • What is a script ? What does the scriptwriter’s
– Vidéo, Paris, Éd. de la Différence, 1990 et L’Entre- job involve ?
Images II, • Structure and narrative technique
Mots images, Paris, POL, 1999. • The characters and their movements
CHION, Michel, Un Art sonore, Le cinéma - Histoire, • The plot – internal and external conflicts
esthétique, Poétique, Paris, Éd. Cahiers du Cinéma « • Space and setting
Essais », • Time : chronology and sequence
2003. • Perspective
COLLECTIF, « Le théâtre dans le cinéma » in • Image building
Conférences du collège d’histoire de l’art • Presenting your script
cinématographique n°3, Paris, • Summarising your script
hiver 1992-93. Students will write a synopsis in the first class, which
COLLECTIF, Du maniérisme au cinéma, Poitiers, La will be amplified in each class until we have a full
Licorne UFR Langues Littérature, 2003. script which can be used for production.
IRIS, Cinéma et architecture, Paris, Méridiens-
Klincksieck, 1991. BIBLIOGRAPHY:
VANCHERI, Luc, Cinéma et peinture, Paris, Armand
Colin Cinéma, 2007. _ J-M. Lainé & S. Delzant, L'écriture du scénario, Paris
Ouvrages conseillés Eyrolles, 2007
ARTAUD, Antonin, « Écrits sur le cinéma »in OEuvres B. Snyder, Les règles élémentaires pour l'écriture d'un
Complètes vol. III, Paris, Gallimard, 1978. scénario ( traduit de l'américain par Brigitte Gauthier)
Paris, Dixit, 2007.
INTERNET WEBSITES:
International Movie Database: www.imdb.com S. Field, Comment identifier et résoudre les problèmes
Sense of Cinema: www.senseofcinema.com d'un scénario ( traduit de l'américain par Brigitte
Gauthier)Paris, Dixit, 2006.
L. Dellisse, L' invention du scénario: prévoir, structurer
ADS1/2c : FILM CRITICISM et vérifier le récit, Bruxelles, Les Impressions
Fall Semester Nouvelles, 2006.
V.J. Propp, Morphologie du conte (Traduit du russe
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2 par Claude Ligny) Paris, Gallimard,1970.
OBJECTIVE: The course aims at gaining knowledge of J.A.Greimas et coll. L'analyse structurale du récit, Paris
cinematographic language and the different elements : Seuil, 1981
of film-making (script, filming, editing etc.). We shall _______________________________________
examine the use of time, space and characters in
order to learn who to criticize any given film. In class ADS1/5b : ART WORKSHOP
we shall study some film clips in detail and propose Fall Semester
different ways of analyzing them. The central theme
was be the image of the artist in cinema. Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
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which has structured this history (the cultural context,
social religious and political history, manners, progress OBJECTIVE:
in science and technology, the economy) and so to To teach students the theory and practice of acting at
understand that the body has finally overstepped the a more advanced level.
limits of personal expression to become the object of
artistic experimentation. COURSE PROGRAM:
By the end of the semester students should be able Practical exercises will facilitate the transition from
to : ‘student of acting’ to ‘competent actor’. We shall
• Understand what they are trying to achieve in concentrate on the work of reading a text or part
• To express themselves in many different ways before starting to stage it. Voice production is
artistically around the same theme essential.
We shall look at a wide variety of dramatic texts and
COURSE PROGRAM: produce several well-known scenes from famous plays.
After studying the issues surrounding the human body Finally, we shall study the acting theories put forward
in art, the students will think up and then produce by some great actors and/or directors of the past and
several ways of exploring this theme in art. attempt to apply them to our own contemporary
theatre.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
• _ Cours d’histoire des arts, Michel Narbonne The final grade will include a grade for participation in
et Josée Rodrigo, Vuibert, 1989 class.
• Art en théorie 1900-1990, Charles Harrison et __________________________________________
Paul Wood, Hazan, 1997
• Histoire matérielle et immatérielle de l’art ADS2/11c : STAGE DIRECTIONS & THEATRE
moderne, Florence de Méredieu, Larousse PRODUCTION
• Petit dictionnaire des artistes contemporains, Fall Semester
Pascal Le Thorel-Daviot, Larousse
• Vocabulaire des arts plastiques du XX siècle, Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
Jean-Yves Bosseur, Minerve
• La Collection du MNAM, Paris, Centre George OBJECTIVE:
Pompidou, 1986 At the end of the course the students should be able
• Mythologies personnelles, Isabelle de Maison to :
Rouge, Scala, 2004 - remember and quote precise examples of stage
• Hors-limites :l’art et la vie, 1952-1994, directions to illustrate their analysis
Centre George Pompidou, Paris 1994 - identify the place, nature and use of stage directions
• L’Art au corps, Musées de Marseille/Réunion in drama both from the point of view of the text and
des Musées nationaux, 1996 the staging
- understand and explain how the use of stage
_________________________________________ directions has varied at different periods of history and
in different dramatic genres (romantic drama, realistic
ADS1/5a : ACTING drama, naturalist drama, symbolist drama, the
Fall & Spring Semesters contemporary theatre).
For the spring semester only students with some - show how stage directions are more than just aids
experience of acting may take this class to production
- analyse the relationship between the text and the
Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2 stage directions
- to identify and analyse stage directions from a
OBJECTIVE: specific play and show how these increase our
To teach students the basics of the theory and practice knowledge of the work
of acting.
COURSE PROGRAM:
COURSE PROGRAM: Historical, dramatic and scenic perspectives on stage
Practical exercises will facilitate the transition from directions.
‘student of acting’ to ‘competent actor’. More
specifically, we shall concentrate on the work of BIBLIOGRAPHY:
reading a text or part before starting to stage it. - DANAN, Joseph, « Dialogue narratif,
We shall look at a wide variety of dramatic texts and dialogue didascalique », in Nouveaux
produce several well-known scenes from famous plays. territoires du dialogue, s.l.d. Jean-Pierre
Finally, we shall look at the theory and practice of Ryngaert, coll. « Apprendre », Actes Sud,
acting in a company and the role of the individual Arles, 2005.
actor in the troop or production. In this context we - GOLOPENTIA, Sanda et MARTINEZ THOMAS,
shall study the acting theories put forward by some Monique, Voir les didascalies, cahiers du
great actors and/or directors of the past. CRIC, éditions Ophrys, Ibérias n°3, Université
de Toulouse Le Mirail, Toulouse, 1994.
The final grade will include a grade for participation in - MARTINEZ THOMAS, Monique, Jouer les
class. didascalies, Presses Universitaires du Mirail,
___________________________________________ Toulouse, 1999.
- THOMASSEAU, Jean-Marie, « Le récit
ADS2/15b : INTERMEDIATE ACTING paratextuel », in Le Récit et les arts, coll.
Fall & Spring Semesters « Arts 8 », Université Paris 8, L’Harmattan,
Paris, 1998.
Only students with at least one year’s experience of - THOMASSEAU, Jean-Marie, « Les textes du
acting or theatre majors may take this class spectacle ou la toile de Pénélope », in Le
Théâtre, s.l.d. Daniel Couty et Alain Rey,
Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2 Larousse, Paris, 2001.
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- TOUDOIRE SURLAPIERRE Frédéreique et FIX - Cinema and architecture (megaproductions, political
Florence (s.l.d.), La didascalie dans le théâtre issues)
du XXe siècle, EUD, Dijon, 2007. - Cinema and literature (a change of perspective)
________________________________________ - Cinema and organising an event
- Debunking the cinema
ADS1/13b : ADVANCED ACTING THEORY
Fall & Spring Semesters BIBLIOGRAPHY:
AMIEL, Vincent, Esthétique du montage, Paris, A.
Lectures: 2½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2 Colin, 2005
AUMONT, Jacques, L’oeil interminable : peinture et
Students should either have taken an introductory cinéma, Paris, Seguier, 1995.
course to acting theory or have acting experience AUMONT, Jacques, L’Analyse de films, Paris, A. Colin,
2004.
OBJECTIVE: AUMONT, Jacques, Moderne ? Comment le cinéma est
At the end of the course, the student should be able to devenu le plus singulier des arts, Paris, Cahiers du
identify the different styles of acting which are seen Cinéma,
today. 2007.
BAZIN, André, Qu’est-ce que le cinéma ?, Paris, Cerf,
COURSE PROGRAM: 1999.
We shall study different styles of acting both inside BELLOUR, Raymond, L’Entre-Images, Photo – Cinéma
and outside the theatre, in live performance and on – Vidéo, Paris, Éd. de la Différence, 1990 et L’Entre-
film. We shall also look at Pina Bausch’s “dance Images II,
drama” and the relationship between acting and music Mots images, Paris, POL, 1999.
in opera. We shall also look at how plays may be CHION, Michel, Un Art sonore, Le cinéma - Histoire,
filmed. Outside the official world of acting, we shall esthétique, Poétique, Paris, Éd. Cahiers du Cinéma «
examiner how philosophers, politicians and lawyers Essais »,
also act a part in their professional lives. 2003.
COLLECTIF, « Le théâtre dans le cinéma » in
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Conférences du collège d’histoire de l’art
M-C Hubert, Le théâtre, coll. Cursus, A. Colin, 1989. cinématographique n°3, Paris,
J-J Roubine, Introduction aux grandes théories du hiver 1992-93.
théâtre, coll. Lettres sup, A. Colin, 2004. COLLECTIF, Du maniérisme au cinéma, Poitiers, La
Adolphe JM, Bataillon M, Delahaye G, Pina Bausch, Licorne UFR Langues Littérature, 2003.
Actes Sud, 2006. IRIS, Cinéma et architecture, Paris, Méridiens-
" Les paradoxes de la danse théâtre " in : La danse au Klincksieck, 1991.
défi. Montréal, Parachute, 1987. VANCHERI, Luc, Cinéma et peinture, Paris, Armand
Aslan O. : " Danse, théâtre, Pina Bausch " in : Théâtre Colin Cinéma, 2007.
Public n° 135, 1998 Ouvrages conseillés
Febvre B. : Danse contemporaine et théâtralité. ARTAUD, Antonin, « Écrits sur le cinéma »in OEuvres
Chiron, 1993. Complètes vol. III, Paris, Gallimard, 1978.
Leonor M. : Pina Bausch et compagnie. L'Arche, 1988. DELEUZE, Gilles, Cinéma 1, L’Image-Mouvement,
Hoghe R. : Pina Bausch, histoire de théâtre dansé. Paris, Minuit, 1983 et Cinéma 2, L’Image-Temps,
Editions L'Arche, 1988. Paris, Minuit, 1985.
Patrice Chéreau, Si tant est que l'opéra soit du DIDI-HUBERMAN, Georges, Devant l’image, Paris,
théâtre, Ombres, 1992. Minuit, 1990.
Arnaud Bouaniche, Gilles Deleuze, une introduction. DULAC, Germaine, Ecrits sur le cinéma (1919-1937),
"Agora", Pocket, 2007. Paris, éd. Paris Expérimental, 1995.
"Cinéma et théâtralité", sous la direction de Christine MICHAUD, Philippe-Alain, Sketches. Histoire de l’art et
Hamon-Sirejols, Jacques Gerstenkorn, André Gardies. cinéma, Paris, éd. Kargo & L’Eclat, 2006
- Lyon : Aléas, 1994.- 241 p. SCHEFER, Jean Louis, L’Homme ordinaire du cinéma,
_______________________________________ Paris, Éd. Cahiers du Cinéma,
1997._____________________________________
ADS2/12b : AESTHETICS & THE CINEMA
ADS2/16c : THEATRE AND OTHER ARTS (STAGE
Fall Semester
& SCREEN)
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2 Spring Semester
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cinematographique art and filmed stage work. It is ____________________________________
interesting to study how the director moves from one
to the other. ADS2/12d : AESTHETICS SEMINAR
- « To be or not to be » / Lubitsch / 1942 : When Fall Semester
stage acting is the theme of a film.
_______________________________________ Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
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- Reggae and dub, from Jamaica to the UK and commenting on the audio and audiovisual
- DJ culture recordings studied during the class.
- Experimentation and improvisation
- The aesthetics of sampling ASSESSMENT:
- Music in public places One report of a concert and one commentary on an
audiovisual recording.
ASSESSMENT:
One final written exam BIBLIOGRAPHY:
− DONNAT Olivier et TOLILA Paul. Le(s) public(s) de la
BIBLIOGRAPHY: culture, politiques publiques et équipements
- « La production industrielle de biens culturels », La culturels. Presses de Sciences Po. 2003
dialectique de la raison, Théodor W. Adorno et Max − GUIBERT Gérôme. La production de la culture.
Horkheimer, Gallimard, 1974 Ed.Irma / Seteun. 2006 COOK Nicholas. Musique : une
- Le caractère fétiche dans la musique, Théodor W très brève introduction. Allia. 2006 MOUCHTOURIS
Adorno, Allia, 2001 Antigone. Sociologie de la culture populaire.
- A l’écoute de l’environnement. Répertoire des effets L'Harmattan. 2007
sonores, Jean-François Augoyard et Henry Torgue, − RIBAC François. L'avaleur de rock. La Dispute. 2004
Parenthèses, 1995 __________________________________________
- Aux sources du Reggae, Martin Denis-Constant,
Parenthèses, 1982 LM2/12a & 16a : HISTORY OF CINEMA
- Le boucher du prince Wen-houei. Enquêtes sur les Fall & Spring Semesters
musiques électroniques, Bastien Gallet, Musica Falsa,
2002 Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 4 (per
- Les industries de l’imaginaire, Patrice Flichy, PUG, semester)
1991
- La production de la culture, Gérôme Guibert, Editions OBJECTIVE: To master specific technical vocabulary.
Irma/Séteun, 2006 All cinematographies, all periods, all genres will be
- Hard rock, heavy metal, metal, Fabien Hein, Editions seen in extracts of films in class. This course aims at
Irma/Seteun, 2003 giving students the keys to analyse films in detail.
- Rock, de l’histoire au mythe, Antoine Hennion et
Patrick Mignon (dir.), Anthropos, 1991 COURSE PROGRAM:
- Les imaginaires médiatiques, une sociologie - the scale of shots (types of centring of image and
postcritique des médias, Eric Macé, Editions their use in film making, in different contexts and
Amsterdam, 2006 genres)
- DJ Culture, Ulf Poschardt, L’Eclat/Kargo, 2002 - camera moves.
- Les musiques expérimentales, Philippe Robert, Le - Editing (what meaning can be given to the
mot et le reste, 2007 succession of images)
- L’art à l’état vif, Richard Shusterman, Editions Minuit, - Time in cinema (how can editing, or the absence
2002 of it change our conception of cinematographic
- Du phonographe au mp3, une histoire de la musique time)
enregistrée, Ludovic Tournès, Autrement, 2008 - The notion of point of view (primary and
__________________________________________ secondary identification)
- Out of shot (evolution of the conceptions and
ADS2/13d : CONTEMPORARY MUSIC roles of the out of shot, relations between the
Fall Semester visual and the audio spaces)
- The credit titles.
Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 1.5
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
OBJECTIVE: • Jacques Aumont, Alain Bergala, Michel Marie
- Go into detail listening to contemporary music while et Marc Vernet, Esthétique du film, coll. fac.
leaving a lot of space for the concert experience. cinéma, Éditions Nathan, Paris, 1994 (édition
- Be able to analyse a show in its entirety, considering revue et augmentée).
not only the aesthetic aspects but also the elements of • Noël Burch, La Lucarne de l'infini : naissance
sociology, technology, psychology or strategic du langage cinématographique, coll. fac.
communication at work. cinéma, Éditions Nathan, Paris, 1991.
- Measure the cultural impact of these events; • Francis Vanoye et Anne Goliot-Lété, Précis
understand the role of contemporary music in the d'analyse filmique, coll. 128, Éditions Nathan
society and its influence on the actors’ and listeners’
everyday lives.
MCC2/13b : DOCUMENTARY FILMS
COURSE PROGRAM: Spring Semester
This course will help the student to analyse and
comprehend the several aspects of contemporary Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 3
music, listening to both live and recorded music.
The course will deal with the listening concept in its OBJECTIVE: To discover the history of documentary
entirety, from the audience and the broadcasting films from the nineteen twenties to our days. Different
modes to the actors and the venues. types of documentary films will be seen. Students will
The student will attend a few concerts which will be learn how to understand technical, esthetical, ethical,
used as examples during the class. The concerts will social and political questions which cross the
be chosen by the teacher depending on the region documentary film tradition. What does “to shoot
cultural offer. reality” mean? How do documentarists deal with the
One third of the seminar will be dedicated to working question of “representing the other”? how does the
out a listening methodology. We will spend the time specator read documentary films?
left analysing the concerts attended by the students
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COURSE PROGRAM: documentaries and photo reports, for which we shall
• The Pioneers (The Lumière brothers, Flaherty be asking the question: what does it signify to film
Vertov …) someone who is not like us ?
• The documentary and reality
• Social documentaries (From Grierson to COURSE PROGRAM:
Loach, perspectives on the world of work) 1. The notions of identity and difference, norms and
• Raymond Depardon, a viewpoint on our social expectations
institutions 2. Other people and the idea of cultural distance :
• Jean Rouch and the ethnographical ethnological films and the concept of the exotic
documentary (Rouch’s Africa, Pierre Verger’s Latin America,
• The documentary and history Flaherty’s North Pole etc.)
3. Other people and what we have in common : social
ASSESSMENT: A two hour written exam and a three documentaries, exploration of different cultures
hour final written exam. (Depardon, Ivens etc.)
Other cultural representations of space: the suburbs,
BIBLIOGRAPHY: deprived areas, residential districts.
Filmer le réel, ressources sur le cinéma documentaire, Other cultural representations of time: adolescence
Ed. de la BIFI, 2001, 184 p. and old age in various cultures.
G. ALTHABE J.L. COMOLLI Regards sur la ville. Paris :
Editions du Centre Georges Pompidou, coll. BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Supplémentaires", 1994, AMIEL, V., 2002, Esthétique du montage. Paris,
J. AUBENAS (dir.), Dic Doc. Le dictionnaire du Nathan Cinéma.
documentaire. 191 réalisateurs. Communauté ANZIEU, D, 1975, Le groupe et l’inconscient, Paris,
française de Belgique Wallonie-Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Dunod.
Commissariat général aux Relations internationales et AUMONT, J. 1990, L’image, Paris, Nathan, coll. " Fac".
Service général de l'Audiovisuel et des Multimédias, AUMONT, J., BERGALA, A., MARIE, M. et VERNET,
1999, M.,2002, Esthétique du film, Paris, Nathan Cinéma.
J. BRESCHAND Le documentaire : l'autre face du BAUGNET,L, 1998, L’identité sociale, Paris : Dunod,
cinéma, coédition les Cahiers du cinéma/SCÉREN- GERVEREAU, L. 1997 : Voir, comprendre, analyser les
CNDP, coll. "Les petits cahiers", 2002, images, Paris, La Découverte, coll. " Guides Repères "
J.P. COLLEYN Le regard documentaire, Paris, Editions DE FRANCE, C.,1979, Pour une anthropologie visuelle.
du Centre Georges Pompidou, coll. "Supplémentaires" Paris: Mouton
G. GAUTHIER, Le documentaire, un autre cinéma, DE FRANCE, C.,1994, Du film ethnographique à
Paris, Editions Nathan, coll. "Nathan Université", 1997 l’anthropologie filmique. Bruxelles/Paris/Bâle: Editions
et 2000 des archives contemporaines.
W.H. GUYNN , Un cinéma de Non-Fiction. Le MAUSS,M, 1950, Sociologie et anthropologie, Paris,
documentaire classique à l'épreuve de la théorie, PUF
Publications de l'Université de Provence, 2001. PIAULT, M.H., 2000,. Anthropologie et cinéma. Paris:
___________________________________________ Nathan Cinéma.
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Editing :
- Set acquiring COURSE PROGRAM:
- Time line Spanish art from the Middle ages to the 20th century,
- Effects and transitions studied in its historical and political context.
- Sound managing Renaissance painting. El Greco. Baroque painting:
- “Conformation” Velasquez and the principal artists of the period.
Broadcasting : Goya. Gaud. Picasso. Dali.
- Squeeze for the Web (uploading or ______________________________________
streaming)
- Autoring DVD MCC3/17b : THE MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE
Fall Semester
ASSESSMENT: control of the work done in class.
_______________________________________ Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
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Starting from a selection of works of art (painting, l'image, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1989
sculpture, film, photo, engraving, video etc.) we shall
seek to focus on how they use and portray movement. ____________________________________
We shall look at film production, sculpture,
perspective, metamorphosis and p^hotographic ADS3/23a : ANALYTICAL READING OF ARTISTIC
technique. & AESTHETIC TEXTS
_____________________________________ Fall Semester
ADS3/21a : HISTORY OF ART IN CONTEXT Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2
Fall Semester
OBJECTIVE:
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2 Helping students to be active and analytical readers
readers of artistic and aesthetic texts.
Students should have already studied at least two All students should acquire an accurate technical
semester courses of history of art vocabulary in this area and be able to comment
intelligently on philosophical texts as well as critical
OBJECTIVE: works in the areas of history and philosophy of art.
Starting from our knowledge of history of art, we shall
take a look at various related disciplines, including COURSE PROGRAM:
aesthetics, history, anthropology, iconography and law Theory and practice of textual analysis
etc. Reflection of the image: how it is produced, used and
The course therefore intends to establish the notion of received as well as its status.
an interdisciplinary history of art, which will enable
students to gain a wider range of analytical tools for BIBLIOGRAPHY
examining visual artifacts. Benjamin, L’oeuvre d’art à l’ère de sa reproductibilité
technique
COURSE PROGRAM: Mondzain, L’image peut-elle tuer ?
Thematic sessions : several sessions will be devoted to Deleuze, L’image temps
each theme. The presentation of each theme will be Michaud, L’art à l’état gazeux
done historically, but with some transchronological
references. Students are strongly advised to read the books in the
History of art will be examined from the prehistoric bibliography and the instructor will show no mercy
period until the present day and will be based on four with the grades of those who obviously haven’t.
themes: the origins of art (mythology, anthropology, __________________________________________
history); the philosophy of art from Plato to
contemporary philosophers; iconoclasm and ADS3/28d : ADVANCED AESTHETICS
censorship; text and image (links and contrasts). Spring Semester
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students the basis to create and manage a project. THIS CLASS IS TAUGHT IN SPANISH
During the course, students will have the opportunity
to put into practice the theoretical notions seen in Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2
class. They will have to respect a timescale and a
limited budget. OBJECTIVE:
The methods learnt in class, the organisation of the By the end of the course, the student should be able
project with the constraints will make students actors to :
in the cultural world while they will be supported by - Identify the technical aspects of a work of art
their teachers. (base material, type of paint/dye etc.,
During the semester, new principles and new tools will techniques used, date etc.)
be used so as to manage time and the tasks to make, - Analyse and comment intelligently on a work
and to use at best the techniques available. This will of art, describing the subject, its literary or
enable students to propose enriching and stimulating historical significance, the layout, use of
cultural events to people. colour etc.
- De replacer l’oeuvre dans un jalon
COURSE PROGRAM: Culture project, anthropologic chronologique et un contexte (historique,
approach of the project, fundamental elements of the religieux, social…) Place a work of art in its
making of projects in matter of know-how and savoir- historical, religious and social context
être. (project cycles, piloting, presentation of a few - Use technical artistic vocabulary correctly
tools, planning management, internal/external
communication, team management, responsibility COURSE PROGRAM:
ethic, financing…) 1) Physionomy – portraying the human
Students will make the project selected. body
2) Physionomy – the portrait
BIBLIOGRAPHY: 3) Use of space – perspective, creatin
Boutinet , J.P , Psychologie des conduites à projet, Ed illusion, abstract art
PUF 4) Light and colour
A. Asquin, C. Falcoz, T. Picq, Ce que manager par 5) Architecture 1 – church buildings and
projet veut dire, Ed des Organisations sacred space
A. Fernandez, Les secrets de la conduite de projet, Ed 6) Architecture 2 – carving & sculpture
des Organisations
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
MCC3/18c : 20th CENTURY ART & IDEOLOGY . P. Fride-Carassat et I. Marcadé, Les mouvements
dans la peinture, Larousse, coll. Comprendre et
Fall & Spring Semesters
Reconnaître, 2005
. Nadeije Laneyrie-Dagen, Lire la peinture, dans
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
l’intimité des œuvres, T.1, Larousse, coll.
Comprendre et Reconnaître, dernière édition 2006
COURSE PROGRAM:
Grammaire de l’architecture, Dessain et Tolra,
According to Julia Kristeva, melancholy is a result of
2005
religious doubt during periodfs of crisis. It is a shared
. I. Aghion, C. Barbillon, F. Lissarague, Héros et
experience between artists and spectators. Melancholy
Dieux de l’Antiquité ; Guide iconographique,
is intimately linked to the essence of modern life and
Flammarion, Coll. Tout l’Art Encyclopédie, 1993
accompanies the development of its artistic
. G. Duchet-Suchaux, M. Pastoureau, La Bible et les
expressions. As a form of subversion, it penetrates the
saints ; Guide iconographique, Flammarion, Coll.
artist’s work in all its aspects. Melancholy perturbs our
Tout l’Art Encyclopédie, dernière édition 2006
way of understanding art history and the very notion
of artistic development, of novelty as a necessity. ______________________________________
Baring all this in mind, we shall approach some key
20th century artists from a new angle : Marcel ADS4/1a : THE CURRENT MUSIC SCENE
Duchamp, Picabia, Andy Warhol, Robert Morris or, Fall & Spring Semesters
even more recently, Alain Séchas, Martin
Kippenberger, Orlan, Bernard Venet or Maurizio Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2
Cattelan. We shall attempt to widen our questionning
into other art forms too, like the cinema, which has COURSE PROGRAM:
been a privileged communicator of that melancholy We shall be dealing with three main forms of
which is known as the “mal du siècle” . contemporary music : jazz and other improvised
• Why formlessness ? music, traditional music including folk, the modern
• Suspicion of politics in artistic circles song and amplified music (rock, hip-hop, electronic
• The refusal of ideology music etc.).
• The image as a form of therapy In the fall semester we shall study the history of these
• Depicting mental illness musical forms in the 20th century, starting with the
• The work of art as an organic extension of the different types of jazz and their development and
artist influence.
In the spring semester we shall look in depth at the
Students will be required to work hard on the concepts legal and administrative side of the music scene :
presented in class, to read around the subject and recording, tours, concerts, music on the internet,
bring their own personal thought patterns to bear on publishing etc.
the material studied.
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COURSE PROGRAM: DAGEN, HAMON dir., Epoque contemporaine : XIXe-
In this seminar we shall study the concept of XXe siècles
modernity from several viewpoints, intending to obtain - L’Art et les grandes civilisations, Citadelles et
clear definitions of modernity, modernism and post- Mazenod
modernism. - The series Tout l’art Encyclopédie,
Looking at the historical context and also the different Flammarion : Chronologie de l’art du XIXe
artistic representations and conceptual works, we shall siècle, 2008 / Chronologie de l’art du XXe
reconsider the progress of art in the last two centuries. siècle, 2006 / Barral i Altet (Xavier),
______________________________________ Chronologie de l’art du Moyen Âgen, 2003 /
Les techniques de l’art, 2006
ADS4/5c : SOUND & LIGHTING - GOMBRICH (Ernst Hans), Histoire de l’art
Spring Semester - FRONTISI (Claude) dir., Histoire visuelle de
l’art, Paris, Larousse, 2005
Lectures: 4 hours per week ECTS credits: 6 - ANONYME, Encyclopédie de l’art, Paris,
Larousse, 2000
OBJECTIVE: It’s impossible to train sound and - ARASSE (Daniel), On n’y voit rien, Gallimard,
lighting experts in just a few hours, however, by the 2000
end of the semester students should be able to use - ARASSE (Daniel), Histoires de peinture,
simple sound and lighting equipment and understand Gallimard, 2004
what is required for more complex events. - LENEYRIE-DAGEN (Nadège), Lire la peinture
tome 1 Dans l’intimité des œuvres, Larousse,
COURSE PROGRAM: 2002 Tome 2 Dans le secret des ateliers,
Lighting : Larousse, 2004.
• A short history
• The role of lighting in entertainment INTERNET WEBSITES:
• Colour & temperature www.louvre.fr
• How a lighting system works www.photo.rmn.fr
• Digital systems www.wga.hu
• Classic systems www.musenor.fr
• Projectors, reflectors www.centrepompidou.fr
• Theatrical lighting _________________________________________
• Concert lighting
• Using spotlights MCC4/4C : LECTURES AND VISITS :
Sound : FESTIVALS, HERITAGE PROJECTS
• Sound waves CONTEMPORARY ART, MUSIC AND LITERATURE.
• Frequencies Fall Semester
• Volume
• Pre-recorded material Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2
• Microphones
• Amplifiers COURSE PROGRAM:
• Electrical elements - Culture, a field of conceptual controversy
• Role of sound technicians - Elements of the history of public cultural
__________________________________________ action
- Different viewpoints on cultural practices in
MCC4/2c : HISTORY OF ART AND CULTURE France.
Fall Semester - The action of territorial collectivities
- The European Union
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3 - Support structures
- The field of municipal cultural affairs
OBJECTIVE: - The domains of public cultural action.
We shall study a synthesis of Western arts - Heritage projects.
(architecture, sculpture, painting) in their historical - Archives
and intellectual contexts. Students will have to deepen - State museums
the analysis and to do personal research. In parallel to - Libraries
this approach of creation, an emphasis will be put on - Theater
the role of patronage and the evolution of artistic - Music
taste. Then we shall focus on the protection of this - Cinema
artistic heritage. - Art
ASSESSMENT: examinations, research papers and Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
oral presentations.
OBJECTIVE:
BIBLIOGRAPHY: We shall study a synthesis of Western arts
- Histoire de l’art, Flammarion, 4 volumes: (architecture, sculpture, painting) in their historical
SCHNAPP, Alain dir., Préhistoire et Antiquité and intellectual contexts. Students will have to deepen
HECK, Christian dir., Moyen Âge : chrétienté et Islam the analysis and to do personal research. In parallel to
MIGNOT, RABREAU dir., Les temps modernes this approach of creation, an emphasis will be put on
the role of patronage and the evolution of artistic
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taste. Then we shall focus on the protection of this manages to manipulate the audience’s feelings by the
artistic heritage. appropriate use of images and sounds.
Beyond entertainment, those films teach us a lot of
COURSE PROGRAM: things about society and its evolution. Not only do
Italian Baroque and Classicism, Flemish and Dutch 17th they express ancestral and universal fears, but also
century, The French Great Century, the Age of fears which can reveal where and when the film has
Enlightenment, the 19th century: the Maelstrom, been produced. Psychoanalysis and social and political
Barbizon school, Naturalism, Realism, Impressionism, contexts can provide possible answers.
Post-Impressionism, Pont-Aven school, the Naïves,
The Nabis, Pointillism, Sculpture, Architecture, the 20th - Dracula (Tod Browning, 1931)
century. - White Zombie (Victor Halperin, 1932)
- La Féline (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)
ASSESSMENT: examinations, research papers and - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956)
oral presentations. - The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold, 1957)
- Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
BIBLIOGRAPHY: - Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968)
- Histoire de l’art, Flammarion, 4 volumes: - Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)
SCHNAPP, Alain dir., Préhistoire et Antiquité - Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968)
HECK, Christian dir., Moyen Âge : chrétienté et Islam - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
MIGNOT, RABREAU dir., Les temps modernes - Martin (George A. Romero, 1977)
DAGEN, HAMON dir., Epoque contemporaine : XIXe- - Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)
XXe siècles - Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
- L’Art et les grandes civilisations, Citadelles et - The 'Burbs (Joe Dante, 1989)
Mazenod - Scream (Wes Craven, 1996)
- The series Tout l’art Encyclopédie, - The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick et Edouardo -
Flammarion : Chronologie de l’art du XIXe - Sanchez, 1999)
siècle, 2008 / Chronologie de l’art du XXe - May (Lucky Mc Kee, 2002)
siècle, 2006 / Barral i Altet (Xavier),
Chronologie de l’art du Moyen Âgen, 2003 / ASSESSMENT: Students will be expected to make a
Les techniques de l’art, 2006 presentation in class and there will be a final oral
- GOMBRICH (Ernst Hans), Histoire de l’art exam.
- FRONTISI (Claude) dir., Histoire visuelle de
l’art, Paris, Larousse, 2005 BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- ANONYME, Encyclopédie de l’art, Paris, Jacques Aumont et Bernard Benoliel (sous la direction
Larousse, 2000 de), Le Cinéma expressionniste, de Caligari à Tim
- ARASSE (Daniel), On n’y voit rien, Gallimard, Burton, coll. « Le Spectaculaire », Rennes, Presses
2000 Universitaires de Rennes, 2009.
- ARASSE (Daniel), Histoires de peinture,
Gallimard, 2004 Éric Dufour, Le Cinéma d’horreur et ses figures, coll.
- LENEYRIE-DAGEN (Nadège), Lire la peinture « Lignes d’art », Paris, Presses Universitaires de
tome 1 Dans l’intimité des œuvres, Larousse, France, 2006.
2002 Tome 2 Dans le secret des ateliers,
Larousse, 2004. Paul Duncan, Jonathan Penner et Steven Jay
Schneider, Le Cinéma d’horreur, Paris, Taschen, 2008.
INTERNET WEBSITES:
www.louvre.fr Sigmund Freud, « L’inquiétante étrangeté », dans
www.photo.rmn.fr L’Inquiétante étrangeté et autres essais, coll. « Folio »,
www.wga.hu Paris, Gallimard, 1988.
www.musenor.fr
www.centrepompidou.fr Laurent Guido (sous la direction de), Les Peurs de
_________________________________________ Hollywood : phobies sociales dans le cinéma
fantastique américain, coll. « Médias et Histoire »,
MCC5/2c : FEAR IN THE CINEMA Lausanne, Éditions Antipodes, 2006.
Fall Semester
Franck Henry, Le Cinéma fantastique, coll. « Les petits
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2 Cahiers / SCÉRÉN-CNDP », Paris, Cahiers du cinéma,
2009.
COURSE PROGRAM:
In the words of Jacques Tourneur, a French director Jean-Louis Leutrat, Vie des fantômes, le fantastique au
famous for his fantastic films, human beings are first cinéma, coll. « Essais », Paris, Éditions de
and foremost defined by their capacity to feel fear. l’Étoile/Cahiers du cinéma, 1995.
From the beginning, fear and cinema are closely
related, as is testified by the famous wave of panic Albert Montagne (sous la direction de), Les Monstres,
created by the first public screening, The Arrival of a du mythe au culte, CinémAction, n° 126, 2008.
