Paris, France
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Academic level: Undergraduate & Graduate
Program dates: Undergraduate: June 30 – August 11, 2012
Priority application deadline: March 1st
General application deadline: April 2nd
Please note: Applications are accepted after April 2nd on a rolling, space available, first come first served, basis and programs are open until filled.
Total credits: 8 undergraduate points. It is strongly suggested that students register for one 4-point language course and one 4-point content course or for one 8-point intensive language course.
Program focus: French language, literature, culture, history cinema
“I loved being in Paris and learning about the culture while experiencing it.” - Summer 2011 student
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Program Directors
Caroline Montel-Glénisson, Director, NYU Paris (Paris); Ph.D., history, Université de Paris III.
Henriette Goldwyn, Professor and Director, NYU Paris (New York); NYU Department of French; Ph.D. French Literature.
Program Summary
NYU Paris, created in 1969, is part of the New York University Center for French Civilization and Culture. The NYU Center in Paris, a charming 19th-century town house on the rue de Passy, is located near the Eiffel Tower and the Trocadéro. The center houses classrooms, a student lounge, a lecture hall, a library, a video collection, and computer facilities. The resident director, administrative staff, and faculty advise students during their stay in Paris. During the summer session, all undergraduates are housed in student residences in lively and historic neighborhoods. Experience the City of Light with its cultural richness, history, and vibrant daily life through this intellectually and aesthetically stimulating study abroad program. Undergraduate and graduate programs are offered.
Undergraduate Program
The undergraduate program in Paris provides a rich introduction to historic and present-day France through classroom studies and diverse extracurricular activities. Intensive French language classes, offered at all levels, are taught by native French speakers. Faculty who teach French civilization courses (offered in English or in French), provide exceptional academic instruction. Courses include field trips to culturally significant sites in the city.
Longer trips take students to renowned sites close to Paris such as Versailles or Giverny. Overnight excursions are offered to places like to the famous Chateaux de la Loire and to historic cities such as La Rochelle or Lille.
Graduate Program
All graduate courses are taught in French.
Graduate summer study in Paris, geared toward continuing Department of French and Institute of French Studies students, as well as teachers of high school French or other professionals unable to study during the academic year, offers three-week or six-week intensive courses in French civilization, language, literature, and starting in summer 2012, in translation (see below for program dates). Students may apply for degree candidacy and pursue an M.A. in three consecutive summers or may take one to two courses for academic and personal fulfillment. Graduate students are welcome to participate in cultural activities and excursions to broaden their academic training. Taught by prominent NYU and visiting faculty, the NYU Paris graduate summer program provides excellent, challenging courses while allowing students the flexibility of a summer curriculum.
The graduate program offers broad-based courses (including two sponsored by NYU's Institute of French Studies) in translation, linguistics, literature, history, and cultural history (see below for this summer's course offerings). Past courses focusing on culture have included French Cultural History Since 1870, From Empire to Republic, History of French Colonization and the Colonial Imaginary, and the Relationship between Power and Culture during the Nouveau Regime. Past courses concentrating on literature have included the Image of Paris in French Literature, Francophone Writers of America and Africa, French Women Writers and the Development of a Feminist Aesthetic, and For a Sociology of the Novel at the Brink of the 21st Century.
For more information about the graduate program, please contact Professor Henriette Goldwyn at nyuparis@nyu.edu or visit our website.
Housing & Meals
Participants in the summer undergraduate program are housed in two student residences, one located in the Bastille neighborhood, site of the famous prison-storming that launched the French Revolution, and the other in the Latin Quarter, near the Sorbonne, France's oldest university. Travel to the NYU Paris Center is convenient from both sites on the Paris metro.
All classes are held at the NYU Paris Center, housed in a charming 19th century hôtelparticulier in a beautiful residential area of the 16th arrondissement. The center is near both the Passy and La Muette metro stops as well as the Eiffel Tower and the Trocadéro. NYU Paris at Passy is only a metro ride away from the center of Paris and from the student residencies. Facilities at Passy include classrooms, a student lounge, a lecture hall, a 5,000+ volume library, an impressive video collection, and laptops for student use in the library. Students are also strongly recommended to bring their own laptop computers. The NYU in Paris staff helps students make the most of their summer in Paris. Full-time staff includes the Resident Director of NYU in Paris, Academic and Student Life Staff, and an on-site Counselor.
Cultural Programming
To enhance students' academic experience, NYU Paris hosts several lectures throughout the summer session that bring together French and Francophone artists, scholars, and activists. Cultural activities such as neighborhood walking tours, visits to world famous museums such as the Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay, and attendance at numerous ballet, concert, and theatre performances are scheduled to complete the academic program. Excursions further complete the cultural calendar: activities planned for 2012 may include day trips to Chartres, Giverny, the D-Day beaches in Normandy, as well as an overnight excursion to explore another region of France.
Faculty
Jacqueline Allyns, visiting professor, NYU Paris.
Nadine Airout, D.E.A., (foreign language instruction), Université de Paris III.
Nicholas Baudouin, French master's degree (aesthetics), Université de Paris I;
graduate work (foreign language instruction), University of Ottawa.
Michèle Boulares, Director of language program, NYU in Paris; D.E.A. (language acquisition), Université de Paris III.
Valérie Berty, NYU in Paris ; Ph.D. (literature), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
Pierre-Antoine Chardel, Ph.D. (philosophy and social science), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
Catherine Clot, D.E.A. (art history), Université de Paris IV.
Cécile Cotté, Actor, director, playwright.
Isabelle Coydon, D.E.A. (phonetics and French as a foreign language), Université de Paris III.
J. Michael Dash, Professor, NYU, Department of French, Ph.D. (literature).
Paul Edwards, Associate Professor, Université de Reims; Ph.D. (comparative literature), Oxford University.
Beth Epstein, Academic Director, NYU Paris; Ph.D. (anthropology), New York University.
Christophe Gauzeran, Ph.D. (theatre studies), Université de Paris X.
Patrick Guédon;, D.E.S.S. (instruction of pedagogical methods), Université de Paris III.
Bertrand Lauret, Ph.D. (phonetics); Paris III.
Catherine Lorente, Graduate Program Director, NYU Paris; Ph.D. (literature), Université de Paris VIII.
Elisabeth Molkou, Ph.D. (French literature), McGill University.
Pascal Morin, Agrégé D.E.A. (literature), École Normale Supérieure Fontenay.
Eugène Nicole, Professor, New York University; D.E.A. (literature), Sorbonne; Ph.D. (French literature), New York University.
Barbara Shapiro Comte, Ph.D. (art & architectural History), Harvard University.
Christelle Taraud, Ph.D (history), Université de Paris I.
Gabrielle Trujillo, Ph.D. (cinema), Université de Paris I.
Oscar Villegas, MFA (photography), School of Visual Arts.
CONTACT INFO
NYU Office of Global Programs
110 East 14th Street, LOWER LEVEL
New York, NY 10003
t: 212-998-4433
f: 212-995-4103
nyuparis@nyu.edu