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This course will explore the inner and outer worlds of animals in the contemporary world, in which humans are dramatically altering natural landscapes across the globe. We will begin by exploring the evolution and diversification of the animal kingdom. What explains the marvelous variety of behavioral and morphological traits that we can see today? Why do peacocks have such colorful tails? Why do pigeons puff up and strut around after each other in the spring? How do bees find food? Why do some animals live in groups, while others live alone? Why are there so many big mammals in Africa? We will then examine how humans fit into this family tree. When did humans evolve, why do we look and act the way we do, and how did we make our way to the top of the food chain? Finally, we will address the enormous impact that humans have had on this planet since our arrival, an epoch known as the Anthropocene. What are the major threats to biodiversity, and how can we mitigate them? Where is the wildlife in our cities, and how do animals鈥� lives differ in urban vs. wild environments? What role do 鈥� or should 鈥� institutions like zoos and museums play in preserving Earth鈥檚 legacy?

Capturing animals on film is as old as the medium of film itself: the world鈥檚 first bit of cinema is arguably of a horse running. Turning the lens of cinema on animals 鈥� whether felines, fishes, or microbes - and by extension on the ecosystems we live in, raises questions about the role of cinema in our understanding of nonhumans. What do these strange beings think about? How do they navigate their worlds? How do they get food, find a mate, sense danger, build a home? Are their senses the same as humans? How do different species interact in the same ecosystem? This hybrid theory-practice course will examine how cinema can explore these questions, both through the analysis of different representations of animals on the screen, as well as by making films with a focus on animals in different Parisian zoos and aquariums. As a production course, students will be trained in experimental and documentary film and sound methods specific to animal behavior and will produce creative film and sound sketches and a final film or sound project that considers how film can be used to attune to other ways of being. No prior experience in film or sound is necessary.

This course equips students with the tools to explore the underlying universality of all human languages while celebrating the distinctive features that render their own languages unique and, at times, challenging to learn. Through an array of immersive activities and thought-provoking discussions, students will hone their ability to conquer language acquisition challenges. By the end of the course, they will not only have a deeper understanding of linguistic diversity but also possess the skills necessary to effectively teach their language to classmates, children, or adults while studying in Paris. Whether you're passionate about language acquisition or teaching, this course offers a dynamic platform for exploring the intricacies of human communication and the art of language pedagogy.

Humans all over the world developed mathematical methods and concepts in order to learn and solve problems about their families, their societies, their world and their universe. This process, while seen as the achievement of groups of people, mirrors many of the key factors individuals address in their own voyages of learning 鈥� curiosity and attention; creativity and intuition; exploration and problem solving, as well as the importance of sociality, collaboration and memory.

In this course we will trace some of these ideas, starting with an autobiography of our own experiences in this domain. We will look at similarities and differences in ways that people from a number of different parts of the world created notions of number and shape and how that helped them better understand and navigate 鈥� both figuratively and literally 鈥� their worlds.

We will investigate the relationships between an explanation, a justification and a proof; between observations, data and conclusions; and between an analogy, a mental model and a mathematical model. Exploring patterns and coding information, we will invent artificial languages and make music. We will see how humanity鈥檚 understanding of learning is being abstracted to machine learning, such as ChatGPT, and how information and data can be shared, and instructions given 鈥� in the form of recipes just as computer algorithms.

Throughout, each student will be encouraged to reflect on their own learning experience 鈥� how do they learn? How can they adapt their learning style to different subjects? How can they apply the principles of curiosity, creativity, problem solving and collaboration to their own learning voyage?

In this course, we will explore how queer lives and cultures in Paris have been brought to the screen. We will analyse a range of examples of in film, television, and digital media, in order to question the social, political, and economic stakes of representing (or self-representing) queer experiences which challenge dominant norms, and which continue, despite some recognition, to be misconstrued and marginalised.

This course takes a look at queer journeys through Paris. Using a range of texts, we will explore how LGBTQ+ people have variously moved through the city and why this matters. We will look at different kinds of journeys 鈥� liberatory and oppressive - including migration, country to city, marching, expulsion, fl芒nerie, cruising, dancing, as well as moving backwards through queer history, and movements for change.听

How have food, drinks, and drugs shaped the modern world economy? What empires & global social systems have risen and fallen in contests over crops, animals & the people who raise them? How do recent human mass migrations relate to the history of food & drugs? This course puts crops, stimulants, and intoxicants at the center of major global history topics since 1500. Students will gain insight into understanding and critiquing historical evidence, how to write a college-level essay in history and related social sciences, and how to undertake historical research using the resources of our globally connected library at 绿巨人视频.

