MSU Faculty Led Short-Term Study Abroad Institutes
Global Education Center
Montclair State University
22 Normal Avenue
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043

Tel: 973 655-4185
Fax: 973 655-7654
simonw@mail.montclair.edu

Accommodations
Participants stay in studio apartments equipped with a kitchenette and private bath in a modern residential facility centrally located near the lively Vieux Nice historical district, which runs right along the Mediterranean Sea.  Linens, towels and cleaning are provided by the residence and MSU has stockpiled dishes, cookware and fans stored in the residence and waiting for our arrival. Participants may prepare their own meals or eat in the many local restaurants offering authentic Nice specialties at reasonable prices.

Faculty
Joanna Dezio, the Program Director, received her Ph.D from New York University. She teaches interpretation and translation at Montclair State University and French and Italian at New York University. She is a conference interpreter whose clients include the United Nations, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean, the U.S.  Department of State, intellectual property and other law firms, selected corporations, the federal and state courts, television networks, the French Embassy and various entities within the French government.  She has studied and taught in France and Germany and has traveled widely.  She has directed Montclair in Nice for eight years.

Karen Guancione has been awarded a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Artists and Communities Grant, three New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowships, a Ford Foundation Grant and a Puffin Foundation Grant. Her work has been exhibited worldwide and is in numerous public and private collections. Her interdisciplinary art includes large scale installations, performance, sculpture, printmaking, papermaking, bookarts and video. She has curated many exhibitions, is an adjunct professor of art at Montclair State University and SUNY Purchase and has been a visiting artist and lecturer at Pratt Institute, Rutgers University and numerous schools and institutions in the United States and abroad. She recently became the first time recipient of the Erena Rae Award for Art and Social Justice.

Academics
Beginning and Intermediate French language courses are taught by faculty from the Université Internationale d'été de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, a university center created for learning languages within the University of Nice.  Each year the UIEN attracts international students coming from around the world, including as many as 35 nationalities.
 
An advanced French undergraduate/graduate course is taught by Prof. Dezio, who also teaches Introduction to French Culture: Mediterranean Civilization, the centerpiece course of the program for undergraduates in other disciplines and those who are on an elementary or intermediate level.

Prof. Guancione teaches a studio art course open to undergraduates or graduates.

All study abroad programs can fulfill the GNED 303: Global Issues requirement (one of the Contemporary Issues "Core" courses in Gen Ed 2002).  All courses offered have received prior approval for credit.
Participants select two courses from among the following:

Elementary and Intermediate level French majors or minors:

FRIN 145 or FREN 145: Introduction to French Culture: Mediterranean Civilization
Taught in English. This course explores the principles of life and culture that have made the Mediterranean region fertile ground for creativity and the art of living well for millennia. Students will study the major innovations of the Roman Empire and the artistic, philosophical and political contributions of Mediterranean cultures with respect to their impact on our lives today.  They will consider the various ways that so many brilliant cultures in the Mediterranean have interacted over time and discuss their significance to our interdependent contemporary world. French minors registering for FREN 145 will need to do all work in French.This class will meet every afternoon, with field trips on Wednesday afternoons and some Saturdays. Required for all undergraduates who are not advanced level French majors

FREN 375-71: French Study Abroad: Beginning and Intermediate Levels                       
For undergraduate students, at the University of Nice
This course includes 15 hours per week of beginning or intermediate level language instruction in small groups, utilizing both the classroom and everyday life in the community at large.  All the courses are designed according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages guidelines.  The pedagogical materials used vary: from the most recent methods to original documents, all designed to allow students to become familiar with the language in different communicative situations, in order to, allow them to become autonomous outside of the language courses. 

Advanced Undergraduate French majors and Graduate French majors:

FREN 375-72 (Advanced Undergraduate) or FREN 546 (Graduate) French Study Abroad: Workshops at the University of Nice
These afternoon workshops aim to optimize students’ linguistic mastery of aspects of French culture, literature, politics or civilization.  Workshops are offered at various language levels, and will include topics such oral language expression, songs, civilization, cinema, media, written expression, theater, art, business French, the European Union, myths, French for legal purposes, and literature. Workshops meet Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons.

FREN 470/ FREN 548: Seminar “History and Philosophy of French Thought: The Foreign Attraction” (Prof. Dezio) Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate
Taught entirely in French.
From its origins in a non-racist Roman Empire to today, France has gathered multifarious peoples into the Hexagon, as the French call their country, perhaps habituating the natives to the tastes and the shock of the new.  While ever seeking to stabilize their fluctuating identity, the French continuously reach out to foreign cultures they deem to be exotic in order to enrich their own lives.  What does this reach towards the exotic other reveal about the French themselves?  And why must what is borrowed be exotic or beautiful instead of just practical or timely?  Where America borrows science, France borrows poetry.  Up through the 16th C., France looked to Italy.  The 18th C. saw the passionate adoption of the fledgling United States of America and, paradoxically, ancient Egypt.  The 19th C. bore witness to another seeming contradiction, the simultaneous glorification of Native Americans and all things Japanese, raw nature versus the ultimate in refinement.  Iranian poetry found a niche as early as the Middle Ages.  A passion for many countries in the Arab world filled another need and continues today.  Through literature, the arts, philosophy and politics, we will examine the French thirst for the exotic and try to explain this phenomenon.

