Oct 08, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Foreign Languages, French and Francophone Studies Concentration, B.A.


World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures  
615-898-2981
Ann McCullough, program coordinator
Ann.Mccullough@mtsu.edu

A major in Foreign Languages with a French and Francophone Studies concentration consists of 39 semester hours (excluding 1010) and must include at least 20 hours of upper-division work. Before beginning the junior year, the student should file a degree plan with his or her advisor.

Degree Requirements


True Blue Core (TBC) 41 hours
Major Requirements 39 hours*
Minor 15-18 hours
Electives 22-25 hours
TOTAL 120 hours

*This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the True Blue Core curriculum. If courses for this program are also used to fulfill True Blue Core requirements, the number of electives may increase.

True Blue Core (41 hours)


True Blue Core (TBC)  requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.

The following courses required by the program meet True Blue Core requirements:

  • 3 credit hours from foreign language 1010, 1020, 2010, or 2020 (NWC)

Major Requirements (39 hours)


Minor (15-18 hours)


Electives (22-25 hours)


Curriculum: Foreign Languages, French and Francophone Studies


Freshman


Subtotal: 31 Hours


Sophomore


Subtotal: 28 Hours


Junior


  • General electives 12 credit hours
  • Minor courses 6 credit hours
  • FREN 3000-4000 electives 12 credit hours

Subtotal: 30 Hours


Senior


  • 1 credit hour
  • FREN 3000-4000 electives 11 credit hours
  • General electives 7 credit hours
  • Minor/Elective 3 credit hours
  • Minor courses 6 credit hours
  • FREN 4000-level elective 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 31 Hours