The French section is pleased to welcome you to our campus in Saint Louis, a historically French city that conserves much of its heritage, and to introduce you to France via our study abroad programs in Paris, Toulouse, Nice and the Loire Valley as well as to many parts of the Francophone world. We offer an undergraduate major and minor as well as M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in French literature. Our faculty’s interdisciplinary interests include science, philosophy, politics and the arts. We provide our students with a full range of linguistic, literary, historical and theoretical tools necessary for a solid foundation in French and Francophone literature and culture, one ideally suited for careers in international business and affairs, international law and medicine, teaching and translation, and other exciting fields.

We are pleased to offer our students an on-going series of lectures, films, artistic performances and professional development workshops, all of which contribute to the intellectually dynamic and personally rewarding social environment of our section. The French section regularly invites scholars of international repute to speak or teach on campus and hosts international colloquia that attract scholars from throughout the world. We have long been the home of the widely-read “Bulletin Marcel Proust” and to two dynamic research groups: the Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Salon and the Francophone Faculty Group.

To learn more about our programs please click on the links provided to our undergraduate and graduate programs in French.