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Completes first-year language sequence in two rather than three quarters. All-in-French communicative and interactive approach. Emphasis on the development of French in a contemporary cultural context. Interpretation of diversified materials, written and oral presentations.

Continuation of FRENLANG 1A. Completes first-year language sequence in two rather than three quarters. All-in-French communicative and interactive approach. Emphasis is on the development of French in a contemporary cultural context. Interpretation of diversified materials, written and oral presentations. Prerequisite: French 1A

Internships represent an excellent framework to develop academic study and to understand the underpinnings of a foreign culture. Internships involve on-site activity, observation or research positions offered by institutions affiliated with the Stanford program. Internships in Paris include French schooling and engineering research (year round), as well as biology and bioengineering research (winter only).

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Sustainability, which in broad terms aims at advancing human well-being within planetary boundaries, is a vital necessity in the 21st century but also a 'wicked problem' that demands to be studied from different angles. This innovative class offers two perspectives on sustainability: first, it pairs ecological economics with environmental humanities to allow for an interdisciplinary approach of sustainability's challenges; second, it offers a practical perspective on sustainability focused on the city of Paris to apply analytical insights on the ground and convert theory into sustainable practices. The course aims at equipping students with sustainability analytical toolbox from an ecological economics and environmental humanities perspectives: students will learn the fundamental of sustainability economics as well as put them in perspective with the help of philosophy, literature and art. Students will also learn, within the 'Paris sustainability lab' how to apply sustainability tools on the ground by engaging in a practical sustainability challenge facing Paris; energy, water supply, climate risks, social and environmental inequality, the Seine flooding, etc. Each of the 10 two hours and a half session will be organized as follows: 1 hour lecture on ecological economics; 30 minutes counterpoint on environmental humanities; 15 minutes break and 45 minutes of 'Paris sustainability lab' with a student presentation and collective Forum on sustainability challenges facing the city of Paris.

Prerequisite: FRENLANG 21C within two quarters of arriving in Paris, or FRENLANG 22C or OSPPARIS 22P

This required course is resolutely interdisciplinary in nature, exploring France through historical, political and sociological perspectives. It offers both a theoretical introduction through a series of lectures/discussion sessions, as well as onsite visits venue and a series of formal presentations by students. Students will come to terms with why France is what it is today: its tensions, aspirations and challenges and enquire how the present has evolved out of the past, and how the past has led to the present in France of today.

This course proposes to explore art and politics in France from the revolution to the present. Through a multimedia approach - including sculptures, paintings, prints, commemorative monuments, architecture, street art and photographs - we will retrace the changing forms that some of the most salient political messages have taken in modern French art. The course will follow a chronological progression, from Revolution to Empire, followed by the rise and fall of the IInd Empire, and the resulting thirst for revenge. We will then broach the 20th century, including the politics of the avant-garde, the art of colonialism, the varied aesthetic responses to the rise of totalitarianism, on display at the 1937 World's Fair in Paris, and evident in the art of collaboration and resistance produced in Occupied and Vichy France during the Second World War. The art of 1960s countercultural contestation - anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, feminist, etc.--will then be studied, before examining recent initiatives in the realm of commemorative art and cultural display that approach issues facing contemporary French society today, including terrorism and constructively confronting its colonial legacy.