Summer Study Abroad at the Paris Research Center

These interdisciplinary programs welcome students from all areas majors. All courses include newly designed international opportunities with professors who have distinguished themselves as outstanding teacher/scholars at UF, nationally and internationally. Each class has been enhanced with site-specific activities and excursions, guest speakers, and all have been carefully selected for academic excellence and approved by their academic units. There is no language requirement for these programs. We welcome your questions and interest and look forward to offering course of study and international experiences that will serve you for a lifetime.

Summer Study Abroad at the Paris Research Center
(June 19-July 28, 2006)

Students spend 6-weeks immersed in the rich environment of Paris where they will live and study. Classes are given daily at the Paris Research Center and each program offers students 6-7 credits, numerous group activities and meals, cultural activities, site-visits, and guest lectures by distinguished scholars in their fields of
study. All courses have been designed by specialists in their fields and have been selected for academic excellence.

Courses Offered 2006

• Download the 2006 Academic advisement sheet
• Program Coordinator: Dr. Robert A Hatch

Interdisciplinary Studies

• City of Light: Paris in the 17th Century
  HIS 4956, 3 Credits
  Dr. Robert A. Hatch
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  During the Age of Louis XIV, Paris saw revolutionary changes in the way scholars and artists joined the public sphere. The jewel of European learning, Paris under the Sun King was noted for its High Culture, for its dramatic innovations in philosophy, science, and literature as well as for sweeping changes in the packaging of the arts and sciences for the wider reading public, this through the printing press, journals, theatre, and state-sponsored academies. Paris also opened avenues for less esoteric cultural expressions. Topics include the New Science, the Nation State, science fiction, astrology and witchcraft, and other curious cultural practices, including dueling, poisoning, and public execution. Taught as a readings seminar, this course is based on classic secondary studies (cultural, intellectual, political) and readily accessible primary texts (in electronic format). No prerequisites. Course website
• French Politics and Society in the Fifth Republic
  CPO 3151, 3 credits
  Dr. Richard Conley
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  The course will examine the main socio-political developments of the French Fifth Republic (1958-present), including the role of the state, constitutional arrangements, the semi-presidential system of government since 1962, national institutions (presidency, National Assembly and prime minister, Senate, Constitutional Council), elections, political parties, interest groups, foreign policy, and relations with the European Union. The major presidential figures in French politics—de Gaulle, Pompidou, Giscard d’Estaing, Mitterand, and Chirac—are examined in some detail. Students enrolled in the course will have the unique opportunity to visit national and local government offices, meet with government officials, and see government “in action.” Field trips and site visits will include: the Assemblé nationale (National Assembly), the Palais Bourbon (Senate) in the Luxembourg Gardens, the Château de Versailles and the Permanent Museum of Parliament, the Hôtel de Lassay (The Prime Minister’s office), the Palais Elysée (President’s palace), the Ministry of Justice and Court proceedings, the Constitutional Council, the Invalides Military & World War II Museum, la Conciergerie (Revolutionary period), the Paris Hôtel de Ville (town hall), and a day excursion to Normandy to visit the World War II battlefield at Omaha Beach (Villevier-sur-Mer) and the town of Bayeux (World War II museum, tapestry of William the Conqueror).
• Let them eat cake?: Art in the Age of Marie-Antoinette
  ARH 4930, 3 credits
  Dr. Melissa Hyde
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  Marie-Antoinette was one of France's most famous, ill-fated and (during her lifetime, at least) most hated queens. This course will take "the wicked queen" as the focal point for the study of French culture and art during the decades leading up to the French Revolution, taking full advantage of the astonishing riches Paris has to offer in exploring aesthetic culture and gender politics during this period of dramatic social, political and cultural developments that culminated in the violent overthrow of the French monarchy and the establishment of France as a modern republic. This course will combine class lectures and discussion of readings in art history (painting, architecture, decorative arts, fashion and garden history), gender and cultural studies, with weekly excursions to museums and parks in Paris and its environs. Course visits will include: the Louvre, the Hôtel de Soubise, the Musée Carnavalet, the Musées Cognaq-Jay, Jacquemart-André, and Nissim da Caimondo. Other excursions will include: the Musée de Mode et Costume, Musée des arts décoratifs, the Conciergerie, Parc Monceau, and the chateau of Versailles. Major themes to be traced in the course include: the intersections between gender, class, politics and style, the problems of and for women in the public sphere-especially as these problems pertained to the fashionable and independently-minded queen, whom recent scholarship has described as the first "modern" princess. The rise of an imagery of domesticity and its relationship to reformist Enlightenment thought and political ideologies will be examined, along with how representations (for good and ill) of Marie-Antoinette and of women more generally, were shaped by these forces. The course will also explore the emergence of art criticism, the development of the notion of an art for the public, the ways in which the structures and doctrines of official art institutions shaped artistic practice, both inside and outside the Academy.
• History as Landscape: Film in Paris
  ENG 4135, 4 credits
  Dr. Scott Nygren
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  This course introduces the history of French film in the cultural context of Paris. The class will continually alternate between screening films shot or set in Paris, and visiting the locations and contexts that the films bring to life. Films will be drawn from all eras and include some of France’s most famous directors, from Lumiere, Kirsanov, Claire, Carné and Cocteau, to Truffaut, Resnais, Godard, Kurys, Breillat and Kassovitz. Students will visit the streets of Montmartre where Amélie was set and the Champs Elysées for Godard’s Breathless, to consider how Paris has been continually reinvented through film. We will visit the site of the first cinema exhibition by the Lumière brothers on the Boulevard des Capucines, and the Eiffel Tower for Claire’s Paris Qui Dort. We will watch films at the Cinémathéque Française and other Parisian theaters, visit museum exhibitions in relation to cinema, observe current television production, and meet with an experimental filmmaker. In addition to an exam on narrative theory and film analysis, students will maintain a hybrid journal that combines analysis, personal experience, photographs and collected documentation, with reading and film viewings.

