Department Objectives

--Demonstrate French-language competencies in speaking, reading and writing about a wide range of cultural, literary and linguistic topics and in a wide range of registers, from day-to-day to academic;

--Recognize principal questions and issues that have shaped Francophone cultures and societies through time and be able to think critically about them;

--Build shared vocabulary for analyzing and interpreting genres and media of cultural production

--Understand Francophone cultures in broader political, geographic, historical and diasporic contexts

--Demonstrate competency in French-language culture and a complementary discipline (e.g., history, art history): speaking, reading and writing about a wide range of cultural, and linguistic topics

--Recognize principal questions and issues that have shaped one or more Francophone cultures, informed by the perspectives of a complementary field or discipline; think critically about this conjunction

--Build shared vocabulary for analyzing and interpreting genres and media of cultural production

----Demonstrate Italian-language competencies in speaking, reading and writing about a wide range of cultural, literary and linguistic topics and in a wide range of registers, from day-to-day to academic;

--Recognize principal questions and issues that have shaped Italophone cultures and societies through time and be able to think critically about them;

--Build shared vocabulary for analyzing and interpreting genres and media of cultural production

--Understand Italophone cultures in broader political, geographic, historical and diasporic contexts

--Demonstrate competency in Italian-language culture and a complementary discipline (e.g., history, art history): speaking, reading and writing about a wide range of cultural, and linguistic topics

--Recognize principal questions and issues that have shaped one or more Italophone cultures, informed by the perspectives of a complementary field or discipline; think critically about this conjunction

--Build shared vocabulary for analyzing and interpreting genres and media of cultural production