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The College-sponsored Europe: East and West Program, offered in Paris in Winter quarter, provides undergraduate students with an opportunity to explore the rich cultural ties between France and the Slavic countries. The program recognizes and celebrates the long-standing role of Paris as a destination for a steady stream of Eastern European artists, writers, musicians, statesmen, and scientists, individuals who formed vibrant émigré communities in the French capital, enriching and being enriched by the intellectual scene therein. For a virtual tour of Paris, visit http://paris.arounder.com/.
While it may be of particular interest to students majoring in the Slavic Languages and Literatures, this program is designed for students from all majors who have an interest in this significant intercultural exchange and who would like to pursue this interest in Paris. It is, in other words, intended for the generalist and thus has no prerequisite (though students will normally have completed the general education humanities sequence).
Program participants take three courses illuminating significant interregional topics, each compressed into approximately three weeks and taught in succession (but not as a sequence) by Chicago faculty. In addition to these courses students take a French language course running at a normal pace through the ten weeks. As with all programs at the University of Chicago's Center in Paris, the Europe: East and West Program is enhanced by a number of excursions, museum visits, film viewings, etc. within or in the vicinity of Paris. A particular highlight of this program is an extended excursion to an Eastern European capital. This culminating event, with its own museum visits and walking tours, is designed to amplify and add perspective to the concept of the East-West cultural exchange that is central to this venture.
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Headquarters for all of the College's programs in Paris is the University of Chicago’s Center in Paris. The Center in Paris builds upon the University's long association with various Parisian institutions, as well as its eminence, recognized by the French government, in interdisciplinary scholarship related to France. It acts as a gathering place for undergraduates, graduate researchers, and alumni as well as a site for lectures, conferences, and receptions. For participants in the various programs sponsored by the College in Paris, the Center, with its classrooms, offices, computers, language lab, and (modest) library, provides an administrative and instructional home as well as a supportive environment. Its location, in a "new," academically-oriented neighborhood in the thirteenth arrondissement, places it within easy walking distance of the relocated Bibliothèque Nationale de France, François Mitterand and just across the street from the new home of the Université Denis Diderot.
Housing:
Participants in the Europe: East and West program will live in one of the residence halls of the Cité Internationale Universitaire, a campus-like assemblage of houses for international students. In addition to its various national residences, the Cité comprises a library, restaurant (with adjoining cafeteria), and several sports and exercise facilities. Located at the southern edge of Paris (the fourteenth arrondissement), the Cité offers easy access, by metro and bus, to all of Paris.
Credits:
Students receive one credit for each of the four courses offered through this program. While students in Slavic Languages and Literatures, especially the "Interdisciplinary Studies" track, will likely be able to use some or all of these courses in their major, it is not impossible that a student in another subject receive such credit with the approval of his or her program chair. Certainly students may use any of these courses, including the language course, as a free elective. Course titles, units of credit, and grades are placed on their Chicago transcript.
Registration and Tuition:
Students remain registered full-time in the College and pay regular College tuition, the Winter Paris program fee and the non-refundable study abroad administrative fee required of all participants in Chicago's programs abroad. For precise figures, see Study Abroad Program Fees.
Financial Aid:
Students retain their financial aid eligibility. However, two expenses--the study abroad administrative fee and the round-trip airfare to Paris--are not underwritten by College Financial Aid. On the other hand, since students cannot be expected to work part-time while in Paris, the self-help component of their financial aid package does not include a term-time employment factor.
Eligibility and Application:
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The program is designed for undergraduates in good standing who are beyond their first year in the College. While the program stipulates no minimum grade-point average, an applicant’s transcript should demonstrate that they are a serious student who will make the most of this opportunity. Because the Slavic sequence is taught in English, there is no language prerequisite, although students are encouraged to take French on campus before the program begins.
Each application is examined on the basis of the student's scholastic record, personal statement and academic recommendation.
A student accepting an offer of admission is expected to secure his or her place with a non-refundable study abroad administrative fee.
Further Information:
If you would like to discuss the Winter Europe: East and West Program in Paris and the possibility of participating in it, you are invited to contact Sarah Walter (Harper 207A; 834-3753).
Statements contained on this site are subject to change without notice.
