Events

This week, students are on fall break. While CUPA stays open to prepare for the second half of the semester and the incoming Spring cohort, students are traveling, resting, and taking time for themselves !

Douceur poétique d'un récit cruel : le sort fatal d'une amazone, au clair-obscur d'un tableau vivant. Gaëlle Bourges, n'a pas son égal pour nous faire (re)découvrir, toujours sous un jour surprenant, les références de l'histoire de l'art. Elle nous amène cette fois au XVe siècle, à partir d'un coffre de mariage qui attira son attention […]

Every semester we host an evening where we invite French students, former CUPA students currently living in Paris, friends, and host siblings to meet and mingle with our current students. This semester, we prepared an apéro full of cheese and charcuterie, bread and wine, and some games with music and ridiculous prizes !

Ancré dans la tradition liturgique et laboratoire d'une musique avant-gardiste soucieuse de séduire, le Requiem de Litegi est une oeuvre phrase du vingtième siècle, à laquelle succède le mysticisme médiéval de la Quatrième symphonie de Bruckner. Avec son somptueux Requiem, composé entre 1963 et 1965, György Ligeti met tout son art au service d'une exploration de la tradition […]

Alice, our FLE coordinator and phonology teacher, will take her class and any other interested students on an afternoon trip to the French language museum in Villers-Cotterêts. The new museum, hosted in a 500 year old castle, offers an extensive study of the French language, its history, evolution, and use as a tool of colonisation.

As the first week comes to a close, the students and staff gather around a lovely apéro full of cheese, wine, and charcuterie.

Our second week of orientation is underway, and after a few methodology workshops, we took a long afternoon to relax around a few French card games : Kemps, Dany, and Skyjo !

To wrap-up orientation, we came together around a super buffet catered by Les Cuistots Migrateurs. Students are now armed with everything they will need for their first classes next week, as well as how to begin building their own Parisian routines. Tomorrow, the spring cohort is off to Provins on a day trip !

Every semester, we take a day trip at the end of orientation. It's a perfect way for students to spend time together outside of CUPA and explore a nearby French town or city. This semester we visited Provins, where we went on a guided tour of the medieval city. Provins has an incredible history as […]

Monument tardif de Beethoven, l'imposante Missa solemnis est sans doute la partition qui coûta le plus d'efforts au "grand sourd" : travail opiniâtre et passionné, pour une oeuvre qui, au-delà de son sens liturgique, est un hymne de paix universel. Composée entre 1818 et 1823, la Missa solemnis appartient au corpus retreint des oeuvres du "dernier Beethoven", […]

Mary Ann has been working at CUPA for over 26 years. She is and will always be a pillar of CUPA values. Her commitment to education, student well-being, teamwork, and cross-cultural exchange has grown CUPA into the immersion program it is. Her students and staff are sad to close this chapter, but remain determined to […]