French Undergraduate Studies

Given the increasing importance placed on the internationalization of education, foreign language instruction provides one of the means of exposing undergraduates to another culture and of enhancing their ability to achieve cross-cultural awareness, competency, and adaptability. Building on students' linguistic achievements, their literary and cultural study of France and the Francophone world crosses national boundaries, genres and disciplines.

Mission Statement: The French major allows students to fulfill the goals of a liberal arts education by fostering cross-cultural understanding and creative accomplishments.

Our Goals are:

To insure that students possess linguistic competence in French and a comprehensive knowledge of French literature and culture.
To prepare students to face the complexities of life in an interdependent world by promoting analytical thinking, historical awareness, cultural sophistication, an appreciation of diversity, and an international perspective.

Our Objectives:

By providing students with a solid foundation in language, composition, and literary and cultural history, our curricula upgrade students' reading and writing skills while increasing their historical awareness and cultural sophistication.
By teaching students techniques of literary and rhetorical analysis, our courses enhance analytical thinking.
By approaching the study of French in an historical and international context, our classes foster an appreciation of diversity and strengthen awareness and knowledge of global perspectives.

Who may help you with your questions?
-Faculty Advising: Professor Jean Schultz, Undergraduate Advisor. Tel: (805) 893-3489
-Staff advising: contact our Undergraduate (Staff) Advisor: Margaret McMurtrey. Tel: 893-3111
If you need to take a French Placement Test, or you want to use your AP scores in French, or use your credit for an International Baccalaureate, please follow this link: French Placement Information.