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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.

The aim of this course is to allow students to conceive, produce, direct and edit a short film that explores their experience in Paris using the basic smartphone technology. They will be introduced to the fundamentals of visual storytelling and basic technics of filmmaking and be encouraged to apply those techniques through a variety of practical exercises and training seminars. At the end of the trimester, the students will have acquired basic notions of visual storytelling and directed a short movie allowing them to express their own idiosyncratic vision of the world and their personal experience in a foreign city. Primary language: French

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).

Internship

Internship

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: one year of college French if completed within two quarters of arriving in Paris, or FRENLANG 21C

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