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Intensive
Study Abroad at the Paris Research Center
May Intersession
This
year, students campus-wide will benefit from unique opportunities for
intensive study abroad lasting from one to two weeks. These innovative
programs for intensive study abroad in Paris were expressly created to
provide in-depth on-site international experiences. They include: 6 or
13 activity-rich days in Paris with meetings at the Paris Research Center,
classes given on-site at the cultural, historical and political institutions
you are studying, 6 or 13 nights in hotels, numerous group meals, site
visits, cultural activities and UF credit.
Programs Offered May Intersession 2010
One Week Programs
Two-week programs
Course Descriptions
One Week Programs
Commodities to Cafés: Agricultural and Food Markets in
France
(AEB 4931, 3 credits)
Professor David Barber (1 week)
dbarber@ufl.edu
Through
an intensive seven-day program, students in this course will be presented
with an overview of the agricultural and food marketing system of France.
Discussions, presentations and assigned reading materials will include
the following topics – the
French approach to supply chain management (i.e., les
filières),
food quality signaling in French foods, the tradition of fresh markets
in France, European grocery retailing, and international agricultural
trade and its relationship to economic development. Through these activities,
students will be introduced to a wide range of perspectives about food
marketing, and how agricultural producers and food processors are able
to meet the strident, quality-focused demand of their customers. Time
in Paris will be balanced across types of activities so that cultural
events, tours and visits will be incorporated into the overall program.
Students in this course should anticipate a very demanding experience
that will require them to be open-minded, flexible, curious, hard working
and sleep deprived!
The Legacy of Pasteur
(ALS404, 2 credits)
Professor
Valérie DeCrécy (1 week)
vcrecy@ufl.edu
Although the discovery of the microscope at the end of
the 17th century is considered the starting point of microbiology, it
was the 19th century that truly laid the foundation of modern microbiology.
During this one-week intensive program, students will explore how the
work of key scientists such as Louis Pasteur influenced fields as varied
as chemistry, medicine, public health, and food processing.
Based in
Paris, The Legacy of Pasteur allows students to examine the
evolution of science from the 1800s to modern times. Through a combination
of lectures, site visits, interviews, and scientific literature analysis,
students will not only study Pasteur's accomplishments, but will also
learn how his legacy is carried on today at the Pasteur Institute. The
program will also include a variety of cultural activities and enhancements
in and around Paris.
Rediscovering Dark Age Paris:
The City’s First
Millennium from the Perspective of Its Excavators (1789-present)
(HIS
4956, 2 credits)
Professor Bonnie Effros (1 week)
beffros@ufl.edu
The
origins of Paris date back more than two and half millennia, but it is
easy to forget the oldest traces of the city’s past buried beneath
its densely populated landscape. Although the nature and size of early
settlements in what is today Paris and its surrounding territory are
disputed by scholars, Gallo-Roman, Roman, and Frankish activities helped
define the future of the Paris by establishing enduring sites for thoroughfares,
river crossings, and sacred ritual. Why then are remnants of the city’s
origins, in contrast to Rome or Jerusalem, nearly invisible today? In
the nineteenth century, large-scale efforts were made to revamp the medieval
city and create more open, modern spaces. Yet, in the course of industrialization,
the early vestiges of Paris were not forgotten entirely – the very
process of deconstructing the medieval city meant that traces of the
past came to light on a regular basis.
Participants in this course will
visit surviving traces and reconstructions of Paris’ first thousand
years; we will also meet archaeologists and historians whose work it
is to study these remains and interpret their significance. The course
will also address the challenges faced by the pioneering individuals
who first worked to preserve and study architectural and archaeological
remains in Paris in the absence of protective legislation. Because ancient
remains of early Paris first began to appear with regularity during the
French Revolution and also were unearthed in periods of upheaval like
the Franco-Prussian war and the Commune, the course will highlight the
politicization of conservation and archaeological research. Visits and
lectures will touch upon the themes of historical preservation, national
identity, the history of archaeology and physical anthropology, and architectural
history in France.
Two Week Programs
Readdressing the Classics: An Atelier,
Recontextualizing the Masterpieces of Paris
(ART 2930; ART 3807; ART
4930; ART 5905, 3 credits)
Professor Richard Heipp (2 weeks)
heipp@ufl.edu
The
term atelier comes from old French meaning, a workshop or studio, especially
for an artist or designer. This atelier will immerse the student in the
viewing and study of many of Paris's artistic masterpieces. The course
will subsequently involve the students in creating reinterpretations
of the artworks via their choice of drawing (following the tradition
of the French salon in executing drawing from sculptural masterpieces),
collage (employing the processes of Max Ernst and others), photography
(following Breton and Kertez) as well as digital imaging. No previous
art experience is necessary. The class will allow student to experience
the art of Paris in a very intimate and direct way, creating art from
art.