Train at La Ciotat Station directed by the Lumière
brothers. Jean-Pierre Piton (sous la direction de), Le Cinéma
This introduction to fear in the cinema will specifically fantastique, CinémAction, n° 74, 1995.
rely on one country’s production, the United-States,
and other fantastic, horror and science fiction films, Philippe Rouyer, Le Cinéma gore, une esthétique du
often based on British literature of the 18th century sang, coll. « 7ème art », Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 1997.
and German expressionism.
This course will answer the following questions: How Emmanuel Siety, La Peur au cinéma, Paris, Actes Sud
to frighten a spectator? What is he afraid of? Therefore Junior/La Cinémathèque française, 2006.
the first step will be to understand how the director
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Tzvetan Todorov, Introduction à la littérature
fantastique, coll. « Points essais », Paris, Éditions du LCE3/20f & H3/19f : ARABIC 5
Seuil, 1976. Fall Semester
Robin Wood, « Le retour du refoulé », dans Frank Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
Lafond (sous la direction de), Cauchemars américains,
fantastique et horreur dans le cinéma moderne, Students must have studied at least two years of
coll. « Travaux et Thèses », Liège, Éditions du Céfal, Arabic.
2003.
_________________________________________ COURSE PROGRAM:
Written and oral modern standard Arabic. Students will
Arabic be reaching the stage where they can communicate in
all everyday situations and read the press and some
elementary literature.
Some elements of Arab culture & civilisation will be
LCE1/4f & H1/3d & LEA1/4f : BEGINNERS included.
ARABIC
Fall Semester
LCE2/24f & H2/23f : ARABIC 6
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3 Spring Semester
Students must have studied at least one Lectures: 1 hour per week Tutorials: 1 hour per
semester of Arabic. week
ECTS credits: 2.5
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
OBJECTIVE: The course aims at 4 goals:
COURSE PROGRAM: Continuation of LCE1/4f - To get non-specialist students to learn about
basic economic concepts: supply, production,
growth and development, crises,
LCE2/12f & H2/11f : ARABIC 3 unemployment and inflation
Fall Semester - To help students to understand the way
modern societies work, by stressing the role
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3 played by various economic actors: the
Government, consumers and companies
Students must have studied at least one year of - To develop students’ ability to synthesize, by
Arabic. observing various factors which influence the
economy: population, the unemployment
COURSE PROGRAM: rate, price increases and the Budget
Written and oral modern standard Arabic. Students will - To give an exhaustive vision of the main
be reaching the stage where they can communicate in trends in economic thought: classical, neo-
most everyday situations and start to read the press. classical, Marxist, Keynesian and modern
Some elements of Arab culture & civilisation will be
included. COURSE PROGRAM:
General introduction: Introduction to economic
methodology (commentary on statistics, written
essays on economics)
LCE2/16f & H2/15f : ARABIC 4 - Chapter 1: What is Economics?
Spring Semester - Chapter 2: The Great Trends in economic
thought
Students must have studied at least one year of - Chapter 3: Government Accountancy
Arabic.
ASSESSMENT: Questions, multiple choice question
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3 paper and a written essay
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BIBLIOGRAPHY: - Beating your competitors
BEITONE, BELOEIL-BENOIST, NORECK, PASQUIER, - Human capital
THORIS, VOISIN – Analyse économique et historique - Strategic developments:
des sociétés contemporaines – ed. Armand Colin, 1996 geomarketing, net-marketing et
DAUBE, RICARD – Economie générale – ed. Dunod, sensory marketing
1992
DASQUE, VANHOVE, VIPREY – Economie générale, III) Operational Marketing
BTS 1 – ed. Dunod, 1995 - Commercial policy
DASQUE, VANHOVE, VIPREY – Economie générale,
BTS 2 – ed. Dunod, 1996 ASSESSMENT: intermediary evaluation in the form of
LES CAHIERS FRANÇAIS – Découverte de l’économie, a marketing file and a work on the firms’ actuality.
n° 279 : Concepts et mécanismes – La Documentation Final ASSESSMENT: an oral examination about the file
française, 1997 or a one hour and a half writing test (practical case,
LES CAHIERS FRANÇAIS – Découverte de l’économie, case study…).
n°280 : Histoire de la pensée économique – La
Documentation française, 1997 RECOMMENDED READING : The magazines CAPITAL
LES CAHIERS FRANÇAIS – Découverte de l’économie, and L'ENTREPRISE
n°284 : Découverte de l’économie : Les politiques Marketing- Ed. Le génie des glaciers – C. Paris.
économiques – La Documentation française, 1998
___________________________________________
Lectures: 1 hour per week Tutorials: 1 hour per Lectures: 1½ hours per week Tutorials: 1 hour every
week 2 weeks
ECTS credits: 3 ECTS credits: 3
Lectures: 1 hours per week Tutorials: 1 hour per -COCA vs. PEPSI
week -L’ OREAL strategy
ECTS credits: 3 -RENAULT strategy
-HEWLETT-PACKARD strategy
COURSE PROGRAM: -MAC-DONALD strategy
I) Marketing & Information
- Market research ASSESSMENT: A written essay or a commentary on
- Internal & external diagnosis an economic text.
- Surveys _______________________________________
- Aims of market surveys
- Sampling MCC2/12d & 16d : COMMUNICATION & THE
- Variation over time WORLD OF BUSINESS
- Geographical variation Fall & Spring Semesters
II) Strategic Marketing Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 1 (per
- The company and its environment : semester)
political, legal, economic,
technological and sociocultural OBJECTIVE:
- Domains of strategic activity: 1 Discovering the world of business and its environment,
technology, 1 sector, 1 need its limits and opportunities. Learning about the
- Strategic Choices: targets, sectors, communication needs of a company.
growth, special offers, competition et
internationalisation COURSE PROGRAM:
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What is business ? Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2
Understanding the business environment
Organisation & management of a business : OBJECTIVE:
Marketing & commercial management Who does what when organising live entertainment
Production management How live entertainment is financed
Supplies and logistics Usual managerial practices in the entertainment
Human resource management industry
Financial management How the market works in live entertainment
Quality management
Starting a business. COURSE PROGRAM:
1. An analysis of the live entertainment industry
ASSESSMENT: 2. The economics of intellectual property and
One team report and one final written exam copyright
3. The legal context for live entertainment
BIBLIOGRAPHY: 4. State subsidies
ALBERTO, T.,Comprendre l’entreprise : théorie, 5. Private patronage or sponsorship
gestion, relations sociales, Nathan, 2000 6. entertainment as a business
7. Working in the live entertainement industry
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
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useful internship ASSESSMENT: One intermediate oral report and a
final oral report.
COURSE PROGRAM: the class will be divided into 3
main sections:
aims, actors, methods and tools connected MCC3/22b : MARKETING
with career and skills management : Spring Semester
recruitment, professional training, pay,
communication, work relationships Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 3
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- Case study: organization of an export Strong and weak points in international strategy
department, official documents, the different Implementing your international strategy – traps to
stages in an export transaction avoid
Unit 3: International Supply Producing recommendation for a company’s
- How to sell a product abroad international expansion
- Fixing prices for the international market Case study : La Redoute mail order
- Incoterms
- Case study: export costs and selling prices, Session 3 :
pro forma invoicing How to set up a branch of your company abroad ?
“best practices”
Unit 4: Prospecting
- Choice of prospecting strategies Creating a daughter company
- Prospecting abroad Getting help
- Preparing a prospection trip
- Prospection supports Setting up an efficient local team in another country
- Case study: different types of French
insurance policy Managing your budget for setting up a branch abroad
Session 4 :
Unit 5: International Freight Transport
- Responsibilities Simulating a business plan : exporting to several
- Official documents countries versus setting up a branch in one other
- Case study: transport valuations, shipping country
insurance, freight agent costs Explaining your project in English in groups of two or
Unit 6: Covering business and political risks three students
- Insuring consumer goods, light and capital
goods Session 5 :
- Case study: COFACE and GCP (French Presentation of a case study – diagnosis and
insurance policies) recommendations in groups of two
Conclusion and presentation of careers in international
Unit 7: Modes of payments development. Possibility of an internship with Metaboli.
- The different modes of payment
- Guarantees of payment BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- Characteristics of documentary credits
- Case study: export 1 documentary credit, LEA4/3b : STRATEGIC MARKETING
export 2 documentary credit Fall Semester
Session 2 : 2) Targeting
Diagnosing a company’s needs
Definitions.
Analysing a company’s international potential Choosing your segments.
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Different types of targeting - the Final phase of negociations
3) Positionning BIBLIOGRAPHY:
P. Audebert-Lasrochas/Profession négociateur/les
Definitions. éditions d’organisation, Paris, 1995.
Aims of Positioning.
Tools for creating distinctions.
Positioning :analysis and MCC4/4a : CULTURAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT
communication. Fall Semester
Conclusion : First steps in becoming competitive Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
Lectures: 2 hours per week Seminar : 1h per week COURSE PROGRAM: An individual position in the
ECTS credits: 2 cultural reality :
- History of national cultural policy,
COURSE PROGRAM: the big goals of cultural
democratisation since 1959.
What is marketing ? - The evolution of a cultural policy
through the evolution of
Psychological factors influencing the decision structures and cultural events.
to buy a product - Knowledge of the Webs and of
their way of functioning.
Situations and circumstances influencing the
decision to buy a product
LEA4/6b : INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT
Different types of consumer decision and AND LOGISTICS
purchasing situation Spring Semester
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Air transport: a time to make important choices: Companies international development:
To be confirmed - Reasons for internationalization
Export policy:
3 modes of overland transport: road, rail and river: - Export diagnosis
- Road transport: organization, - Choosing target markets
advantages and disadvantages Export strategy:
- Why is road transport the most widespread? - Products
- Rail transport: passing from a national to a - Retailing
European mindset - Export costing
- River transport: positive effects of - Communication
liberalization
- The renewal of river transport in France and ASSESSMENT: Individual or group project
abroad
- From competition between modes of transport BIBLIOGRAPHY:
to a mix and match approach: combined A. BARELIER, J. DUBOIN, F. DUPHIL, N. GEVAUDAN-
transport strategies and services. CONTAL, L. GRATALOUP, G. KUHN, C. LEVY, J.
PAVEAU, J.M. SARAN – Exporter – Pratique du
Transport companies: vital actors in international commerce international – Foucher, 2000
trade: C. CROUE – Marketing international – Perspectives, De
- What a transport company is: status, Boeck, 1999
mission, difference between transport C. PASCO-BERHO – Marketing international – Dunod,
companies and freight companies 2000
- Transport organization in France, in the
world, choice of incoterms and customs
procedures LEA4/7a : INTERNATIONAL BRAND
- Evolution of transport companies in Logistics MANAGEMENT
Spring Semester
Service providers in transport:
- What is a logistician? Lectures: 20 hours in total ECTS credits: 2
- Logistics service providers: mission, tools,
objectives COURSE PROGRAM:
- How to manage warehouses, stock, - Parallel imports
transmission of information - Counterfeiting problems
- Creating integrated networks at the global - Mixing elements in the international brand
level transfers
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
D. TIXIER, H. MATHE, J. COLIN – La logistique
P4/10a :
d’entreprise : vers un management plus compétitif –
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Dunod, Paris, 1996
Fall Semester
CABINET DATA-DELIVER – Réussir sa e-logistique –
Logistiques Magazine Rueil-Malmaison, 2001
Class: 1½ hours Lab: 1 hour per week
S. RACK-d’AVEZAC – Les chaînons manquants dans la
ECTS credits: 3
navigation fluviale – Le Polygraphe, Angers, 1997
N. TERRASSIER – Stratégie de développement du
OBJECTIVE: To learn practical methods (systems,
transport maritime de lignes régulières – Moreux,
methods of diagnosing and acting) of applying human
Paris, 1997
resources theory to specific companies. You will study
P. EMO, C. TINEL – Terminal à conteneurs portuaire –
methods which have been approved by private and
Celse, Paris, 1997
public organizations and apply them in class to
Coll. Plein Pot Sup - Commerce international –
concrete situations, in order to develop your
Foucher, Paris, 1999
comprehension of this sector, largely based on
Genèse J. ADDA – La mondialisation de l’économie –
experience.
La Découverte, Paris, 2001
P. VALLIN – La logistique – Modèles et méthodes de
COURSE PROGRAM:
pilotage des flux – Economica, Paris 2001
- Developing a longterm employment strategy
(quantitative and qualitative needs)
- Step by step elaboration of a recruitment and
LEA4/3a : INTERNATIONAL MARKETING selection plan
Fall Semester - Preparing a training plan in a “learning
organization”
Lectures: 20 hours in total ECTS credits: 3 - Tools necessary for a fair, attractive salary
policy
COURSE PROGRAM: A company, whatever its size - Restructuring a company
and its sector, must pay more and more attention to
foreign trade, in order to maintain or obtain a place in BIBLIOGRAPHY:
world business. But exporting can’t be improvised. SEKIOU, BLONDIN, FABI, BAYARD, PERETTI, ALIS,
CHEVALIER – Gestion des ressources humaines –
The objective of this course is to present to students Bruxelles, De Boeck Université, coll. Management,
the main issues linked with companies’ international 2001
marketing strategy and to study the successive steps BALICCO – Ressources humaines, les apports de la
of a marketing strategy orientated to exports. psychologie au travail – ed. d’Organisation, 2001
MARTORY, CROZET - Ressources humaines – Manuel
du pilotage social - Nathan, coll. Connaître et pratiquer
la gestion, 1988
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PERETTI – Gestion des ressources humaines – Vuibert, Skills covered will include drawing up a budget,
coll. Entreprise, 1994 technical needs and communication skills.
LEVY-LEBOYER – SPERANDIO – Traité de psychologie
du travail – Paris, PUF, 1987 BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Book set: Conception, management et communication
d’un projet culturel by Paul RASSE, dossier d’expert,
LEA4/7b : MARKET SURVEYS AND territorial éditions.
QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO Recommended reading:
MARKETING - Les politiques culturelles en milieu rural,
Spring Semester méthodologies et bonnes pratiques by Jean LAFOND –
GRELLETY and Laurent MAZURIER, dossier d’expert,
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2 Territorial éditions.
- Conduite et évaluation d’un projet de territoire by
COURSE PROGRAM: Abdellah MEZZIOUANE , dossier d’expert, Territoire
- Qualitative approach to market surveys éditions.
- Preparing surveys (formulation of the - L’ingénierie culturelle by Claude HOLLARD, Que sais-
problem, preliminary surveys, the project) je ? Presses Universitaires de France.
- Quantitative approach to market surveys
(sampling, questionnaire creation,
questionnaire management) LEA5/9e : INTERNATIONAL MARKETING
- Quantitative management techniques (basic STRATEGY
statistics, tests, association analysis, Fall Semester
multifaceted analyses, Cost Insurance
Freight, typological analysis, discriminatory THIS COURSE IS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY
analysis)
____________________________________ Lectures: 30 hours in total ECTS credits: 2
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Giannelloni J-L., Vernette E. (2001), Etudes de aware of different facets of the work of a manager in
marché, 2° edition, Vuibert, Paris an international context.
Ladwein R. (1996), Les études marketing,
Economica, Paris
LEA5/11b : STRATEGIC INFORMATION
Fall Semester
LEA5/9c : PANELS & PLANS MARKETING
Fall Semester THIS COURSE IS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY
THIS COURSE IS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY Lectures: 15 hours in total ECTS credits: 1
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
BLANCHARD, D. et LESCEUX, D. (1995), Les panels, THIS COURSE IS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY
Dunod.
MERUNKA, D. (1994) Décisions marketing, Dalloz. Lectures: 50 hours in total ECTS credits: 3
Revues : Point de Vente, Libre Service Actualité,
Marketing Magazine. COURSE PROGRAM:
- Structure and dynamics of international trade
negotiations (business discussions and
negotiations in general, preparation of
LEA5/10b : SELLING STRATEGIES
business negociations, psychological approach
Fall Semester
to negotiation, typical stages of usual
business discussions, strategic aspects)
THIS COURSE IS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY - Varieties of business negotiation and ideal
conditions (traditional sales negotiations,
Lectures: 30 hours in total ECTS credits: 1 “tactical” sales and techniques, business
negotiations and complex sales strategies)
COURSE PROGRAM:
• General definition of sales and their
context
• How sells and to who ? LEA5/10dc : BUSINESS NEGOTIATION IN
• Consultative selling and acquiring ENGLISH
technical sales vocabulary in French & Fall Semester
English
• Identifying the characteristics and
advantages of the product you are THIS COURSE IS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY
selling. Identifying suitable markets and
customers. How buyers make up their THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
minds.
• Customers’ needs : defining and Lectures: 24 hours in total ECTS credits: 2
analysing them.
• How the sales staff should react to OBJECTIVE:
different types of customer At the end of this course students should be able to
• Identifying and answering objections; negociate in English in a business context . This
Types of negociation. means: express his ideas and arguments clearly, listen
• Sales contracts. to information and summarise it orally, clarify his
• Longterm customer relations fellow negociators statements, use tact and diplomacy,
• Selling to English & American customers : present a logical sequence of ideas, convince people,
essential skills. reply to objections, suggest solutions to problems and
__________________________________________ conclude a deal.
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making an offer (oral or written), promoting customer MCC5/1c : TERRITORIAL ECONOMICS AND
loyalty. PUBLIC FINANCES
Fall Semester
LEA5/10e : ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
Fall Semester
OBJECTIVE: To present the different actors in the
THIS COURSE IS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY territorial economic scene, who will be essential
collaborators for future professionnals in tourism,
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH culture, and the heritage industry. The main point of
the course will be understanding how cultural policy is
Lectures: 24 hours in total ECTS credits: 2 applied to and by various state institutions. We shall
describe how and where they work and list their
OBJECTIVE: financial schemes. We will study the tasks of each
Speak fluently and coherently on business subjects actor and the principles which rule their actions in the
Use accurate vocabulary in all usual situations of scope of cultural policies and heritage management.
business life
Express oneself naturally in work place COURSE PROGRAM: After presenting the French
Understand the details of professional documents in cultural program (decentralised) as well as the basis of
English without help public finance in this area, we shall study the
Prepare a speech on a business or economic subject principles of state cultural policies and then we will
Make a business presentation focus on the place of cultural decentralization and the
Write well-structured professional documents financial management which ensues.
Understand complicated conversations between We will list all the actors who may intervene, with their
several English speakers about economic issues skills and the financial means offered to cultural
projects.
COURSE PROGRAM: - The principles of territorial organization.
Presentations in English : presenting figures, - Public finances
situations, new products, a balance sheet, a new - Local finances.
production or management process - Territorial economics applied to the domains
of culture and heritage.
Writing in business English : letters, emails, reports, - Actors and means for cultural policies.
minutes, manuals, brochures
ASSESSMENT: Written or oral exam.
Using professional documents : articles, leaflets,
manuals, budgets, job descriptions, instruction sheets
MCC5/2b : CULTURAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT:
THE HUMAN AND FINANCIAL ELEMENTS
LEA5/10a : INTERNATIONAL AND CULTURAL Fall Semester
APPROACHES TO CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR
Fall Semester Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
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Acquiring basic lexical and syntactic grammatical
COURSE PROGRAM: structures
- From product policy to international product Understanding Chinese culture
policy
- From market segmentation to product policy
- International product policy (IPP) main LCE1/8g & H1/7e : BEGINNERS CHINESE 2
principles Spring Semester
- IPP, markets, nature and dynamics
- IPP and positioning Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
OBJECTIVE:
Understand and speak Chinese fluently about basic
LEA5/10f : RETAIL POLICY
topics in everyday vocabulary.
Fall Semester
Write a simple and coherent text in Chinese either
narrating past experiences or general information.
THIS COURSE IS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY
Increase knowledge of China and Chinese culture.
Lectures: 40 hours in total ECTS credits: 2
COURSE PROGRAM:
COURSE PROGRAM:
- Classical means of penetration: direct,
Language elements :
concerted approach to foreign markets
Asking what something is used for and how to use
- Elaborate means
it.
- Market presence and dynamics
Explaining limits and restrictions.
- Market presence: a strategic decision
Expressing continuous actions in the present and
- Economic presence
past habitual actions.
How to tell other people about travel experiences
Asking other people about their travel experiences
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GAUTHIER, Guy, Initiation à la sémiologie de l'image,
Communication, Les Cahiers de l'audiovisuel, 1979.
JOLY, Martine, Introduction à l'analyse d'image, Paris,
Culture & Media Nathan université, 1994.
THERON, Michel, Rhétorique de l'image : l'exemple de
Studies (including la photographie, CRDP de Montpellier, 1993.
VETTRAINO-SOULARD, M.-C., Lire une image, Coll.
Journalism) Communication, Armand Colin, 1993
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• EVENO Patrick, Le Monde. Histoire d’une entreprise
de presse, 1944-1995, Paris : Le Monde éditions, MCC1/5a IMAGES & ADVERTISING
1997. Spring semester
• FERENCZI Thomas, L’Invention du journalisme en
France, Paris : Plon, 1993. Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
• FEYEL Gilles (dir.), La Distribution et la diffusion de
OBJECTIVE:
la presse, du XVIIIe siècle au IIIe millénaire, Paris :
The course will study the role of images and their
Editions Pantheon Assas, 2002.
convincing power, especially in advertising and in the
___________________________________________ media in general.
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Presses de l'université du Québec, Hall and Watzlawick), Jackobson’s linguistic
Communication Relations publiques, 2003. model, Wiener’s systemism, Crozier’s
• WESTPHALEN Marie-Hélène, Communicator : sociology of organizations, etc.
Le guide de la communication d'entreprise, - Introduction to the professional uses of
Dunod, Gestion Sup, 4ème édition, 2004. Communication. Issues relating to business,
social and political communication
- Methodological approach to Communication.
MCC1/6b : COMMUNICATION THEORY
ASSESSMENT: Commentary on a text and questions
Spring Semester
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
A. BARTOLI – Communication et organisation – ed.
d’Organisation, 1990
COURSE PROGRAM: The course aims at giving
F. CORMERAIS, A. MILON – La communication ouverte
students an overview of the main conceptual contexts
- ed. Liaisons, 1994
and the main objects for study which composed the
P. SCHWEBIG – Les communications de l’entreprise –
communication field in their socio-cultural context up
Ediscience International, coll. « Stratégie et
to our own day. Students will be made aware of the
management », 1988
tight links which unite theory and practice : theory has
P. WATZLAWICK – Une logique de communication –
a great role in the understanding of communication
Seuil, coll. « Points », 1979
phenomena.
Y. WINKIN – La nouvelle communication – Seuil, coll.
- To understand the basic concepts in
« Points », 1981
communication studies as well as their origins
and their application.
- To recognise and apply the different thought
trends which shape contemporary LEA1/3c : ORAL AND WRITTEN
communication theories COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES
- To identify the strengths and limits of each Fall Semester
approach.
Content : Seminars: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2
- Information and communication theories
- Introduction to cybernetics and to the OBJECTIVE: To enable students to manage basic
systemic approaches of Palo Alto. information, techniques and methods for making
- The contribution of semiology to summaries and communicating orally and in writing.
communication in general, and in advertising.
- Theory of linguistic acts COURSE PROGRAM: The course will be divided into
- Communication as action two main parts:
- Rhetoric as a form of argumentation. Written communication: How to deal with the
huge quantity of information you will gather
ASSESSMENT: production of an advertising text at college and during your future professional
justified by a theory. life:
Analysis of an advertising manifesto in the light of - The most frequent grammar and spelling
communication theories. mistakes
- Business correspondence
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Don juan ou Pavlov, Claude - Standard Business documents (minutes,
Bonnange et Chantal Thomas. Points. information sheets for employees, etc.)
Une logique de la communication, P Watzlawick, - Writing a plan, introduction and conclusion
Beavin et Don D. Jackson. Points. - How to synthesize and summarise a
Ce que parler veut dire, Pierre Bourdieu, Fayard. document
L’école de Palo Alto, Edmond Marc et Dominique
Picard, Retz. Oral communication: To improve
Sémiologie, Roland Barthes. Point. students’ oral expression skills with a view to
Students are encouraged to read all the contemporary making presentations for any kind of audience
books about information sciences and about and doing viva voce exams or work
communication, and to read regularly Sciences placement reports. The course will include
Humaines. practical exercises (in a group or individually)
and self-assessment:
- Personal diagnosis in oral expression – how to
P1/11b INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNICATION evaluate the image you present to others;
STUDIES stress factors
- Training in simple and complex oral
Spring Semester
expression: in a group, alone, with or without
visual aids
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
- How to create visual aids with Microsoft
PowerPoint: layout and transparencies
OBJECTIVE: To give students a basic introduction to
Communication by a combined theoretical and
ASSESSMENT:
practical approach.
Written expression: Summarize a text, write a
letter, information sheet or memo
COURSE PROGRAM: The course will be divided into 3
Oral expression: Exercises and questions
parts:
- Reference theories and fundamental
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
principles: Communication at the crossroads
Larousse - Savoir rédiger, 1997
of several disciplines. McLuhan, Shannon and
J.J. JULAUD – Le petit livre du français correct – Paris,
Weaver’s legacy, the Palo Alto “invisible”
ed. First, 1999
workshop (Bateson, Birdwhistell, Goffmann,
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Bescherelle Poche – Conjuguer – Hatier, 1999 A three hour final exam (composition or text
A.V. THOMAS – Dictionnaire des difficultés de la commentary).
langue française – Larousse, 1997
GREVISSE – Précis de grammaire française – ed. BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Duculot DJIAN, Jean-Michel, Politiques culturelles, la fin d’un
R. BESSON – Guide pratique de la communication mythe, Folio Gallimard, 2005.
écrite – Paris, ed. Casteilla, Collections pour tous, GRAZIANI, Serge, La communication politique de
1987, 1998 l’Etat, PUF, 2000.
A. GOHARD RADENKOVIC – L’écrit, stratégies et
pratiques – ed. CLE-89, 1997
D. BARIL, J. GUILLET – Techniques de l’expression MCC2/9c SOCIOLOGY OF COMMUNICATION
écrite et orale – Paris, Sirey, 1996 Fall Semester
G. NIQUET – Structurer sa pensée, structurer sa
phrase. Techniques d’expression écrite et orale – Paris, Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
Hachette, 1987
___________________________________________ OBJECTIVE:
This course deals with the impact of communication and
LEA2/12a : INTRODUCTION TO INTERCULTURAL advertising. We shall first study the various forms of
COMMUNICATION behaviour. Then we shall study the benefits of
Fall Semester communication theories on the advertising discourse. We
will also address the tools used to analyse those forms of
Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2 social behaviour.
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separate production department), use of the
micro, use of voice Part 3 – Practical cases
- Practical work : approach of the construction The student will have to put into practice what they
of a radio news : 8 minute radio listening learned in class. They go in the field to build up a
(RTL, France Info, RMC Info), restitution of small newspaper about regional events (you will
the listening (type of writing, information choose its periodicity).
hierarchy, construction , illustration), critic of
the three radio news. ASSESSMENT:
- Radio writing : basis : succinctness, direct You will have to write a press article.
style, use of the present tense…. Starting up
a subject. Practical work : from concrete
elements of the morning newspapers, to MCC2/12d & 16d : CREATION & MANAGEMENT
make a start up. OF CULTURAL PROJECTS
- Radio writing (continuation) : to rewrite a
Fall and Spring Semesters
wire, choice for the catch, choice for the
opening, practical work : to re write a wire
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credit : 1 (per
- Radio writing (continuation 2) : to listen to
semester)
three different styles (France info, RTL,
Europe 1), transposition to the expectancies
OBJECTIVE: When one appreciates a cultural event,
of a radio, practical work : to re write a wire.
he is judging a result. However, the quality of a
- Approach of the making of a radio broadcast :
project is not the fruit of destiny but the result of a
the work, technical preparation, live
work of intelligence. This course aims at giving
broadcast, “réécoute”
students the basis to create and manage a project.
- Journalist/program interaction : the closing of
During the course, students will have the opportunity
a newspaper, boosting, use and mastering of
to put into practise the theoric notions seen in class.
presentation, use of illustrations and noises,
They will have to respect a timescale and a limited
mix approach, vocabulary about the use of
budget.
programs. practical work : starting up a
The methods learnt in class, the organisation of the
broadcast subject.
project with the constraints will make students actors
of the cultural world while they will be supported by
ASSESSMENT: during each class, students will be
their teachers.
graded on the practical work they have to do.
During the semester, new principles and new tools will
Final ASSESSMENT: Redaction and reading a four
be used so as to manage time and the tasks to make,
minute radio flash, on the basis of 10 press agency
and to use at best the techniques available. This will
wires.
enable students to propose enriching and stimulating
cultural events to people.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: « Journaliste de radio » J.M.
Chardon, ed. Economica
COURSE PROGRAM: Cultural project, anthropological
Que sais-je « La Radio » Patrice Caveiler, ed. Puf.
approach to the project, fundamental elements of the
« Dictionnaire de la radio » Robert Prot, ed. Presse
making of projects in matter of know-how and savoir-
Universitaire
être. (project cycles, piloting, presentation of a few
tools, planning management, internal/external
INTERNET WEBSITES:
communication, team management, responsibility
www.radioactu.com
ethic, financing…)
www.comfm.com
Students will realise the project selected.
(all the French radio stations websites)
ASSESSMENT:
There will be both written and oral exams.
MCC2/12c & 16c : MAGAZINE PRODUCTION
Fall & Spring Semesters BIBLIOGRAPHY: Boutinet , J.P , Psychologie des
conduites à projet, Ed PUF
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 1 (per A. Asquin, C. Falcoz, T. Picq, Ce que manager par
semester) projet veut dire, Ed des Organisations
A. Fernandez, Les secrets de la conduite de projet, Ed
OBJECTIVE: des Organisations
We want to enable students to master the different L’Evènementiel (revue)
stages of magazine production : finding information, Ph. Claveau, Management de projets évènementiels
using interviews, news flashes, biographical studies, F. Beauchêne, Créateur d’évènement
literary/artistic criticism, in-depth reports. P.M. Bouvery, Les contrats de la musique
COURSE PROGRAM:
Part 1 – The theory MCC2/9b COMMUNICATION
How to write a magazine article: speech form, rhythm, STRATEGIES IN BUSINESS
colours, narration, catch phrases. Fall Semester
How to make an investigation: master one’s topic,
writing, sidebars, pull-quotes, pictures. Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 3
How to sell a synopsis: presenting and selling issues
(pre-investigation and pitch) OBJECTIVE: To enable students to understand
French magazines: a flourishing press, news, high- different communication issues a company can be
quality magazines. confronted to, and to understand the way companies
can solve these problems thanks to a communication
Part 2 – Current events strategy.
At each session we address national, international,
cultural and media events. COURSE PROGRAM:
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- An approach to communication issues
- Introduction to business, financial, social and OBJECTIVE:
political communication The course deals with the relation between art creation
- Elaborating a communication strategy and the cultural institutions, and its issues.
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Stratégies publicitaires, de l’étude marketing au choix • Organising the most effective communications
des médias. Bréal. strategy for a given event
Média poche, MPG Ressources.
Le saut créatif, JM Dru. COURSE PROGRAM:
Students are encouraged to read the professionnal
press : CB News, Communication or Stratégie. Class Project Area
Presentation Types of
1 Examples of communicati
LM3/20d : JOURNALISM possible on
Fall Semester events
What is at
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 4 2 Creating your Some case stake
strategy studies
COURSE PROGRAM: General approach of the
specificities of Instituts politiques et Ecoles 3 Choosing your What you need Relations
Supérieures de Journalisme competitive exams. event to know with the
Students will learn to master concepts and how to deal media
with media documents. They will also learn general
knowledge, which is necessary for competitive Drawing up
examination. 4 Analysis & your plan and Public
research criticising it relations
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Students are encouraged to read
newspapers (weekly newspapers and mensual
newspapers) and also thematical magazines (GEO, 5 The art work
Histoire for example).
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Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 1
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- Dubois, V., La politique culturelle, Paris, Belin, COURSE PROGRAM:
1999. These days everything is illustrated and we are
- Urfalino P. L'Invention de la politique surrounded by images. Behind every image is a text.
culturelle, Hachette, 2004. In the age of internet and the cell phone we may well
- Verne P-M., La ville, la fête, la démocratie, ask : is an unillustrated text still possible ? Or an
Payot, 1980. image with no accompanying words ?
____________________________________ Taking examples from books, computers, cinema and
television, we ask how we should understand and
ADS4/2h : CULTURE IN THE CITY analyse this image/text relationship, which is never
Fall Semester unbiased. Working on a picture means using a form of
language, a way of expressing one’s own experience.
Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2
H4/2b : PRESS FILES AND DOCUMENTARY FILES Communicating a message via a photo
Fall and Spring Semesters Classic cameras or digital ?
Preparing a documentary or exhibition
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2 (per
semester) BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Morvan Yan, Photojournalisme, Victoires, 2006 - ISBN-
COURSE PROGRAM: 10: 2908056372 - ISBN-13: 978-2908056372
Producing a press file is one of the best ways of _______________________________________
getting to know the press and becoming aware of the
different points of view in the media about any current LEA4/3ac : STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION
issue. It also enables us to gain a quick grasp of how Fall Semester
the press in its entirety has treated a particular
subject. We also learn how to read analytically, Lectures: 20 hours in total ECTS credits: 3
summarise and dissect what the press has to say.
COURSE PROGRAM: Will be communicated later
Documentary files are another way of collecting _________________________________________
information on a particular theme. While a press file
only shows you what a range of newspapers has to
LEA4/3bc : INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT
say, a documentary file contains more varied elements
: chapters of books, magazine articles, digital Fall Semester
documents, film clips etc. Compiling files like this
requires a certain number of techniques in research, Lectures: 25 hours in total ECTS credits: 3
selection, presentation and editing. Students will need
to have a good grasp of library classifications and OBJECTIVE: Be able to manage an international
different filing systems. team.
