| Studying at BGSU in Bowling Green, Ohio |
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Surrounded by fields of corn and soy, Bowling Green (population 30,000) boasts a charming Main Street with coffee shops, restaurants,
book and music stores, and bars with live music. Offering the advantages of convenient small-town living, Bowling Green is also situated in proximity to several major urban areas (Toledo is 30 minutes away, Ann Arbor is 75 minutes, Cleveland is 2 hours, and Chicago is 4 hours by car).
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The focus of the town is the university, which boasts the Moore Musical Arts Center with two concert halls, several theaters,
the Lillian Gish Film Theater (which runs an international film series), the Student Recreation Center, and a School of Art
with two new galleries.
The cultural life of the French program centers around La Maison Française , a living-learning community for undergraduates that offers multiple programs each week to the entire community. Graduate
students regularly participate in the weekly café-conversation hour, which often draws native speakers from both on and off
campus, special lectures with Francophone speakers, an annual brunch with a Quebecois artist or filmmaker, and various parties
each semester. The opportunity exists for a graduate student to live in the house and serve as Assistant to the Director
(who is an exchange student from Tours, France).
| Courses and Requirements on campus at BGSU |
The MA degree is completed in the second year on campus in Ohio, where our faculty offers diverse courses on French and Francophone
literature, film, culture, pedagogy, and linguistics.
Required courses:
• FREN 632: Critical Approaches to Literature, an applied overview of key literary theories; required of MA students
• FREN 601: Teaching College French, required of teaching assistants
• FREN 698: FREN 698: Readings for Final Project; required of all Plan II students
Elective courses:
Courses offered in recent years include: Le Quebec et la quête d’identité, the Politics of Seduction, Sociolinguistics, Madame Bovary
“de l’écrit à l’écran,” French Cinema, Women in African Society, Women Writing/Writing Women, and Business French*.
*BGSU is now a Centre d’examens for the Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris. Students enrolled in the Business French
course (offered every spring) can prepare for the exam leading to the Diplôme de français des affaires, premier degré.
Graduate Assistants must enroll in 12 graduate-level credit hours per semester. The credits earned for GradSTEP or other
orientation programs before the fall semester begins are not considered part of your minimum credits for fall semester. In
addition, no independent studies are allowed unless there are no remaining French graduate courses a student can take (for
instance, a student has already taken every FREN class offered because of completing the entire degree on campus).
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