{"id":2761,"date":"2008-09-30T23:37:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T23:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/?p=2761"},"modified":"2018-04-07T22:07:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T22:07:37","slug":"uw-graduate-student-spends-summer-studying-french-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/news\/uw-graduate-student-spends-summer-studying-french-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"UW Graduate Student Spends the Summer Studying French in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2762 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/03\/leider-2008--300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Leider 2008\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/03\/leider-2008-.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/03\/leider-2008--108x81.jpg 108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>My summer in Montreal was an amazing experience. The city has a great mix of Francophone and Anglophone history and culture. The intensive French program at a school in the heart of Old Montreal provided a great chance to improve my language skills from an intermediate to an advanced level. The experience has even inspired me to consider a PhD focusing on civil society in Qu\u00e9bec.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jennifer Leider, a graduate student at the Evans School of Public Affairs, focuses on comparative policy studies for her research. She has also expanded her research to citizen political engagement through public deliberation. More specifically, she is interested in comparatively looking at political and economic influences on media coverage and its effects upon citizen political engagement in the US, Canada and Western Europe.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My summer in Montreal was an amazing experience. The city has a great mix of Francophone and Anglophone history and culture. 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