Professors pleased with "experience" of academic rigor

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.

IFE’s local-contact expertise solicited for new study abroad programs

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.

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My first Byline, from Paris

If enrollment in the Paris Field Study and Internship Program is any indication, future journalists are also training as global citizens. IFE’s response to this trend: while perfecting French and figuring out France, why not also work in one’s future field? Le Monde, Reuters TV News, Marie-Claire Magazine, the media center of the Ministry of the Interior, these are some of the organizations US journalism students have used not only to hone their trade but also to expand their view of the world. ...

A City’s Footprint

Environmental Studies majors who lack French skills must surely be green – this time with envy – at what their French-speaking classmates are able to get into in France, through IFE’s Field Study and Internship programs. As the collective sense of urgency on ecological questions grows, ...

Update from Lima: Street-level media with High-Schoolers

In a previous issue of this letter, we reported on the post-IFE projects of "Frances K" (Frances Kvietok, IFE Spring 09, Swarthmore College ’10), focused on minority education in Peru. With her BA in hand, she is back at it, this time in the Lima metropolitan area, ...

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An American on Board (IFE’S Board)

IFE is proud and pleased to announce that Lisa Gasbarrone, Professor of French at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, as well as Director of International Studies at F&M, has agreed to serve as member of IFE’s Conseil d’Administration or Board of Directors. ...