Rice Global - Paris Summer Program 2025
Rice Global Paris Summer Program 2025
Scroll down to learn about all the courses being taught in Paris for Summer 2025. For questions, please email us at pariscenter@rice.edu.
ARTS 230 Comics and Sequential Art
This course will combine critical analysis of essential graphic novels, the basics of comic making, and excursions to visit museums and visits with significant French artists. .
HART 374 Visual Culture of the French Revolution
What better way to learn about a subject than at the site where it happened? The turbulent period of the French Revolution (1789-1794) and the social and political upheaval it brought marked a radical shift in world history. This course focuses on the crucial and active role art visual culture played during the revolution.
MDHM 260 Creative Writing for Medical Humanities
In this course students will explore French literature by marginalized voices to understand and creatively engage with issues of bodily autonomy, human rights, and the intersections of race, gender, and colonialism, culminating in a portfolio that blends creative and critical work inspired by readings, site visits, and discussions throughout Paris.
ANTH 309 Global Cultures: Global Paris
Explore with Dr. Eugenia Georges what anthropology can bring to the study of cities and urban life in general, taking the city of Paris as its focus.
ENGL 339 Romanticism: Ruins, Race, Revolution
Explore Paris as a living map of Romanticism, tracing its roots in literature, art, and historic sites—from the Bastille to Versailles—to uncover how themes of revolution, race, and ruins continue to shape our world today.
PSYC 354 Introduction to Social and Affective Neuroscience
This course offers an in-depth exploration of social and affective neuroscience, enriched by visits to Parisian neuroscience labs and historical sites, where students will delve into the brain's role in emotion, motivation, and social cognition, while experiencing Paris’s unique contributions to the field.
ARTS 238 Belonging and Exile: Black Performance in Paris 1900 - Today
Exploring Black American performance art in Paris, students will trace its evolution from early 20th-century influences to contemporary expressions, examining themes of freedom, exile, and cultural exchange through site visits, historical texts, and the legacies of artists like Baldwin, Baker, and Hendrix.
ARCH 238 & CEVE 238 Architectural Structures: Art, Form, Resiliency, and Sustainability
Introducing the principles of civil and architectural design, this course combines engineering and architectural perspectives to explore sustainable structures, material behavior, and ecological design through lectures, hands-on experiments, and field trips.
CHEM 178 The Chemistry of Cooking
Examining the chemistry of food composition, transformation, and sensory experience, this course blends scientific study with cultural exploration through culinary activities and excursions, offering a hands-on approach to understanding food in both chemical and cultural contexts.
BIOS 368 Monster: Conceptions and Misconceptions of the Monstrous in Biology, Literature, Art, and Medicine.
Explore the concept of monstrosity through literature, film, and art, examining how our fears and perceptions of both human and non-human forms shape our understanding of identity and humanity, with a focus on French cultural contributions.
RCEL 350 Mastering Global Technical Leadership
Led by Rice Professor Steve Gomez, this interdisciplinary course examines the role of technical leaders in fostering ethical practices within global organizations, using SLB as a case study to explore socio-technical solutions for sustainability while incorporating hands-on projects and cultural visits in Paris.
Anth 309 Anthropology of Food and Immigration
Exploring the intersection of food and immigration in Paris, this course examines how culinary practices help immigrants preserve their identities and build communities while addressing broader themes of culture, climate change, and social dynamics through the lens of anthropology.
EEPS 234 Climate Change, Economics, and the Wine Industry
Taught by Dr. Sylvia Dee and other collaborators, this highly interdisciplinary course will introduce concepts from climate change to microeconomics, using the wine industry as a case study.
ENST 445 Urban Sustainability
This course investigates how to design equitable and sustainable cities by examining the historical and contemporary efforts in Paris, exploring urban ideals, and addressing environmental and political challenges through excursions to sites like the Nogent Nuclear Power Plant and the Promenade Plantée Park.
HART 370 Inventing Paris: Making Space in the Age of Global Capital
Although we tend to see Paris as a kind of living museum, the French capital and its hinterlands have been carefully shaped and organized by architects, urban planners, community activists, and politicians the since the late 1950s. Inventing Paris: Making Space in the Age of Global Capital examines the invention of a new, Contemporary, international, and interconnected Paris designed, for better and for worse, in response to the various crises that determine urban life in the 21st -century.