Internships offer you a chance to develop both technical and transferable skills while making vital professional contacts with others in the field. You can begin exploring internship opportunities, including overseas study programs with internships, as early as your freshman year.
Our students can benefit from two exciting summer internships through our Education Abroad office: one in Paris and one in Rome.
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Our department selects a group of advanced French undergraduate students for the opportunity to serve as conversation group leaders. As undergraduate teaching interns (UTINs), these advanced undergraduates receive one credit for FRIT-X 471 and are trained by the director of undergraduate studies in French, Professor Barbara Vance.
The TAPIF (Teaching Assistance Program In France) program is run by the French Ministry of Education and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. TAPIF places Americans between 20-35 years of age as assistant English teachers in elementary and secondary schools throughout France. The program is a great way to gain experience speaking the language of the target country in addition to living in the country and experiencing its respective culture firsthand while working as a teacher in France. Each year, a few of our BA graduates participate in the program, and they have come back with stronger French skills and wonderful stories to share.
Applications will open again in October 2024 for the 2024-2025 school year.
As a Center for Excellence of the French Embassy our French program has special access to certain internships in France and the US. As we receive word of these and other internships, we post them to our majors/minors/Certificate e-mail list.
SITE Internship: The SITE (Study Intercultural Training Experience) Program is an internship opportunity for English-speaking teaching assistant in schools of Lombardy, Italy. It is an opportunity for recent graduates from US Universities who wish to get a better understanding of the Italian language and culture, while assisting local teachers and getting professional training on teaching methods. https://siteprogram.wixsite.com/site
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