By the time they graduate, our students should be able to:
- Communicate effectively in French, orally and in writing.
- Interpret authentic works written in French using a variety of critical tools.
- Examine cultural and historical contexts and explore their relationship to cultural productions.
- Understand the appropriate use of secondary sources in their own work, both in support of their arguments and in contradisctinction to them.
- Acquire skills in research techniques and information resources.
- Bring an interdisciplinary approach to bear on objects of study.
- Engage in sophisticated written and oral argumentation concerning materials studied in class.
- Recognize and interrogate fundamental assumptions of the arguments made by scholars in the discipline.
- Learn to ask productive questions and solve problems concerning particular texts and other objects of study, both within the discipline and beyond.
- Develop intercultural competence that allows them to consider French and Francophone cultures as well as their own culture in a broader context.