

IFE’s academic internship programs converge student desires for exciting experiences (as well as a chance to enhance their resumé) with their teachers’ desire for a serious learning exercise, through internship placements that are great places for research. Guided by their research advisor, students discover that their internship is really a field study opportunity, in addition to a chance to get to know France today in very real, familiar way. In the end, everyone’s goals are met: fascinating encounters, professional contacts, intellectual challenges…in short, a learning curve still steep several months out.
With long experience in introducing talented students to France today in stimulating and useful ways, IFE finds itself being asked to operate semester study abroad programs in Paris for US undergraduate institutions. Fall 2005 saw the re-launch of the Goucher Randolph Macon Paris Semester, now operated by IFE. For Fall 2006, IFE is spearheading an innovative one-semester program by Franklin and Marshall College for second-year students combining language learning with cultural learning, in the aim of preparing students for intensive language-based overseas programs in their third or fourth year.
