Program Overview

Graduate Certificate in French Linguistics and Literary Studies

The Graduate Certificate in French Linguistics and Literary Studies provides academic training to students in the French language, Francophone literatures, and cultures at the Master's level, while advancing their proficiency of French. Students will take four graduate-level courses in French and will have the possibility to further develop some of their own research or teaching interests through their coursework.

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion, students will be able to:

1. Compile culturally-, literary-, and/or linguistically-based information to construct original research.
2. Develop hypotheses and theses in the field of the coursework.
3. Compare cultural, literary or linguistic views and determined value systems.
4. Demonstrate language proficiency minimally at the advanced-low level.
5. Synthesize literary, cultural and/or linguistic works.
6. Evaluate material and critical theories in light of personal production, all based on cultural, literary or linguistics foci.

Program Requirements

• Select 12 credits from the following courses:
  • LFRE 500: Language Analysis/Stylistics-French
  • LFRE 536: Topics in French Linguistics
  • LFRE 551: Selected French Literary Movements/Periods
  • LFRE 552: Advanced Studies in French Literary Genres
  • LFRE 553: Advanced French Author Studies
  • LFRE 554: Advanced Topic Studies-French
• Program Total Credits: 12

Additional Information

• This certificate may have courses in common with other graduate certificates. A student may earn more than one certificate, but a given course may be counted only in one certificate.
• Additional coursework may be required due to prerequisites, effective Spring 2017.