An overall GPA of 2.000 and a GPA of 2.500 in the major are required for graduation.

The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures does not accept D's in freshman English, nor in any course in the major, departmental electives, and advised electives.

For more detailed information, please consult the Handbook for Foreign Language Majors available online at http://sasw.chass.ncsu.edu/fl/hand.htm.

1. Students will take one four-hour writing course, ENG 101, in their first year to satisfy the freshman component of the General Education Requirements in Writing and Speaking. Students with lower placement scores will take a two-course freshman sequence, ENG 100 and ENG 101, with ENG 100 awarding 4 hours of free elective credit. Students with exceptionally high placement scores may qualify for exemption. See http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/fwp/NewFrWrReq.htm.

2. Two-semester requirement includes a course concerned with pre-industrial Western or non-Western societies (HI 207, 208, 209, 215, 216, 263, 264, 270, 275 or 276), and another dealing with the United States, or post-industrial Western societies (HI 205, 210, 221, 222, 233, 251 or 252).

3. Two courses (6 hours credit) are required. This requirement may be satisfied with two mathematics courses from the University GER list or with one mathematics course plus a course in statistics or logic (LOG 201 and 335). Note: Students will not be given credit for MA 111 if they have taken MA 107 or MA 108. Credit is not given for more than one of the calculus courses MA 121, MA 131, and MA 141.

4. Twelve hours of social science from the University GER list representing at least three of the following disciplines: anthropology, economics, politics and government, psychology, sociology, cultural geography. At least nine hours must be outside the student's major field.

5. Physical Education: All undergraduate students are required to complete a “Fitness and Wellness” course (100 level PE) and one additional credit hour of a PE activity course.

6. The Natural Sciences requirement calls for a minimum of eleven credit hours. Students must receive credit for two different basic introductory courses in physics, chemistry, the earth sciences, and the biological sciences from the University GER list. The third course may be any of the basic introductory courses listed above or any course from the university approved list of Natural Sciences (Other Natural Sciences in addition to Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Physics). At least two courses must include a laboratory experience. Note: if BIO 125 or BIO 105 has been taken, the other may not be taken for credit; BO 200 may not be combined with either BIO 125 or BIO 105; and CH 100 may not be taken for credit if the student has previously received credit for CH 101.

7. Science Technology Society. One three-credit course taken from the following: ADN 231; ANS 105, 110, 301; ANT 261; ARE 336, 436; ARS/STS 257; BO 213, 222, 360; CH 100; EC 336,436; ENG 232, 233, 414; ET 410; FS 201, 301; FW 221, 403; GN 301; HI 321, 322, 341, 423, 440, 480, 481, 482, 483, 484, 485; HS 201; IDS 105, 201, 211, 220, 303; IDS/TAM 414; LAR 445; MAT 230; MB 200; MEA 140, 430; MSE 230; NR 406; NTR 301; PHI 311, 322, 340, 415, 420, 440, 450; PS 314, 336; PSY 312; SOC 261, 381, 450; SSC 185, 361; STS 214,301, 302,304, 320, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 402, 405, 412, 451, 484, 490; TAM 414; TC 401; TOX 201; WGS/STS 220; ZO 221, 260. The course used to meet this requirement may not be used to fulfill any other degree requirement.
8. Three hours of philosophy from the University GER list are required.

9. Any 3-credit course in music (including ARS/MUS 306), history of art, dance (including the DAN 272/295 sequence) or multi-arts (including FL 216, ARS 251, 252, 259, 351, 353) or a course in design (ARC 140, 141, 142; GD 200, 342; LAR 444; any ADN course at the 100 or 200 level [except ADN 292]; ADN 311, 383, 386, 414, 454), film (COM/ENG 364, 374; ENG 282, 492; FLF 318; FLG 318; FLS 318; IDS 496) or theatre (COM 103, 203, 213, 233, 243, 303, 323, 333) or in religion (any REL course other than a Hebrew language course), rhetoric
(COM/ENG 321 or 411) or classics (GRK/LAT 310) will fulfill this requirement. This course may not be drawn from the student’s major field of study.

10. Required courses for major program in French: Twenty-seven semester hours. No D is accepted in these courses. Please consult the Handbook for Foreign Language Majors for the required prerequisites.

FLF 201 Intermediate French I
FLF 202 Intermediate French II
* FLF 301 Survey of French Literature from the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment
* FLF 302 Survey of French Literature from Romanticism to the Contemporary period
FLF 308 Advanced Conversation: Contemporary French Cultures
FLF 309 French Phonetics and Pronunciation
FLF 310 French Syntax and Composition
FLF 315 French Civilization and Culture
** FLF 492 Seminar in French Studies

* Major papers are required in these courses.
** Corequisite with FLS 492 is the CHASS Computer Literacy Requirement. The major paper in FLS 492 must be written using (1) a word processing program; (2) on-line library references; (3) Internet resources.

11. Departmental Electives: Six semester hours. Select two of the following courses. No D is accepted in these course. Please consult the Handbook for Foreign Language Majors for the required prerequisites.

FLF 306 Business Communication
FLF 307 Technical and Commercial French
FLF 318 The Heritage of French Cinema
FLF 321 Cultures and Contexts
FLF 411 Methods and Techniques in French Translation
FLF 414 Studies in French Prose
FLF 425 Literature, Cinema, and Culture of the Francophone World
FL 495 Special Topics in Foreign Languages and Literatures
FL 498 Independent Study in Foreign Languages and Literatures
(Offered only under special circumstances upon consultation with major adviser)

It is recommended that all French majors participate in a study abroad program. Please note that, no more than 15 hours of study abroad transfer credit may be applied towards the major program in French. FLF 492 must be taken at NC State.
All French majors will submit two copies of their research paper for the FLS or FLF 492 senior seminar. One copy of the paper, as well as a faculty report on the student’s oral presentation for the seminar, will be filed in the student’s portfolio. The paper should be representative of the student’s best work.

12. Advised Electives: Fifteen semester hours (No D is accepted in these courses.)

A program of study designed in collaboration with the student’s advisor - students are encouraged to pursue a minor in a second concentration of interest. In the case of double majors, these fifteen hours may be used from the second major. No more than 15 hours of transfer credit may be applied towards the major program in French.

13. Free Electives: Twenty-Four semester hours: Students are encouraged to elect either additional FLF electives, FL 216, or HI 414, 415, 430.

14. The six-hour CHASS literature requirement, as well as the three-hour university GER literature requirement is met by FLF 301 and FLF 302.