| Spring 2026: Paris, France - English program |
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| This program is closed. Please contact the faculty director for more information. |
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| Students must enroll in all credit-bearing courses for a grade. Only the UNIV (zero credit) course may be taken pass/fail. Audit registration is not permitted on UD Travel Study. Please refer to the University Catalog to verify requirements and prerequisites |
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| All students must enroll in at least 12 credits, as well as the 0-credit UNIV course. |
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The courses below have been pre-approved for UD students participating on this program. Although these courses may be offered in Paris during Fall Semester, the final course list is typically not announced until late May. The courses below are not guaranteed, and enrollment in specific courses can be competitive. Students should select at least 8-10 potential courses.
All course instruction is in English except for French language courses, and classes are populated by other U.S. students participating CEA's program. Students must enroll in 4-5 courses (12-15 credits) for a letter grade (no auditing or pass/fail). One French course OR COMM 263 is required, in addition to 3-4 other courses.
Students wishing to enroll in a French course will take a preliminary placement exam online prior to departure, followed by an on-site oral examination upon arrival to finalize placement.
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Important Note - Course Under Review/Not Available for Enrollment Status
If a course you are interested is noted as under review/not available for enrollment this means that the course has to be re-reviewed by the academic department to determine the UD equivalent. It is possible that the UD equivalent may change from what is currently posted. Once the course has been reviewed the "under review" status will be removed and the course details listed is the most up to date. |
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| ART 180-073: Digital Photography for Non-Majors (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: PHT 301 Photography in Paris |
Introduces the basics of photography as a way to communicate ideas emphasizing content, composition, and technique. Examines contemporary artists and historic movements through research, gallery visits and lectures. Using a digital camera and visual editing software students create, edit and critique images.
When taught in Paris, the course focuses on how the camera can be used in a foreign environment as an exciting tool of documentary record, cross-cultural understanding, artistic expression and self-discovery. After an introduction to the fundamentals of photography, both traditional and digital, students' cameras will be trained on the city of Paris and the personal experiences absorbed here including the architecture, history, people, and rich culture. As students develop their technical, compositional and critical skills they will create a portfolio of images that will both showcase and celebrate your whole unforgettable study abroad experience. |
| Satisfies the following requirements: |
| | University Arts/Humanities Breadth |
| | Arts and Sciences - Group A |
| Restrictions: open to non-majors |
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| ARTH 228-070: Modern Art Since 1900 (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: ARH 330 - 20th Century Art: A History of Modernism |
| Modern art from 1900 to the present considered globally and studied in its social and historical context, including painting, collage, sculpture, photography, performance, installation, institutional critique, and time-based media. |
| Satisfies the following requirements: |
| | University History Breadth |
| | Arts and Sciences - Group B |
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| ARTH 321-070: Great Cities of the World (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: ARH 420 - History of Paris: An Architectural Perspective |
| Focus on a single city over time or in a specific historical moment. Looks at art, architecture and/or material culture. Topics vary. Examples: Nineteenth Century Paris; Ancient Pompeii; Florence under the Medici; Mexico City c. 1521. |
| Satisfies the following requirements: |
| | Arts and Sciences - Group A |
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| ARTH 367-070: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: ARH 430 19th Century Art: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism |
This course does not count toward ARTH junior seminar, but it can count toward ARTH electives.
In this course in Paris, you will be engaged in an in-depth analysis and pictorial survey of one of the most remarkable and creative phases in modern art: the emergence of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. In the Louvre, Orsay, Marmottan, and Rodin museums, you will study the original paintings and sculptures of that colorful, creative and revolutionary group of artists that included Monet, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec and Pissarro. Throughout this exploration, you will seek to understand the impact these and related artists had, not only on late 19th century and later 20th century artistic creativity, but also on the socio-political European—and particularly French—order from which they sprang. And to measure and evaluate the impressive legacy of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, you will analyze in situ the many great masterpieces these movements generated and consider how they came to represent both a sharp break with the past and a harbinger of the future modernist work yet to come. ONLY OFFERED FALL |
| Prerequisite: none |
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| BMEG 230-070: Circuits, Signals and Systems for Biomedical Applications (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: ENGR 340 - Electrical Circuits |
Introduction to electrical engineering principles applied to biological systems, using MATLAB and LTspice. Course details basic engineering concepts that underlie biomedical systems and signal analysis.
