ICP French Language - All Levels
Students at all levels take French language classes. The amount of credits each student receives for the French language classes varies and depends on the student’s level placement and session duration. *Students may not exceed 12 semester credits total on this program.
French language classes are designed to increase students’ written and oral comprehension and expression. All French language classes involve Oral French, Written French, and Grammar.
Language of Instruction: French
Culture et gastronomie françaises (French Culture and Gastronomy)
Language of Instruction: French
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Culture et gastronomie (Culture and Gastronomy)
Language of Instruction: French
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Les Françaises et la mode (The French and Fashion)
Language of Instruction: French
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Paris ciné (Parisian Cinema)
In this course, students will build on French vocabulary and grammar skills through studying French films.
Language of Instruction: French
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Paris découverte (Discovering Paris)
In this course, students will build on French vocabulary and grammar skills through studying the art, culture and history of Paris.
Language of Instruction: French
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Cinéma: Gros plan sur “la French Touch” (Wide Angle on the “French Touch”)
Language of Instruction: French
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Culture et gastronomie françaises (French Culture and Gastronomy)
Language of Instruction: French
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Histoire de France: de la Révolution à la 1ère guerre mondiale (French History: from the Revolution to WWI)
Language of Instruction: French
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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La peinture francaise du Neo-classicisme au neo-impressionnisme (French Neoclassic and Impressionist Painting)
Language of Instruction: French
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Littérature du XVIII°/L’Encyclopédie (18th Century Literature/The Encyclopedia)
Language of Instruction: French
Recommended US semester credits: 3
La mode et le stylisme (Fashion and Style)
Language of Instruction: French
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Panorama de la littérature et des idées en France – du Moyen Âge au XVIIIe siècle (Panorama of Literature and Ideas in France – From the Middle Ages to the 18th Century)
This course focuses on increasing French langauge proficiency by studying famous authors and their ideas from the Middle Ages to the 18th Century.
Language of Instruction: French
Language Level Required: Intermediate
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Histoire(s) de Paris en photos (History of Paris in photos)
This course focuses on increasing French langauge proficiency through studying the history of Paris through photographs.
Language of Instruction: French
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Paris et son histoire (Parisian History)
Language of Instruction: French
Recommended US semester credits: 3
La peinture française du Néo-classicisme au Fauvisme (French Painting from Neo-Classicism to Fauvism)
Language of Instruction: French
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Societé française par les journaux télévisés (French Society on TV News)
Language of Instruction: French
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Tourisme et gastronomie (Tourism and Gastronomy)
Language of Instruction: French
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Découvrir l’actualité économique française (Discover Today’s French Economy)
Language of Instruction: French
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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L’Art en France des Lumières à l’Impressionnisme (French Art from the Enlightenment to Impressionism)
Language of Instruction: French
Recommended US semester credits: 3
L’Art en France des Lumières au scandale réaliste (French Art from the Enlightenment to Realism)
Language of Instruction: French
Recommended US semester credits: 3
L’Art en France de la Renaissance au règne de Louis XIVe (French Art from the Renaissance to the Reign of Louis XIV)
Language of Instruction: French
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Comment fonctionne La France? (How Does France Work?)
Language of Instruction: French
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Panorama du cinéma français (Panorama of French Cinema)
This course focuses on increasing French langauge proficiency by studying through studying famous French films.