_______________________________________
COURSE PROGRAM:
1. Defining the new manager
H4/4a : IMAGE AND TEXT
- The coming world: from postmodernity to the three
Fall Semester
powers world (Lyotard, Jameson, Parag Khanna)
- The contemporary world issues (Chomsky, Stiglitz)
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- Management and leadership (Stephen P. Robbins,
Timothy A. Judge) COURSE PROGRAM:
- Create a new manager for a new world: the Theory and methods
- Laying out a template – why bother ?
conscious manager (Jameson)
- Contructing a template
- Presentation
2. The bases of intercultural approximation - Uses of typeface
- Be aware of the gap… to be able to cross it ! (Les
voyages de Gulliver, Alice in Wonderland, Le petit Adobe Indesign (layout)
Prince, La machine à explorer le temps, Chok-Dee, - Size and shape
Vorat). - Text and image blocks
- Breating and using trims
- Get rid of our ethnocentric vision of the world (La
- Inserting text in a layout
guerre du feu) - Assembling the whole magazine
- Use of colour
3. Strategy (Robert Grant) - Finalising the document and exporting as a .pdf file
- Concepts
Photoshop (preparing photos and other pictures
4. Behaviour inside the organizations (Stephen for the printers)
- Digital photos
P. Roobins, Timothy A. Judge)
- Use of colour
- The man in the organization - Types of file for use in publishing (tiff, eps, jpeg et
- The group in the organization gif)
- The organization system - Improving your photos (light, contrast, intensity etc.)
- Selecting, decorating, clipping and framing photos
5. Risk-taking approximation (L. Falque, B. - Finishing touches and masking undesirable elements
- Tracing and merging
Bougon)
_____________________________________
- The choices
- The consequences LEA4/7bc : HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
- Choice and decision Spring Semester
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Twenty-first Century, Ramdom House Trade Paperback
ASSESSMENT: Prepare and get involved in a Edition, New York, 2009.
communication project. The following elements will be Courrier International N° 910, 10-16 avril 2008
assessed:
STIGLITZ, J. E., El malestar en la globalización,
- Method of working
- Organization Taurus, Madrid, 2002
- Results CHOMSKY, Noam, “El control de los medios de
comunicación”, dans AAVV, Cómo nos venden la moto,
BIBLIOGRAPHY: ed. Icaria, col. Más Madera, Barcelona, 2001
F. CHARVIN, J.P. MARHUENDA – Communication et ROBBINS, S. P., JUDGE, T. A., Essentials of
entreprises – Eyrolles Organizational Behavior, Pearson International Edition,
G. MARION – Les images de l’entreprise – Editions
New Jersey, 2008.
d’Organisation
P. SCHWEBIG – Les communications de l’entreprise – GRANT, R. M., Contemporary Strategy Analysis,
Ediscience International, coll. « Stratégie et Blackwell, Oxford, 2008
management » FALQUE, L., BOUGON, B., Pratiques de la Décision,
M.H. WESTPHALEN – Le communicator – Dunod Dunod, Paris, 2005
_____________________________________ ________________________________________
THIS CLASS IS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY THIS CLASS IS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY
Lectures: 30 hours in total ECTS credits: 1 Lectures: 40 hours in total ECTS credits: 2
OBJECTIVE: Be able to manage an international OBJECTIVE: At the end of the course the student
team. should be able to hold down a job involving a human
management dimension.
COURSE PROGRAM:
1. Defining the new manager COURSE PROGRAM: How to manage yourself in order
- The coming world: from postmodernity to the three to manage your coworkers: we will create
powers world (Lyotard, Jameson, Parag Khanna) manager/employee role-playing situations and work
- The contemporary world issues (Chomsky, Stiglitz) together on the key points to professional success:
- Management and leadership (Stephen P. Robbins, - orientation: I choose my job (job interview,
professional interview)
Timothy A. Judge)
- training: I train, I get qualifications, I develop
- Create a new manager for a new world: the my career
conscious manager (Jameson) - management: what I like, what I do not like,
the barriers… I manage myself in my job.
2. The bases of intercultural approximation - piloting: I have access to my job’s
- Understand that people’s vision of the world depends requirements and to the relevant checklist
on their own ethnicity. - assessment: I know the essential skills
required to master my job, I assess myself.
- Use our intercultural integration capacities:
All these five points fall under the employee’s
management and negotiation. responsibility. The manager should only be considered
as a support.
3. Strategy (Robert Grant) _______________________________________
- Strategy bases
- Approch LEA5/9bc : RELATIONS WITH THE PUBLIC & THE
PRESS
4. Behaviour inside the organizations (Stephen Fall Semester
P. Roobins, Timothy A. Judge)
THIS CLASS IS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY
- The man in the organization
- The group in the organization Lectures: 24 hours in total ECTS credits: 2
- The organization system
OBJECTIVE:
5. Risk-taking approximation (L. Falque, B. At then end of this courses students should understand
Bougon) the issues involved for companies in their relations
with the public and the press.
- The choices
They should be able to elaborate a public relations
- The consequences strategy and a press campaign.
- Choice and decision They should master all the main communication
techniques used in these areas.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
LYOTARD, J. F., Le postmoderne expliqué aux enfants, COURSE PROGRAM:
Paris, Éditions Galilée, 1988 1. Public Relations
JAMESON, F., El posmodernismo o la lógica cultural del Definition and presentation of the job with its aims and
issues and recent developments
capitalismo avanzado, Barcelona, ed. Paidos, 1991
- Areas of action in public relations
KHANNA, Parag, The Second World: How Emerging - Identifying with the public
Powers are Redefining Global Competition in the - How to organise a public relations campaign
- The internet : its uses and consequences
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- Defining measurable aims in public relations - Movement
- Focus
Case studies : Michel Edouard Leclerc, Briggs &
Stratton, Copalis, AXA Santé Photoshop
- Digital images
2. Relations with the Press - Use of colour
- Definition of the press officer’s job - Saved as ? (types of image file)
- An overview of the French press - Improving a photo – light, contrast, colour
- What journalists do (written press, radio, TV) - Selection and outlining
- The impact of the internet on the traditional media -Finishing touches and highlighting
- Methods : press cuttings, press releases, relations - The uses of tracing paper and masks
with journalists
- Working with the press in times of crisis Macromedia Flash (for cartoons and video clips)
- The setting – background etc.
Case studies : C’ZON, Total and the wreck of the Erika - Using fixed symbols and embedded clips etc.
- The scene and script (key images, words and
BIBLIOGRAPHY movements)
Jean-Pierre Beaudoin, Conduire l’image de l’entreprise,
Paris, 1995 Work as a typesetter
Thierry Libaert, La communication de crise, 2001 et La - Fonts and spelling
communication d’entreprise, 1998 - Register, deliberate ambiguity
Lionel Chouchan et Jean-François Flahaut, Les - Producing a template
relations publiques, PUF – Que sais-je 2007 - Inserting and framing an image
Al et Laura Ries, La pub est morte, vive les RP, 2003
Adobe Indesign (formatting)
Magazines : Stratégies et Influencia - Setting out your document
- Text blocks, image blocks, decoration
Etudes TNS Sofres : l’infuence du web 2.0, 2007 et - Calligraphy and decorative fonts
2008 - Layout and page plan
____________________________________ - Colours (or not)
- Final document for the printer, exporting .pdf files
LEA5/10d : INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION ______________________________________
FOR BUSINESS
Spring Semester LEA5/11cc :
PROFESSIONAL WRITING SEMINAR
THIS CLASS IS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY Fall Semester
Lectures: 15 hours in total ECTS credits: 1 THIS CLASS IS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY
THIS CLASS IS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
Lectures: 20 hours total ECTS credits: 2 OBJECTIVE: To study the different issues which result
from the meeting of artistic creation and cultural
OBJECTIVE: institutions.
How to go from communication strategy to the
elaboration of advertising materials? Knowing how to COURSE PROGRAM:
use a creative strategy to create a visual or - Cultural policies and artistic forms.
audiovisual impact in advertising. Using the main tools - The figures of artists, experts, and politicians.
in graphic design. - Public of culture and and cultural policies.
- Cultural communication
COURSE PROGRAM: - The forms of the cultural institution
- Cultural admisnistration
Methods - Finances
- The creative process - Public and private
- Presenting your plan - The sectors of the cultural institution : art,
- Story boards and scripts shows, music
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DONNAT Olivier, et TOLILA Paul, Les publics de la technique), how to write for the radio and how to use
culture, Presses de Science PO, 2003 the various types of radio program : documentaries,
DUBOIS Vincent, La Politique culturelle : genèse d’une newflashes, biographical studies, interviews etc. Each
catégorie d’intervention publique, Belin, 1999 student will also produce a review, a newsflash & a
MOLLARD, Claude, Le Cinquième pouvoir, Armand mini-documentary. Students must become familiar
Colllin, 1999. with the technical environment of radio, studio
SAINT PULGENT Maryvonne de, Le gouvernement de recording, sound equipment and digital production …
la culture, 1999
URFALINO Philippe, l’intervention des politiques • Using the microphone
culturelles , Hachette littérature, 2004. • Sound
• Reporting, editing & producing
• Recording studios
MCC4/6a : INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION • Analogical & digital radio
Spring Semester • The news on the radio
• Sound effects
Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2 • Time management & programming
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documents, such as Curriculum Vitae, text Cell format
commentaries, dissertation, master report… Copying and pasting cells
Working with several worksheets
COURSE PROGRAM: Using simple formulae
Typing and modifying text Functions: sum/average/max/min/NB
Selecting, copying and pasting text Charts
Format and characters “IF” function and cell locking
Paragraph format Using dates
Tabs “Research” function
Spelling and grammar Advanced functions
Page layout: basic principles Calculations on several worksheets
Tables
Columns ASSESSMENT: Practical work
Bullets and numbering
Inserting pictures LM1/2d & 6d : COMPUTING
WordArt, drawing
Styles Fall and Spring Semesters
Mail merger
Introduction to the Internet: research Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 1
methodology
COURSE PROGRAM: Introduction to Microsoft Word.
ASSESSMENT: Opening a file, editing it, doing
different tasks in accordance with instructions.
Students’ abilities to manage tools, their rapidity and LM2/11f & 15f : COMPUTING
reflection skills will be taken into account. Fall and Spring Semesters
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Word 2000, éditions collections 3D Visuel First LCE2E/16i : MICROSOFT EXCEL
Interactive Spring Semester
Excel 2000, plus fort, éditions collections 3D Visuel
First Interactive Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 4
PowerPoint 2000, éditions collections 3D Visuel First
Interactive OBJECTIVE:
Microsoft Excel interface is a Spreadsheet program
which enables to present numeric data in charts and to
LEA1/7a MICROSOFT EXCEL 2003 make calculation on these data. Students will learn
Spring Semester how to make a chart and how to use advanced
calculation functions. Students will also learn the
Tutorials: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2 processing of data with Excel and how to make simple
and complex graphics.
OBJECTIVE: Introduction to Computerized
Calculations and Database Management with Microsoft COURSE PROGRAM:
Excel 2003 and OpenOffice Calc 2.1 To learn how to :
- Make a chart
COURSE PROGRAM: Microsoft Excel - Make calculations
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- Change the structure of a chart - Format: characters, paragraphs and page
- Present a large chart layout
- Represent graphically numeric data - Creating tables
- Use web data - Inserting pictures
- Synthetise the data of a base - Paragraph titles
- Strengthen data - Creating automatic contents page
- Simulate an hypothesis - Giving your documents a professional look
- Create a model of chart
- Work in groups on a chart Microsoft Excel:
- Make a spreadsheet - Managing data
- Make a repetitive task automatic - Filter and auto-filters
- Analyse data - Using advanced functions
- PivotTables
BIBLIOGRAPHY: indications concerning websites will
be given during the lessons. Microsoft Word and Excel:
__________________________ - Inserting tables and charts from an Excel
document into a Word document
H2/12a : COMPUTING FOR RESEARCH - Mail merge
Fall Semester
Introduction to using the internet for research
Classes : 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2
ASSESSMENT: Computer-based exercise
COURSE PROGRAM:
• Finding information on the web (the 6 _______________________________________
steps of an information resarch project)
• Evaluating, storing and labelling MCC2/12a COMPUTING : VISUAL IDENTITY
information Fall Semester
• Computer language
• Creating a portfolio on a historical theme Classes : 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
• Creating and presenting multimedia
documents : Word, Powerpoint etc. OBJECTIVE: To introduce students to theorical and
• Introduction to creating a web page practical knowledge required to make a visual identity.
Students will experiment a plastic expression step and
complete it in the prospect of a mediatic use.
LEA2/11a : DATA BASE MANAGEMENT
Fall Semester COURSE PROGRAM:
Basis :
Tutorials: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2 - Typography
- Model and modular grid
COURSE PROGRAM: Microsoft Access 2003: - Information graphism
OpenOffice Base 2.1. - Graphic syntax of the logotype
Organisation and structure of a data base Adobe Indesign :
- definition of the document
Tables
- text units, image units, presentation
Queries
principles.
Managing reports
- Typographic enriching thanks to style sheets.
Databases and relationships
- Editing plans and pages assembling.
___________________________________________
- Color modes.
- Completion before printing and PDF files.
LEA2/15a : COMPUTING LEVEL 2
Adobe Illustrator :
Spring Semester
- Basic principles of the vectorial drawing.
- Vectors and typographic modification
Tutorials: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
ASSESSMENT: Regular control of the work done in
COURSE PROGRAM: WORD 2000, EXCEL 2000,
class.
Powerpoint 2000.
To improve students’ acquired knowledge
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
(Word 2000, Excel 2000)
- La fontaine au lettre, G. Setola et J. Pohlen, Ed.
Introduction to Powerpoint 2003 and
Fontana
OpenOffice Impress 2.1
- Lexique des règles typographiques, Imprimerie
Giving in an assignment
Nationnale
- Précis de mise en page, L. Guéry, Ed. CFPJ -
P2/17a COMPUTING 2 Diffusion PUF
Fall Semester
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and the creative concepts of digital photo production BIBLIOGRAPHY:
and animation possibilities of images on the internet. - La fontaine au lettre, G. Setola et J. Pohlen, Ed.
Fontana
COURSE PROGRAM: - Lexique des règles typographiques, Imprimerie
Retrospective : Nationnale
- From photo production in Dadaism to - Précis de mise en page, L. Guéry, Ed. CFPJ -
contemporary digital photo production. Diffusion PUF
Adobe Photoshop : - Making and Breaking the Grid, Timothy Samara,
- Digital image (size, resolution) Rockport Publishers Inc
- Color profile - Le graphisme d’information, P. Wildbur et
- Press or Web recording M.Burke, Ed.Thames & Hudson - Diffusion Seuil
- To improve an image - The best of Brochure Design 6, Cheryl
- Selection and extraction Dangel Cullen, Rockport Publishers, Inc
- Touching up and making up. - Web design index 6, The Pepin Press – Ed.
- Use of tracing. Agile Rabbit
Adobe Ready Image (for animation) : - Etapes graphique, Ed. Pyramyd (presse)
- Animated GIF
Macromedia Flash (for animation) :
- Stage
- Library MCC3/24a : COMPUTER DESIGN 2
- Scenario Spring Semester
ASSESSMENT: Regular control of the work done in Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
class.
OBJECTIVE: Synthesis of the issues of internet
BIBLIOGRAPHY: publication.
- Photoshop CS pour les photographes, Martin In a prospect very similar to that of marketing, aiming
Evening, Ed Eyrolles. at making a website attractive, students will acquire
technical and theoric knowledge in order to be able to
edit, hierarchise and put a reference on a document on
MCC3/20a COMPUTER DESIGN the internet.
Fall Semester
COURSE PROGRAM:
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3 Methodology :
Arborescence
OBJECTIVE: Document analysis
Starting with the basis of the job of a model maker “zonage ergonomique” and story board
who aims at improving the visibility and the Production planning
organisation of the order lines. The main goal is to Adobe Image Ready
encourage people to read what is on the website. So To make an animated GIF image
students will learn how to shape information in a To make a navigation bar
professional optic. The practise of computing will be To optimize images for the Web
seen in the scope of collaborative work. To export a HTML chart.
Front page or Dream Wever or Go live
COURSE PROGRAM: The mode file, HTML, pagination
Basic skills in creating professional documents Page and content properties
- Typeface and ease of reading Test in the navigator
- Managing different levels of reading Insert an image
- Page layout Create a hypertextual link
- Combining text and image Markers
Xpress Roll overs and “zones cliquables”
- Defining your document Chart manipulation
- Inserting text and pictures, layout Publication
- Types of paper
- Assembling your pages ASSESSMENT: regular control of the work done in
- Use of colour class
- Finishing touches and checks before printing
Photoshop BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- Digital photography (size in pixels, printing - Making and Breaking the Grid, Timothy Samara,
definition) Rockport Publishers Inc
- Colours (CMJN, RVB, using black & white) - Web design index 6, The Pepin Press – Ed. Agile
- Saving documents for printing or web- Rabbit
publishing (tiff, eps, jpeg et gif) - Etapes graphique, Ed. Pyramyd (presse)
- Improver your pictures (luminosity,
contrast, colour contrast and density)
- Selection and framing LEA3/19a & 23a : MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE: CREATE
- Reworking your images and overall visual AND MANAGE YOUR WEBSITE
impressions Fall & Spring Semesters
ASSESSMENT: Regular control of the work done in Tutorials: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 3
class.
OBJECTIVE: Creating and managing a website in
several languages with Microsoft FrontPage
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COURSE PROGRAM: MCC4/1a : DTP: DESKTOP PUBLISHING
Creating a website (structure and working Fall Semester
principles)
To create a trade site with “dreamweaver 4” Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
software
Introduction to photoshop 6 OBJECTIVE: Lectures: To analyse and study a
project. To make a schedule of conditions, to make
ASSESSMENT: Exercise to do on a computer and manage the project, to produce the model and
finalise the project.
Multimedia : To know the basis of infography, to
LCE4/3a COMPUTING FOR RESEARCH STUDENTS master the main functions of Adobe Photoshop and
Fall Semester Adobe Illustrator.
Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2 COURSE PROGRAM: Lectures: Students will make a
multimedia project. They will learn all the stages
COURSE PROGRAM: necessary to make a project live, from the analysis to
Style, auto-format the marketing.
Creating and managing templates Multimedia : General presentation of infography
Creating an index softwares, reflexion upon the graphic chain and upon
Footnotes and endnotes “colorimétrie”, definition of technical terms (vector,
Captions and cross-references “bitmap”, “pixel”…), creation of graphic elements
Master documents (“logos”, drawings, animated pictures), creation of a
Researching a topic on the internet photomontage, presentation of the different recording
Powerpoint presentations for teaching sizes.
use of
- Illustrator
LEA4/2d : E-BUSINESS - Photoshop
Fall Semester
ASSESSMENT: A 15 minute interview during which
students will have to answer questions about a
Lab: 30 hours in total ECTS credits: 2
multimedia project. Students will also have to give in a
COURSE PROGRAM: numeric project representing the progression during
* Theory the semester.
Understanding Internet and E-business
The role of the internet in business BIBLIOGRAPHY:
E-business : advantages MILON, A. : « Gestion de projet multimedia – du
Practical guide to doing e-business cahier des charges à la commercialisation ». editions
Creating an effective commercial website l’Harmattan, 2003, 242 pages.
Exporting through the web Rémy LENTZNER, « le guide de la création de sites
The legal framework of E-business internet- avec Dreamweaver MX 2004 » Edition Eska
Future developments Lesy – informatique , 2004.
Classroom in a book Adobe Photoshop CS, Peachpit
* Practice : now you do it ! 2004.
Classroom in a book Adobe Illustrator CS, Peachpit
Using databases 2004.
Animation flash MX
Photoshop 6 MCC4/5a : CREATION AND MANAGEMENT OF
INTERNET WEBSITES
Spring Semester
LEA4/7ct : E-BUSINESS
Spring Semester Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
Lab: 16 hours in total ECTS credits: 1 OBJECTIVE: creation and management of internet
websites
COURSE PROGRAM: To know the elements required to create a Website in
* Theory a professional environment.
Understanding Internet and E-business To know the technical elements required to make a
The role of the internet in business Website.
E-business : advantages To know the technical elements required to put a
Practical guide to doing e-business Website on line and to update it.
Creating an effective commercial website
Exporting through the web COURSE PROGRAM:
The legal framework of E-business - Methodologuy of website making : scenarii
Future developments and models
- Definition of the structure of a website,
* Practice : now you do it ! organization of files.
- Presentation of the language “HTML” “DHTML”
Using databases - Presentation of the different media on the
Internet
Animation flash MX
- Presentation of the principles of pagination.
Photoshop 6
- Creation of media thanks to Adobe Photoshop
and Adobe Illustrator.
- Creation of websites thanks to the
Macromedia Dreamweaver software.
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- Principles to put a website on line. COURSE PROGRAM:
The dictionary “petit Robert”, 2002 edition, defines
ASSESSMENT: a written ASSESSMENT: a quizz and Netwatching : “research and data processing, which
open questions. could raise the interest of a company, an organism, a
Final ASSESSMENT: students will have to give in a profession. Technological, strategic, competitive
numeric project realized in class in groups. Netwatching. Netwatching will be presented to
students as an information watch process aiming at
BIBLIOGRAPHY: seeing, synthesising, commenting, and broadcasting
GARANCE Daniel, HOUSTE François, Macromédia knowledge about a whole of strategic subjects related
Dreamweaver MX, Campus press 2004. to tourism and heritage.
________________________________________ Netwatching needs to be looked at in a long time
prospect. The results of the work wil be published step
H4/2c COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATION by stepn in the form of short analysis.
Fall Semester
ASSESSMENT: Netwatching file to give in. A fifteen
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2 minute oral to present the file.
COURSE PROGRAM: Using SPSS software ASSESSMENT: a written exam (several exercises).
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COURSE PROGRAM:
- Introduction to Dutch civilisation. Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
- Dutch language caracteristics and
denomination COURSE PROGRAM:
- Political, demographic and physical geography • Oral and written comprehension
of Dutchland and Flanders. • Grammar
- Practice in written and oral understanding in • Translation
the basic level of Dutch language. • Dutch history & culture
- Practice of basic grammar
- Translation from Dutch to French. BIBLIOGRAPHY: See
F. KUIKEN & I. VEDDER, Regelrecht 1, VU Uitgevery
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- D. Kouyzer & L.P. Réguer, Le Néerlandais
d'aujourd'hui en 90 leçons, éd. Livre de Poche, L.P. LCE2/16c & H2/15e : DUTCH - LEVEL 2
15, Paris. Spring Semester
- R. Devos & H. Fraeters, Vanzelfsprekend,
Néerlandais Langue Etrangère, Acco, COURSE PROGRAM: Continuation of LCE2/12c
Leuven/Amersfoort, Tekstbock en Werkbock.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Nota : this course prepares the students who want to F. KUIKEN & I. VEDDER, Regelrecht 2, VU Uitgevery
take the first degree of the “certificat de Neerlandais
comme langue étrangère”.
LEA3/20b : INTERMEDIATE DUTCH
Fall Semester
LCE1E/8e & H1/7f : BEGINNERS DUTCH
Spring Semester
Prerequisites: Students should have studied Dutch for
at least 2 years
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2
COURSE PROGRAM: Continuation of LCE1E/4e
COURSE PROGRAM:
• Written and spoken comprehension
LEA2/12b : DUTCH - LEVEL 2 • Introduction to Dutch literature
Fall Semester • Grammar
• Analysing texts about Dutch current affairs
Prerequisites: Students should have studied Dutch for • Translation
at least a year
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2 P. HILIGSMANN & S. THEISSEN, Onze Werels in 30
teksten, Vragen en Oefeningen, De Boeck
COURSE PROGRAM:
• Oral and written comprehension
• Grammar LEA3/24b : INTERMEDIATE DUTCH
• Translation Spring Semester
• Dutch history & culture
COURSE PROGRAM: Continuation of LEA3/20b
ASSESSMENT: no official test before the end of the
year.
LCE3/20e INTERMEDIATE DUTCH
BIBLIOGRAPHY: See
Fall Semester
F. KUIKEN & I. VEDDER, Regelrecht 1, VU Uitgevery
Prerequisites: Students should have studied Dutch for
at least 2 years
LEA2/16b : DUTCH – LEVEL 2
Spring Semester Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2
Prerequisites: Students should have studied Dutch for COURSE PROGRAM: Continuation of LCE3/18d
at least a year
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LCE3/19b : DIDACTICS OF ENGLISH 2
Spring Semester
Education THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
IMPORTANT: ALL OUR EDUCATION COURSES ARE Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
TAUGHT IN FRENCH
OBJECTIVE:
Students who wish to learn how to teach a foreign
P3/34a : language will discover some of the basic principles of
PSYCHOLOGY OF EDUCATION & LEARNING language teaching in France. Study of basic theories
Spring Semester will lead to practical ideas about how to apply these
principles in the classroom.
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 6
COURSE PROGRAM:
COURSE PROGRAM: Teaching English in High School and Junior High
• What does it mean to understand ? School (ages 11 to 18).
• What does it mean to learn ? Moving students from level A2 to level B2 on the
• Types of knowledge European scale.
• Acquiring knowledge
• Cognitive learning strategies ASSESSMENT:
• Education & intelligence • A forum on language teaching in high schools
• Learning difficulties will be organised by the students. Each
___________________________________________ student’s contribution will be graded.
• A written test on some aspect of teaching
LCE3/19b : DIDACTICS OF ENGLISH 1 theory
Fall Semester • Students will prepare a lesson for high school
students using a previously unknown
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH document
_______________________________________
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
LCE3/19c : TEACHING FRENCH AS A FOREIGN
OBJECTIVE: LANGUAGE
Students who wish to learn how to teach a foreign Fall Semester
language will discover some of the basic principles of
language teaching in France. Study of basic theories Classes: 3 hours per week ECTS credits: 5
will lead to practical ideas about how to apply these
principles in the classroom. COURSE PROGRAM:
Comparative linguistics
COURSE PROGRAM: We shall start by looking at languages and in particular
Aims and methods of language teaching for the European languages. We shall study their origins and
youngest learners. their structure. We shall look at the geography of
Teaching languages in primary school (From ages 6 to particular idioms. We shall also examine creole
11) languages and international languages like volapuk
How to reach level A1 or even A2 on the European and esperanto. Finally we shall analyse how the
scale by then end of primary school. different European languages have interacted and
influenced each other over the centuries.
ASSESSMENT:
• A forum on language teaching in primary Didactics of French
schools will be organised by the students. We shall start by revising French grammar and
Each student’s contribution will be graded. particularly verbs, tenses, modes and aspects, nouns
• A written test on some aspect of teaching and propositions. The aim of this is to help the student
theory realise what he knows and doesn’t know about French
• Students will prepare a lesson for small grammar. We shall then look at some different
children using a previously unknown teaching strategies : 1) How to teach verb tenses (in
document particular recurrent problems like when to use the
passé composé, the simple past or the imperfect). 2)
BIBLIOGRAPHY: We shall then look at the problem of word order (what
BO N° 7 26 avril 2007 hors série Préambule commun p to do with personal and relative pronouns, direct and
4-8 ; p 25-33 indirect speech, prepositions and auxilliaries).
BO n° 8 30août 2007 hors série : école primaire We shall then take a look at the different text books
ftp://trf.education.gouv.fr/pub/edutel/bo/2007/hs8/hs available on the market for teaching French and see
8_anglais.pdf how we can use different tools like videos, tapes, the
Anglais au collège BO N° 7 26 avril 2007 hors série press, songs, role plays and literature in our teaching.
ftp://trf.education.gouv.fr/pub/edutel/bo/2007/hs7/hs ___________________________________________
7_anglais-vol3.pdf
Socle commun : Grille de référence : la pratique d’une LCE3/23c : TEACHING FRENCH AS A FOREIGN
langue vivante étrangère (A1 et A2) LANGUAGE
http://eduscol.education.fr/D0231/Grille Spring Semester
Les outils du conseil de l’Europe en classe de langue ;
Cadre commun et portfolios. Classes: 3 hours per week ECTS credits: 5
Francis Goullier IGEN Edition Didier
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French Linguistics
We shall start by looking at the history of the French
language through the centuries. We shall also evoke
English
the different debates about the purity of the language
Native English speakers may not take English
from Du Bellay’s Défense et Illustration de la langue
language classes. However translation classes,
française to Etiemble’s Parlez-vous franglais ? and the
linguistics and phonetics classes and English &
Toubon laws. We shall examine the evolution of the
American civilisation classes are open to
French language via a number of examples and
everyone.
compare various modern grammar books and their
points of view. In the final sessions we shall look at
the different ways of speaking French, from regional LEA1/1a : ENGLISH GRAMMAR
dialects to slang. Fall Semester
ADS4/2h : EDUCATION & CULTURE Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
Fall Semester
OBJECTIVE: Introduction to translating non-specialist
Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 1 texts and learning basic translation theory
________________________________________
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ASSESSMENT: The final grade will be the average of Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
two or three tests
________________________________________ OBJECTIVE: During the first semester, students will
work on translations (extracts from English writers of
LEA1/5a : ENGLISH GRAMMAR XXth century novels), in parallel they will have to work
Spring Semester on exercices to make them conscious of several
recurrent problems in translation : elllipsis, polysemy,
Classes: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 1 false-friends…
ASSESSMENT: a 1 hour exam divided into two parts : THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
comprehension questions on a text and a short essay
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 4
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
• Le mot et l’idée or a similar vocabulary book OBJECTIVE: To give students a general overview of
• Journalease (a book of useful vocabulary for English literature from the 19th to 20th centuries and
studying the press) give them the methodological tools necessary to
__________________________________________ analyse literary texts effectively.
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COURSE PROGRAM: There will be a special group for international
• Verbs, tenses, modals, active & passive voice students whose written French still needs
• The auxilliaries : do, be & have improvement.
• Phrasal verbs
• Indirect speech OBJECTIVE: Introduction to translating literary texts
and learning basic translation theory, developping
BIBLIOGRAPHY: An exercise manual will be good reflexes, acquiring essential vocabulary.
distributed in class
COURSE PROGRAM: Translating extracts from
twentieth century novels. Students will prepare their
LCE1/1d : INTRODUCTION TO PHONETICS translations at home and we will correct them together
Fall Semester in class.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
MURPHY Raymond. English grammar in use, third
LCE1/6c : BEGINNERS TRANSLATION edition, Ed. Cambridge. Edition without corrected
ENGLISH - FRENCH 2 exercises and without CD-ROM
Spring Semester
OBJECTIVE: To give students a general overview of Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
English literature since 1800 and give them the
methodological tools necessary to analyse literary OBJECTIVE: To help students improve their written
texts effectively. and spoken English and to communicate in normal
situations. If they so desire, students may take the
COURSE PROGRAM: Cambridge First Certificate exams and the Bulats
• An overview of English literature since 1800 exams.
• Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day,
(Faber and Faber, 1989) COURSE PROGRAM:
___________________________________________ • Revision of basic grammatical structures
• Introduction to analytical grammar
MCC1/3a : ENGLISH FOR THE MEDIA • Comprehension exercises
Fall Semester
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Students should have a good
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3 bilingual dictionary (Robert/Collins) and a Grammar
book.
OBJECTIVE: To teach students the English language
especially on cultural themes. If they so desire,
students may take the Cambridge First Certificate H1/7a : ENGLISH LANGUAGE 2
exams. Spring Semester
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Spring Semester
COURSE PROGRAM:
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3 • Studying press articles about current issues
• Creating a vocabulary data base
COURSE PROGRAM: Step by step practice to oral • Reformulating information : summaries,
literary commentary in English. replying to articles, letters etc.
Texts are chosen for their literary value but also for • Arguing a point, participating in a written
their importance as regards the British civilisation. debate
Several authors linked to important civilisation themes
will be studied such as James Joyce, Richard Wright, ASSESSMENT: it will be a mixture of comprehension
Katherine Mansfield… and expression exercises: writing or rewriting from a
Students will also practice translation to prepare the written document, essays, correspondence, vocabulary
final exam. exercises…
COURSE PROGRAM:
• Revision of basic grammatical structures LEA2/13a : ENGLISH GRAMMAR
• Syntax Spring Semester
• The noun : number and gender
• Articles Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
• The genitive
• Quantifiers COURSE PROGRAM:
• Pronouns • Revision of basic grammatical structures
• Modals
BIBLIOGRAPHY: P. LARREYA & C. RIVIERE, • Passives
Grammaire explicative de l’anglais, Longman France • Adjectives (type, order etc.)
1999
BIBLIOGRAPHY: P. LARREYA & C. RIVIERE,
Grammaire explicative de l’anglais, Longman France
LEA2/9b : TRANSLATION ENGLISH-FRENCH 1999
Fall Semester
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2 LEA2/13b : TRANSLATION FRENCH - ENGLISH
Spring Semester
COURSE PROGRAM: Translation exercises to help the
student understand the different lexical, stylistic and Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
syntactic problems translators encounter. We shall be
particularly concentrating on journalistic texts. COURSE PROGRAM: Translation exercises allowing
students to learn about lexical, syntactic and stylistic
BIBLIOGRAPHY: problems for translators.
A bilingual dictionary: Robert et Collins Senior
An unilingual dictionary: Oxford Advanced BIBLIOGRAPHY: P. LARREYA & C. RIVIERE,
The New Oxford Dictionary of English Grammaire explicative de l’anglais, Longman France
1999
Classes: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 1 Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 1
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• Listening to and analysing audio and video COURSE PROGRAM:
cassettes • Translating literary & journalistic texts into
• Summarising and reformulating information English
• Pronunciation • Looking at common grammatical difficulties
• Individual and group oral presentations when comparing French and English
• Introduction to problems of style & register
ASSESSMENT: an oral comprehension written exam • Introduction to translating songs, cartoon
(it lasts 1 hour). strips and film scripts
___________________________________________
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 3 THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
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Classes: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 3
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this course is to guide
students in the methods of and the approaches to COURSE PROGRAM: continuation of FALL SEMESTER
quality academic research in literature and civilization. ___________________________________________
Course activities will emphasize reading and writing as
complementary processes. LCE2/14c : INTERMEDIATE TRANSLATION 2
ENGLISH - FRENCH
COURSE PROGRAM: Spring Semester
The first part of the course will focus on reading and
research practices: gathering and filtering information Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 3
from available research tools in the library and on the
internet, and the development of effective critical COURSE PROGRAM: continuation of FALL SEMESTER
reading skills. The second part of the course will focus
on the writing process: organizing source material and
information and the steps necessary in the creation of LCE2/15a : ENGLISH ORAL COMPREHENSION
coherent research-based essays and term papers. Spring Semester
Classes: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2 Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
COURSE PROGRAM:
LCE2/14b : INTERMEDIATE TRANSLATION 2 • Written English : knowledge of the structure
FRENCH - ENGLISH of the language, and examples for the use of
Spring Semester these structures in every day life.
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• Linguistic performance : production , COURSE PROGRAM: This course will enable students
interpretation, understanding of an wording. to translate texts of different literary genres from
• Talking about themes : civilisation, English to French using different techniques for
communication, relations in companies, trade grammatical translation. The students will also train
exchanges… orally by discussing on current events.
