French language and culture

Lyon, France Paris, France

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The data provided here’s from the past program. The Worldwide Center anticipates offering the program again later on however, specific details haven’t been finalized and could change.

Introduction

The MU Worldwide Center sponsors this summer time, faculty-brought study abroad program together with the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. Megan Moore, assistant professor of French, and Dan Sipe, affiliate professor of French studies, may lead this six-credit enter in Lyon, France.

Throughout the program, you’ll live and focus French language and culture in Lyon, and attend around restaurants, local food producers, museums, Roman ruins and places of worship around the town. Encircled by verdant hillsides in the confluence from the Rhône and Saone rivers, Lyon has lengthy been the gastronomic capital of France. For hundreds of years the farms, vineyards and pastures that us dot the countryside have given a apparently infinite supply of nutrition and variety for this thriving commercial and trade center. This program provides a venue to enhance your mastery of french through coursework and immersive homestays when you sample a number of Lyon’s gastronomic delights.

Academics

Courses

You’ll enroll within the following tracks based upon your height of ability for as many as six credit hrs. Some courses is going to be trained by Sciences-U faculty people.

Track one (equal to second year French)
  • FRENCH 2100: Elementary French III (3) is really a multiskill course following FRENCH 1200, focusing on cultural or literary studying and together with a grammar review, practice within the spoken language, plus some practice in written expression. Prerequisite: FRENCH 1200 or equivalent.
  • FRENCH 2160: Intermediate French Composition and Conversation (3) is made to assist you to develop the opportunity to speak, read in French through the studying of French short tales or perhaps a short novel. The program includes a grammar review. Prerequisite: FRENCH 1200 or equivalent.
Track two (equal to third year French)
  • FRENCH 3160: Advanced French Composition and Conversation I (3) is made to assist you to develop modern-day skills of written and dental expression. Prerequisite: FRENCH 2160 or equivalent.
  • FRENCH 3180: Foundations en civilization française (3) is an introduction to French civilization form its origins towards the French Revolution. You’ll examine key cultural objects from art, literature and popular culture, in addition to selected political and historic movements which have formed the introduction of French civilization. This program is fantastic for students thinking about engaging with issues, debates and issues that helped to define the nascent French condition. Certainly one of its goals is that will help you understand and evaluate the complex interplay that exists between art and culture on a single hands and society and politics alternatively. Prerequisite: FRENCH 2160 or equivalent.
Track three (equal to third year French)
  • FRENCH 3160: Advanced French Composition and Conversation I (3) is made to assist you to develop modern-day skills of written and dental expression. Prerequisite: FRENCH 2160 or equivalent.
  • FRENCH 4993/4993H: Capstone: Special Styles in French — Food, Culture and French Identity (3) may have you evaluate the complex and ever-evolving relationship the French have using their food. You’ll consider the way the practices of "eating well" (or otherwise very well) could be helpful to understand the cultural politics at participate in the development and propagation of French national identity. You’ll examine literary and historic texts, in addition to visual media, associated with food culture. Additionally, you’ll make several pedagogic visits to understand more about the cultural practices of food around Lyon. Possible visits include: a culinary institute for any lecture and culinary demonstration, a regional cheese producer, a nearby farmer’s market, vineyards and museums. Prerequisite: Completing one FRENCH 3000 course before the start of program.
Track four (equal to 4th year French)
  • FRENCH 3180: Foundations en civilization française (3) is an introduction to French civilization form its origins towards the French Revolution. Trained by Sciences-U staff, you’ll examine key cultural objects from art, literature and popular culture, in addition to selected political and historic movements which have formed the introduction of French civilization. This program is fantastic for students thinking about engaging with issues, debates and issues that helped to define the nascent French condition. Certainly one of its goals is that will help you understand and evaluate the complex interplay that exists between art and culture on a single hands and society and politics alternatively. Prerequisite: FRENCH 2160 or equivalent.
  • FRENCH 4993/4993H: Capstone: Special Styles in French — Food, Culture and French Identity (3) may have you evaluate the complex and ever-evolving relationship the French have using their food. You’ll consider the way the practices of "eating well" (or otherwise very well) could be helpful to understand the cultural politics at participate in the development and propagation of French national identity. You’ll examine literary and historic texts, in addition to visual media, associated with food culture. Additionally, you’ll make several pedagogic visits to understand more about the cultural practices of food around Lyon. Possible visits include: a culinary institute for any lecture and culinary demonstration, a regional cheese producer, a nearby farmer’s market, vineyards and museums. Prerequisite: Completing one FRENCH 3000 course before the start of program.

Academic credit

You’ll be signed up for actual MU courses. You’re certain to receive MU credit for effectively completed courses however, you have to use your academic advisor(s) to acquire pre-approval regarding how courses might fulfill degree needs.

MU students: Grades will calculate to your MU GPA and appearance in your MU transcript when grades are recorded through the faculty program director. You have to use your academic advisor(s) to acquire pre-approval regarding the way the courses might fulfill degree needs.

Non-MU/visiting students: Transcripts is going to be issued from MU and could be mailed to your house college. You have to use your house college to find out how credit in the program will transfer. The MU Worldwide Center will issue one transcript per student to 1 domestic address, as indicated in your Non-MU Student Application for Study Abroad. Additional MU transcripts for study abroad should be requested and purchased in the MU Registrar.

