• The objective of the French Studies major is to provide oral and written competence in the language and a solid background in the literature and culture of the countries of the French-speaking world.
  • Students will:
    • Acquire a basic understanding of the literary, historical, social, or cultural influences that inform French and Francophone literary works
    • Acquire the ability to express themselves in French, and to articulate in writing and discussion their responses to literary texts
    • Develop a basic critical ability to identify, interpret, and evaluate the ideas and formal features of an integrated body of literary texts authored in the French language
    • Develop a sensitivity to the plurality of meanings within a literary text authored in French