Professor: Serge Gavronsky
Associate Professors: Peter T. Connor (Chair), Caroline Weber
Assistant Professors: Kaiama L. Glover, Phillip Usher
Senior Lecturers: Anne Boyman, Laurie Postlewate
Lecturers: Cathy Leung, Brian O'Keeffe, Eve-Alice Roustang-Stoller, Erica Weems
Senior Associate: Isabelle Jouanneau-Fertig
For a complete list of
faculty on leave see:
http://www.barnard.edu/provost/facleavelist.html
Courses in the French Department have a twofold objective: to perfect fluency in the written and spoken language, and to develop an understanding and appreciation of the literature and culture of France and French-speaking countries.
New students who have already given evidence of advanced training in French (Advanced Placement Examination with a score of 4 or 5; CEEB examinations with a score of 781) are automatically exempted from the language requirement. All other new students who intend to satisfy their requirement in French will, depending upon their preparation, be placed immediately in the appropriate language course or be asked to take a placement test offered at the start of each semester (see College Calendar for exact dates). Those receiving a sufficiently high grade will be exempted from the language requirement. All others will be placed in French language courses according to their score. For additional information about language courses, students should consult the department chair.
Students who have satisfied the language requirement may immediately enroll in literature and culture courses (BC 3021, BC 3022, BC 3023, BC 3024); and advanced language courses (BC 3006-3019).
In cooperation with Columbia College, the department offers a program at Reid Hall in Paris open to majors and non-majors. See Study Abroad.
Language and Literature: This program emphasizes the language, culture, and literature of France and other French-speaking countries.
Translation and Literature: This program teaches students to translate from French into English and English into French, within a context of French culture and literature.
French and Francophone Studies: This program emphasizes the historical and contemporary interrelationship between France and the French-speaking world in their social, literary, and cultural aspects.
The requirements for each specific major are:
Language and Literature
11 courses are required for the major:
French and Francophone Studies
11 courses are required for the major:
The student is expected to declare her option by the end of the junior year. Programs may include additional courses in French literature, culture, and language, or in other subjects which vary with the interest of the student. Certain courses in the French and Romance Philology Department at Columbia University may be substituted with the approval of the chair. All students are required to write a thesis in their senior year. This thesis, of about 30 pages in length, will be written while the student is enrolled in BC 3091. Thesis specification will vary depending on the major program that has been chosen.
A student who elects French as part of a combined double or interdisciplinary major will establish her individualized program with the departments concerned. All combined or interdisciplinary majors require approval from the Committee on Petitions and Academic Standing.
Seven courses are required for
a minor:
FREN BC 3021
or BC 3023, and BC 3022 or BC 3024, or FREN V 3420 and V 3421
Two language
courses chosen from FREN BC 3006-BC 3019
Three
literature and culture courses chosen from FREN BC 3029-BC 3079