Foreign Language Programs: French & Francophone Studies

College of Arts & Sciences
Department and Program Learning Objectives

Majors in French and Francophone Studies will be able to:

Speak French in a way intelligible to native speakers, including the ability to converse comfortably on general topics, narrate events, and describe what they see. (7,8,9)

Understand university classes taught entirely in French. (2,3,5,6,7,9)

Demonstrate proficiency in written communication in social correspondence. (3,4,7,9)

Demonstrate familiarity with the major Francophone writers from the Middle Ages through the Twentieth Century, and with major trends in Francophone literature and culture. (1,3,6,9)

Demonstrate cultural competency in French-Francophone civilizations, including familiarity with attitudes, lifestyles, conceptions of society, social and political structures from historical, anthropological, and symbolic perspectives. (1,3,4,6,7,9)

Demonstrate research competency in French-Francophone literature and culture, including familiarity with major journals, critical approaches, academic research and methodology, current news from the target countries, bibliographical and other sources related to coursework, contemporary cultural sources, and interactive communicative sites.(5,6,8,9)

Minors in French and Francophone Studies will be able to:

Speak, read and write French at an intermediate-high level according to ACTFL Guidelines. (2,4,7,8,9)

Numbers in parentheses reflect related Educational Goals.