Language of Instruction: French
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Architecture in a Changing World - Paris 1789-1914
This survey course offers students a thematic approach to architecture through the period opening with the French revolution and ending at the eve of World War I. Shifting modes of architecture through various styles and functions will be examined using key works in Paris, studying the opposing forces of the artistic and political establishments. By replacing architectural advances in the broader context of a modernization of Paris, we will examine how architecture offers insights into social and political changes. This course more particularly proposes to look at architectures whose functions, materials, colors and forms were relevant to modernity.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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European External Relations
The objective of this course is to give students, who already have some knowledge of international affairs, a basic introduction to European external relations and particularly within the North-South context. Relations between individual European nations and other areas of the globe have existed since the 15th century and today these relations are continued through the European Union. The course will, therefore, provide an introduction to the EU institutional structures and decision-making processes that concern EU external relations and the foreign policy of specific member-states (Germany, France, and the United Kingdom). Students will also learn about European civil society through the operations of non-governmental organizations, centering on their relations with EU institutions and their international activities in Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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European Union Today
The objective of this course is to give students grounding in the historical, political and economic aspects of the European integration process since World War II and to acquaint students with the EU institutional structure and decision-making processes as well as to study the various political, economic and social aspects of the EU. Through this course, students will gain a critical insight into the internal contradictions and the additional challenges that the EU has to deal with in order to enhance cooperation among its members and to function as a credible actor in a multipolar world. A recurring element will be the crisis in the Eurozone, and its consequences on the credibility of the European project, particularly given the recent European Parliament elections.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Great Authors in French Cinema
This film course will focus on the history of French cinema, from its scientific beginning at the end of the 19th century, along with the Industrial Revolution, through the diversity of representations in the 20th century until the beginning of the 21st. In order to embody those changes, we will study the important authors whose contribution have made french cinema unique. Historical films will be the main guideline, but in its broadest aspect, from opinion position to historical reenactment and how documentary becomes historical fact. This theme has been fully explored since the beginning of cinema, and that will allow us to question representation and its diverse evolution along with the transformation of society. Leading French filmmakers challenged this rediscovery of the past, guiding us through the analysis of the language of the moving image.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Politics, Economy and Society in France Today
The main objective of this course is to give students a basic grounding in how France functions by critically examining the political system, the workings of the economy and pertinent social issues. The prime place given to the Republic and Republican values have colored French institutions and society for more than two centuries but today France is faced with a number of contradictions that challenge many of its founding myths. Through this course, students will gain a better understanding of the peculiarities endogenous to the French Republic and the important debates within politics, economy and society that mark France today.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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Art History: From the Impressionists to Picasso
This elective course is taught in English by faculty from the University of Connecticut. Offerings may vary per semester. This course traces the artistic contribution to modernity in 19th -century and the first decades of 20th century French art, its utopian dimension, its different achievements and its decline. Art-movements, such as neo-classicism, romanticism, realism, impressionism, postimpressionism, will be analyzed with regard to their respective claim for modernity.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Human Rights: Being International
This elective course is taught in English by faculty from the University of Connecticut. Offerings may vary per semester. This course offers an introduction to international Human Rights Law. Each class will be structured around a lecture and a case study with a focus on important human rights issues in France. Students will become acquainted with the fundamentals of human rights and will become aware of specific human rights issues that arise in France.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Art History II / From Paris to the Rest of the World: Modern and Post-Modern Art
This elective course is taught in English by faculty from the University of Connecticut. Offerings may vary per semester.
This course is a comparative analysis of artistic concepts, works and movements, important to the distinction between Modernism and Postmodernism in 20th Century Art. It will also study the geopolitical issues of Art. Through an examination of form and content distinguishable in works of various artistic disciplines (painting, sculpture, architecture, design), students will critically evaluate artistic language and expression that is representative of modern and post-modern ideologies. This course will examine the visual arts and will utilize theoretical texts for supportive analysis.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Translation Through the Press
This elective course is taught in English by faculty from the University of Connecticut. Offerings may vary per semester. This translation course focuses, for the most part, on material from the Parisian written press. In addition to familiarizing students with some of the techniques of translation in general, the course constitutes a cultural studies approach to France through the press since translating exercises will be accompanied by presentations of the different materials used (newspapers, television, film) and by discussions of the news itself.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Histoire de la Gastronomique Française (History of French Cuisine) - API Course
This course is designed to understand the role and place of French Cuisine within its society from a historical, ethnological, and sociological point of view, and to put into practice this “savoir vivre français” by cooking some traditional dishes and sharing them together. This is a reading and research class, with a cooking and tasting component.
