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UM history professor to teach in Avignon, France, this fall
University of Montana--Missoula. Office of University Relations
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UM HISTORY PROFESSOR TO TEACH IN AVIGNON, FRANCE, THIS FALL
MISSOULA-- A University of Montana history professor has been chosen to teach American college students in Aviqnon, France, this fall in the Northwest Interinstitutional Council on Study Abroad (MICSA) program. Dr. Robert 0. Lindsay, whose main expertise at UM is in French history, will teach two history courses in Avignon and lead excursions to historical sites in Paris and the Provence region in southern France. Lindsay's courses, offered for five auarter credits each from UM or the other 10 NICSA member schools, will be on late medieval and Renaissance France from 1200-1494 and early modern France from 1494-1715. Excursions will include sites in Arles, Nimes, Carcassonne, the Palais du Pape, Marseilles and Toulouse. Other courses in French history, politics, art, literature, cooking and language will be taught in the fall, winter and spring quarters by professors from other NICSA schools and French faculty members from the hosting Faculte des Lettres, Centre Universitaire d'Avignon. Faculty for the program are chosen competitively on the basis of proposed courses and tours and student evaluations. Lindsay, who twice before has taught in the Avignon program, said teaching in France gives him a chance to revitalize his knowledge of French history. According to Dr. Maureen Curnow, associate dean of the UM College of Arts and Sciences and NICSA representative for UM, Lindsay is a popular faculty member (over) UM HISTORY PROFESSOR-- add one for the Avignon program because he relates contemporary developments- in France to the history topics he teaches and locations the students visit. Since UM joined NICSA as an original member in 1965, it has -provided the annual study abroad programs in Avignon and London with about 10 percent of their faculty members. Lindsay joined the UM history department in 1967 and was department chairman from 1975-78. The study abroad program is open to anyone enrolling as a University student who has had at least one year of French language instruction. Cost of the program is $1,745 for resident students and $2,201 for non-residents plus personal expenses and transatlantic transportation. Applications will be accepted through July. For more information, interested persons should write to the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 5°812, or call 243,2401.
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