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Fordham University's French Program
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The University offers a wide range of French courses, from elementary through advanced language studies, and courses devoted to areas and themes in French literature and culture. Fordham's New York City location enhances the study of French with access to the many institutions and events related to France, to its civilization and to its arts, including lecture series, special art exhibitions, concerts, theater and film. Students can also take advantage of the easy access to French newspapers and magazines, and enjoy interacting with the many visiting and resident French people.
The international interchange fostered by life in New York City is continued in Fordham's encouragement of study in France or Québec, often during the summer or for one semester in the student's junior year. The University maintains an office on the Rose Hill and Lincoln Center campuses to provide information and counseling regarding study abroad.
At Lincoln Center the Language Laboratory allows students to practice their French and to screen the films of well-known French directors. At Rose Hill the new library offers facilities for work on audio-visual and CD Rom materials.
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The French Major
The French Literature major prepares students in the study of significant texts. The French Studies major includes advanced language and culture courses. The French Literature major will take a minimum of ten courses numbered 1501 and higher. These courses will normally include 2001 (Advanced) and 2500 (Approaches to Literature). Additional courses will be taken from among the different category groups explained below:
Group I: Advanced language, communication, and cultural studies
Group II: Literature of the Middle Ages or the Renaissance (12th-15th centuries or 16th century)
Group III: Classicism or the Enlightenment (17th or 18th centuries)
Group IV: Modern Literature (19th or 20th centuries)
The Area Studies major is an individual, interdisciplinary major consisting of ten courses numbered 1501 and higher. It is designed in consultation with the appropriate program advisor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. It will normally include at least six courses in the department. Courses outside the department taken in consultation with a departmental advisor might typically include selected relevant groupings from African American Studies, Art and Music History, Business, Communications, Comparative Literature, Education, History, Latin American and Latino Studies, Linguistics, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Political Sciences, Psychology, Sociology, and Theology.
The French Studies major will select at least three literature courses and seven courses including culture and advanced language offerings; business French is also available. Students majoring in French can combine their specialization with programs in the Graduate School of Education to become secondary, bilingual or elementary school teachers. A concentration in French provides excellent additional credentials for the student applying to graduate school, law school or graduate business administration programs. It is also useful for students hoping to work in publishing and editing, journalism, television, radio, film, foreign area studies and diplomacy.
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The French Minor
The French minor will take a minimum of six courses numbered 1501 and higher in consultation with a program advisor.
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Faculty
Andrew Herrick Clark
924C Lowenstein, Lincoln Center
(212) 636-6278; anclark@fordham.edu
Ph.D. Princeton
Assistant Professor in French, specializes on Diderot, aesthetics, and physiology in the 18th century. His research interests also include philosophy, literature, music, painting, medicine, and the history of the book during the 17th and 18th centuries. He has published articles on Diderot, the Encyclopédie, and the history of the book, and presented conference papers on De Lafayette, Mattheson, Diderot, and Rousseau. His monograph, Diderot’s Part, is forthcoming from Ashgate in 2008. He teaches courses on 17th- and 18th- century epistemology, literature, and aesthetics in the MLL department and the Literary Studies program.
Fredrick J. Harris
550 Faber Hall, Rose Hill; (718) 817-2632
923D Lowenstein, Lincoln; (212) 636-6790; fharris@fordham.edu
Ph.D. Columbia University
19th- and 20th-century prose fiction,
French romantic and symbolist poetry; modern theater;
modern German prose fiction; literary theory.
Catharine Randall
550 Faber Hall, Rose Hill
(718) 817-2633; crandall@fordham.edu
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh
Early modern Europe, women's issues & gender studies,
cultural studies, French-Canadian culture and literature, interdisciplinary work,
especially literature, religion and art, 16th century love poetry, travel literature,
culture and film discussion courses, fables, fairytales, French monsters and magic.
Lise Schreier
553 Lowenstein, Lincoln Center
(212) 636-2674; lischreier@vassar.edu
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