Classique: French language and culture studies
Strasbourg is a beautiful cosmopolitan European capital city, but small enough to feel at home.
The Accès Classique program includes:
Courses in French language and culture at the Université de Strasbourg
Housing with a local host family or in a student boarding house with French students
Service learning and internship possibilities
Excursions to historical and cultural sites in the region throughout the semester
Accès office and library near the University campus with onsite American directors
Your own bike for the semester
Courses in French language and culture
Classique track students take most of their courses at the Institut International d'Études Françaises, part of the Université de Strasbourg. Each course corresponds to a level:
A2: advanced beginner
B1: lower intermediate
B2: intermediate
C1 and C2: advanced
Not all classes listed here are offered every semester. The precise course offerings are available at the start of each semester.
Courses in the social sciences and humanities at the Université de Strasbourg
Students in the Classique track with sufficient French language skills are encouraged to enrol in at least one course at the Université de Strasbourg with French students. The courses listed here is just a sample of the hundreds of Université de Strasbourg courses available. For more options, click on the link to the university departments below:
- Archéologie
- Arts visuels et arts du spectacle
- Histoire
- Histoire de l'Art
- Lettres modernes
- Linguistique
- Philosophie
- Sociology
- Théologie catholique
- Théologie protestante
Internships and Service Learning
Accès works with a number of associations, non-profits and businesses to provide service-learning (2 credits) and internship (4 credits) opportunities for our students. Students are free to research other opportunities with on their own.
Some previous internship and service learning projects:
- Researching customer preferences at the boutique of the SIG basketball stadium
- Rebuilding a 17th century farmhouse at the Parc de la Maison Alsacienne
- Helping teach English at the University of Strasbourg
- Running a non-profit coffee shop / community center
- Helping teach beginner's French to recent immigrants
- Coaching high school students in voice for a musical production
- Harvesting vegetables at a sustainable farm and studying the financial model
