Undergraduate
Minors
Minor in French
The primary goal of the program in French at IU Indianapolis is to assist students in achieving linguistic and cultural proficiency in French and Francophone settings. To support this goal, the program offers a variety of courses from the introductory to the advanced undergraduate levels in language & linguistics, culture & literature, and applied areas (translation & Business French).
Considering that French is spoken on all five continents, and that the number of people who speak it has tripled in the last fifty years, a major in French has never been more desirable in the workplace. French is not only one of the main languages of the European Union and many other international bodies, including the Olympic Committee; it is also dominant in science, engineering, and technology. The French program broadens students’ cultural horizons by giving them direct access to the fields of philosophy, literature, history and music, and it also prepares them for a variety of careers in international business communication, translation, tourism, education, and technology, to name a few.
A minor in French (FREN) requires satisfactory completion of the following requirements:
- completion of properly distributed credit hour requirements for the baccalaureate degree in effect when the student was admitted to their home school,
- completion of 15 credit hours, with a minimum grade of C in each course,
- completion of at least 6 credits hours at IU Indianapolis
- to declare the minor, complete the School of Liberal Arts online declaration form here.
Minor Requirements (6 credits):
- FREN-F 203: Second-Year French I (3 cr.)
- FREN-F 204: Second-Year French II (3 cr.)
Electices at the 300/400 level (9 credits):
- FREN-F 300: Lectures et analyses littéraries
- FREN-F 307: Masterpieces of French Literature
- FREN-F 315: Conversation and Diction I
- FREN-F 316: Conversation and Diction II
- FREN-F 326: French in the Business World
- FREN-F 328: Advanced French Grammar and Composition
- FREN-F 330: Introduction to Translation
- FREN-F 331: French Pronunciation and Diction
- FREN-F 334: French for the Medical and Technical World
- FREN-F 336: Structure of French
- FREN-F 350: Topics in Francophone Culture
- FREN-F 352: Culture, Société, Langue et Littérature au Québec
- FREN-F 360: Intro. socio-culturelle à la France
- FREN-F 380: French Conversation
- FREN-F 391: Studies in French Cinema
- FREN-F 396: French Study Abroad
- FREN-F 402: Introduction to French Linguistics
- FREN-F 421: Fourth-Year French
- FREN-F 434: Advanced French for the Medical and Technical World
- FREN-F 450: Colloquium in French Studies
- FREN-F 451: Le francais des affaires
- FREN-F 452: La Civilisation et littérature québécoises
- FREN-F 460: French Fiction in Film
- FREN-F 461: La France Contemporaine
- FREN-F 480: French Conversation
