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Knox College Program in Besancon, France
Location: France: Besancon
Term: Fall, Spring, Trimester, Academic Year
Dates: Inquire for specific dates
Knox College
Barcelona Program, K-224 Galesburg, IL 61401 United States
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Phone: (309) 341-7331
Fax: (309) 341-7824
Description
Besancon: The City. Located in the verdant Jura Mountains near Switzerland, two and one-half hours by train from Paris. Dijon and Strasbourg nearby. City of 130,000, noted for beautiful Renaissance and 18th-century architecture.
* Academic Program
Program begins with intensive plunge into French. Students then enroll in French courses for foreign students at Centre de Linguistique Applique part of Universite de Besancon. Full-year participants take courses at the University with French students. Selected courses offered specifically for Knox students.
* Special Features
Three-day orientation in mountain chalet on arrival. Knox College professor full-time resident director, oversees program including academic advising. Program office in heart of old city. Several cultural excursions, normally including Paris and the Loire Valley. Fees include: tuition; round-trip transportation from U.S.; arrival and departure transfers, USD 200 travel stipend for two-term and full-year students; all meals; home-stay followed by dormitory residence; excursions.
* Living Arrangements
For first month, all participants live with French families; then, in single rooms in French university housing.
Highlights
Besancon is particularly suited for the kind of experience we seek for our students: the smaller size of the city and the small number of Americans studying there allow for easier cultural exchanges and acquisition of language skills. The academic program in Besancon begins with an intensive plunge into French. All students are enrolled in a language program designed to bring their oral skills up to a level where they can communicate and understand the French they hear all around them. Participants are then enrolled both at the French university as well as in French courses for foreign students at the Centre de Linguistique Appliquee - (C.L.A). Full-year students as well as those enrolled for the fall/winter and winter/spring program take courses in both of these settings. Fall term students take most of their courses at the C.L.A. A few courses are organized especially for Knox students. One of these courses is centered on regional history and philosophy and features visits to local sites, such as the Utopian city constructed in the 18th century at Arc-et-Senans. The courses students take depend on their individual academic program. At least half of the students who go on the Knox Program are not French majors; these students usually take at least one course in their major field at the regular French university.
Degree Level
Bachelors Degree (Undergraduate)
Cost in US$:
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Cost Includes:
Cost Include Description:
Unlike those of many other programs, Knox's fees cover nearly all student expenses, including: living arrangements; meals and local bus transportation in Besancon; travel from the airport of arrival, with the group, to Besancon, as well as return travel to the airport educational trips a group insurance policy for payment of medical expenses up to USD 12,500; USD 200 to travel stipend for Christmas vacation (for fall/winter and full-year students) and USD 200 for the Easter vacation (for full-year and winter/spring students).
Credit Available
no
Participants Travel to France
Independently
Application Process Involves
- Letters of Reference
- Transcript
- Written Application
Typically The Application Process Time is
3 weeksYear Founded
1969
