World Languages and Cultures Track

Dear French Major:

This map is a term-by-term sample course schedule. The milestones listed below each year are designed to keep you on track to graduate in four years. A sample schedule is provided as a general guideline to help you build your own schedule each term. Your courses must be selected with your advisor to satisfy all core curriculum and state, lab science, and multicultural requirements. Refer to the Undergraduate Catalog for the most current curriculum.

Your senior curriculum calls for 27 credit hours of electives. Choose smart and you will be able to enhance your diploma by adding a second major such as Spanish World Languages and Cultures, a certificate, such as Spanish for Professionals or TESOL, or a minor in any of the following languages or area studies: Spanish, German, or Middle Eastern Studies.

 

Rotation of Upper-level French Classes

 

FREN 2010 – Spring, Fall

FREN 3001 – Fall (uneven)

FREN 3150 – Fall (even)

FREN 3160 – Fall (uneven)

FREN 3200 – Fall

FREN 3250 – Spring (uneven)

FREN 3260 – Spring (even)

FREN 4001 – Fall

FREN 4002 – Fall (even)

FREN 4990 – Independent Study Internship (as needed)

With occasionally included other (elective - special topics) classes.

Year 1

Fall Hrs.
FREN 1001 3
ENGL 1101 3
MATH 1001 3
HIST 2111 or 2112 3
POLS 1101 3
Total hours 15
Spring Hrs.
FREN 1002 3
ENGL 1102 3
Field of Study Elective 3
STEM Elective 3
Social Sciences Elective 3
Total hours 15
Summer Hrs.
Total hours 0

Milestones: 鈮�2.0 GPA. By the end of year 1, you should have completed your math requirement, completed the freshman composition sequence (ENGL 1101 and ENGL 1102), joined the French and/or Arabic Club, and completed 30 credit hours.

Year 2

Fall Hrs.
FREN 2001 3
Institutional Priority 2-3
Humanities Elective 3
Field of Study Elective 3
Guided Elective 3
Total hours 14-15
Spring Hrs.
FREN 2002 3
FREN 2010 3
STEM Lab Science 4
Institutional Priority 3
Humanities World Literature 3
Total hours 16

Milestones: 鈮�2.0 GPA. Begin planning to participate in a recommended MCL study abroad program in the summer. By the end of year 2, you should have completed the Field of Study area, completed 60 credit hours, and started a coherent plan for your guided electives. In this track you have 27 credit hours of guided electives. They give you ample space to enrich your education with a minor in Spanish, German, or Middle Eastern Studies, or a Spanish for Professionals Certificate. Want to work, live, and teach abroad? Consider completing the Certificate in TESOL. You can use the guided electives to fulfill most of the requirements for a second major in Spanish World Languages and Cultures Track as well. A study abroad program is highly recommended during any summer. Fast track your foreign language with study abroad!

Year 3

Fall Hrs.
FREN 3150 or 3160 3
FREN 3200 3
FREN 3001 3
Social Sciences Elective 3
Guided Elective 3
Total hours 15
Spring Hrs.
FREN 3250 or 3260 3
FREN 3XXX or 4XXX 3
STEM Elective 3
Guided Elective 3
Guided Elective 4
Total hours 16

Milestones: 鈮�2.0 GPA. From the fall of your 3rd year on, you should consider a paper or a poster based on research done in 3000 or 4000 level classes for presentation at an undergraduate research symposium. Submit your graduation application. By the end of year 3, you should have visited the Office of Career Opportunities, begun to plan for life after VSU, and completed 90 credit hours.

Year 4

Fall Hrs.
FREN 4002 3
FREN 4001 3
ESOL 4010 3
Guided Elective 3
Guided Elective 3
Total hours 15
Spring Hrs.
FREN 4990 3
FREN 3XXX or 4XXX 3
Guided Elective 3
Guided Elective 3
Guided Elective 3
Total hours 15

Milestones: 鈮�2.0 GPA. In the fall of your final year, you should contact and apply for graduate study or professional school, if required for your career plans. Contact professors to write letters of reference for you, and continue to consider a paper or a poster based on research done in 3000 or 4000 level classes for presentation at an undergraduate research symposium. Consider an International Student Exchange Program (ISEP) semester abroad for the spring. Early in your final semester, you should prepare a professional resume. You should have completed 120 credit hours by the end of the senior year.