Experience the French savoir-faire and the traditions of its makers with APA Paris: Gap Year. This 13-week program combines French language immersion, academics, and firsthand encounters to understand the cultural intricacies of French society.

To set the linguistic foundation, students begin the term with a three-week intensive French language course with weekly 90-minute individual support sessions continuing thereafter. Once the group portion of the language class concludes, participants take three courses, each taught in French:

- Business French: An Economy of Creation: Discovering the French Savoir-Faire
- Art History: Painting, Sculpture in France in the 19th Century
- Political Science: France Today

Each course includes field trips and site visits such as hands-on workshops for artisan crafts (pastry chef, perfume, fashion), art history outing to Monet's gardens at Giverny, and lessons at Paris' many renowned museums. 

At the end of the program, students receive a transcript so that they may transfer credits towards an undergraduate degree.

Cultural events and excursions and housing accommodations are included.

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