Bachelor of Arts in French Language and Literature

1. Students should be able to express themselves orally or in writing (in level B2 and C1).
2. Students should be able to identify errors and correct erroneous statements in French following a metalinguistic approach.
3. Students should be able to communicate and speak out in public to make a presentation or to participate/moderate a debate.
4. Students should acquire a large culture regarding French and francophone literatures of the 19th and the 20th centuries.
5. Students should be able to locate a work in literary history, and identify the aestheticism to which it belongs.
6. Students should be able to understand and comment on a literary work.
7. Students should be able to use the necessary approaches for the analysis of literary texts.
8. Students should be able to analyze relationships that other disciplines have with literature: historical, artistic, philosophical and psychological thoughts.
9. Students should be able to develop critical thinking and analytical skills through synthesis, dissertations, composite commentaries and the research in general.
10. Students should be able to distinguish the references of good quality and use them in the research.
11. Students should be able to submit a research project at the end of the semester.
12. Students should be able to use information and communication technology data throughout the learning process.

Hold a secondary school certificate recognized by the Lebanese Ministry of Education, obtain “permission” from the Equivalence Committee for foreign programs, competitive admission based on 50% SAT and 50% grades 10 and 11 averages.

The courses offered by our department promote a multidisciplinary approach that facilitates access to a wide range of professional fields: teaching French literature, teaching French as a foreign and second language, literary criticism, literary journalism, communication, culture and information-related careers, publishing and book industry professions, and research.