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The CUPA summer program is an immersion experience in Paris which provides intensive work in French language, a selection of content courses in Art History, Literature, and the Social Sciences, and abundant opportunities for significant contact with the French language and culture. A language pledge is signed by all participants and must be respected for the duration of the...

Start your program in Paris, where you’ll begin to appreciate how these cities have developed around the central idea of cultural heritage and patrimony. You will then continue your adventure in Rome. Your courses will integrate class time with course-related trips to art and cultural management institutions, including visits to well-known museums such as the Musée d’Orsay and the...

Writers in Paris students choose to focus on poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction, and attend daily writing workshops, craft seminars, and literary readings and events. Writing and reading assignments are designed to encourage immersion in the city. For example, poets might visit the Louvre to write ekphrastic poems or create Parisian street sonnets by taking a 14-block walk of...

An intensive program designed to perfect students' skills in understanding spoken and written French and in speaking and writing. Prepares students for further work in literary, language, and cultural studies as well as for non-academic use of French. This program starts with four weeks in New Haven, on the Yale campus, before moving on to Paris, France for the final four weeks....

A study of important works of literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and the decorative arts in turn-of-the-century France (1870-1914). This course will acquaint students with the principal literary and artistic forms, social trends, political movements, scientific theories, and technological innovations of the Belle Époque, with visits to museums, architectural...

Through the medium of cinema, the students will be exposed to contemporary French society in all of its complexity. The films at the core of this program have been chosen for their cultural and linguistic value. Each film will serve as a catalyst for a particular topic which will also be explored in articles from the French press and video clips created for French television....