Study in France next summer and earn credits towards your Major!
“Stories in Motion: Travel Writing in France” is a 6-week program that will take place in France’s second largest city, Lyon. It is designed to allow students to earn UBC credits while being immersed in French culture and language. The program led by UBC French Professor Joël Castonguay-Bélanger combines a course on Travel Writing (FREN 329), field trips, cultural events and visits to local collections and museums. Exploration of the city and its surroundings will be at once an inquiry into history, art, literature, politics and French daily life. Students will examine the genre of travel writing from the nineteenth century to the present, and analyze its role in outlining national identities and in colonialism, its rhetorical strategies and modes of othering, and the fashioning of the self through stories of one’s relationship to places.
As a parallel to the readings of the course, writing workshops will give you an opportunity to produce short pieces about your own experience in France. You will learn to find and develop a story idea, to generate an angle and bring your piece alive. All these stories will be shared on a course blog, bringing a personal and creative perspective to the historical and theoretical aspects of the course, and helping you to link these parts of your experience in Lyon.
For more information about eligibility, fees, housing, and the application process, please visit http://students.ubc.ca/gsp/france2016
Information Sessions
October 28, 2015, 12:00pm – 1:00pm, Buchanan Tower, Room 826
October 29, 2015, 3:00pm – 4:00pm, Buchanan Tower, Room 826
Email go.global@ubc.ca to RSVP
(Both information sessions will contain the same information. Attendance to both is not necessary)
