- The French graduate program offers a wide array of courses and seminars each semester, providing a fairly even distribution across the various literary periods in most academic years.
- Courses typically meet two or three times a week and are quite broad in focus, generally exploring well-defined periods or genres, while seminars are held once a week for two hours and take up narrower topics in greater depth.
- Both the offerings and the requirements of the MA and PhD programs are designed to give students not only the tools necessary for the specialization but also an excellent knowledge of these extremely rich literary traditions.