• grammatical structures : “if and wish”, “ing” ___________________________________________
and infinitives, conjunctions and prepositions,
phrasal verbs… LM2/15a : ENGLISH FOR FRENCH MAJORS
Spring Semester
ASSESSMENT:
A two-hour written exam (reading comprehension, Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
grammar, writing)
COURSE PROGRAM: Continuation of the 1st
BIBLIOGRAPHY: semester.
- Vocable ___________________________________________
- Time, Newsweek, The Economist…
MURPHY Raymond. English grammar in use, third P2/18a : ENGLISH FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS
edition, Ed. Cambridge Fall Semester
LM2/11a : ENGLISH FOR FRENCH MAJORS OBJECTIVE: To enable students to translate orally
Fall Semester and spontaneously in a business context.
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• Translating in business negociations LEA3/21c : INTERPRETING 2
• Acting as linguistic interface in contacts Spring Semester
between professionals with no common
language Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
LEA3/21a : OBJECTIVE:
FRENCH - ENGLISH BUSINESS TRANSLATION In The Great Gatsby, the subject of money is
Spring Semester intimately linked with the colour pattern, forms that
shape the fictional space and the essence of the
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 1.5 characters. It constitutes the nucleus of white
American male identity and generates themes and
COURSE PROGRAM: symbols. In the Great Gatsby, the narrator’s account
• Translating documents in English for use in blinds the reader with a glittering love story in which
the work place : catalogues, contracts, lustre of gold and display of wealth conceal treachery
advertisments, order forms, menus, holiday and deceitfulness. Thus, money becomes associated
brochures etc. with loss of faith in the American dream, with
• Improving translation technique – how to counterfeiting, lying, fake identity and cheating at
correct texts which have been translated by a love, business and sports.
computer
• Students will complete in pairs translation
project on a specific theme The students are required to read the main texts,
at least one of the literary analysis books on
ASSESSMENT: Students will have two hours to Fitzgerald or one of the books in the general
translate an original document similar to one studied section.
in class.
COURSE PROGRAM:
1- Introduction :
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, the myth of
LEA3/21b :
America. (Reading from the short story)
ENGLISH - FRENCH BUSINESS TRANSLATION
The American identity and money.
Spring Semester Money, the myth of America and the chosen
people of God.
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 1
2- Introduction to The Great Gatsby (Reading
OBJECTIVE: To teach students how to translate chapters 1 & 2).
professionally into French. The crazy twenties, the Jazz age.
The structure and style of the novel.
COURSE PROGRAM: The narrative style and Nick Carraway.
• Translating documents in English for use in The characters.
the work place : catalogues, contracts,
advertisments, order forms, menus, holiday 3- The colour pattern in the novel. (Reading
brochures etc. chapters 3 & 4).
• Improving translation technique – how to Forms: organisation of American space
correct texts which have been translated by a Daisy and Tom: old money.
computer Gatsby’s ascension and the sources of his
• Students will complete in pairs translation wealth.
project on a specific theme Meeting Wolfshiem who fixed the World Series
in 1919.
ASSESSMENT: Students will have two hours to
translate an unseen document 4- Forging of a new identity: James Gatz’s
transformation into Jay Gatsby. (Reading
chapters 5 & 6).
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Dan Cody and the myth of the West: the last OBJECTIVE: Students will concentrate particularly on
of the frontier adventurers and the end of the writing literary dissertations on the novels and short
innocence. stories studied
The First World War and Gatsby’s Oxford
days. COURSE PROGRAM: We shall be examing questions
of intertextuality, narratology and the question of links
5- Lies and counterfeiting. (Reading chapters 7 between literary genres, between Britain and America
& 8) and the influence of 19th century writers and of the
Gatsby’s parties. His library and the modernists on contemporary literature.
counterfeit books.
Bootlegging and junk bonds. SET BOOKS :
The description of Gatsby’s car, symbol of Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher and
success and the American dream of wealth Other Writings. Penguin Classics, 2003, edited with an
and power. Introduction and Notes by David Galloway. (We shall
Jordan’s cheating in the golf tournament. be concentrating on the Tales, pages 51 to 326).
Myrtle’s personality. Michael Cunningham, The Hours. London, Harper
Perrenial, 2008.
6- Adultery and carelessness. __________________________________________
Myrtle’s relationship with Tom. Tom’s
treacherous relationship with her husband. LCE3/18a ADVANCED LITERARY
Daisy’s meeting with Gatsby and the TRANSLATION : FRENCH - ENGLISH
continuation of their love affair. Fall Semester
7- Daisy as the incarnation of the American Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 3
dream.
Gatsby’s infatuation with Daisy. COURSE PROGRAM: Students will work on a series of
Money and gold: looking at the colour pattern extracts from 20th century English literature
again particularly chosen on account of their grammatical
complexities.
8- Gatsby’s final confrontation with Tom
Buchanan: new money versus old money.
Gatsby’s fall and destruction.
LCE3/18b ADVANCED LITERARY TRANSLATION :
Myrtle’s death.
ENGLISH - FRENCH
Dissolution of the American dream.
Fall Semester
9- Re-interpreting the American myth of money
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 3
and gold.
Final comments and questions.
COURSE PROGRAM: Students will work on a series of
extracts from novels from different parts of the
English-speaking world particularly chosen on account
SET BOOKS :
of their lexical grammatical & stylistic complexities.
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, Preface and
_______________________________________
notes by Matthew J. Bruccoli, Collier Books, New York,
1991.
LCE3/18c ENGLISH ANALYTICAL GRAMMAR
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,
Fall Semester
Penguin Books.
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 3
RECOMMENDED READING:
Richard Lehan: The Great Gatsby, The Limits of
OBJECTIVE: To provide students with the theoretical
Wonder, Twayne Publishers, Boston, 1990.
tools they need to analyse the grammatical structures
Matthew J. Bruccoli (ed): The Great Gatsby,
in English they may meet.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985.
Robert Emmet Long: The Achieving of The Great
COURSE PROGRAM: Analysing and commenting on
Gatsby, Bucknell University Press
language in its linguistic context.
Andre Le Vot: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Warner Books, New
Particular stress will be laid on the verb and on modal
York, 1983.
structures.
Bryant Mangum: A Fortune Yet, Money in the Art of F.
__________________________________________
Scott Fitzgzgerald’s Short Stories, Garland Publishing,
New York, 1991.
Marc Shell, Money, Language and Thought, University LCE3/18d : PUBLIC SPEAKING
of California Press, Berkeley, 1982. Fall & Spring Semesters
‘L’argent’, Communications, no. 50, Seuil, Paris, 1989.
Roger-Pol Droit (ed): Comment penser l’argent? Le THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Monde Edition, Paris, 1992.
______________________________________ Classes: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2
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LCE3/17c : ADVANCED SHAKESPEARE
LCE3/19a : TEXT & CONTEXT Fall Semester
Fall & Spring Semesters
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
THIS CLASS IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Classes: 1.5 hours per week ECTS credits: 2
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 3 (per
semester) OBJECTIVE: Students will concentrate particularly on
writing literary dissertations and in depth study of the
OBJECTIVE: text both with regard to content and to the language,
The aim of this course is to familiarise students with style and staging.
the methodology of literary analysis through the study
of both literary texts covering all periods and critical SET BOOK:
texts. Alongside the acquisition of the adequate ways • SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night.
of commenting literary texts, we shall attempt to • SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
define critical activity (What does ‘reading a text’ _______________________________________
mean? What does ‘interpreting’ mean?) as well as the
role played by the reader in elaborating meaning. LCE3/21d : THE SPIRITUAL THRILLER
Spring Semester
COURSE PROGRAM:
The classes will be structured around the study of THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
varied critical excerpts in English or translated from
French so as to enrich and support the analysis of Classes: 1.5 hours per week ECTS credits: 2
texts. This theoretical reflection aims at giving
students the necessary conceptual tools they will COURSE PROGRAM:
systematically use throughout their literary studies. Theology and sensational literature rarely go together,
but during the first half of the twentieth century, a few
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Christian writers attempted to communicate complex
A handout will be available in the first class, as well as religious ideas in popular novels. Amid wild chases,
a selective bibliography. spectacular crimes and outwitting the police, the real
___________________________________ goal of these novels is finding salvation and the true
meaning of life.
LCE3/21b : U.S. CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL ISSUES
Spring Semester OBJECTIVE: Students will concentrate particularly on
writing literary dissertations and understanding the
spiritual ideas conveyed in the text.
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Set books :
Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2
G.K. CHESTERTON, The Man Who Was Thursday,
Penguin Classics
COURSE PROGRAM:
Charles WILLIAMS, War in Heaven, Ethics & Public
Part 1: Crime ands guns in the U.S
Policy Center Inc.,U.S (easily available on Amazon)
Chapter 1: Violence, crime and crime control
Violence: a cultural heritage?
Useful Additional Reading
The extent of the “crime epidemic”
G.K. Chesterton, Autobiography, House of Stratus
The roots of crime
G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, Hendrickson Christian
The geographic concentration of crime
Classics
The victims and the perpetrators
Humphrey Carpenter, The Inklings, Harper Collins
Crime control and U.S. politics
Thomas Howard, The Novels of Charles Williams, Wipf
Chapter 2: Guns and guns control
& Stock
Basic facts and figures
___________________________________________
Guns in American history
The ideological debate over gun control
Legal action against gun ownership LCE3/22a : ADVANCED LITERARY TRANSLATION
The paradox about the public opinion 2 : FRENCH - ENGLISH
Spring Semester
Part 2: Education in the U.S.
Chapter 1: The secondary school system Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 3
A decentralized system
Diversity: a key word COURSE PROGRAM: Students will work on a series of
Desegregation extracts from 20th century English literature
Bilingual education particularly chosen on account of their grammatical
Life in high school complexities
A nation at risk ___________________________________________
Chapter 2: Higher education
Introduction: some historical landmarks LCE3/22b : ADVANCED LITERARY TRANSLATION
Admission: a privilege, not a right 2 : ENGLISH - FRENCH
The student body Spring Semester
The various types of institutions
Administration and financing Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 3
Student life and career
“Publish or perish”: research in universities COURSE PROGRAM: Students will work on a series of
Cost containment: a challenge for the future extracts from novels from different parts of the
English-speaking world particularly chosen on account
of their lexical grammatical & stylistic complexities.
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Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
LCE3/22c : ENGLISH ANALYTICAL GRAMMAR 2
Spring Semester COURSE PROGRAM: Students will practise English
translation and grammatical translation so as to
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 3 master the exercise enough to feel at ease during
competitives examinations.
OBJECTIVE: To provide students with the theoretical _______________________________________
tools they need to analyse the grammatical structures
in englsih they may meet. LM3/23a : ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
Spring Semester
COURSE PROGRAM: Analysing and commenting on
language in its linguistic context. Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
We shall be particularly concentrating on the noun and
on complex sentences. COURSE PROGRAM: Continuation of LM3/19a
_______________________________________
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3 (per Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
semester)
COURSE PROGRAM: Helping students to understand
OBJECTIVE: At the end of the course the student complicated psychological texts written in English.
should be able to: Students will be required to summarise the contents of
- understand an original text texts and reply in English to questions about the issue
- communicate with a certain level of fluency and under discussion.
spontaneity with a native speaker
- express his/her opinion on various issues
- argue his/her stance on a specific matter.
H4/1a : ENGLISH FOR JOURNALISTS
COURSE PROGRAM: Fall and Spring Semesters
Analysis of texts and audio or audiovisual recordings
Information pool about one or more documents Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 4
Document synthesis
Translation COURSE PROGRAM:
The different levels of formality (idioms, accents…) Writing for the media in English.
Specific lexicon (corporate business, communication…)
Addressed issues: MCC4/1b : ENGLISH FOR TOURISM
- Media and culture in the US Fall Semester
- Interculturality, communication and creation.
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2
ASSESSMENT: One oral exam, one written exam and
one final written exam. OBJECTIVE: To extend Students’ ability to analyse,
express themselves, and communicate in the area of
BIBLIOGRAPHY: culture, tourism and heritage.
• For the grammar:
Grammaire explicative de l’anglais / P. Larreya & C. COURSE PROGRAM: The course is based on the
Rivière / Longman study of texts from the English press. These texts deal
• For the vocabulary: with the theme of culture in all its aspects. (painting,
Choisir et construire / Christian Bouscaren / Ophrys sculpture, cinema, architecture…) and with the themes
Dictionary of Contemporary English / Longman of tourism and heritage.
• For the pronunciation:
English Pronouncing Dictionary / Daniel Jones / ASSESSMENT: Assessments and presentations. A
Cambridge University Press written final exam.
• For the cultural references:
What’s what : dictionnaire culturel anglo-saxon / BIBLIOGRAPHY:
ouvrage collectif / Ellipses Riding the waves of culture. Fons Trompenaars and
Charles Hampden-Turner; Nicholad Brealey Publishing.
ONLINE WEBSITE: When cultures collide. Richard D. Lewis, Nicholas
• Online bilingual dictionary: Brealey Publishing.
http://www.lexilogos.com/ ___________________________________________
• International press:
http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/fr/viewer.a MCC4/5b : ENGLISH FOR TOURISM
spx
Spring Semester
• Audio/video resources: http://www.elllo.org/ or
http://www.bbc.co.uk/videonation/
Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 1
• Encyclopaedia: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accueil or
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page or
COURSE PROGRAM: Continuation of M1/1b
http://www.europeana.eu/
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Classes: 36 hours in total ECTS credits: 2 (per 20th centuries and helps them to analyse these works
semester) in the light of contemporary literary criticism.
Secondly, it gives some concrete assistance to
OBJECTIVE: students preparing for teacher certification in English
who will need to analyse at least one of these texts or
COURSE PROGRAM: Will be communicated later comment on an extract from them in their public
certification examinations.
LEA4/1b : ENGLISH BUSINESS WRITING Evaluation : Students will be expected to read all the
Fall Semester works on the reading list and write a textual
commentary on one of them for their mid-term
Classes: 10 hours in total ECTS credits: 1 assessment. The final exam will be an timed essay (4
hours).
OBJECTIVE: To help students develop and apply
their knowledge of English to the elaboration of a BIBLIOGRAPHY:
company’s communication strategy. The students will William Shakespeare, King Lear
work in small groups. Charlotte Brönte, Jane Eyre
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
COURSE PROGRAM: Students will be involved in 3 Anita Desai, In Custody
different communications projects in English 20th Century War Poems (a selection will be
• Writing an article distributed in class)
• Creating a publicity brochure
• Writing an open letter to the public (potential
customers) LCE4/2a : ADVANCED LINGUISTICS SEMINAR
Fall Semester
ASSESSMENT: it is based on 3 criteria:
- the quality of English: grammar and Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 5
spelling
- the style OBJECTIVE:
- the content The class follows the programme of the competitive
exams for English teaching certification, with a special
BIBLIOGRAPHY: R. ATWAN & W. VESTERMAN, emphasis on the analysis of language in context.
Effective Writing for the College Curriculum, McGraw At the end of the class students should be able to
Hill, 1987 analyse grammatically any text written in English.
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COURSE PROGRAM:
LEA4/5b : _ Identifying parts of speech (nouns, verbs, syntax
SPOKEN ENGLISH FOR BUSINESS etc.)
Spring Semester - Grasping essential structures (why were those
specific words and constructions chosen ?)
Classes: 12 hours in total ECTS credits: 1 - Analysing the language in its context (relationship
between grammar and meaning)
OBJECTIVE: To enable students to communicate ____________________________________
orally in formal business situations both individually
and in a group LCE4/1f : ADVANCED SEMINAR : THE
BESTSELLER IN ENGLAND
COURSE PROGRAM: Spring Semester
• Meetings : listening to others, time
management, styles of participation, role THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
plays
• Public speaking : communication techniques, Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 5
how to present a project or idea,
improvisations, prepared speeches COURSE PROGRAM:
The bestseller is now part of British cultural life. Read
ASSESSMENT: Students will be required to prepare a by all classes of society, on trains, during coffee
PowerPoint presentation in English about an aspect of breaks, at all times and in all places, the bestseller is
the business world (it lasts 15 min.). often a kind of guilty secret, despised, but still
enjoyed.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: J.C. McCROSKEY, Introduction to We shall be studying the different types of bestseller in
Rhetorical Communication England since the 17th century, why certain books
_______________________________________ captured the imagination of the general public and
others didn’t. We shall also examine attitudes to the
LCE4/1c : ADVANCED SEMINAR: CLASSICS OF bestseller from different groups in society and ask why
ENGLISH LITERATURE some bestsellers are still read and appreciated many
Fall Semester years, even centuries, after their publication, while
others sink out of sight in less than a decade.
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
ASSESSMENT:
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 5 Students will be expected to read the five novels on
the reading list, write a detailed essay on one them
COURSE PROGRAM: (coef. 2) and answer questions on the whole course in
This course serves two purposes. First of all it a final oral exam (coef. 1).
introduces students to some classic works of literature
in the English language, ranging from the 16th to the Bibliography
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John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress
George Orwell, 1984 Classes: 2½ hours per week ECTS credits: 5
E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison OBJECTIVE: To give students an introduction both to
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone the study of French literature in general and a
particular author.
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2 LM1/1b & 5b : COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Fall & Spring Semesters
OBJECTIVE: To develop English understanding and
English expression in the domains linked to tourism Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 5
and the valorization of heritage.
OBJECTIVE: To give students an understanding of the
COURSE PROGRAM: short story in different cultures
Study of texts from the English press related to culture
(painting, sculpture, cinema, architecture…), tourism, COURSE PROGRAM: Students will study the echoes
and valorization of heritage. between Chekhov and James Joyce who both saw the
short story as one of the best means to express a
ASSESSMENT: vision of the world. Both writers put their emphasis on
Assessments and presentations. Final ASSESSMENT: a real metaphysical crisis which questions the
an oral. perception of the world and the value of the person.
Students will also study Julien Green who wrote about
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Chekhov and Joyce. During the lessons, students will
Riding the waves of culture, Fons Trompenaars and put into evidence the things at stake and the effects of
Charles Hampden Turner Nicholas Brealey Publishing structuration and writing of the novel in order to show
When cultures collide, Richard D. Lewis, Nicholas the particularity of the author’s vision of things. Focus
Brealey Publishing. on the confrontation of “symbolism” and “realism”,
_______________________________________ narratology and Joyce’s poetics of epiphanie.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
• Tchékov, Nouvelles, La Pochotèque, Paris,
French •
1993 (Derniers récits 1895-1903)
James Joyce, Dublinois, Folio, Paris, 1974
• Julien Green, Histoires de Vertige, Seuil,
IMPORTANT: ALL OUR FRENCH COURSES ARE TAUGHT Paris, 1984
ENTIRELY IN FRENCH
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century. (Marot, Ronsard, Du Bellay, La Fontaine, OBJECTIVE: To introduce students to literary criticism
Malherbe, Lamartine, Hugo, Baudelaire, Verlaine, as it is practised in French universities, especially book
Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Cros, Apollinaire, Breton, Saint- reports and essays.
John Perse, Char, Ponge, Cadou, Bonnefoy...) - draw and formulate a relevant problem
- draw up a plan
BIBLIOGRAPHY: - structure with sections and paragraphs (main
Jean Mazaleyrat – Eléments de métrique française (Ed. ideas, arguments, examples)
Armand Colin) - improve the writing
Michèle Aquien – Dictionnaire de poétique, Coll. Les
Usuels de Poche, Le Livre de Poche COURSE PROGRAM:
The students will make research in preparation for an
oral presentation or an essay. A few research themes:
LM1/2a : FRENCH LINGUISTICS - Maupassant’s Horla
Fall Semester - Onomastic of the Horla
- Maupassant, Flaubert, the Horla
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 3 - The psychoanalytic reading of fantastic
- The psychoanalytic reading of the Horla
OBJECTIVE: To give students a better understanding - The fantastic by Maupassant
of French grammar, of how it works and how to - The Horla and writing
analyse it. - The fantastic writing
Classes: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 3 LM1/5a : FRENCH LITERATURE: Mme DE
LAFAYETTE
OBJECTIVE: To introduce students to Old French and Spring Semester
medieval French literature through a linguistic and
thematic approach. Classes: 2½ hours per week ECTS credits: 5
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• The difference between a narration and an COURSE PROGRAM:
account • How to use language to convey ideas as
• Description in narrative texts effectively as possible
• Thematic, dialectic, dialogic, tactic (François • Understanding how an author has used
Rastier) language to achieve a desired effect
• Overview of the history of the novel – the • The theory of Signs
novel as a story in the vernacular • Pragmatics
• Three different types of early novel (stories • History of Rhetoric
set in ancient Rome, stories of the ancient • Classical rhetoric : inventio, dispositio,
world, arthurian legends) elocutio
• Medieval literature, XVIth and XVIIth century
literature, the enlightenment period,
Romantism, naturalism and Christian Renewal LM1/6e : CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY IN
in the XIXth century, XXth century literature LITERATURE
(Giono, Sartres, Camus…) Spring Semester
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Classes: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 1
LM1/6a : MODERN FRENCH LINGUISTICS
Spring Semester COURSE PROGRAM:
To define the notion of myth and see how myth is
STUDENTS SHOULD HAVE A VERY GOOD LEVEL OF linked to literature through a corpus of basic texts
WRITTEN FRENCH from Antiquity to nowadays. A deeper study of
contemporary works will give students a few keys to
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2 understand mythology.
COURSE PROGRAM:
• Linguistics and grammar, lingsuistics and
LCE1/3a : COMPARATIVE LITERATURE FOR NON-
literature.
SPECIALISTS
• Understanding essential linguistic terms
(diachronic, synchronic, syntagm, paradigm, Fall Semester
language, speech
• What are phonology & phonetics ? Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
• What is morphology ?
• Semantics COURSE PROGRAM: An introduction to fantasy
• Syntax literature from various cultures.
• How to construct an argument
• Enunciation : subjectivity in language BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Mérimée : La Vénus d’Ille (éd. libre)
Pouchkine : La Dame de pique (éd. Livre de Poche
classique, 6214)
LM1/6b : HISTORY OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE
Gogol : Nouvelles de Pétersbourg (éd. Folio
Spring Semester
classique, 3145)
Prerequisites: Students should already have studied
Additional recommended reading :
at least one semester of Old French
Edgar Poe : Le Chat noir (dans Nouvelles histoires
extraordinaires)
Classes: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2
Théophile Gautier : Contes fantastiques
COURSE PROGRAM:
• Declensions, feminine nouns, adjectives LCE1/7a : FRENCH LITERATURE FOR NON-
& demonstratives SPECIALISTS
• conjugation of the most frequently used verbs Spring Semester
• using ‘que’
• vocabulary and semantics Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
• phonetics
• Lyric poetry OBJECTIVE:
• Novels For students to express themselves in clear, accurate
French, to understand the technical vocabulary used in
BIBLIOGRAPHY: go to LM1/2b literary criticism, to write a textual commentary on
every sort of literary text and to understand the
literary techniques associated with all the principal
LM1/6c : INTRODUCTION TO RHETORIC genres.
& STYLISTICS
COURSE PROGRAM:
Spring Semester
We shall study a play, a book of poems and a novel
and learn how to write a textual commentary for each.
Classes: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2
SET BOOKS
OBJECTIVE: To understand the relationship between
Molière: Le Misanthrope
what is written in a text and how it is expressed.
Verlaine: Poèmes Saturniens
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Flaubert: Un Coeur simple (in Trois contes)
Set Book :
French literature of the Renaissance
LM2/9a : MEDIEVAL LITERATURE Anthologie de la poésie française du seizième siècle,
Fall Semester édition de J.Cérad et L.-G. Tin, Poésie/Gallimard, 2005
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www.karadar.com/Librettos/gounod_faust.html • Introduction aux grandes théories du théâtre
– JJ. Roubine – Paris, Bordas 1990
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 3 Prerequisites: Students should have studied at least
one semester of French linguistics
COURSE PROGRAM:
Study of a Middle Age work. Go to LM2/9a COURSE PROGRAM:
• Restrictive and descriptive relative clauses
BIBLIOGRAPHY: • Specification in relative clauses
Go to LM2/9a
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LM2/14b : HISTORY OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE
LM2/13b : 18th CENTURY LITERATURE : DIDEROT Spring Semester
Spring Semester
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 3
COURSE PROGRAM: go to LM2/10b
OBJECTIVE: To give students an introduction both to
the study of French literature and to 18th century ideas
LM2/12c & 16c : LITERARY CULTURE AND
COURSE PROGRAM: PREPARATION FOR TEACHER CERTIFICATION
Diderot and the cult of originality.
Fall and Spring Semesters
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Lectures: 2½ hours per week ECTS credits: 4 (per
DIDEROT, Jacques le Fataliste, Le Neveu de Rameau
semester)
and Mme de la Carlière
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COURSE PROGRAM: Work studies :
• Gargantua – Rabelais
LM2/13c : COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
• La Princesse de Clèves – Madame de La
Spring Semester
Fayette
• La Religieuse – Diderot
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 3
• Mémoires – Chateaubriand
• Le Colonel Chabert – Balzac
COURSE PROGRAM: The myth of Pygmalion in
• Un cœur simple – Flaubert
Western literature. The texts we shall study will be
• Germinal – Zola
distributed during the first class.
• Du côté de chez Swann – Proust
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• Sonnets pour Hélène – Ronsard
• Poésies – Louise Labbé
LM2/13d : HISTORY OF THE THEATRE • Les orientales – Hugo
Spring Semester • Les Fleurs du Mal – Baudelaire
• Poésies – Rimbaud
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3 • Alcools – Apollinaire
• Vents – Saint-John Perse
COURSE PROGRAM: Introduction to Western • Georges Dandin – Molière
Dramatic art, and study of French classical dramatic • En attendant Godot – Beckett
art :
• Phèdre – Racine Grammar program : Lexicology, syntax.
• L’Illusion Comique – Corneille
• L’Avare – L’impromptu de Versailles – Molière
• Le Jeu de l’Amour et du Hasard – Marivaux
LM3/17a : 20th CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE
• Richard III – Shakespeare
Fall Semester
• Voltaire and the survival of classicism
• Diderot and the serious drama
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 4
• Hugo and the romantic drama
• Fin de siècle theatre
COURSE PROGRAM: We shall be studying a work of
• Ubu Roi – A. Jarry
Proust’s in detail, with its background and literary
• Dada and the surrealism
context.
• Partage de Midi – Claudel
• En attendant Godot – Beckett SET BOOK:
PROUST, Du côté de chez Swann, Folio Classique
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
• Phèdre – Racine BIBLIOGRAPHY:
• L’Illusion Comique – Corneille - Roland Barthes, « Proust et les noms », Le Degré
• L’Avare – L’Impromptu de Versailles – Molière zéro de l’écriture, Seuil, « Points », 1972
• Ruy Blas – Hugo - Gilles Deleuze, Proust et les signes, PUF, 1966
• Ubu Roi – A. Jarry - Gérard Genette, « Métonymie chez Proust » et
• Partage de Midi - Claudel « Discours du récit », Figures III, Seuil, 1972
• En attendant Godot – Beckett
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- Anne Henry, Proust romancier, Flammarion, 1983
- Georges Poulet, L’Espace proustien, Gallimard, 1982 BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- Jean Rousset, « Proust, A la recherche du temps Bres J. (1994), La Narrativité, Louvain-la-Neuve :
perdu », Forme et signification, Corti, 1962 Duculot, Champs linguistiques. Damourette J. et
- Jean-Yves Tadié, Proust et le roman, 1986 Pichon E. (1911-1936), Des mots à la pensée, Essai de
- Thierry Laget, Du côté de chez Swann, Gallimard, grammaire de la langue française, Paris : d’Artrey.
Foliothèque, 1992 Gosselin L. (1996), Sémantique de la temporalité en
français. Un modèle calculatoire et cognitif du temps et
de l’aspect, Louvain-la-neuve : Duculot (Champs
linguistique).
LM3/17b : 17th CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE Guillaume G. (1965), Temps et verbe, Théorie des
Fall Semester aspects, des modes et des temps, Paris : Librairie
Honoré Champion.
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 4 Koschmieder E. (1929/1996), Les rapports temporels
fondamentaux et leur expression linguistique.
COURSE PROGRAM: Passions & emotions in classical Contribution à la question de l’aspect et du temps.
French literature Traduit et commenté par D. Samain, Villeneuve
d’Ascq : Presses Universitaires du Septentrion.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Touratier C. (1996), Le système verbal du français,
Jean-François SENAULT, De l’Usage des Passions, Paris : Armand Colin.
Fayard Vetters C. (Vuillaume M. (1990), Grammaire
DESCARTES, Les passions de l’âme, Garnier temporelle des récits, Paris : Éditions de Minuit.1996),
Flammarion Temps, aspect et narration, Amsterdam/atlanta :
CORNEILLE, Cinna, Piquier Poche Rodopi.
__________________________________________ Weinrich H. (1973), Tempus, Verlag W. Kohlhammer
GmbH à Stuttgart, 1964. Pour la traduction française,
LM3/17c : COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Le Temps, le récit et le commentaire, Paris : Éditions
Fall Semester du Seuil.
Wilmet M. (1997), Grammaire critique du français,
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 4 Louvain-la-Neuve : Duculot (Hachette).
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 4 Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 4
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LM3/21a : 19th CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE time reference. We shall use texts, both literary and
Spring Semester journalistic, to see how the present, the passé
composé, the passé simple and others are actually
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 4 used in writing. We shall examine the differences
between oral and written usage.
SET BOOK:
FLAUBERT, L’Education Sentimentale, Livre de Poche BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bres J. (1994), La Narrativité, Louvain-la-Neuve :
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Duculot, Champs linguistiques. Damourette J. et
- Albert Thibaudet, Gustave Flaubert, Gallimard, TEL, Pichon E. (1911-1936), Des mots à la pensée, Essai de
1935 (réédité en 1992) grammaire de la langue française, Paris : d’Artrey.
- Victor Brombert, Flaubert, Seuil, « Ecrivains de Gosselin L. (1996), Sémantique de la temporalité en
toujours », 1971. français. Un modèle calculatoire et cognitif du temps et
- Ouvrage collectif, Travail de Flaubert, Seuil, Points de l’aspect, Louvain-la-neuve : Duculot (Champs
Essais n° 150, 1983. linguistique).
- Pierre-Louis Rey, L’Education sentimentale, Guillaume G. (1965), Temps et verbe, Théorie des
Gallimard, Foliothèque, 2005. aspects, des modes et des temps, Paris : Librairie
Honoré Champion.
__________________________________________ Koschmieder E. (1929/1996), Les rapports temporels
fondamentaux et leur expression linguistique.
LM3/21b : 17th CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE Contribution à la question de l’aspect et du temps.
Spring Semester Traduit et commenté par D. Samain, Villeneuve
d’Ascq : Presses Universitaires du Septentrion.
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 4 Touratier C. (1996), Le système verbal du français,
Paris : Armand Colin.
COURSE PROGRAM: Applying passions to life Vetters C. (Vuillaume M. (1990), Grammaire
temporelle des récits, Paris : Éditions de Minuit.1996),
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Temps, aspect et narration, Amsterdam/atlanta :
La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions et Maximes diverses, Rodopi.
Folio, n°728 Weinrich H. (1973), Tempus, Verlag W. Kohlhammer
Racine, Bérénice, GF, n°902 GmbH à Stuttgart, 1964. Pour la traduction française,
Pascal, Les Pensées, LP, n°16069 Le Temps, le récit et le commentaire, Paris : Éditions
du Seuil.
Wilmet M. (1997), Grammaire critique du français,
LM3/21c : COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Louvain-la-Neuve : Duculot (Hachette).
Spring Semester
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 4 LM4/1a : ADVANCED FRENCH LITERATURE
SEMINAR
COURSE PROGRAM: (From 1800 to the present)
Food in literature. In Europe and in India, from our Spring Semester
daily bread to gourmet excesses.
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 8
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
• Anonyme, Lazarillo de Tormes, GF, n°646 COURSE PROGRAM:
• Zola, Le Ventre de Paris, presses pocket We shall study a wide rang of literary texts on the
n°6053 same theme (to be determined). Students will be
• K. Blixen, Le Dîner de Babette, Folio, n°2007 expected to analyse extracts in detail and write a
• A. Desai, Le Jeûne et le festin, Folio, n°3762 reearch paper.
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- Landscapes and activities in the south of
COURSE PROGRAM: The first part of the course will France
focus on the different approaches and methods of the
main stylistics and critics movements (Sainte-Beuve, BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Taine, Marouzeau, Rifaterre, Spitzer, etc.). The second D. NOIN – Le nouvel espace français – Cursus
part of the course will focus on the characteristics of a géographie, Armand Colin (this is an essential book)
literary movement: the Naturalism (continuation of A. FREMONT – France, géographie d’une société –
LM3/18a) Champs Flammarion, coll. Poche
F. DAMETTE ? J. SCHEIBLING – La France,
BIBLIOGRAPHY: permanences et mutations – Carré Géographie,
A bibliography will be given during the first class. Hachette
__________________________________________ L. BOURGEOIS – Politiques agricoles – coll. Dominos,
Flammarion, coll. Poche
LM4/2b : FRENCH LINGUISTICS SEMINAR D. NOIN, Y. CHAUVIRE – La population de la France –
(ADVANCED STYLISTICS 2) Masson, Armand Colin
Spring Semester M. BALESTE – L’économie française - Masson
L’état de la France 2000/2001, Editions La Découverte.
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 8
Physical France : Natural regions of France. The
COURSE PROGRAM: We will analyse the various study of geography implies the use of maps. Analysing
typologies by studying some authors’ works and their maps implies physical and human elements which will
stylistic criticism: explain the development of a region.
Madame de Lafayette: La Princesse de Clèves
Denis Diderot: Jacques le fataliste et son maître BIBLIOGRAPHY:
François Mauriac: Thérèse Desqueyroux • La France. Sujets corrigés de géographie,
Patrick Modiano: Voyages de noces Jean-Louis Chaput, Ellipses 1994.
______________________________________ • Commentaire de documents géographiques
de la France, Olivier Balabanian et allii,
SEDES 1992.
Geography • Cartes commentées et croquis, Patrick Pigeon
et Marc Robin, Fac. Géographie, Nathan 1993.
• Documents et méthodes pour le commentaire
IMPORTANT: ALL OUR GEOGRAPHY COURSES de carte, Archambault, Lhénaff, Vanney. 2
ARE TAUGHT IN FRENCH tomes, Masson 1975.
• La carte topographique, Jean Steinberg,
SEDES 1982.
