Students must maintain at least a 2.00 grade point average in both ENGL and FREN courses.
Program Requirements
Students complete 120 units, as specified below.
Lower Division Requirements
FRENCH
Students complete a total of 15 units, including all of
FREN 210 - Intermediate French I (3) *
FREN 211 - Intermediate French II (3) *
FREN 221 - French Writing I (3) *
FREN 222 - French Writing II (3) *
FREN 245 - Introduction to Literary Studies (3)
FREN 275 is recommended.
ENGLISH
Students complete any two 100-division English courses. Such courses may include:
ENGL 111W - Literary Classics in English (3) **
ENGL 112W - Literature Now (3) **
ENGL 113W - Literature and Performance (3) **
ENGL 114W - Language and Purpose (3) **
ENGL 115W - Literature and Culture (3) **
ENGL 199W - Writing to Persuade (3) **
Students also complete any four 200-division English courses. Such courses may include:
ENGL 202 - The Environmental Imagination (3) ***
ENGL 204 - Reading Sexuality and Gender (3) ***
ENGL 209 - Race, Borders, Empire (3) ***
ENGL 210 - Reading and Writing Identities (3) ***
ENGL 211 - The Place of the Past (3) ***
ENGL 213 - Reading Across Media (3) ***
ENGL 214 - History and Principles of Rhetoric (3) ***
ENGL 216 - History and Principles of Literary Criticism (3) +
ENGL 234 - Metrics and Prosody (3) ***
ENGL 272 - Creative Reading (3)
Students wishing to major in English are strongly advised to submit a formal declaration to this effect to the undergraduate advisor upon completing all lower division requirements.
* exemption is gained by successful completion of a more advanced French language course. Lower division language courses may be challenged for credit.
** any one, but not more than one, of these courses may be replaced by any three unspecified transfer units in English or in ENGL-Writing
*** any one, but not more than one, of these courses may be replaced by any three unspecified 200 division transfer units in English
+ recommended and any one, but not more than one, of these courses may be replaced by any three unspecified 200 division transfer units in English
Upper Division Requirements
Students complete 21 upper division French and 20 upper division English units for a literary studies specialization and complementary courses as follows.
FRENCH
Students complete a total of 21 units, including
FREN 301W - Advanced Writing (3)
and one of
FREN 340 - Survey of Quebecois Literature (3)
FREN 341 - Survey of French Literature to 1600 (3)
FREN 344 - Survey of French Literature after 1789 (3)
FREN 345 - Survey of French Literature from 1600 to 1789 (3)
and one of
FREN 300 - Advanced French: Oral Practice (3)
FREN 304 - Advanced French Grammar (3)
FREN 307 - The Right Word: Advanced Vocabulary and Translation (3)
FREN 330 - Francophone World (3)
and 12 units from 400 division French literature courses.
NOTE: SFU students enrolled in the Accelerated Master's program within the Department of French may apply a maximum of 10 graduate course units taken while completing the bachelor's degree to the requirements of the master's degree. For more information go to: https://www.sfu.ca/gradstudies/apply/programs/accelerated-masters.html and https://www.sfu.ca/students/calendar/programs/french/master-of-arts.html.
ENGLISH
Students complete 20 units of upper division English courses. A minimum of four of these units must be at the 400-level, excluding directed studies courses (ENGL 490, 491); a minimum of four units must be from the following group of courses, focused on Canadian and/or Indigenous Literatures:
ENGL 355 - Canadian Literatures (4)
ENGL 360 - Popular Writing by Indigenous Authors (4)
ENGL 431W - Seminar in Indigenous Literatures (4)
ENGL 432W - Seminar in Canadian Literature (4)
With permission of the department, other English courses of equivalent content may be substituted for those required in this group.
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