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The Master of French Studies (MFS) is a professional degree earned in the Professional French Masters Program (PFMP). The PFMP is separate from the graduate program in French and Francophone literature. It is an interdisciplinary program combining advanced graduate-level course work in French language and Francophone culture with concentration-area course work in one of six professional concentration areas: French and business, French and education, French and international education, French and European Union affairs, French and international development, and French and media/arts/cultural production. The PFMP prepares graduate students for careers in business, government, nonprofit organizations, media, advertising, and the arts. All PFMP students do a professional internship, in their field, in a French-speaking country, and present a professional portfolio at the end of their studies.

Learning outcomes

• Speak, read, listen and write in French at a level sufficient to work successfully among native French speakers in the student's concentration area.
• Identify, select and retrieve primary and secondary sources in research projects, using techniques expected by professionals working in the student's concentration area.
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the relationship between practices and perspectives in the cultures of the world's major French-speaking regions.
• Articulate, critique, and elaborate the major professional approaches and best practices in the student's concentration area.
• Demonstrate understanding of the student's concentration area in its historical and cultural context.
• Successfully apply major professional approaches and best practices to professional projects in a French-speaking organizational setting outside the United States, in the student's concentration area.
• Use the most appropriate methodologies for success when beginning or returning to work in the student's concentration area.