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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

French, B.A.


More information about the Department of World Languages & Cultures :

A minimum of 120 credit hours is required for a Bachelor of Arts in French.

French Electives


Students must complete an additional 21 credits in French at the 300 or 400 level including 3 credits each in Continental French Literature, Francophone Literature, and French Civilization.

  • 300 or 400 level Continental French Literature Course (3)
  • 300 or 400 level Francophone Literature Course (3)
  • 300 or 400 level French Civilization Course (3)
  • 300 or 400 level French Elective (3)
  • 300 or 400 level French Elective (3)
  • 300 or 400 level French Elective (3)
  • 300 or 400 level French Elective (3)

Core Requirements (46 to 49 credits)


The First Year Symposium (3 credits)


Complete the First Year Symposium

World Language Requirement (3-6 Credits)


Complete either 6 credits at the 101 and 102 level or 3 credits at the 200 level or above

  • Introductory Language (For students beginning at the 101 level)
    • XXXX 101 (3)
    • XXXX 102 (3)
  • Advanced Language (For students who begin at the 201 level or above)
    • XXXX 201/301 (or higher).

Foundations of Philosophy (3 Credits)


Origins of the West (3 Credits)


Philosophy in the Modern Age (3 Credits)


Atlantic Encounters (3 Credits)


Mathematical Thinking (3 Credits)


Foundations of Theology: Faith and Revelation (3 Credits)


America in the World (3 Credits)


Theology: Made in God’s Image (3 Credits)


Modernity in Literature or the Arts (3 Credits)


Choose from among one of the following:

Laboratory Science (3-4 Credits)


Choose one laboratory science course:

Global Encounters (3 Credits)


Choose one Global Encounters course:

  • XXGE Global Encounters
    • Global Encounters courses are offered in many departments, including Business, Communication, English, Education, Foreign Language, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology and Theology.

Ethics and the Human Good (3 Credits)


Complete one of the following:

Ethical Leaders (0 Credits)


The Ethical Leadership Experiential Learning Core Requirement invites students to integrate their own personal call to leadership with a mature reflection on one or more of the core virtues of Justice, Courage, Integrity, and Humility.  Students will accomplish this by engaging in and reflecting upon the practice of virtue ethics within the context of one or more experiential learning activities.

Sample Four Year Sequence


Freshman Year

Fall Semester

FSYM 101 The First Year Symposium (3)  

Foundation of Social Science (3)

FREN 101 Beginning French I (3)  

Elective (3)

Elective (3)

15 credits 

Spring Semester

WCIV 102 Origins of the West (3)  

PHIL 103 Foundations of Philosophy (3)  

FREN 102 Beginning French II (3)  

Elective (3)

Elective (3)

15 credits 

 

Sophomore Year

Fall Semester

WCIV 201 Atlantic Encounters: 1450-1850 (3)  

PHIL 203 Philosophy in the Modern Age (3)  

FREN 201 Intermediate French I (3)  

MATH 211 Mathematical Thinking (3)  (either semester)

Elective (3)

15 credits

Spring Semester

AMER 202 America in the World (3)  

THEOL 220 Foundations of Theology (3)  

FREN 202 Intermediate French II (3)  

Elective (3)

Elective (3)

15 credits 

Junior Year 

Fall Semester

XXMO 300 Modernity in Lit. or Art (3)

THEOL 320 Made In God’s Image (3)  

FREN 301 Introduction to French Studies (3)  

FREN 300 or 400-Level Major Elective (3)

GNSCI XXX Lab Science (4) (either semester)

16 credits 

Spring Semester

XX GE 3XX Global Encounters (3)

PHIL/THEOL 300 Ethics and The Human Good (3)

FREN 300 or 400-Level Major Elective (3)

FREN 300 or 400-Level Major Elective (3)

Elective (3)

15 credits 

 

Senior Year

Fall Semester

FREN 498 Senior Seminar (1-3)  

FREN 300 or 400-Level Major Elective (3)

FREN 300 or 400-Level Major Elective (3)

Elective (3)

Elective (3)

Elective (3)

16 credits

Spring Semester

FREN 300 or 400-Level Major Elective (3)

FREN 300 or 400-Level Major Elective (3)

Elective (3)

Elective (3)

Elective (3)

15 credits