Honors Specialization in
French Linguistics and Literature

Admission Requirements:

Completion of first-year requirements with no failures. Students must have an average of at least 70% in 3.0 principal courses, including French 1900E or 1910 plus 2.0 additional courses, with no mark in these principal courses below 60%.

Module: 10.0 senior courses

Second Year: 3.0 courses

1.0 credit
Required Language

  • 2905A/B and 2906A/B (may be taken in any order)
  • 2900 Advanced Language (II)

1.0 credit
Required Literature

  • 2805 A/B Sound Patterns
  • 2806 A/B From Sound to Meaning
  • the former 2800 French Linguistics

1.0 credit
From the following
  • 2605F/G Reading Cultures I
  • 2606F/G Reading Cultures II
  • 2600E French Literature

Third and fourth years: 7.0 full-course equivalents

1.0 credit
Required Language

  • 3900 Advanced Language (III)

1.0 credit

Maximum 0.5 per group
  • 3540F/G - 3542F/G Culture and Literature in Society: The Middle Ages in France
  • 3560F/G - 3562F/G Culture and Literature in Society: The French Renaissance
  • 3570F/G - 3572F/G Culture and Literature in Society: France in the 17th Century

1.0 credit

Maximum 0.5 per group
  • 3580F/G - 3582F/G Culture and Literature in Society: France in the 18th Century
  • 3690F/G - 3692F/G Culture and Literature in Society: France in the 19th Century
  • 3600F/G - 3602F/G Culture and Literature in Society: France in the 20th Century

1.5 credit
Required Linguistics
  • 3810A/B Syntax
  • 3830A/B Phonetics and Phonolgy
  • 3870A/B History of the French Language

1.0 credit
From the following
  • 4040A/B Old French Language
  • 4810A/B Advanced Syntax
  • 4820A/B Morphology
  • 4840A/B Semantics
  • 4880A/B Advanced Limguistics

1.0 credits
  • Any 3000 level Literature courses

0.5 credit
  • Any 4000 level Literature course

Note: Both of French 2605F/G and French 2606F/G (or French 2600E) are prerequisites for further studies in French Literature and French 2805A/B and French 2806A/B are prerequisites for further studies in French Linguistics.

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