This course aims at teaching students how to develop a critical eye to define a work of art, analyze its characteristics, place the work of the artist in its correct time, and to know how to channel the information. The art critic explains, defends, objects, regulates, distinguishes and creates artistic movements, and these are the skills students can acquire on this course.

This seminar includes a large context of international relations. It introduces these relations from the first colonial period to the implementation of strategies to secure and dominate the territory. The philosophical theories that preside over these relations will be discussed in class. The implementation of the supranational and super­states authorities of social, political, economic and military types, as well as their actions, will be studied. A study of the Arab world and the Mediterranean Sea are included, from the eve of World War I until the present day.

Students will develop the practice of critical thinking and analytical approaches they already applied in history and archeology, opening up the horizons of their research. So they could choose easily the form of of their research paper or thesis. Students will include, alongside the research project, the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge to develop their thesis. Component parts of thesis writing will include: structuring the outline, dividing the content into chapters, writing the introduction and conclusion in a coherent and rigorous way.

Besides the theoretical and practical knowledge, this course includes field work experience in a multidisciplinary context.

Students are introduced to the history of medieval Lebanon, a very important period which begins with the Arab­Muslim conquest of Lebanon in 636 and which ends in 1516 with the victory of the Ottomans over the Mamelukes. Students will become familiar in research using primary sources.

This course deals with extensive questions related to the history of modern and contemporary Lebanon, based on primary sources: archives, manuscripts…

This course examines the family status in different areas and it detects the factors of change and durability. It is obvious that the situation of the family changes in Lebanon, but it is also well known that it remains the base of society and is an element which gives the country its t charm and stability.

This course studies problematic cases related to the history, art and archeology of Lebanon.