University of Delaware Institute for Global Studies
Winter 2025: Paris, France BUAD micro

Program Dates January 06, 2025 - January 30, 2025
This program is closed.

Program Overview This program is highly competitive and will accept only a limited number of applicants. Interview appointments and acceptance decisions are at the discretion of the faculty director.

All applicants must have a valid passport by the program’s application deadline. Your passport’s expiration date must be more than six months after the program ends. If you do not have a current passport, apply through the U.S. State Department. It takes an average of 8-10 weeks (2-3 months) to process a passport.

Traveling and studying abroad during a global pandemic poses new challenges and requires accepting a higher level of uncertainty than in the past. Students who choose to study abroad at this time must be prepared to adapt to the evolving situation and must take responsibility to act in accordance with the rules, regulations, and recommendations of UD, their program leadership, and legal authorities of their home and host country. Due to the rapidly changing and unpredictable global and local response to COVID-19, these rules, regulations and recommendations are subject to change at any time.

The University will continue to monitor the ongoing situation with COVID-19 (coronavirus) as we approach the departure date for this program. Please reach out to your program coordinator or faculty director with questions and continue to monitor the UD coronavirus webpage for updates. If UD decides to cancel a study abroad program, we will communicate directly with affected students.

This program is focused on providing participants with experience in international business in continental Europe. We will run a mock trade mission where students interact with businesses and government officials who are engaged in international trade. It is run in tandem with the University Sorbonne Nouvelle whose students from the International Project Management program will engage with UD applicants in international business related activities in Paris and in an exchange trip to the United States in the fall semester before the January minimester.

This program is focused on providing participants with experience in international business in continental Europe. We will run a mock trade mission where students interact with businesses and government officials who are engaged in international trade. It is run in tandem with the University Sorbonne Nouvelle whose students from the International Project Management program will engage with UD applicants in international business related activities in Paris and in an exchange trip to the United States in the fall semester before the January minimester.

It is recommended that students take BUAD 425, Current Issues in Global Business in the Fall Semester to prepare for this trip. This program will be complimentary applied learning to courses in international business that most business majors must take (such as BUAD 384 or BUAD 386) and is designed to enhance a student's knowledge of the materials in those classes by providing direct experience with the types of businesses or organizations that are studied in both classes. (Note that neither BUAD 425, 384 nor 386 is a prerequisite for this program. However, this program will reference many ideas from those classes and thus participants in this program would benefit from taking them in the semester before and/or after) .


The emphasis will be on topics such as:
Political and economic environments facing business
Governmental Influence on Trade, competition, etc.
Marketing Globally
Tourism and hospitality
Export and import
International strategic choices and consequences,
Cultural competencies and constraints

Based in Paris, students will reside in double or single hotel rooms with some meals included. Cultural excursions will be done in addition to class and site visits. Many of those visits will overlap with the business aspect by looking into their operations.

This program is tailored to those interested in business management, marketing, hospitality and similar majors but will provide an experience in a historically important city and its surrounding region. There is ample opportunity for students to develop their own unique preferences within the program.

The Program Fee includes housing, all program-related events and excursions, some meals, in-country transportation and international medical insurance.

The Program Fee does NOT include round trip airfare to Paris nor airport transfers in the U.S. This program officially begins when students arrive in Paris. Students will receive detailed travel instructions after acceptance, explaining how and where to purchase their plane ticket. See the Cost section below for estimated airfare.

ACCESSIBILITY: Students with disabilities are welcomed and encouraged to study abroad, but should be aware that accessibility and accommodation in some program locations may differ from the United States. Transit systems and legacy building construction practices may not meet U.S. accessibility standards, and alternative access to public transportation, buildings, or public sites cannot be guaranteed. Review these questions with the Office of Disability Support Services to determine whether this program can meet your accommodation needs.

Courses: 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. All students must enroll in at least 3 credits, as well as the 0-credit UNIV course. 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
BUAD 391-070: Seminar on International Business Management (3 credits)
UNIV 370-234: Study Abroad - Paris BUAD (0 credits) pass/fail
Satisfies the following requirements:
  • Discovery Learning


Program Costs:

How much does it cost?.
Delaware ResidentNon-Delaware Resident
Final Tuition based on current year$1,824.00$4,899.00
Final Program Fee$5,400.00$5,400.00
UD Registration & Activities Fee$0.00$0.00
Total to be charged to UD account $7,224.00$10,299.00
Plus Airfare Estimate (purchased separately)$1,200.00$1,200.00

The rates above may not apply to you if you are a UD graduate student during the time you are studying abroad. Please refer to http://www1.udel.edu/finaid/rates.html for the appropriate rates.


When and how do I pay?
If you are offered acceptance to the program, you will have 3 days to withdraw without financial penalty. After the 3 days have passed, you will be officially accepted to the program, and IGS will post the full Program Fee and Tuition/Fees to your UD student account.

*All students will receive an email when they are accepted to a program and will have 10 days from that notification to make their $1,000.00 Initial Payment.


Contact Information:
Marie Gleason
Study Abroad Coordinator
Clayton Hall, 100 David Hollowell Drive, Newark, DE, 19716
302-831-6112
302-831-6042
mgleason@udel.edu
Ryan Sanders
Faculty Director
Business Administration
Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics
rsanders@udel.edu



Deadlines:
Submit Program Application by 5pm on September 20, 2024
Recommendation also due by 5pm on September 20, 2024
Acceptance and Scholarship Announced: October 02, 2024

Please note that this program is highly competitive and will accept only a limited number of applicants. Interview appointments and acceptance decisions are at the discretion of the faculty director.



Interest Meetings:
03/13/2024, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, Purnell 238
03/26/2024, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Zoom https://udel.zoom.us/my/ryansanders
04/01/2024, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, Purnell 238
04/11/2024, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, Zoom https://udel.zoom.us/my/ryansanders


Program information is subject to change at any time. Please check this web site periodically for updates.