Brussels
Ghana
Kyoto
Paris
Tunis
Brussels, Belgium
Summer I
New for 2007, in collaboration with the Clemson University Brussels Center (CUBC) and the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), this four-week program offers courses in International Culture and Communications (IS 210), and Global Media Studies (COMM 300) and is open to all majors.
Check out the program on the CUBC web page: www.clemson.edu/IA/cubc/students/summer/Summer07-Comm.pdf
Ghana
The Maymester cultural history tour of Ghana begins in Accra and includes trips to sites of historical, political, and ecological importance throughout the country. Students will immerse themselves in Ghanaian culture through language, literature, history, music, and dance. The trip also includes a community service component.
This interdisciplinary study program is led by a Clemson faculty member and was designed in cooperation with the University of Ghana in Legon, one of the top institutions of higher education in West Africa.
Courses: Students earn three (3) credits in either PAS 498/698 (Pan African Studies) or IS 210 (International Studies).
Trip Dates: Wednesday 7 May – Sunday 25 May, 2008
Program fee: $1500 (Includes lodging, group transportation within Ghana, breakfast and dinner, entrance fees, special events and international health insurance).
Other program costs: Clemson in-state tuition and fees for three credit hours and round-trip airfare. 2007 average round-trip airfare from Atlanta to Accra was $1350.
Click here to view the Ghana Brochure.
Click here to view photos from the 2007 Ghana Program.
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For more information, contact Professor Julie Huntington in the Department of Languages, jhuntin@clemson.edu.
Kyoto, Japan
Summer
Back for 2007, our program is based at the Kyoto Institute of Culture and Language (KICL), located in the Kita-Shirakawa district of northeastern Kyoto. All students enroll in a Japanese language course taught by KICL faculty, and a course in Japanese culture taught by a Clemson faculty member. Students live with Japanese families in a home-stay arrangement. Prior study of Japanese language is not required.
Check out Professor Williams’ page for more information at: http://people.clemson.edu/~elwill/
Paris, France
Summer I
For over 700 years, students from all over the world have flocked to the Latin Quarter to study at the most famous university in Paris: La Sorbonne. This long tradition continues to contribute to the collective imagination of France’s capital. Just as it was in its early days during the Middle Ages, the Latin Quarter remains an intellectual center and student hangout.
Participants in this five-week summer program enroll at the Sorbonne in a French language course appropriate to their level (from beginning to advanced) and experience first-hand the intellectual environment of this prestigious institution.
The Clemson professor-in-residence augments language learning with your choice between two courses on the cultural history of Paris: FR 357, The Cultural History of Paris (offered in French), or IS 210, Selected Topics in International Studies. Students enjoy the city’s art, music, theatre, and cuisine through excursions, museum visits, and cultural outings. The program also includes travel to another region of France, or French-speaking country in Europe.
Students experience everyday French life by living throughout the city with French families in home stay arrangements.
Courses are offered during Summer I to students with any level of proficiency in the French language, including students with no previous language study, and satisfy up to six credit hours—three Clemson credits and three transfer credits from the Sorbonne.
Courses:
IS 210 : Selected Topics in International Studies: Topics in cross-cultural awareness and intercultural communications. Addresses the impact of culture on behavior in intercultural contact in professional and personal contexts. No prerequisites.
FR 357 Cultural history of Paris in Paris (in French): On site study of Paris and its relationship to France and Europe through readings, lectures, field trips, small student-group explorations, and reporting sessions. All activities are conducted in French. Prerequisite: FR202 or consent of instructor.
Sorbonne language course: Transfer credit from the Cours de Civilisation Française de la Sorbonne, the language institute of the renowned Sorbonne University. Language courses offered range from true beginner to advanced and include intensive writing and speaking. Courses taught by native French speakers trained in “French as a second language”. All transfer courses count toward the French major/minor, L&IT major/minor or the foreign language requirement.
Trip Dates: Monday 25 May – Saturday 27 June, 2009
Program fee: $3750, based on 16 participants. Program fee may decrease with a greater number of participants. Students must also pay 3 hours of Clemson in-state tuition. Program fee includes 5 weeks lodging (4 of which are with a host family), breakfast daily, Sorbonne tuition, local transportation, all required excursions and site visits, opera tickets, weekend trip to Brussels and international insurance coverage. Students may elect to have 3 to 5 additional meals weekly with their host family at a minimal cost.
Other program costs: Clemson tuition and fees for three credit hours and airfare to/from Paris.
Click here to view the Paris Brochure.
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For more information, contact in the Department of Languages:
Kelly Peebles, Assistant Professor, kpeeble@clemson.edu ,864.656.3542
Susan Clay, Lecturer, sclay@clemson.edu, 864.656.1348
Tunis, Tunisia
Fall Semester
Administered by Oregon State University and based at the Université du 7 Novembre à Carthage, this program offers students an opportunity to study in the Islamic World. Students must study either French or Arabic language in addition to course offerings taught in English. Students may live with a host family, in apartments or in dormitories. This program has a French or Arabic language prerequisite.
Check out the program in Tunisia: http://oregonstate.edu/international/study_abroad/tunisia.htm
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