French Literature 3140 Literature Bldg. The French Section pursues a double aim in its M.A. and Ph.D. programs. Must be fluent in the language and ideal for teachers. Our language courses can help you to increase your business opportunities, become a more knowledgeable traveler, gain teacher recertification or inservice credit, and improve conversational skills in a relaxed setting with other adults. A part-time program concentrating on French language, literature, and culture.
All classes are in French, and there is a discount tuition rate for Colorado high school teachers.
The faculty is a dynamic group of scholars of national and international reputation whose commitment to research and teaching is reflected in the innovative quality of the department's graduate programs. The graduate curricula provide extensive training in national and diaspora literatures and cultures, literary history and interpretation, critical and cultural theory, and language pedagogy. Both the M.A. and the Ph.D. programs encourage students to pursue individual research in customized fields of studies, taking advantage of the multiple opportunities for interdisciplinary work. The Department of French and Italian offers both the Master of Arts and the Doctor of Philosophy in French. The programs emphasize the historic exchangeof culture and ideas between the United States and France, as well as the French innovations in critical theory, social and political thought thathave transformed art, literature and philosophy in both countries.