MA in French in Canada at Dal U

Program Overview for MA in French in Canada:

The Department of French at Dalhousie believes strongly that acquiring teaching experience is a normal part of a graduate student's training, and consequently MA students are generally offered teaching assistantships, while PhD students may be assigned a number of lectureships in the course of their studies.

Graduate students may also work as research assistants to faculty members. Departmental seminar series and colloquia prepare students for scholarly activities. The Department organizes regular international conferences on literary or linguistic themes, which provides graduate students with an excellent opportunity to meet renowned scholars and to deliver papers before a knowledgeable audience.

Research areas:

The Department's research interests involve not only individual areas of study, but they also reflect a modern emphasis on a harmonious complementarity and often interchange between French and Francophone literature and linguistics, as well as semiotics, cultural studies and the study of French as a second language.

In the broad field of French Literature, the study of Contemporary and Twentieth Century writing has an important role, and includes the study of modern and contemporary Quebec and Francophone literature. The literatures of the middle ages, 16th, 17th and 18th centuries are well represented.

In the field of French language and linguistics, major areas of concentration include theoretical and applied linguistics through the following fields in particular: contrastive studies, sociolinguistics; lexicology; terminology, translation; semantics; pragmatics, text linguistics; computer assisted language learning and second language acquisition.

Research in culture and civilization has an important place and is often linked to literary, linguistic, pedagogical or semiotic explorations.

The eligibility for MA in French in Canada for both domestic and international student is:

Candidates may be accepted on a full-time and part-time basis. (Part time students carry a maximum of 15 credit hours during a given year.) Full-time students are expected to finish their courses within one year; part-time students are expected to finish their courses over three years.

Applicants should have:

• a BA degree with honours or the equivalent of honours standing in French;
• interest in research in one of the three broad areas of specialization (the "specific field" on the Application for admission form)
  • French and Francophone Literature and Culture
  • French Linguistics
  • French Second-Language Studies
• very good oral and written proficiency in French

Other Application Materials Required:

• Graduate Studies Application
• Confidential Reference Letter (two are required):
• your resume;
• information on studies abroad and any French classes not counted for the degree;
• a sample of recent work;
• a brief statement of intent in French about goals in graduate studies, and the broad area of specialization preferred.

These are the test eligibilities for the MA in French to qualify.

The scholarships available for the MA in French are:

Dalhousie Killam Predoctoral Scholarships

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Dalhousie Killam Predoctoral Scholarships

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Country: Canada Level: Graduate & Phd Scholarship for: Domestic and International Students students

The international student tuition fees and costs for MA in French in Canada.

• Only full-time students are eligible for the Dalhousie Graduate Fellowship.
• Exceptionally strong candidates for the one-year program may be eligible for the prestigious Killam Scholarship. Application for the award is not made directly by the student; individuals are nominated by departments. Those seeking selection as Killam scholars should submit their applications for admission by the December 15^th deadline.

Email: french@dal.ca