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Programs
PARIS IC
Description
Dates
Eligibility
Courses
Cost
Housing
Description
This joint UW-Milwaukee/ UW-Madison study abroad program offers students the exciting opportunity to spend Spring semester in Paris, living in a French home and taking French language and culture courses. This program is good for students who want the experience of living in Paris and participating in French university-sponsored classes but who also prefer to have an on-site Program Director and to maintain direct ties with a US university. The structure of the curriculum also allows for students with a lower level of French to participate fully in the program.
Intensive language courses are offered at the Institut Catholique (IC), a university founded in 1875 and located near the Jardin du Luxembourg in the center of Paris. All students participate, with other international students, in an intensive 6 credit language course at the Institut de Langue et de Culture Françaises (ILCF), a branch of the IC. The language courses are designed to improve students’ written and oral proficiencies.
The Program Director and two local instructors will each teach a culture/ civilization course. Students are required to take at least two of these study abroad program-specific courses and may take all three. Courses include field trips and site visits. For an additional fee students can take a culture course at the ILCF which offers a variety of courses for various language levels. Special program options include a 2-3 credit internship and a course on international business (for UWM students only).
The program is administered on location by a faculty director from UW-Milwaukee or UW-Madison and by the Paris ACCENT office. ACCENT offers an array of trips and tours exploring Paris’s unlimited cultural and historic resources. Visits are also made to the surrounding areas, including Versailles, Chartres, Giverny & Fontainebleau.
Dates
February 17 to June 20, 2009
Eligibility
Paricipants must have at least 4 semesters of college French or theequivalent; sophomore standing at the time of participation; and an overall G.P.A. of 2.5 (3.0 G.P.A. in French courses).
Courses
The Paris Study Program offers students an array of course offerings selected to dramatically enhance their French language proficiency level and their knowledge and appreciation for French culture. Students are enrolled in approximately six courses for which they will be granted credit. Prior to departure, students will be required to take an ILCF language placement test. Students will be provided information on how and when the placement test will be administered. Students will then be placed in one of 11 language levels
Cost
TBA
Cost includes UWM and IC academic fees, standard housing option, orientation and prgram administration in Milwaukee and Paris, monthly Metro and bus pass, Mandatory UW system Health Insurance, and program-sponsored activities and excursions.
Housing
The standard program option is a single home stay with breakfast included. For an additional supplement, students may choose 1) the same single home stay with breakfast and four dinners included per week or 2) a single studio apartment with no meals included (very limited availability).
Getting Started: A Step-by-Step Guide to Study Abroad
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