Faculty Profile
Julia Carnine
Resident Director of Dickinson in France and Contributing Faculty in French; The Dickinson Toulouse Center Carol Jones Saunders '62 Faculty Director; Academic Director CGSE (2017)
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Bio
With over 20 years of experience in directing students abroad in France and in China., Dr Carnine is first trained as a linguist and sociologist. Her research interests include questions of academic and social integration and specifically comparative Social Networks of International students while abroad. Her dissertation focused on US, French and Chinese student cohorts and to what degree their social network composition fostered different types of local integration. Her recent work looks at the various impacts on Chinese students' identities while studying in France. Julia is currently a recipient of an American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language (ACTFL) grant to study learning relationships between French hosts and their American exchange students. A subsequent article will appear in Foreign Language Annals in collaboration with Celeste Kinginger from Penn State in 2019.
Education
- B.A., Lewis and Clark College, 1993
- M.S., Long Island University, 2002
- Ph.D., University of Toulouse, 2014
2024-2025 Academic Year
Fall 2024
FREN 260 Writing Workshop
Offers a reinforcement of French written skills through practice in lexical expansion, idiomatic expression, and syntactical patterns. Students are given the tools necessary (vocabulary, syntax, grammar) to free and enrich their writing styles, primarily through creative writing. Exposition to various literary forms taken from French art and culture (literature, painting, music, theater, cinema) is an additional component.
One credit. Mandatory course offered each semester at the Dickinson Study Center in Toulouse.
FREN 300 Engaging Toulouse
This compulsory course provides a structured framework for students to interact, analyze and increase understanding about their host city, Toulouse— its history, institutions and communities, as well as its relation to the rest of France, including the nation’s capital. Place-based, high-impact learning experiences include urban walking tours, contemporary art exhibits, a two-day journey around the larger Occitane region and a four-day Paris excursion. Coursework is based on guided written and oral exercises in cultural reflection that employ immersive language learning strategies. Students engage locally by performing service-learning work in a project that uses the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) as an outline for equitable reciprocal exchange. This enables them to learn with and from the community while connecting concrete local experiences to broader global issues. One course credit. Offered every semester at the Dickinson Study Center in Toulouse.
Spring 2025
FREN 260 Writing Workshop
Offers a reinforcement of French written skills through practice in lexical expansion, idiomatic expression, and syntactical patterns. Students are given the tools necessary (vocabulary, syntax, grammar) to free and enrich their writing styles, primarily through creative writing. Exposition to various literary forms taken from French art and culture (literature, painting, music, theater, cinema) is an additional component.
One credit. Mandatory course offered each semester at the Dickinson Study Center in Toulouse.
FREN 300 Engaging Toulouse
This compulsory course provides a structured framework for students to interact, analyze and increase understanding about their host city, Toulouse— its history, institutions and communities, as well as its relation to the rest of France, including the nation’s capital. Place-based, high-impact learning experiences include urban walking tours, contemporary art exhibits, a two-day journey around the larger Occitane region and a four-day Paris excursion. Coursework is based on guided written and oral exercises in cultural reflection that employ immersive language learning strategies. Students engage locally by performing service-learning work in a project that uses the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) as an outline for equitable reciprocal exchange. This enables them to learn with and from the community while connecting concrete local experiences to broader global issues. One course credit. Offered every semester at the Dickinson Study Center in Toulouse.