This program has been approved as part of a Fusion International Immersion Certificate. For further information on International Immersion Certificates please visit: https://www.drury.edu/admission/themed-certificates-credentials/.
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.
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: FREN 101
Intensive study of French at the elementary level, undertaken as part of a Drury sponsored travel experience in a French-speaking country. Students can fulfill the foreign language requirement by passing FREN 101 and this course.
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: FREN 101, FREN 102
Intensive study of French at the intermediate level or above, undertaken as part of a Drury sponsored travel experience in a French‐speaking country.
Program Dates: February 28 – May 10, 2024
Program fee: $9,721
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, $100 refundable housing security deposit, administrative fees and faculty expenses.
Estimated Tuition and Fees: your usual tuition and fee charges for a semester
Estimated Personal Expenses: $6,455
Includes: $1200 for round-trip airfare, $50/day meals & incidentals and $1450 for additional personal expenses. Please Note: These estimated expenses can vary greatly depending on personal eating, travel and living preferences and can be brought down significantly below this estimate.
Program Fee Only Payment Deadlines:
April 14, 2023: a non-refundable/non-transferable deposit of $400 must be paid to Drury University in the HSA office by this date by check or cash
October 1, 2023: a non-refundable/non-transferable Program Fee balance payment of $9,321 must be paid to Drury University by this date
For check payments: check made out to Drury University (please add “Paris, Spring 2024” on memo line) and pay in the Business office in Burnham 100.
Enrollment in the program is limited and is based on good academic standing with the Dean of Students and the Provost’s office.
For more information, please contact:
Prof. Marshal Arne
Assoc. Professor, Architecture
marne@drury.edu
(417) 873-7421
Dr. Cathy Blunk
Assoc. Professor, French
cblunk@drury.edu
(417) 873-7430
