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France: Language, Community, and Social Change
This challenging language immersion program focuses on France’s ethnic, religious, and regional differences, and provides firsthand insight into the complexity of France’s centralist tradition in the face of diversity within its borders and the European union.
Placement in one of five language levels is coupled with field-based assignments that offer language acquisition necessary for seminars conducted entirely in French.
With a base in Toulouse, second to Paris as a university center, students conduct either Field Study Projects or Independent Study Projects appropriate for their skills, and have unique opportunities to work with local organizations.
Students choosing the intensive language track earn the equivalent of three college semesters of French in one semester. Completion of this program often meets the language prerequisite for SIT Study Abroad programs in Francophone Africa.
France: Language, Community, and Social Change offers students a first hand look at relevant topics concerning French people today. Take a look at a video clip of a France24 news story as a BBC reporter accompanies SIT students on their tour of an immigrant neighborhood in Toulouse.
Read more about the two tracks for the France program and what to submit when applying.
