French Major Requirements

The French program offers a wide range of courses emphasizing language acquisition and an understanding of international cultural diversity. To achieve these goals, students learn to communicate in French and to address issues of cultural diversity as drawn from literature, film, and other forms of contemporary media from the cultural production of the more than 50 French-language countries of the world. The program offers upper-division courses in the following categories: the study and practice of spoken and written French in national and international contexts, an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Francophone literatures and films, and the understanding and analysis of Francophone perspectives regarding socio-cultural contemporary world issues.

Required 120 credits (36 of which must be numbered 300 or above, and 30 of which must be from UND) including:

I. Essential Studies Requirements (see University ES listing).

II. B.A. with a major in French includes four introductory lower-division courses and a minimum of 24 credits at the 300 and 400 levels. Students are required to take a minimum of two 300/400 level courses in each of the categories below as well as LANG 380 and LANG 480.

The program offers upper-division courses in the following categories: