As an international direct student at USC, you’ll receive:

• Exclusive and rigorous academic coursework
• Priority access to in-demand courses that fit your interests
• Guidance from academic advisors and mentors
• Career development and networking opportunities
• Intensive classes with domestic students

Welcome to the French program at the University of South Carolina, where you can study the language, literatures and cultures of France and the Francophone world.

The French Major program integrates language skills with cultural content across the curriculum to ensure that students will, by the time of graduation:

• Understand French as spoken by a proficient speaker at normal tempo on non-technical general topics;
• Speak French at a level corresponding to the Intermediate High Level of the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines;
• Read and comprehend non-technical materials in French;
• Write French with grammatical accuracy and clarity;
• Demonstrate knowledge of the geography, history, socio-political structure, and artistic and intellectual contributions of the societies in which French is a native or official language;
• Understand and interpret contemporary lifestyles, customs, and cultural patterns of societies in which French is a native or official language.

French majors are attractive to employers in the following fields:

• Academia
• Advocacy
• Cultural Consulting
• Government
• International Business
• Interpreting
• Journalism
• Lobbying
• Manufacturing
• Manuscript Editing
• Media Sales
• Primary/Secondary Education
• Public Health
• Teaching French
• Teaching of English as a Foreign Language
• Tourism and Trade