The Department of French Studies offers instruction in basic, intermediate and advanced written and oral French, in French and francophone literature, culture, and semiotics. The prime objective of the Department of French Studies at Brown is that every student, concentrator or not, become skilled in using the French language in all types of communication, and that he or she understands as fully and as deeply as possible French and Francophone literature and civilization and the enormous contributions they have made and continue to make to human culture. The Department offers three standard concentration programs in French literature, civilization and language, a Master of Arts and Ph.D. program.
Graduate students organize an international annual colloquium around French and francophone themes.
List of Honors, Masters, and Ph. The library collections for French Studies include an estimated 30,000 titles of which some 90 are currently-received serials, all housed in the Rockefeller Library. This includes resources which directly support the study of French language and literature, classed in the Library of Congress classifications of PC, PM and PQ for French language and literature. In addition, materials in the fields of language studies and linguistics, comparative literature, medieval and renaissance studies, modern culture and media, literature theory, philosophy, history, art history, gender studies and other fields support the wide-ranging study and research interests of faculty and students. The desired coverage is at the research or study level.