Major in French Studies
The major in French Studies is an interdisciplinary program combining core work of seven courses in the department of French and French Studies and abroad on the language, history, culture, and society of France and of other Francophone countries, with complementary coursework in at least two related fields outside of the department (four courses, see chart below). Senior French Studies majors participate, during their final semester, in the 420 seminar which ties together their upper-level coursework and prepares them for their comprehensive examinations; seminar participants also research a French Studies topic of their choosing and complete a sustained piece of writing on the subject in French. Majors must study in a French-speaking country for at least a semester and take an advanced language course there (the department helps students find appropriate programs). For double majors only, upon receiving a satisfactory petition explaining the impossibility of studying in a French-speaking country for a full semester, the department will then be willing to offer one of the following two alternatives: study abroad for a summer (5 to 8 weeks, 2 course credits) and take one additional 400-level numbered 411 to 419 in the department; or take two additional 400-level French Studies-major courses in the department.
The following three courses
- Fren 311: Composition, or Fren 312: Conversation, or Fren 313: Contemporary Language (With another advanced language course abroad)
- Fren 314: Introduction to Literature of the French-Speaking World
- Fren 420: Senior Seminar in French Studies
A minimum of three of the five following courses in French Studies
- Fren 411: Culture through History
- Fren 413: Modern France through Films and Other Texts
- Fren 415: History of French Cinema
- Fren 417: Topics of the French-Speaking World
- Fren 419: Introduction to French Linguistics
Four related courses from the following Sewanee offerings
(With Anth 104* required of all beginning with the class of 2012, and with at least one course below in art history, music, or theatre (Fren 415 or 417 when music is treated can count for this fine arts expectation). Courses proposed as substitutes to be taken abroad must be approved by the department prior to departure.)
- Anth 104*: Introductory Cultural Anthropology (required course beginning with the class of 2012)
- Anth 303: The Anthropology of Europe
- ArtH 320: Medieval Art and Architecture
- ArtH 322: Art and Devotion in Late Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe
- ArtH 332: 17th- and 18th-Century Art
- ArtH 335: 19th-Century Art
- ArtH 345: Modern Art
- Hist 219: History of Africa to 1880
- Hist 220: History of Africa since 1880
- Hist 270: Women in European History Since 1750
- Hist 272: France Since 1815
- Hist 303: Constructing Christendom: the West from Constantine to the First Crusade
- Hist 304: Medieval Europe
- Hist 305: The Renaissance
- Hist 306: The Reformation Era
- Hist 308: The Revolutionary Era
- Hist 309: Politics and Society in Europe 1815-1914
- Hist 311: Politics and Society in Europe after 1914
- Hist 345: The Age of the Enlightenment
- Hist 378: Sexuality and the Self in Modern Europe
- Hist 379: Honor, Shame, and Violence in Modern Europe
- Hist 380: Crimes and Scandals in the Historical Imagination, 18th–20th Centuries
- Hist 389: European Cultural and Intellectual History, 1750–1890
- Musc 205: Music of the Baroque Era
- Musc 207: Music of the Romantic Period
- Musc 208: Music of the Twentieth Century
- Musc 212: Bach to Stravinsky: the Classical Canon
- Musc 225: Music and Drama
- Musc 301: Topics in Early Music
- Phil 204: Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Kant
- PolS 103: Comparative Politics
- PolS 227: Africa in World Politics
- PolS 260: European Political Relations
- PolS 303: Women and Politics
- PolS 329: Comparative African Politics
- PolS 356: Diplomatic History of Europe 1813–1914
- PolS 364: European Union
Note: One of the department's upper-level French literature courses, or a literature course abroad, may possibly be substituted for one of the four "related courses" above, upon special arrangement with the department, or prior to departure in the case of a literature course to be taken abroad.
