Program Overview

University Programs

The university offers various programs for undergraduate and graduate students.

Undergraduate Programs

• The undergraduate programs include:
  • Admission criteria for different types of students, such as first-year, transfer, international, adult undergraduate, and visiting students.
  • Financial information, including traditional and adult undergraduate program costs.
  • Student life and academic policies and procedures.
  • Degree and program requirements.
  • General Education: Archway Curriculum, which includes Archway Curriculum for Adult Undergraduate Program and the standard Archway Curriculum for other students. The Archway Curriculum is designed to provide students with a well-rounded education and includes various threads such as Writing Instructive and Modern Language Literacy. For example, the MFREN 4400 Survey of French Literature course is part of the Archway Curriculum and focuses on the thematic and formal developments in French literature from the Middle Ages to the present.
  • Certificates and academic recognition.
  • Special academic programs and opportunities.

Graduate Programs

• The graduate programs include:
  • Admission criteria.
  • Financial information.
  • Academic policies and procedures.
  • Degrees and requirements.
  • Certificates.

Course Descriptions

• MFREN 4400 Survey of French Literature (4 hours): This dual-level French skills enhancement course introduces students to the thematic and formal developments in French literature from the Middle Ages to the present. Students will read representative texts from all major periods in order to deepen their understanding of key works, authors, and genres. Emphasis will be placed on sharpening students' literary analysis skills through close readings and a formal study of narrative techniques and stylistic elements. MFREN 4400 meets with MFREN 3400, with differentiated assignment lengths and expectations by level.
  • Prerequisite(s): MFREN 2020 French Stage 4: Global Connections or permission of the department chair.
• MFREN 3400 Survey of French Literature (4 hours): See MFREN 4400 Survey of French Literature.
• MFREN 2020 French Stage 4: Global Connections (4 hours): Stage 4: Global Connections invites students to enhance their intercultural and linguistic competence by exploring cultural, geographical, historical, and social perspectives of French-speaking countries as they develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills and intercultural competence, thereby allowing them to engage and interact more effectively with native speakers of French.
  • Prerequisite(s): MFREN 2010 French Stage 3: Cultural Perspectives or appropriate placement.

Archway Curriculum

• The Archway Curriculum is designed to provide students with a well-rounded education and includes various threads such as:
  • Essential Connections: Writing Instructive
  • Foundational Literacies: Modern Language Literacy
  • Integrative Core: Going Global Thread

University Information

• Nebraska Wesleyan University reserves the right to make changes in the regulations and offerings announced in the official online catalog, as circumstances require.
• The online version of the Nebraska Wesleyan University catalog supersedes any printed catalog or PDF version as the official catalog of NWU.