European Council Paris Study Abroad Program

COURSES

Students must take at least three semester hours of academic work and may enroll for six hours of credit. All courses are three-hour courses.

The exact numbers assigned to courses differ from institution to institution. Check at the college or university where you plan to register to find out what course numbers will be assigned to the courses you want to take. To find out more about any of the courses, you can contact the faculty members teaching the courses by e-mail.

MORNING CLASSES

Music Appreciation (LL)
Dr. Edward Eanes
Kennesaw State University

Study Classical Music in the city that shaped its development throughout history. This General Education course will cover all major genres of Classical Music including Symphonic and Keyboard literature, French and Italian Opera, Ballet, Impressionism, and Music of the French Avante Garde. Also learn the elements of music and listening skills that will facilitate the understanding of any type of music from most cultures. Experience music first hand with field trips to concerts, operas, and museums in one of the world’s greatest cultural centers.

Elementary French II
Dr. Duncan Robertson
Augusta State University

This course provides a foundation for conversation, emphasizing practical travel vocabulary (transportation, hotels, restaurants, museums, shopping, entertainment and sight-seeing). Classes will be conducted in French from the very first day. In addition to basic training in pronunciation and elementary grammar, students will study: greetings and courtesy; numbers (prices, addresses, telling time, train schedules); asking and understanding directions; clothing and personal care; food and wine vocabulary; and other topics relating to the geography and culture of Paris and the regions of France.

Selected Topics in Mass Media (UL)
Professor Patrick McGuire
Valdosta State University

This course is an exploration into the world of a French filmmaker. As a student, you will experience the environment and culture through which Francois Truffaut discovered a world rich with feeling and purpose. Screening 4 films made at different times of his life will give a broad perspective of his life, his dreams, and all the changes in France that surrounded him while filming. Outside the classroom, the class field trips will include locations throughout the city of Paris that Truffaut used in much of his work.

Digital Photography
Professor Desmal Purcell
East Georgia College

Capture the essence of France with the digital camera. Come with us to explore the medium of digital photography in the City of Lights. Gain insight into photographic skills that will help you create strong images with the digital camera. This course is open to all levels of students. Paris is waiting.

World Literature II (LL)
Dr. Olivia Edenfield
Georgia Southern University

This course will cover a sampling of great literature from the late 1ih century to the present. We will focus on the literary reactions to the rise of science and industrialism, shifts in politics, years of war, and other forces shaping the modem world. Discussion will build up to and systematically return to the change in perceptions brought about by WWI. Most particularly, this class will take advantage of the European setting by including works by French writers, works set in or influenced by Paris, and works by American expatriates who settled in Paris after WWI.

AFTERNOON CLASSES

The History of Opera (UL)
Dr. Edward Eanes
Kennesaw State University

Study the History of Opera in one of the great operatic centers of the world. This course will trace the development of opera from its Italian origins to the operas composed for Versailles, Paris' role in the birth of comic opera, the creation of French Grand Opera, Bizet's Carmen, Verdi and Wagner's works for the Paris Opera, and the French operetta of Offenbach. Experience the romance of Opera first hand with field trips to the Opéra National de Paris (Opéra Bastille).

Introduction to Mass Media (LL)
Professor Patrick McGuire
Valdosta State University

This introductory course will cover the major mediums used by our present day culture. Unlike a lecture-driven course, this media lesson will take the student on a comparison journey, looking at the influence a country's society has on its development and implementation of the latest technology- in our case, it's the French way of doing things. Field trips will complement the readings in class.

Introduction to Art
Professor Desmal Purcell
East Georgia College

This course will give the student an understanding of the role of the artist in society, basic principles of the creative process, and a brief synopsis of the evolution of art and art forms throughout history with an emphasis on France. This will be achieved through a series of lectures, field trips, discussions, and presentations during the course.

Intermediate French I
Dr. Duncan Robertson
Augusta State University

This course develops conversational proficiency at the intermediate level, with emphasis on practical travel vocabulary. Extending the experience acquired in previous study, the student will learn to speak and write on more complex cultural topics, and will develop an awareness of the current situation in Paris and France generally. Regular language-study curriculum will be supplemented by newspaper and magazine articles, films, and electronic media.

Hemingway (UL)
Dr. Olivia Edenfield
Georgia Southern University

Ernest Hemingway's time in Paris had a profound impact on his art. The influence of Gertrude Stein and other American expatriates brought a new maturity to his fiction that would have a lasting effect on all of modem literature. This course will focus on the works of Hemingway most influenced by his European travels: A Farewell to Arms, excerpts from A Moveable Feast, and selected short stories. Most significant will be the close reading that we will do of The Sun Also Rises, which will lead us physically and metaphorically on a journey through Hemingway's Paris.