This course will combine factor-based and model-based approaches to examine the contemporary literature that comprises Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) as a seminal sub-field in International Relations. Foreign policy is ubiquitous with international politics as it is the most commonly recognized mode of state agency. Foreign policy is driven and constrained by a wide variety of "international", "transnational" and "domestic" variables. To provide structured examination of the influence that the most pertinent variables in these categories have on the foreign policy decision-making process, this course is divided into two different sections. Section I will examine the principal factors that regularly affect the foreign policy decision-making process. This includes assessment of the external, domestic, formal institutional, transnational and ideational factors that shape foreign policy. Part II will examine the strengths and weaknesses of the main models proposed to explain the main decision-dynamics involved in the foreign policy formation process, this will include assessment of the rational-actor model; the governmental politics model; the leadership trait approach; the operational code approach; prospect theory; poliheuristic theory; analogical reasoning; and groupthink.

During the course students get an overview of the nature and causes of death, injuries and their causing mechanisms, nature and causes of health damage, possibilities of laboratory investigations in solving juridical problems. Attention is paid to the importance of describing injuries and its role in determing mechanism and time of injuries and to the juridical aspects of filling in medical documentation.

Seminars are held in preparation for Gottlob Frege lectures in theoretical philosophy, where relevant texts provided by the lecturer are discussed. Participation in preparatory seminars, Frege lectures, and the related workshop (if offered that year) is required.

The course presupposes no preliminary knowledge of French. The contents of the course as communication situations and vocabulary related: - presenting oneself and others (name, nationality, profession); - identifying or introducing persons and objects (Who is this? What is this?); - expressions of courtesy (greetings, apologies, etc.); - introducing oneself, personal data (name, age, address, profession, marital status, etc.); - work and studies; - leisure activities, sports, preferences; - hometown, living quarters; - dates, time, schedule; - making, accepting or refusing a proposition; - EU and other countries. Grammar topics: - introduction to the grammar terminology; - pronunciation rules; - numbers; - verb conjugation (present tense, indicative mood); - article (definite, indefinite, contracted); - nouns and adjectives (gender and number); - prepositions "de" and "à"; - prepositions before countries' names and other place names; - negative sentence; - interrogative sentence, interrogative words; - possessive adjectives; - personal pronouns (subject pronouns and stressed pronouns); - immediate future (futur proche); - affirmative answer "si" to the negative question.

The course presupposes the Council of Europe Level A.1.1. The contents of the course as communication situations and vocabulary related: - talking about timetables, telling/asking the time; - making an appointment; - lodgings, booking a room; - directions, describing views and places; - expressing possession, describing one's belongings; - giving orders; - talking about everyday activities, today and yesterday, communicating past events; - describing a person, his/her appearances, clothing, fashion; - describing different objects (their form, colour, material), choosing a gift, shopping; - food, different food-stores, meals, ordering in a cafe/a restaurant. Grammar topics: - continuous verbe practice, general survey of the tenses of the indicative mood; - interrogative sentence, questions with subject/verb inversion; - demonstrative determiners, expressing possession (possessives + preposition à); - pronominal verbs; - imperative mood, expression of obligation (il faut + infinitive); - the past tense passé composé; - impersonal pronouns (quelque chose, quelqu'un ) + negation: alternate forms (rien, personne); - determiners: expressions of quantity, partitive articles.

The course presupposes the Council of Europe Level A1.2. The contents of the course (communication situations and vocabulary): - learning and studies; - expressing opinion, emotions, motivation and preferences; - accommodation (types and description); - comparison; - everyday activities; - giving advice and asking for one; - describing the past (memories, habits), telling a biography or stories in the past, talking about one's experiences. Grammar topics: - revision of verb conjugation (indicative mood, present tense); - revision of personal pronouns as direct (pronom personnel complément d'objet direct, COD) and indirect objects (pronom personnel complément d'objet indirect, COI); - pronoun of place Y and spatial prepositions; - comparatives and superlatives; - causal conjunctions; - relative pronouns (qui, que, où); - indefinite adjectives and pronouns; - the past tenses imparfait and passé composé and choosing between them when telling a story in the past; - passé composé: agreement of the past participle in gender and in number; - present continuous présent continu.