French

UPEI's Department of Modern Languages provides its students with the opportunity to study various languages and to obtain a good grounding, but also sees languages within their appropriate cultural contexts. In other words, the acquisition of languages is seen as a vehicle to enter the thought, history, literature, and cinema within which each of the languages is associated.The Department of Modern Languages provides courses for several categories of students: for persons with little or no French, for those who have had French through high school, and for students who are fluent in French through residence, or through family etc. A placement test must be taken prior to the beginning of classes to confirm the level at which these students should register. Placement tests are administered through the Modern Languages department website, or on a paper version administered in the Department office to ensure that students are registered in courses according to their abilities.

Field of study: French Language and Literature, General