French

French is one of the world’s major international languages: it is spoken by over 200 million people in 43 countries, on five continents. A knowledge of French may increase access to careers in international relations, development studies, business, science and the arts.

The overall objective of the French Studies program is to teach you to process information from a wide variety of materials in French, both written and spoken, and to produce accounts and discussions of that information in a variety of forms. In subjects at all levels, you will be guided towards undertaking independent research projects into areas including language, literature, politics, cinema, theatre, travel writing, food and wine, immigration and identity.

French language study at the University of Melbourne is also available in the .

• Communications
• Community development
• Diplomacy
• Government
• International relations
• Multinational business
• Teaching
• Translation and interpretation