Language of Instruction: English French
Recommended US semester credits: 3
La France De 1945 À Nos Jours (Post War France) API French Civilization
This elective course is taught in French by a French API professor. Offerings may vary per semester. Paris has been known as the "capital city of the nineteenth century" (regarding its architecture), where the post-WWII era has been a time of deep transformations in politics, society and culture. This course will examine a chronological presentation of the main events in the city of Paris, the daily life, buildings, movies, paintings, and theorical developments, the meaning or the main aspects of this era.
Language of Instruction: French
Recommended US semester credits: 3
A French Experience: Paris Teaching Internship
All students with 4 semesters of college-level French (equivalent to the intermediate level) or more are able to participate in the teaching internship for an additional 3 credits. Beginning and intermediate-level students can also do the internship, but are not eligible to earn credit or a grade for the experience. Spaces are limited and are awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. An additional fee is charged for the internship.
Language of Instruction: English
Language Level Required: Intermediate
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Cultural History: Post-War France (1944-45) to Today
This elective course is taught in English by faculty from the University of Connecticut. Offerings may vary per semester. If Paris has been known as the "capital city of the nineteenth century (regarding its architecture or the design of the main avenues and boulevards, for example), the post-WWII era was a time of deep transformation in the way of life, in the political structure of French society, and in cultural and social representations as well. Based on a chronological presentation of the main events, focusing on the city of Paris, on daily life, buildings, movies, paintings, and theoretical developments, we will try to delineate the main aspects of this era.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Fashion in France: 18th-21st Century
This elective course is taught in English by faculty from the University of Connecticut. Offerings may vary per semester. This course survey of French fashion history from the late 17th century to the early 21st century. Throughout the semester you will become familiar with the main lines of fashion history (styles, personalities, designers). You will also learn about the history of Paris as a fashion industry hub and the origins of the French luxury fashion industry.
Language of Instruction: French
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Histoire de la gastronomie française (History of French cuisine)
This elective course is taught in French by a French API professor. Offerings may vary per semester.
Who has never dreamt of chocolate mousse, foie gras, or fondue? Why is France so attached to its cuisine and culinary traditions? How did they develop and what role do they play within daily life as well as national identity? How could the French indulge themselves in fastuous and lengthy meals and joyfully continue to speak about food while eating? What does eating mean? This course is designed to understand the role and place of French Cuisine within its society from an historical, ethnological, and sociological point of view, and to put into practice this “savoir vivre français” by cooking some traditional dishes and sharing them together. This is a reading and research class, with a cooking and tasting component.
La France de 1945 à nos jours (Post War France)
This elective course is taught in French by a French API professor. Offerings may vary per semester. If Paris has been known as the « capital city of the nineteenth century (regarding its architecture or the design of the main avenues and boulevards for example), the post-WWII era has been a time of deep transformations in the way of living, in the political structure of the french society, and in cultural and social representations as well. So we will try, based on a chronological presentation of the main events, to show, focusing on the city of Paris, or on daily life, buildings, movies, paintings, and theorical developments, the meaning or the main aspects of this era.
Histoire de la mode en France (Fashion in France)
This elective course is taught in French by faculty from the University of Connecticut. Offerings may vary per semester. This course focuses on the development of costume and fashion in France from the late 17th Century to the present. Topics covered include: the influence of the state in organizing luxury industries (with Louis XIV, Napoleon); the Restoration and the Romantic Era; “Fin de Siècle” and Belle Epoque fashion; the Roaring Twenties; Wartime fashion; Haute couture and “Prêt à Porter”. Class time may be separated into lecture hours and site visits (museum, exhibitions, etc.) where students can see the original documents and/or appreciate the object of study in the wider cultural context of its time.
Littérature et chansons en France (Literature and songs in France)
This elective course is taught in French by faculty from the University of Connecticut. Offerings may vary per semester. The course is an overview of the French literary and cultural tradition through a selection of chansons and texts ranging from troubadours to contemporary rappers. Each session will be devoted to a specific song or musical style, usually accompanied by a literary text (poem, short story, novel) which serve as entries to the period in question. Several excursions to related sites in Paris are also planned.
