French Major

Course Title
Prerequisite
FRENCH 201-0 Culture and Society (or equivalent proficiency)
Major Requirements (14 units)
At most 5 200-level courses taught in French, including:
FRENCH 202-0 Writing Workshop: Cultural Encounters in Contemporary France
FRENCH 210-0 Reading Literatures in French
or FRENCH 211-0 Reading Cultures in French
At least 1 but at most 2 of:
FRENCH 271-0 Introducing the Novel
FRENCH 272-0 Introducing Theatre
FRENCH 273-0 Introducing Poetry
At least 9 courses must be at the 300 level, including:
At least 1 advanced language course chosen from:
FRENCH 300-0 French Phonetics
FRENCH 301-0 Advanced Language in Context: Society and Popular Culture
FRENCH 302-0 Advanced Writing
FRENCH 303-0 Advanced Conversation
FRENCH 309-0 French For Professions
FRENCH 391-0 Theory and Practice of Translation
FRENCH 393-0 Foreign Language Teaching: Theory and Practice
At least 4 literature and culture courses selected from FRENCH 310 through FRENCH 390. At least 2 must cover the period prior to 1800.
1 senior seminar:
FRENCH 395-0 Advanced Studies in Culture and Thought
At most 2 300-level courses taught in English may be counted toward the major. Of these, 1 may be a course with at least 50 percent French content offered outside the department; the course will count as an elective.
Courses with the requisite French content include: 1
ART_HIST 350-1 & ART_HIST 350-2 19th Century Art 1: Late 18th Century-1848 and 19Th Century Art 2: 1848-1900
HISTORY 341-0 Paris: World City, 1700 to the Present
HISTORY 342-1 & HISTORY 342-2 History of Modern France: Ancien Regime and the French Revolution and History of Modern France : 19th c. to present
PHIL 315-0 Studies in French Philosophy
No more than 1 399 may count toward the major unless the student is completing an honors thesis.
At least 2 300-level courses must be completed at Northwestern