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The Department of French Studies (DFS) offers a comprehensive undergraduate program with an interdisciplinary approach to the study of language, linguistics and literature.

In the language program, students are taught oral and written expression and aural and written comprehension while being given opportunities to explore the many facets of francophone culture in the world. The linguistics program exposes students to the many branches of linguistics (syntax, semantics, phonetics, sociolinguistics, etc.) through a variety of theoretical approaches such as structuralist theory, enunciative theory and generative theory.

The literature program opens doors to the literatures and cultures of the francophone world with a particular focus on French and French Canadian literature. Students develop analytical and expository skills through the analysis of texts using various theoretical and philosophical approaches.

The DFS also offers students:

  • an exchange program with the Université Michel de Montaigne in Bordeaux, France and with Créteil in Paris, France
  • FrancoFans (a French-speaking social club run by the students)
  • Certificates of Language Proficiency in French.

Every three years, DFS hosts a French Contest for high school students from the Toronto region. The contest offers entrance scholarships to the winners. The contest will next be held on the Keele campus in 2012.

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