French Studies

• Intensive Intermediate French at the Paris Research Center
  FRE 2274, 6 credits
  Professor Audrey Stavrévitch
  
  Intensive French is a student-centered communicative language class that integrates the experience, observations and impressions of students living with French host families in Paris. Emphasis is placed on the development of language proficiency and cultural awareness. The student will work on all language skills in the classroom and is asked to take her/his learning outside the traditional learning environment. Since it is an intensive six-week class, the lessons, lectures, films, plays, fieldtrips, and interaction with instructor(s) and students will be carried out in French. A journal in French is required. (Course taught in French).
• Beginning French at the PRC
  FRE 1116, 3 Credits
  Instructor TBA
  
  This course, which constitutes the basic sequence in French for the development of skill in the language, is a student-centered, communicative language class that integrates the experience and impressions of students living in Paris. Emphasis is placed on the development of language proficiency and cultural awareness. The student will work on all language skills and is asked to take his or her learning outside the traditional learning environment. Class includes many outside activities. CombinesFRE 1130, FRE 1131.

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Courses Offered 2005

• Download the 2005 Academic Advisement Sheet
• Program Coordinator: Dr. Robert A Hatch

Interdisciplinary Studies

• HIS 4956, 3 Credits
  City of Light: Paris in the 17th Century
  Dr. Robert A. Hatch
  
  During the Age of Louis XIV, Paris saw revolutionary changes in the way scholars and artists joined the public sphere. The jewel of European learning, Paris under the Sun King was noted for its High Culture, for its dramatic innovations in philosophy, science, and literature as well as for sweeping changes in the packaging of the arts and sciences for the wider reading public, this through the printing press, journals, theatre, and state-sponsored academies. Paris also opened avenues for less esoteric cultural expressions. Topics discussed in the course include the New Science, the Nation State, science fiction, astrology and witchcraft, and other curious cultural practices, including dueling and poisoning, as well as cat massacres and public executions. Taught as a readings seminar, this course is based on classic secondary studies (cultural, intellectual, political) and readily accessible primary texts (in electronic format). (Course taught in English)
• ARH 4930/6915, 3 Credits
  The Gothic Cathedral in the Ile-de France
  Dr. David J. Stanley
  
  This course is designed as a six-week investigation of the French gothic cathedral. Lectures will discuss the historical, theoretical and stylistic development of the French gothic cathedral from c.1150 through c.1250 in the Ile-de-France, the area surrounding the city of Paris. The integration of architecture, sculpture and stained glass will be emphasized. In addition to the Cathedral of Paris, all of the major French gothic cathedrals are within an easy one or two hour train ride from Paris such as Sens, Laon, Chartres, Bourges, Reims and Amiens. Students are required to attend all lectures, keep a journal, research an aspect of one of the cathedrals under discussion, give an oral presentation of their research at the site of their building, attend all field trips to the various cathedrals and take a final written examination. (Course taught in English)
• ENG 4135, 4 credits
  Narrative Strategies in French Film
  Dr. Scott Nygren
  
  This course introduces the history of French film in the cultural context of Paris. The class will continually alternate between screening films shot or set in Paris, and visiting the locations and contexts that the films bring to life. Films will be drawn from all eras and include some of France's most famous directors, from Lumière, Kirsanov, Claire, Carné and Cocteau, to Truffaut, Resnais, Godard, Kurys, Breillat and Kassovitz. Students will visit the streets of Montmartre where Amélie was set and the Champs Elysées for Godard's Breathless, to consider how Paris has been continually reinvented through film. We will visit the site of the first cinema exhibition by the Lumière brothers on the Boulevard des Capucines, and the Eiffel Tower for Claire's Paris Qui Dort. We will watch films at the Cinémathèque Francaise and other Parisian theaters, visit museum exhibitions in relation to cinema, observe current television production, and meet with an experimental filmmaker. In addition to an exam on narrative theory and film analysis, students will maintain a hybrid journal that combines analysis, personal experience, photographs and collected documentation, with reading and film viewings. (Course taught in English)

