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Exchange Programs

Since 1968 the Department of French has been able to send several graduate students to France each year to serve as lecteurs d'anglais (university level) and assistants d'anglais (lycée). Assistants receive a salary from the French government. In turn, French and Francophone graduate students serve as assistants in the Department at Illinois each year. In France the Department has exchange agreements with the Université de Metz, the Université de Poitiers, and (not sure of the desired correction) the Ecole normale supérieure of Lyon. In addition, the Department has exchange programs with Liège and Québec.

The Department of French oversees a number of exchange positions in francophone countries. Two positions are available to students at any time during their graduate studies; three others are reserved for doctoral students.

Open to Master's level students

  1. Lecteur position at the Université Laval in Québec.
  2. Lecteur position at the Université de Bourgogne, Dijon.

Open to doctoral students

  1. Lecteur position at the Université de Metz.
  2. Lecteur position at the Université de Liège.
  3. Lecteur position at the Université de Poitiers (subject to annual funding).
  4. Lecteur position at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

For more information and to apply

  1. Memo for Grad Exchange Programs.
  2. Application for Grad Exchange Programs. Deadline: October 15, 2006.