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Practice French at NYU Paris

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At the New York University in Paris, you’ll practice your French language skills while being immersed in French culture. If you’re a beginning French language learner, you’ll take courses taught in both French and English, but if you have French language experience, you’ll take all of your courses in French.

Courses include Writing Paris and France and the European Union: Europe in Crisis. NYU’s academic center is located in the Latin Quarter, a vibrant neighborhood known for its rich culture, relaxed atmosphere, and intellectual history. Opportunities vary based on local restrictions. Visit the NYU Paris website for the most up-to-date information.

Program Highlights

Take advantage of staff-planned trips to places like the Domaine de Chantilly, Giverny, the Palace of Versailles, Marseille, the Loire Valley, and Mont-Saint-Michel.

Visit the Louvre and the Musée Picasso and attend Parisian opera, ballet, and theatre performances during class trips .

Do a for-credit or noncredit internship in the arts, fashion, journalism, marketing and public relations, technology, tourism and hospitality, or translation.

Get involved through volunteering opportunities in the local community.

Take courses at French universities like University of Paris, the Paris Institute of Political Studies, and Dauphine University.

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Paris and its beauty

MBHenderson

Great program! Wonderful professors and great classes. I got to go to all the museums in Paris with my art history class in French and study Parisian architecture with another class.

Not about the academics, but incredible experience

Elizabeth - France

NYU in Paris offers you the option of taking classes at a French university in the city, which sounds pretty cool. I discourage against doing this - it is a hassle to communicate with the French professors in these universities and the grading systems are very different than what is used in...

My experience in Paris was some of the best...

Marissa D'Ambra - France

My experience in Paris was some of the best few months of my life. The independence of NYUs program was exactly what I was looking for.

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NYU Paris’ suburban dorms show students the real Paris

Studying abroad should help students experience a new culture, not a new NYU bubble. When I was assigned to a suburban dorm, I learned to love the city even more.

Suhail Gharaibeh

Two new residence halls at the NYU Paris site, La Defense and Bagnolet, are a 40-minute train ride to the city center. Although the distance initially bothered some students, others are enjoying a departure from the NYU bubble. (Staff Photo by Suhail Gharaibeh)

Stephanie Farmer , Staff Writer March 22, 2022

PARIS — NYU students are city people through and through. Students on the New York City campus thrive in the urban setting, walking out of the classroom into the ever-present rush of people. Most students didn’t apply to NYU for frat parties, grass lawns or small college towns. However else one might categorize NYU, one thing is certain — it is not a suburban school.

Even beyond the New York City location, all of NYU’s study abroad sites are designed to immerse you in the heart of an international city. For example, NYU Paris, which is where I’m studying this semester, is just down the street from Notre Dame Cathedral. The centrality of all of NYU’s locations is the institution’s main selling point, so you can imagine students’ frustration when most of them were forced to become commuters.

Twenty days before NYU students arrived in Paris, the NYU Paris residential life office announced that two new dorms were being added to the original set of housing options. Because the new dorms were announced about a month after the original housing application was due, students had already decided between the two original options. These were both on the campus of Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, a huge college in Paris that brings together students from all over the world, located on the edge of the city. Since NYU makes it nearly impossible to live off campus, which would be cheaper and closer to its academic buildings, the students expected to live in one of these two dorms. 

However, once the two new dorms were added, everything changed. Students who were initially excited to live on the outskirts of the city were now being told there was a chance they would not live at Cité Universitaire, and would instead have to live a 40-minute metro ride from campus. The two new dorms, La Défense and Bagnolet, stand on opposite sides of Paris. La Défense is located in the financial district of Paris, full of stockbrokers and the local Parisian Sternie. Bagnolet is a neighborhood full of families located on the outskirts of Paris. It's the very last stop on the 3 Metro line, and the residents seem to speak very little English.

There were a lot of complaints about the housing situation, and the NYU Paris administration quickly stumbled to apologize. There were Zoom meetings with Paris and New York’s housing teams, promises of priority in the future and the classic NYU gift card for free food — reminiscent of the GrubHub mania that occurred during quarantines. 

When I received my assignment to live at Bagnolet, I was nervous. The thought of going to a continent that I had never been to before with only one semester of the language under my belt and trying to navigate the suburbs terrified me. But when I arrived, I started to see things differently.

After nearly a month in Paris, I have to betray my pro-city stance and advocate for this suburban dorm. Studying abroad is about immersion, culture and escaping one’s comfort zone — living in an NYU bubble is the opposite of that. These unique dorms force residents to interact with native French speakers and encourage you to see more of the city — and some might even say they’re spacious.

Dorms like Bagnolet and La Defense are filled with people from every walk of life. The chance of your next-door neighbor being an NYU student is very small. When you ride the elevators, you learn the customs of the “bonjour” and “bonne journée” which follow every encounter here. 

