Descriptif
Pr Nicolas Roussellier
Major Issues in Today’s World and the Place of France
The course is designed to give a broad and comprehensive view of the political and social place of France in today’s globalized world. Two themes will be addressed this year in order to understand the originality of French Politics. First, we will study the question of the French democracy and its difficulties. French Politics have gone through many different political regimes (Monarchy under different styles, two Bonapartist Empires, five different forms of Republic, Vichy’s Dictatorship) and recurrent upheavals from the Revolution of 1789 to the “Gilets Jaunes” of 2018. It is this “French instability” which is at the core of the First part of the course. Secondly, the course will address the issue of the French Secularism, the “laïcité à la française”. It was in the history and it is still today one of the great challenges of the French society and the French democracy.
This course is not open to International Exchange program students
Objectifs pédagogiques
This course is not open to International Exchange program students
effectifs minimal / maximal:
/40Diplôme(s) concerné(s)
domaines Saclay
ODD 8 Travail décent et croissance économique.Pour les étudiants du diplôme Programmes d'échange internationaux
Vos modalités d'acquisition :
Evaluation
50% for the Midterm + 50% for the Final Exam
Le rattrapage est autorisé (Note de rattrapage conservée écrêtée à une note seuil de )Pour les étudiants du diplôme Bachelor of Science de l'Ecole polytechnique
Vos modalités d'acquisition :
Evaluation
50% for the Midterm + 50% for the Final Exam
Programme détaillé
Organization of the course
- Two parts, one on the question of the French Democracy, one on the issue of French Secularism (“laïcité”)
- 8 Lectures on Part One with a Midterm exam
- 3 Lectures on Part Two (French Secularism)
- Final Written Exam on both parts (Democracy and Secularism)