For hundreds of years an artist’s practical studio education
consisted of a consistent pedagogical approach to the study of the human
form. The search for ideal beauty was rooted in the practice of drawing
from, and studying classical sculptural masterpieces. For centuries artists
traveled to Paris in order to engage in this activity. It was a common
practice of the academic training of the French Salon well into the twentieth
century. Students honed their observation skills, copying masterpieces
before being moving on to work from life. This course attempts to resurrect
and expand this practice working from, and reinterpreting the artistic
masterpieces of Paris through drawing, collage, photography and digital
media. Various conceptual strategies will be explored including: the
classical aesthetic, Dada, collage, capturing photographic light and
the decisive moment, as well as digital assemblage.
Organized excursions
to many of Paris’s great art institutions will include places such
as; The Louvre, Pompidou Center, Musse d’Orsay, Museum of Modern
Art, Rodin Museum, Monet Museum, Brancusi’s Studio, the Museum
of European Photography as well as visits to Versailles, and Giverny.
The class strives to rebuild the links between masterpieces of the past
and our artistic future.
Dateline: Paris – Documentary Filmmaking
101
(JOU 4930, 3 credits)
Professor Boaz Dvir (2 weeks)
bdvir@jou.ufl.edu
Documentaries are increasingly becoming a vital,
vibrant part of new media. As the birthplace of Cinéma Vérité movement,
France has played a pivotal role in global documentary filmmaking for
decades. This May, you have a rare chance to explore this craft in Paris
with a veteran journalist and documentary filmmaker. You need no technical
skills – just a passion for journalism, filmmaking and/or storytelling.
The course will focus on documentaries that explore decision-making under
crisis conditions, including “Shoah,” French director Claude
Lanzmann’s groundbreaking Holocaust epic; “MicroCosmos,” the
French close-up look at the world of insects; and “Waltz With Bashir,” the
César Award-wining Israeli animated documentary. We will also
converse with some of Paris’ most interesting documentary filmmakers
and work on producing a nonfiction film about an Air France captain who
made a heroic decision under crisis conditions. In 1976, Michel Bacos
risked his life and career when despite being released by the hijackers
of his Airbus, he refused to leave his Israeli passengers in Entebbe,
Africa. We will study and tell his story.
The Architecture of Paris:
Experiments of Place
(ARC 3291/6911, 3 credits)
Professor Nancy Clark
(2 weeks)
nmclark@ufl.edu
Paris
is a uniquely layered landscape of historical and modern architectural
monuments. Historic structures include the Louvre Palace, the Viaduct
Daumesnil, the Eiffel Tower, and Labrouste’s
Bibliothèque Nationale. The late 20th century has added the modern
grands projets, including the Parc and Cité des Sciences at La
Villette, the Institute du Monde Arabe, the Bibliothèque de France,
and the new design proposals for Les Halles, as well as lesser known
but equally important projects that have emerged out of PAN (new architecture
programme), a critical component to understanding the modern fabric of
the city. This course will examine the architecture of the city of Paris
as a layered artifact, constructed out of the collective social, political
and economic influences embedded in its history, with a specific emphasis
on Paris’s modern city image. Students will participate in several
guided tours of the city and building interiors, meet with prominent
Parisian architects who will discuss their work and ideas about the city,
and take part in daily discussion sessions. Course participants will
be responsible for keeping a journal in which they will study and record
Paris based on their own city theme.
Americans in Paris
(ENC 4956,
3 credits)
Professor Andrew Gordon (2 weeks)
agordon@ufl.edu
Students
enrolled in this course will study Americans' changing views of Paris
as reflected in eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century American
literature and in selected Hollywood films, such as An
American in Paris.
The objective is to gain increased understanding of American and French
culture by studying Franco-American interaction in American literature
and film. Through readings, films, and their own writing, students encountering
Paris—perhaps for the first time—can compare their responses
to the city to those of many generations of Americans who loved Paris.
Course requirements include selected readings from Americans
in Paris,
ed. Adam Gopnik; viewing of selected films prior to departure; attendance
and participation in class and on field trips; and keeping a journal.
The field trips will be lecture tours, which will follow the routes described
by Hemingway, and will visit Paris sites cafés and restaurants
favored by "The Lost Generation."
Sociolinguistique dans
la ville: Interaction et variation
(FRE 3224, 3 credits)
Professor
Hélène
Blondeau (2 weeks)
blondeau@ufl.edu
This
course in French sociolinguistics focuses on interaction and variation
in contemporary French. Using classical case studies in French sociolinguistics,
the course invites students to observe the use of the language in its
social context, with Paris as their laboratory. Distinguished French
linguists adopting the sociolinguistic perspective will offer some of
the lectures. Each lecture will be complemented by visits of unique collections,
fieldwork experiments, and hands-on activities. Students will do their
own observations, and develop their analytical skills in situ. The first
part of the course will focus on interaction. Within this perspective
the course will cover topics concerning the addressee forms, and the
negotiation in public place in contemporary French. For example, after
a lecture, the students will design an experiment, and observe how spoken
French is used in public places like libraries, museums or bakeries.
Students will also examine how people interact and negotiate in cafés
and public markets. The second part of the course will address the notion
of variation, and will cover topics concerning the various dimensions
constraining the use of the language: region, social class, age, and
gender. Using different types of data unavailable in the US the course
will provide the students with the opportunity to observe variation in
contemporary spoken French.
Course will be taught in French. Pre-requi
Previous Year's May Session Courses
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