CAS senior Julia Yang has experienced this firsthand. A computer science major spending her last semester at NYU Paris, she originally planned on living in Maison de l'Île-de-France and spending time in the city center. However, the banlieue, or suburb, of Bagnolet gives her the opportunity to participate in one of her favorite hobbies: badminton. Outside of the city, there is green space and room for outdoor activities that city residents don't have access to. Because Yang lived in the suburbs, she was able to join a local team near her dorm.

“The clubs in Paris fill up fast,” Yang said. “But luckily there was still space [in Bagnolet], and it's been a great way to practice badminton and French at the same time.”

At the heart of the city, students who were assigned to the original housing at Cité Universitaire have been disappointed. One Steinhardt junior living in MIDF, who wished to remain anonymous, experienced the worst part of city living — maintenance issues. After only two days in the dorm, the shower drain flooded her entire bathroom and leaked into the hallway. The issue continued for a week; she was unable to use the shower, and green gunk began to ooze out of the drain and stink up her whole room. A week later she was moved into a new area on the Cité Universitaire campus and repeatedly told to wait to see what would happen. 

It caused her immense anxiety to worry about the puddle of water that might be waiting for her every time she returned to her dorm. During the ordeal, NYU offered little help. The student was forced to handle the issue on her own, made only more difficult by the language barrier. All of this sent her over the edge.

“I don't like to make a scene,” the junior said. “But I was so frustrated, so mad.”

The issue was a huge disappointment and an incredible hurdle for her to handle on top of the culture shock and other challenges that students face when they move to a new country. She had asked for the comfort MIDF promised to provide but was instead met by anxiety, isolation and instability.

Because NYU students pay much more for university than most local Parisians, we expect to be treated with NYU-level maintenance, security and convenience. However, there was no one to help this student on weekends with the possibly dangerous scenario of a flooded living space. In one of the many NYU housing apology sessions following the initial housing announcement, we were promised 24/7 security, so it was shocking for the student to find empty reception desks with no help in sight. 

“[Bagnolet is] a better deal for the price,” Yang said. 

She also mentioned that the rooms are significantly bigger — and with NYU’s hefty price tag, just a little bit of extra space goes a long way. 

So yes, although my bedroom is lit by the arches of the McDonald's across the street, when I look past it I can see the very tip of the Eiffel tower shimmering at night, its light shining into my room and over the entirety of Paris. I get to watch it from a distance and see Paris as more than just a playground for American students to devour for a semester. Over time, we all come to appreciate the train rides to campus and the beauty of the city beyond the comfortable city center. This is the true study abroad experience. Every day, I see a normal Paris.

Contact Stephanie Farmer at [email protected] .

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Published July 31, 2023

Study Away at NYU: Lifelong Global Learning

Cindy Nowicki

Associate Director of Content Strategy and Development

When students reflect on their study away journeys, it’s often the everyday things that stand out: conversing with locals in their host country’s language for the first time, learning to navigate their new city, or realizing they finally felt at home in their adopted culture. Through NYU’s global network of 15 locations on six continents, you have the chance to study away for a semester, a year, a January Term , or a Summer Session . You’ll find that global lessons are possible around every corner. It’s all part of the NYU experience.

Here’s what students shared when we asked them about their most memorable moments studying away.

“One of my most memorable experiences was leaving the city of Accra to visit the Western Region of Ghana. This was a special experience for me while studying at NYU Accra because I got a new perspective on Ghana and connected with nature.”

Jesiah Matthews , Sociology, College of Arts and Science, 2023

NYU Buenos Aires

“I remember sitting on the grass in a park near my flat and striking up a conversation in Spanish with my neighbor. It was a moment when I felt I was beginning to feel settled in the city. I had an hour-long conversation in Spanish, which was a personal accomplishment. It was a small but significant shift during my time at NYU Buenos Aires .”

Giulia Nagle , Nursing, Rory Meyers College of Nursing, 2024

“My most memorable experience from studying away at NYU London was going to Glastonbury during a school-wide cultural programming trip. We explored King Arthur’s rumored burial grounds and hiked up Glastonbury Tor.”

Lucy Rapfogel , Global Liberal Studies, Liberal Studies, 2025

NYU Los Angeles

“Sitting on La Jolla Cove, literally 10 feet away from the seals, which are my favorite animals in the world. It’s very important for me to be constantly immersed in nature, and that was one of the deciding factors in choosing to study away at NYU Los Angeles . California’s mountains, parks, beaches, and lakes were such a rejuvenating part of my semester.”

Shahad Hamwi , Film and New Media, NYU Abu Dhabi, 2023

“One of my most memorable moments was a hike organized by NYU Madrid staff. It was toward the beginning of my semester away so I did not know many people. Nevertheless, we had the best time—I laughed the entire time. That’s when I first started to get to know the NYU Madrid community.”

