French Studies Major

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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.

Program Learning Outcomes

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.

Major Requirements (40 Units)

Required

Lower-division courses

Note:

Lower division courses 101, 102, 201 do not fulfill the units required for the major or minor.They fulfill the language requirement and prepare the student to continue in French.

Culture Course in English (4 Units)

FREN 195 - FYS: First-Year Seminar (French Culture through Cuisine)
FREN 195 - FYS: First-Year Seminar (A Season in the Congo)
FREN 250 - Africa Films Africa
FREN 260 - a.k.a. Africa: Mapping Identities in African Literature and Film
FREN 340 - French Cinema and Literature
FREN 350 - Paris-Berlin

200-level Courses (12 Units - 3 Courses)

300-level courses (12 Units - 3 Courses)

Electives (4 Units)

400-level courses (8 Units - 2 Courses)

Study Abroad

Students are encouraged to spend a summer in France or in another French speaking country, or a semester abroad at a French-speaking university.