E3/3b : GEOGRAPHY OF FRANCE FOR
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
Spring Semester
H1/6a : GEOGRAPHY OF FRANCE 2
Spring Semester
Lecture: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
Lecture: 2 hour per week Tutorial: 2 hour per
OBJECTIVE: This course is specifically intended for
week
international students who have never studied French
ECTS credits: 6
geography before. It aims at providing knowledge
concerning the geography of France: it is by no
COURSE PROGRAM:
means a tourist guide book – many books are
- Territorial management & Urbanism in
more appropriate for this kind of approach – nor
France
an index of more or less geographical elements.
- Landscapes and activities of Southern
France.
COURSE PROGRAM:
- Population and economy
- The organization of the French territory, its
- Transport networks
position at the crossroads of Europe
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- The slow historical construction of France
- The physical characteristics of France
- A human system conditioned by its H2/10c & 14c : CITIES AND GLOBALISATION
environment Fall & Spring Semesters
- A space in favour of activities and movements
of persons Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 1 (per
- France & Europe semester)
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Lectures: 1 hour per week Tutorials: 2 hours per
week H3/24a : HISTORICAL & DIGITAL
ECTS credits: 4 CARTOGRAPHY
Spring Semester
COURSE PROGRAM: Central America and the
Carribean islands Lectures: 4 hours per week ECTS credits: 2
BIBLIOGRAPHY: COURSE PROGRAM: We shall study the history of
Géographie Universelle (regional books), Edition Belin making maps and the techniques used. A comparative
– Hachette study of maps of the same region enables us to chart
the chronology of geographical change.
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H2/14b : GEOGRAPHY OF MEXICO
Spring Semester H2/16a : INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL
CARTOGRAPHY
Lecture: 1 hour per week Tutorial: 2 hours per Spring Semester
week
ECTS credits: 4 Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2
COURSE PROGRAM: Mexico COURSE PROGRAM: The map (historical, economic,
political) as ameans of communication. Introduction to
the map-making software “Cartes & Données” and how
LM3/20a : FRANCE’S PLACE IN EUROPE & IN THE to use Photoshop, Illustrator etc. to draw our own
WORLD maps.
Fall Semester __________________________________________
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La France, R.CHEIZE Armand Colin (last edition). 2) The role of advertising
Géographie Universelle (Tomes régionaux), Edition
Belin – Hachette – RECLUS 4. Tourism & Geopolitics
1) Tourism,a barometer of current
affairs
LEA4/2c : GEOPOLITICAL APPROACH TO 2) Public policy & tourism
MARKETING _______________________________________
Fall Semester
MCC4/3a : GEOGRAPHY FOR TOURISM
Lectures: 20 hours in total ECTS credits: 2 Fall Semester
OBJECTIVE: An approach to the contemporary world : Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
understanding the world map in order to prepare for
international negociations. COURSE PROGRAM:
Chapter 1 : How tourism works
COURSE PROGRAM: Chapitre 2 : Creation and management of tourist sites
1. Western civilisation : what is it and where is Chapitre 3 : Preservation of heritage sites for tourism
it ? Conclusion : Tourism and sustainable development
2. Europe Today.
MCC4/7a : FRENCH GEOGRAPHY FOR TOURISM
Presentation of the different countries and zones Spring Semester
with their geographical specificities.
Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
The different regions and their traditional
lifestyles.
COURSE PROGRAM:
Introduction : Tourism and the French economy.
History & politics : understanding national identity
and the varied political institutions.
Chapiter 1 : The coast
Chapitre 2 : The mountains
2.4. Population and economics
Chapitre 3 : Tourism in towns - sightseeing
Chapitre 4 : The countryside
Societies, social structures, religion, intellectual
and cultural life, mentalities and behaviour expected in
Conclusion : providing sustainable tourism in France
the business world.
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3. The European Union, the Balkans, the former
MCC5/1a : CITY AND HERITAGE
Soviet Republics.
Fall Semester
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
Fernand Braudel, Grammaire des Civilisations,
Collection Champs, Editions Flammarion-
THIS COURSE IS ONLY OPEN TO GRADUATE
Réed.1997
STUDENTS
Roland Breton, Géographie des Civilisations,
OBJECTIVE: The city and urban heritage are at the
Collection Que sais-je ? – PUF, 1991.
crossroads of others disciplines: architecture, town
planning, lifestyle… They are the privileged framework
Gérard Chaliand et J.P.Rageau, Atlas politique
for specific themes, connected per se to urban
du XXème siècle, éd. le Seuil, 1988.
civilisation: art and culture, history and memory,
technological innovations and the economy, politics
Yves Lacoste, Dictionnaire de Géopolitique
and society, etc…
des Etats, éd. Flammarion, 1998.
If cities are “the place to be”, they are also the
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“hothouses” of civilisation, as Fernand Braudel writes.
LEA4/3at : GEOGRAPHY FOR INTERNATIONAL
And yet, as one expression of our heritage, cities are
TOURISM
not unchanging: they change perpetually.
Fall Semester
To know one’s city’s history, “in its successive layers”,
does not only mean knowing the space surrounding us
Lectures: 25 hours in total ECTS credits: 3 better, but it also means giving ourselves the means
to act within it, in a civic and lasting manner.
COURSE PROGRAM: The protection of urban and environmental heritage,
1) International Tourism : some basic facts revived in 1993, is more than ever a going concern but
1) A definition it raises a certain number of issues: what “makes up
2) The growth of international tourism our heritage”?
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- Utopia and the ideal city: pre-urbanism - To develop a good translation technique
- Hygienists and progressives - To learn the differences between French and
- Haussmann and Cerda German culture, as well as their vision of the
- The functional city: Tony Garnier and the world
Athens Charter - To become aware of the different linguistic
means to maintain these cultural differences.
3. City planning in the 20th century - To be able to use a bilingual dictionary
- Ruined cities and large high-rise housing properly
estates
- Protected or renovated cities COURSE PROGRAM:
- Translating texts (about 20 lines) selected for
4. Rediscovering the city: urban heritage their theme (the working world, tourism,
- Definition and history hotels, culture, marketing…)
- From Malraux laws to ZPPAUP and Towns and - Methodology concerning the use of a
Lands of Art and History: What protection for dictionary
what heritage? - Translation processes and German distinctive
- What “urban utopia” today? features
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watching German TV programs (ARD, ZDF, WDR, LEA1/5f : GERMAN COMPOSITION
ARTE…) and German movies in the original version as Spring Semester
much as possible.
Classes: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2
ASSESSMENT: two or three tests which will aim at
assessing the general and specific comprehension of a OBJECTIVE: To improve understanding and practice
sound document. of written German.
COMMENT: students have the possibility to study for COURSE PROGRAM: From a press article or a topical
the “Zertifikat Deutsch” (an exam from the “Goethe subject, we will work on the general comprehension of
Institut”, level 1). a document (to analyse and summarize). Vocabulary,
reformulation and commentary exercises but also
essays. The subjects which are broached are tourism,
LEA1/2b : CONTEMPORARY GERMANY the job market, Europe, education, the media. A part
Fall Semester of the course will be devoted to the correspondence
and how to write a CV/résumé.
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN GERMAN
PERSONAL WORK: Reading German press and
Classes: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2.5 literature, learning vocabulary and going to Germany
as soon as possible
OBJECTIVE:
- Contemporary Germany: a geographical, ASSESSMENT: a 1 hour written exam: comprehension
economic and social approach exercises (synonyms, questions, commentaries) and
- To get students to think in terms of history personal expression from a press article.
and economy and to understand the present
- To get students used to German historical BIBLIOGRAPHY:
terminology Wahrig, dictionnaire unilingue (édition poche)
A.Findling, Du mot à la phrase (Ellipses)
COURSE PROGRAM: Germany today Vocabulaire de l’allemand d’aujourd’hui (Livre de
Introduction: Historical dates in Germany since 1945: Poche)
- Ch.1: Germany’ s geography. Jean Janitza, Gunhild Samson, Pratique de l’allemand
- Ch.2: Steps in German history since 1945 de A à Z (Hatier)
- Ch.3: The capital : Berlin
- Ch.4: The regions COMMENT: Students have the possibility to study for
- Ch.5: The population the “Zertifikat Deutsch” (an exam from the “Goethe
- Ch.6: Immigration Institut”, level 1).
- Ch.7: Introduction to the German economy
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- Written and oral analysis of literary texts and COURSE PROGRAM: Expression and oral
press documents. understanding will be broaden to simple professional
- Discussions in German about the text. situations with texts explaining the context.
- Grammar lessons Visual media and audio media will help students to
describe situations, to express their opinions on
PERSONAL WORK : different matters and to react on selected subjects.
- Weekly preparation of a textual commentary They will learn how to : introduce themselves, collect
to be presented to the class (oral or writing). information, to make appointments, describe
- Preparation of the translation of the following someone, give one’s opinion, ask for advice, express
lesson. one’s agreement or disagreement, find a place to live
- Regular learning of vocabulary and syntactic in, organize trips…
turns of phrase.
- Work on the French language and on ASSESSMENT: a written exam, a presentation without
translation into French. notes.
- Learning the vocabulary cards.
- Reading German magazines. BIBLIOGRAPHY: J.P. Vasseur, Le Memento du
Germaniste (Grammar and vocabulary)
ASSESSMENT: Translating from German into French Albert Findling, Du mot à la phrase, ellipses
sentences or a short text. Moreover there are regular
tests to check students’ vocabulary acquisition. INTERNET WEBSITES:
Tatsachen über Deutschland (www.tatsachen-ueber-
BIBLIOGRAPHY: deutschland.de)
“STUFEN INTERNATIONAL 2 » Edition française de Newsletters:
Anne et Klaus Vorderwülbecke (Nathan – Edition www.welt.de
Deutsch, Ernst Klett International GmbH Stuttgart) www.ard.de
(students have to buy it for the first lesson) www.zdf.de
German dictionary: Duden or Wahrig … and others.
French-German dictionary: Langenscheidt, Pons,
Harrap’s Universal
French dictionary: Le Nouveau Petit Robert LCE1E/3c : INTERMEDIATE GERMAN
J.P. Vasseur, Mémento du Germaniste Junior
Fall Semester
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- Work on the French language and on COURSE PROGRAM: comprehension and written
translation into French. expression work from texts which are taken from the
- Learning the vocabulary cards. press or from topical subjects. The work of analysis
- Reading German magazines. and summary: exercises concerning vocabulary,
reformulation, commentary and personal expression.
The subjects which are broached are: the media,
LCE1E/7c : INTERMEDIATE GERMAN Europe, socio-economic issues, advertising, education,
the environment…. A part of the course will be devoted
Spring Semester
to correspondence (how to write a CV/Résumé and an
application letter.
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
ASSESSMENT: A 2 hour written exam. Exercises
COURSE PROGRAM: Continuation of LCE1E/3c
about vocabulary, texts comprehension, commentary
and personal expression.
LEA2/9d & 13d : GERMAN GRAMMAR 2 PERSONAL WORK: Students have to work regularly.
Fall & Spring Semesters Reading of the German press (Der Spiegel, FOCUS,
deutsche Tageszeitungen), working on vocabulary; the
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2 aim is to improve your ability to understand and to
express yourself in German.
OBJECTIVE: To improve knowledge of fundamental
structures BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Wahrig, Dictionnaire unilingue (édition de poche)
COURSE PROGRAM: A. Findling, Du mot à la phrase (Ellipses)
- Nominal groups (nouns and adjectives) and Vocabulaire de l’allemand d’aujourd’hui (Livre de
declensions Poche)
- The linearisation of Verbal groups Jean Janitza, Gunhild Samson, Pratique de l’allemand
- The subordinate clause de A à Z (Hatier)
- The passive voice Sites internet : www.dwelle.de; www.berlinonline.de;
- The use of subjunctive modes www.tagesspiegel.de; www.FplusD.de
- Elements of communication
- Grammar exercises and grammatical COMMENT : Students may study for the Zentrale
translation. Mittelstufenprüfung (an exam from the “Goethe
Institut”, level 2).
ASSESSMENT: a written exam.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
LEA2/10b : GERMAN HISTORY:
J. JANITZA, G. SAMSON – Pratique de l’allemand de A
FROM YEAR ZERO TO THE ECONOMIC MIRACLE
àZ
Fall Semester
ASSESSMENT: to translate an extract from a text ASSESSMENT: a written exam about the course and
(article…) and also regular tests to check students’ personal work but also a document commentary.
vocabulary acquisition.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
J.C. CAPELE – L’Allemagne hier et aujourd’hui –
LEA2/9f : WRITTEN EXPRESSION Hachette, Les Fondamentaux
AND COMPREHENSION H. DUPAS, U. BENNERT – Lexique de civilisation
Fall Semester germanique – PUF, Major
M.R. DIOT, J.R. DIOT – Deutschland – was nun ? –
Classes: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 1 PUF, Major
A. WAHL – Histoire de la République fédérale
OBJECTIVE: To improve and perfect your written d’Allemagne – Armand Colin, Paris, 1995
comprehension and expression either general or www.wikipedia.de
specific.
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LEA2/13e : TRANSLATION FROM - The new communications media (Internet in
FRENCH INTO GERMAN the society, teleworking, etc.)
Spring Semester - The advertising strategy
- The French-German friendship (from the
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2 French-German treaty of 1953)
- The language as a bridge between cultures
COURSE PROGRAM: - Staying or studying abroad
Reading texts - The German myths (different versions of
- Training to translate economic, political and Lolerei, Nibelungen)
socio-cultural texts or sentences - The German tales (diferrent versions of The
- Comparing and correcting students’ Little Red Riding Hood)
translations
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
ASSESSMENT: to translate an extract from a text Grammaire d’usage de l’allemand contemporain of D.
(article…) and also regular tests to check students’ BRESSON (Hachette)
vocabulary acquisition. Bunk Rosemarie/Debans Yves, Für eine aktive
Kommunikation auf Deutsch, Editions Spratbrow,
1997.
LEA2/13f : ORAL EXPRESSION Cauquil Gérard/Schanen François, La grammaire
AND COMPREHENSION allemande, Paris, Hatier [coll. Bescherelle], 2000
Spring Semester
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 1 LM2/15b : GERMAN FOR FRENCH MAJORS
Spring Semester
OBJECTIVE: To improve and perfect your
comprehension and oral expression either general or COURSE PROGRAM: continuation of LM2/11b
specific.
COURSE PROGRAM: A work revolving around topical MCC2/11b : GERMAN LANGUAGE & CULTURE
subjects. Listening to soundtracks audio tapes and Fall Semester
video (dialogs, radio programmes, reports, TV news,
extracts from movies in the original verion) in the Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
multimedia laboratory. General and specific
comprehension and summary exercises (telephone OBJECTIVE:
conversation, role-playing, debates). To ease the access to professionnal career : To master
professional German vocabulary, to practise
PERSONAL WORK: Listening to German radio conversation in German.
(www.dwelle.de; www.ard.de; www.wdr.de), watching
German TV (ZDF, ARD, ARTE….) and movies in the COURSE PROGRAM:
original version. To do a preparation in twos and The press : analysis of contemporary economic, politic
present it during the class. and cultural texts.
Patrimony : work in small groups about a cultural
ASSESSMENT: A 1 hour written ASSESSMENT: oral subject: oral presentation to do.
comprehension. Communication : concrete situations, role plays :
spoken language.
COMMENT: Students may study for the Zentrale Redaction of letters.
Mittelstufenprüfung (an exam from the “Goethe Grammar revisal.
Institut”, level 2).
ASSESSMENT: regular presentations and written
homework to give in, and a two hour written final
LEA2/14b : GERMAN HISTORY: exam.
GERMANY FROM 1945 TO 1990
Spring Semester BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Der Spiegel
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN GERMAN Focus
Vocable
Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2 « Mit Erfolg zum Zertifikat » Klett édition
« EM Übungsgrammatik » Hueber édition
COURSE PROGRAM: From Division to Reunification _________________________________________
- The German Democratic Republic (from 1949
to 1989) MCC2/15b : GERMAN LANGUAGE & CULTURE
- The relationship between the 2 Germanies Spring Semester
LM2/11b : GERMAN FOR FRENCH MAJORS LM3/19b : GERMAN FOR FRENCH MAJORS
Fall Semester Fall Semester
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3 Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
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BIBLIOGRAPHY: Students should own a grammar - Cinema and propaganda – Leni Riefenstahl’s cinema
book, a French-German dictionary, a French dictionary Each session will be divided into to parts:
and a German dictionary, the latter is essential for the - A first part dedicated to commenting on students’
written exams. presentations
The following references are given as a rough guide: - A theoretical part during which the students will have
• Grammaire d’usage de l’allemand to improve their personal reflection and knowledge by
contemporain – Daniel Bresson – Hachette studying documents and by commenting on them.
• Dictionnaire français/allemand et The course aims at:
allemand/français – Bertaux et Lepointe – - improving the student’s listening, writing and oral
Hachette skills;
• Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la - teaching about interculturality and the media and
langue française – Paul Robert – Société du cultural background in the German-speaking countries.
Nouveau Littré
• Deutsches Wörterbuch – Gerhard Wahrig – ASSESSMENT: Each student will have to do an oral
Bertelsmann Lexikon-Verlag presentation about the media and cultural issues in the
• No literature nor civilisation book is necessary German-speaking countries. Your comments on other
students’ presentations will also be taken into account
in the mark.
LM3/23b : GERMAN FOR FRENCH MAJORS The final written exam will be linked to the issues
Spring Semester discussed in class.
LCE3/24d ASPECTS OF CONTEMPORARY GERMAN COURSE PROGRAM: To learn specific phrases and
LITERATURE vocabulary related to business and trade
Spring Semester You will study the following themes:
- Wirtschaftssyteme
COURSE PROGRAM: Continuation of LCE3/20d - Soziale Sicherheit
- Konjunkturindikatoren
- Wirtschaftsgeographie Deutschlands
- Standort
MCC3/19b & 23b : GERMAN FOR
- Unternehmensformen
COMMUNICATION MAJORS
- Aufbauorganisation eines Unternehmens
Fall & Spring Semesters - Marketing
- Messen und Ausstellungen
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3 (per - Vertriebswesen
semester) - Transportverkehr
- Zahlungsmittel und Zahlungsbedigungen
OBJECTIVE:
The course will deal with cultural life in Germany Oral : You will carry out a practical project, with the
thanks to audio and visual aids. Students will learn teacher’s support. You will create concrete situations in
how to make an interview and how to write critics and class that you are likely to experience in your
short presentations about a cultural work or a cultural professional life (tourism, international trade, catering
company. Each subject students will see will be linked management, transport and logistics, etc.)
to methodological, lexical and grammatical work. a) Understanding soundtracks and being able to
make an oral or written summary about it
COURSE PROGRAM: b) Presenting orally a document, a company, a
Based on the comment of press articles, audio and press article, etc.
audiovisual recordings and pictures, the course will c) Passing a professional interview
address the following themes: d) Having a phone conversation for business.
- An overview of the German press
- The German television You will also work in the lab, on audio and video tapes,
- The characteristics of the Swiss and Austrian presses role playing games and presentations:
- The art creation in the German-speaking countries - How to introduce oneself (for a job interview,
(dance, theatre, fine arts…) etc.)
- Berlin, a world in the city - Phone conversations
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- Showing people round a tourist site
- Making a reservation (at a hotel, at the train OBJECTIVE: to improve students’ use of the language
station, etc.) and give them specific vocabulary used in professional
- Presenting a company documents. To master the specificities of the written
- Presenting a product or a service language .
- Taking orders
- Negotiating COURSE PROGRAM:
- Resolving conflicts - translation exercises enabling students to
recognise translation difficulties
The tutorial aims at improving understanding and - to translate authentic economic and
writing skills with a work on specific vocabulary. You commercial documents (company brochures,
will have to create authentic documents you may have correspondence, contract of insurance,
to write in your professional life: business letters, instructions, set menus, advertising
bookings, faxes, e-mails, administrative forms, tourist documents, etc…)
brochures, analyses, minutes, etc.
PERSONAL WORK: to practise translating, to prepare
PERSONAL WORK: your translation for the next lesson, to memorize
- Carrying out a project vocabulary, to do lexical research, to read the German
- Seizing all opportunities to talk to German press (Spiegel, Focus, …) regularly.
native speakers, listening to German radio
stations, reading the German press ASSESSMENT: to translate a document or an extract
from a document of a professional nature.
ASSESSMENT:
- Presentation of your project (oral exam) BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- Comprehension and expression exercises (for Boelcke et Straub: L’allemand des affaires, Les
instance analysing documents, writing letters, Langues Modernes
etc.) Boelcke et Straub : L’allemand économique et
commercial, Presses Pocket
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Winterbucher, Charpiot, Vocabulaire allemand
- L’allemand economique et commercial, contemporain, Vuibert
Boelcke Straub Thiele pocket 1654, langues pour tous, Cavalli-Flepp Y., Wirtschaft, L’allemand du commerce
2005 (buy the book before the beginning of lessons). et de l’économie, Méthode et exercices, éd. Ellipses,
- Dictionnaire economique et financier 1998
allemand/français, pocket 3087, langues pour tous, Janitza et Samson, Pratique de l’allemand de A à Z,
2005. Hatier
- ABC lexical allemand pour le marketing, la Dinard-Thiele, Vocabulaire de l’Allemand d’Aujourd’hui
banque, l’assurance, l’hotellerie et le – Les Langues Modernes
tourisme, ed Ellipses. A German dictionary : Duden or Wahrig
- La correspondance commerciale en A bilingual dictionary: Le Petit Robert
allemand, pocket 3080, langues pour tous,
1998.
LEA3/21e : BUSINESS TRANSLATION
FROM GERMAN INTO FRENCH
LEA3/17e : INTRODUCTION TO INTERPRETING 1 Spring Semester
Fall Semester
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 1
Classes: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 1
OBJECTIVE:
COURSE PROGRAM: Learning to translate orally and - to translate economic, commercial and
spontaneously presentations and business specialized documents. Students will work
negociations. Facilitating communication in a exclusively on authentic documents (company
professional context between colleagues who have no brochures, correspondence, insurance
common language. contracts, instructions, set menus, advertising
documents, job offers, tourist guides, order
ASSESSMENT: a 15 min. oral exam in pairs. forms, legal texts, etc…)
- to think about words, their meaning and
polysemy
LEA3/17f : ORAL TRANSLATION - to improve and strengthen translation
Fall Semester techniques and students’ vocabulary
- to be able to use a dictionary
Classes: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 1
COURSE PROGRAM:
COURSE PROGRAM: Translating unseen authentic - reading and translating documents
documents from French into German and from German - a common translation will be given so that
into French. students are able to check theirs
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year, there will also be tests to check students’ Fall & Spring Semesters
vocabulary acquisition.
Classes: 22 hours in total ECTS credits: 1 (per
BIBLIOGRAPHY: semester)
An unilingual dictionary: Wahrig de poche
A bilingual dictionary: Pons, Langenscheidt, Harrap’s, OBJECTIVE: To create professional documents
Universal…(your choice)
A French dictionary: Le Nouveau Petit Robert COURSE PROGRAM: Working on the creation of
Dictionnaire de l’allemand économique, commercial et documents, such as:
financier, Langue pour tous, Pocket - A Web page for an educational Website
- An advert for a service
- A tourist brochure
LEA3/21f : INTERPRETING 2 - A Website for a company
Fall Semester
ASSESSMENT: Presenting a portfolio composed of 4
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2 documents you will have created
ASSESSMENT: Students will be expected to translate Lectures: 27 hours in total ECTS credits: 2 (1 for
orally without preparation a 5 minute oral the second semester)
presentation.
___________________________________________ COURSE PROGRAM: Understanding the German
economy and the business world in Germany.
LEA3/18b : GERMAN HISTORY:
GERMAN REUNIFICATION ASSESSMENT: oral presentations and essays.
Fall Semester
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F. MITTERAND - De l’Allemagne à la France – Paris, The course is divided into 4 thematic units, which in
Odile Jacob, 1996 each case will be approached from a historical
T. GARTON ASH – Im Namen Europas. Deutschland perspective:
und der geteilte Kontinent – Munich-Vienne, Unit I Settlement of North America and growth of the
Hanserverlag, 1993 United States
H.P SCHWARZ – Die Zentralmacht Europas. Unit II Immigration
Deutschlands Rückkehr auf der Weltbühne – Berlin, Unit III Native Americans
Siedler, 1994 Unit IV Slavery and African Americans
INTERNET WEBSITES:
History www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?flash=old&page=
milestone
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu
IMPORTANT: ALL OUR HISTORY COURSES ARE www.uk-us.org
TAUGHT IN FRENCH (UNLESS OTHERWISE
STATED)
LCE1/1b BRITISH HISTORY IN THE 19th
E3/3a : FRENCH HISTORY CENTURY
FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS Spring Semester
Spring Semester
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 3
Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
OBJECTIVE: To give an overview of the history of
France to international students who have not studied COURSE PROGRAM:
the subject before. From the Industrial Revolution to the Great
Transformation:
COURSE PROGRAM: Introduction to industrial society
-A- The construction of the territory and the birth of The « Take off » and the first phase of the industrial
the French nation. revolution
1- A crossroads for many peoples The second phase of the industrial revolution
2- The territory of the ‘Franks’ The long XIXth century
3- The Capetian state Victorian specificities
The Great Transformation
B-France’s political role and cultural influence in
Europe in modern times. BIBLIOGRAPHY:
1-Humanism & Renaissance in France Christopher Harvie and H. C. G. Matthew Nineteenth-
2-The kingdom of France in the 17th century Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction,Oxford
3- Causes & effects of the revolution in 1789 University Press, 2000.
Norman McCord and Bill Purdue British History 1815-
1914, Oxford University Press, 2007.
ASSESSMENT: The will be a test in class about
halfway through the term and a final written exam.
LCE1/5a : UNITY AND DIVERSITY IN AMERICAN
SOCIETY
LCE1/1a : EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY Spring Semester
Fall Semester
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
OBJECTIVE:
OBJECTIVE: Acquire knowledge about important questions
Acquire knowledge about important questions regarding U.S. history;
regarding U.S. history; Gain an understanding of important issues in U.S.
Gain an understanding of important issues in U.S. society;
society; Learn to analyse and comment on primary and
Learn to analyse and comment on primary and secondary documents;
secondary documents; Acquire oral and written skills in English.
Acquire oral and written skills in English.
COURSE PROGRAM:
COURSE PROGRAM: The course is divided into 4 thematic units that focus
on the themes of unity and diversity in American
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society, which in each case will be first approached INTERNET WEBSITES:
from a historical perspective, before an examination of www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?flash=old&page=
the contemporary period: milestone
Unit I Geography, Regions www.digitalhistory.uh.edu
Unit II People: Religion www.uk-us.org
Unit III People: Minority Groups __________________________________________
Unit IV Beliefs and Values : The American Way of Life
H1/1a : MODERN HISTORY : EUROPE AND THE
ASSESSMENT: An oral exam (15 mins. preparation, WORLD IN THE 16TH CENTURY
15 mins. presentation) and a question which students Fall Semester
will have to answer in English.
Lectures: 2 hours per week Tutorials: 2 hours per
BIBLIOGRAPHY: week
Mauk & Oakland American Civilization: An ECTS credits: 6
Introduction, Routledge
Nash, Gary B. Atlas of American History, Facts on File, COURSE PROGRAM:
2006 - Europe opening up to the outside world and
Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, Norton trade (conquest and exploitation of the New
World)
INTERNET WEBSITES: - Importance of religion (the Protestant
www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?flash=old&page= Reformation and the Catholic Counter-
milestone Reformation)
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu - Construction of the modern state (Henri
www.uk-us.org IV’s policy)
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
LCE1/1b : INTRO TO BRITISH CIVILISATION B. BENNASSAR, J. JACQUARD – Le XVIème siècle –
Fall Semester coll. U, Paris, 1972
F. BRAUDEL – La dynamique du capitalisme – Paris,
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH 1985
F. MAURO – L’expansion européenne – Paris, 1991
Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2 R. MUCHEMBLED – Les XVI et XVIIème siècles – Grand
Amphi, Paris, 1995
COURSE PROGRAM:
Physical, human and economic geography of the UK
Population and Society H1/1b : CONTEMPORARY HISTORY : EUROPE
The institutions and the political parties SINCE 1945 A
The UK and Europe Fall Semester
___________________________________
Lectures: 2 hours per week Tutorials: 2 hours
LEA1/6a : per week
INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN CIVILISATION ECTS credits: 6
Spring Semester
COURSE PROGRAM: Enable students to know in what
way Europe today is the inheritance of the first half of
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
the 20th century, grown out of Industrialisation,
Colonisation and two world wars. Students will also
Classes: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2
see how Europe became a stake for the big powers,
but remained an actor in history. Finally they will study
OBJECTIVE: Acquire an understanding of important
how Europe moved from division to unity.
questions regarding U.S. history and society;
Learn to analyse and comment on primary and
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
secondary documents;
Using these textbooks to find information about the
Acquire listening and written skills in English.
different events is recommended.
- Berstein S., Milza P., Histoire de l’Europe
COURSE PROGRAM:
contemporaine, Paris, Hatier, 2006.
The course is divided into 4 thematic units, which in
- Du Réau E., L’idée d’Europe au XXième
each case will be approached from a historical
siècle, Bruxelles, Complexe, 1995.
perspective:
- Du Réau E., Dusautoy M., Lagny M. et
Unit I - The United States Government and
Moussakova S. L’Europe en mutation. De la
Constitution
guerre froide à nos jours, Paris, Hachette,
Unit II - Growth of the United Sates and Its Regions
2001.
Unit III - People
- Vaïsse M., Les relations internationales
Unit IV - Religion
depuis 1945, 9° édition, Paris, A. Colin 2004.
ASSESSMENT: An written exam and a final written
exam.
LM1/4b : FRENCH HISTORY: THE 16th to 18th
BIBLIOGRAPHY: CENTURIES
Mauk & Oakland American Civilization: An Fall Semester
Introduction, Routledge
Nash, Gary B. Atlas of American History, Facts on File, Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
2006
Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, Norton COURSE PROGRAM:
The construction and specificity of the Ancien Régime :
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power structure, institutions, society.
Calling the old ways into question leading to the COURSE PROGRAM:
collapse of the system. The Enlightenment and the - Documentary research (archives,
French Revolution. The new foundations of French museums, libraries etc.)
society in the 19th century. - Applied topography
Republican France : society and authority - Methods (aerial archeology, preparing the
ground, physical geography)
BIBLIOGRAPHY: - Organising a dig
- Michel Denis and Noël Blayau, Le XVIIIe - Recording your discoveries (conservation,
siècle, Collection U storage, classifying finds)
- François Bluche, L’ancien régime : - Drawing a dig plan, how to portray
institutions et société, Le livre de poche – archeological levels and plans)
références - Drawing techniques (plans and cuts of the
- Pierre Goubert, L’Ancien Régime, Collection U archaeologic structures)
___________________________________________ - Big archaeological trends and structures
(from Prehistory to the Middle Ages)
H1/5a : FRANCE UNDER LOUIS XIII & LOUIS XIV - Periodisation (chronologies, sériation
Spring Semester methods)
___________________________________________
Lectures: 2 hours per week Tutorials: 2 hours per
week LEA1/2b : SPANISH HISTORY & CIVILISATION
ECTS credits: 6 Fall Semester
BIBLIOGRAPHY: BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Students are encouraged to use school books in order - BENNASSAR, B., Un siècle d’or espagnol, Laffart,
to situtate the events. 1982.
- Berstein S., Milza P., Histoire de l’Europe - BENNASSAR, B., Histoire des espagnols, p. 319-487,
contemporaine, Paris, Hatier, 2006. Laffart, 1992.
- Du Réau E., L’idée d’Europe au XXième - BENNASSAR, B., L’homme espagnol, Ed. Complexes,
siècle, Bruxelles, Complexe, 1995. 1975.
- Du Réau E., Dusautoy M., Lagny M. et - GARCIA DE CORTAZAR, José Angel, Historia de
Moussakova S. L’Europe en mutation. De la España
guerre froide à nos jours, Paris, Hachette, - CARRASCO, R., L’Espagne classique p. 5-136,
2001. Hachette Supérieur, 1992.
- Vaïsse M., Les relations internationales - CARRASCO, DEROZIER, MOLINIE-BERTRAND,
depuis 1945, 9° édition, Paris, A. Colin 2004. Histoire et civilisation de l’Espagne
- BARJOT D., CHALINE J.P., ENCREVE A., La classique p. 7-299, Nathan Université, 1991.
France au XIXème siècle, 1814-1914, PUF,
2ème éd. 1997.
LEA1/6b : LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY &
CIVILISATION
H1/8b INTRODUCTION TO ARCHEOLOGY Spring Semester
Spring Semester
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN SPANISH
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 4
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Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2 • The Second Empire and the modernisation of
France
OBJECTIVE: • Republican France: birth and development of
At the end of the class the student should be able to the 3rd Republic
understand any historical document from the Spanish-
speaking world. To do this, we need to learn how to
write a textual analysis and also master the basics of LM2/12b & 16c : GREEK HISTORY
the history of Latin America. Fall & Spring Semesters
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- PEREZ HERRERO Pedro, America Latina y el
colonialismo europeo (siglos XVI-XVIII), OBJECTIVE:
Madrid, Sintesis, 1992 Acquire an understanding of the key historical
- ZARAGOZA, Gonzalo, America Latina. Epoca moments and social movements in the United States
Colonial, Madrid, Anaya, 1987 in the 1865-1940 period;
- ZARAGOZA, Gonzalo, Colon y el Acquire ability to reason and explain the causes and
descubrimiento, Madrid, Anaya, 1988 consequences of key events in the period studied;
- ZARAGOZA, Gonzalo, Rumbo a las Indias, Learn to analyse and comment on primary and
Madrid, Anaya, 1984 secondary documents;
___________________________________________ Acquire oral and written skills in English.
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J.M. BERTRAND – Cités et royaumes du monde grec : L.PIETRI, A. VAUCHEZ... (Dir.), Histoire du
espace et politique – Paris, 1992 christianisme des origines à nos jours, t. IV, V, VI.
H2/9a : ROMAN HISTORY:THE ROMAN REPUBLIC H2/9b : CLASSICAL & MEDIEVAL ARCHEOLOGY
Fall Semester Fall Semester
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 5 Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 4
H2/10a : MEDIEVAL HISTORY: THE CHURCH Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2 (per
IN THE MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN WESTERN semester)
COUNTRIES FROM 10TH TO 13TH CENTURIES
Fall Semester COURSE PROGRAM: This course aims at giving
chronological references in the history of writing until
Lectures: 2 hours per week Tutorials: 2 hours per our time. The students will study more particularly the
week library’s tradition from the origins to the Middle-Ages.