Alexia Ramos , Sport Management, School of Professional Studies, 2023

“There is simply too much to choose from. Every single metro ride, cultural visit, lunch in the park, discussion in class, and yes, walk along the Seine, is part of a four-month-long moment at NYU Paris that was nothing short of special.”

Joanna Orphanide , Literature and Creative Writing, NYU Abu Dhabi, 2023

“I’ll never forget the time my classmates and I programmed a concert for the Prague Symphony Orchestra. Our professor coached us along the way as we designed an experience to introduce young audiences to classical music in a more accessible environment. The opportunity at NYU Prague  for a bunch of college students to work with a professional philharmonic is hard to come by anywhere else!”

Joey Duke , Music Education, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, 2024

NYU’s Global Network

In addition to NYU’s degree granting campuses in New York City, Abu Dhabi , and Shanghai , students can choose to study at any of these global academic locations around the world:

Accra, Ghana Berlin, Germany Buenos Aires, Argentina Florence, Italy London, England Los Angeles, US Madrid, Spain Paris, France Prague, Czech Republic Sydney, Australia Tel Aviv, Israel Washington, DC, US

Learn more about study away at NYU.

Cindy Nowicki is a writer and content strategist in NYU’s Office of Marketing Communications. She enjoys meeting with students to learn about their experiences and telling the stories of all the wonderful things happening at NYU. Cindy holds a BA in English from the University of Richmond and studied English literature at the University of Bristol, England. A Brooklyn native, she still discovers new things about New York City every day. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two young sons.

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Writers in Paris

On this page: Costs | Academics | Courses and Syllabi | Housing and Meals | Excursions | Planning Travel | Faculty

2024 Program Dates

Student Arrival: Friday, May 24, 2024 Student Departure: Saturday, June 22, 2024 *Please note that housing is provided for the exact dates of the program. If a student wishes to arrive earlier or depart later, the student will need to find their own accommodations.

Program Summary

Writers in Paris students choose to focus on poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction, and attend daily writing workshops, craft seminars, and literary readings and events. Writing and reading assignments are designed to encourage immersion in the city. For example, poets might visit the Louvre to write ekphrastic poems or create Parisian street sonnets by taking a 14-block walk of the St. Denis area, where François Villon lived, and generating a line of poetry per block. Fiction writers might study dialogue by listening for overheard speech at a sidewalk café or learn about description and setting by writing a story set in the neighborhood where Hemingway lived and worked.

“I made connections with some of the best poets, writers and editors in the world.”

Application Deadlines

Application Opens - December 1

General Deadline - March 1

Rolling Admissions - April 15 (Pending space availability)

Final Confirmation - April 30

Program Director

Deborah Landau Professor and Director, Creative Writing Program, NYU

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Tuition and Fees

Tuition , Fees, Housing and International Insurance are required, and these rates are set by NYU.

PLEASE NOTE: Students are responsible for purchase of transportation to/from program location. All students participating in the program are required to live in NYU-provided housing. Students are encouraged to budget for summer abroad programs based on individual needs. Additional resources for planning are available on the Additional Costs and Financial Assistance pages.

All courses are taught in English. All students must register for 8 undergraduate credits.

Coursework consists of alternating afternoons of craft seminars and writing workshops. Evenings feature readings, lectures, panel discussions, and special events. The schedule includes time for writing, reading, and exploring Paris, and the program culminates in a celebratory reading showcasing student work. Students must register for one of the following courses:

This course is comprised of a writing workshop, craft seminar, and nightly literary events. Students work closely with two accomplished world-class writers—one in the context of the writing workshop, and another in the context of the craft seminar.

Workshops provide students with guidance on the art of revision, as well as with experience giving and receiving feedback. Individual private conferences supplement coursework, and each student submits a final portfolio of writing at the end of the program.  Sample Fiction Workshop Syllabus (PDF)

In the craft seminars—literature courses taught by writers for writers—students study great works of literature in order to learn how to create their own. Emphasis is on close reading and the basic elements of craft. Fiction writers consider stories and novels with a focus on the basic techniques of fiction, including plot, narrative, dialogue, tone, structure, rhythm, setting, and style.  Sample Fiction Craft Syllabus (PDF)

Students also attend a nightly series of readings, lectures, panel discussions, publishing forums, and special events. These events feature program faculty as well as international visiting writers, teachers, and editors.

