Welcome from the French Graduate Advisors
Hello and welcome to the Indiana University Graduate programs in French. Please take some time to look through this web site and send us any inquiries you might have.
Our graduate programs feature internationally known scholars in a variety of disciplines. These programs are briefly described on this page; but we invite you to click on the appropriate links for further information. In French Literature, we offer courses in all the traditional fields from the Middle Ages to the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We also feature courses in francophone literature (recent offerings include: The Politics of Writing: From Franz Fanon to Edouard Glissant and Littérature du Sénégal ) and in French cultural and civilization studies from the Middle Ages to the present, including courses on French film, literature, and culture (e.g. la Nouvelle Vague: litterature, culture et film; La France Contemporaine: film et culture). These courses also emphasize the culture and civilization of the French-speaking world.
In French Linguistics, we offer courses in a wide range of both theoretical and applied areas: second language acquisition, language teaching methodology; syntax (sentence structure), phonology (sound structure), morphology (word structure), semantics (meaning and interpretation), sociolinguistics and dialectology, lexicology & lexicography (study of words and dictionary writing), pidgins and creoles, and the history of the language. Additional courses are taught in the Linguistics department. Faculty members are involved in a variety of research projects on which many graduate students collaborate.
The MA in French Instruction combines courses from French Literature, Civilization, and Linguistics and allows opportunities for complementary coursework outside the department, for example in the School of Education (e.g. Educational Technology) or the program in Applied Linguistics.
We invite you to look through the list of our faculty and their recent publications in order to appreciate the breadth of faculty research involvement. Faculty and graduate students interact in a variety of ways: in the context of our mentoring program, in our newly formed Groupes de Recherches, in our Student Faculty Forum on Friday afternoons, and of course in the classroom and in individual advising.
A large percentage of our graduate students are employed as Associate Instructors in French language courses, where they gain valuable teaching experience. They receive excellent training before assuming the teaching responsibilities and continued supervision throughout the academic year. We also offer a limited number of graduate fellowships and (in linguistics) research assistantships. We send graduate students to France each year as part of our ongoing exchanges with the Universities of Lille, Strasbourg, and Pau.
Our department prides itself on our commitment to the teaching, mentoring, and training of graduate students, and on helping them develop their research interests and potential. We offer a friendly and congenial environment for academic inquiry.
Finally, we are located on a beautiful campus in a pleasant college town with many cultural opportunities. Please contact us, the graduate advisors, if we can be of further assistance in answering your questions and facilitating your application.
Sincerely,
Prof
Julie Auger, French
Linguistics
Prof
Jérôme
Brillaud, French Literature
