French Studies Major
Courses are to be selected in consultation with the major adviser. Study abroad with SMU-in-France, a faculty-led summer program, is strongly recommended.
Requirements for the Major
One or more WL courses from the following list:
- WL 3307 - Perspectives on French Identity: What does it mean to be French?
- WL 3308 - How Language Works: Introduction to Language and Linguistics
- WL 3309 - French Cinema: 1945 to the Present
- WL 3316 - Revolutions in Thought: Continental Philosophy from Marx to Derrida
- WL 3317 - French Gastronomy and Culture
- WL 3326 - Introduction to French Cinema (students may not take both FREN 3365 and WL 3326)
- WL 3327 - Les Misérables
- WL 3328 - French Women Writers
- WL 3329 - French Muslim Citizens and the Algerian War: The Harkis
- WL 3330 - Migration, Occupation, and Independence in North African Cinema
- WL 3336 - Queer Sexualities in French Literature and Cinema
- WL 3341 - The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
- WL 3355 - Tradition, Community, and Identity in African Cinema
- WL 3362 - Postcolonial France
- WL 3388 - Future Worlds: Modern French Science Fiction
- or another approved WL course
- WL 4385 - Internship: World Languages (with approval from French adviser)
No more than two courses from the following list:
(Other courses, through a process of student petition, will be considered provided a substantial portion of the course is devoted to aspects of the cultures of the francophone world.)
Two additional WL courses from the above list, OR two courses from the following approved list:
- ARHS 1318 - Monsters, Mayhem, and Miracles: Art and Life in the Medieval World
- ARHS 1330 - The Visual Arts in France, 1500-1914
- ARHS 3320 - Medieval Art and Architecture
- ARHS 3343 - The Decorative Arts and the History of Dress in 18th-Century Europe
- ARHS 3346 - Paris Art and Architecture II
- ARHS 3348 - 18th-Century Art
- ARHS 4320 - Seminar on Medieval Art
- DANC 1301 - Beginning Ballet
- EDU 5121 - Field Experience I (with approval)
- EDU 5122 - Field Experience II (with approval)
- EDU 5123 - Field Experience III (with approval)
- EDU 5124 - Field Experience I: Secondary (with approval)
- EDU 5125 - Field Experience II: Secondary (with approval)
- EDU 5126 - Field Experience III: Secondary (with approval)
- EDU 5363 - Student Teaching (with approval)
- EDU 5364 - Student Teaching (with approval)
- EDU 5373 - Secondary Student Teaching (with approval)
- EDU 5374 - Secondary Student Teaching (with approval)
- FILM 3375 - Postwar European Cinema: 1945-Present
- HIST 3320 - Reform, Republic, Terror, and Empire: The French Revolution, 1787-1804
- HIST 3329 - Women in Early Modern Europe
- HIST 3334 - France Since 1789
- HIST 3352 - The Age of the Crusades
- HIST 3355 - Class and Gender in Ancient Society
- HIST 3359 - Europe in the Age of the Reformation, 1520-1598
- HIST 3365 - Problems in European History
- HIST 3366 - Problems in European History
- HIST 3381 - The First World War and Its Impact
- HIST 4372 - History of France I
- MUHI 3302 - Survey of Music History II
- PLSC 3340 - Western European Politics
- PLSC 3341 - Introduction to Comparative Law