Workshops provide students with guidance on the art of revision, as well as with experience giving and receiving feedback. Individual private conferences supplement coursework, and each student submits a final portfolio of writing at the end of the program.  Sample Poetry Workshop Syllabus (PDF)

In the craft seminars—literature courses taught by writers for writers—students study great works of literature in order to learn how to create their own. Emphasis is on close reading and the basic elements of craft. Poetry students read exemplary poems and study voice, style, line, image, music, metaphor, syntax, and diction.  Sample Poetry Craft Syllabus (PDF)

Workshops provide students with guidance on the art of revision, as well as with experience giving and receiving feedback. Individual private conferences supplement coursework, and each student submits a final portfolio of writing at the end of the program.  Sample Creative Non-fiction Workshop Syllabus (PDF)

In the craft seminars—literature courses taught by writers for writers—students study great works of literature in order to learn how to create their own. Emphasis is on close reading and the basic elements of craft. Creative non-fiction writers consider stories and novels with a focus on the basic techniques of creative non-fiction, including plot, narrative, dialogue, tone, structure, rhythm, setting, and style.  Sample Creative Non-fiction Craft Syllabus (PDF)

Monday - Thursday

3:00pm - 5:30pm: Alternating days of workshops and craft seminars

7:00pm - 9:00pm: Readings, talks, and special events

Housing and Meals

All students participating in the program are required to live in NYU-provided housing.

Students will have the option to live at either Montsouris or Maison de l’Île-de-France (MIF) at Cité Universitaire**. Montsouris is a fully refurbished, NYU-dedicated residence in the 13th arrondissement featuring apartment-style single bedrooms and studios that all include a private bathroom and kitchenette. MIF is a 100% éco self-sufficient, brand new building featuring apartment-style single bedrooms with private bathrooms and shared kitchens. Please note there is no meal plan or dining hall.

**Availability at Maison de l’Île-de-France is limited.

Some of the information on this page may not be summer specific.

Program activities include a weekly schedule of literary readings, talks, and panels; a dinner cruise on the Seine; and visits to parks, restaurants, cafés, and historic neighborhoods where famous writers have lived and worked.

Planning Travel to Paris

Students are encouraged to consult internal and external resources to prepare for their summer program. The following links may be used for general destination information, immigration needs and travel medicine planning:

• U.S. State Department Travel Information for France
• All admitted and confirmed students should consult  The NYU Office of Global Services  for immigration support
• CDC Health Information for Travelers to France
• NYU students may consult the  NYU Student Health Center for Travel Medicine information and appointments

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DEBORAH LANDAU  (Director) is the author of four collections of poetry:  Soft Targets  (winner of the 2019 Believer Book Award),  The Uses of the Body  and  The Last Usable Hour , all Lannan Literary Selections from Copper Canyon Press, and  Orchidelirium , selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the Robert Dana Anhinga Prize for Poetry. Her other awards include a Jacob K Javits Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.  The Uses of the Body  was featured on NPR's All Things Considered, and included on "Best of 2015" lists by  The New Yorker ,  Vogue ,  BuzzFeed , and  O, The Oprah Magazine , among others. A Spanish edition was published by Valparaiso Edicíones in 2017. Her work has appeared in  The New Yorker ,  The Paris Review ,  American Poetry Review ,  Poetry ,  The Wall Street Journal ,  The New York Times ,  CNN , and  The Best American Poetry , and included in anthologies such as  Resistance, Rebellion, Life: 50 Poems Now, Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation ,  Not for Mothers Only ,  The Best American Erotic Poems , and  Women's Work: Modern Poets Writing in English . Landau was educated at Stanford University, Columbia University, and Brown University, where she received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature. She is a tenured full Professor and Director of the Creative Writing Program at NYU.

CATHERINE BARNETT  (Poetry) is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, and a Pushcart Prize. Her first book,  Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced , won the 2003 Beatrice Hawley Award and was published in spring 2004 by Alice James Books. Her second,  The Game of Boxes  (Graywolf Press), was the winner of the 2012 James Laughlin Award. Barnett has taught at Barnard, the New School, and NYU, where she was honored with an Outstanding Service Award. Photo © by Jacqueline Mia Foster.

NATHAN ENGLANDER  (Fiction) is the author of the novels Dinner at the Center of the Earth , The Ministry of Special Cases , and the story collections For the Relief of Unbearable Urges and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank , winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His books have been translated in twenty languages, and his short fiction widely anthologized, most recently in 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories. Englander's play, The Twenty-Seventh Man , was produced at The Public Theater in 2012, and at The Old Globe in San Diego in 2015. He translated the New American Haggadah , and cotranslated Etgar Keret's Suddenly, a Knock on the Door . In 2017, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Binghamton University. He is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at New York University, and a columnist for Italy’s La Stampa newspaper. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter.

ALEX DIMITROV  (Poetry) is the author of three books of poems,  Love and Other Poems ,  Together and by Ourselves , and  Begging for It . His poems have been published in  The New Yorker , the  New York Times ,  The Paris Review , and  Poetry.  In addition to NYU, he has taught writing at Princeton University, Columbia University, and Barnard College. Previously, he was the Senior Content Editor at the Academy of American Poets, where he edited the popular series  Poem-a-Day  and  American Poets  magazine. With Dorothea Lasky he is the co-author of  Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac.  He lives in New York.