ECTS credits: 5
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
COURSE PROGRAM: History of Church in from the Histoire des bibliothèques françaises, Paris 1988-1992
10th to the 14th century in Western countries. A.Labarre, Histoire du livre, Que sais-je n° 620.
Tutorials: Document synthesis and document Masson, D. Pallier, Les bibliothèques, Que sais-je n°
commentaries. Religion, resources, geopolitics, 944.
economy.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
LCE2E/9a : SPANISH HISTORY
J. CHELINI, Histoire religieuse de l'Occident médiévale
(dernière édition en livre de poche) Fall semester
Y. M. HILAIRE (dir.), Histoire de la papauté, Points, Le
Seuil, Tallandier, 2003 THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN SPANISH
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• J.P.BRISSON dir.,Problèmes de la guerre à
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 4 Rome, Paris –La Haye 1969.
• M.FEUGERE, les armes des Romains de la
COURSE PROGRAM: république à l’Antiquité tardive, Paris 1993.
OBJECTIVE: To study the main events of the History • Y.LE BOHEC, Histoire militaire des Guerres
of Spain during the XXth century. puniques, Paris 1996..
• A.PELLETIER, L’urbanisme romain sous
PROGRAM : l’empire, Paris 1982
- The Restoration • P. CORBIER, Rome, ville et capitale de la fin
- Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship during the 2nd de la république à la fin des Antonins, SEDES.
Republic
- The Civil War : causes and consequences
LCE2E/13a : LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY
PERSONAL WORK : Regular revising of lessons, Spring Semester
preparation of assignments and oral presentations.
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN SPANISH
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- Emile Termine, historia de la Espãna Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 4
contemporanea (desde 1808 hasta nuestros
dias) OBJECTIVE:
- Guy Hermet, la guerre d’Espagne To learn about the end of the Spanish empire. To
- Javier Tusell, Historia de Espãna en el siglo teach students the technique of the historical essay
XX and of textual criticism.
- Pedro Aguado Blaye, Historia de Espãna
- Bartolomé Benassar, la guerre civile COURSE PROGRAM:
espagnole et ses lendemains Spanish decolonisation in Latin America.
- Ballesteros Arranz, Espãna desde la guerra de
la independencia hasta la Restauraciõn BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Josep Pla, la 2° Repùblica espanõla (1931-36) Battlori, Miguel, El abate Viscardo : Historia y mito de
_________________________________ la intervención de los jesuitas en la independencia de
Hispanoamérica, Madrid, Mapfre, 1992.
H2/13a : ROMAN HISTORY: FROM THE REPUBLIC Collectif, L’Amérique espagnole à l’époque des
TO THE BEGINNING OF THE EMPIRE lumières, Paris, CNRS, 1987.
Spring Semester Diaz-Trechuelo, Bolívar, Miranda, O’Higgins, San
Martín, Cuatro vida cruzadas, Madrid, Encuentro,
Lectures: 4 hours per week ECTS credits: 5 1999.
Lavallé, Bernard, L’Amérique espagnole de Colomb à
COURSE PROGRAM: Bolivar, paris, Belin, 1993.
The city, the Roman citizen, the army and religion. Pérez, Joseph, Los movimientos precursores de la
We shall be looking at the material framework of the emancipación en Hispanoamérica, Madrid, Alhambra,
Roman’s daily life. Politically divided between two 1977.
vastly different systems, he continues his life as a Zaragoza, Gonzalo, América Latina, la independencia,
citizen. We shall be putting particular emphasis on the Madrid, Anaya, 1994.
city itself, Rome, one of the numerous Roman cities
which grow up around the Mediterranean during this
period, the beginning of the Christian era.
H2/13a : ANCIENT GREEK CIVILISATION
- Patricians and Plebeians : the
responsibilities of the citizen in Republican Spring Semester
Rome
- The institutions : the Senate, comitea and Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
main magistrates in Rome
- Traditional Roman religion : religious COURSE PROGRAM: Ancient Greece: Aspects of
groups in Rome under the republic Classical Greek Civilisation
- Roman citizens and war : the army and You will study the social and economic institutions in
religion under Marius Greece in the 5th and 4th centuries BC, the status of
- Rome and Roman cities : an urban the population: citizens and non-citizens: women,
civilisation? foreigners, people of mixed race, slaves, etc.
- Everyday life and leisure : the monumental Economics, culture, education and war will be studied
aspect of Roman cities. thematically.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: BIBLIOGRAPHY:
• F.DUPONT, le citoyen romain sous la F. CHAMOUX – La civilisation grecque – Paris, 1966
république (509-27 avant J.C), 1989-1994. C. VATIN – Citoyens et non-citoyens dans le monde
• R.ADAM, Institutions et Citoyenneté de la grec – Paris, 1976
Rome républicains, Paris1996. R. LONIS – L’étranger dans le monde grec – Nancy,
• C.NIVOLET, le métier de citoyen dans la 1988
Rome républicaine, Paris 1976. J.P VERNANT – Problèmes de la guerre en Grèce
• J.GAUDEMET, le droit privé romain, Paris ancienne – Paris, 1985
1974. J.N CORVISIER – Guerre et société dans les mondes
• P.GRIMAL, la civilisation romaine, Paris 1960. grecs (490 – 322 av. J.C.) – Paris, 1999
• J.SCHEID, la religion romaine, Paris
1971(recueil de textes)
• G.DUMEZIL, le religion romaine archaïque, H2/13b : WORLD CIVILISATIONS : ISLAM
Paris 1987 Spring Semester
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Creation of teen culture
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 4 Culture & the regions / minorities
5. The decline of established religion and the
COURSE PROGRAM:. liberalisation of public morals
• The origins of Arab Muslim civilisation Britain as a pluralistic society
• The governmental system o The “Honest to God” debate / rise of
• The reasons for the fragmentation of the evangelicalism
muslim world from the formation of dynasties o The media / scandal / the invasion of
and from great political and religious privacy
tendencies. o Homosexuality / abortion /
• Intellectual movements censorship, etc.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: BIBLIOGRAPHY:
• D. et J. SOURDEL, La civilisation de l'islam D. THOMSON – England in theTtwentieth Century –
classique, Coll. Les Grandes Civilisations/ Penguin
Arthaud, 1983. K.O. MORGAN – The People’s Peace – Oxford
• Claude CAHEN, L'islam des origines au début University Press
de l'Empire ottoman, Bordas, 1970.Réédition A. CAIRNCROSS – The British Economy since 1945 –
Hachette 1997. Oxford University Press
• Miquel : L’Islam et sa civilisation VIIe-XXe M. SMITH – British Foreign Policy: Tradition, Change &
siècles, Paris 1977. Transformation
• J.C Garcin et alii ; Etats, sociétés et cultures
du monde musulman médiéval ( Xe-XVe
siècles) 3 vol. Paris 1995-2000. LCE3/13a : AMERICA IN THE 1950S
Spring Semester
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tigger.uic.edu/~pbhales/Levittown/ A. JOUANNA – La France au XVIème siècle, 1483 –
_____________________________________ 1598 – Fayard, 1998
P. GOUBERT, D. ROCHE – Les Français et l’Ancien
H3/17a : ANCIENT GREEK RELIGION Régime – Armand Colin, 1984
Fall Semester B. BENASSAR et J . JACQUART, le XVIè siècle, 2001
BIBLIOGRAPHY: BIBLIOGRAPHY:
J. CORNETTE – Absolutisme et lumières, Hachette • P.Goubert et D.Roche, Les français et l’Ancien
2001 Régime, 2 volumes, une synthèse magistrale.
J. DELUMEAU – Naissance et affirmation de la Réforme Please read it before the First class !!!
– Le catholicisme entre Luther et Voltaire – PUF, • La Société et l’Etat, 382 pages,
« Nouvelle Clio », n°30 essentiellement dû à P.Goubert, puis le tome
H. DREVILON – Introduction à l’histoire culturelle de 2, plutôt dû à D.Roche.
l’Ancien Régime – SEDES, Campus, 1997 • Les petites synthèses de B. Garnot, collection
H. DUCCINI – Histoire de la France au XVIIème siècle Ophrys : La population française au XVIème-
– SEDES, Campus, 2000 XVIIème-XVIIIème, Justice et société, Les
campagnes en France, Les villes, etc...
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• J.Dupâquier, La population française aux COURSE PROGRAM: Students will have the
XVIIème et XVIIIème siècles, Que sais-je, opportunity to do a research project based on the
PUF. manuscripts available in local archive collections.
• Audissio Gabriel : Lire le français hier; manuel - Studying copies of texts from the 13th to
de paléographie moderne XVème - XVIIIème, 15th centuries
Paris, A. Colin, 1991. - Methods of historical research in the
• C.Dekker, R.Baetens, S.Maarschakerweerd- following fields: history of society, of
Dechamps, Album paleographicum, Brepols, mentalities, urban life and institutions
4°, 400 p., 1992.
ASSESSMENT: Students will have a research paper to
give in at the end of the year.
H3/19b2 : MEDIEVAL PALEOGRAPHY &
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY BIBLIOGRAPHY: The same as the fall semester.
Fall Semester
Tutorials: 2 hours every 2 weeks ECTS credits: 1 H3/19c : SCIENCE AS AN AID TO HISTORICAL
RESEARCH
COURSE PROGRAM: Students will have the Fall & Spring Semesters
opportunity to do a research project based on the
manuscripts available in local archive collections. Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2 (per
- Studying copies of texts from the 13th to semester)
15th centuries
- Methods of historical research in the OBJECTIVE:
following fields: history of society, of To present the main scientific techniques used as an
mentalities, urban life and institutions aid to historical research for the medieval period.
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DELSALLE Paul, Lire et comprendre les archives des Abdessalam CHEDDADI, Les Arabes et l’appropriation
XVIe et XVIIe siècles, Presses universitaires franc- de l’histoire, Sindbad, 2004
comtoises, 2003 Alfred-Louis de PRÉMARE, Les fondations de l’islam-
PASTOUREAU Michel, Les sceaux, Turnhout, 1981, 76 Entre écriture et histoire-.Coll.L’Univers
p. (Typologie des sources du Moyen Age occidental, historique,éd.du Seuil 2002.
36)
BAUTIER Robert-Henri, Chartes, sceaux et
chancelleries : études de diplomatique et de H3/22a : EUROPE & THE WORLD FROM THE 16th
sigillographie médiévales, Paris : Ecole des chartes, TO THE 18th CENTURY
1990 Spring Semester
BARBIER Frédéric, Histoire du livre. Paris : A. Colin,
2006 (U. Histoire) Lectures: 3 hours per week ECTS credits: 5
DAHL Svend, CAIN Julien, Histoire du livre de
l'antiquité à nos jours, Paris : Editions Lamarre-Poinat, COURSE PROGRAM: At the beginning of the modern
1967 period, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Great Britain started
MARTIN Henri Jean, Histoire du livre, Paris : colonizing, which coincided with the rise of marketing
Bibliothèque Nationale, 1964 theories. We shall examine in detail the European
TWYMAN Michael, MOGLIA Bernadette, L'imprimerie : desire to discover the rest of the world.
histoire et techniques, Lyon : ENS éd., 2007.
(Métamorphoses du livre) BIBLIOGRAPHY:
F. BRAUDEL – Civilisation matérielle, Economie et
Capitalisme, XVème – XVIIIème siècles – A. Colin,
1979
H3/17b & 21b : MEDIEVAL HISTORY: MEDIEVAL
P. LEON – Histoire économique et sociale du Monde –
SPAIN
A. Colin, 1978
Fall & Spring Semesters
F. MAURO – L’expansion européenne (1600 – 1870) –
PUF, « Nouvelle Clio », n°27
Lectures: 2 hours per week Tutorials: 1 hour per
P. VILLIERS, J.P. DUTEUIL – L’Europe, la mer et ses
week
colonies, XVIIème – XVIIIème siècles – Hachette,
ECTS credits: 5 (per semester)
Carré Histoire, 1997
COURSE PROGRAM:
Medieval Spain was marked by political, military and
religious confrontations between Romans, Goths, H3/22b : IMMIGRATION AND SOCIETY IN
Berbers and Muslims. The Visigothic kingdom of Toledo FRANCE BETWEEN 1850 AND 1930
(507-711) represents an essential part in the history Spring Semester
of the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle-Ages. The
synthesis between the vigour of the Roman heritage Lectures: 3 hours per week ECTS credits: 5
and the dynamism of the Visigoth people made the 7th
century a period of great cultural prosperity, while the COURSE PROGRAM: Immigration has become a
first signs of national awareness emerged. The Berber stake in contemporary polemics about foreigners.
Muslims led by Tariq ibn Ziyad conquered the country Students will learn how immigration enriched the
in 711. In 756, Muslim Spain became independent country. They will learn the importance of independent
during Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba’s rule. During thought. Only time enables us to really understand
the 11th century, the caliphate divides into microstates, and underline what is really new in our contemporary
the small Muslim, Berber and Slav taifas. The caliphate context.
disappears and the Christian king Alfonso VI of Leon
and Castile enters Toledo in 1085. During the 12th BIBLIOGRAPHY:
century, the Almoravid and the Almohad dynasties NOIRIEL Gérard, Le creuset français. Histoire de
reunify momentarily Al-Andalus, which disappears in l’immigration en France, XIXe-XXe siècle, Paris, Seuil,
1212 at the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa. The collection Point Histoire, réédition 2007, n° H 161.
encounter of the three monotheisms contributed to the VERLEY Patrick, La première révolution industrielle, A.
birth of an original culture. Colin, 1999
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include : the institutions governing political life in ♦ The Transition
Rome and the provinces, how Roman society
♦ The Socialist Era
developped after Julius Caesar and the organisation of
the Roman army. ♦ The Governments of the Popular Party
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Paul PETIT, La paix romaine, Paris, 1967
- Javier Tusell, Historia de España en el siglo
Y. LE BOHEC, Urbs, Rome de César à Commode, Paris,
XX ( cuatro volúmenes )
2001
- Pedro Aguado Blaye, Historia de España
• P.LE ROUX, le haut empire romain en
- Miguel Ángel Ruiz Carnicer, La España de
occident d’Auguste aux sévères
Franco (1939-1975). Cultura y vida
• M.SARTRE, Le H-E les provinces de
cotidiana
méditerranée orientale d’Auguste aux
- Marín, José María - Molinero, Carme - Ysás,
sévères, Paris 1997.
Pere, Historia política de España 1939-
• C.BRIAN,L’empire romain d’Auguste à
2000
Domitien, Paris 2001.
- Victoria Prego, Así se hizo la Transición
• P.PETIT, Histoire générale de l’empire romain,
- Guy Hermet, L’Espagne au XXè siècle
tome le haut empire1974
__________________________________________
• J.CARCOPINO, la vie quotidienne à Rome à
l’apogée de l’empire, Paris 1939
LCE3E/21a : LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY (19th &
• R.ETIENNE, La vie quotidienne à Pompéi,
20th CENTURIES)
Paris 1977.
Spring Semester
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Pierre Guichard, L’Espagne et la Sicile musulmanes
aux XIe et XIIe siècles, Lyon 2000. 8- Other Tourist Sites in Egypt
Louis Cadaillac, Tolède XIIe-XIIIe siècles, Musulmans, Areas of natural beauty
chrétiens et Juifs. Le savoir et la tolérance. Byzantine and coptic sites
________________________________________ Medieval islamic sites
Contemporary Egyptian architecture
H4/4a : A HISTORY OF HISTORY (seminar)
9- Issues in the heritage industry today
Fall and Spring Semesters
Use and abuse of Egyptian artifacts today
Museums and Egyptian cultural policy
History majors or graduate students only
The Supreme council for Antiquities and how
it works
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 6
Temporary and permanent foreign input
Art and business
COURSE PROGRAM:
- Historical research and how to go about it.
Selected bibliography:
- History in the ancient world.
J. BAINES, J. MALEK, Atlas de l’Égypte ancienne, Paris :
- History in the Middle Ages
Le Fanal, 1990
- History in the 16th century: from humanism
F. DUNAND, R. LICHTENBERG, Des animaux et des
to religious conflict
hommes, une symbiose égyptienne, Paris, éditions du
- Historians in the 17th century
Rocher, 2005
- History and the Enlightenment
D. LABOURY, L’Égypte pharaonique (Idées reçues,
- The 19th century: from the Romantic view
Histoire et Civilisations), Paris : Le Cavalier Bleu, 2001
of history to the Positivist approach
B. LEGRAS, L’Égypte grecque et romaine, Paris : A.
- The 20th century: the methodological
Colin (collection U.), 2004
approach, contemporary schools of thought
G. POSENER et alii, Dictionnaire de la civilisation
égyptienne, Paris : Hazan, 1959
P. VERNUS, Affaires et scandales sous les Ramsès,
MCC4/7b : INTERNATIONAL HERITAGE: EGYPT Paris : Pygmalion, 1993
Spring Semester
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catholique en République populaire de Chine (1er juillet COURSE PROGRAM:
2007) ». The 19th century is characterised by a concentration of
And consult: power in Europe which, by 1914, dominates the whole
-On the Chinese rural world: Liu Xinglong, « La déesse world through its colonies. The class will provide some
de la modernité », traduction, Françoise Naour, tools for analysis allowing students to understand the
préface F.Y. Damon, Bleu de Chine, 1999 different European powers at the time.
-On the population: Isabelle Attané, « Une Chine sans ___________________________________
femmes? » Perrin-Asies, 2005
-On contemporary history: John K. Fairbank, « La LCE4/3b : HISTORY OF IDEAS
grande révolution chinoise », Champs-Flammarion, Spring Semester
1989
-On China and globalization: a novel, Jean-François Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2
Susbielle, « La morsure du dragon », Points-Seuil-
Thriller 2005. COURSE PROGRAM:
___________________________________________ Aristotle
Rome & Christianity
LCE4/3b : Renaissance & Reformation : Jean BODIN
ADVANCED BRITISH CIVILISATION SEMINAR : Absolute Monarchy in the XVIIth century
THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY 1787-1840 Locke & Montesquieu
Fall Semester Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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MCC4/3c : OUR ARCHEOLOGICAL HERITAGE ANONYME, Guide d’architecture de la métropole
Fall Semester lilloise, Lille métropole, Courtrai, Tournai, Ypres, Paris,
Le Passage, 2004
Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 1 VOUTERS, Bruno and Rémi, Les peintres du Nord : le
feu sacré, Lille, La Voix du Nord, 2004
COURSE PROGRAM: We shall present the work of an LANEYRIE-DAGEN, Nadeije, L’art pour guide, Paris,
archeologist in France, describing methods of work and Gallimard, 2006
the different types of site explored. Revue Vieilles Maisons Françaises 1995 n°155 Nord,
• The legal framework. 1997 n° ?, Pas-de-Calais
• Archeology in the region. Who does what. Pays du Nord : magazine bimestriel consacré au
Law since the 1970s. tourisme, au patrimoine et à l’art de vivre en Nord-
• From pre-history to the Gallo-Roman period Pas-de-Calais, Picardie et Belgique frontalière, depuis
• The Middle Ages 1994.
• From the dig to the museum – presenting
discoveries. INTERNET WEBSITES:
• Specific vocabulary, information. www.musenor.fr
• Museums, research organisations, clubs …
different motivations and priorities
MCC5/3c : INTERNATIONAL HERITAGE: THE
We shall visit an archeological dig in Douai and analyse MIDDLE EAST
what we see there. Fall Semester
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- Session 7 – The Andes 2: Cultural events and - Civilisation: the same program as LCE2
modern reinventions. The big cities through their beginners Italian
history in the Andean space.
Oral presentation: Choice of a city or a nature park
from an Andean country (e.g. Galapagos islands) BIBLIOGRAPHY: O. ULYSSE – Précis de grammaire
- Session 8 – Brazil 1: Miscegenation and history. italienne – Classiques Hachette
Explorers, mission churches and immigrants. The TOURING CLUB ITALIANO’s guide to the region
Oral presentation: Dom Helder Camara concerned
- Session 9 – Brazil 2: The Amazonian universe. The
vertigo of space. The natural heritage, the economic
stakes, the aboriginal societies in danger. LCE1/7b INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN 2
Oral presentation: The Amazonas river or an Spring Semester
Amazonian ethnic group.
- Session 10 – The Southern Cone 1: The various
Prerequisites: Students must have completed at least
southern societies. The European immigration and the
two years of Italian
material construction.
Oral presentation: The Jesuit reductions or the
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2
background of big sites of the natural or urban
heritage.
Continuation of LCE1/3d
- Session 11 – The Southern Cone 2 :The big country
and the society. The pampa, the “gaucho” and the
cities and cultural productions. LEA2/12b : ITALIAN - LEVEL 2
Oral presentation: the Tango Fall Semester
- Session 12 – Conclusion
Prerequisites: Students must have completed at
least one year of Italian
COURSE PROGRAM:
LEA1/8b : BEGINNERS ITALIAN 2 - Translation (both ways)
Spring Semester - Grammar
- Italian history: From the Fall of Rome to the
PREREQUISITES: Students must have completed at Renaissance
least one semester of Italian ___________________________________________
Prerequisites: Students must have completed at least Classes: 2 hours per week
two years of Italian Continuation of fall semester
___________________________________________
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
LEA3/20b : ITALIAN - LEVEL 3
COURSE PROGRAM: Fall Semester
- Translation from Italian into French and vice
versa, Grammar, written expression
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Prerequisites: Students must have completed at Initiation à la langue latine et à son système (Sédes)
least two years of Italian le Gaffiot de poche, Hachette
IMPORTANT: ALL OUR LATIN COURSES ARE TAUGHT COURSE PROGRAM: This course is for students who
IN FRENCH have already studied Latin for at least two years. We
shall be looking at various literary texts, analysing
them, revising several grammatical points, literary
H1/3g & LM1/3d : BEGINNERS LATIN
history and the history of ideas.
Fall Semester
BIBLIOGRAPHY: le Gaffiot de poche, Hachette
Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
(3 for LM1)
COURSE PROGRAM: To enable students to read and LM2/15e : LATIN LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
understand historical texts in Latin. Basic grammar Spring Semester
and vocabulary will be studied but also how to use
GAFFIOT. We shall start to read texts from Roman Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
historians like Tacitus and Suetonius. Students will
also practice translation from Latin to French. COURSE PROGRAM: Continuation of LM2/11e
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Méthode de langue latine (Nathan Université) H2/11c1 & LM/11d : LATIN LEVEL 2
Initiation à la langue latine (Sédes) Fall Semester
Initiation à la langue latine et à son système, manuel
pour grands débutants, S.Deléani et J-M.vermander, Prerequisites: Students should have already
éd.sedes completed at least one semester of Latin
le Gaffiot de poche, Hachette
Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
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H2/11c2 : ADVANCED LATIN
Fall Semester Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 3
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Initiation à la langue latine (Sédes)
Law
H2/15c2 : ADVANCED LATIN IMPORTANT: ALL OUR LAW COURSES ARE TAUGHT IN
Spring Semester FRENCH
Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 3 LEA1/2d : INTRODUCTION TO FRENCH LAW
Fall Semester
COURSE PROGRAM: We shall be studying extracts
from the historical works of the following authors : Lectures: 1 hour per week Tutorials: 1 hour per
• Livy week
• Sallustus ECTS credits: 2.5
• Suetonius
• Tacitus OBJECTIVE: French law is a social phenomenon. It
arises from life in society and the relationships
BIBLIOGRAPHY: between individuals. Without society, law would be
Livy : histoire romaine , classique Hatier unnecessary. Without law, the harmonious
Tacitus, annales, (book 12 and 13, Neron) development of society is impossible.
J.M. DAVID, La République romaine (Points Histoire)
_______________________________________ One must have a wide vision of the notion of French
law. It’s not limited to regulations nor to the decisions
LM3/19d : LATIN : TRANSLATING TEXTS of policymakers nor to those of any jurisdiction. French
Fall Semester law exists because men live in society and their life
must be regulated, bordered with clear definitions of
Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 3 what can or cannot be done, for any individual but also
for the whole society (the Government in particular).
Prerequisites: Students should have already This rather large subject has many different aspects;
completed at least three years of Latin the judicial power is closely linked to the social but
also economic, political and indeed scientific
COURSE PROGRAM: phenomena.
Epic : comparative study of the Odyssey and of
the Aeneid. The objective of this course is to enable students to
Myth: of Prometheus, Pandora, Orpheus and understand the French law system and to analyse it
Jason. according to its own principles. This suggests not only
Poetry: a Greek tragedy written by one of the to know what French law means but also, beyond that,
three main dramatists: Aeschylus or Sophocles or to understand its specific logic and mechanisms.
Euripides.
Dialogue: one of Plato’s dialogues: Phaedra or the Tutorials aim at learning about French law and its
Symposium. enforcement. Studying, solving study cases and
exercises specific to French law must be
ASSESSMENT: a 4 hour written exam: the translation complemented by reading the press in order to get
of a text. more a critical eye and to improve one’s vision of
_________________________________________ political, social phenomena related to French law.
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COURSE PROGRAM: Towards a Definition of French M. FONTAINE, R. CAVALERIE, J.A. HASSENFORDER –
Law Dictionnaire du droit – Foucher
Title1: The Different Sources of French Law ___________________________________________
Chapter 1: French law
Section 1: How is a law created? P1/12a LAW FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS
Section 2: The pyramid of regulations Fall Semester
Chapter 2: French jurisprudence
Section 1: The organization of jurisdiction Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
Section 2: Jurisprudence as source of French
law COURSE PROGRAM: Understanding why the law is
useful and how to apply it
Title 2: The French Legal Status of Persons and • The various types of law and where they
Objects apply
Chapter1: • The law of the land and how it is applied. Who
The French legal status of persons and objects needs to obey and theconsequences if they
Section 1: French law and the individual person don’t.
Section 2: French property law
Chapter 2: Judicial Acts and Facts BIBLIOGRAPHY: Will be confirmed at the beginning
Section 1: Judicial acts of the year
Section 2: Judicial facts
ASSESSEMENT: The exam will be under the form of: COURSE PROGRAM: Towards the Enforcement of
- A written essay on a given subject French Law
- A commentary on a text Title 1: French Legal Method
- A series of questions (10 at the most in a 2- Chapter 1: French legal method
hour exam) Section 1: Procedures, forms and rituals
- A case study Section 2: Guarantees
Chapter 2: French Legal Reasoning
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Many books of introduction to Section 1: The particularities of the French
French law are available. It is impossible to legal reasoning
recommend one book rather than another for the Section 2: French law and justice
content of some is closer to that of the course and the
method used by teachers. Title 2: The Enforcement of French Law
Chapter 1: French lawsuits
Owning one of the books below is not necessary during Section 1: Pre-jurisdictional stage
the first weeks, but students are advised to get used Section 2: Jurisdictional stage
to the French legal vocabulary and method before Chapter 2: Sanctions
buying a difficult book which they don’t understand. Section 1: Financial penalties
Section 2: Civil imprisonment
P.SANDEVOIR - Introduction au droit - Paris, DUNOD,
CNFPT
J.C. RICCI - Introduction à l’étude du droit - Paris, LEA2/10d : FRENCH BUSINESS LAW
Hachette supérieur, coll. Les Fondamentaux
Fall Semester
1- General introduction to French law The classes will enable students to get basic
2- French civil law, French constitutional law, French knowledge of the main concepts and mechanisms of
administrative law and French business law French business law. Tutorials provide an opportunity
to consider the different concepts studied in class from
BIBLIOGRAPHY: a practical point of view: analyse the rules of French
B. STARCK, HENRI ROLAND, LAURENT BOYER – business law and discuss legal cases.
Introduction au droit – Litec
J.L. SOURIOUX – Introduction au droit, Dalloz COURSE PROGRAM: Introduction
J.P HUE – Droit – volume 1, Seuil (Mémo)
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Section 1: Definition and development of know the rights linked to European citizenship and
French business law understand the European law fundamentals.
Section 2: French business law and its
applications COURSE PROGRAM:
Section 3: The sources of French business law Part 1: Institutional Europe
Section 4: The competent institutions of Chapter 1: The political and control institutions
French business law - The common political institutions: the European
council and the council of the EU, the Commission and
Part 1: Commercial Companies the Parliament.
Title 1: The Stakeholders in a Commercial - The control institutions: the law court and the trial
Company court
Chapter 1: Private companies Chapter 2: The European Union’s law
Chapter 2: Commercial groupings - The European Union’s competences
- The sources of the European Union’s law: the
PERSONAL WORK: Like during the freshman year, fundamental sources, the treaties, the derived law
students will have some work to prepare for every (regulations and directives), the non-written sources.
tutorial. This may be a document study, a commentary - European and national laws: effects and primacy
on a legal text or decision…
Part 2: European citizenship
ASSESSEMENT: In addition, in order to evaluate their Chapter 1: The notion of citizenship
knowledge, students will take one of the following - European and national citizenship
exams: a written essay, a commentary on a text or a - Citizenship and fundamental rights
judgement, a case study or a series of questions… Chapter 2: The European citizenship status
- The European citizen as a political participant: the
participation to European and local elections
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Documentation on French business - The European citizen and his/her protections: the
law is mainly composed of essays and manuals, diplomatic and consular protections, the petition right,
specialized magazines, codes… Students are the European ombudsman, the right to communicate
recommended to consult these to prepare tutorials. with the European institutions and the Community
Those documents are available in libraries. A full organizations.
description will be given during tutorials.
ASSESSEMENT: One written exam and one final
Students may feel the need to complement the written exam.
explanations given in class by reading reference
books. There are many of those about French business BIBLIOGRAPHY:
law. However, this is a very wide topic. Some books Moreau-Defarges P., les institutions européennes,
deal with very specific issues, which are not studied in armand colin , 2007
class. Besides, some essays are very (too!) detailed. It Gaudron J.C., droit européen, dalloz 2007, 308p
is hard to recommend a single volume. Possessing Dollat P. Droit européen et droit de l'Union
such a book is not indispensable during the first européenne, Sirey 2007
classes and it may be wise to get used to the topic Jacqué J.P., Droit institutionnel de l’Union européenne,
before buying a manual. dalloz, 2007
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ECTS credits: 3
BIBLIOGRAPHY: No specific recommendations can
OBJECTIVE: To present the business environment be made. Students are responsible for gathering
from a French legal point of view. information about their chosen career.
In addition to this, you will study characteristic H3/24a : EUROPEAN COMMUNITY LAW
modifications (due to the constant evolution of Spring Semester
employment legislation), the specific rules of collective
conflicts and how the jurisdiction of an industrial Lectures: 3 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
tribunal works, with equal representation for both
sides. COURSE PROGRAM: Focuses on the judicial history of
the construction of the European Community to grasp
Students will discover that French employment law is its particularities and those of the European Union.
extremely exciting, diverse and learning it gives you Following this, the community institutions and
the essential keys to comprehend the role of every European community law will be studied in detail.
“stakeholder” in a company.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
COURSE PROGRAM: Historical Introduction to the JL CARTOU – L’union européenne – Dalloz
Organization and Evolution of French Employment G. BOSSUAT – Les fondateurs de l’Europe – Belin
Law. Website: www.europa.eu.int or www.ue.eu.com, for
instance
The course will be divided into 3 parts:
Title 1: Work Context ___________________________________________
The organization of work
The relationship between employers
employees
and
Mathematics & Finance
Title 2: Collective Representation IMPORTANT: ALL OUR MATHEMATICS AND FINANCE
Organization COURSES ARE TAUGHT IN FRENCH
Trade Unions
LEA1/3b : STATISTICS
Title 3: Collective Bargaining and Conflicts Fall Semester
Collective agreements
Strikes and other kinds of conflict Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2
Tutorials will focus on the direct study of texts given in OBJECTIVE: Students must be able to analyse
class (French business law is always changing, statistics by consulting the range and position of data.
therefore it is essential for students to be able to keep Moreover, they must be able to define the margin of
their knowledge up-to-date). error between interdependent variables to make
estimates.
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Covariance consider their application to psychology. It is essential
for students to understand that statistics allow us to
Chapter 2: Margins of Error set up powerful, rigorous methods of analysis, in every
A) Correlations field of Psychology.
Calculating coefficients
Interpreting results This course will cover:
elements which enable you to choose workable
B) Adjustments statistical methods, according to the nature of
Linear adjustments the variables at stake
Mean adjustment Explanatory formal principles on how to set up a
Mayer’s method statistical analysis
Non-linear adjustment Ways of interpreting results and drawing
Logarithmic adjustment conclusions: modes, medians, mean,
Exponential adjustment standard deviation, etc.
The use of statistical analysis and the scientific
ASSESSMENT: a 2 hour exam: exercises concerning rigour necessary in psychology
theoretical demonstrations.
COURSE PROGRAM:
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Introduction
W. MASIERI – Statistique et calcul de probabilité – ed. Statistics and psychology
Sirey History and definition of statistics
LANGLOIS, BAUVAL, GRANIER, GINLBAUD – Analyse Basic concepts (methods of research, procedures,
statistique probabilités – ed. Foucher variables and protocols)
GROSDIDIER – Outils de mathématique de gestion – Nominal structure
ed. Foucher Ordinal structure
Metric and interval method
Numerical structure
LEA1/7b : BASIC BOOKKEEPING Links between 2 variables
Spring Semester Contingency variables
Correlation and simple linear regression
Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2 Relations between 2 variables
Relations between 2 ordinal variables (Spearman’s
variable coefficients)
OBJECTIVE: Students must be able to master the
Relations between numerical and nominal
main concepts in order to solve concrete problems
variables
(investments, borrowings, etc.)
Partial correlation and multiple regression
COURSE PROGRAM:
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Chapter 1: Indices
H. ROUANET, B. LE ROUX, M.C. BERT – Statistiques et
Simple indexes
Sciences Humaines : procédures naturelles – Dunod
Synthetic indexes
B. BEAUFILS – Statistiques appliquées à la
Paasche’s method
psychologie. Statistiques descriptives – coll. Lexifac,
Lapaeyre’s method
Réal
Chapter 2: Interest
Simple interest
P2/21a STATISTICS FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS 2
Compound interest
Spring Semester
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LEA3/18a : INTRODUCTION TO
BANKING AND INSURANCE ASSESSMENT: Questions and exercises
Fall Semester
Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2 MCC5/1c PUBLIC FINANCES & CULTURE
Fall Semester
COURSE PROGRAM: Introduction to careers in
banking and insurance. How banks and insurance Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
companies function. Loans, investments, risk
management, the currency markets. OBJECTIVE:
First of all students should learn how public finances in
France are managed on the national and local levels
LEA3/23b : FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT and be able to identify both who spends what and how
Spring Semester they gain access to it. A second aim is to present as
fully as possible the different actors on the regional
Lectures: 1 hour per week Tutorials: 1 hour per level whose support is essential for those working in
week the cultural domain. We shall see how cultural policy
ECTS credits: 2 and the grants available combine with private financial
investment in order to realize large projects. Students
COURSE PROGRAM: should therefore gain awareness of how to find the
Introduction: The importance of Financial money for any project they may wish to set up.
