French

This course discovers various representations of India through the cross-study of literary and cinematographic works of the twentieth century. Students read works including A BARBARIAN IN ASIA by Henri Michaux and A CERTAIN IDEA OF ​​INDIA by Alberto Moravia; and view works including ABOARD THE DARJEELING LIMITED by Wes Anderson and the documentary by Louis Malle, GHOST INDIA.

This course demonstrates how computers can be used as a tool and a medium in the domain of the arts. The first half of this course focuses on the basics of Adobe Photoshop including photo manipulation, keyboard shortcuts, and an introduction to gif making. The second half focuses on Adobe Illustrator and an introduction to paper layout and typography. The objective of the second half of class is to understand Illustrator well enough to create and design a new logo and a new music album cover.

The extensive independent study field research paper produced by the student is both the centerpiece of the intern's professional engagement and the culmination of the academic achievements of the semester. During the preparatory session, IFE teaches the methodological guidelines and principles to which students are expected to adhere in the development of their written research. Students work individually with a research advisor from their field. The first task is to identify a topic, following guidelines established by IFE for research topic choice. The subject must be tied in a useful and complementary way to the student-intern's responsibilities, as well as to the core concerns of the host organization. The research question should be designed to draw as much as possible on resources available to the intern via the internship (data, documents, interviews, observations, seminars and the like). Students begin to focus on this project after the first 2-3 weeks on the internship. Each internship agreement signed with an organization makes explicit mention of this program requirement, and this is the culminating element of their semester. Once the topic is identified, students meet individually, as regularly as they wish, with their IFE research advisor to generate a research question from the topic, develop an outline, identify sources and research methods, and discuss drafts submitted by the student. The research advisor also helps students prepare for the oral defense of their work which takes place a month before the end of the program and the due date of the paper. The purpose of this exercise is to help students evaluate their progress and diagnose the weak points in their outline and arguments. Rather than an extraneous burden added to the intern's other duties, the field research project grows out of the internship through a useful and rewarding synergy of internship and research. The Field Study and Internship model results in well-trained student-interns fully engaged in mission-driven internships in their field, while exploring a critical problem guided by an experienced research advisor.

This is a beginner level French language course for students who have previously completed one or two semesters of French. The course focuses on understanding commonly used vocabulary words and very frequent expressions concerning oneself, the family, and the concrete environment, provided that people speak slowly and distinctly. It covers common names and words as well as very simple sentences, for example those in advertisements, posters, and catalogs. The course builds skills to communicate in a simple way, ask and answer simple questions about familiar subjects or objects of immediate need, use expressions and simple sentences to describe where one lives and the people one knows; and write short, simple postcards and provide personal details on a questionnaire or hotel registration form. Topics include adjectives, possessive and demonstrative pronouns, recent past, past tense, and imperfect past; expressions of time, start, end, intervals, length, interrogative, imperative, present conditional, comparative and superlative, future, near, and simple.