Saint Louis University's Bachelor of Arts in French program, offered by the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, aims to develop students' competency in the language while increasing their knowledge of the French-speaking world.
As the living environment becomes increasingly transnational, a major in French offers an attractive asset to careers in many fields, including business, medicine, politics, law and the humanities. In addition, the major prepares students for graduate work in French by providing them with a broad range of courses in French and Francophone literature and culture.
Additional program highlights:
- We offer a wide variety of courses on the French-speaking world, including courses such as French and International Relations, Business French, French Cinema and French and Francophone Media.
- Students can spend a year in Lyon, France. This yearlong, full-immersion program allows students to experience firsthand the country and its culture. Students will take classes in the French university system with French students and other international students. Courses not only fulfill requirements for French majors at SLU, but students may also have an opportunity to complete some of their core requirements while in Lyon.
- Students can also spend a semester or a year in Poitiers, France, studying at the Universit© de Poitiers alongside other international students and native French speakers. Courses taken as part of this full-immersion program may count toward the student's major or minor in French, study in other disciplines or core requirements.
- The French experience at SLU extends beyond the classroom walls. The department offers frequent activit©s cuturelles open to all levels and hosts a chapter of the national French honor society, Pi Delta Phi. Students can also participate in service opportunities in the St. Louis community.