Francophone, Italian and Germanic Studies: Dual Language, BA
The Dual Language concentration of the Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies major allows students to focus on any two of the major's three languages: French, Italian, and German. In addition to mastering multiple languages and the cultural competencies that go along with them, Dual Language concentrators arrive at a profound understanding of these interconnected linguistic and cultural spheres.
The minimum total course units for graduation in the FIGS major with a Dual Language concentration is 37. Double majors may entail more course units.
Curriculum
Concentration Requirements
| Code | Title | Course Units |
|---|---|---|
| College General Education Requirements and Free Electives | ||
| Foundational Approaches + Sectors 1+ Free Electives | 20 | |
| Required Courses | ||
| FIGS 1000 | Seeing Differently: Transcultural Approaches to Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies | 1 |
| Choose 2 of the Following Language Groups: | ||
| Students must choose 2 of the 3 languages to fulfill the major requirements | 16 | |
| French Language Group | ||
| Required Courses | ||
| Intermediate French II | ||
| Advanced French | ||
| Electives | ||
At least 1 c.u. in Advanced Language, French and Francophone history and culture survey courses, or French and Francophone literature and film survey courses. | ||
| Advanced Language | ||
| Advanced French Grammar and Composition | ||
| Advanced French Conversation and Composition | ||
| French Phonetics | ||
| Advanced Intensive French Composition and Conversation | ||
| Advanced French Language and Culture | ||
| Advanced French: Translation | ||
| History and Culture Surveys | ||
| French History and Culture to 1774 | ||
| French History and Culture 1789-1945 | ||
| Le français dans le monde/French in the World | ||
| Contemporary France | ||
or FREN 2280 | Contemporary France | |
| Literature and Film Surveys | ||
| Masterpieces of French Cinema | ||
| Perspectives in French Literature: Love and Passion | ||
| Perspectives in French Literature: The Individual and Society | ||
| Francophone Literature and Film | ||
FREN 1234-1239 | ||
| French Seminars 3000 Level or Higher | ||
| Literary Translation: Theory and Practice | ||
| Humor and Comedy in French and Francophone Culture | ||
| Topics in French Culture | ||
| Medieval Literature | ||
| The Enlightenment | ||
| French Literature of the 19th Century | ||
| Crime and Punishment: Hugo’s Les Misérables in Context | ||
| Paris: lire la ville, écrire la ville | ||
| Literature of the Twentieth Century | ||
| Animal Words, Animal Worlds: Introduction to Zoopoetics | ||
| Horror Cinema | ||
| French & Italian Modern Horror | ||
| The French Novel of the Twentieth Century | ||
| Modern French Theater | ||
| Paris in Film | ||
| Francophone Postcolonial Cultures | ||
| French Caribbean Thought & Literature | ||
| Life, Death, and Revolution in Haiti | ||
| Additional Electives 2 | ||
| Laughter and Tricky Topics | ||
| Decolonizing French Food | ||
| The Fantastic Voyage from Homer to Science Fiction | ||
| Fashion and Modernity | ||
| French for Business I | ||
| French for Business II | ||
| From West Africa to West Philadelphia: Creating Community in the Francophone Diaspora | ||
| Paris during the German Occupation and its Places of [Non-]Memory | ||
| Paris during the German Occupation and its Places of [Non-]Memory | ||
| Women’s Writing in French: 19th-21st Centuries | ||
| Independent Study | ||
| Italian Language Group | ||
| Required Courses | ||
| Intermediate Italian II | ||
| Advanced Italian I | ||
| Electives | ||
| Advanced Language | ||
| Advanced Italian II | ||
| Business Italian | ||
| Business Italian: Italian for Special Purposes | ||
| Business Italian: Italian for Professions | ||
| Business Italian: Translation and Interpreting | ||
| Intensive Italian, Culture, and Conversation - Penn in Florence | ||
| Best Sellers/3000-level seminars taught in Italian | ||
| Best Sellers in Italian Literature | ||
| Italian Translation | ||
| Dante's Divine Comedy | ||
