Below is a list of some of the classes offered in English at Rennes 2. Please note that this list changes regularly and you should download the document on the right-hand side of this page to see the latest courses available.
English Studies Department
Linguistics and English Grammar
Landmarks of British History
Introduction to American Civilisation
Linguistics and English Grammar
An Introduction to Literature in English
Literature in English Seminar: Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day + Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
Writing Techniques
Oral comprehension
Methodology Module: Document Analysis
Grammar of English (non-Native English speakers only)
Intermediate Translation from French to English (thème)
British Civilisation: Industrialisation in Britain & British Institutions
English Literature Lecture: A Panorama of British Literature from Elizabethan Theatre to Modernism (+ reading list)
English Literature Seminar: Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet) & Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
Grammar of English (non-Native English speakers only)
American Civilization : American Politics and Society
American Literature Seminar: Edgar Allan Poe, Selected Tales + Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems
American Literature Lecture: A Panorama of American Literature (+ reading list)
English Literature (Charles Dickens, Great Expectations)
Image Analysis: Reading the Moving Image
British Civilisation: Sociology of Post-War Britain
Literature: Colonial heritage and postcolonial fiction: reading Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
Visual Arts: British Painting in the 18th and 19th centuries
Visual Arts: Genres in Cinema
Contemporary Anglophone Civilisations: The New Right in Britain
Contemporary Anglophone Civilisations: Constructing Australia
Anglophone Literature: Imagining the End
Discourse Analysis: Colonial discourses and postcolonial theories
American Literature: Henry James, Selected Short Stories
Image Analysis : reading the fixed image
American Civilisation: Women in the US (20th century)
American Civilisation: The Republicans
Anglophone Literature: Aspects of Crime Fiction
Anglophone Literature: British Country-House Fiction
Anglophone Literature: The Neo-Slave Narrative
Anglophone Literature: Zone One and Zero K
Contemporary Anglophone Cultures: Aspects of Film noir
Australian Civilisation : Aboriginality and Ideology
The madwoman in the attic: Reading Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
Poetics of Images
Politics of Space
Poetics of Space
Paranoia in American Mindscapes (Literature and film)
(Re)visiting the Classics
Politics and the Environment
Popular culture(s) in contemporary Britain
Postcolonial Studies
Modernism and Postmodernism
Filming ideology (if available)
Post-s and -isms (if available)
Human-animal relationships (if available)
Language Acquisition and Language Learning
Linguistics
Class Project Management; Information and Communication Technologies in Education (ICTE)
Language Centre
Changing Ireland
Dysfunctional Urban America in the Wire (HBO)
Digital Poetics and Poetics of the Digital
Whose Country?
Comics! Means of representations, memory and transmission of American culture
Languages Applied to Business and Translation
Introduction to Life and Institutions in the UK (lecture)
Introduction to Life and Institutions in the UK (writing, reading and listening)
Practical English: Language and Society (writing, reading and listening)
Introduction to American Government and Politics (lecture)
Introduction to American Government and Politics (writing, reading and listening)
Practical English: Language and Society (writing, reading and listening)
Business English (writing and reading skills)
Business English (speaking production and interaction)
Business English: Negotiation and International Affairs (writing and reading skills)
Business English: Negotiation and International Affairs (speaking production and interaction)
Written Professional Communication (Master's degree in translation)
Spoken Professional Communication (Master's degree in translation)
Social and Economic Administration
Introduction to Organization of Social Economy
Political Sociology
Rise of China
Sociology of Organization
Social Policy in the European Union
Geography Department
Urban Planning in Europe
National and Cultural Landscapes
Regional Disparities
City Marketing and Metropolization in the European Union
The place of animals in human societies: environment, food production, ethics and culture
Rural Spaces and Development Policies
Regional Geography
History Department
The Russian Empire
Sociology
Deviance, Crime and Social Control
STAPS
Tools and Methods
Ergonomics Scales or Grids for Workstation Postures Analysis - Professional Approach
Numeric Methods for Ergonomics Part 1
Numeric Methods for Ergonomics Part 2
Visual Arts Department
Art Today: Some Landmarks
Rennes 2 also has a privileged partnership with Rennes 1 University. It is possible to take courses in other topics offered on their campus. For more information contact the International Office at Rennes 2.