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Le Grand Syllabus 2016/2017
Pedagogical format : Elective Course validation : 10% Participation ; 40% Final term paper ; 30% Oral presentation ; 20% Book and/or film review. Course Description : This course will present the main features of the international asylum governance and refugee law, based on empirical and critical approach to the 20th and early 21st centuries major events that have shaped asylum issues, policies and discourses. We will concentrate on the main institutions of the asylum governance (such as the EU, the UNHCR, the IOM or the UNRWA) and the international and regional legal frameworks relative to refugee management and their relations with national systems. This will lead us to critically address the category of “refugee” framed, in certain time and place, upon different political discourses and interests. The latter will allow us to understand the modalities of “the politics of asylum”, highlighting how the management of mobility has become a matter of tremendous importance in today's world politics but also a diplomatic and political tool in an increasingly multipolar and transnational world. At last, we will reflect upon the major challenges posed in today's world by asylum issues, reflecting among others upon the notions of “crisis”, contestations and integration. Required reading : to be defined.
to represent and what kinds of responses different representations encourage. To do so, we will examine scientific, philosophical, political, artistic and filmic approaches to climate change to see the different connections each tries to forge. Through writing and discussion, this course engages students in critical and productive thinking on the climate crisis. The goal is to understand the limits of some explanations of it while thinking about and producing new ways of representing it. Required reading : to be defined.
BCUL1600A
THE QUEST FOR DEMOCRACY
Semester : Autumn Number of hours : 24 Language of tuition : English
Teachers : Adrian PARK (Maitre de conférences). Pedagogical format : Seminar Course Description : This course will attempt to look at various definitions of democracy in history before looking at the specific case of the emergence of democracy in the United Kingdom. We will begin by examining one of the most famous documents in British history — the Magna Carta ("the great charter of liberties"). We will see how this 13th century contract pre-empted the American cry of "No taxation without representation" in the 18th Century. We will then move on to see how the English parliament developed concentrating on the changing relationship between King and Commons. This will take us to the birth of political parties and the eventual enfranchising of all men and women by the 20th century. However, the course will not accept that democracy was by any means an inevitability or that it has actually arrived in all its fullness. Required reading : to be defined.
DSPO2310A
THE POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE : REPRESENTATIONS AND RESPONSES
Semester : Autumn Number of hours : 24 Language of tuition : English
Teachers : Kellan ANFINSON (Teaching fellow). Pedagogical format : Elective Course Description : This course examines why, despite the increasing amount of information about climate change, we have failed to respond to this crisis. Because climate change is such a momentous, complex, and novel event, connecting people to it is tied to how it is represented. We will address why climate change is so difficult 670
BHUM1560A
THE REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN 19TH CENTURY BRITAIN
Semester : Autumn Number of hours : 24 Language of tuition : English
