UMass Boston

Learning objectives for the French and Italian Majors

Upon completion of the Major in French and the Major in Italian, students will be able to:

1. Communicate proficiently, using all four skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing), in academic, professional, and everyday settings in the language that is required by their selected major.
2. Conduct and disseminate undergraduate level academic research both orally and in writing in the language that is required by their selected major.
3. Identify and analyze cultural representations of the languages, cultures and societies of the French & Francophone/or Italian world, their own, and those produced by others, in accordance with academic standards.
4. Recognize and utilize appropriate methodologies in order to explicitly outline a research plan to conduct academic research at the undergraduate level.
5. Produce scholarly work in dialogue with academic fields such as anthropology, history, and geography at the undergraduate level.