Location

Host program

Sciences-U Lyon is really a across the country recognized private educational organization that provides courses in a number of subjects from french to computing. Situated in Lyon’s city center, the college is definitely accessible and near most of the city’s primary attractions. Science-U’s recently built building provides students with lots of amenities including access to the internet in the computer lab.

Accommodations and meals

You’ll be supplied with homestays in Lyon. Homestays will give you breakfast and dinner 7 days per week and laundry service once per week. Each homestay continues to be carefully selected to be able to accommodate your particular needs and also to ensure an appropriate circumstances.

Host city and surrounding areas

Lyon is really a busy metropolitan city, wealthy in history and culture dating back Roman occasions. Lyon used to be the main city from the Gallo-Roman Empire, and because the current capital from the Rhône-Alpes region, Lyon is the second biggest metropolitan area in France, after Paris. The right mixture of city and countryside, Lyon provides an objective balance of recent existence in France.

Lyon’s extensive types of art and architecture preserve its background and influence its future. You are able to attribute the various galleries and fashion brands present in Lyon right now to its past like a center for trade and artistic development. The town is renowned for its Roman ruins and extensive network of covered walkways (traboules) which were produced throughout the Renaissance. During this period Lyon wasn’t just the origin from the early printing press and frescoes in France, but seemed to be a hub from the silk industry that is constantly on the flourish today. The attractive roads and well-preserved architecture from the Old Renaissance quarter from the old city (Vieux-Lyon) remain an energetic area of the city and also the quarter is regarded as an UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The town is also referred to as the Gastronomic Capital of France. Of particular note would be the bouchons Lyonnais, that are informal restaurants that offer scrumptious and traditional regional dishes in a great value. The location can also be renowned for its Beaujolais wine and scrumptious chocolates from Berachon and Voisin confiseurs.

Built around the banks of these two rivers Le Rhône and La Saône, Lyon is encircled by hillsides that provide beautiful views from the city. Two renowned are Fourvière using its basilica, known as "the praying hill," and La Croix Rousse, known as "the significant hill," using its silk factories. Lyon has numerous scenic pathways through parks, riverbanks or Roman ruins, in addition to a modern tram, bus and metro system that gives an affordable method to navigate the town rapidly.

Lyon is really a vibrant city, where welcoming people assist in balancing out its large size. The town offers an ideal place to enhance your utilisation of the French language and understanding of French culture while experiencing the best food, art and architecture in France.

Excursions

You’ll travel using the group, and can have possibilities to understand more about some sites individually on your time abroad. Travel may include:

  • 1 week in Paris to begin this program
  • Themed excursions around Lyon to understand more about food culture and native tradition
  • Weekend trip to areas for example Provence, in france they Alps or Beaujolais

Tentative itinerary

  • May 28: Get to Paris
  • June 1: Visit Lyon
  • June 2–July 7: Class in Lyon
  • This summer 8: Finish of program

Faculty program director

College of Missouri faculty people Megan Moore and Dan Sipe, MU Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, will accompany the scholars to Lyon as faculty program company directors.

Faculty-brought programs enrich the research abroad experience along with the MU campus by supplying students possibilities to review other cultures and disciplines thorough while gaining new perspectives by ourselves society. Faculty leaders function as mentors, role-models and sources as students explore their host institution and country.

Megan Moore

Megan Moore

Megan Moore holds a doctoral in the College of Michigan and it is a professional in medieval Mediterranean culture. She’s thinking about how travel and mix-cultural exchange help mold people’s identities, and her research concentrates on ladies and mix-cultural marriage round the Mediterranean. An enthusiastic prepare and baker (and oenophile!), Moore is happy to leverage her various encounters traveling and dealing in France to create students in contact with French culture through its food. She gets that Lyon is an ideal mixture of laid-back southern charm and complicated foodie culture, with much to provide students who spend the summer time discussing meals, improving their French and broadening their horizons in a single of France’s top metropolitan areas.

Daniel Sipe

Daniel Sipe

Dan Sipe is definitely an affiliate professor within the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at MU. He teaches courses in French literature, culture and language having a concentration within the 1800s. Sipe holds Ph.D.s in the College of Minnesota and also the College of Strasbourg. An item of study abroad themself, Sipe continues to be leading groups abroad for over a decade, where he is constantly on the enjoy facilitating the incredible personal and intellectual transformations that learning in France inevitably leads to.

Costs

Program Budget

  • Summer time PDF link

Additional Expenses

Additionally towards the program costs compensated to MU, you’ll have expenses connected with worldwide travel and living abroad. The amounts listed are believed costs according to current forex rates as well as on the data presented to us from your host institution and past participants. Based on your individual spending habits, you might spend more money or under the figures provided.

Please be aware that these expenses don’t include vacation travel or sightseeing.

Educational Funding Information

If you’re awarded educational funding for study abroad, it will likely be put on your MU account based on the regular educational funding disbursement schedule. Indication: You’ve got to be signed up for study abroad and also have completed the needed educational funding forms for study abroad to become considered for aid.

Because non-resident tuition charges apply, MU students ought to be qualified to make use of non-resident scholarship for the program costs.

Dates and Deadlines

Resourse: https://worldwide.missouri.edu/study-outdoors-the-us/programs/

French Language and Literature