Harvard Summer Program in Paris, France

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Paris

Term: Summer 
Dates: June 21-August 16, 2010

Description: The Harvard Summer Program in Paris, France, features an integrated third-year-level interdisciplinary course that explores the city through the theme of Revolution. Students hone their linguistic skills by participating in classroom sessions conducted exclusively in French (supplemented by language tutorials). They also enrich their cultural and historical understanding through daily explorations of Parisian neighborhoods, film and theater outings, and weekend excursions.

The program culminates in an individual project imagined and realized by the student, tying personal experience to the city's dynamic literature, history, and culture, past and present.

In addition to the classroom sessions drawing on literary and cultural texts, students are encouraged to discover Paris and engage with the people who inhabit it, turning the city itself into the primary grounds for learning.

Highlights: Course: Paris and Its Revolutions

Degree Level: Bachelors Degree (Undergraduate)

Cost in US$: 7,000 USD

Experience Required: yes

For Harvard College students, completion of a French 30-level class or a minimum score of 690 on the Harvard placement test. For non-Harvard students, an intermediate to advanced command of French is required.

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Harvard Summer School Study Abroad Programs's Mission Statement: The Harvard Summer School makes Harvard's academic resources a distinguished faculty, well-equipped laboratories, fine museums, and a world-class university library available to men and women of many ages, backgrounds, and nationalities through an intensive summer session of liberal arts courses in Cambridge and overseas. Our international student body includes Harvard undergraduate and graduate students, visitors from other colleges and universities, highly qualified secondary school students, adult learners, and nonnative English speakers seeking to refine their language skills. Students take courses to challenge themselves academically, meet degree requirements, prepare for graduate school, gain college experience, advance their careers, and pursue personal enrichment. Students, who study at Harvard Summer School may reside in a supportive residential environment, commute to campus, complete courses via distance education, or participate in one of the faculty-led programs based abroad. Many come to experience the extraordinary environment of Harvard College academics, resources, and residential life. Harvard Summer School serves the University community by providing faculty with teaching opportunities that allow them to experiment with new materials and teaching methods. Students from many Harvard schools take advantage of the breadth of summer course offerings to meet requirements for concentrations and degree programs, and to create more flexibility within their term-time academic program. Harvard graduate students from abroad can work on refining their English language skills, and Harvard College students take advantage of the summer session to expand their cultural, social, and intellectual horizons by studying abroad.