FREN 501 Topics in French Linguistics: Teacher Training Program at University of Nice
(6 credits. Taken alone with no other course)

This course is for teachers of French who wish to enhance their professional teaching practices while acquiring new linguistic and cultural knowledge.  Activities are in the form of interactive teaching workshops that take into account the latest research on the teaching of French as a foreign language.  Workshops include the Methodology of Teaching; Analysis and Preparation of Pedagogic Material; Activities to revitalize a class; and theatre exercises emphasizing intonation and body language.  The goals of the course are to reflect on contemporary teaching challenges, to understand the needs and objectives of the teaching and learning of French, to analyze grammatical approaches and forms, to diversify one’s aids by exploiting the numerous available online resources and to encourage and stimulate the learner.  Your effectiveness and your value as a teacher of French will surely be enhanced by your exposure to these facets of your profession. This class will meet mornings and afternoons.

Advanced level French students and graduate French majors may take either Prof. Dezio’s seminar plus University of Nice Workshops or the Intensive Pedagogy course alone. See the attached course schedule for further clarification of options.

Undergraduate Art Majors and non-majors interested in taking an art course:

ARAN 190: Introduction to Visual Arts: Color, Light and Form as Inspiration in the South of France (Prof. Guancione)
This course is for artists, non-artists and would-be-artists looking for an opportunity to discover the artistic side of their nature.  Students explore the unique culture of Nice by recording their discoveries in guided daily art making.  Class sessions will be held outside of the classroom and activities will focus on the exploration of color, light, architecture, style and the vibrant rhythms of Nice and the Côte d’Azur, an environment that has inspired great artists for centuries.  Course activities will involve making an ongoing visual or text journal whose ultimate form will be determined by the student.  Participants may choose writing, collage and assemblages from found objects, on-site drawing, mixed media pieces, color studies and photography, or wherever imagination takes them.  Observation, experimentation and interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged.  The visual or textual vocabulary developed in Nice will lead to a singular and personal piece of art evoking the sensual experience of travel.  This class will meet every morning.

FRIN 145: Mediterranean Civilization (See description above)

Graduate Art Majors:

ARGS 560-72: Graduate Visual Arts Workshop Study Abroad: STUDIO IN NICE

Individualized Studio Art Projects directed by Prof. Guancione

Program Costs:
$3,400 plus tuition and fees for six credits. The program cost includes:

• Roundtrip airfare
• Studio apartment with private bath and kitchenette
• All transfers in France
• All group excursions, including entrance fees to museums
• Wine tasting                       
• Olive oil tasting
• Visit to a bio-dynamic family farm
• A celebration luncheon in the countryside of the Var wine region

Application procedure and payment schedule:
All participants are required to have
1) a minimum GPA of 2.75;
2) an interview with one or both of the faculty leading that program;
3) a reference form completed by a faculty member other than the faculty
            leading that program; and
4) the $100 non-refundable application fee.
Summer programs are open to non-MSU students and high achieving high school seniors who demonstrate special interest. Non-MSU students, new transfer students and high school seniors will need to submit two references forms plus an official transcript from their home institution(s).

Payment Schedule:
            Non-Refundable Application fee:       $100
            By February 15, 2011                        $1,000
            By March 15, 2011:                            $1,000
            By April 15, 2011:                              $1,300

Make checks payable to “Montclair State University”
A limited number of partial scholarships are available for MSU students with a 3.0 G.P.A. Contact the Global Education Center for further information.

Non-MSU Students
Applicants should submit two reference forms and official transcript(s) from the home institution(s) plus the $100 non-MSU administrative fee and the $100 non-refundable deposit. Telephone interviews with the faculty will be accepted for out of state students. After completion of the program, non-MSU students will need to request an MSU transcript for submission to the home institution.

For Further Information:
Contact the Global Education Center at 973-655-4185 or email simonW@mail.montclair.edu.

Pre-Enrollment Form

Faculty Led Short-Term Study Abroad Institutes Forms

9:00 – 12:00

1:30 – 3:30

Beginning French students

U Nice Language Course

French Civilization

Intermediate French students

U Nice Language Course

French Civilization

Advanced French majors

Seminar FREN 470: Role of the Arts
or
U Nice Language Course

U Nice Workshops

Graduate French majors

U Nice Pedagogy Course
or
Seminar FREN 548: Role of the Arts

U Nice Pedagogy Course
Or
U Nice Workshops

Art students

Studio Art Course

French Civilization

Wednesday July 6, 13, 20 and 27

9:00 – 12:00

12:30 -

Beginning French Students

U Nice Language Course

MSU Field Trip

Intermediate French students

U Nice Language Course

MSU Field Trip

Advanced French majors

Seminar FREN 470: Role of the Arts
or
U Nice Language Course

MSU Field Trip

Graduate French majors

U Nice Pedagogy Course
or
Seminar Role of the Arts

MSU Field Trip

Art students

Studio Art Course

MSU Field Trip