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Students study interview techniques in the classroom and engage in field work with news-making interviewees. Guests with specific types of interviewing experiences may join the class during the term. Guest lecturers who use the interview in their work periodically may speak to the class. Three interviews are assigned, as is a fourth feature story final project.

Students will study and practice photojournalism and documentary filmmaking/storytelling in and around London and on excursions throughout Britain.

Living in Siena offers you two important learning experiences. The first (more obvious) one concerns Italian life and culture, specifically as it is lived out around you in Siena day by day. What is important to people here? What patterns are woven into their lives? What about their history, their hopes, their daily dilemmas? The second learning opportunity involves coming to understand the cultural baggage that you have (inevitably) brought with you to Siena and the implicit assumptions that you use in understanding Sienese life.

Required for all beginner and elementary students.Les objectifs sont:Parler de soi, de la vie quotidienne et sociale, des activités, des sorties… au passé, au présent et au futur proche de l’indicatifAcquérir et s’approprier, par la manipulation, les outils travaillés dans le cours de langue du niveau.Prendre conscience de la place de la communication non-verbale dans l’oralitéAcquérir l’habitude de s’autocorrigerIdentifier toutes les dimensions d’une situation de communication donnéeSe familiariser avec la prosodie de l’oralAcquérir des stratégies d’écoute adaptées et les partagerApprendre à

This course is offered each term for all levels (A2-C1).

This course is offered to all levels each term. This is a required course if you are at the beginner level.Les objectifs sont:Développer la perception et la prononciation des phénomènes phonétiques et phonologiques du français actuelGagner en spontanéitéDévelopper et affiner ses capacités de compréhension de l’oralPercevoir les nuances intonatives afin de les reproduireApprendre les lieux d’articulation des phonèmesDevenir plus autonome dans l’appropriation de la langueSyllabiPhonétique A2Phonétique B1

This course is offered at a B1 level. The objective of this course is to have you discover and understand the current, everyday life in France through observation, analysis, discussion and critical thinking.

This is a six hour course that allows you to better understand the socio-economic aspects of present day France.

The France of today has its foundations in the France of yesterday. The objective of this course is to have students discover the prestigious past of a nation whose foundations go far back in time. In the fall, you will begin with the time of Roman Gaul and continue to the time of Louis XIV, while the spring course begins with the French Revolution and continues to the late 20th century. Fall Quarter, Fall and Spring Semesters, levels B1-C1. Download the syllabus for more details.Façonnée par plusieurs siècles d’Histoire, la France a une identité culturelle forte.

The History of Music course will introduce students to the history of French music from the Baroque period to the present day. In the fall, you will study French vocal and instrumental music in the 17th and 18th centuries, moving to the 19th and 20th centuries spring semester. Composers covered include Couperin, Rameau, Gluck, Paganini, Liszt, Chopin, Belioz, Bizet, Debussy, Ravel, Boulez and others. Fall Quarter and Fall and Spring Semesters, levels B2-C1.