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Minor in French Studies 1. One prerequisite French course (3 credit units) Course Code Course Title Credit Units EN2868 French 1 (or equivalent) * 3 2. Three required French courses (9 credit units; varying entry levels depending on the student’s proficiency level) Course Code Course Title Credit Units EN2869 French 2 3 EN2870 French 3 3 EN2871 French 4 3 EN2883 French 5 3 3. One required course (3 credit units) Course Code Course Title Credit Units EN2872 Culture and Society in French-Speaking Countries 3 4. One course from any of the following courses (3 credit units) Course Code Course Title Credit Units EN2874 French for Business 3 EN2873 French Professional Internship # 3 LW4633 Law and Business

Foreign Language Scholarships A strong background in a foreign language could earn you a language scholarship. Students who have received a Trustee, Presidential or Dean's merit scholarship will be invited to attend Scholarship Weekend and compete for a competitive scholarship in French, German or Spanish. These scholarships are sizable and are renewable for four years. If you are interested in more information, please contact the Office of Admission.

Career Opportunities The knowledge of a foreign language a valuable resource in today's world. Coe foreign language graduates have gone on to language-related careers in government, museum work, international banking, teaching, advertising, radio and television, library work, and the diplomatic. Here are a few examples of what Coe foreign language graduates are doing now: Tracey Peters (Spanish, minor in French) teaches French and Spanish at a high school in California Paul Venhuizen (French and Physics) is working toward a Ph. D. in French at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Raquel R. Brandhorst (Spanish and Business) is currently employed as a Marketing Representative by

Have you thought about working as a journalist covering the separatist movement in French-speaking Quebec? As a translator for an archeological team researching Mayan ruins in Mexico? As an environmental chemist helping clean up industrial sites in the new Eastern states of Germany? The study of foreign languages at Coe College can make such dreams real, and it can do more. When you study Japanese, German, Spanish, Latin or Greek at Coe, you become culturally literate in the language, poetry, music, food, geography, painting and customs of another people and are then better able to understand your own place in

Career Opportunities The knowledge of a foreign language a valuable resource in today's world. Coe foreign language graduates have gone on to language-related careers in government, museum work, international banking, teaching, advertising, radio and television, library work, and the diplomatic. Here are a few examples of what Coe foreign language graduates are doing now: Tracey Peters (Spanish, minor in French) teaches French and Spanish at a high school in California Paul Venhuizen (French and Physics) is working toward a Ph. D. in French at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Raquel R. Brandhorst (Spanish and Business) is currently employed as a Marketing Representative by

Foreign Languages Have you thought about working as a journalist covering the separatist movement in French-speaking Quebec? As a translator for an archeological team researching Mayan ruins in Mexico? As an environmental chemist helping clean up industrial sites in the new Eastern states of Germany? The study of foreign languages at Coe College can make such dreams real, and it can do more. When you study Japanese, German, Spanish, Latin or Greek at Coe, you become culturally literate in the language, poetry, music, food, geography, painting and customs of another people and are then better able to understand your own place

Department of French and Italian The Colby Department of French and Italian offers a major in French Studies and a minor in Italian. Course schedules and links to online course materials are on the current course listings page. Resources contains links to recommended Colby-based and external websites. The major in French, which emphasizes language skills, offers interdisciplinary studies in the areas of specialization of the faculty: French literature and civilization; the evolution of Western thought in France; the cultures and literatures of Francophone Canada and the U.S. and of Francophone countries in northern and sub-saharan Africa and the Caribbean; stylistics

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