College of Arts and Science Courses in Paris
2022 Program Dates
Student Arrival: Monday, May 23, 2022
Student Departure: Saturday, July 2, 2022
Please click the NYU Paris link for dates of participation, courses, costs, application forms, and contact information.
In-Person Courses
Courses in French
Elementary French I - FREN-UA 9001 - 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. 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.
Intensive Elementary French - FREN-UA 9010 - 6 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 - 6 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 foreign language 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.
French Grammar and Composition - FREN-UA 9030 - 4 points (IN FRENCH)
Prerequisites for NYU students: FREN-UA 20 or FREN-UA 12 or as assigned by placement test. 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 - FREN-UA 9101 - 4 points (IN FRENCH)
Prerequisites for NYU students: FREN-UA 30 (Conversation and Composition) or assignment by placement test. 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 - 4 points (IN FRENCH)
Prerequisites for NYU students: FREN-UA 30 (Conversation and Composition) or assignment by placement test. 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 - 4 points (IN FRENCH)
Prerequisite: FREN-UA 30 or assignment by placement test.
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 Lecocq. This semester's focus will be to analyze and reenact excerpts from Molière’s plays. Conducted in French.
French Culture and French Cinema: French Society through French films - FREN-UA 9781 or DRLIT-UA 9502 - 4 points (IN FRENCH)
Prerequisite of FREN-UA 30 or FREN-UA 9030
On December 28th, 1895, cinema was given its official characteristics by the Lumière brothers in Paris. If for over a century, the “Seventh Art” has been an essential element and a vehicle for French culture, the city of Paris has epitomized the evolution and contradictions of the French cinema industry. Focusing on the main tendencies in contemporary French cinema, we will ask the following questions: How do the French filmmakers depict the city of Lights, the City of Love, the City of Horror? How decisive a representation of Paris and its suburbs can be? Why do the images of Paris illustrate the history of French cinema? What do they show about French culture?
French Culture and French Cinema - Sample syllabus (PDF)
Courses in English
The French Art World in the 19th and 20th Centuries - ARTH-UA 9664 - 4 points (IN ENGLISH)
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.
The French Art World in the 19th and 20th Centuries - Sample syllabus (PDF)
French and Expatriate Literature - FREN-UA 9808 or SASEM-UG 9351 - 4 points (IN ENGLISH)
This course explores the connections between major French and American expatriate writings of the Modernist period and beyond. As the site of unprecedented cosmopolitanism and creativity, early 20th-century Paris saw the emergence of artistic and intellectual movements that were to have a considerable impact on Western culture to this day. The texts we will be looking at (novels, poems, autobiographies, and essays) reflect a shared sense of inner and outer exile inherent in the modern condition. They deal explicitly with the experience of living and writing on the margins, of belonging or not belonging, of otherness and estrangement in relation to class, gender, sexuality, language, and to Paris as a specific urban environment.
Linear Algebra - MATH-UA 9140 - 4 points (IN ENGLISH)
Prerequisites: completion of MATH-UA 9 Algebra and Calculus OR MATH-UA 121 Calculus I with grade of C or higher OR MATH-UA 211 Math for Economics I with grade of C or higher OR MATH-UH 1012 Calculus with Applications to Science and Engineering OR MATH-UH 1013 Calculus with Applications to Economics OR MATH-SHU 121 Calculus OR MATH-SHU 201 Honors Calculus OR Qualifying Test Score (see scores on MATH Department website)
Linear algebra is an area of mathematics devoted to the study of structure-preserving operators on special sets (linear operators on vector spaces). In this course, students will learn the fundamental mathematical tools of Linear Algebra, which can be applied to every branch of Mathematics. This course is a cornerstone of any mathematics curriculum and useful for prospective majors in Biology, Chemistry, Biochem, Computer Science, Data Science, Economics, Math and Engineering. Please review all course pre-requisites online and in Albert.
Linear Algebra - Sample Syllabus (PDF)
May '68 and its Legacy - FREN-UA 9908 or EURO-UA 9865 or HIST-UA 9141 - 4 points (IN ENGLISH)
May ’68 resounds to this day as a watershed moment in modern France, a remarkable period of a few months when students, workers, radicals, and intellectuals joined together in determined revolt against the outdated structures of French society and dared to imagine a world renewed. In this course, we examine a variety of texts (literature, film, political tracts, philosophical essays) in order to grasp the multiple currents of the post-War period that led to the “events” and the new understandings of social, political and cultural phenomena that they forged.