PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS AND GENERAL INFORMATION

• Minimum 2.75 G.P.A. 
• Open to beginning, intermediate, advanced and superior level French speakers  
• Open to freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors
• Completed API application
• One letter of recommendation
• One official transcript
• Advisor signature form
• Classes taught in French
• Housing: local host families, dorms, and studettes
• Meals: host families and/or CROUS meal stipend card
• Entry requirements: valid passport with student visa
• Direct enroll in classes with French students - superior level semester or year students only

TOTAL CREDITS AVAILABLE PER TERM

• Quarter 13 semester credits
• Semester 15 semester credits

EXCURSIONS

SPRING STUDENTS

• Champagne
• Chantilly
• Giverny and Normandy Coast
• Loire Valley
• Provence
• Versailles

FALL STUDENTS

• Chartres
• Chantilly
• Roussillon
• Normandy, Mont Sait-Michel and Saint-Michel
• Versailles

ACADEMIC PROGRAM

API students take classes in the Department for French Language and Culture Studies (Institut de Langue et de Cultures Française) at the Institut Catholique de Paris. Students select classes in the following disciplines:

French Language 

• Grammar, Oral French, Written French, Phonetics

Culture and Civilization (INTERMEDIATE LEVEL AND HIGHER)

• Fine Arts, Cinema, Communication, Culture, History, Geography, Literature, Philosophy

Business French (INTERMEDIATE LEVEL AND HIGHER)

• Communication in a professional context

• Preparation for the certificates and diplomas of the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry Art History

• Preparation for the entrance examination to the École du Louvre - The ILCF is partner of the Louvre Museum

• Preparation for University studies in Art History ILCF - Français Langue Étrangère

Depending upon their language placement, students will complete either language and phonetics courses or language, phonetics and civilization courses. Course registration will take place prior to arrival, after students have completed their language placement exams. These exams consist of an online exam taken before they arrive (which provides an assessment of each students’ projected language level), followed by a placement exam administered on-site (to confirm their language level).

QUARTER STUDENTS Students complete a maximum of 13 total credit hours for the term. Given the shorter duration of the quarter program, quarter students must complete 18 hours of class each week in order to earn 13 credit hours.

SEMESTER STUDENTS  Students complete a maximum of 15 total credit hours per semester, requiring 15 hours of class each week. Fall semester students are advised that classes are held through the end of January.

TRANSCRIPTS

Students receive a transcript from the Institut Catholique de Paris.