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The Major

Advisers

Mary Ellen Birkett, Eglal Doss-Quinby, Dawn Fulton, Martine Gantrel, Jonathan Gosnell, Ann Leone, Janie Vanpée and Hélène Visentin.

Requirements

Ten four-credit courses at the 200 level or above, including:

1. The basis for the French studies major: FRN 230;
2. The language requirement: two four-credit, 300-level language courses;
3. Seven additional four-credit courses, as detailed below, two of which must be taken at the advanced level in the senior year.

Students majoring in French studies must have a minimum of five 300-level French courses, including the language requirement. In consultation with the major adviser, a student may take up to two  4-credit courses from appropriate offerings in other departments, the focus of approximately one third of each course should be on France and/or the francophone world for the course to count toward the French major.  Only one course counting toward the major may be taken for an S/U grade. Students considering graduate school in the humanities are encouraged to take CLT 300/FRN 301, Contemporary Literary Theory.