As of the Fall 2023 semester, students cannot declare a minor in French. Current students who previously declared a minor in French will be advised through their required coursework throughout the 2023-24 and 2024-25 academic years. Once their studies are complete, a French minor will no longer be conferred by Converse University.
The French and Francophone Studies minor at Converse can prepare you with the necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes to be an effective local and global citizen. Studying French can give you that creative and competitive edge sought in our increasingly international workplace.
Converse’s French and Francophone minor is designed to offer the language skills necessary to truly begin understanding the Francophone cultures of Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East. Offering a strong core of language courses that allow students to appreciate literature, culture and film without the barriers of translation, the French program prepares students for a global environment characterized by increased need for cultural sensitivity.
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During a study-travel trip to Paris and Tunisia, students visited historical sites including the Louvre, the Orangerie (home of Monet’s Water Lilies), the castle of Versailles, Ottoman Turk palaces, the ancient city of Carthage and certain sites of the Sahara (including the location where some of the Star Wars movies were filmed). They earned credit for a class called “Women of North Africa: Fact and Fiction.” Tunisian university students with similar interests adopted them for the trip, which gave an insider view of the country.
Every Converse student has the opportunity to participate in faculty-mentored undergraduate research. Our students are more likely than their peers at other colleges to be funded by South Carolina Independent Colleges & Universities (SCICU).
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The offerings in French begin with core grammar, conversation, and composition courses that develop the skills necessary to interact meaningfully and knowledgeably with those from Francophone cultures. Once our French minors are working at a strong intermediate level, they can choose from courses that focus on the works long considered classics of French literature and theory as well as from courses that seek to understand contemporary trends in the French-speaking world through the study of lesser-known literary works and films.
Our philosophy is that a Converse graduate should know both what has historically been revered and why, and what is of central importance to an increasingly rich and varied world formed of the meeting places of diverse peoples.
View the French Minor requirements.
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