Registered University of Houston students are eligible to receive 6-9 credit hours for summer study in this program. The host university in China is the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing. Students interested in learning about new cultures and exciting civilizations should not miss the opportunity to visit and study in Beijing China. The Department of Modern and Classical Languages offers a summer program in Bourges, France, every summer. Students earn between 6 and 9 credit hours depending on the duration of the program, from 6 to 9 weeks.
Students take classes and stay with French families.
Students will have the opportunity to take non-traditional courses in addition to their regular language or literature courses, such as the history of the region, local culture, local architecture, etc. Bourges is a medium size town, two hours south of Paris by train or car. It is located in the heart of France, near the Loire Valley and the wine regions of France. For centuries, travelers have sought out places associated with the Homeric hero. Today nearly 3,000 years after that great epic was first heard, the sites identified with 5th century Greece still haunt our collective imagination.