KATIE KITAMURA  (Fiction) is a critic and novelist living in New York City. She is the author of  Gone to the Forest  and  The Longshot , both of which were finalists for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. Her newest novel,  A Separation , was published in February 2017. A recipient of a Lannan Residency Fellowship, Kitamura has written for  The New York Times, The Guardian, Grana, BOMB, Triple Canopy , and is a regular contributor to  Frieze .

HARI KUNZRU  (Creative Nonfiction) is a Clinical Professor in the Creative Writing Program. He holds a BA in English Language and Literature from Oxford University and an MA in Philosophy and Literature from Warwick University. He is the author of six novels, including  White Tears , a finalist for the PEN Jean Stein Award, the Kirkus Prize, the Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, One Book New York, the Prix du Livre Inter étranger, and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His latest novel  Red Pill  was published in 2020 by Knopf.

He is also the author of  The Impressionist ,  Transmission, My Revolutions, Gods Without Men  and a short story collection,  Noise . His novella  Memory Palace  was presented as an exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2013. His work has been translated into over twenty languages. His short stories and essays have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Guardian, New York Review of Books, Granta, Bookforum, October and Frieze . He has written screenplays, radio drama, and experimental work using field recordings and voice-to-text software. He has taught at Hunter College and Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. He has been a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library, a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin. He is a past deputy president of English PEN, a judge for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize and has been a frequent presenter, interviewer and guest on television and radio.

RAVEN LEILANI's  (Fiction) debut novel  Luster  (2020) was awarded the Kirkus Prize, Dylan Thomas Prize, NBCC John Leonard Prize, VCU Cabell First Novel Prize, Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, among others. Her work has been published in  Granta ,  The Yale Review ,  McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern ,  Conjunctions ,  The Cut , and  New England Review , among other publications. Leilani received her MFA from NYU and was an Axinn Foundation Writer-in-Residence. She was also selected as a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. In 2022 she served as the John Grisham Fellow at the University of Mississippi and teaches creative writing at NYU.

PARUL SEHGAL  (Creative Nonfiction) is a staff writer at  The New Yorker . She was previously a columnist and senior editor at  The New York Times Book Review  and a book critic   for  The New York Times.  Her work has appeared in  The Atlantic, Slate, Bookforum, The New Yorker, Tin House,  and  The Literary Review,  among other publications, and she was awarded the Nona Balakian Award from the National Book Critics Circle for her criticism.

DARIN STRAUSS  (Fiction) is the internationally bestselling author of the novels  Chang and Eng, The Real McCoy ,  More Than it Hurts You , the NBCC-winning memoir,  Half a Life , the comic-book series,  Olivia Twist,  and most recently the acclaimed novel,  The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story  (Random House, 2020). A recipient of a National Book Critics Circle Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Library Association Award, and numerous other prizes, Strauss has written screenplays for Disney, Gary Oldman, and Julie Taymor. His work has been translated into fourteen languages and published in nineteen countries, and he is a Clinical Professor at the NYU Creative Writing Program.

BRANDON TAYLOR  (Fiction) is the author of the novels  The Late Americans  and  Real Life , which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and named a  New York Times Book Review  Editors’ Choice and a Science + Literature Selected Title by the National Book Foundation. His collection  Filthy Animals , a national bestseller, was awarded The Story Prize and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He is the 2022-2023 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.

Paris Experimental Production Workshop

This program is not available for summer 2024 due to the 2024 Olympic Games. 

Channel your inner Godard or Truffaut and break the rules of conventional filmmaking. Create original, experimental works while living in the City of Lights.

One of the most captivating cities in Europe, Paris retains its timeless legacy as an artistic, intellectual, and literary pacesetter. The Eiffel Tower, symbol of the city, dominates the skyline. North of the Seine, the Right Bank is home to monumental buildings, grand boulevards, and major museums, including the Louvre and the Centre Pompidou. The Left Bank (rive gauche) invokes a Bohemian and intellectual atmosphere with its university communities, cafés, restaurants, jazz clubs, and chic boutiques. NYU Paris is located in the Latin Quarter, the thriving historic and intellectual heart of Paris where students have the opportunity to benefit from the numerous cultural, artistic, and academic institutions of this celebrated neighborhood.

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Program Overview

In this program you will become familiar with the unfamiliar. As you screen avant-garde films from some of the greatest French experimental filmmakers, you will learn the language of French experimental cinema. You will understand how the filmmakers have challenged conventions and then bring those techniques into your own films.

