French Studies

 Our skill courses, ranging from elementary to advanced, offer rigorous language training that enables students to acquire a command of conversational French. Our special topics courses contain professionalizing courses (such as French Translation, Business French, and Diplomatic French), as well as courses designed to deepen our students' critical thinking through cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches such as West African Francophone Cinema, Gender and Sexuality in the Maghreb, Paris and Sociopolitical Dissent. In addition to our courses, we also offer an active event calendar that allows students to interact with French and Francophone scholars, writers, artists, and social actors. Our French Club is exemplary of how we create community and involve our students in our program.

“Learning French was one of the best investments I made in my professional future. Through the Boren Scholarship, I was able to spend a year in Senegal working on my language skills, and the professional fluency I gained after years of study opened up many career opportunities. I still use French almost every day in my job managing a judicial assistance program for the US Government in Africa today.” Maria Adamou, Program Analyst, DOJ. Class of 2019.