France Artists and Exiles
LSINDP / FRENCH 491
Spring 2018
UW-Whitewater
3 CREDIT FACULTY-LED TRAVEL STUDY APPLICATION
LOCATION REQUIREMENTS Apply Online: Paris Minimum of 2.5 GPA, at least second semester freshman www.uww.edu/international status, & good disciplinary standing. Application deadline: DURATION Spring 2018 (Program) LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: English May 23 – June 2, 2018 (If taken for French Credit, all coursework will be done Friday December 1st (Tentative travel) in French)
After you apply to the program, apply for Course Selection: LSINDP / FRENCH 491 the WI Grant and Scholarships if eligible:
http://www.uww.edu/international/globalexp THE PROGRAM eriences/financial-information/scholarships- and-grants Why did so many artists choose to work and live in Paris? In this course, we will attempt to answer that question as we explore Paris from a cultural and historical perspective, http://www.south-africa-tours-and- specifically looking at the reasons Paris provided such a fertile cultural environment for WI Grant Deadline: Oct 15 travel.com/images/university-witwatersrand- many expatriate artists, from the Lost Generation (such as Ernest Hemingway, James sat-studyabroadinsouthafrica.jpg Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and Pablo Picasso), to women (such as Gertrude Stein, Janet Flanner, and Scholarship Deadline: Nov 1 Sylvia Beach), and African American writers and artists (including Richard Wright, James
Baldwin and Chester Himes). Beginning with a historical overview of France and Paris, we FACULTY CONTACTS will then delve deeper into a study of several individual artists and their works. During the travel portion, we will visit the great monuments and cultural highlights of Paris as well as Sheila Turek > [email protected] the cafés and other lesser-known treasures frequented by artists, to get a true feel for the Howard Ross > [email protected] Paris experience and understand the conditions in which these artists lived and worked. COORDINATOR CONTACT Dan Colleran > [email protected]
France Artists and Exiles LSINDP / FRENCH 491 Spring 2018
UW-Whitewater
FEES AND EXPENSES THE TENTATIVE TRAVEL ITINERARY
23 May: Depart for Paris 29 May: Musée d'Orsay, Estimated Program Fee: Musée Rodin $3599 24 May: Explore Latin Quarter Napoleon’s Tomb Welcome Dinner
FEES INCLUDE: Eiffel Tower at night 30 May: Free day in Paris Airfare and local
transportation 25 May: The Louvre, Café tour 31 May: Guest lecture
Local Tours/ Tour of Luxembourg Gardens 26 May: Walking Tour of Montmartre accommodations Arc de Triomphe & Indicated group meals 01 Jun: Left Bank tour Champs-Élysées Free time UW System academic Farewell dinner/cabaret abroad insurance 27 May: Explore local markets
Opera Garnier 02 Jun: Fly back to Chicago
*The estimated program fee is 28 May: Notre Dame, Ste-Chapelle & based on 14 paying participants. Île de la Cité, The actual program fee will be Palace of Versailles established mid-term when all Group dinner
participants have obtained legal travel documents.
Hyland Hall Suite 1227 Phone: 262-472-5759 www.uww.edu/international