Paris by neighborhood
As a professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Alice Jardine believes passionately in the value of studying abroad. “There are all the clichés, but it’s really impossible to describe how studying abroad changes one’s perspective on one’s life and the world’s issues,” Jardine said. Two years ago, she was approached about running a summer study program in France. She accepted and brought on Loren Wolfe, a doctoral candidate in French literature, to help craft the program. “We sat down at my dining room table and asked ourselves: If we were sophomores or juniors at Harvard, what would we want?” Jardine recalled. “And the obvious answer is: We would want to get to know Paris really, really well.” The eight-week course, which they launched last year and will lead again this summer, is structured so that students discover all 20 Parisian arrondissements. Titled “Paris and Its Revolutions,” the course explores not only...