French Studies

• FRE # TBA, 6 credits
  Intensive Intermediate French at the Paris Research Center
  Audrey Stavrévitch
  
  Intensive French is a student-centered communicative language class that integrates the experience, observations and impressions of students living with French host families in Paris. Emphasis is placed on the development of language proficiency and cultural awareness. The student will work on all language skills in the classroom and is asked to take her/his learning outside the traditional learning environment. Since it is an intensive six-week class, the lessons, lectures, films, plays, fieldtrips, and interaction with instructor(s) and students will be carried out in French. A journal in French is required. (Course taught in French).
• FRW # TBA, 3 credits
  Paris: L'écriture de la ville
  Dr. Rori Bloom
  
  While studying Paris as a workplace for writers from the Encyclopedists to the Surrealists, our analyses willrecognize the role of the city as a structuring principle in modern French literature. In works from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, we will analyze representations of the city as marketplace, as spectacle, as classroom, as battleground, as the site of triumph and failure, of glorious dreams and grinding realities. From the heights of the artist's garret to the depths of the criminal underworld, we will explore Paris as many-layered and multiple and see the city not just as the story's setting but as its hero. With visits to places as different as Voltaire's favorite café and Proust's private apartment, this course will provide an in-depth, on-site opportunity to discover the literary culture of Paris. By experiencing the spaces where writers worked and by exploring the sites they recreated in their writing, we will see the city through the eyes of famous French authors. Finally, students will conduct hands-on research for a final project which will examine the relationship between a chosen literary text and the cityscapes that inspired it. (Course taught in French)
• FRE 1116, 3 Credits
  Beginning French II at the PRC
  
  This course, which constitutes the basic sequence in French for the development of skill in the language, is a student-centered, communicative language class that integrates the experience and impressions of students living in Paris. Emphasis is placed on the development of language proficiency and cultural awareness. The student will work on all language skills and is asked to take his or her learning outside the traditional learning environment. Class includes many outside activities. Combines FRE 1130, FRE 1131.

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Courses Offered 2004

• Program Coordinator: Dr. Maureen Turim
• HIS 4956, 3 Credits
  France and the History of Consumer Culture (doc)
  Dr. Sheryl Kroen
  
  While every textbook treatment of modern Europe would include èpoliticalî revolutions (in France 1789, across Europe in 1848, in Russia in 1917), and the èindustrialî revolutions in the 19 th century, it is rare to find any discussion of the èconsumerî revolution of the 18 th and 19 th centuries. In this six-week course we will examine the rise of consumer society, using France as our case study. In the seventeenth century, Louis XIV, with his chateau at Versailles, created a model for "civilized" life defined by the excesses of courtly consumption. In the early 19th century Paris became home to the beautiful arcades, enclosed shopping spaces made of glass and steel, that scholars cite as the first shopping centers of the world. As Paris itself got a makeover, the largest avenues helped to facilitate the transport of goods and people to the doors of the great department stores for which Paris became so famous. Inside what contemporaries called these "cathedrals of consumption," the French were the first to experience the innovations in retailing and advertising that came to define consumer life in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• ENG 4135, 4 Credits
  French Cinema: Focus on Paris (doc)
  Dr. Maureen Turim
  
  This course on the history of French film will concentrate on films set in Paris and its surrounding area, such as Marcel Carne's Children of Paradise , Robert Bresson's Les Dames de Bois de Boulogne , Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, Eric Rohmer's Full Moon In Paris , Martine Dugowson's Mina Tannenbaum and Mathieu Kassowitz's Hate . In addition to film viewing and background reading, students will visit sites famous for their presence in films about Paris, concentrating on understanding how different sections of Paris become the representation of different classes and styles of daily life. We will also see exhibitions relating to cinema, watch films at the Cinémathèque Française and other Parisian theaters, look at exhibitions of photography and painting that correlate to cinematic representations, visit libraries devoted to the arts, as well as the vidéotheque. We will look at the role multimedia presentations play in Parisian museums, and meet with an experimental filmmaker. In addition to writing 2 papers, students will turn in analytical diaries of their discoveries, illustrated by their photographs and collected documentation, then annotated and supplemented by their reading and film viewings.
• FRE 1116, 3 Credits
  Beginning French II at the PRC (doc)
  
  This course, which constitutes the basic sequence in French for the development of skill in the language, is a student-centered, communicative language class that integrates the experience and impressions of students living in Paris. Emphasis is placed on the development of language proficiency and cultural awareness. The student will work on all language skills and is asked to take his or her learning outside the traditional learning environment. Class includes many outside activities. Combines FRE 1130, FRE 1131.

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