Objective:
This program provides training focused on the understanding and critical analysis of political phenomena and their implications at local, national and international levels. It allows the acquisition of a basic theoretical and methodological knowledge of quality of the different political dimensions. The skills acquired find practical application in the majority of courses as well as in internships, experiences abroad and in the various simulations.
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Structuring of research
3 credits
Introduction to the approach of empirical investigation of political phenomena. Criticism of sources.
Politics and Democracy
3 credits
This course offers a better understanding of political institutions, viewed from a historical, legal and sociological perspective.
Democracy and Authoritarianisms
3 credits
This course offers a better understanding of political institutions, viewed from a historical, legal and sociological perspective.
Communication and Media Coverage of Politics
3 credits
This course offers an introduction to major research questions, theoretical positions and methodological approaches in the study of communication and media phenomena linked to the exercise of democracy in societies.
International Relations and Challenges of Globalization
3 credits
The course examines the principles that govern the international system and analyzes the political, military and economic dynamics that characterize it.
Public Administration and Policies
3 credits
This course offers an introduction to the concepts, theories and issues of administration and public policies.
Political Ideas and a Just Society
3 credits
This course aims to introduce students to the methods of quantitative research in social sciences.
Quantitative Methodology
3 credits
This course aims to introduce students to the methods of quantitative research in social sciences.
Qualitative Methodology
3 credits
This course aims to introduce students to the methods of qualitative research.
Analysis of Government Policies
3 credits
Discussion of the theoretical frameworks proposed for the study of government policies. Study of the methods and techniques used for the analysis of these policies.
Public Administrations
3 credits
This course aims to familiarize the student with the functioning of public administrations.
Money and Politics
3 credits
This course examines the interplay between money and politics. He is first interested in the wealth of the powerful or the money of the power, that is to say in public finances.
Public Health Policies
3 credits
This course analyzes public health policies by integrating the historical, philosophical, political, economic and sociological dimensions.
Welfare State and Social Policies
3 credits
This course deals with the foundations and transformations of the welfare state and social policies from a historical and comparative perspective.
Contemporary Theories of Social Justice
3 credits
A review of the main contemporary political and moral theories dealing with social justice.
Contemporary Theories of Democracy
3 credits
A review of the main contemporary theories dealing with democracy.
Climate Policy and Justice
3 credits
Analysis of the principles of justice to guide collective and individual action in the fight against climate change.
Violence, Conflicts and Politics
3 credits
The consequences of violent conflicts for the societies where they occur and for organized social groups.
American Political Institutions
3 credits
The study of the historical and cultural foundations of American political institutions, their evolution and their interrelationships.
Theories of International Relations
3 credits
The course aims primarily to make students aware of the efforts undertaken to identify certain theoretical elements in the studies of international phenomena.
Political System of Africa
3 credits
The course presents the different types of issues encountered by the African continent.
Policies and Institutions of the European Union
3 credits
The course provides an introduction to European Union (EU) politics using perspectives from international relations and comparative politics.
Political Regimes, Religions and Secularism in the World
3 credits
Contemporary political regimes and the regulation of religion. Transnational religious dynamics: culture, identity, ideology.
World Wars and Cold War
3 credits
Regimes and political ideologies, military techniques and organizations, attitudes of populations and decisions of governments.
International Security
3 credits
This course aims to provide an overview of the depth, contours, ramifications and contemporary issues of security studies.
Political Participation and Democracy
3 credits
This course aims essentially to deepen our knowledge of the various factors which contribute to explaining the phenomenon of the participation of citizens in political life.
Market and Morality
3 credits
Examination of the moral limits of the market: what should or should not be marketable, harmful markets and their characteristics, the incentives that influence action, the market economy vs the market society.
Terrorisms
3 credits
The course deals with terrorist phenomena and the organizations that use them.
Electoral Behavior
3 credits
The study of political behavior, attitudes and opinions in electoral contexts.