Director: Madeleine Dobie
mld2027@columbia.edu
Admissions Coordinator: Beatrice Terrien, Associate Dean, Columbia University
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The M.A. in French Studies in a Global Context provides a methodological framework for contrasting and analyzing the dynamics that exist between groups within modern French culture from the Revolution of 1789 to the present. Students attend most of their courses and meet regularly with faculty members at Reid Hall, Columbia University’s center in Paris, which has been dedicated to French-American cultural and intellectual exchange for over a century. The rest of their work is conducted at selected institutions of higher learning in Paris.
Faculty from Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania teach in the program, and selected faculty members from French institutions of higher learning serve as associates to the program.
The program is completed in a calendar year during consecutive fall, spring and summer terms. Classes are held in the fall and spring semesters; the latter ends at the end of June. July and August are reserved for fieldwork, travel and completion of the Master’s essay.