In Paris, this course will guide you through the basic principles of ideal linear time-invariant electrical circuits and will provide you with the main tools for a full comprehension of their behavior. The basic circuit elements will be explained, together with the main laws deriving from their connection. The main methods for circuit analysis, efficiently merging the information on circuit components, and circuit topology will be introduced and described. |
| Prerequisite: MATH 242 |
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| BUAD 364-070: Business Administration in Practice (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: INT 430 - Global Internship Course |
Internship in a business-related field. Includes preparation of a journal of activities and a final project.
When offered abroad, this course is comprised of both a practical internship field component of 20 hours/week and a reflective and theoretical seminar component that together, are purposefully designed to challenge stuents to learn, to engage with, and develop fluency working within a multicultural context, while also strengthening the business competencies necessary to succeed in today’s workplace. Perhaps even more important, the course will cover areas vital to new graduates: job searching, how to present oneself and leveraging one's global and intercultural fluency. |
| Restrictions: Enrollment contingent upon timely internship application and successful interview with sponsoring organization. |
| Note: Internship placement requires an additional fee |
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| BUAD 384-072: Global Business Environment (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: BUS 320 International Business |
| Survey the multidimensional influence of globalization on principles and practices of business. Analyze institutional, cultural, political, legal, economic, social, and technological aspects of international business activities. Assess interdisciplinary frameworks to help align professional goals and personal competencies with the interconnected business world. |
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| BUAD 473: Consumer Behavior (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: MKT 310 - Consumer Behavior |
| Explores a variety of topics including: the decision processes associated with buying, consuming, and disposing of products, services, and ideas; social, cultural, and psychological influences on consumer decision making and consumption patterns; the relationship between consumer behavior and marketing decision making. |
| Prerequisite: BUAD 301 |
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| CIEG 211-070: Statics *Under Review/Not Available for Enrollment* (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: ENGR 380 Statics |
| Analysis of force systems and equilibrium of rigid bodies in two and three dimensions. Determination of centers of gravity and of centroids. Analysis of statistically determinate trusses, simple frames and “machines.” Introduction to the analysis of beams. |
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| COMM 167-071: Mass Media and the Fashion Industry (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: COM 321 Mass Media and the Fashion Industry |
| Department elective. |
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| COMM 263-070: Communicative Behavior and Culture (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: COM 340 CDG - Communication and Global Competence |
| Communicative processes in other cultures as well as subcultures in the US will be discussed. Students will become more mindful and aware of their own cultural patterns as well. Difficulties in cross cultural communication will also be discussed. |
| Satisfies the following requirements: |
| | Multicultural |
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| COMM 306: Digital Technology in Politics (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: COM385CDG Media and Democracy in the Digital Age |
| Focuses on how technology influences and is used in political campaigns, public policy debates, governance, and public opinion, as well as how politics shapes technological development, processes, and policy. Special attention given to synergy among political actors, media, non-governmental organizations and citizens in shaping, consuming, and producing communication technology and policy. |
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| FASH 224-070: Development of Fashion: 1600 to World War I (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: ARH 361 Haute Couture in Paris: History of Style & Fashion |
| Clothing design and production in America and Western Europe since 1600. Study of craft skills, growth of ready-to-wear industry, and Haute Couture. |
| Satisfies the following requirements: |
| | University History Breadth |
| | Arts and Sciences - Group B |
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| FREN 105-070: French I: Elementary (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: FRE 102 Beginning French II |
Introduction to the French language and development of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills through the use of basic texts.
When offered in Paris, as part of active language acquisition, and in order to help you engage in diverse, cultural experiences, the instructor will lead a limited number of discovery excursions into the city of Paris including, but not limited to libraries, museums, theatres, or local bakeries. |
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| FREN 106-070: French II: Elementary/Intermediate (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: FRE 201 Intermediate French I |
Completion of basic French. Increasing mastery of the basic skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing.