Management in companies
Chapter 1: Introduction to financial analysis COURSE PROGRAM:
Chapter 2: Studying balance sheets Part 1 : Public money
Chapter 3: Studying an annual financial statement Chapter 1 : The Budget
Chapter 4: Budgeting Chapter 2 : Local finances
Part 2 : Regional grants and culture
Chapter 1 : Basic principles of cultural policy
LEA2/11b : INTRO TO ACCOUNTANCY Chapter 2 : The money available and who decides how
Fall Semester to spend it
Chapter 3 : Art and tax. Financial problems for the
Lectures: 1 hour per week Tutorials: 1 hour per heritage industry.
week ___________________________________________
ECTS credits: 2
P4/1b STATISTICS & IT
COURSE PROGRAM: Spring Semester
1. General introduction: accountancy logic
2. Analysing and book-keeping your cash flow Lectures: 1 hour lecture and 2h seminar per week
3. Organising your accounting ECTS credits: 3
4. VAT
5. Purchasing and selling operations COURSE PROGRAM: Discovering the Statview
6. Immobilizations software and learning to use it in a professional
7. Immobilization transfers context.
8. Stock variations _______________________________________
9. Reserves
10. Regulating expenses and products LEA4/6bt : MANAGEMENT COSTS ANALYSIS
Spring Semester
LM3/20a & LM3/24a : MATHEMATICS FOR Lectures: 16 hours in total ECTS credits: 2
FUTURE TEACHERS
Fall & Spring Semesters OBJECTIVE: Define the costs and use statistics tools
COURSE PROGRAM:
Measuring central dispersion trends
Studying Gauss’s curve MCC4/5c : ACCOUNTANCY & MANAGEMENT FOR
Principles of hypothesis testing CULTURAL PROJECTS
Conformity tests: comparing parameters with Spring Semester
norms
Homogeneity tests: comparing 2 parameters with Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 1
each other
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OBJECTIVE: This course will provide the basic B / What happens to it once you’ve sent it off
accountancy and management knowledge by studying C / How long does it take ?
cultural, touristic and heritage examples.
When you create a project, you need to do, follow and V - EUROPE
close a budget. The course will give students the keys A / Sponsorship programs
to understand the things at stake and the risks of B / Structural funds
budget management.
VI - PATRONAGE
COURSE PROGRAM: A / What is it ?
Accountancy: definition, double-entry accounting, B / Relationship between the sponsor and the
financial accounting, cost accounting, chart of event organisers
accounts, compulsory files, balance sheet, profit and C / Patronage and tax
loss statement, cash-flow… __________________________________________
Management: a definition
Budget management: production and operating ADS4/2f FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OF
budgets… CULTURAL PROJECTS
The management tools for creating a project Fall Semester
(fundraising, cost assessment).
Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
ASSESSMENT: A two hour written exam, and a two
hour written final exam. OBJECTIVE:
This course teaches students how to manage the
budget for a cultural event
ADS4/2b : SPONSORSHIP OF CULTURAL • Learning how to draw up the original budget
PROJECTS and to estimate costs and potential income.
Fall Semester • Making and justifying budgetary choices
• Presenting the accounts
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2
COURSE PROGRAM:
OBJECTIVE: 1 : Accountancy and taxation
This course aims to give the student the most detailed 2: Calculating profit and loss
vision possible of the various financial partnerships 3: Budgeting a live show or concert
which can found when organising a cultural event. To 4: Feasability studies : short-term financial
do this, we shall look at the specificities of the cultural managemnt, cost-effective budgeting
scene in France and start with the possibility of 5: Cash flow problems : planning your cash flow,
sponsorship by the state. We shall look at the different maintaining a good relationship with your bank.
types of grants and subsidies available and how to 6: Conclusion and how to wind up your accounts after
appky for them. We shall also look at the private the event.
sector and the area of patronage and sponsorship by ________________________________________
companies.
LEA5/3dt : MANAGEMENT COSTS ANALYSIS
COURSE PROGRAM: Spring Semester
B / REGIONAL OR LOCAL AUTHORITIES ASSESSMENT: Two case studies in pairs and a final
Who do we mean exactly ? written exam
How the regional authorities work
How the departmental authorities work BIBLIOGRAPHY:
How the municipal authorites work Gestion des entreprises touristiques, éditions bréal
The Arts Council and its influence
WEBSITES:
III - GRANTS www.minefi.gouv.fr
A / What are these ?
B / Grants for specific projects or investments
C / Money grants or other forms of assistance LEA5/9f : INTERNATIONAL FINANCE & RISK
D / Legal context of grants MANAGEMENT
E / Inspections – keeping on the right side of Fall Semester
the law
F / Tax issues THIS COURSE IS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY
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Chapter 1. International Operations
I. The Theory COURSE PROGRAM:
A) Market-based theory Aristotle
B) Company-based theories Rome & Christianity
C) Eclectic theory for international production Renaissance & Reformation : Jean BODIN
Absolute Monarchy in the XVIIth century
II. Practice Locke & Montesquieu
A) Exports Jean-Jacques Rousseau
B) International patents
C) International franchising A new type of state : the USA
D) Direct investment Declaration of the Rights of Man
E) Strategic alliances The Republic
F) Risk to Capital
III. International Financial Markets The romantic nations
A) Eurocredits Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in
B) The essential international markets America
C) The effects of the Euro Hegel & the modern state
D) Euro-shares Karl Marx
Conflicts over nationality
Chapter 2. Risks in International Business & Insuring Barrès & nationalism
against them German nationalism
I. Risks concerning changes in the exchange rate Forms of romantic socialism
A) Internal means of insurance __________________________________________
B) External means of insurance
II. Risks concerning the interest rate ADS3/28d : ADVANCED AESTHETICS
A) The futures market Spring Semester
B) Insurance by varying interest options
III. Political risks Students on this course should already have studied at
A) Comparative techniques least one course on aesthetics or the philosophy of art.
B) Analytical techniques
C) Econometric techniques Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
IMPORTANT: ALL OUR PHILOSOPHY COURSES AIM : This course is specifically intended for
ARE TAUGHT IN FRENCH. international students who have never studied French
politics and institutions in detail before.
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• The French overseas departments and states, starting with Hippodamos in ancient Greece
territories and their regimes and finishing with the European Union today. Although
• French Political parties and the electoral the approach will not be entirely chronological, we
system. The political elite. shall aim to cover all the most influential thinkers to
• France’s role in Europe and the world. be found in this domaine throughout the ages.
• Education in France Extracts from the writings of Herodutus, Socrates,
Plato, Aristotle, St Augustine, Justinian, Thomas
EVALUATION : Students will take a test in class Aquinas, Machiavelli, William of Occam, Hobbes,
halfway through the semester and a final written Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Proudhon, Brunner
exam. etc. will be examined in some detail in class.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- ARDANT (P.) : Institutions politiques et droit • Lavroff, Les grandes étapes de la pensée
constitutionnel, 13e édition, Paris ; L.G.D.J., politique, Dalloz Prélot, Lescuyer, Histoire des
2001 Idées politiques, Dalloz, plusieurs éditions.
- CHANTEBOUT (B.) : Droit constitutionnel et • Lavroff, Les grandes étapes de la pensée
science politique, 18e édition, A. Colin, 2001. politique, Dalloz, 2 éditions
- FRANCOIS (B.) : Le régime politique de la • Il peut être pertinent de se procurer ou de
France, Paris , La Découverte, 1998. consulter les éditions récentes de certaines
Site Internet œuvres. A titre d'exemple et parmi une
www. Legifrance. gouv. fr littérature abondante :
___________________________________________ • Aristote, Les politiques ou La politique, dans
une multitude d'éditions diverses et variées
LEA1/2a : INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH • Bodin, Les six livres de la République, dont
INSTITUTIONS une excellente version abrégée est disponible
Fall Semester en livre de poche
• Hérodote, Thucydide, dont un recueil intégral
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH des deux auteurs est disponible en Pléiade
• Hobbes, Le Léviathan, entre autre dans sa
Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2.5 traduction de F. Tricaud publiée chez L.G.D.J.
• Machiavel, Le prince, disponible dans
OBJECTIVE: We will study British institutions and plusieurs versions de poche
society structure in the four countries making up the • Platon, notamment La République, disponible
United Kingdom. en livre de poche
• Rousseau, Le contrat social, disponible chez
COURSE PROGRAM: plusieurs éditeurs de poche
- Political geography
- Parliament
- Constitution H2/16b : WESTERN DEMOCRACIES
- Government Spring Semester
- Electoral system
- Political parties Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2
- Devolution
- Trade Unions COURSE PROGRAM: An overview of the different
- The Welfare State types of democratic government in the West :
republics, constitutional monarchies, federalism etc.
PERSONAL WORK: students will learn to understand
and analyse British press articles and political leaders’ BIBLIOGRAPHY:
speeches. M. CROISAT – Le fédéralisme dans les démocraties
contemporaines – Paris
BIBLIOGRAPHY: M. CHARLOT – Le système politique britannique – coll.
B. COTTRET, M. HEARN, A. MIOCHE – Manuel de U2
civilisation britannique – Bréal C. AUTHEXIER – Droit constitutionnel allemand – Paris,
D. SCHOLES – La Grande-Bretagne contemporaine - 1990
Bréal _______________________________________
G. BLAMONT – Les clés de la civilisation britannique -
Ellipse LEA2/10a : BRITISH POLITICS, ECONOMICS AND
Suzy HALIMI – La Grande-Bretagne : Histoire & SOCIETY, 1815-1945
civilisation (2nd part : « Britain today ») – Presses Fall Semester
Universitaires de Nancy
Websites : THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk
http://www.times.co.uk Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2
OBJECTIVE:
H1/8a : HISTORY OF POLITICAL IDEAS At the end of the course, the student should be able
Spring Semester to: understand and comment on the essential aspects
of the social, political, economic and ideological
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 4 structures of the British industrial society from the
beginnings of the industrial revolution.
COURSE PROGRAM: This class attempts to give an
overview of the history of political ideas. We shall look COURSE PROGRAM:
at issues connected with the organisation of society, The industrial revolution and the industrial
from the city to the empire, state or federation of developments up to World War I
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The economic and social conditions during the Grasp the basic principles of European law.
Victorian era
The political evolution to the universal suffrage COURSE PROGRAM:
The interwar period FIRST PART : Europe and her institutions
Lectures: 1 hour per week Tutorial: 1 hour per week CHAPTER 2 : European law
ECTS credits: 2
SECTION 1 : The powers of the European Union
OBJECTIVE:
Acquire an understanding of important questions SECTION 2 : The sources of European law
regarding the theory and practice of state and federal 1) The main sources
government in the United States; a) The treaties
Acquire ability to reason and explain the causes and b) Derived law : regulations and directives
consequences of government decisions; 2) Unwritten sources
Learn to analyse and comment on primary and
secondary documents; SECTION 3 : European law and national law : effects
Acquire oral and written skills in English. and primacy
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Learn to analyse and comment on primary and - The Republican Age
secondary documents;
Acquire oral and written skills in English. ASSESSMENT:
A research paper and a final written exam.
COURSE PROGRAM:
The course is divided into 4 thematic units, which in BIBLIOGRAPHY:
each case will be approached from a historical CHAFE, William H. The Unfinished Journey: America
perspective: Since World War II (Oxford University Press, 2002)
Unit I The United States Government and the CHAFE, William H. SITKOFF, Harvard, and BAILEY,
Constitution Beth, eds. A History of Our Time: Readings in Postwar
Unit II Education in America America (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Unit III The Media FRASER, Steve & Gary GERSTLE, eds. The Rise and
Unit IV The Economy Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980 (Princeton
University Press, 1999)
ASSESSMENT: LAFEBER, Walter America, Russia, and the Cold War
One oral presentation and a final written exam. 1945-2002 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002)
TINDALL & Shi, America: A Narrative History (Norton)
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Mauk & Oakland, American Civilization: An INTERNET WEBSITES:
Introduction, Routledge www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?flash=old&page=
Nash, Gary B., Atlas of American History, Facts on milestone
File, 2006 www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
Tindall & Shi, America: A Narrative History, Norton www.uk-us.org/
INTERNET WEBSITES:
www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?flash=old&page= LCE3/21a :
milestone THE BRITISH STATE IN THE AGE OF
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ GLOBALISATION
www.uk-us.org/ Spring Semester
_______________________________________
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
LCE3/17a :
U.S. DOMESTIC POLICY SINCE 1945 Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
Fall Semester
COURSE PROGRAM:
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH After sketching the major and concurrent
theories of the State and placing them in the heated
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3 context of the British constitutional framework,
attention will be focussed on the shift from industrial
OBJECTIVE: This course will present some of the key to post-industrial interpretations of the state and
moments in U.S. domestic policy since World War II, society in Britain. Lastly, two specific and dialectically
with specific focus on the economic, national security, opposed schemes to British reallocation of sovereignty
immigration and social welfare strategies and will be studied: Regionalisation and Europe.
approaches of the Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon and
Reagan administrations. INTRODUCTION:
-The British State: patterns of
COURSE PROGRAM: territorial awareness and constitutional legitimacy.
1. Introduction -The symbolical perspective of the
- Domestic policy institutions and decision- last century: from Decline to Globalisation.
makers CONCURENT THEORIES OF THE STATE IN
2. Truman into Eisenhower BRITAIN:
- Cold War backdrop -British institutional design between
- National Security Agency mainstream and fringe.
- G.I. Bill -Liberal State, Nation-State, Welfare
3. Eisenhower: Policing the Home Front State, State?
- McCarthyism / HUAC
4. Eisenhower: The affluent society The democratic predicament
5. LBJ THE MAJOR SHIFTS IN BRITAIN SINCE THE
- Kennedy inheritance END OF TE GOLDEN AGE:
- The Great Society -From an industrial to a post-
6. LBJ industrial society: Alternative interpretations
- The New Left of the state
- Counterculture -The “Great Disruption”
7. Nixon -Changing patterns and contentious
- The Cauldron Bubbles politics
- Energy crisis / economic decline THE “DIS-UNITED” KINGDOM: THE REGIONS,
8. Nixon EUROPE AND THE WORLD
- Plastering the cracks -Devolution and Northern Ireland
- Watergate and its legacy -European supranational governance
9. Reagan vs. British Sovereignty.
- The rise of conservatism -Global Power Politics
- Reaganomics
10. Reagan BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- Consequences of Reaganomics
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-Politics UK (5th edition)—Bill Johnes, Dennis COURSE PROGRAM:
Kavanagh & Al., Pearson Educational The origins of the Keynesian Welfare State
Ltd.,2004 (the indispensable basis). The economic and social evolution during the
-Human Geography:Change in the UK in the “consensus” period
last 30 years—David Redfern, Hodder & The Thatcher era
Stoughton,2002 (concentrates on patterns of The rise of the Shumpetarian Workfare State
urban and industrial development; a keen
analysis of the changing sectoral and spatial BIBLIOGRAPHY:
organisation of social and economic Norman LOWE, Mastering Modern British History,
networks). London, Macmillan, 2009.
-Modern England: An Economic and Social A larger bibliography will be suggested and
History—Sean Glynn & Alan Booth, Routledge, commented during the first class.
1996 (still very illuminating approaches to the ___________________________________________
social and economic changes in Britain from
the 1960’s to the 1980’s; look for it in your H3/19c : CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL & SOCIAL
local library). PROBLEMS
-On the Edge of the New Century—Eric Fall Semester
Hobsbawm, New Press, 2001 (clarifies the
debate between nation-statism and globalism Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 1
in an age of rail democracy and development
of pure capitalism). COURSE PROGRAM: Understanding contemporary
-Read with great care the introduction (at events requires a certain knowledge of historical,
least) of Francis Fukuyama’s books; it won’t philosophical, political and cultural data. Our western
take you long and it’s rewarding! (among societes have foundations which are recognised,
them, a selection:The End of History and the sometimes questionned, but very rarely discussed
Last Man, Perennial, 1992, The Great critically. The notions of democracy, representation,
Disruption,The Free Press, 2000, State- power and authority are complex and the humanist
Building:Governance and World Order in the values we have inherited are often relative. Discussing
21st century,Cornell University Press, 2004). these concepts and how they are applied in practice in
cultural perspective is essential for our understanding
___________________________________________ of current events. In addition to this necessary
background data, we also need to have the intellectual
LEA3/18c : INTRODUCTION TO tools to analyse the facts in a constructive manner.
AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY
Fall Semester BIBLIOGRAPHY: Some bibliographical indications will
be distributed each week. Reading the serious
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH international press is essential.
_______________________________________
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 4
H3/23b : CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL & SOCIAL
COURSE PROGRAM: PROBLEMS 2
• The decision-making processes for foreign Spring Semester
policy in the USA
• The role of the Secretary of State, the Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2
President etc.
• The principal tendencies in recent American COURSE PROGRAM: Contemporary social issues are
foreign policy a fashionable subject of discussion. Understanding
them requires a grasp of how societes have been
ASSESSMENT: Students will be examined orally : organised throughout history and also an
students will have to make a report concerning a understanding of modern, spontaneous form of
research done on one theme during the semester. This behaviour and contemporary political and conomic
oral presentation will be followed by 5 questions phenomena. Analysing these correctly is essential if we
concerning the course. are to understand what is going on around us and put
it into some kind of context. This class provides
BIBLIOGRAPHY: ALLNER & PORTIS, La politique essential preparation for those planning to study
étrangère américaine depuis 1945 political science or international relations at graduate
___________________________________________ level or for those intending to take the competitive
examinations for the civil service.
LEA3/18c : FROM WELFARE TO WORKFARE:
BRITAIN IN THE 20th CENTURY BIBLIOGRAPHY : A bibiography will be distributed
Fall Semester during the first class
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secular state in its American form and the notion of
“civil religion”.
COURSE PROGRAM:
- America’s puritan heritage
Psychology
- « A City upon the Hill »
- Institutional separation between religion and IMPORTANT: ALL OUR PSYCHOLOGY COURSES
politics ARE TAUGHT IN FRENCH (UNLESS OTHERWISE
- Civil religion STATED)
- Martin Luther King
- The importance of maoral values in the electoral P1/1a : INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY
process Fall Semester
- The Evangelicals and George W. Bush
- Obama and a liberal approach to the Islamic Classes: 2h30 per week ECTS credits: 6
World
_______________________________________ OBJECTIVE: To give an introduction to the history of
psychology and the main themes studied
MCC4/1c : FRENCH TOURISM: LEGAL &
POLITICAL FRAMEWORK COURSE PROGRAM:
Fall Semester • What is psychology ?
• A brief history of psychology
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3 • Different specialities : clinical, social etc.
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Lectures: 2h per week Seminar: 1 hour per week OBJECTIVE: To give an introduction to the different
ECTS credits: 6 research methods used in psychological research.
Basic research procedures & ethics.
OBJECTIVE: To give an introduction to different
themes studied in social psychology. To teach students COURSE PROGRAM:
to analyse a situation according to psychological • What is psychological research ?
principles. • What are a hypothesis ? a theory ?
• Understanding variable factors
COURSE PROGRAM: • Basic psychometry
• Gregariousness and sociability • Research procedures and standards
• Imitation and norms
• Conformity and obedience
• Changes of attitude P2/13a : GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY 2
• Resistance and innovation Fall Semester
• Attraction and altrusim
• Cause & effect Classes: 3 hours per week ECTS credits: 6
• Relationships and conflicts in a given group
• How impressions are formed COURSE PROGRAM:
• Aggression • A detailed examination of the concept of
memory
BIBLIOGRAPHY: • Introduction to chrono-psychologie and its
LEYENS & YZERBYT, Psychologie sociale application to health, work and education
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
P1/7a : INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL J.L. ROULIN, Psychologie cognitive (Bréal)
PSYCHOLOGY
Spring Semester
P2/15a : METHODOLOGY FOR CLINICAL
Lectures: 2h per week Seminar: 1 hour per week PSYCHOLOGY
ECTS credits: 6 Fall Semester
OBJECTIVE: To give an introduction to the history of Lectures: 2h per week Seminar: 1 hour per week
clinical pathology and to learn the vocabulary needed ECTS credits: 6
to describe psychotic and anxiety problems
COURSE PROGRAM:
COURSE PROGRAM: • What is clinical methodology ?
• A brief history of clinical psychology • Epistemological value and limits of the clinical
• How to analyse a psychological case method
• Psychoses • Interview technique for adults & children
• Anxiety • Demand – need – desire
• Uses and abuses of clinical practice
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P2/21b : PSYCHOMETRY 1 • Manic depression
Spring Semester • Freudian theories
COURSE PROGRAM:
P2/14a : NEUROSCIENCE 1 • Relationship between epistemology and
Fall Semester psychology
• Brief history of epistemology
Classes: 3 hours per week ECTS credits: 6 • Basic principles of epistemology as applied to
psychology
OBJECTIVE: The brain and the nervous system at
different ages from the embryo to old age. A detail
study of the structure of the adult human brain and P2/22b : ETHICS IN PSYCHOLOGY
how it works. Spring Semester
Lectures: 2h30 per week Seminar: 1h30 per week P3/26a : CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
ECTS credits: 6 APPLIED TO CHILDREN
Fall Semester
COURSE PROGRAM:
• Nevroses Lectures: 2h per week Seminar: 1 hour per week
• Psychoses
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ECTS credits: 6 Fall Semester
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
D. MARCELLI, Psychopathologie de l’enfant (Masson) P3/29c : GROUP BEHAVIOUR
Fall Semester
P3/28b : PSYCHOMETRY 2
P3/27a : CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY Fall Semester
APPLIED TO ADOLESCENTS
Fall Semester Lectures: 1h30 per week Lab: 2 hours per week
ECTS credits: 2
Lectures: 2h per week Seminar: 1 hour per week
ECTS credits: 6 COURSE PROGRAM:
• Psychometry for children and adolescents
COURSE PROGRAM: • Rohrsach’s Test
• Communication in psychotic or other • The Thematic Aperception Test
abmormal states • Wechsler’s Adult Intelligence Scale
• Psychopathology of deliquents
• Criminal psychopathology
• Understanding juvenile deliquence P3/31a : COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
• Therapies for deliquents Spring Semester
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COURSE PROGRAM: ___________________________________________
• Language acquisition and mechanisms,
understanding languge, use of lexical P3/32c : TREATING NERVE RELATED MOTOR
elements PROBLEMS
• Intelligence – what is IQ ? Different Spring Semester
approaches to intelligence (from Spearman to
Guilford to Piaget’s genetic approach or Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2
Sternberg’s cognitive approach)
• Emotions : definitions and classifications. COURSE PROGRAM:
Various cognitive models from James to Beck • Introduction to the theory and practice of the
• The influence of anxiety on the treatment of treatment of problems of movement and
information coordination
• Occupational therapy
__________________________________________
P3/34a :
PSYCHOLOGY OF EDUCATION & LEARNING P3/26b : ISSUES IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Spring Semester Fall Semester
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 6 Lectures: 2h per week Seminar: 1 hour per week
ECTS credits: 6
COURSE PROGRAM:
• What does it mean to understand ? COURSE PROGRAM:
• What does it mean to learn ? An in-depth look at Moscovici’s approach to social
• Types of knowledge psychology and the tools available to the psychologist
• Acquiring knowledge in his analysis of social situations.
• Cognitive learning strategies • Personal identity : stability and change
• Education & intelligence • Violence : causes and solutions
• Learning difficulties • Communication, defence mechanisms &
learning strategies : an introduction to the
work of Chris Argyris
P3/34b : CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY & HEALTH _________________________________________
Spring Semester
P4/1a : PSYCHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 6 Fall Semester
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• Narcissism OBJECTIVE: Aquiring theoretical and practical skills in
• Psychosomatic equilibrium the basics of ergonomy in order to understand the
• Imagination and trauma nature of work and how to make it more congenial
All the above will help us stdy various forms of
depression, psychosomatic disorders, addictions and COURSE PROGRAM:
post-traumatic stress. • What is ergonomy ?
• The psychology of work
• How to use ergonomy in the workplace
P4/7a : PSYCHOLOGY IN THE WORKPLACE
Fall Semester
P4/12a : PSYCHOLOGY OF SYSTEMS
Classes: 2½ hours class, 1½ hours lab Fall Semester
ECTS credits: 6
Classes: 1h30 class, 1h lab ECTS credits: 3
OBJECTIVE: A historical approach to the main
paradigms which enable us to analyse the work of OBJECTIVE: Understanding psychology as applied to
work and life in a specific company. We shall seek to systems
identify the issues at stake for psychologists
fucntionning in this milieu. COURSE PROGRAM:
• Theory and practice of psychology as applied
COURSE PROGRAM: to systems
• Understanding what is work • The family
• Understanding company culture • The company or business
• Rationality at work
• The importance of teamwork
• Atmosphere in the workplace P4/13a : NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
• Motivation at work Fall Semester
• Power structures
• Building corporate identity Classes: 1h30 class, 1h lab ECTS credits: 3
OBJECTIVE: Developping the student’s ability in Classes: 2 hours class, 2 hours lab
treating juveniles ECTS credits: 3
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn how to use their Classes: 1½ hours class, 2 hours lab
psychological skills in a hospital context ECTS credits: 3
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ECTS credits: 3
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
COURSE PROGRAM: To be communicated later - TETERINA T. M, Cours intensif de la langue
russe pour débutants, Centre de la langue
russe de l’Université d’Etat de Saint
P4/11b : PSYCOLOGY OF THE ELDERLY & OF Pétersbourg (RUSSIE)
AGEING - Guide de civilisation russe - ed. Ellipses,
Fall Semester Anne-Marie OLIVE
- Histoire de la Russie de N. Riazanovski -
Classes: 1½ hours class, 1 hour lab Bouquins, Robert Laffont
ECTS credits: 3 - Courrier International (in French) - website
« Anedoctes » (via Internet)
OBJECTIVE: Understanding the ageing process and its
effect on human psychology Films « Strana Gloukhikh » and/or « Lioubov » by V.
Todorovski, « Okraïna » by Piotr Loutsik.
COURSE PROGRAM: To be communicated later
COURSE PROGRAM: Theory, comprehension Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2
exercises, translation, etc.
OBJECTIVE: To get a global knowledge of spoken
ASSESSMENT: a written exam (several exercises). Russian grammar and learn up to 1200 words
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2 Prerequisites: Students should have studied Russian
for at least a year
OBJECTIVE: To get a basic knowledge of Russian
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
COURSE PROGRAM: Theory, comprehension
exercises, translation, etc. COURSE PROGRAM:
2nd year students have to master the basic writing
codes, key elements of contemporary Russian
LCE1E/4d & H1/3c : BEGINNERS RUSSIAN phonetics and phonology. They will have to use and
reproduce elementary structures of the simple
Fall Semester
sentence. The principles of declination and of verbal
use will be systematically used and learnt.
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
- Linguistics and grammar
- Culture and history: Russia, the USSR, Russia in
COURSE PROGRAM: weekly linguistics practice
the 20th century
enables to learn essential writing codes, key of
- Current affairs: questioning, thinking and
contemporary Russian phonetics and phonology.
replacing information in the Russian context
Students will learn Russian through concrete scenes,
without any restrictive theorical course. At first,
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
students will use and reproduce elementary structures
Magazine « Autrement » - Atlas historique de la Russie
of the simple sentence and will have to manipulate a
F. CONTE – Les grandes dates de la Russie et de
lexical base of 500 words. The principles of declination
l’URSS Larousse
and of verbal use will be systematically used and
learnt.
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LCE2/12a RUSSIAN – LEVEL 2
Fall & Spring Semesters
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Pierre Gerboin et Christine Leroy, Grammaire d’usage
Spanish de l’espagnol contemporain
Beatriz Job, Grammaire de l’espagnol
IMPORTANT: ALL OUR SPANISH COURSES ARE
TAUGHT VIA THE MEDIUM OF FRENCH (UNLESS
OTHERWISE STATED) LCE1E/6a SPANISH GRAMMAR
Spring Semester
PREREQUISITES: With the exception of
beginners courses, courses at level 1 presuppose Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2
that students have previously studied Spanish
for at least two years either at university or in COURSE PROGRAM:
high school. Level 2 courses presuppose 5 - Pronouns
semesters of Spanish, level 3 three years of - Accents
Spanish etc. Native speakers of Spanish may not - Using “ser” and “estar”
take Spanish language classes, except - Numbers
translation. They may however take history, - Subjunctive
literature or civilisation classes. - Using the infinitive, gerundive and past
participle
LEA1/1d : SPANISH GRAMMAR
Fall Semester BIBLIOGRAPHY: Go to semester 1
Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits:2 LCE1E/2b : TRANSLATION FROM SPANISH INTO
FRENCH
OBJECTIVE: A complete and definitive acquisition of Fall Semester
Spanish syntax and conjugation
Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2.5
COURSE PROGRAM:
- Verbs and conjugation OBJECTIVE: To learn how to translate into correct
- Nouns and adjectives French a text written in Spanish and remain close to
- Adverbs the author’s style.
- Articles
- Prepositions COURSE PROGRAM: Translation of press articles,
novels preface (Vocable, Espace Latino, El Pais).
PERSONAL WORK : Not less than half an hour a day.
PERSONAL WORK :
ASSESSMENT: Written exercises concerning - Preparation of the following lesson and
grammar, tenses… translation of a part of the text studied
- To review the translations done in class
BIBLIOGRAPHY: - To read press documents in order to improve
Grammaire espagnole contemporaine - Desvigne understanding of the written language.
Español avanzado - Colegio España - Learn times, indicative/subjunctive, grammar
Gramática comunicativa del español - Edelsa rules in Spanish and in French.
Ejercicios gramaticales – SGEL
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ASSESSMENT: A 1½ hours test: to translate a text.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
BIBLIOGRAPHY: - Grammaire active de l’espagnol Enrique
Dictionary Maria Moliner Pastor et Gisèle Prost (édition LM)
Fort en version espagnole – Méthode et lecture – Bréal - La grammaire espagnole a través de los
ejercicios José Alvaro (Edition Spratbrow)
- Uso de la gramatica espanola. Nivel
LCE1E/6b : TRANSLATION FROM SPANISH INTO Intermedio Francisca Castro (Edition Edelsa)
FRENCH - Press : El mundo, el pais, cambio 16, vocable
Spring Semester
Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2.5 LCE1E/2c LITERARY TRANSLATION FROM
FRENCH INTO SPANISH
COURSE PROGRAM: Continuation of LCE1E/2b Fall Semester
ASSESSMENT: oral presentation of a subject in the ASSESSMENT: a 1½ hours test: to translate a text
Spanish and Latin culture. Students will be graded on (about 20 lines).
their fluency, their pronunciation and their spontaneity
in their explanations and the absence of notes.
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LEA1/5f : WRITTEN COMPREHENSION AND
EXPRESSION ASSESSMENT: An oral exam: 15 mins. preparation,
Spring Semester 15 mins. Presentation.
LCE1E/1d : WRITTEN COMPREHENSION AND Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
EXPRESSION
COURSE PROGRAM:
Fall Semester
Introduction to contemporary Spanish literature.
Students will focus on the different literary movements
Classes: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2
during the XXth century (and on their trans-
generational features). In order to illustrate lessons,
COURSE PROGRAM: Working on files composed of
students will work on a corpus of various texts of
extracts from Spanish or Latin-American novels and
different literary genres.
press articles. The aim is to develop understanding of
written texts and written expression.
ASSESSMENT: Coursework plus written exam.
PERSONAL WORK: Reading Spanish newspapers (El
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
País Semanal, Cambio 16, Actualidad Económica,
- Histoire de la littérature espagnole. Tome 2,
Cinco días) and magazines, revising of the lessons.
XVIIIe siècle - XIXe siècle - XXe siècle / dir.
par Jean Canavaggio, assisté de Bernard
ASSESSMENT: A 1 hour test : comprehension
Darbord... [et al.]. [Paris] : Fayard, 1994.
questions, vocabulary and reformulation exercises,
- Historia y crítica de la literatura española / al
personal expression.
cuidado de Francisco Rico. 7, Época
contemporánea, 1914-1939 [Texte imprimé]
BIBLIOGRAPHY: A bilingual dictionary and an
/ Víctor G. de la Concha ; con la colaboración
unilingual dictionary such as : Diccionario de Uso del
de Francisco Javier Blasco, Miguel García-
Español, María Moliner.
Posada y Agustín Sánchez Vidal ; [coord.
Merdedes Quílez]. Barcelona : ed. Crítica,
1984.
LCE1E/5d : WRITTEN COMPREHENSION AND - Historia y crítica de la literatura española / al
EXPRESSION cuidado de Francisco Rico. 8, Epoca
Spring Semester contemporanea [Texte imprimé] : 1939-1980
/ Domingo Ynduráin ; con la colaboración de
Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2 Fernando Valls ; [coord. Nuria Falcó].
Barcelona : ed Crítica, 1981.
COURSE PROGRAM: Continuation of LCE1E/1d. - Historia y critíca de la literatura española.
8/1, Epoca contemporánea [Texte imprimé] :
1939-1975 : primer suplemento / por Santos
LCE1E/5a : SPANISH HISTORY: Sanz Villanueval ; con la colab. de Oscar
FROM THE 18TH CENTURY Barrero Perez... [et al.] ; al cuidado de
TO THE RESTORATION OF THE BOURBONS Francisco Rico. Barcelona : Critica, 1999.
Spring Semester - Historia y crítica de la literatura española / al
cuidado de Francisco Rico. 9, Los nuevos
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN SPANISH nombres [Texte imprimé] : 1975-1990 /
Darío Villanueva y otros ; [coord. Xavier C.
Lectures: 1 hour per week (+ 1 hour seminar for LCE Mena]. Barcelona : ed. Crítica, 1992.
students) ECTS credits: 2 (3 for LCE students) - Martín Gaite, Carmen, Los parentescos,
Barcelona, Anagrama, col. Narrativas
COURSE PROGRAM: Hispánicas núm. 302, febrero 2001.
The Catholic Kings’ policies Advised reading :
The Hapsburgs’ Spain - Carmen Martín Gaite [Texte imprimé] / Alicia
The Bourbons: politics, economics and society in Redondo Goicoechea (ed.). Madrid : Ediciones
the 18th century del Orto, DL 2004.