Field trips include visits to le Musee de Louvre, Jeu de Paume Museum, Musee d'Orsay and the Cinematheque Francais, as well as contemporary video art galleries.  

"Without making an experimental film, I think I wouldn't have expanded my conceptualization of story as much as I have now."  — Saunder Boyle, Experimental Production Workshop, summer 2018

Students will enroll in the following two courses for a total of 7 units.

Please Note: Students studying abroad on a Tisch track are not eligible to pursue an internship (except for Theatre in Ghana and Television Writing in London). Tisch programs do not provide work visas.

INTERMEDIATE EXPERIMENTAL WORKSHOP

IFMTV-UT 1049 | 4 units | Instructor: Darrell Wilson

A production course in which students experiment with non-narrative approaches to content, structure, technique, and style. Themes and orientations include many possibilities, such as music, choreography, visual or audio art, investigations of rhythm, color, shape, and line; poetry, fragmentation and collage, abstraction, performance; and subversion of linear narrative and documentary conventions. Working in groups of four, you will direct and edit one performance-based project shot on location, and direct, edit and sound design one final proposed video. (Prospective students who wish to direct films are encouraged to obtain a list of proposal guidelines for each section from the professor before the semester begins.) Note: Films produced for Intermediate Experimental Workshop will not be eligible for awards in the First Run Film Festival if they are longer than 15 minutes, including titles. All films produced in Intermediate Experimental Workshop will be screened if entered in the First Run Festival, but those longer than 15 minutes will not be judged.

Note: Students should bring their own laptops and can access their Adobe Creative Cloud via their NYU Net ID.

Note for NYU Tisch Undergraduate Film and Television Majors:  The maximum length for an intermediate film to be eligible for NYU Tisch Film festivals is 8 minutes.

MEDIA MAVERICKS: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF FILM AND VIDEO

IFMTV-UT 1002 | 3 Units

This class is a critical examination of experimental film and video with and emphasis on makers in France. There are no criteria for an avant-garde film or video, only the expectation that by watching it a viewer will be introduced to a challenging, refreshingly unfamiliar language that, by the end of the piece, he or she will have begun to speak. This new language many be politically confrontational, aesthetically difficult, lyrical, or rhythmical, but no matter what the form, it will express the particular vision of the artist who produced it. Challenging as this work may be for any audience, a close viewing of these “avant-garde” pieces will expand on your appreciation of their poetry and complexity. Whether you call these films experimental, alternative, independent, personal or poetic, they share very little save for their adventurous desire to reawaken those dormant visual and aural sensibilities that may have been hypnotized into years of sleep by too much commercial, mainstream media.

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Program dates.

Summer 2023 Student Arrival: Thursday, July 6, 2023 Student Departure: Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Summer 2024

This program is unavailable for summer 2024.

The summer 2023 application is closed. This program is unavailable for summer 2024. Prerequisites:

• Tisch Film Majors: Sight & Sound: Film (FMTV-UT 43) and Sight & Sound: Studio (FMTV-UT 51) or Sight & Sound: Documentary (FMTV-UT 80), Production Safety & Set Protocol (FMTV-UT 101).  No exceptions will be made for the prerequisites. Prerequisites will not be waived.
• NYU Non-film majors: One Sight and Sound course, Fundamentals of Filmmaking I (OART-UT 560), or Fundamentals of Documentary Filmmaking I (OART-UT 580)
• Visiting Students: College Level Experience in Film Production

Application:  Please read the following  application requirements  before starting your application.

Note: Students should wait to receive their admissions notification and confirmation that the program is running prior to purchasing airline tickets. Students accepted to the program should purchase refundable airline tickets and/or travel insurance in the event the program is canceled or program dates are changed due to world events. It is strongly recommended that students purchase insurance for trip cancellation, flight cancellation, luggage loss or damage, as well as medical and accident coverage.

Summer 2023

• Undergraduate summer 2023 tuition: $11,410
• Registration and Services Fee: $965
• Program Fee: $702
• Lab fee: $650
• Housing:     Single (Cité): $2,583
• Please email  [email protected]  if you have any questions about CSI
• Students are responsible for arranging their own transportation to/from the program.

Students are responsible for any COVID-19 testing required to travel to the program location and to return home. For the length of the program, students will be enrolled in GeoBlue Health Insurance. Students traveling beyond the dates of the program are encouraged to enroll themselves in  GeoBlue Health Insurance . 

Visit the NYU Office of the Bursar for additional information on tuition and fees .

Scholarship and Financial Aid

There are opportunities for financial assistance to study abroad.

Please review the Scholarships and Financial Aid for Study Abroad page for more information .

Housing for this program is mandatory. Please note: Your choice of room preference or residence hall preference (if available) is not guaranteed. None of the NYU Paris housing options are air-conditioned.

Visit the  NYU Paris  website for housing options and descriptions.

