CONWAY, Ark. (August 19, 2016) – Eight Hendrix College students participated in the Hendrix-in-Tours study away program this summer.
Student participants included:
- Iman Belk ’17
- Ben Border ’18
- Sara Dyslin ’18
- Lena Pham ’18
- Emily Seminara ’18
- Kimberly Tepera ’18
- Meredith Warren ’19
- Konrad Witkowski ’18
The students’ coursework included 20 hours of language study a week at a language institute, Tours Langues. Upon arrival in Tours, they had been given a language placement test, and were thus placed into level-specific courses of no more than 10 students per classroom,
according to Hendrix French professor Dr. Cathy Jellenik, who accompanied the student group.
Students completed a cultural course packet prepared by Dr. Jellenik which entailed several engaged learning components. For example, before traveling to a given château, students were required to complete research on that château. Before their cooking classes,
they were asked to study the recipes and the ingredients to be used in the preparation of the meals, and afterwards they were required to write a reflection piece on the experience. Each cultural excursion entailed an exercise of that sort. The third component of the course
load included an Odyssey journal.
Among the students’ cultural excursions were:
- Guided cultural tour of Tours
- 2 “Ateliers culinaires” or cooking workshops; the first studied traditional French cuisine and the second examined the traditional cuisine of Tours.
- 3 days/2 nights in Paris with a Paris-by-boat tour, a visit to the Musée d’Orsay (Orsay Museum), and a tour of the Marais (on the right bank, home to the Picasso museum as well as the home of Victor Hugo).
- A visit to the château of Chenonceaux
- A traditional French barbeque at the home of the director of Tours Langues
- A weekend visit to Normandy to see le Mont St. Michel and to Brittany to see the walled city of St. Malo
- 2 days of French sports with the teachers at Tours Langues/Dr. Jellenik
- A bicycle trip along the Cher river to visit the château of Villandry
- A tour of a wine cave and a tasting of regional wines
- “La foire à l’ail et au basilique”: the garlic and basil festival
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Hendrix College
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