Hamilton Academic Affiliations in Paris

Hamilton has affiliations with:

• The Institut d'Etudes Politiques (IEP, or Sciences Po): Sciences Po is a highly selective grande école concentrating in political science. High ranked politicians in France often attend Sciences Po at one time or another. Courses open to HCJYF students cover history, economics, political science and international relations. Qualified students may also apply to the selective International Diploma Program consisting of two classes a semester, a language workshop, and a year-long Comparative Societies cycle. This is a full-time commitment to the IEP.
• The Université de Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle): One of the numerous branches of the Université de Paris, Paris III specializes in some of the humanities (Literature and Languages); European Studies; Communications (Cinema, Theater, and Linguistics); English and American Studies taught in English.
• The various divisions of the Institut Catholique (Literature and History, Language, Philosophy, Social Sciences, and Religious Studies).
• The Ecole du Louvre: Some American programs are allowed to register their students at the Ecole which offers lectures and a series of weekly or bi-weekly visits to related museum sites. HCJYF students majoring in art history attend classes at the Louvre and work with a tutor provided by the program to review class material and complete a research project.
• The Université de Paris VI (Institut de Pierre et Marie Curie): Paris VI offers courses in the natural sciences (biology, chemistry, geology). Recommended for students with college-level preparation in the sciences.
• The Faculté Libre d'Economie et de Gestion (FACO) for courses in economics and law.
• Internships in Francophone Europe. See catalogue below for full description.

Students may also enroll in classes offered by:

• Language institutes such as the Institut Goethe, the Instituto Cervantes, the Centro Italiano.
• Paris music conservatories and the Schola Cantorum.
• Ateliers and centers in studio arts, photography, painting, drawing, ceramics and dance.
  Courses in drawing, painting, ceramics, photography, and dance are open only to students with prior college-level work in the area.
• Students who have continuously received college credit for individual music instruction may receive partial credit for lessons in Paris. Payment for private music instruction is the responsibility of the students as it is at Hamilton College. However, the program may provide qualified students with a modest stipend to help offset the additional cost of music lessons.

Finally, each semester Hamilton offers in its Reid Hall headquarters courses to its own students in literature, theater, art history, French language, and, through the Consortium of American Colleges (Hamilton, Middlebury, and Smith Colleges), social sciences.