FRANCE STUDY ABROAD OF THE FIU HONORS COLLEGE WITH JOHN WILLIAM BAILLY
For details on France study abroad program costs, dates, and registration details, please visit the FIU Honors College website and the FIU Office of Education Abroad website.
FIU Honors College France Study Abroad: https://honors.fiu.edu/studyabroad/france/
France: Art, War, & Human Rights. From great conflict comes great change. This interdisciplinary course examines France’s dramatic political, intellectual, and cultural conflicts. Students will experience French history firsthand, from the Roman conquest of Gaul to the Allied landing on the beaches of Normandy, by way of the intellectual battles of the Enlightenment and the artistic revolution of the 19th century.
Know your professor! Professor Bailly is dual French and US citizen. He holds an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University. Read more about Bailly here.
Each FIU student will have an individual dorm room in Paris for a month. We stay at the Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris. In Lyon and Bayeux, we lodge at Hotel des Celestins and Hotel Reine Mathilde.
Paris is the number one tourist destination in the world. Over the course of one month, students will discover the famous monuments, as well as the obscure magical streets of the French capital.
Lyon was the Roman capital of Gaul and is currently the culinary capital of France. History is alive on its streets. FIU France explores Lyon for three days, the city that Professor Bailly calls his second home.
Students will spend four days in Normandy, studying the D-Day landings of WW 2 and the Norman Conquest of Britain. We also visit the iconic Mont-Saint-Michel, the abbey on the mount, characterized by one of the most extreme tidal changes in the world.
Ah, La France and its cuisine: baguettes, croissants, fromage, macarons, fondue, creme brûlée, moules frites, gratin…The diversity and crazy amazingness of French food is endless.
Paris is one of the most innovative cities in the world. In the summer, Paris turns the banks of the Seine into a street festival named Paris Plages. Free concerts, yoga classes, picnic areas, pop-up bars along the the river.
France study abroad features FIU study abroad’s legendary hike in the French Alps. The class hikes so high that we can see mountain ranges from Italy and Switzerland. We end the hike in a mountain refuge with a dinner of local specialties.
When you participate in FIU France Study Abroad, you get to live in Paris for one month. After a few days, you don’t need a map anymore. After a week, you’re on a first name basis with the baker. And then you see a group of people and think to yourself, “How cute, look at those tourists.” Your transformation is complete; you have become a Parisian.
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