College of Arts and Sciences

Departments

Modern Languages, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics
French
Master of Arts for Teachers in French

Program Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the Master of Arts for Teachers in French, students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate proficiency in French through the ability to complete graduate coursework in French.
2. Achieve a comprehensive understanding of French as a living language and Francophone cultures.
3. An understanding of the core concepts and applications of Second Language Acquisition
4. Introduce and practice various foreign language teaching methodologies
5. Develop individual teaching styles informed by current theory and scholarship

 

MAT French Degree Requirements

To earn the thirty credit MAT in French students must complete the following coursework:

I. Core coursework (9 cr)

1. FRIT-F580 Applied French –Linguistics (3 cr)

2. FRIT-F673 Topics in Learning and Teaching of French (3 cr)

3. FRIT-F606/FREN-F606 Capstone Project in French Teaching (3 cr) (completed near conclusion of the program)

II. Two courses in French/Francophone Studies (500 level or above) (6 cr)

FRIT-F 556 Le Roman aux XXe et XXe siècles (3 cr)

FRIT-F 632 Seventeenth-Century French Drama and Performance (3 cr)

FRIT-F 635 Studies in Eighteenth-Century French Literature (3 cr)

FRIT-F 640 Studies in Nineteenth-Century French Literature (3 cr)

FRIT-F 651 Studies in French Cinema (3 cr)

FRIT-F 667 Seminar in Francophone Studies (3 cr)

FREN-F 525 Readings in French and Francophone Cultures (3 cr)

RIT-F 561 Studies in French Civilization 

III. One French Linguistics course (in addition to F580) (500 level or above) (3 cr)

FRIT-F 578 Contrastive Study of French and English (3 cr)

FRIT-F 603 History of the French Language 1 (3 cr)

FREN-F 531 Readings in French Language and Linguistics (3 cr)

IV. One course in Foreign Language Methodology, Applied Linguistics and Language Acquisition (3 cr)

FREN-542 Readings in French Pedagogy and Language Acquisition

V. Three additional courses taken from any one of the above 3 categories (9 cr)

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