Vision

The Program in French Language and Culture aspires to cultivate linguistic, literary and cultural concepts as well as help students acquire the practical skills through the exposure to other modern and contemporary world cultures and civilizations.

Mission

Program’s mission is to graduate culturally aware students with a high level of expertise in French language and culture in order to fulfill the needs of the State of Kuwait.

Goals

The program aims at helping students acquire specialized skills and thorough knowledge of the French Language and Culture. It also helps students develop their analytical and critical skills and, thus, provide learners with an excellent foundation for future employment in various sectors such as Management, Law, Education, Banking and in Translation and research.

The Program

The Department offers a wide range of courses in the French Language. Linguistics, French Literature and Culture, Francophone and Comparative Literatures, Literary Theory, History, Politics and the visual arts, in addition to courses in the language skills (Reading; Writing, Speaking) and in Translation. The Nature of these courses combines theoretical and practical side which requires the use of language labs in all the skills courses as well as in the literature, linguistics, and translation. Students have the choice to choose a minor offered by the various departments across the University or take Translation as a minor from within the program. The Program as well offers a minor in French open for all University students.

Upon completion of the program, the student is offered a degree of Bachelor of Arts in French Language and Culture.

Planning to major or minor

Students should have knowledge of the French Language before applying to the department. Requirements to qualify for majoring in French:

1. Pass the French Qualifying Test with an average of no less than 50%.

2. Students who pass the French Qualifying Exam scoring 80% and above can register in courses 0390101 and (0390102).

Rules and regulations which apply to the English courses offered by the Language Center (090 & 141 & 142) also apply to the French courses (040 & 101 & 102.