Romance Languages, M.A. - French

The program course outline and graduation requirements for this catalog year are listed below. In addition, a 3.0 cumulative GPA is required for graduation. The department website provides an overview of the program, including admission requirements, faculty biographies, learning outcomes, and careers: https://www.southernct.edu/academics/world-languages-and-literatures/programs.

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (30 CREDITS).

Students must earn a "B" or higher in each course.

Core Requirements (15 credits)
Students must take at least one course from each of the four categories. A course from each category is offered once every 4 semesters.

Category I: Early Period: Medieval and Renaissance
FRE 505 – The Middle Ages: Romance and Faith 
FRE 512 – Literature of the Renaissance
FRE 522 – Molière 

Category II: Middle Period: Classicism, XVIIth, Enlightenment, XVIIIth, Romanticism, XIXth
FRE 527 – 17th Century "Moralists" 
FRE 531 – The Novel from Mme de Lafayette to Laclos
FRE 534 – French Literary Thought in the 18th century
FRE 541 – Romantic Poetry

Category III: Modern and Contemporary: Realism, XIXth, Modernism and XXth into XXIth
FRE 546 – Flaubert 
FRE 548 – Poetry from Baudelaire to the Surrealists
FRE 559 – French Literature from 1950 to the present

Category IV: Thematic Courses
FRE 506 – French Culture in France
FRE 513 – French and Francophone Studies
FRE 544 – Autobiographical Literature
FRE 550 – Sexual Citizenship in the French Speaking World 

Directed Electives (9 credits)
WLL 515 – Translation Studies in the Romance Languages
WLL 520 – The Historical Avant-Garde
WLL 581 – Introduction to Graduate Studies in Romance Languages 
WLL 582 – Popular Culture and Cultural Studies 

Capstone (6 Credits)

Option 1: Thesis 
WLL 590 – Writing the Thesis Proposal
WLL 591 – Writing the Thesis: Prerequisite is WLL 590 

Option 2: Special Project
WLL 592 – Special Project I
WLL 593 – Special Project II: Prerequisite is WLL 592 

Option 3: Comprehensive Exam
WLL 594 – Comprehensive Exam Seminar I 
WLL 595 – Comprehensive Exam Seminar II