French - College of William and Mary

French from College of William and Mary is a Campus Bachelor Language degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. Fluency in a second language is a valuable skill in the United States, and is both attained and cultivated by those who choose to take the courses necessary to complete a concentration in it. French was for centuries the language of diplomacy both for its precision of expression and because it was the second language favored by the educated classes. Exploration and colonization brought the language to New France (Quebec and Nova Scotia), the Caribbean, the South Pacific (Tahiti), Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia), West Asia (Lebanon, Syria), and Africa, from the Maghreb (Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria) through Senegal and West Central Africa to Madagascar and the Reunion Island. In these regions French is still the first or second language spoken. Clearly, French is one passport to the world! French is also the language of philosophy, literature and the arts, and in their classes concentrators will focus on important intellectual and historical moments, such as the Middle Ages (Chr?tien de Troyes, Christine de Pisan) and the Renaissance (Rabelais, Montaigne, Ronsard), Le Grand Si?cle (Moli?re, Racine, La Fontaine), the Enlightenment and the French Revolution (Montesquieu, Graffigny, Voltaire, Rousseau), Romanticism (Chateaubriand, Hugo), the 19th-century realist novel (Balzac, Flaubert), the existentialists (Sartre, Camus), contemporary literature (Robbe-Grillet, Duras), and the Francophone world (Africa, Quebec, Caribbean). Concentrators may also elect an option which will enable them to pursue further the study of film, civilization, language, or literature. View more details on College of William and Mary . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Language courses.