Located between Nice and Cannes, with 25 km of sandy beaches and 300 sunny days a year, Antibes is one of the Côte d’Azur’s star attractions!

Antibes is the Côte d'Azur’s second largest town with a population of 75 000 in winter and almost twice this amount in summer. Yet Antibes is still a small and friendly town in which you will easily find your bearings. Plus, it’s just minutes away from Cannes and Nice

Situated in Eastern France and surrounded by fortified walls, Antibes embodies the Côte d’Azur’s historic and Mediterranean heritage. You can’t help but be charmed by Antibes’ Old Town with its cobbled streets, its small craft shops, its many boutiques and sun kissed Antibean sea front.

FOR SUMMER 2013: students will have the option to take one elective and will also take a French language class at their level. This year, the electives will include:

1) REPORTING THE REGION : JOU 3020 / 4 credits
Students explore the region to produce journalistic reports that include writing and photography. Assignments include stories on challenges facing a French family, implications of a French political issue, a social issue, and a travel piece. The goal is for students to write as a foreign correspondent, conveying the community’s views, struggles, sights, and sensations to an audience back home.

2) TRANSLATION DRAWING
This course approaches drawing as a language, a tool by
which students learn to see the visual world with greater
clarity and insight. It is intended to complement the
experiences of studying abroad by coupling the
learning of a new visual language with the students’
study of French. The course, open to all students, will
rely on the dedication and rigor of each student rather
than their learned or innate drawing skills. Classes will
take place en plein aire, weather permitting, and will
use the surroundings as subject matter. The primary
focus lies in the thinking, seeing and hand skills
needed in the translation of subject matter, rather
than their realistic representation. This course will
also introduce students to the possibilities of changing
or enhancing the meaning of images through their
graphic re-presentation. Through this class, students’
experiences abroad will be enriched by gaining a visual
arts perspective on the everyday, such as local
architecture and landscape.