Paris, France
June 28 - August 9 (Undergraduate Program)
June 22 - August 2 (Graduate Program)
Language Courses | Advanced French Courses | Courses in English | Graduate Course | Costs | Admission Requirements | Dates
Undergraduate Language Courses
Undergraduate students must register for 8 points.
Intensive Elementary French
V45.9010.001 - Staff - 8 points
Open to students with no previous training in French and to others on assignment by placement test. Completes the equivalent of a one-year elementary course.
Presentation and systematic practice of basic structures and vocabulary of oral French through dialogues, pattern drills, and exercises. Correct pronunciation, sound placement, and intonation are stressed.
Intensive Intermediate French
V45.9020.001 - Staff - 8 points
Open to students who have completed the equivalent of a one-year elementary course and to others on assignment by placement test.
Completes the equivalent of a one-year intermediate course. Completes the MAP requirement for NYU students. Prerequisites for NYU students: V45.0010 or V45.0001-0002.
Conducted in French.
Stresses the acquisition and practice of more sophisticated structures of French. Develops fundamental oral and written skills, vocabulary enrichments, and conversational ability. Short reading texts and guided compositions are assigned.
Elementary French I
V45.9001.001 - Staff - 4 points
Not equivalent to V45.0010.
Open to students with no previous training in French and to others on assignment by placement test.
Students enrolled in this course must choose one of the following courses as a second course: French Culture and French Cinema (V45.9881.001); the French
Art World in the 19th and 20th Centuries (V43.9664.001); or the History of Photography as a Fine Art (V43.9009.001).
Conducted in French.
An intensive, highly motivating audiovisual course for beginners that introduces students to a wide range of communication patterns and real-life situations. The beginner is given a solid language base that prepares the student for interaction and daily life.
Elementary French II/Intermediate French I
V45.9005.001 - Staff - 8 points
Prerequisites for NYU students: V45.0001.
Open to students with some knowledge of French
Conducted in French.
A continuation of V45.0001, this course completes the equivalent of the second half of Elementary French and the first half of Intermediate French.
Undergraduate Advanced Language Composition and Content Courses Conducted in French
Conversation and Composition
V45.9030 - Staff - 4 points
Prerequisites for NYU students: V45.0020 or V45.0012 or the equivalent.
Students enrolled in this course must take V45.9965 (Topics: Current Events in French Society) as a second course.
Conducted in French.
Systematizes and reinforces the language skills presented in lower-level courses through an intensive review of grammar, written exercises, and introduction to composition, lexical enrichment, and spoken skills.
Spoken Contemporary French
V45.9101 - Staff - 4 points
Prerequisites for NYU students: : V45.0030 (Conversation and Composition) or the equivalent.
Conducted in French.
Helps students develop vocabulary, improve pronunciation, and learn new idiomatic expressions. Provides an introduction to corrective phonetics and emphasis on understanding contemporary French through a study of authentic documents, such as radio and television interviews, advertisements, and spontaneous oral productions.
Written Contemporary French
V45.9105 - Staff - 4 points
Prerequisites for NYU students:: V45.0030 (Conversation and Composition) or the equivalent.
Conducted in French.
Improves written French and provides advanced training in French and comparative grammar. Students are trained to express themselves in a variety of writing situations (diaries, transcripts, narration, letters, etc.). Focuses on the distinction between spoken and written styles and the problem of contrastive grammar. Emphasis is on accuracy and fluency of usage in the written language.
Advanced Composition
V45.9106 - Staff - 4 points
Prerequisites for NYU students: V45.0105 (Written Contemporary French) or permission of the director of undergraduate studies.
Conducted in French.
Aims to refine students' understanding of and ability to manipulate written French. Students practice summarizing and expanding articles from French magazines and papers and learn how to organize reports and reviews in French. Exercises are designed to familiarize students with various styles and registers of written French.
Acting French
V45.9109 - Staff - 4 points
Prerequisite for NYU students: V45.0030, V45.0101, or permission of the director.
Conducted in French.
Use of dramatic situations and readings to help students overcome inhibitions in their oral use of language. The graduated series of exercises and activities is designed to improve pronunciation, intonation, expression, and body language. These include phonetic practice, poetry recitation, skits, improvisation, and memorization of dramatic texts. Readings,discussions, and performances of scenes from plays by renowned dramatists. The students create a performance at the end of the semester.
Topics in French Culture: Current Events in French Society
V45.9965 - Staff - 4 points
Students enrolled in this course must take V45.9030 (Conversation and Composition) as a second course.
Conducted in French.
This course provides students with a clearer picture of current political and social issues shaping French society through an examination of the press, television, radio, and film. Students gain a broad understanding of current events as seen from a French perspective. Emphasis is on intensive practice of both written and spoken French.
French Culture and French Cinema: French Society Through French Films
V45.9781 - Staff - 4 points
Identical with V30.9502.001
Prerequisite: permission of the director of undergraduate studies.
Conducted in French.
This course traces the development of French cinema through an investigation into major works of French film art and the social and historical contexts in which they were produced. Starting with the classics of French cinema and moving forward to the present day, students examine how these films reflect the social and cultural trends of their time. Through a focus on questions of representation and point of view, students consider how recent French history is transmitted through film. Classes are organized around film screenings in and outside of class and assigned readings.
Contemporary French Theater
V45.9721 - Staff - 4 points
Prerequisite: permission of the director of undergraduate studies
Conducted in French.
This course explores French theatre at the end of the 19th century and the major innovations of the great directors in the early 20th century. Some particulars include Jarry's Ubu Roi as a rupture with the past; Cocteau as a major innovator in technique and in treatment of themes from Greek mythology; the theatre of imagination (Giraudoux and Anouilh); the survival of classicism (Montherlant); the theatre of ideas along the existentialist lines of Camus, Sartre, and Anouilh; and the presentation of a new vision of human beings in the world in the theatre of the absurd (Ionesco and Beckett). Plays are analyzed with respect to structure, technique, themes, and language. Readings may vary depending on the theatre season in Paris. This course culminates in a weekend visit to the famed Theatre Festival in Avignon.
