Required Units

Total number of units required for major, excluding any required Intensive(s): 10

Required Intensive units, if any: 1

Total units required: 11

Distributional Content Area Units Required

Two units at the 300-level which may include one unit of senior thesis but excludes other forms of independent work.

Electives

Eight additional units of FFS courses.

Following initial placement, students should work through each level of the curriculum in order to enroll in a higher level as follows:

• 100 level:

• FFS 105 - Elementary French and
• FFS 106 - Elementary French

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• FFS 109 - Basic French Review

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• 200A level:

• FFS 205 - Intermediate French I and
• FFS 206 - Intermediate French II

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• 200B level:

• FFS 210 - The Francophone World Through Text, Sound, and Image and
• FFS 212 - Reading Literature and Film

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• 200C level:

  Any 200-level course above FFS 212 ; one unit of 200C-level recommended before enrolling in FFS 240  and FFS 241 .

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  300 level:

  Work at 200C-level required.

Intensives

One unit of Intensive required preferably taken as two 0.5 units.

Other

• A maximum of six units may be earned from study abroad.
• One unit may be elected from a related field outside FFS if 100-level units are not counted towards the major. Such elections must be approved by advisor or by petition to the Department.
• Students may not take or count toward the major courses lower in level than their initial placement by the department.
• One unit of Advanced Placement credit may be counted toward the major.
• Courses taken under the NRO will not count towards the satisfaction of the major (or correlate) requirements. An exception for one (1) unit, taken while enrolled in a Study Abroad (or Summer) program, may be granted by the department upon request.

Teaching Certification

Students who wish to obtain Secondary Certification must complete the program of study outlined by the Education department.

Study Abroad

Up to 6 units from Study Away and summer courses may be counted toward a major in French and Francophone Studies, with departmental approval.