Program Details

If you have taken one or two years of high school French or intend to take French during your first semester at St. Lawrence; you may apply to join a select group of SLU's class of 2017 on a spring semester study abroad program in Québec, France, and Sénégal.  Participants will complete their FYS and three additional courses while benefitting from the experience of living and studying in three distinct cultural settings.

Through this program, students who view global engagement as an important goal of their education will be able to take advantage of St. Lawrence's tradition of excellence in this area from the very start of their college career. At the same time, students will receive the benefit of St. Lawrence's celebrated First-Year Program, nationally recognized for its success in helping students excel in their first year of college life.

Dr. Margaret Bass, a faculty member in St. Lawrence's English Department will act as the faculty leader of the program and will teach the FYS course.  Dr. Bass has taught in the First Year Program on campus, has been selected as the St. Lawrence Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year on more than one occasion, and served in administrative positions such as Interim Dean of Students and the Associate Dean of the Center for Diversity and Social Justice.  She has travelled with students to Sapelo Island, Georgia, Jamaica, and a variety of locations in Europe and North Africa on a semester long ship-board program.  Dr. Bass's research interests are autobiography studies and literatures of the African Diaspora. Her current research is on the literature and culture of Black Canadians.

In addition to Dr. Bass' course, An Ethnographic Eye, students will take two courses in French language and conversation and a course that examines the origins and evolution of la Francophonie, the global community of French-speaking peoples.  (For further information on courses, please see the Academics page.)