Spending a summer immersed in French language study is the best way to perfect your accent, improve your vocabulary, practice your grammar, absorb the culture, and keep your mind sharp for the beginning of the Fall school semester. Not only do you get to enjoy your summer in a beautiful location mingling with wonderfully hospitable Francophones, but you will also earn valuable course credit and impress your fellow UMD students with your newly acquired skills.

In order for your French summer experience to count for UMD class credit, students should discuss their study abroad plans with a member of the French faculty. They must pick up the study abroad packet from the Advising Center, or download it from the Advising Center Website.

 

Students can choose to travel abroad or take any number of summer immersion programs, right here in the USA.

Please do your own careful research of the respective summer schools, as The Boivin Center assumes no responsibility for quality of the these programs.

Here is a sampling of the enormous variety of intensive French summer programs that exist:

Within the U.S.
Middlebury, VT - Middlebury College
http://www.middlebury.edu/ls/french

Cambridge, MA - Harvard University
http://www.dce.harvard.edu/summer/2004/courses/fren.jsp

Ann Arbor, MI - University of Michigan Summer Language Institute
http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/sli/pdfs/Appin2004.pdf

Berkely, CA - University of California
http://french.berkeley.edu/courses/courses.php?semester=8

Outside the U.S. - Canada
Québec City, Canada - Université Laval
http://www.fl.ulaval.ca/elv/anglais/an_set_an_sect2.html

Montreal, Canada - through Eurolingua Institute
http://www.eurolingua.com/French_in_Canada.htm

Ottawa, Canada - through Capital Language Centres
http://www.clcanada.com/en/main.html

Outside the U.S. - Overseas
Brussels, Belgium - through Amira Language School
http://www.amira.be

Leysen, Switzerland - through CP Language Institutes
http://www.cp-languages.com

Paris, France - through Accord Language Schools
http://www.french-paris.com/uk/info/school.php#summer

Montpellier, France - through SUNY@Albany
http://www.albany.edu/studyabroad/programs/france.htm

Nice, France - through Languages Abroad.com
http://www.languagesabroad.com/countries/nice.html

Cannes, France - through Institut Grand Bleu
http://www.grand-bleu.net/summer/index.htm

Bordeaux, France - through Amerispan
http://www.amerispan.com/language_schools/ProgramDetail.asp?Program_ID=3570

Loire Valley, France - through Immersion France
http://www.immersionfrance.co.uk/if_courses.htm

French Riviera, in the Med - through French Language Holidays
http://www.frenchlanguageholidays.com

Ile de Re, France - through France Pass
http://francepass.online.fr/od_int.html

Sancerre, France - through Coeur de France
http://www.coeurdefrance.com

Roanne, France - through Ecole de Trois Ponts
http://www.3ponts.edu/french-courses/french.htm

Normandy, France - through the Center for Study Abroad
http://www.centerforstudyabroad.com/intensive_french_in_normandy.asp

Aix-en-Provence, France - through French-American Exchange
http://www.frenchamericanexchange.com/semester/aix.html

Grenoble, France - through Boston University
http://www.bu.edu/abroad/countries/france_summer/index.html

Taillores, France (French Alps) - through Tufts University
http://ase.tufts.edu/frenchalps/tuftsintalloires.htm