French and Italian
Engaged French and Italian
Engaged French and Italian takes what you鈥檙e learning in your courses and puts it into practice through internships, research, study away, winter term, career exploration, and beyond.
Here鈥檚 a sampling of recent projects, field experiences, and post-graduate destinations for French majors.
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Research. Internships. Study Away. Experiential Learning.
Ways French Majors Rise
Research
- Funded research assistantships with faculty members
- 鈥淧enetrating Gazes: Colonizing the Body, Imagining the Harem鈥
- 鈥淢edical Discourse in Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola鈥
- 鈥淭welve Syllables and Counting: Translating Racine鈥檚 Andromaque (1667) in Alexandrines鈥
- Classical References in the R茅volutions de Paris and the Rise of Republicanism鈥
- 鈥淭ranslation with an Introduction of Vercoquin et le plankton (1945)鈥
- 鈥淭he Myth of Satan in French 19th-Century Literature鈥
- 鈥淚n Search of Lost Women,鈥 a digital humanities research project that results in student co-authorship
Internships
- TAPIF Teaching English in France Program
- CUPA-Paris internships while studying at the Universit茅 de Paris
- Globally oriented internships sponsored by Handshake: 91直播 Career Center
- Development intern, Other Minds, San Francisco
- Production assistant, Cedille Records, Chicago
- Production intern, Eugene O鈥橬eill Theater Center, NYC
- Stage manager at HB Studio, NYC
- Intern, 91直播 Police Department
Study Away
- Center for University Programs Abroad (CUPA), Paris
- CIEE Language & Culture, Dakar, Senegal
- CIEE Language and Culture, Rabat, Morocco
Experiential Learning
- La Maison Francophone residence hall directed and staffed by French native speakers
- Winter Term projects in France, Quebec, and Martinique
- La Table Fran莽aise, daily French conversation hour in Stevenson Hall鈥
First Destinations of Recent French Majors
- Positions:
- General surgery resident, Harvard Medical School
- Professor of French, Harvard University
- Professor of English, NYU
- Colorado state public defender
- Section viola, Lyric Opera Chicago
- Archivist, Institut national, Paris
- Senior project manager, MediaLocate Translation Services, NYC
- Family nurse practitioner, Roxbury, Mass.
- Research coordinator, Columbia University
- Concert organist, Boston
- Shansi Fellow at Shanxi Agricultural University, China
- Operations analyst for France, North Africa, and French West Indies, CarRentals.com
- Fourth grade teacher, Md.
- Business analyst, NEOS, Conn.
- Acquisitions editor, Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, NYC
- Associate, Jones Day (law), Cleveland
- Legal associate, Lohf Shaiman Jacobs Hyman, Denver
- Graduate Schools:
- Medical school, Duke University
- School of Engineering, University of Washington
- Master of Arts in translation, Middlebury Institute of International Studies
- PhD in comparative literature, NYU
- PhD in French, Duke University
- PhD in economics, University of Illinois
- PhD, Ecoles des hautes 茅tudes, Paris JD, Harvard
- MA in art history, Emory University
- PhD in civil engineering, University of Washington
- MA in security policy studies, George Washington University
- Master of Public Policy, University of Maryland