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Undergraduate semester abroad, study at nyu prague or nyu paris.

Prague and Paris are two of the most beautiful cities in Europe. Both are centers for symphonic and ensemble music performance, opera, jazz, composition, film scoring, music business, and music technology. Today, Prague is a major training ground for some of the finest jazz and classical performers in Europe and has become a music industry and film music hub. NYU Prague and NYU Paris can help you gain the global perspective that’s a key ingredient in your education and preparation for the professional world.

Course(s) and Electives

Complete Required Courses

We offer five courses at NYU Prague and NYU Paris that will help you complete your degree requirements:

• MPATC-UE 9036 Music Theory II
• MPTAC-UE 9006 Aural Comprehension II
• MPAPE-UE 9073 Keyboard Skills II
• MPATC-UE 9037 Music Theory III
• MPATC-UE 9038 Music Theory IV

MPATC-UE 9092: Collegium and Program Seminar

In  Prague , the Collegium will offer you concert and field trip lectures that reflect Prague's unique musical and artistic history and culture.

• Once a week, you'll hear a lecture or attend a musical event focused on either a historical period of Czech music, or a genre unique to the Prague contemporary music scene. 
• Lectures will complement the live events and prepare for a deeper listening experience.
• Lectures take place during class meetings on Wednesday evenings, while concerts will often be on different evenings; you will not need to attend Wednesday evening class on concert weeks.

The Collegium in  Paris  will provide you with a variety of cultural experiences:

• Enjoy a series of weekly lectures and/or concerts that will acquaint you with French music and culture.
• Connect with Parisian peers, institutions, or mentors through guided projects. 

Recommended Courses

• MKTG-UB 9001 Introduction to Marketing: satisfies a business studies requirement
• CORE-UA 9731 Expressive Cultures: Music in Prague Field Study: can be applied as a liberal arts elective
• HBRJD-UA 9103 Modern Jewish History: can be applied to the Texts & Ideas liberal arts requirement
• Ensembles are open to you by placement audition. 
• FREN-UA 9808 French and Expatriate Literature: can be applied to the Texts & Ideas liberal arts requirement. 
• FREN-UA 9865 France and Islam: can be applied to the Cultures & Contexts liberal arts requirements. 

How to Apply

Visit the NYU Office of Global Programs website for a complete list of current course offerings and application guidelines. Financial aid and scholarships are available to NYU students.

Student Life

Our on-site staff will provide support for you during your time abroad. We’ll help you connect with your host culture throughout your stay with orientation, trips, student clubs, and language exchanges. Housing is guaranteed to all students and will vary by location.

Further Opportunities

Please talk with your academic adviser about making our many other global locations work with your program of study.

More Information

Admissions process .

Office of Global Programs 383 Lafayette Street, 4th Floor  New York, NY 10003-7011  [email protected] 212.998.4433

Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions 35 W. 4th Street, Suite 1077 New York, NY 10012 212.998.5424

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Nemat Shafik, the university’s leader, met privately with faculty members, who could soon decide to admonish her. Columbia’s board, though, made its support clear.

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Stephanie Saul and Liset Cruz reported from Columbia University, and Alan Blinder reported from Atlanta.

• April 23, 2024

Nemat Shafik, Columbia University’s besieged president, faced skeptics on Wednesday in a meeting with the university senate that could vote to censure her over her handling of protests on the Upper Manhattan campus.

Dr. Shafik, who last week called in the police officers who made more than 100 arrests while they cleared a student protest encampment, is facing mounting calls for her resignation, including from House Speaker Mike Johnson, who visited Columbia on Wednesday. If Dr. Shafik ultimately remains atop Columbia, her meeting with the university senate made plain that it will likely be as a scarred figure.

Dr. Shafik defended her choice to summon the New York authorities to campus, according to three people who attended the meeting at the law school. But, according to two of those people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private meeting, Dr. Shafik used part of her roughly hourlong appearance to acknowledge that the decision to bring in the police had exacerbated the problems. She said she believed, though, that it was necessary for the safety of protesting students.

The group could vote on a censure as soon as Friday, but some senators were discussing the possibility of pursuing a more moderate course in the aftermath of Wednesday’s meeting.

Although predicting the outcome of a university senate vote is an inexact science — the body includes in excess of 100 faculty members, students, alumni and administrators from a wide range of academic disciplines — a draft censure resolution was unsparing. In it, Dr. Shafik was accused of violating fundamental rules by ignoring a 13-member senate executive committee that had unanimously rejected her request to ask the police onto campus.

By calling in the police anyway, the resolution said, Dr. Shafik had endangered both the welfare and the futures of the arrested students. Dr. Shafik had already angered many at Columbia with her testimony on Capitol Hill on April 17, when she tried to placate Republican lawmakers but provoked outrage on campus, in part for not robustly defending academic freedom.

