French - Greensboro College

French from Greensboro College is a Campus Bachelor Language degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. Developing foreign language capability among Americans continues to receive increased support and attention from multiple sectors. National security and economic competitiveness underscore the need for the knowledge of other languages and an understanding of other cultures. In addition, students who know more than one language have been shown to have higher cognitive and academic skills; higher standardized test scores in reading, language arts, and mathematics; and a competitive advantage in career opportunities. Spoken by more than 125 million people on 5 continents, French is considered the second most influential language in the world. As the language of diplomacy, French is an official language and a working language of the United Nations and the Olympic Games; an official working language of the International Labor Bureau, the InternationalMonetary Fund, and the Red Cross; the second most frequently used language of the Internet. In the areas of business and the economy, France is one of the world's wealthiest countries; an employer of nearly half a million Americans in more than 1,200 French-owned businesses, such as Mack Trucks, Bi, Zenith, and Dannon; the world's 4th largest economy and the world's largest market, with 370 million consumers. In science and technology, France, home of Louis Pasteur and Jacques Cousteau, continues to be a leader in the invention of such devices as the micro-chip, HDTV, and the world's fastest train, the TGV; a major innovator in technology, developer of the Airbus and the "Chunnel," the railway tunnel under the English Channel connecting England to France and the European continent; the home of many prominent scientists, including virologists Fran?oise Barre-Sinoussiand Luc Montagnier, recipients of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Long a center of literature and culture, France boasts great philosophers such as Descartes, Pascal, Rousseau, Voltaire, Camus, and Sartre; more winners of the Nobel Prize for literature than any country; a heritage of literary masterpieces such as Les Mis?rables, The Three Muskateers,and The Little Prince; some of the most prolific producers in the world of international films, many of which are honored at the Cannes Film Festival. View more details on Greensboro College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Language courses.