2022 Study Abroad
This trip was held in 2022. To learn about the upcoming study abroad program in 2025, please visit the Study Abroad 2025 webpage.
Humanities and Literature: History in the City of Light
Travel back in time to a Paris that was both a gathering place and a muse for some
of the Western world's most brilliant literary minds.
- Experience first-hand the Left Bank’s bustling streets and café terraces
- Find inspiration in tracing the steps of writers, artists, architects and philosophers
- See the wonders of the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay and Notre Dame
While we enjoy this history of the City of Lights, we will also explore what is new, fresh and cutting edge.
You will be immersed into a culture of architectural wonder, intellectual rigor, language and food!
Courses in this program will trace the interrelationships between the Paris of the past and the development
of media such as photography and film, the impact of modernity on the arts – and,
of course, food! These courses will focus on human creativity and production, both
literary and cultural, and an understanding of the world and self through reading,
writing and artistic expression.
“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
– Ernest Hemingway
We hope you can join us this summer!
Make Plans Now
See more details on our informational slide presentation.
View the Paris 2022 Slide Presentation
Meet the Instructors
Sal Breiter is co-chair of the Humanities Department at De Anza. He is trained in Anthropology and believes it is important for students to step outside their own contexts in order for them to perceive their cultural biases and develop an empathetic understanding for the ways that other human beings see the world.
Kim Palmore is co-coordinator of the Guided Pathways initiative and an English instructor who seeks to make students feel empowered and engaged. She has a doctorate in English Literature with major emphasis on British and American literature of the 20th century. She also has expertise in Victorian literature, Shakespeare and gender studies.
Classes Include
- EWRT 1A: Composition and Reading
- EWRT 1B: Reading, Writing and Research
- EWRT 1C: Literature and Composition
- EWRT 2: Critical Reading, Writing and Thinking
- EWRT 30: Introduction to Creative Writing
- ELIT 10: Introduction to Fiction
- ELIT 21: Women in Literature
- ELIT 39: Contemporary Literature
- HUMI 1: Creative Minds
- HUMI 2: But Is it Art? Questions and Criticism
- HUMI 6: Popular Culture
- HUMI 15: Discussion in the Arts
- HUMI 16: Arts, Ideas and Values
- HUMI 18: History as Mystery – A Critique of Western Perspectives in a Global Context
Highlights From Previous Trips
The De Anza Study Abroad program went to the Philippines in 2019 and to Vietnam in 2018. You can see highlights of the Vietnam trip in this video made by student trip participant Binh Kien.