The Department and the University strongly encourage all students of foreign language to study abroad, both to improve their linguistic skills and to benefit from the experience of living in another culture. To permit students at virtually any level to participate, the Department sponsors a number of programs abroad, in France, Italy, Spain, and Chile. Students can select programs for summer, semester, or year-long study that award Washington University degree credits. Some of the programs are specialized and intended for students in French and Business, Spanish and Business, or French and pre-med. (On the graduate level, the Department participates in two exchange programs based in Paris.) Full information on any of these programs is available from the Department.

The College of Arts and Sciences Overseas Program provides a variety of study abroad options of specific interest to students studying French, Italian, or Spanish (listed below). For a general overview of semester and academic-year study abroad programs, visit the College of Arts & Sciences Overseas Programs homepage.

Within the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, the following 2007-2008 semester, academic year, and summer study abroad programs are available:

French

• The Loire Valley (summer)
• Nice (summer, for pre-med students)
• Dakar, Senegal (French and African Studies Summer Program)
• Toulouse (semester or academic year)
• Paris (semester or academic year, for French Internship)

For more information on the Paris program, see Junior Year Abroad with Sweet Briar in Paris. (Sweet Briar is responsible for the content of this site)

Italian

• Castelraimondo (summer)
• Padua (semester or academic year)

Spanish

Summer (6-week)

• Madrid
• Puebla, Mexico
• Quito, Ecuador
• Credit and placement guidelines for summer abroad programs in Spanish

Semester or Academic Year

• Santiago, Chile
• Madrid Carlos III

A note about Summer Institute courses:

The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures requires that all Summer Institute courses in Spanish, Italian, and French be taken for a letter grade. Consultation with departmental advisors must be completed prior to departure.

Washington University students who might instead be considering application to a program run by another university or organization should be aware that the credit earned there is not necessarily transferrable to Washington University's degree program.