| Italian American Studies | ||
| Contemporary Italy | ||
| Italian Film and Media Studies | ||
| Race and Ethnicity in Italy | ||
| Italian Gender Studies | ||
| Italian Fashion | ||
| Italian Visual Studies | ||
| Italian Foods and Cultures | ||
| Italian Literature | ||
| Italian Innovations | ||
| Italian Renaissance Studies | ||
| Mediterranean Studies | ||
| Italian Performance Studies | ||
| Italian Science and Philosophy | ||
| Italian Material Studies | ||
| Italian Digital Humanities | ||
| Boccaccio | ||
| Machiavelli | ||
| Petrarch | ||
| Italian Music | ||
| ITALIAN HISTORIES | ||
| Italian Diaspora Studies | ||
| Additional Electives 3 | ||
| Hellenistic and Roman Art and Artifact | ||
| Roman Architecture and Urbanism | ||
| Classical Mythology in the Western Tradition | ||
| Roman Sculpture | ||
| Hellenistic Art and Spectacle | ||
| Hellenistic Cities Seminar | ||
| Topics In Medieval and Renaissance Art | ||
| Caravaggio Seminar | ||
| High Renaissance Seminar | ||
| Southern Baroque Art Seminar | ||
| Ancient Rome | ||
| The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire? | ||
| Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome | ||
| Citizenship, Belonging and Exclusion in the Roman World | ||
| Introduction to Mediterranean Archaeology | ||
| Greek & Roman Mythology | ||
| Dangerous Books of Antiquity | ||
| Foreigners in Rome | ||
| Medieval Literature and Culture | ||
| Chaucer: Poetry, Voice, and Interpretation | ||
| Chaucer Seminar | ||
| Drama to 1660 Seminar | ||
| Europe: From Fall of Rome to Age of Exploration | ||
| Machiavelli and Modern Political Thought | ||
| Representations of Rome in Film and Literature (1848-present) - First Year Seminar | ||
| Desire and Deception in Medieval Erotic Literature | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Italian Histories | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Italian Music | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Italian American Studies | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Contemporary Italy | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Italian Film and Media Studies | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Race and Ethnicity in Italy | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Italian Gender Studies | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Italian Fashion | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Italian Visual Studies | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Italian Foods and Cultures | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Italian Literature | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Italian Innovations | ||
| Composers: Opera Composers 1600-1900 | ||
| Composers: Mozart/DaPonte | ||
| History of Opera | ||
| Film Music in Post 1950 Italy | ||
| Florence Myth and History | ||
| Italian History on Screen: How Movies Tell the Story of Italy | ||
| Sicily on Page and Screen | ||
| Italian History on the Table | ||
| Fascist Cinemas | ||
| Film Sound and Film Music | ||
| Florence in History | ||
| The City of Rome: From Constantine to the Borgias | ||
| Food and Diet in Early Europe: Farm to Table in the Renaissance | ||
| Cultura E Letteratura | ||
| Black Italy: Transnational Identities and Narratives in Afro-Italian Literature | ||
| Introduction to Italian Cinema | ||
| Contemporary Italy: Pop Culture, Politics, and Peninsular Identity | ||
| Modern Italian Culture | ||
| Florence Throughout the Centuries | ||
| Titian and Venetian Painting | ||
| Caravaggio | ||
| Michelangelo and the Art of the Italian Renaissance | ||
| Italian Theater | ||
| Italian Scandals | ||
| Palermo: Urban Migration, the Built Environment, and Global Justice | ||
| Palermo: Empires, Mafia, and Migration | ||
| Queer Cinema | ||
| Rome in Cinema: Representations of The Eternal City | ||
| Mafia in the Movies | ||
| Historical Eras and Topics: Earlier Periods | ||
| Baroque Opera from Monteverdi to Gluck | ||
| The Holocaust in Italian Literature and Film | ||
| BFS--Med/Red Dante in English: Creative Responses to the Divine Comedy | ||
