This program provides you with an outstanding opportunity to learn about French culture and history while improving your French language abilities--all while studying in one of the most famous cities in the world.
You earn 6 credits through an intensive intermediate French language course. The course is taught in French by native French speakers, and incorporates field study in Paris, including visits to art museums, and its architectural and historical landmarks.
These dates are preliminary and are subject to change. Students should not book flights according to these dates.
Our mission is simple: to provide you with the highest quality academic and cultural experience abroad possible.
Course options are determined by language proficiency. Intermediate students (2-3 semesters of college-level French) enroll in FR251: Intensive French Language and Culture, a 6-credit course that equals an entire year of university-level second year French and incorporates a wealth of field study activities.
This is a list of planned course offerings. After you are accepted, you will see a list of final course offerings in your MyIESabroad account.
To supplement coursework, the IES Abroad Paris Intermediate & Advanced Language Summer Program includes field study to many sites of historic and contemporary interest in Paris. Destinations may include:
Our job is to make sure that your greatest challenge is deciding what landmarks to see first or discovering the best café—not finding a place to live where you feel comfortable. We do our best to locate housing that is reflective of how the local students are living. Our goal is that when you leave Paris, it will feel like home.
Homestays – You stay in a French home in the city of Paris or its surrounding banlieues (suburbs). You eat breakfast daily and three evening meals per week with your host(s). Other meals are available at university cafeterias and inexpensive restaurants. You have the option to request a typical homestay placement, or a placement in a chambre de bonne.
Apartments – A limited number of apartments are available for an additional fee. Internet access is available via Ethernet cable. Rooms are single studios, and each apartment has a private bathroom and small kitchenette. An IES Abroad Resident Assistant lives on-site. Meals are not included.
Part of making you feel at home in Paris is doing our best to help you feel safe and cared for. Whether it is an orientation program that makes you feel prepared, your housing that is well-located and comfortable, or field trips that take you to places off the beaten path—we’re all about our student services. This is just one of the things we’re known for.
After you arrive in Paris, you participate in a two-day orientation period that includes cultural activities, such as guided tours of Paris neighborhoods and a welcome dinner cruise on the Seine. Sessions are conducted by IES Abroad staff and faculty and introduce you to various aspects of life in France and provide practical information on housing, transportation, and extracurricular activities.
During your summer in Paris there will be plenty of opportunities to experience the local culture. Some past IES Abroad events have included ballets at the opera, theater performances at local theaters, visits to open air markets, a wine tasting, museum visits, neighborhood tours, picnics in local parks, and a conversation club with French students.
IES Abroad sponsored field trips are included in the program fee. Past field trips include:
IES ABROAD PARIS FRENCH STUDIES 77, rue Daguerre | 75014 Paris | France The IES Abroad Paris French Studies Center is located on a bustling market street near the Cimetière du Montparnasse. A thriving business district, the area is filled with restaurants, food shops, boutiques, and cafés.
Features include:
Marie-Anne DevauxIES Abroad Director
Marie-Anne Devaux holds a Licence ès Lettres Modernes and a Diplôme d'Etudes Théâtrales from the Université de la Sorbonne (Paris III). Prior to joining IES Abroad, Mme. Devaux worked as Administrative Director of EDUCO, the Duke and Cornell joint program in Paris, as a Drama instructor for several programs in Paris (such as Duke, Scripps, and Northwestern), and as Director of the Academic Year Abroad program in Paris. She is also the Director of the IES Abroad Arles Summer Program.
IES Abroad Staff Olivia AuzouRegistrar
Celine ChataingHousing Coordinator
Eve GrinsteadStudent Affairs and Academic Coordinator
Anna ShoemakerAdministrative and Financial Officer, Customized Program Coordinator
Faculty Anne-Catherine AbécassisIslamic and African Art Doctorat d'Histoire de l'art, Université de Paris I M.A. en Histoire de l'Art, Université de Montréal D.E.A. d' Histoire de l'art, Université de Paris I
Leigh AllenTheater Ph.D, Department of French & Romance Philology, Columbia University DEA, Littérature comparée, Paris IV, Sorbonne
Michel BerthetFrench Certificat de Didactique du Français Langue Etrangère - Université de Paris III M.A. University of Oregon Licence de Lettres Modernes - Université de Lyon II
Marie-Anne DevauxTheater Maîtrise d'Etudes Théâtrales Université de Paris III - Sorbonne
Denis FerréHistory Agrégé d’histoire Maîtrise d’histoire contemporaine, Université de Grenoble Maîtrise de Sciences Politiques, IUP, Grenoble
Sophie FesdijianSociology Doctoral Candidate in Social Anthropology, l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (l'EHESS) DEA d'Anthropologie Sociale, l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (l'EHESS)
Anaïs Frantz de SpotGender studies / Literature Doctorat en Littérature et Civilisation Françaises, La Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III
Marc GermananguePolitical Science DEA de Sciences Politiques - Université de Paris I - Sorbonne Maîtrise de Sciences Sociales, Université René Descartes de Tours Diplôme de l'IEP de Paris (Sciences Po)
Sonia GourévitchPhonetics Maîtrise de Français Langue Etrangère Université de Nanterre-Paris X
Dominique JouhaudFrench, Translation DESS Anglais - Allemand - Université de Paris III Diplôme Anglais - Allemand Ecole supérieure d'Interprètes et de Traducteurs - Université de Paris
Fabrice MasanèsArt History / History of Photography Doctorat histoire, mention histoire de l’art, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Master Histoire de l’art, Université de Montréal
Antoine MégieSociology / Political Science Doctorat de Sciences politiques, Institut d’Études politiques de Paris/Centre d’études européennes
Renée MollArt History Maîtrise et DEA Histoire de l'Art et d'Archéologie Université Panthéon-Sorbonne
Claude RabatéHistory Licence ès Lettres Université de Paris I-Sorbonne
Sophie RobertFrench Literature Docteur ès lettres de la Sorbonne- Paris IV DEA Littérature et Civilisation Françaises Maîtrise Lettres Modernes Université de Paris IV - Sorbonne
Pierre SamsonFrench Studies Licence ès Lettres Modernes Diplôme de l'Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques Réalisateur cinématographe
Veronique TeyssandierFrench DEA Lettres et civilisation françaises, Université de Paris III
Truc Long Vô TrânBusiness French Maîtrise de Français Langue Étrangère Licence de sciences du langage Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle
Links:[1] http://www.iesabroad.org/study-abroad/paris [2] http://www.iesabroad.org/study-abroad/france [3] http://www.iesabroad.org/study-abroad/ies-abroad-paris-french-studies
Paris Summer - Intermediate Language
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