From the War of Independence to the 1st Republic
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- Al encuentro de Carmen Martín Gaite : - Ly Nadine, La poétique d’interlocution dans le
homenajes y bibliografía / Emma Martinell théâtre de Lope de Vega, Université de
Gifre (coord.). Barcelona : Departamento de Bordeaux III, 1981
Filología Hispánica, Universitat de Barcelona, - A.Valbuena Prat, El teatro español del Siglo
1997. de Oro, Planeta, 1969
- Carmen Martín Gaite : la Semana de Autor - Lope de Vega, Peribáñez y el comendador de
sobre Carmen Martín Gaite tuvo lugar en el Ocaña, Austral, 1991
Centro cultural del Instituto de cooperación
iberoamericana de Buenos Aires, del 16 al 18
de octubre de 1990 / ed. coord. por Emma LCE1E/5b : CONTEMPORARY LATIN -AMERICAN
Martinell Gifre. Madrid : Ed. de cultura LITERATURE
hispánica, 1993
- La trayectoria narrativa de Carmen Martín Spring Semester
Gaite (1925-2000) [Texte imprimé] / José
Jurado Morales. Madrid : Editorial Gredos, THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN SPANISH
2003. p. 405 – 417
- Arenós, Paloma, «Sin Carmiña ni su boina», Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
La Vanguardia, 10 de abril de 2001.
- Ayén, Xavi, «Publicada la novela póstuma COURSE PROGRAM: Introduction to contemporary
que Carmen Martín Gaite dejó inacabada», La Spanish literature. We will focus on the different
Vanguardia, 19 de marzo de 2001. literary movements during the XXth century and on
- Castilla, Amelia, Dos inéditos y una figures of XXth century Latin-American literature. In
exposición evocan la figura de Martín Gaite, El order to illustrate lessons, students will work on a
País, 17 de marzo de 2001. corpus of various texts of different literary genres.
- De León-Sotelo, Trinidad, A punto de ver
la luz la novela inacabada en la que Martín BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Gaite trabajó hasta su muerte, ABC, L’analyse littéraire : notions et repères / Eric BORDAS,
6/2/2001. Claire BAREL-MOISAN, Gilles BONNET [et. al]. (Paris) :
- Juan Cantavella, Sale a la calle ‘Los Armand Colin, 2006
parentescos’, la obra póstuma de Carmen Figures III / Gérard GENETTE. (Paris) : Editions du
Martín Gaite, El Norte de Castilla, 8 de Marzo Seuil, 2003
de 2001. Histoire de la littérature hispano-américaine de 1940 à
- Martín Garzo Gustavo, Carmen Martín Gaite nos jours/ sous la dir. de Claude CYMERMAN, Claude
y la Búsqueda del Secreto, El País, 7 de abril FELL. (Paris) : Nathan, 1997
de 2001. Disponible en Anthologie de la littérature hispano-américaine du
XXème siècle / Jean FRANCO, Jean Marie LEMOGODEUC.
http://www.elpais.es/suplementos/babelia/20
010407/b4.html Presses Universitaires de France (PUF), 1993.
- Noemí L. Carmen Martín Gaite, la novela de
lo cotidiano , Nosotras.com. ASSESSMENT: a text commentary
- Redondo Goicoechea Alicia, Los
parentescos, broche de oro de la narrativa de
C.M.G., in Alicia Redondo Goicoechea (ed.): LCE1E/5c : SPANISH GOLDEN AGE LITERATURE 2
Carmen Martín Gaite, Ediciones del Orto, Spring Semester
Madrid, 2004
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN SPANISH
Information about : Caron Alexandre, Le monde de
Carmen Martín Gaite ; will be available on the internet Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
in September on : http://martin.gaite.free.fr
COURSE PROGRAM: Introduction to poetry and to
A corpus of texts will be ready for the students in the narrative of Spanish Golden Age. The students will
September. study different authors of the period and will focus
more precisely on Garcilaso de la Vega Fernando de
Rojas and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer.
LCE1E/1c : SPANISH GOLDEN AGE LITERATURE
Fall Semester BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- Elías L.Rives, Poesía Lírica del Siglo de Oro,
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN SPANISH Cátedra 1990
- G.A. Bécquer, Rimas y Leyendas, Austral
Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2 2003
- Fernando de Rojas, La Celestina, Cátedra,
COURSE PROGRAM: Introduction to Spanish Golden 1991
Age theater. The students will focus their study on the
author Lope de Vega, and more precisely on his play :
la Dorotea. LCE1/3e : SPANISH LANGUAGE & CULTURE
Fall Semester
ASSESSMENT: Coursework plus written exam.
Prerequisites: Students must have studied at least 2
BIBLIOGRAPHY: years of Spanish
- La Dorotea, edicion de José Manuel Blema,
Catedra, Madrid, 1996 Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
- Arellano Ignacio, Convencion y recepcion.
Estudios sobre el teatro del siglo de oro, COURSE PROGRAM:
Gredos, Madrid, 1999 - Translating contemporary literary texts from
Spanish into French (authors: Sender, Ayala,
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J. Cela Santos Delibes, Laforet, Fuentes, De B. BENNASSAR, B. BESSIERE – Le défi espagnol – ed.
Unamuno, Baroja, Garcia Lorca, Marias La manufacture, 1991
Marse) J. COVO – Introduction aux civilisations latino-
américaines – Nathan, coll. 128, 1990
- Grammar: indicative present, the past tense, F. BARTHELEMY – Un continent en quête d’unité – ed.
the future tense, conditional, indirect speech, les ouvrières, 1991
imperative, subjunctive, “ser” and “estar”, F. CHEVALIER – L’Amérique latine de l’indépendance à
pronouns, prepositions nos jours – PUF, 1993
Y. LE BOT – Violence de la modernité en Amérique
- Introduction to Spanish history: geographic latine – ed. Karthala, 1994
and cultural diversity, self-governing
communities, Catalonia, Euskadi and Galicia
LCE1/7d : SPANISH LANGUAGE & CULTURE
ASSESSMENT: Translation from Spanish into French, Spring Semester
grammatical questions on the text and questions on
Spanish history COURSE PROGRAM: Continuation of fall semester
LCE1/3i & LEA1/4d & 8d : BEGINNERS SPANISH LM1/3c & H1/3b : SPANISH FOR HISTORIANS A
Fall & Spring Semesters Fall Semester
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3 (per Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
semester)
COURSE PROGRAM:
COURSE PROGRAM: Comprehension
- Collection of texts
Elementary Translation from Spanish into French Translation (some of the texts studied)
- From French into Spanish
Grammar - From Spanish into French
- Pronunciation/spelling
- Nouns
- Demonstratives
LM1/7c & H1/7b : SPANISH FOR HISTORIANS B
- Pronouns
Spring Semester
- Verbs
- Adverbs
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
- Prepositions and conjunctions
COURSE PROGRAM:
Spanish history
Comprehension
Contemporary Spanish history
- Collection of texts
- Contemporary Spain, Francoism, democracy
Translation (some of the texts studied)
- Geography: the economy of the Iberian
- From French into Spanish
peninsula, Spain and the EEC
- From Spanish into French
- Literature: the main authors since the 1960s
- Arts: cinema, music
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The press, the radio and documentaries PERSONAL WORK :
- Read the press and write articles and/or Study of each grammar point and personal practice.
reports. Make an oral presentation of a press
article; BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- Debate and discuss on radio programmes; - Pierre Gerboin and Christine Leroy,
- Analyse TV documentaries and reports. Grammaire d’usage de l’espagnol
Spanish cinema contemporain
- Study Spanish and Latin-American films; - Béatrice Job, grammaire de l’espagnol
- Write analyses and summaries. - Jean Marc Bedel, Grammaire de l’espagnol
moderne
ASSESSMENT: You will have to hand out written Bernard Pottier, Grammaire explicative de
reports or give oral presentations. The final exam will l’espagnol
consist in listening or reading comprehension and a -Enrique Pastor et Gisèlle Prost, Grammaire
two-hour written exam. active de l’espagnol
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Le grand dictionnaire bilingue Larousse espagnol- LCE2E/9d (& LCE2E/13d) : WRITTEN
français COMPREHENSION AND EXPRESSION
A grammar handbook of post-secondary education
level (any edition will be fine). Fall and Spring Semesters
Los verbos españoles – Bescherelle (ou autre)
Lectures: 1 hour per week ETCS credits : 2
Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2 PERSONAL WORK : Students are encouraged to read
the Spanish press (papers, magazines…)
OBJECTIVE:
To master the basic structures of the language. BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Newspapers :
PROGRAM : - El Pais
- relatives - El Mundo
- indefinite articles Magazines :
- the idea of “becoming” - Cambio 16
- verbal periphrasis - Tiempo
- Muy Interesante
PERSONAL WORK :
Study of each grammar point and personal practice.
LCE2E/11a & 15a : ORAL COMPREHENSION AND
BIBLIOGRAPHY: EXPRESSION
-Pierre Gerboin and Christine Leroy, Fall and Spring Semesters
Grammaire d’usage de l’espagnol
contemporain Lectures: 1 hour per week ETCS credits : 3
- Béatrice Job, grammaire de l’espagnol
- Jean Marc Bedel, Grammaire de l’espagnol OBJECTIVE: To improve oral expression and
moderne understanding thanks to modern media.
- Bernard Pottier, Grammaire explicative de
l’espagnol COURSE PROGRAM:
-Enrique Pastor et Gisèlle Prost, Grammaire During the course, audiovisual documents (such as
active de l’espagnol films, TV news, documentary, texts, radio
broadcasts…) in Spanish. At the same time, the
documents used will aim to broaden the student’s
LCE2E/14a : SPANISH GRAMMAR knowledge of the Spanish culture and of the Hispano-
Spring Semester American culture.
Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2 PERSONAL WORK : Watch the Spanish Television.
watch films, documentaries in Spanish and listen to
OBJECTIVE: To master the basic structures of the the radio in Spanish.
language. The students will have to do presentations during
class and to participate actively in the lessons.
COURSE PROGRAM:
- indirect and direct styles
- the passive voice LCE2E/10b : TRANSLATION FROM FRENCH INTO
- the complex sentence (types of subordinate SPANISH
clauses) Fall Semester
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Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 3 - initiation à la version espagnole, A.
Deguernel, R. LE MARC HADOUR- Editions
COURSE PROGRAM: Nathan Université (collection fac).
Translating literary texts or texts on specific themes. - La version espagnole (licence-concours), A.
Reinforcing translation technique acquired in beginners DEGUERNEL, R. LE MARC HADOUR- Editions
class. Nathan Université (collection Fac)
- La version espagnole, M.M. Gladieu, Editions
BIBLIOGRAPHY: du temps (le recours à la méthode)
García Pelayo y Testas, Grand dictionnaire Français- - 26 versions espagnoles, traduites et
Espagnol, Espagnol-Français, Paris, Larousse. commentées, R. James et O. Gorsse, Presses
María Moliner, Diccionario de uso del español, Universitaires du Mirail, Toulouse
Gredos. - Traducir : initiation à la pratique de la
Jean Marc Bedel, Grammaire de l’espagnol moderne, traduction, V. Rajaud et M. Brunetti, Nathan
PUF, 1997 (Fac)
P. Gerboin & Leroy, Grammaire d’usage de
l’espagnol contemporain, Hachette
LCE2E/10d : SPANISH LINGUISTICS
LCE2E/10c (& LCE2E/14c) : TRANSLATION FROM Fall Semester
SPANISH INTO FRENCH
Fall and Spring Semester Lectures: 1 hour per week ETCS credits : 2
Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 3 OBJECTIVE: To introduce students to general
linguistics and to Spanish linguistics.
OBJECTIVE: To improve the student’s translations of
contemporary literary Spanish texts (XXth century). COURSE PROGRAM:
- Introduction to the basic concepts :
COURSE PROGRAM: definition of linguistics, phonetics, phonology,
- methodology of translation conventional representations, morphology, syntax,
- the Spanish novel semantics, language, speech, discourse, synchrony,
- the Latin-American novel diachrony.
- Spanish theater -Castillan phonetic and phonological register,
development of the language, lexical and syntactical
PERSONAL WORK : morphology, and elements of Iberic dialectology.
- Regular practice of translating at home - Phonetical, phonological, graphic, syntactical
- the translations prepared at home will be and morphological aspects of Spanish in Latin-
corrected together in class. America.
- Regularly, the students will be asked to give - Textual studies : diachronic phonetics and
in translation assignments in order to make introduction to the linguistic commentary.
progress.
- Revising translations in order to make PERSONAL WORK :
vocabulary cards, grammar cards and to learn - Regular and rigorous learning of classwork
the main tricks in translation - Consulting the following books :
- The reading of literary French novels is
advised BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- Personnal improvement implies reading the - 100 fiches pour comprendre la linguistique,
following books : de G. Siouffi et D. Van Raemdonck, ed. Bréal,
Paris, 2005.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: - Approches de la linguistique, Schott et
Unilingual dictionaries Bourget, Nathan (lettres 128), Paris
- Diccionario de la lengua española, Real - Manuel de linguistique espagnole, de M.
Academia. Bénaben, ed. Ophrys, 2002
- Diccionario de uso del español, Maria Moliner, - Cours de linguistique espagnole, de M. Sauve,
Editions Gredos (2volumes) Ellipses, Paris, 1997.
Bilingual dictionaries : - La langue espagnole, grammaire historique,
- Dictionnaire espagnol-français et français- de B. Darbord et B. Pottier, Armand Collin
espagnol, Denis-Maraval-Pompidou, Hachette. (Fac), Paris, 2004.
- Gran diccionario espagnol/francés-español, - Esbozo de una nueva gramàtica española,
Garcia Pelayo, editions Larousse. Real Academia española.
Dictionnaire Français : Le Nouveau Petit Robert. - Grammaire d’usage de l’espagnol
Grammaires : contemporain, P. Gerboin et Ch. Leroy,
- Le bon usage, Mr Grevisse, Duculot Hachette, Paris
- Précis de grammaire française, Mr Grevisse, - Gramàtica de la lengua española, E. Alarcos
Duculot Llorach, RAE, Espasa Calpe, Madrid, 1994.
- Bescherelle, la conjugaison pour tous, Hatier - Grammaire de l’espagnol moderne, Bedel,
- Esbozo de una nueva gramàtica espaénola, PUF, Paris, 2002.
Real Academia Española - Grammaire espagnole, Bouzet, Belin, Paris,
- Grammaire d’usage de l’espagnol 1980.
contemporain, P. Gerboin et Ch Leroy, - Anàlisis sintàctico : teoria y pràctica, de L.
Hachette, Paris Gòmez Torrego, SM, Madrid, 2006.
- Grammaire de l’espagnol moderne, Bedel, - Curso superior de sintaxis española, S. Gil
PUF, Paris, 2002 Gaya, Vox Barcelona.
- Grammaire espagnole, Bouzet, Belin, Paris, - Manual pràctico de correcciòn fonética del
1980 español, de Sànchez et Matilla, ed. SGEL,
To improve independently : Madrid, 2001.
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- Phonétique, phonologie, orthographe et - Phonétique, phonologie, orthographe et
prononciation de l’espagnol, R. Omnès. prononciation de l’espagnol, R. Omnès.
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“Clásicos 191”, tercera edición corregida y revisada, OBJECTIVE: Literary and cultural analysis of a work,
2001. from the original text.
Arellano, Ignacio y Usunáriz, Jesús M., El mundo social
y cultural de La Celestina: actas del Congreso COURSE PROGRAM: Don Quijote de la mancha
Internacional, Universidad de Navarra, junio, 2001. Lectura de los capitulos XXX-LXXIV de la segunda
López-Ríos, Santiago, Estudios sobre La Celestina, ed. parte.
Tres Cantas, Madrid, 2001.
PERSONAL WORK : Commentary on selected
INTERNET WEBSITES : extracts (estructura, génesis, contenido, estilo,
http://www.parnaseo.es fuentes, técnicas, narrativas…).
http://www.bibliotecavirtualmigueldecervantes.es
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Brunel P. and Plazolles L. and Sellier Ph. : Le
LCE2E/13b : CONTEMPORARY SPANISH DRAMA commentaire composé, Paris, Nathan.
Spring Semester
LEA2/9d : SPANISH GRAMMAR
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN SPANISH Fall Semester
Lectures: 1h30 per week ECTS credits: 2 Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Biblioteca Romero Esteo, Editorial fundamentos, Col. LEA2/9e : TRANSLATION FROM
Espiral/Teatro, 1. Parafernalia de la olla podrida, la SPANISH INTO FRENCH
misericordia y la mucha consolación; 2. Fiestas gordas Fall Semester
del vino y el tocino; 2. 3. Pontifical I; 4. Pontifical II;
5. Pasodoble, El barco de papel; 6. Horro Vacui. Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
ROMERO ESTEO, Pizzicato irrisorio y gran pavana de OBJECTIVE: To train students to translate documents
lechuzos, ed. Catedra, Madrid, 1978. and press articles about current socio-economic issues
El vodevil de la pálida, pálida, in Spanish-speaking countries.
pálida, pálida rosa. Madrid, Fundamentos, 1979
Patética de los pellejos santos y BIBLIOGRAPHY:
el ánima piadosa (teatroide, MHS : Málaga, Espagne, Spanish dictionary & French/Spanish dictionary
1997
Tartessos, Pipirijaina Revista de
teatro y Diputación de Málaga, LEA2/9f : WRITTEN EXPRESSION
Madrid, 1983 Fall Semester
Liturgia de Gárgoris: rey de
reyes, Ediciones de la Diputación de Málaga, 1990 Classes: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 1
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LEA2/13f : ORAL EXPRESSION
Spring Semester
LEA2/10b : SPANISH HISTORY:
FROM PRIMO DE RIVERA’S DICTATORSHIP Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 3
TO THE TRANSITION TOWARDS DEMOCRACY
Fall Semester OBJECTIVE: to improve students’ abilities to
understand and to express themselves in economic
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN SPANISH and commercial Spanish. To give students more
vocabulary.
Lectures: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2
COURSE PROGRAM: to listen to soundtracks (audio
COURSE PROGRAM: and video tapes, extracts from radio or TV), to take
Spain from Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship to the part in oral presentations, role plays.
2nd Republic
The Civil War: causes and consequences PERSONAL WORK:
Franco’s dictatorship - to listen to Spanish radio and TV, to read
Transition: back to democracy books, Spanish newspapers in order to
improve your linguistic and cultural abilities
PERSONAL WORK: Preparing presentations but also to give you more vocabulary.
- as soon as possible to go to Spain to use the
BIBLIOGRAPHY: language.
P. AGUADO – Historia de España – Blaye
C. CLOUTIER – Horizons hispaniques - Ellipses ASSESSMENT: a 1 hour oral comprehension written
Guide de civilisation hispanique – Hachette exam.
La España actual – Casteilla
Le monde hispanique contemporain – Bréal BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Radio: RNE (Radio Nacional de Espana), Onda Cero
Television : TVE (Television Espanola), Galavision
LEA2/12b : SPANISH 2 Press : El Pais, Cambio 16, El Mundo, etc…
_______________________________________
Fall & Spring Semesters
OBJECTIVE:
- Politics and revolution in Latin America:
LEA2/13d : SPANISH GRAMMAR
populism
Spring Semester
- Latin American countries nowadays
- Spanish self-governing communities
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
- Spain today
COURSE PROGRAM:
ASSESSMENT: an oral exam.
- Complex sentences
__________________________________________
- Complementary clauses
- Relative clauses
LCE2/12h : INTERMEDIATE SPANISH
- Subordinate clauses
LANGUAGE & CULTURE
- Consequential clauses, concessions,
Fall Semester
comparisons
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
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Extract from Bajarse al moro – J. L.
Alonso de Santos BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Extract from Cuentos completos – J. Divers extraits de journaux et revues : El País, Cambio
Benet 16, Actualidad Económica, Temas…
Extract from Cinco horas con Mario – M. L'étudiant pourra se procurer les livres suivants :
Delibes Grammaire : l’Espagnol de A à Z - Hatier.
- Grammar: Comunicar activamente en Español, I. Bardio Valles,
Translating the above texts from Ed. Spratbrow
Spanish El arte de conjugar en Español, Hatier
into French Dictionnaire unilingue Diccionario Manual Vox Ilustrado
Translating from French into Spanish de la lengua española
Presentations
________________________________________
MCC2/15c : SPANISH LANGUAGE FOR
LCE2/16h : INTERMEDIATE SPANISH COMMUNICATION MAJORS
LANGUAGE & CULTURE Spring Semester
Spring Semester
COURSE PROGRAM: Continuation of MCC2/11c
COURSE PROGRAM: Continuation of FALL SEMESTER
__________________________________________ ASSESSMENT: study of a Spanish or Latin-American
film? Presentation about it.
LM2/11c : SPANISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE Final exam (2 hours) : text analysis with questions,
Fall Semester grammar exercises, translation.
________________________________________
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
H2/11b : SPANISH LANGUAGE FOR HISTORIANS
COURSE PROGRAM: Fall Semester
Spain in the XXth century: political, social and cultural
aspects. Study of texts, grammatical translation, Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
presentations.
COURSE PROGRAM:
BIBLIOGRAPHY: - Civilisation
• Extract from Beatus Ille - Antonio Muñoz - Text studies
Molina - Grammar (translation)
• Extract from Muertes de perro – Francisco - Presentations
Ayala
• Extract from Romancero Gitano – Federico BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Garcia Lorca • La grammaire de l’espagnol moderne, Jean-
• Extracts from Contes – Ignacio Aldecoa Marc BEDEL.
• Extract from Comedias Barbaras – Ramon
del Valle Inclan
• Extract from El amante bilingüe – Juan H2/15b : SPANISH LANGUAGE FOR HISTORIANS
Marsé Spring Semester
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13. Fuenteovejuna, by Lope de Vega. Fabula de Polifemo y Galatea, Madrid, Cátedra, col.
14. Entremeses, by Cervantes
Letras Hispánicas, 1990
15. La vida es sueño, by Calderón.
16. Staging Golden Age theatre today: Fernando de Herrera, Poesía castellana original
Fasbinder’s Fuenteovejuna, and Grotowski’s
completa, Ed. Cristóbal Cuevas, Madrid, Cátedra,
El Príncipe Constante.
1985.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Cervantes, Novelas ejemplares, Madrid, Castalia,
RICO, Francisco, Historia y crítica de la literatura
1992.
española, Barcelona, Ariel, 1984, Espectáculo
___________________________________________
GRIMAL, Pierre, Diccionario de mitología griega y
romana, Barcelona, Paidós, 1981. LCE3E/17b :
CONTEMPORARY LATIN-AMERICAN LITERATURE
Diccionario de autoridades, Gredos, Madrid, siglo XVII.
Fall Semester
DELEITO Y PIÑUELA, José, …También se divierte el
pueblo (recuerdos de hace tres siglos), Madrid, THIS CLASS IS TAUGHT IN SPANISH
LCE3E/21b :
LCE3E/21c : CONTEMPORARY SPANISH LITERATURE
SPANISH POETRY DURING THE GOLDEN AGE Spring Semester
Spring Semester
THIS CLASS IS TAUGHT IN SPANISH
THIS CLASS IS TAUGHT IN SPANISH
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2½
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2½
OBJECTIVE:
OBJECTIVE: At the end of the course students should have agood
At the end of the course students should have an overview of Spanish literature today. They should be
overall vision of the literature of the Spanish Golden able to understand and analyse works written in the
Age and a detailed knowledge of the theatre of the last few years and relate them to the contemporary
time. They should able be able to relate poetry from cultural context.
this period to their social, historical and politcal
context. COURSE PROGRAM:
1. Introduction to 20th century Spanish
COURSE PROGRAM: literature: the political, social and
* Poetry : movements and authors. ideological context.
* « Conceptismo » and «culteranismo ». 2. A panorama of contemporary Spanish
* Quevedo’s poetry. theatre.
* Góngora’s poetry : Soledades y Polifemo 3) La Nueva Dramaturgia Española: Miguel
* Herrera’s poetry. Romero Esteo, Horror Vacui. Arrabal,
* Cervantes : Novelas ejemplares. Teatro Pánico.
* Lost in la Mancha, Don Quixote today. 4) Dedos, Borja Ortiz de Gondra.
5) Prefiero que me quite el sueño Goya a
BIBLIOGRAPHY: que me lo quite cualquier hijo de puta
Quevedo, rimas escogidas, Madrid, Castalia, 1973 6) A panorama of contemporary Spanish
Góngora, Soledades, Madrid, Castalia, 1994 poetry.
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7) Leopoldo María Panero and José Angel oral presentation with an audiovisual aid (e.g.
Valente Powerpoint).
8) Jesús Aguado and Chantal Maillard’s The students shall watch films, attend symposiums
poetry. and concerts organised by the Colores Latinos
9) Generation X authors. association and they shall make an oral presentation in
______________________________________ class.
The students shall write articles for a brochure of
LCE3E/18c : ADVANCED SPANISH ORAL which they will choose the theme. The use of proper
COMPREHENSION & EXPRESSION Spanish is expected.
Fall & Spring Semesters
ASSESSMENT: An oral presentation or written report
and a final written exam with written or oral
Classes: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 2 comprehension.
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conversations, oral presentations, presenting - Dictionnaire économique, commercial et
a product, a company, job interview, etc.) financier, Chapron-Gerboin, Langue pour
- Written expression: Students will carry out a Tous, Pocket.
concrete project. You will also study and write - Vocabulaire de l’espagnol commercial,
professional documents: business letters, Jimenez, Pocket.
reservations, memoranda, fax, e-mails, - Vocabulaire espagnol : economie, politique,
administrative forms, tourist brochures, société, M. Lazcano, Nathan (Fac), tests et
minutes, etc. autocontrôles.
- Le français commercial, M. Danilo, Presses
PERSONAL WORK: Pocket.
- Carrying out a project
- Seizing all opportunities to talk to Spanish- ASSESSMENT: Oral translation of unseen text (15
speaking people, listening to Spanish radio minutes)
stations, reading the Spanish press __________________________________________
Classes: 1 hour per week ECTS credits: 1 Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 4
OBJECTIVE: prepare students to translate business COURSE PROGRAM: Spain and the Development of
and economic documents instantly the Service Sector
- Trade
COURSE PROGRAM: Translating professional - Retailing
documents (tourism, banking, services…) on sight - Marketing and advertising
from French into Spanish and vice versa. - Banking and the Stock Exchange
Students will study vocabulray related to specific - Insurance
themes and make specialized glossaries. The - Transport
translations prepared at home will be corrected in - Tourism
class.
ASSESSMENT: to comment a document or to make a
PERSONAL WORK : Regular training at home, regular summary.
learning of vocabulary and syntactical forms.
Reading the Spanish newspapers and Spanish websites BIBLIOGRAPHY:
related to the themes seen in class. Le défi espagnol – ed. La Manufacture
La exportación y los mercados internacionales – ed.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Hispano Europa
Unilingual dictionaries : Horizonte empresarial – ed. Delagrave
- diccionario de la Real Academia Ingresar en el mundo profesional – ed. Santillana
- Maria Moliner, Editions Gredos (2 volumes) ______________________________________
Bilingual dictionaries
- dictionnaire espagnol-français et français- LEA3/21d : BUSINESS TRANSLATION FROM
espagnol, Denis-Maraval-Pompidou, Hachette. FRENCH INTO SPANISH
- Gran diccionario espagnol /français- Spring Semester
francés/español, editions Larousse.
French dictionary : Le Nouveau Petit Robert. Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 1.5
Specialised dictionaries :
COURSE PROGRAM:
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- Translating texts relating to economics and
business. You will translate authentic COURSE PROGRAM: Learning to interpret
documents (manuals, advertisements, spontaeously in both directions speeches, oral
insurance policies, order forms, legal texts, presentations and other forms of public speaking.
restaurant menus, official reports, etc.) Particular attention will be paid to the need to
- On your own or in group, you will have to summarize information as you translate in order to
prepare translations and search for the present a concise translation where listeners can
vocabulary specific to all the subjects studied quickly grasp the essential content.
in class (tourism, transport, insurance,
banking, etc.). ASSESSMENT: Unprepared oral translation of 5
minute oral presentation.
ASSESSMENT: Translating a professional document. _________________________________________
__________________________________________
H4/1b : SPANISH FOR JOURNALISTS
LEA3/21e : BUSINESS TRANSLATION FROM Fall & Spring Semesters
SPANISH INTO FRENCH
Spring Semester Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 4
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 1 COURSE PROGRAM: Will be communicated later
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LEA4/1k : ASSESSMENT: a 2 hour written exam.
LATIN-AMERICAN SOCIETIES TODAY ___________________________________________
Fall Semester
LEA4/4g : SPANISH FOR BUSINESS
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN SPANISH NEGOCIATION
Spring Semester
Lectures: 15 hours in total ECTS credits: 2
Classes: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
COURSE PROGRAM: political, social and economic
aspects of Latin-American societies nowadays. You will OBJECTIVE:
study their common points and differences ‘ideology, At the end of the course, the students should have
revolutions, the role of the USA, currency, economic greatly improved his interactive skills in oral Spanish.
activities, etc.) A considerable number of everyday and colloquial
expressions will have been added to his vocabulary
PERSONAL WORK: Making a presentation on one of enabling him to negociate more effectively and to
the great figures of Spanish-American contemporary discuss questions of general interest with business
history (for instance, Fidel Castro, Omar Torrijos, etc.) colleagues.
and giving in a paper on that figure
COURSE PROGRAM:
ASSESSMENT: the note of the oral presentation: The work done will be aimed at the student gradually
- An oral presentation on a question concerning acquiring a large number of oral structures and
the course (15 min. to prepare, 15 min. to expressions, enabling him to negociate more
present your work). effectively and present relevant cultural examples to
- An oral presentation at the end of the bolster his arguments.
semester. ___________________________________________
OBJECTIVE: To learn and develop oral practise of PERSONAL WORK: Reading Spanish newspapers and
Spanish. magazines regularly, creating an advert
ASSESSMENT: A regular control of the work done in MCC4/5c : SPANISH FOR TOURISM
class and a oral final exam. Spring semester
Lectures: 15 hours in total ECTS credits: 2 Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 4
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The different geographical zones and their relevance to
Classes: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2 tourism
Monitoring a rapidly changing market
OBJECTIVE:
To communicate, negociate, translate and debate in BIBLIOGRAPHY:
clear, grammatical Spanish. Tourisme en Europe/ A.MESPLIER ED.BREAL
Le Tourisme dans le Monde / A.COLIN Philippe
COURSE PROGRAM: Spanish for use in the fields of Duhamel
Marketing, Business negociations and lobbying. Le Quotidien du Tourisme
Presenting products, companies or brands orally. L’Echo du Tourisme
___________________________________
MCC5/1b : PROFESSIONAL SPANISH LEA3/22a : INTERNATIONAL TOURISM
Fall Semester Spring Semester
Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 2 Lectures: 1½ hours per week ECTS credits: 2
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COURSE PROGRAM: Lectures: 2 hours per week ECTS credits: 3
Introduction : Tourism and the French economy.
COURSE PROGRAM: Will be communicated later
Chapiter 1 : The coast
Chapitre 2 : The mountains
Chapitre 3 : Tourism in towns - sightseeing
Chapitre 4 : The countryside LEA4/7at : MARKETING FOR INTERNATIONAL
BUSINESS TOURISM
Conclusion : providing sustainable tourism in France Spring Semester
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- Work on the procedure, gathering of the market LEA4/2dt :
study outcomes DEVELOPMENTS IN INTERNATIONAL TOURIST
- Forecasting and diagnoses BEHAVIOUR
- Enforcement of tourism strategies by studying Fall Semester
destinations
Lectures: 15 hours in total ECTS credits: 2
ASSESSMENT: You will have to develop two projects
and there will be a final written exam. OBJECTIVE:
At the end of the course students should be able to
analyse the tourist phenomenon from a geographical
BIBLIOGRAPHY: and an economic point of view.
Marketing Du Tourisme - 2ème Édition ,Tocquer,
Gérard,Gaetan Morin – mai 2000 COURSE PROGRAM:
Le Plan Marketing Du Tourisme Par La Pratique, - Tourist movements throughout the world
Dupont, Louis Editions L'harmattan - 11/10/2005 - Development of tourism in Central and
Naomi KLEIN « no logo », quotidien du tourisme, Eastern Europe
« stratégies et techniques touristiques », p. RICHARD - Tourists from the United States and Canada
- Scandinavia
Internet Resources: ________________________________________
Revue- espaces.com ; www.tourisme.gouv.fr
LEA5/4bt :
INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT IN TOURISM
Fall Semester
LEA5/2bt : TOURISM AND SERVICES MARKETING
Fall Semester
Lectures: 15 hours in total ECTS credits: 2
Lectures: 30 hours in total ECTS credits: 2
OBJECTIVE:
At the end of the course students should be able to
OBJECTIVE:
understand and manage an international team
Master the various aspects of tourism marketing and
elaborate a marketing plan by taking into
COURSE PROGRAM:
consideration the importance of distribution channels
1) Defining the manager in the modern world
and IT in the modern tourism development.
• The world as it is in constant change:
from post-modernity to the three powers
COURSE PROGRAM:
(Lyotard, Jameson, Parag Khanna)
Part 1
• Issues in the contemporary world
- Introduction: Tourism development in the world and
(Chomsky, Stiglitz)
in France. Tourism: a specific service. Why is tourism
• Management and leadership today
marketing necessary?
(Stephen P. Robbins, Timothy A. Judge)
- Market knowledge: Demand and offer analysis. The
• Creating new managers for a new world:
main demand sources.
the culturally aware manager (Jameson)
Part 2
- Product strategy: Tourism product knowledge.
2) Basics of cultural approximation
Analysis of a tourism product life cycle. Tourism
• Mind the gap … and overcome it!
product adaptation. Technical study.
(Gulliver’s Travel, Alice in Wonderland, Le
Part 3
Petit Prince, The Time Machine etc.)
– Client loyalty strategy and commercial policy:
• Making a Break with the ethnocentric
Finding tourism clients through the marketing plan.
vision of the world (La Guerre du Feu)
Create a tourism destination.
• Acquiring an ethnically relativist vision of
Part 4
the world (The Last Samourai)
– IT in tourism: Mastering information strategy.
• Using intercultural integration skills in
Information sources and information monitoring.
management and negociation
Information management in the value chain. The
differences between display and retail websites and
3) Organisational Behaviour
how to create a website. The importance of websites
• The individual in the organisation
and direct mail advertising for foreign tourists. Travel
• The group in the organisation
documents package. Distribution strategy and
• Organisational systems
channels. Communication: principles and application to
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tourism.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Marketing Du Tourisme - 1ère Et 2ème Année Tauran-
Jamelin, Viviane Bréal - 13/06/2002.
P RICHARD « stratégies et techniques touristiques »
Internet Resources:
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