French

The forward-looking mission of the French and Francophone Studies Program is sensitive to the vital role that languages and cultural awareness play in preparing students to be future leaders in their fields and socially and globally responsible citizens. The French and Francophone Studies Program has mission is: to help students advance their knowledge of the French language, and the cultural heritages and the literary traditions of France and the Francophone world and to pursue original research in these areas; to lead students to develop complex reasoning skills, synthesize, integrate, and apply disciplinary knowledge to understand broader social, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary issues; to guide undergraduate and graduate students to appreciate and study these subjects and to mentor them throughout their academic and professional careers.

The French and Francophone Studies Program seeks to chart a well-articulated path that helps students seamlessly move from one stage of their learning experience to the next. Courses weave complex topics into interesting outcomes for students, with classes on the representation of the body and medicine, on pleasure, on ethics and responsibility, and on translation and writing for the professions in French, France in European politics, but also to integrate such topics as well as language skills at all levels so as to develop critical thinking in another language along with the tools to express ideas.

Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts Degree in French