Carol Garber, a professor of biobehavioral sciences, said Wednesday’s meeting included the voices of many senate members who were “upset and hurt,” with many “unhappy with some of the statements” Dr. Shafik made in Washington.

Protest management is a particularly resonant matter for modern Columbia presidents, professors and students, who have known well how Grayson L. Kirk’s tenure came to a turbulent close after widespread criticism of his handling of demonstrations in 1968.

To some of Dr. Shafik’s critics, her choice last week echoed that strategy and should yield a similar outcome.

So far, the university senate is not expected to call for Dr. Shafik’s removal, with a censure vote meant to signal serious disapproval, not a demand for an ouster. Some senators fear allowing outsiders too great a voice in university affairs. And another draft of the resolution was in the works that stopped short of a censure but was described as more of an expression of disapproval with the administration.

“It really isn’t a precedent any academic institution wants to set,” Dr. Garber said in an interview. “We shouldn’t be bullied by someone in Congress. If something happens on Friday, are we capitulating to an outside force?”

But to many people on campus, Columbia has already done so — whether by allowing protesters, for now, to rebuild their encampment or by turning to the police last week.

And on Wednesday, it was far from settled how long the resurrected protest zone would last, or whether Columbia would again seek arrests.

Not even 12 hours after Columbia’s predawn assertion of progress in its negotiations with the demonstrators, a protest leader all but dismissed some of the university’s claims.

To extend talks, according to the university, the protesters agreed to remove a significant number of the tents erected on the lawn. Columbia also said the protesters had pledged that non-students would leave the encampment, and that they would bar discriminatory or harassing language among the demonstrators.

But on Wednesday morning, an organizer announced to other students at the encampment that they would not be “doing the university’s job of removing people from this camp for them,” insisting that demonstrators would not become “cops to each other." And the organizer declared that the protesters were “committed to staying here and having people stay here.”

University officials did not respond to a request for comment on Wednesday about the protest leader’s remarks at the encampment, which some demonstrators said they expected to be free of police activity until at least Friday. But Columbia has set an early Friday deadline for an agreement and left open the possibility of dismantling the camp using “alternative options.”

Protesters and university officials were also at odds over what was said during their urgent talks. A student group, which had been suspended by the university, insisted that administrators had suggested that the National Guard could be deployed to campus, a tactic Mr. Johnson urged after he met with Dr. Shafik on Wednesday.

Protesters say their vigil has been peaceful. And a spokeswoman for Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York noted that the governor said publicly she had no plans to send the Guard onto the campus.

Ben Chang, a spokesman for Columbia, said the claim that the university threatened that the Guard could be deployed was “completely baseless.”

Separately on Wednesday, Columbia’s board defended Dr. Shafik, saying in a statement that it “strongly supports President Shafik as she steers the university through this extraordinarily challenging time.”

The board added, “During the search process for this role, President Shafik told us that she would always take a thoughtful approach to resolving conflict, balancing the disparate voices that make up a vibrant campus like Columbia’s, while taking a firm stance against hatred, harassment and discrimination. That’s exactly what she’s doing now.”

The events at Columbia are at the center of a spate of unrest rocking campuses from California to Connecticut as the end of the semester approaches. Across the country, administrators have struggled to balance principles like open debate with the need to protect Jewish students. Some demonstrations have included hate speech, threats or support for Hamas, the armed group based in Gaza that led attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, sparking the war that has left tens of thousands of people dead.

Brown University said it had warned about 90 students Wednesday morning that their new encampment broke university rules and that they faced school discipline. At California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, dozens of protesters occupied a building on the campus, which has been closed since Monday. And on the other end of the state, at the University of Southern California, about 100 protesters set up an encampment, which security officials quickly moved to dismantle.

But many other campuses, even ones that had seen protests earlier in the week, were largely quiet, with students and professors alike preparing for final exams.

At Columbia, the encampment on Wednesday at times seemed far quieter than it had, especially when Dr. Shafik’s first deadline had loomed.

Tents that protesters frantically broke down Tuesday night stood pitched again. A group of Muslim students prayed together, and protesters passed through a canopy to get food from Dunkin’ and Popeyes.

At each entrance to the encampment, demonstrators stood guard. Not far away, Columbia’s preparations for commencement went on.

Anna Betts , Eryn Davis , Lola Fadulu , Annie Karni , Victoria Kim , Santul Nerkar , Katherine Rosman , Karla Marie Sanford , Ed Shanahan and Jonathan Wolfe contributed reporting.

Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misspelled the given name of the president of Columbia University. Her name is Nemat Shafik, not Nemak Shafik.

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Stephanie Saul reports on colleges and universities, with a recent focus on the dramatic changes in college admissions and the debate around diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education. More about Stephanie Saul

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