Minor in French

Students who wish to include a Minor in French in their B.A. degree and who can understand, speak and write French at a high B1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages normally begin with four 200-level courses (FREN 222 & 223, FREN 220 & 221) that will introduce them to the linguistic analysis of the French language and to the analysis of literary works.

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Some incoming first-year students may already have reached the high B1 level and may enrol directly in FREN 220, 221 or 222.  For example:
– Students with transferred credit for UBC’s FREN 122 and 123, earned through high academic standing in AP French, in IB higher-level French, or in A-level French in a British-patterned school.
– Students with secondary-school credit for French Immersion 12 who have graduated with high academic standing in French.

These students also have the option, however, of further strengthening their communicative skills first, by taking our B1-level communicative courses, FREN 122 and 123, and some may need to do so.
So, they should verify their command of grammar (even for the literature courses, where they will be expected to write short essays in correct formal French) by writing the FREN 222/223 Placement Test,
Click here for instructions to access the online placement test.

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Most other first-year students with secondary-school credit for French 12 or an equivalent to it will need to strengthen their communicative skills by taking the B1 courses, FREN 122 and FREN 123, before moving on to the 200-level courses required for the Minor.

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Students in second or third year who have been progressing through the various levels of French courses at UBC (FREN 101, 102, 111, 112, 122, 123, 224, 225) may begin a Minor once they have completed FREN 123.

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Students who qualify to enrol in FREN 224 or 225 do not need to complete FREN 123 to register to the Minor.

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Science Faculty students wishing to add a French Minor to a B.Sc. program will choose their starting point according to their background, just as B.A. candidates do, but they will also have to present the Science Faculty’s Minor in an Arts Discipline Approval Form to a French Advisor to have it filled out and signed before returning it to the Science Advising Office.

B.Comm candidates will also choose their starting point in the same way and will present the Sauder School of Business’s Arts Minor Study Plan to a French Advisor to have it filled out and signed before returning it to the Commerce Undergraduate Program Office.

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