History cannot be understood out of it麓s social, political and economic context. Actually, most historical events that required decision making can be explained by the need or the use of resources (food or any other). Science explains how natural resources influence History represents a biological approach to these historical events, consistently tackling to proof that they are not independent from their environmental context.

This course麓s schedule and outline are coordinated with its counterpart course Food, Drinks, and Drugs in World History taught by Professor Rosengarten (historian) and is focused on explaining the biological reasons why the historical events portrayed in her course happened.

The course is taught twice a week in two different ways: lectures structured over audiovisual content and flipped teaching, using the student麓s findings to deepen into the different lectures.

David Tresilian鈥檚 CL1091 course on Modern to Contemporary in the Arab World uses literature and film to introduce students to a region which is often poorly understood by outsiders. Providing sound foundations in twentieth-century literature from a range of Arab countries, the course brings students right up to the present. What is the situation in the Arab World, ten years after the uprisings of spring 2011? What are the current debates on identity and culture in the region? Where is cultural life at its most dynamic? How is this culture seen in the students鈥� home countries? The study of a diverse range of texts, films, and digital materials gives students a basis on which to reflect critically on these questions and use them as a basis for a final project.

Bringing together urban planning, architectural history and political geography, course ME1091 looks at cities in Western Asia and North Africa. It provides an overview of urban settlement in the Middle East from the beginnings of Islam to the eighteenth century, before focusing on the processes of urbanization in the region from 1800 until today. After looking at the specificities of the region鈥檚 cities we explore the interaction between rapid social change, political power and professional planning. Today, uprisings fuelled by demands for social equity and democracy, major conflict driven migrations and the needs of capital all mark cities in the Middle East and North Africa. Students will reflect on issues related to the management, planning and design of extensive city regions, historic centres and poorly serviced self-built areas. Essentially, this course is an introduction to the challenges facing cities located at the critical meeting point of Africa and Eurasia.

This course invites students to study the exciting history of the development of the city of Paris through the lens of its architecture. From Ancient Roman times to the 19th-century projects of Haussmann and beyond, we will explore key architectural monuments within the context of their urban environments, and as often as possible, on site. Special attention will be given to the social, economic and political forces that helped to shape the appearance of the city throughout its history.

This course examines cultural (textual and visual) productions about minority identities in Paris. The city has always been a center attracting immigrants and refugees, who, in turn, influence the capital鈥檚 life and identity. After a short survey of pre-modern and modern times, the class focuses on the contemporary period with special emphasis on the traumatic legacy of the Second World War and colonial and postcolonial immigrations to the city. The course analyzes diverse representations of the tensions between marginalization and integration, between a universalist French identity and a multiculturalist Paris, and between diverging memories of traumatic histories.

In this introductory management course we will study decision making processes of all types and the supporting analysis.听 What communities and concepts have been created or developed by management?听 How do employees and customers react?听 How does the manager motivate or manipulate?听 At what point (and why) may decisions cross ethical lines?听 Students will perform research, analyze cases, movies, and series as well as play an active role in business simulations.听

Given that there is only one human species, Homo sapiens, why are some societies so obsessed with separating people into groups and referring to differences between groups as 鈥渞acial鈥�? Humans have always identified some people as 鈥淯s鈥� and everybody else as 鈥淥ther,鈥� but the 鈥渟cientific鈥� discourse of race dates from the 19th century. After examining what science can say about the origins and evolution of our species, students will look at how racialized discourse came into use, how it came to justify slavery and imperialism, how it gave rise to eugenics, and how it can culminate in the ultimate denial of the kinship of humanity, genocide.

The math-science approach will allow us to examine the origin and evolution of gender statistics, including how the data is collected, analyzed, and presented through case studies. Gender statistics play a key role in measuring gender gaps and assessing progress towards gender equality.听

The performing arts approach will serve to explore how artists question gender issues through multidisciplinary art forms. Contemporary performer artists use the art scene to deconstruct gender stereotypes and create new gender narratives interrogating us on gender evolution. We will see how the art scene develops sociological and philosophical topics.