With their teacher as their guide, students see several productions, both in the Honor Court of the Papal Palace and in the "off" festival of street theatre, small chapels, and barges moored on the Rhône River. Discussions preceding and following each performance deal with such questions as the impact of the director's vision on the understanding of the play's text, the importance of a particular acting style to the process of identification with the play's central emotions, and the rapport between costume, decor, and lighting design.
Paris Through Its Museums and Monuments
V43.9665 - Staff - 4 points
Prerequisite: permission of the director of undergraduate studies.
Conducted in French.
A historical study of the avant-garde movements that surfaced in Paris from 1850 to today: Nabis, romanticism, impressionism, fauvism, cubism, dadaism, surrealism, abstraction, new realism, op art, new figuration, minimal art, BMPT, support/surface. Representative works associated with these movements are studied in various Parisian museums: Orsay, Rodin, Orangerie, Beaubourg, Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, Picasso, Jeu de Paume, etc.
Undergraduate Content Courses Conducted In English
The French Art World in the 19th and 20th Centuries
V43.9664 - Staff - 4 points
Conducted in English.
Using the resources of Paris and its surrounding neighborhoods, this course examines a wealth of art movements (realism, the Barbizon School, impressionism, neoimpressionism, postimpressionism, the Nabis, and cubism) as they were formed in the 19th and 20th centuries. The second half of the course focuses on changes in the art world during the first half of the 20th century, with particular attention on the dada movement, surrealism, abstract expressionism, and other movements that influenced and changed major art capitals of the world. Field trips include visits to the Orsay Museum with its superb reconstruction of 19th-century aesthetic life, the 17th-century private palace that now houses the Picasso collection, and the incomparable Louvre, among others.
French Culture and French Cinema: French Society Through French Films
For description, see V45.9781, above.
V45.9881 - Staff - 4 points
Identical with V30.9502.001
Conducted in English.
The History of Photography: French Photography and Cultural Aesthetics
V43.9009.001 - Staff - 4 points.
Conducted in English.
This interdisciplinary course examines the reflexive relationship between French photography and literature, theatre, and modern art. Beginning with the daguerreotype and painterly approaches, the course traces the links between photographic representations of "truth" with important literary and theatrical movements. Units also include photo theory (Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag), photography and literature (including belle époque photo-novels), photography and its role in advertising and preserving French theatrical practice, documentary photography, subjective photography, and photography's role in Haussmann's metamorphosis of the city during the Second Empire. The course takes advantage of the city with field trips incorporated regularly into the curriculum.
Graduate Courses
Stylistics and Semantics of Written French
G45.9003 - Boulares - 4 Points
Course begins June 23
Conducted in French
An intensive study of written French. Students enrich and refine their written expression through in-depth study of grammar and its logical structures, with a focus on semantics and questions of style.
Contemporary Poetry
G45.9741 - Nicole - 4 Points
Course begins July 14
Conducted in French
The crucial works of contemporary poetry challenge language and poetry itself. In search of its own identity, contemporary poetry is the site of a rigorous confrontation between "saying" and "living." This course attempts to understand how language links the poet's relationship to himself, to others, and to objects. Readings include works by Breton, Michaux, Reverdy, Jaccottet, Du Bouchet, Bonnefoy, Csaire, Char, Ponge.
Topics in French Cultural History:
Formation and de-Formation of Paris: from the Royal grand'ville to the capital region of France (1527-2007)
G46.9500 - Gady - 4 Points
Course begins June 23
This is an Institute of French Studies course. Conducted in French.
Through a chronological perspective illustrated by thematic analysis, this course will show how Paris, considered for some time the most-populated town in the West, became a tourist village, whereas Ile-de-France, formerly composed of agricultural villages, is today a European-scale territory.
Drawing on urban and architectural studies, the course will consider the political, symbolic and artistic challenges of the city to get a better grasp of the deep triggers identifiable during the last five centuries.
Problems in Contemporary French Society
Ethnography of the Parisian banlieue: from Cités children to pavillonnaires
G46.9810 - Cartier - 4 Points
Course begins June 23
This is an Institute of French Studies course. Conducted in French.
The objective of this course is to present the Parisian banlieue in its diversity by cross-pollinating urban sociology and immigration socio-history. After bench-marking the history of the Parisian banlieue and that of immigration through classic social studies texts, students will be asked to produce an ethnographic piece based on in-depth interviews with children of immigrants who have left the large banlieue developments to become banlieue pavillon owners.
Costs
Undergraduate Tuition
$5,752 8 points
Graduate Tuition
$923 per point
Program & Activities Fee
$550
Housing
$1900 (including breakfast and one other meal)
There is an additional registration and services fee of:
- $186 students registered at NYU spring 2008
- $213 students not registered at NYU spring 2008
Admission Requirements
Students taking advanced language courses should complete the application and include one letter of recommendation. The recommendation should be from a professor with whom the student has recently studied and should refer to the student's language skills, academic preparation, and general ability to live and study in a foreign country. The recommendation should be enclosed with the application.
Dates
Undergraduate
Program Dates
June 28 - August 9
Housing Dates
June 28 - August 9
Departure from New York
June 27
Arrival Date
June 28
Orientation
June 28 - June 30
First day of classes
July 1
Last day of classes
August 8
Departure from Paris
August 9
Graduate
Program Dates
June 22 - August 2
Application Deadline
April 15
Orientation
June 23
First day of classes
June 23
Last day of classes
August 1