Students graduating from our program are able to analyze a broad range of cultural production, from literary text to historical document to popular media. They are able to formulate their ideas clearly in French and in English, orally or in writing, displaying awareness of and respect for cultural specificity. They are skilled and informed readers, able to articulate some of the ways in which French-language cultures create knowledge and express ideas, as well as displaying an awareness of how language itself and different social and cultural contexts influence their own perspectives on the world.