10 General Structure
Role of the Faculty Director (FD)
During the 2025-26 academic year, the FD will be Barbara Vance from Indiana University. During the program, the FD serves as your academic advisor and will schedule an individual appointment with you during the first few weeks in Aix to discuss your course selections. The FD will work closely with faculty and academic advisors at your home school to help you develop a course of study that meets program guidelines and keeps you on course for graduation. The FD is also responsible for obtaining your grades from the French professors and transmitting the record of course titles, credits, and grades to your home university.
Intensive Language Course: Cours intensif
This course is required for all students at the beginning of the program in Aix.
Students will have a 1-2 week intensive language course. One credit will be awarded for each week.
Program Courses: Cours du Programme
The cours du programme or program courses are taught specially for students participating in the program.
These semester-long courses carry 2 credits and most of them are 30 hours long.
TBD: Expression orale/Prise de parole en français.” (30 hours), Fall Semester
Instructor : Monsieur Claude Pelopidas (30 hours)
The objective of this course is to improve the students’ oral language skills by using techniques of the theater. Attention is paid to the rhetorical conventions of academic discourse, pronunciation, intonation and rhythm as well as communication strategies.
Faculty Director Course (TBS) 2 credits (30 hours), Spring Semester
Instructor: Barbara Vance
Through a variety of literary, cinematic, and ethnographic perspectives, we will explore Provence in its many facets. With short texts, films, cultural outings, and observations of daily life, we will seek to understand this mythical region. Provence, with its picturesque landscapes, rich traditions, and vibrant culture, offers a diversity of experiences. Each element of our exploration will contribute to enriching our understanding of the region and deepening our appreciation of it. Students will be expected to participate regularly in class (30%), do homework (30%), keep a weekly journal (20%), and research and present a final topic (20%).
“La France et l’actualité internationale” (30 hours), Spring Semester
Instructor: Monsieur Claude Pelopidas
Terrorism, proliferation of nuclear arms, Arab revolutions, the rise of Extremism… From Afghanistan to North Korea through Iraq, Iran and the West, this course seeks to examine international current events through the perspective of French foreign policy, especially the origins and consequences of the major conflicts shaping the beginning of the third millennium.