Come explore the layers of Paris and the city’s majestic urban landscape of cafés, parks, boulevards, world-renowned museums (Louvre, Orsay, Pompidou) and monuments (Sainte-Chapelle, the Eiffel Tower, Sacré-Cœur). Using the city as a classroom, we will discover how Paris has long been a center of history, literature, gastronomy, fashion, and the arts – and, more recently, of business, human rights and an evolving European multiculturalism. Designed to help you increase proficiency in French through coursework, homestays, and real-world interactions, our curriculum will introduce you to literary and artistic traditions of multicultural Paris. Venturing further afield, the program will include multi-day excursions to Bordeaux and Marseille. From Paris, we will take day trips to nearby Chartres for its Gothic stained glass and to Louis XIV’s luxurious palace at Versailles (near the site of the new temple). The program is a great way to complete your French Language Certificate, fulfill your GE Arts and your Letters electives, and/or make progress toward a French minor or major in one term!
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DATES
29 April-14 June 2022 (approximately)
HOUSING
Students will live with a French host family. They will usually share a host family with another BYU student. Host family stays include breakfasts and three dinners a week.
COURSES
Students must take at least six credit hours. We require all participants to take French 345 or 445.
Other course offerings include courses that meet requirements for General Education, the French minor or French, French Studies, and French Teaching majors, and the Language Certificate.
FREN 311R – Third-Year Conversation (2 credit hours)
FREN 362 – French Civilization from 1715 to the Present (3 credit hours—fulfills GE Arts elective)
FREN 340 – Introduction to Literary Analysis (3 credit hours)
FREN 345 – Francophone Culture (3 credit hours)
FREN 445 – Advanced Francophone Culture (3 credit hours)
FREN 490R – Individual Study in French (up to 3 credits; requires program director’s approval)
COST
$6,200–6,800 (Approximately)
Includes BYU undergraduate full tuition (increased cost for graduate and non-Latter-Day-Saint students); housing; group transportation on field trips; transportation in Paris; and international health insurance. It also includes breakfasts and some evening meals with host family, breakfasts and group dinners on the excursion, and food allowances while in Paris and regional French cuisine as a cultural experience.
Does not include airfare, lunches, some evening meals in Paris, personal expenses, passport.
TRAVEL
Students are responsible for purchasing their own airfare to and from the program sites. Airfare reservations must be made through BYU Travel. Students should contact a BYU Travel agent.
BYU Travel
280 HRCB | (801) 422-6293 | travel@byu.edu
PREPARATION
Students are required to complete FREN 321 prior to departure.
Accepted students are required to participate in our study abroad preparation course IAS 201R (1 credit hour) to be held on Tuesdays from 4-5:50pm during the second block of Winter semester.
Accompanying spouses need to be credit-bearing participants on the program. Spouses will also need to apply online and take the preparation course.
All participants are required to show proof of complete COVID-19 vaccination (including booster) at least two weeks prior to departure.
FUNDING SOURCES
Regular BYU tuition scholarships, Pell Grants, and Federal Insured Student Loans may be applied to study abroad programs.
Students who submit the financial aid section of the ISP application, and who have a current FAFSA form on file at the Financial Aid Office (A-41 ASB), will be considered for a study abroad scholarship and may be considered for other scholarships. They must indicate on their original online application that they want to be considered for financial aid.
The College of Humanities and the Department of French & Italian have scholarships available for their majors, based on financial need. You must have completed your FAFSA and apply by 4 February. humplus.forms.byu.edu/.
Private grants and scholarships outside of BYU may also assist (see kennedy.byu.edu/scholarships).
APPLICATION PROCESS
Students must be 18 years of age or older.
Complete the $35 (non-refundable) online application at kennedy.byu.edu/apply. Applicants will be interviewed once the application is complete.
Students will be notified via e-mail of their acceptance into the program.
The first payment is due upon acceptance. Please refer to the 2022 Payment Information document (see kennedy.byu.edu/isp-forms/ISPpayments2022.pdf).
Deadline: 14 February 2022
FACULTY
Daryl Lee is a professor of French literature and cinema. Lee is a specialist of nineteenth-century Paris and urban culture and former co-director of BYU’s International Cinema and has directed study abroad programs to Paris, Marseille, Morocco, and Senegal.
Daryl Lee
3134A JFSB
(801) 422-9055
dlee@byu.edu
SCHEDULE AND TIME COMMITMENT
Students are free to travel on their own at the end of the program; however, due to the Schengen Treaty, students may only stay in France and Continental Europe for ninety days. This spring study abroad program lasts approximately 46 days.
INTERESTED STUDENTS SHOULD CONTACT
International Study Programs
101 HRCB
(801) 422-3686
isp@byu.edu
PROGRAM ADJUSTMENTS
ISP reserves the right to cancel this program, revise its offerings, or make any adjustments to the preliminary cost estimates due to conditions beyond its control.