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.

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Courses Offered Summer 2007 (June 18-July 27)

City of Light: Paris in the 17th Century
(HIS 4956, 3 Credits)
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 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.

History as Landscape: Film in Paris
(ENG 4133, 4 Credits)
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 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.

Beginning French at the PRC
(FRE 1144, 3 Credits)
Instructor(s): 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. Combines FRE 1130, FRE 1131.

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).

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