PhD in French in Canada at Dal U

Program Overview for PhD 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 PhD in French in Canada for both domestic and international student is:

•  an MA thesis degree in French or in Linguistics
•  an excellent oral and written proficiency in French
•  a scholarly interest in one of the PhD the­sis research areas

Other Application Materials Required:

• Graduate Studies Application
• Confidential Reference Letter (two are required):
• your up-to-date Curriculum Vitae
• an abstract, in French, and one chapter of your MA thesis
• a statement, in French, indicating in which of the thesis areas described above (section 2) you intend to conduct research

Other Application Documents you need:

1. Official Transcripts
2. Letter of recommendation (2)
3. Updated CV/Resume
4. Statement of Purpose

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

The scholarships available for the PhD in French are:

The international student tuition fees and costs for PhD 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