Why Angers?   

• You will spend an entire semester studying in a program of the highest quality
• Your teachers will be friendly and helpful
•  You will study in small classes with students from Europe, Asia, and North America

• You'll be immersed in the French-speaking culture of historic Angers.
• You will live in a French home
• Your ability to speak and understand French will improve dramatically
• You will receive up to 15 ISU credits; most or all may be applicable to your major or minor.
• You will be within easy traveling distance of Paris, Bretagne, Normandie, and the Châteaux of the Loire Valley, not to mention all of France and Europe.
• You'll love it.

Where?  

• Centre International d'Etudes Françaises
  Université Catholique de l'Ouest
  Angers, France

When?    

• Two semester sessions:
  • September to December
  • February to early June  

What's it like?  

• You will arrive in Paris by plane, then take a train to Angers, where you will settle in in your French home
• You may take your meals at the Resto-U, a café, or a restaurant.
• You can also sign up to have some dinners with a famille d'accueil, which is a family that wants to meet international students
• On the first day of classes, you take a placement exam and are placed in a class with students who share your level of French
• intermédiaire I, II, III, or IV (most students will place in Intermédiaire II or III)
• avancé et supérieur (many levels)
• During the week, you study language in the morning and you take electives such as French society, culture, history,  phonetics, politics, literature, and government in the afternoon.
• Classes are taught entirely in French by French instructors.
• During the spring, students throughout the school present an annual show
• There are weekly programs in French culture -- music, dance, and movies – organized by graduate students

• There are organized trips to discothèques throughout the semester.
• You will participate in three Saturday excursions, to two châteaux de la Loire and one to St. Malo and Mont St.-Michel
• Activities are organized by the Student Club, the International Choir, the Ciné Club, the theatre class, and the CIDEF animateurs.  The Student Club also organizes travel during vacation periods.
• You may go windsurfing, swim, sail, and picnic at the Lac de Maine.
• Find great shopping in downtown Angers
• See French movies or American movies in French in the many movie theatres
• Go to museums, the Angers Cathedral, and its château
• Taste wines in Angers and throughout France
• Travel alone or with friends throughout France and Europe before, during, or after the semester 

For more information see, call, or write:

Professor Jim Reid
Department of Foreign Languages
Stevenson 215, 438-7894
jhreid@ilstu.edu

   For an application contact:

   Office of International Studies
   308 Fell Hall
   309 438-5276
    studyabroad@ilstu.edu
    www.internationalstudies.ilstu.edu