Internships Abroad: The View from Paris

Authors

  • Gerald Honigsblum

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v8i1.96

Keywords:

France, Internships abroad, International internships, Education abroad

Abstract

The following observations result from eleven years of experience in the field, more specifically in France, a setting that raises particularly challenging and probing questions. France ranks high among the nations most resistant to deregulation as well as strong on cultural exception, endowed with a combative attitude about the supremacy of the French language, and nurtured by a checkered relationship with America and its hegemony: no two countries compete more earnestly in their respective attempts to influence the world. Some two million French students serve as interns as part of their education. No other European country comes anywhere near this statistic.

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Author Biography

Gerald Honigsblum

Gerald Honigsblum is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at Boston University, and for the past eleven years has served as Resident Director of the Boston University Paris Internship Program where he has placed more than 1500 interns in Paris area businesses and agencies. He spearheads “Projet Rhapsode,” a web-based program that initiates novice readers to the major monuments of French literature.

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Published

2002-12-15

How to Cite

Honigsblum, G. (2002). Internships Abroad: The View from Paris. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 8(1), 95–112. https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v8i1.96