Courses offered:
Prerequisite: ARCH 303. This studio emphasizes the role of architectural design in structuring sites with complex formal, historical, and cultural contexts. The required international architecture program experience will provide the basis for analytical and architectural-design projects in international contexts. Students will build upon content from previous studios, and will be introduced to the roles of contextual analysis and design in responding to complex urban and regional sites and issues. Offered spring semester.
3 credit hours
For beginners. Designed to develop, with FREN 102, an elementary proficiency in French. This course provides instruction for and assesses students’ reading, writing, speaking and listening and provides an introduction to the cultures and cultural practices of the French speaking world.
3 credit hours
In this internationally based course, specific study-abroad locations will be examined through disciplined observation, recording, and analysis of the diversity of practices, customs, histories, spatial organizations, and artistic production apparent in the particular study-abroad location. Students will employ written, graphic, and/or artistic methods appropriate to their major field(s) of study in order to observe and present responds to a given location and culture.
3 credit hours
In this internationally based course, students will develop foundational knowledge and understanding of how specific study-abroad locations are shaped by significant social, cultural, and historical forces and events. Particular emphasis will be given to examining how contemporary place-based qualities connect to broader historical contexts and cultural customs.
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: FUSE 320, FUSE 350, GREE 101; or FUSE 320, FUSE 350, FREN 101; or SOCI 360, FUSE 320, FUSE 350; or, PHIL 316, HIST 205, ENGL 212; or HIST 273, PLSC 312, RELG 202; or HIST 223, FREN 102, FREN 201. This course will allow students to engage their study-abroad experience and coursework to respond to focused issues relevant to the study-abroad location and culture. Students will devise project-based responses expressed through written and/or creative projects.
Program Dates: January 18 – May 14, 2022
Program fee: $8,745
Includes: program-related ground transportation (bus/metro pass), accommodation in shared student apartment (twin or triple room), most museum entrance and activity fees, group meals, field trip(s), health insurance, and a $200 refundable housing security deposit. Administrative fees, general program costs, and faculty expenses.
Estimated Tuition and Fees: your usual tuition and fee charges for a semester
Estimated Personal Expenses: $6,455
Includes: $75/day food and personal expenses, round-trip airfare and passport fees.
Please Note: These estimated expenses vary greatly depending on personal eating, travel and living preferences and can be brought down significantly below this estimate.
Program total estimated costs: $15,000
Program Fee Payment Deadlines
Enrollment in the program is limited and is based on good academic standing with the Dean of Students office and payment of deposit. Payments can be made by check, made out to Drury University (please add “Paris 2022/Arne-Blunk” on memo line) and paid in the Business office in Burnham 100, or on-line through your My Drury account. Be sure you receive a receipt.
For more information, please contact:
Prof. Marshal Arne
Assoc. Professor of Architecture
marne@drury.edu
(417) 873-7421
Dr. Cathy Blunk
Assoc. Professor of French
cblunk@drury.edu
(417) 873-7430
