Program of Studies (will soon be updated)

The list below names courses taken by previous HCJYF students. Prospective students may review and use it to establish a tentative program of study with the guidance of the HCJYF Director and the student's home institution. Courses listed are followed by abbreviations that identify the institution offering the course.
Please note that this list represents what students have elected as courses; there are other possibilities and the same course may not be available from year to year.

Institutional Abbreviations
AGC Académie de la Grande Chaumière
AMI Altelier Matière et Imaginaire
AP Atelier Poussin
APR Atelier de Port Royal
CI Centro Italiano
CM Centre de Danse du Marais
CMP Conservatoires de musique de Paris
EL Ecole du Louvre
FACO Faculté d'Economie et de Gestion
HCJYF Hamilton College courses at Reid Hall
HCJYF Courses at Reid Hall offered by Hamilton, Middlebury, and Smith Colleges Consortium
IC Institut Catholique
IEP Institut de Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po)
IMA Institut du Monde arabe
SC Schola Cantorum
SPEOS Paris Photograhpic Institute
UP3 Université de Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
UPVI Université de Paris VI (Université de Pierre et Marie Curie)
UP3 Université de Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
UP6 Université de Paris VI (Université de Pierre et Marie Curie)

Courses taken by HCJYF Students

Anthropology
Readings in Anthropology: Malinowski (IC)

Art History
The Artist's Career in the 19th Century (EL)
European Art and Architecture of the 17th and 18th Centuries (EL)
European Art 17th-19th Centuries (EL)
French Art from the Renaissance to the Impressionism (IC)>
Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Art (EL)
History of Photography (EL)
Ingres and his Century (EL)
Italian and French Renaissance Architecture (EL)
Italian Renaissance Art (EL)
Italian Renaissance Painting (EL)
Medieval French Art (EL, HCJYF)
Modern Art (EL, IC)
Realism in 19th Century Art (EL)
Romantic Sculpture (EL)
18th and 19th Century French Architecture (IC)
19th and Early 20th Century Art and Architecture (EL)
19th and 20th Century French Art (HCJYF)

Applied Arts
Dance (CM)
Music lessons (SC, CMP)
Photography (SPEOS)
Studio Art:
Ceramics (AMI)
Drawing (AGC, AP, APR)
Lithography (private studio)
Painting (AP, APR)
Watercolors (AP, private studio)

Economics
Challenges of the European Community (HCJYF Consortium)
Commercial French (IC)
Contemporary World Economics (FACO)
The European Economy (FACO)
The European Union: Stakes and Challenges (IEP)
History of Economic Thought (FACO)
Major Contemporary Economic Issues (IEP)
Methods and Data of Macroeconomics (IEP)
Problems of European Economic and Social Intervention (UPIII)

Film Studies and Theater
Acting (UP3)
Aesthetics of Theater (UP3)
Directing (UP3)
European Cinema (IC)
History of French Cinema (IC)
Paris Theater (HCJYF)
Survey of French Theater (IC)
Theater: Writing Workshop (UPIII)

History
Contemporary French History (IC)
Cultural History of the Balkans (UP3)
Europe and the Origins of the Balkan Conflict (UP3)
Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa since 1944 (UP3)
European History: 1914 to the Present (IC)
Fascism and Communism in France, 1930-1950 (HCJYF)
France-Europe: 1945 to the Present (HCJYF Consortium)
France 1880-1990: History of a Political Nation (IEP)
French Cultural History: From Napoleon III to the Present (IC)
French Intellectual History (IC)
Methodology in Historical Studies (IC)
Religion and Society in France from Henri IV to Napoleon I (IC)
The United Kingdom (UP3)
The 19th Century Constitution (IC)
17th Century French History (IC)

Languages
French:
Applied Phonetics (UP3)
Commercial French (IC)
French Composition: Argument and Synthesis (IC)
Grammar and Methodology (HCJYF)
Introduction to Linguistics (UP3, IC)
Old French (IC)
Phonetics and Diction (HCJYF, IC)

