Paris, France
Admission Requirements
Undergraduate students must register for 8 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.
Undergraduates who request French language courses above elementary level must have a background in French that is made evident via one of the following: academic transcript, French AP score, French placement test, or letter of assessment from a French instructor.
Undergraduate Language Courses
Intensive Elementary French
FREN-UA 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
FREN-UA 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: FREN-UA 10 or FREN-UA 1-FREN-UA 2.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 II/Intermediate French I
FREN-UA 9005.001 Staff 8 points
Prerequisites for NYU students: FREN-UA 9001.001. Open to students with some knowledge of French. Conducted in French.
A continuation of FREN-UA 1, this course completes the equivalent of the second half of Elementary French and the first half of Intermediate French.
Elementary French I
FREN-UA 9001.001 Staff 4 points
Not equivalent to FREN-UA 10.
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 (FREN-UA.9881.001); the French Art World in the 19th and 20th Centuries (ARTH-UA.9664.001); or the History of Photography as a Fine Art (ARTH-UA.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.
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES CONDUCTED IN FRENCH
Conversation and Composition
FREN-UA 9030 Staff 4 points
Prerequisites for NYU students: FREN-UA 20 or FREN-UA 12 or the equivalent. Students enrolled in this course must take FREN-UA 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.
Topics in French Culture: Current Events in French Society
FREN-UA 9965 Staff 4 points
Students enrolled in this course must take FREN-UA 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.
Spoken Contemporary French
FREN-UA 9101 Staff 4 points
Prerequisites for NYU students: FREN-UA 30 (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
FREN-UA 9105 Staff 4 points
Prerequisites for NYU students: FREN-UA 30 (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.
Acting French
FREN-UA 9109 Prof. Cottι 4 points
Prerequisite for NYU students: FREN-UA 30, FREN-UA 101, or permission of the director.
Conducted in French.
Use of drama and theatre techniques to help students overcome inhibitions in their oral use of language. Exercises and activities are designed to improve pronunciation, intonation, expression, and body language. Students work in collaboration with the professor, trained in the experimental methods of the French director Jacques Lecoq, to create an original production with music and artwork (created by NYU in France students) based on the texts of an influential French literary figure for an end of semester performance in a Paris venue.
French Culture and French Cinema: French Society Through French Films
FREN-UA 9781 Staff 4 points
Prerequisite: permission of the director. 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
FREN-UA 9721 Prof. Gauzeran 4 points
This course includes a trip to Avignon and a course fee of $250 to cover the costs.
Prerequisite: permission of the director. 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 Jarrys 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 vary depending on the theatre season in Paris. This course culminates in a trip 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 Rhτne 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
ARTH-UA 9665 Prof. Clot 4 points
Prerequisite: permission of the director. 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
ARTH-UA 9664 Prof. Shapiro-Comte 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
FREN-UA 9881 Prof. Trujillo 4 points
Conducted in English.
For description, see FREN-UA.9781, above.
The History of Photography as a Fine Art
FREN-UA 9865 Prof. Villegas 4 points
This course includes a day trip to the Rencontres dArles photography festival, and a course fee of $150 to cover the costs.
Conducted in English.
This course explores photography from the 1830s to the present day, emphasizing style and subject matter (rather than technical processes) in the work of the major photographers. We will consider how photography has enlarged and affected our vision and knowledge of the world, and how photography has influenced and been influenced by other modes of artistic expression (theatre, film, literature, the fine arts). In addition, we will consider photography as it is defined through a variety of means, from political documentary to fashion photography to advertising. Visits to photography exhibits in and outside of Paris will form an integral part of this course.
GRADUATE COURSES
Complete information including course numbers, course descriptions, professors & times will be forthcoming.
IFST-GA 2910 Contemporary North African Cinema (offered by the Institute of French Studies)
Prof. Diana Gonzalez 4 points
Contemporary North African cinema reflects the social, political and cultural challenges in the region, while revealing the revolutionary spirit of its filmmakers and their filmic language. This course will begin by defining a dominant theme of Maghreb studies de-colonialism and imperialism and how this theme manifests, in contemporary cinema, differences and similarities through topics such as: territory, cultural identity, modernism, religion, feminism, internal conflict and socio-political violence, within historical and present political and social contexts. Maghreb filmmakers will include: Allouache, Bachir-Chouikh, Bouzid, Khemir and Ayouch from Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco, respectively. Basic film analysis terms and cultural theories will be covered in order to study and articulate the form as well as content of these films. While addressing the larger question of the relationship between aesthetics and politics, this course will use film to enrich the discourse surrounding current issues relating to the Francophone or French-influenced regions of North Africa.
IFST-GA 2810 Paris and Urban Space: Architectural Diversity and Social Contrasts
(offered by the Institute of French Studies)
Prof. Isabelle Backouche - 4 points
This seminar will focus on how Paris has been constructed both
socially and architecturally as a dynamic urban space. Starting with
the Haussmannian intervention of the 19th century, we will consider
how a uniform Parisian landscape has become an identifying emblem of
the city, while nonetheless insisting on the social and morphological
diversities that exist in the French capital. Each class will focus on
a type of space or a particular neighborhood, allowing an opportunity
for a close critical analysis of the capital city. In particular we
will be attentive to the social evolution of certain neighborhoods,
from those have existed since the 18th century and the population
movements that have shaped the structuring of the capital. The major
role of Paris in French political life will be also taken into
account. The course will be organized around texts from history,
sociology, and anthropology, and will include site visits around the
capital.
FREN-GA 9003 Stylistics & Semantics
Prof. Michele Boulares 4 points
This course is an intensive, upper-level writing course. It will allow students to enrich and refine their written competence through an approach that introduces students to advanced grammar and logical connectors, viewed from both semantic and stylistic perspectives.
FREN-GA 9731 Contemporary French Novel
Prof. Eugene Nicole 4 points
This course focuses on the second half of the 20th century: novel and philosophy, nouveau roman, the emergence of new narrative voices. We will examine how these texts reconsider our relationship with desire, objects and history.
COSTS
8 points are required for undergraduate students to participate in this program.
Undergraduate Tuition
$6744 (8 points)
Graduate Tuition
$1111 (per point)
Program & Activities Fee
$650
International Health Insurance
approximately $70
Housing
$2616 Single Room
$2137 Double Room
**Breakfast in the residences and meal tickets for one other meal per day are included.
PLEASE NOTE: All students participating in the program are required to live in NYU-provided housing. Students are billed a standard housing rate in the spring. Housing charges will be adjusted at the end of the program based on actual housing assignments, which may result in an additional charge or credit issued in the late summer.
There is an additional registration and services fee of:
$250 for students registered at NYU for spring 2012
$276 for students not registered at NYU for spring 2012