When taught in Paris, as part of active language acquisition, and in order to help you engage in diverse, cultural experiences, the instructor will lead a limited number of discovery excursions into the city of Paris including, but not limited to libraries, museums, theatres, or local bakeries. |
| Prerequisite: FREN 105 or 2-3 years of high school French |
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| FREN 107-070: French III: Intermediate (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: FRE 202 Intermediate French II |
| Review of grammar, continued practice in speaking and writing, and reading texts of average difficulty. When taught in Paris, as part of active language acquisition, and in order to help you engage in diverse, cultural experiences, the instructor will lead a limited number of discovery excursions into the city of Paris including, but not limited to libraries, museums, theatres, or local bakeries. |
| Prerequisite: FREN 106 or 4 years of high school French |
| Satisfies the following requirements: |
| | Arts and Sciences - Foreign Language |
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| FREN 167-070: Beginning French (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: FRE 101 Beginning French I |
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| FREN 250-071: Introduction to Business French (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: FRE 301 Advanced French |
| Familiarizes students with characteristics of business French (terminology, syntactical patterns, etc.) and policies and practices of the French business community. |
| Prerequisite: FREN 211 and one other 200-level FREN course taught in French. |
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| HOSP 464-071: International Hospitality Internship (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: INT 430 - Global Internship Course |
| International internship experience working in a hospitality related internship with written reflections on the cultural and business practices of the host country.Internship in a business-related field. Includes preparation of a journal of activities and a final project. When offered abroad, this course is comprised of both a practical internship field component of 20 hours/week and a reflective and theoretical seminar component that together, are purposefully designed to challenge students to learn, to engage with, and develop fluency working within a multicultural context, while also strengthening the business competencies necessary to succeed in today’s workplace. Perhaps even more important, the course will cover areas vital to new graduates: job searching, how to present oneself and leveraging one's global and intercultural fluency. |
| Restrictions: Enrollment contingent upon timely internship application and successful interview with sponsoring organization. |
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| LLCU 208-075: Contemporary France I (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: CUL 350 CDG French Civilization and Culture |
An introduction to contemporary France, its culture, its people, their way of life and the issues confronting them. When taught in Paris, this course engages you in the life and culture of France’s capital city, Paris, in order to encounter, analyze and appreciate French society, culture and behavioral patterns. In this process, you will acquire knowledge of the main events, personalities and periods of the history of France and, importantly, of their ongoing influence over current French life and contemporary ideas. You will also survey the major institutions and power structures of French society and assess how they have changed over the last century. These you will investigate both in class and out in order to better identify and understand the principal ideological, political, social and cultural fault lines in France today.
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| Satisfies the following requirements: |
| | Arts and Sciences - Group B |
| Restrictions: taught in English; not for French major credit |
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| MATH 243-070: Analytic Geometry and Calculus C (4 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: MATH 245 CDG Calculus III |
In this course you will cover material dealing with functions of multivariable calculus. These mathematics are an important tool in science and engineering and an extensions of the concepts from first and second-semester calculus. The content of this course will thus focus on: curves and surfaces in Euclidean 3-space, length and curvature, area and volume; surfaces, partial derivatives, total differential, tangent planes to surfaces; gradient; vector-valued functions; path integral; Stokes’ theorem, Green’s Theorem, and Divergence Theorem.In addition to these cognitive and knowledge skills, students in this course will consider the contributions of the French in science, mathematics, technology, and engineering as well as explore practical applications of math and science to the field of engineering.
ONLY OFFERED FALL |
| Prerequisite: MATH 242 |
| Restrictions: Includes use of computers to perform symbolic, numerical and graphical analysis. Students must download UD's Mathematica software prior to departure and bring their laptop with them to Paris. |
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| MATH 302-070: Ordinary Differential Equations (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: MATH 350 CDG Differential Equations |
| Solutions and applications of ordinary differential equations as well as systems. Considers initial value problems and boundary value problems. Topics include Laplace transform, the phase plane, series solutions and partial differential equations. Includes use of computers to solve differential equations. |
| Prerequisite: MATH 243 - Analytic Geometry and Calculus C |
| Restrictions: Credit is not given for both MATH302 and either MATH 342, MATH 351 or MATH352. |
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| MEEG 241-070: Thermodynamics section 070 and 070D (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: ENGR 281 CDG Thermodynamics |
| Basic concepts of thermodynamics including properties of substances and gas mixtures, energy, entropy, and exergy. First and second law analysis of systems and control volumes. Applications to steady-flow devices and systems to power production, propulsion, and air conditioning. In Paris, you will have the opportunity to discuss in physical and quantitative terms the functioning of systems that are apparently complex and diverse such as a heat pump, a combustion engine, or a solar panel. You will explore situations that bring the predictive power of physics into play in unexpected and important situations such as in the energetics of a living cell and discuss ideas such as harnessing energy from the surroundings that continuously challenge engineers and are at the heart of our present energetic and environmental concerns and strategies. |
| Prerequisite: MATH 242 |
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| PHIL 204: World Religions (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: REL 310 World Religions |
Varieties of religious belief and practice from diverse cultures, includingrepresentative Asian and Western traditions, studied mainly in terms of theirhistorical development and importance.When taught in Paris, the course also pays close attention to the multicultural and multiethnic realities of contemporary Europe and France, in particular, by offering platforms for interfaith dialogue and special visits to la Mosquée de Paris and la Grande Synagogue de Paris.
