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Study in Lyon Spring Quarter 2019 Lyon’s 2000-year-old historic center is recognized as a UNESCO PROGRAM DATES Depart U.S. World Heritage site; artistic creativity thrives and cultural activities Saturday, April 6, 2019 abound all year round. The city is the capital of French gastronomy Arrive Lyon Sunday, April 7, 2019 and offers a choice of the popular charm of its famous bistros, the refined elegance of its gourmet restaurants, and the Depart Lyon Saturday, June 15, 2019 warm, lively atmosphere of its open-air markets.

EXCURSIONS AND ACTIVITIES INCLUDED IN THE COST FEES • Orientation session, welcome dinner, and • Group transfer between the airport and the Based on an enrollment of at least 12 students, farewell dinner accommodation on arrival and departure the fee per person is $6,800.

• Tour of Lyon and its 2000-year-old historic • Housing in homestay with breakfast and This fee excludes airfare, passport or visa center dinner provided 7 days a week fees, meals other than those listed, personal expenses, tuition and administrative fees • Visit to Lyon’s Roman amphitheater and • Orientation program fees and a 24-hour for the courses at students’ home campus, museum emergency contact service textbooks, additional field trips or travel, and • Cheese tasting activities • Welcome dinner, farewell dinner, lunch on anything not specified. the day trip to • Day trip to Beaune, a beautiful in These fees are guaranteed not to change as a the world famous wine-making region • Public transportation pass result of fluctuations in the $ exchange rate. of Burgundy, which is also renowned for its mustard-making - , where Dijon • Student medical and program fee refund EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT mustard is from, is the capital of Burgundy insurance policies Students registering on or before Thursday, • Visit to the Institut Lumière, the birthplace of • All excursions and activities listed in this November 1, 2018 will receive a $100 cinema brochure reduction off of the program fee.

• Cooking classes of • Student ID card

• Visit to a small chocolate workshop FACULTY For many decades, France has drawn artists COURSES of all types from America and elsewhere to Professor Alexis Nelson received her B.A. See your campus coordinator for course its shores. Why is this, and how has the reality in English Literature from the University of of life in France both conformed to and numbering California at Santa Barbara and her M.F.A. in contradicted the fantasy? This course examines Creative Writing (nonfiction emphasis) from 20th century American literature through the INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION: Portland State University. Since 2010, she has lens of expatriate authors living in France. We FINDING COMMON GROUND IN taught composition, literature, and creative will ask what France has represented to the LYON (5 CREDITS) writing courses at , where she imagination of these writers and how French also runs a reading series and an annual Like the bridges that span the two rivers in culture and ideas influenced their work. Along literary festival. Alexis loves to travel and has Lyon, we will explore verbal bridges that the way, we’ll consider the broader movements lived abroad on two previous occasions: she connect individuals, and allow them to find that helped define 20th century American spent her junior year of college studying in common ground. However, we will also literature. Finally, students will be encouraged Budapest, Hungary, and later taught English as come face-to-face with language barriers; to explore connections between course texts a foreign language in the medieval French city what happens when meanings get ‘lost in and their own experiences in Lyon. of . Both of these experiences of cultural translation.’ Not to worry, students will immersion were personally, professionally, acquire the tools and techniques needed and intellectually transformational, and Alexis SECOND FACULTY (WHEN to appropriately and effectively work their looks forward to witnessing her students’ own ENROLLMENT REACHES 25 way through cross-cultural communication transformations while sharing her passions for PARTICIPANTS) challenges. The principles, processes, writing, literature, and travel with them. and practices of dyadic (one-to-one) Dr. Karen Champagnie Alman earned a communication will be adapted for students Bachelor of Arts in Communications in her COURSES to sharpen their verbal and nonverbal skills as native Jamaica at the University of the West they navigate the exciting, new environment of Indies, where she also studied French language Lyon. See your campus coordinator for course and literature. She went on to complete numbering graduate studies in Communications at the University of Southern California (M.A.) and PUBLIC SPEAKING: PARLEZ-VOUS EN FRENCH LANGUAGE (5 CREDITS) Michigan State University (Ph.D.). Karen has FRANCE? (5 CREDITS) taught at several universities and colleges in This course is designed to introduce students Great public speaking begins with great the Pacific Northwest including the University to French through a study of not only the content. And great content comes not only of Oregon, , language, but also the culture. Students will be from personal passion, but also from the South Puget Sound Community College, encouraged to express themselves in French, people and places we encounter in our the , and currently and to use the structures and vocabulary meanderings through Lyon, France: the where she teaches learned. Through selected readings students restaurants, museums, historical sites in the and heads the Communication Department will study various aspects of French life to city’s nine . In learning to since 2013. Over the years, Karen has built better understand France and its people. master the art of rhetoric, students will delve interactive, immersive learning curricula into topic choice, research, organization & designed to help students develop their CREATIVE NONFICTION WRITING: outlining of content, effective use of voice, communication competencies. She has traveled body, and self-confidence. But the course is not LIFE IN LYON (5 CREDITS) to several countries including France, Ireland, just about one’s own speaking, it is also about Creative nonfiction writing uses the techniques and the UK where she enjoys the linguistic, the respect we give to others in being active of creative writing such as characterization, artistic, and historic diversity that abounds. listeners, observers, and evaluators of their description, dialogue, and scene to tell real-life She looks forward to the promise that Lyon speeches. stories. In this course, students will explore a holds for students to learn and practice cross- variety of nonfiction genres including travel cultural communication skills. writing, food writing, and personal narrative. Taking their experiences in Lyon as their raw material, they will transform them into engaging and meaningful pieces of writing. While our main source of inspiration will be the city of Lyon itself, we will also study classic and contemporary examples of creative nonfiction set in France or by French authors. Ultimately, students will return home with a written record of the places, people, ideas, and experiences they encountered during their time in Lyon.

AMERICAN LITERATURE: VISIONS OF FRANCE (5 CREDITS) We are far from the first intrepid travelers to be enchanted by the idea of living in France. EARLY BIRD APPLICATION APPLICATION DEADLINE FINAL PAYMENT DUE Thursday, November 1, 2018 Friday, December 14, 2018 Wednesday, February 27, 2019

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO APPLY Make an appointment with the study abroad coordinator on your campus: River College Li Liu Cindy Card Karolyn Gore Sancha Elevado [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 425-564-2646 253-833-9111 ext. 2160 206-934-0971 206-934-5371

Cascadia College Shoreline Community College Wenatchee Valley College Lisa Jacobson Virginia Gabby Cory Anthony Jaima Kuhlmann [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 425-352-8556 206-934-3910 206-546-4627 509-682-6830

Clark College Whatcom Community College Jody Shulnak Heather Lukashin Christa Schulz Ulli Schraml [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 360-992-2807 360-475-7199 360-416-7974 360-383-3244

Columbia Basin College South Puget Sound Community Donna Starr Val Conroy College [email protected] [email protected] Amy VanSurksum 509-547-0511 360-417-6483 [email protected] 360-596-5247 Edmonds Community College Emily Schifferling Julia Woodworth [email protected] [email protected] 425-640-1618 253-964-6229