B.A. in French
Curriculum
The B.A. in French requires 10 courses above FRN 101 and FRN 102, for a total of 30 credits in French. Students take FRN 101 to FRN 104 in sequence. After FRN 104, students can take FRN 204 or FRN 207; you can even take both simultaneously, and, in fact, a lot of our students do. After FRN 207, you can take FRN 307. After FRN 204 you can take FRN 304, FRN 309, or FRN 310. After or while taking any 300-level course, you can take FRN 480. After FRN 309 or FRN 310, you can take any of the 400-level courses.
You must take a minimum of two FRN courses at the 400 level with at least one among the following: FRN 412, FRN 473, FRN 474. The following courses do not count towards the major: FRN 101, 102, 391, 392, 393. In addition, students must take a minimum of 42 credits at the 300 level or above for the B.A. You can count for the French major a maximum of 15 credits in FRN transferred from abroad or any other institution but half of your French major credits need to be completed at URI. FRN 320 and FRN 412 can be repeated with different topics.
You must also fulfill all the general education requirements for the College of Arts and Sciences. If you have a second major in a college other than Arts and Sciences, you are exempt from the one course per discipline in the Letters, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences category. You may also count any of the literature courses within the French major (FRN 309, FRN 310, FRN 412, FRN 473, or FRN 474) for your “Literature” course. Please note that the “Fine Arts and Literature” category is really a “Fine Arts” and a “Literature” category, so you will also need one of the Fine Arts courses. Also note that one of your Communications courses must be a writing course.The University of Rhode Island requires a minimum of 120 credits for graduation and all courses subject to approval by the French section.
Fulfilling the Requirements
Your French advisor will help choose and plan, but ultimately you should read the URI catalog and student handbook and start charting your progress toward graduation from your first year at URI on. You can keep track of your requirements by using the Intent to Graduate Form from the College of Arts and Sciences. If you are pursuing one of our dual-degree programs you must submit an intent to graduate form for each college from which you are getting a degree.
If you’ve had three years of high school French and you take FRN 104 as your first French course at URI, you can apply to get three extra French credits. If you’ve had four or more years of high school French and you take either FRN 207 or FRN 204 as your first French course at URI, you can apply to get three extra French credits. You need to earn a C or higher in the URI course in order to qualify. You may also qualify for credit for AP testing or early enrollment work. Talk to the Dean in University College.