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| Satisfies the following requirements: |
| | University Arts/Humanities Breadth |
| | Arts and Sciences - Group A |
| | Multicultural |
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| POSC 240-074: Introduction to Global Politics (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: IRS 331 Globalization: Politics, Culture & Governance |
| Introduction to key concepts and theories for understanding politics on a global level. Topics include the structure of the international system, causes of war and peace, economic globalization, international organizations and other issues and processes that cross national borders. |
| Satisfies the following requirements: |
| | Arts and Sciences - Group C |
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| POSC 309-070: Political Culture by Country: France (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: POL 362 Current Political Issues in France |
| Introduction to the political and civic cultures underpinning and supporting different political systems. Topics may vary depending on host country. |
| Satisfies the following requirements: |
| | Arts and Sciences - Group B |
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| POSC 445: Human Rights and World Politics (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: POL 350 Human Rights: Universal Principles in World Politics |
| Alternative theories of human rights examined in cross-cultural and international contexts. International documents, contemporary cases (e.g. France) and U.S. foreign policies also examined and evaluated. |
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| POSC 498-070: Capstone Internship (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: INT 430 - Global Internship Course |
| Capstone internship is an indepdent capstone experience defined by the enrolling student in consultation with a POSC department advisor. |
| Prerequisite: Enrollment contingent upon timely internship application and successful interview with sponsoring organization. |
| Satisfies the following requirements: |
| | Discovery Learning |
| Restrictions: By permission of the POSC department only. |
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| UNIV 364-073: Experiential Internship (3 credits) |
| Provider Equivalent: INT 430 - Global Internship Course |
| Internship experience of a minimum of fifty hours combined with a seminar emphasizing career development, reflection and personal assessment. Internship must be arranged and Learning Contract signed by internship supervisor prior to first class meeting. Open to major and non-major related internships. |
| Satisfies the following requirements: |
| | Discovery Learning |
| Restrictions: Class may be taken a second time for additional three elective credits with a different internship and a different instructor. May not substitute for major courses required in department curriculum. |
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| UNIV 373-017: Study Abroad - Paris English (0 credits) pass/fail |
| Students are asked to reflect upon changes in their knowledge, skills, and attitudes that occur due to their study abroad experience and are required to complete a brief post-program assessment of these changes. |
| Satisfies the following requirements: |
| | Discovery Learning |
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For all participants, a formal application is necessary, including at least one recommendation. An interview may be conducted in person or by Zoom.
A transcript is required from Non-UD applicants only. Non-UD students, please email a copy of your official transcript to the Program Coordinator.
Study abroad at the University of Delaware is highly competitive. Please review the study abroad acceptance process. If you are not selected for your first choice program, we encourage you to apply to another program. |
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Other important things to note:
- CGPS reserves the right to cancel a program at any time due to under-enrollment, safety/health/security issues, staffing issues, or any other relevant reason.
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| All charges, once posted to your account, are considered non-refundable. Payments are submitted through My Finances in UDSIS. |
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| Submit Program Application by 5pm on | TBD |
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| *All students will receive an email when they are accepted to a program and will have 10 days from that notification to make their $0.00 Initial Payment. |
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| Desirae Wright |
| Study Abroad Coordinator |
| 121 E Delaware Avenue, Newark, DE, 19716 |
| 302-831-4810 |
| wrightde@udel.edu |
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| Program information is subject to change at any time. Please check this web site periodically for updates. |
