Information to aid in planning a program of French studies

The members of the Faculty of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages are experienced language teachers who demonstrate a continuing interest not only in the development of their students while at Winthrop but in their post-graduate careers as well.

INSTANT CREDIT

Students who have completed 2 or more years of French in high school with A's and B's are encouraged to enroll in FREN 201. It may be the ideal course for you to keep up your language skills.  The course will stress conversation and reading and will be challenging, interesting and rewarding.  Exemption credit can be earned here through CLEP. 

Winthrop University encourages students to take CLEP Subject Examinations for credit in areas which they have mastered through previous study. CLEP may award as much as 8 hours of credit (equivalent of 101-102) in the meeting the foreign language requirements.   See the University Catalog for more details, or contact Counseling Services, 203 Crawford, at extension 2233.

Tests are administered monthly at Winthrop, except in December and February.  Results take at least 8 weeks.

REQUIRED IN PLANNING A FRENCH MAJOR:

MAJOR PROGRAM

• FREN 201:  Intermediate French.  (Offered every semester).

• FREN 202:  Intermediate French Conversation (Offered Spring semester every year)

• FREN 250:  Introduction to French Literature (Offered every Spring semester)

• FREN 301:  French Civilization and Culture (Offered Fall semester every other year, even years)

• FREN 310:  Advanced Grammar and Composition. ( Offered Spring semester every other year) 

• FREN 401:  Survey of French Literature ( Offered Spring semester every other year ,odd years)

• FREN 499:  Language Proficiency Examination (S/U).  FREN 499 is a standardized test in four parts: reading, grammar, civilization, oral.

Choose 10 additional hours from the following courses.  PLEASE  NOTE:  ONE COURSE MUST BE AT THE 500-LEVEL.  

• FREN 210:  Theater Practicum (act in a French play)

• FREN 313:  Advanced Conversation

• FREN 351:  Phonetics (pronunciation)

• FREN 503:  Applied Linguistics

• FREN 510:  Topics in French Language and Literature (subject matter will vary)

• FREN 513:  Drama of the Seventeenth Century 

• FREN 517:  Eighteenth Century Literature

• FREN 521:  Modern Theater

• FREN 523:  Modern Novel

• FREN 550:  Medieval French Literature

• FREN 560:  Writers of the French Renaissance

• FREN 570:  Francophone Literature

• FREN 575:  French Literature in Translation*

• FREN 580:  Classics of French Cinema

• FREN 590:  Contemporary France

• FREN 593:  Advanced Oral and Written Communication: Translation

6 hours of another language (Spanish, German, Japanese, Chinese, Italian or Latin)

TOTAL: 36 hours for the major

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Last updated 05/14/2008