French Political Life

(2.5 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The objective of the course is to present, through a multidisciplinary approach, the main characteristics and modalities of the political system French. Whether the original institutions of the Fifth Republic inherited of a political history that is turbulent to say the least or of the divisions that cross the French political spectrum and its great families, the course also aims to address the main debates that have crossed and still cross French society and which trace its specificity (secularism, place of the State, relationship to taxation, human rights and societal conservatism...). But addressing students from a variety of backgrounds and generally remote from law or political science, the course captures opportunity for its various themes to introduce notions fundamentals of public law, political and social history and science Politics. In terms of its organization, the course largely leaves the students get involved (presentations, debates etc.) in order to make these sessions lively and interactive on the mode of Anglo-Saxon methods.