Other Languages:
Arabic (IMA, UP3)
German (IG)
Italian (CI)
Spanish (IC, UP3)
Latin (IC, UP3)

Literature
The African Novel and Narrative (UP3)
Aspects of the Francophone Novel (UP3)
Autobiography and Exile in 20th-Century French Literature (HCJYF)
The Celtic World (UP3)
Cinema and Literature: Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris (UP3)
Contemporary French Literature (IC)
Figures of the Actress in 19th Century French Literature (UP3)
Figure of Women (UP3)
Francophone Arab Literature (UP3)
French Literary Genres in the Renaissance (UP3)
Images of Women in 19th Century French Literature (IC)
Introduction to French Literature (HCJYF)
In-Between: Immigration and Identity in the 20th-Century Francophone Novel (HCJYF)
Irony and 19th Century French Literature (UP3)
Law and Desire in 18th Century French Literature (UP3)
Medieval French Literature (UP3)
Modern French Women Writers (HCJYF)
Myth of Duan Juan (UP3)
Myth of Icarus in 20th-Century Literature (UP3)
Myth of Napoleon in 19th Century French Literature (UP3)
The Novel and Dialogue in 18th Century French Literature (UP3)
The Orpheus Myth in French Literature (UP3)
Paris in 19th Century French Literature (UP3)
Passion and Happiness in 18th Century French Literature (UP3)
Portraits of the King in 17th Century French Literature (UP3)
Romance and Short Fiction in Medieval French Literature (UP3)
Surrealist French Literature (UP3)
Violence and History in 20th Century French Literature (UP3)
The Writer and Politics in France (UP3)
19th Century French Literary Intertextuality (UP3)

Comparative Literature at UP3
The African Novel and Narrative (UP3)
The Femme Fatale
Fiction and History
Irony in 20th Century French and Italian Literature
Literature and Exile (UP3)
Poetics of the Short Story
Writing of the Fantastic (UP3)

English and American Literature (taught in English at UP3)
British Romantic Poetry and Fiction
The Irish Novel (UP3)
Poetics of Space in Modern American Literature
The Representation of the City in the 20th-Century Novel(UP3)
Romantic Poetry
Survey of English Drama
19th Century American Fiction (UP3)
19th Century English Novel (UP3)

Music
Counterpoint (SC)
History of Music (UP3, CMP)
Musical Composition (SC)
Piano (SC)
Violin (SC)

Philosophy
Aesthetics of Poetry and the Arts (IC)
Existentialism (IC)
History of Ancient Philosophy: Plato (IC)
Individualism and Collectivism (IC)
Medieval Philosophy (IC)
Moral Philosophy (IC)

Political Science
Comparative Politics of the Member States of the European Union (UP3)
Constitutions and Political Systems in Francophone Africa (UP3)
Comparative Study of Societies: Transition and Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe (IEP)
Cultural Identities in Europe (UP3)
Elements of Analysis of Political Life (IEP)
The European Union: Stakes and Perspectives (IEP)
France-Europe: 1945 to the Present (HCJYF Consortium)
Franco-African Relations from the 15th Century to the Present (HCJYF Consortium)
French Political Life Under the Fifth Republic (IEP)
Initiation to Islam and Problems of the Middle East (IC)
Introduction to Politics (IC)
Modern China: Political, Economic, and Cultural Perspectives (IC)
The Politics of European Geography (IEP)
Problems of Third World Countries (UP3)
Security and Defense (UP3)
Theory of International Relations (IEP)

Religious Studies
Africa and Modernity: Anthropological and Theological Aspects (IC)
Buddhism (IC)
Hinduism (IC)
Judaism (IC)
Religious Diversity (IC)

Science
Animal Physiology (UP6)
Chemistry I and II (UP6)
Plant Biology, Evolution and Biodiversity (UP6)

Sociology
Modernity: Socio-Philosophic Aspects (IC)
Sociology of Jewish Religion and Culture (IC)