The FIU School of Music is pleased to announce its first Study Abroad Program. Participating students will have the opportunity to experience music study outside of the traditional classroom led by FIU School of Music faculty Dr. David Dolata and Dr. Joel Galand.
Students will explore the art of music editing and analysis with a special emphasis on the music of France. While in France, students will experience life in Tours, a historical medieval university town and visit Loire Valley chateaux, including the Chateau de Chambord, where they will attend a festive evening of music, dance, acrobatics, and period costumes to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the ascension of François I to the throne. The visit will be capped with the Bastille Day celebration at the Tours city hall, the Hôtel de Ville. The program includes a long weekend in Paris to experience the milieu in which the music students study was created and to take in the diverse contemporary Parisian musical scene. Highlights of the Paris visit will be a tour of the Paris Garnier Opera House, Montmartre, and the Gregorian Chant Mass at Notre Dame de Paris.
Location Description
Classes in Tours will take place in a classroom within a 12th-century tower with vaulted ceiling, stained glass windows, carved wood furniture, and original tapestries within the Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR) at the Université François-Rabelais de Tours—CNRS, one of Europe’s leading research institutes. Additional visits by train or chartered bus will transfer students to Paris, the Chateau de Chenonceau and Chambord.
Housing
In Tours, students will be housed at “La Croix Montoire,” a university dormitory in the historic center of town within easy walking distance of CESR, dining, shopping, and the train station. In Paris, students will stay at a hotel with breakfast included within walking distance of the Gare Montparnasse rail station.
Semester & Dates
Summer C
On Campus: June 3—26, 2015
Abroad: July 1—15, 2015
Courses & Credits
This course is a 6-credit program. Students must sign up for two 3-credit courses as listed below:
Undergraduate-
MUH 4680 Music History Seminar
MUT 3611 Form and Analysis
Graduate-
MUH 6937 Special Topics in Music History
MUT 5629 Analytical Techniques
FOR MORE INFORMATION
To contact the FIU Office of Study Abroad, click here.
To learn more about funding your study abroad experience, click here.
To download the flyer, click here.
CONTACT DR. DAVID DOLATA
FIU School of Music, Modesto A. Maidique Campus, WPAC 140
Telephone: 305-348-2076
Email: david.dolata@fiu.edu
