<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Andrea J Wirth <<a href="mailto:awirth@MIT.EDU">awirth@MIT.EDU</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">September 14, 2012 3:04:35 PM EDT</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Study-trip to Belgium over IAP!</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Lisa B Hickler <<a href="mailto:lhickler@MIT.EDU">lhickler@MIT.EDU</a>><br></span></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><b>*****************************</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">
<b>Take a study-trip to Belgium over IAP, January 7-21, 2013</b></div>
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<div>* Explore the “Big Successes of a Small Country" </div>
<div>* Learn French, earn credit!</div>
<div>* Applications due October 12, 2012</div>
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<div>Spend two weeks in Belgium over IAP 2013 by enrolling in 21F.314 Topics in Interculturalism, a 6-unit subject conducted entirely in French. </div>
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<div>Discover Belgium’s successes in the arts, gastronomy, literature, sciences, politics, and design. Learn about the country’s history to better understand its challenges of today, such as bilingualism, immigration issues, and the future of the monarchy.
Guided visits and lectures by experts will help you put discoveries in a historical and sociopolitical context. </div>
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<div>Visit the European Parliament in Brussels, and learn about the role of the European Union, how proposals become law, and how member countries have a say over the future of Europe. Explore why cartoons are part of daily life in Belgium. Visit the Hergé
museum and understand why Steven Spielberg became a passionate fan of Tintin, the comic strip character that made Hergé internationally famous. Visit the city of Ghent (called "the best kept secret in Europe" by the Lonely Planet), and see art by Flemish masters.
Take a cruise on the canals of the city of Bruges also known as the Venice of the North. Taste Belgian chocolate, considered by many the best chocolate in the world.</div>
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<div>The course is taught by Cathy Culot, a native Belgian, and a lecturer and coordinator of the French program of the Foreign Languages and Litereratures section. </div>
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<div>Airfare, lodging and guided visits are covered by MIT.</div>
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</div><div>There is a pre-requisite of 21F.304, French IV, or permission of instructor.</div>
<div>Interested students should submit an application. Applications will be reviewed and selected applicants will be interviewed.</div>
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<div>Application deadline is October 12, 2012.</div>
<div>Download application from this site: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/JSF/">http://web.mit.edu/JSF/</a></div>
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<div>For more information, visit Foreign Languages and Literatures HQ (14N-305) or email Lisa Hickler at
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