Study Abroad

Studying abroad is both an enriching intellectual experience and an opportunity for personal growth: immersion in a foreign culture offers an unmatched means to improve your language skills, and daily life within a foreign community provides leadership experience and cultural breadth essential for the increasingly connected global community. Students, specialists as well as non-specialists, are strongly encouraged to spend at least one semester studying outside the United States.

Study abroad programs are integral to the French and Francophone Studies academic program: FRST majors must attend a pre-approved semester-long program in a Francophone country; minors are strongly encouraged to attend a semester-long program or at least a pre-approved five-week intensive or six-week summer program in a Francophone country. We work closely with each student to understand academic interests and personal goals, and attempt to identify the program that best suits those needs. Please meet with the FRST section head or your advisor before applying to study abroad.

PRE-APPROVED SEMESTER-LONG PROGRAMS IN A FRANCOPHONE COUNTRY

1. All students may receive up to three credits in FRST for studying abroad, but to receive more than one credit the student must take at least one one-credit course in French at Swarthmore immediately upon return. This includes credits given for language instruction. Students should be aware that most study abroad programs require an advance level of French for admission, equivalent to French 15.
2. Majors may count up to three credits taken abroad towards satisfying their course requirements; minors may count up to two credits taken abroad towards satisfying their course requirements. These credits may not serve as the base for a major or minor Honors preparation.

Programs in FrancOPHONE EUROPE

• Academic Programs Abroad, Paris
• Internships in Francophone Europe (Paris, Marseilles, and Strasbourg)
• Middlebury - Paris (Middlebury Bordeaux and Poitiers - Petition only. Contact geo@swarthmore.edu)
• Smith College in Paris (full year only)
• Vassar-Wesleyan in Paris
• Wellesley in Aix
• SIT Switzerland: International Studies and Multilateral Diplomacy
• SIT Switzerland: Global Health and Development Policy

Programs in West Africa / North Africa

• APA: Multi-Country Program: France, Morocco, Senegal
• APA: Senegal
• Middlebury - Cameroon
• SIT Study - Morocco: Migration and Transnational Identity

SEMESTER PROGRAMS ABROAD IN A NON-FRANCOPHONE COUNTRY

The French section will grant a maximum of one credit for a course taken abroad, upon completion of a one-credit course in the French section at Swarthmore, taken immediately upon their return. This credit will not count towards major or minor requirements.

PRE-APPROVED 5-Week Intensive or 6-WEEK SUMMER PROGRAMS IN A FRANCOPHONE COUNTRY

1. The French section will grant all students a maximum of one credit for a course taken abroad, upon completion of a one-credit course in French, taken at Swarthmore immediately upon their return.
2. Only course minors may count this credit toward completion of the course requirements.

• Bryn Mawr in Avignon (Summer) For students with the equivalent of three years of college French.