Tours, France
The Institut de Touraine in Tours provides Hillsdale College students with a unique opportunity to increase their knowledge and understanding of French language and culture. Classes are small and are taught by expert specialists in the instruction of French as a second language.
The Institut is surrounded by the Châteaux of the Loire, a series of homes and castles constructed in the seventeenth century, which gives the region a classically French charm. Students from around the world study at the Institut, providing a broad cultural experience.
A faculty member will meet the students in Paris for a three-day stay and accompany them to Tours to help them during the first week of their stay in France.
Students can study abroad at the Institut de Touraine in Tours, France, over a summer or a semester. An experience of complete immersion is one of the most effective and memorable ways to achieve fluency in a language. Coursework transfers back as French credit. Hillsdale students live with a French host family and attend classes for 21 hours a week, all in French, with instructors specialized in teaching French as a foreign language. The Institute welcomes students from around the world to study French. There are numerous opportunities to explore the castles of the Loire Valley, Mont Saint-Michel, Saint-Malo, and Paris. The French Department encourages all majors and minors to study abroad during their time at Hillsdale College, and scholarship opportunities are available. Hillsdale students who have studied in Tours always say it was one of their best college experiences!
