The French foreign study provides students the opportunity to study French language, literature, and civilization at an advanced level in Paris.

Special courses in advanced grammar and stylistics, modern French literature, art history and modern history and politics are taught by French faculty and the Dartmouth faculty member.

The program aims to expose students to French culture and society through classroom study and readings, excursions and site visits, personal contact with families and firsthand experience with French. Students are expected to converse fluently with French people and to write on a variety of cultural topics with an accurate command of French vocabulary and idiom. Students will gain a perspective on their own culture through intimate experience with and understanding of French culture.

Curriculum

• French 29: French Civilization: Study Abroad (two half courses: one on art history and one on history)
• French 30: French Literature: Study Abroad
• French 31: The French Language: Study Abroad (two half courses: one on grammar/stylistics and one on contemporary French society)

Living Accommodations

Students live with French families.

Prerequisites

• Students must complete French 8 (with a grade of B or better).
• Students must also complete French 10 (with a grade of B or better).
• French 10 should be taken as immediately prior to the term in Paris as schedule allows.

Students who have received exemption from French 8 AND credit for French 10 during Orientation Week must take at least one French course at Dartmouth from among French 10 through French 25 (with a grade of B or better) prior to participation in the Foreign Study Program.

Prerequisite courses for the foreign study cannot be taken with the NRO.

OR

Satisfactory completion of the LSA program in France during the term immediately preceding the foreign study term.

For more information, please see the French Department web page at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~frandit/programs/