Year-long and Fall Semester Participants
Students arrive in France in late August. They are met in Paris by the program
director and taken immediately to Rouen for a brief one-day oreintation before their two-week home stay with families
in small communities in the Normandy countryside.
In the villages, students are housed with families. Students participate
in the life of the village and do research on French culture as assigned
by the program director. The group gathers each week with the director for
a seminar.
Spring Semester Participants
Students begin their orientation to Francophone cultures with their 2-week stay
in Québec City. Along with intensive French classes at the Université Laval,
the SLU professor accompanying the group -- and the host families -- will help
students with cultural adjustment issues and etiquette questions. The orientation
to French culture will continue when the group arrives in France.