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Home Campus at BGSU
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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 close to several major urban areas: Toledo is 30 minutes away, Ann Arbor 75 minutes, Cleveland 2 hours, and
Chicago 4 hours by car.
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The focus of the town is the university, which boasts the Moore Musical Arts Center with its two concert halls, the Lillian
Gish Film Theater that hosts an international film series, the Student Recreation Center with its state-of-the-art fitness
facilities, and the multiple galleries in the School of Art..
The cultural life of the French program centers around La Maison Française, a living-learning community for undergraduates that offers numerous cultural activities. Graduate students regularly participate
in the weekly café-conversation hour, which often draws native speakers from both on and off campus. There are special lectures by francophone speakers,
an annual brunch with a Québecois artist or filmmaker, and various soirées each semester. In recent years a graduate student has lived in the Maison and served as Assistant to the Director, an exchange student from Tours.
Courses and Requirements
The masters’ degree is completed in the second year on campus in Ohio, where our faculty offer diverse courses on French and
Francophone literature, film, culture, pedagogy and linguistics.
Candidates pursue graduate studies under one of the following two plans:
• Plan I (thesis option): Candidates must complete 36 semester hours of graduate credit including a minimum of 30 hours
of regular course work plus a thesis for which 6 semester hours of credit are granted. Plan I is recommended for those who
expect to pursue a Ph.D. degree.
• Plan II (non-thesis option): Candidates must complete 36 semester hours of graduate credit including a minimum of 33
hours of regular course work plus a final research project (involving a paper and an oral presentation) for which 3 semester
hours of credit are granted.
Students under both plans must also demonstrate proficiency in the language)
Required courses:
FREN 6320: Critical Approaches to Literature, an applied overview of key literary theories; required for MA students
FREN 6010: Teaching College French, required for teaching assistants
FREN 6980: Readings for Final Project; required of all Plan II (non-thesis) students, or FREN 6990 in which Plan I (thesis)
students will enroll.
Elective courses: Courses offered in recent years include: Le Quebec et la quête d’identité, the Politics of Seduction, Sociolinguistics, Le
Réalisme de l’écrit à l’écran, French Cinema, Women in African Society, Women Writing/Writing Women, and Business French*.
See complete course listing.
*BGSU is now a Centre de formation et d’examens for the Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris. Students enrolled in
the Business French course (offered every year) can prepare for the exam leading to the DFA (Diplôme de français professionnel),
Affaires B2 (formerly the DFA-1: Diplôme de français des affaires, premier degré).
+ The Graduate College requires that all Graduate Assistants be enrolled in 12 graduate-level credit hours per semester (not
counting the credits earned for GradSTEP or other orientation programs before the fall semester begins). During the year one
course may be taken outside of ROCS (department of Romance and Classical Studies); all other courses must be graduate-level
French courses offered by ROCS. The single exception to this rule concerns native French speakers who may be required by the
Graduate College to take ESL (English as a Second Language) courses. In that case, one ESL course per semester can be counted
as part of the required 12-hour course load.
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