French

专业详情

The Department of French offers a major and concentration in French and Francophone Studies. Both the major and concentration provide students with an overview of French and Francophone literature, culture, and history from the Middle Ages to the present.

The major in French and Francophone Studies provides an interdisciplinary framework for the study of the history, literature, and culture of France and parts of the world in which French is an important medium of culture. Students explore the history and contemporary applications of concepts such as citizenship, national unity, secularism, and human rights, and explore central issues including universalism/relativism, tradition/modernity, and religion/state as they have developed in France and its colonies/former colonies since the 18th century.