This course provides, in a first part, tools for comprehending the cognitive process in general and its product. In a second part, it studies selected products of the cognitive process

within the Francophone environment. The course further trains and encourages students in the reading of expository writing in order to habituate them to critical reflection.  Works for

study are taken from such writers as Montaigne, Descartes, Condillac, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Auguste Comte, Sartre, and Beauvoir.