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French Global Studies at Hope CollegeBienvenue!
A CRÊPE PARTY! La Maison Française is a cottage on Hope's campus where several students of French can live together to practice their French in everyday settings with each other. Recently, the house was bustling with activity as they opened their doors to all of Hope's students of French for the first event of the year: a crêpe party! The dining table loaded with a smorgasbord of fillings to choose from, students wondered whether to smother Nutella or sprinkle cinnamon sugar onto their crêpe. In the kitchen, Lucile, an exchange student and teaching assistant from Nantes, France, taught some students huddled around the stove her crêpe-making technique saying "Faire un vœu" ("Make a wish") before they flipped them in the pan for the finish. French conversation filled the air, as students of all years practiced their French with each other and with Hope professors. Chatting students nibbling on their crêpes filled the dining room, living room, and kitchen, overflowing onto the front and back porches. With a great turnout and plenty of delicious crêpes, this year's Soirée Crêpes was a success! - Whitney Yoder, Dec '13, French and Japanese double major
CLASS TRIP TO THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO On Saturday, September 14th, the French and Art & Art History Departments took a bus of students to visit a special exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago called "Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity." The exhibit was made up of several connected galleries filled with a mélange of creative items: about ninety paintings; several period dresses as well as accessory garments like corsets, gloves, shoes, fans, parasols, men's hats and canes; and other items such as bottles of perfume and fashion magazines from 19th century France. These items tell the story of how trends in fashion and art were expressed over time: the earliest paintings show women in their "morning dress" (white or black filmy dresses worn in their home only among close companions or relative); then artists began to paint women outside in gardens, in parks, or near rivers to bathe; finally, it became popular to depict people in urban settings—walking with their husbands or looking at accessories in new shops that sold ribbons, hats, and other delights. Most of the painted works in this exhibit were figure paintings of an impressionist or modernist style including works by Gustave Caillebotte, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-August Renoir, Georges Seurat, Mary Cassatt, and Berthe Marisot. - Katherine Sauer, class of 2015, English and Women's Studies major, French minor
FRENCH IS A GLOBAL LANGUAGE, SPOKEN ON FOUR CONTINENTS / REGIONS OF THE WORLD (EUROPE, AFRICA, ASIA, MIDDLE EAST). By studying French, you are preparing yourself for a global professional experience allowing you to work for international organizations in Africa, Europe and the Middle East, the State department, businesses with a global outreach, the mission field, and much more! FRENCH RANKED SECOND MOST IMPORTANT LANGUAGE FOR BUSINESS ACCORDING TO BLOOMBERG RANKINS: In “The 13 Most Useful College Majors (as Determined by Science)” Newsweek 25 April 2012, “French, German, Latin, and other Common Foreign Languages” rank in the top ten “Most Useful College Majors” for finding employment and earning higher wages: http://newsweek.tumblr.com/post/21649811964/the-13-most-useless-college-majors-as-determined-by TOP GLOBAL REASONS TO STUDY AND SPEAK FRENCH
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