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The French Division offers MA and PhD degree programs spanning many aspects of French and Francophone studies including literature, culture, and contemporary society. The faculty is committed to providing graduate students with a firm foundation in scholarship, an awareness of new and current trends in the field and a thorough preparation in classroom teaching.
Our degree programs also offer many opportunities to explore other intellectual disciplines. Part of the Department of Modern Languages, the French Division works closely with its fellow divisions, Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish-Portuguese. In addition, the French Division cooperates actively with other departments and interdisciplinary programs across the university, including Humanities, Women's Studies, Asian Studies, Afro-Caribbean Studies, to name but a few.
A bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited U.S. institution, or a comparable degree from an international institution, with a minimum 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) grade point average (GPA) in all coursework attempted while enrolled as an upper-division undergraduate student working towards a bachelor's degree; or A graduate degree from a regionally accredited U.S. institution, or a comparable degree from an international institution.