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Description : Besançon is located in eastern France in the Franche-Comté region near Switzerland. It is a medium-sized and foreigner-friendly city with good public transportation and many pedestrian walking areas, and has access by short train journeys to neighboring cities. UNO students can spend a summer, semester, year, or more studying in French at the University of Franche-Comté (UFC) and its language center, the Centre de Linguistique Appliquée, or CLA. The university partnership is with the University of Franche-Comté, but students will typically take classes in French language and culture at the CLA. Students who intend to go on exchange at UFC generally spend at least a semester at the CLA first. Every other summer, UNO’s French Department sends a UNO faculty leader with a class of students to spend 4 weeks studying French at the Centre de Linguistique Appliquée.