| Writing About Art Seminar | ||
| Caravaggio Seminar | ||
| Renaissance Europe | ||
| French & Italian Modern Horror | ||
| Independent Study | ||
| Independent Study | ||
| Introduction to Paleography & Book History | ||
| Myth Through Time and in Time Seminar | ||
| Medieval Italian Literature | ||
| Dante's Commedia I | ||
| After Dante’s Divine Comedy: Transmission and Material Form, Creative Adaptation and Performance | ||
| Petrarch | ||
| Boccaccio | ||
| Topics: Renaissance Culture | ||
| Transalpine Tensions: Franco-Italian Rivalries in the Renaissance | ||
| Digital Humanities | ||
| Modern/Contemporary Italian Culture | ||
| Topics: Literature and Film | ||
| Post-Human Landscapes | ||
| 20th-Century Italian Fiction and Film | ||
| Italian Thought | ||
| Machiavelli’s Political Thought and its Modern Readers | ||
| Pasolini and Calvino | ||
| Theories of Nationalism | ||
| Politics of Post War Western Europe | ||
| The European Union | ||
| Comparative Politics of the Welfare State | ||
| Religions of the West | ||
| Christian Thought From 1000 to 1800 | ||
| German Language Group | ||
| Required Courses | ||
| Intermediate German II | ||
| Electives | ||
| Texts and Contexts | ||
or GRMN 2100 | Texts and Contexts | |
| At least 2 c.u. of electives must be courses taught in German in the department at the 2000-level or higher 4 | ||
| Taught in German | ||
| Handschrift-Hypertext: Deutsche Medien | ||
or GRMN 3110 | Handschrift-Hypertext: Deutsche Medien | |
| Business German: A Macro Perspective | ||
or GRMN 2190 | Business German: A Macro Perspective | |
| Business German: A Micro Perspective | ||
or GRMN 2290 | Business German: A Micro Perspective | |
| Places of Memory. Lieux de memoire. Erinnerungsorte. | ||
| Seeing Green: Environmentalism in Germany and Austria | ||
| German Youth Cultures | ||
| Writing in Dark Times: German Literature | ||
| Crime and Detection | ||
| Kafka's Creatures | ||
| German Literature after 1945 | ||
| Decadence | ||
| Topics in German Culture | ||
| Reading the Twentieth Century | ||
| The Long Nineteenth Century: Literature, Philosophy, Culture | ||
| The Long Eighteenth Century | ||
| Early Modernism | ||
| Taught in English or other Language | ||
| Jews and China: Views from Two Perspectives | ||
| Babylon Berlin: German Crime Books | ||
| Climate Change and Community in Indonesia | ||
| Freud: The Invention of Psychoanalysis | ||
| Freud's Objects | ||
| Marx, Marxism, and the Culture of Revolution | ||
| Nietzsche's Modernity and the Death of God | ||
| Berlin: History, Politics, Culture | ||
| Metropolis: Culture of the City | ||
| The Fantastic and Uncanny in Literature: Ghosts, Spirits & Machines | ||
| Fashion and Modernity | ||
| Fascist Cinemas | ||
| German Cinema | ||
| Jewish Films and Literature | ||
| Women in Jewish Literature | ||
| Jewish American Literature | ||
| Yiddish Literature and Culture | ||
| Translating Cultures: Literature on and in Translation | ||
| Water Worlds: Cultural Responses to Sea Level Rise & Catastrophic Flooding | ||
| Forest Worlds: Mapping the Arboreal Imaginary in Literature and Film | ||
| Liquid Histories and Floating Archives | ||
| Queer German Cinema | ||
| Comparative Cultures of Sustainability | ||
| Comparative Cultures of Resilience and Sustainability in the Netherlands and the United States | ||
| Is Europe Facing a Spiritual Crisis? | ||
| Sustainability & Utopianism | ||
| Global Sustainabilities | ||
| Autobiographical Writing | ||
| Topics German Cinema | ||
| Northern Renaissance Art | ||
| Writing About Art Seminar | ||
| Introduction to Literary Theory | ||
| Global Modernism Seminar | ||
| The Vikings | ||
| Origins of Nazism: From Democracy to Race War and Genocide | ||
| Topics in Dutch Studies | ||
| Independent Study-Senior | ||
| The Trouble with Freud: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture | ||
| Environmental Humanities: Theory, Method, Practice | ||
| Public Environmental Humanities | ||
| The Panorama Experience | ||
| Inside the Archive | ||
| Topics In Aesthetics | ||
| Total Course Units | 37 | |
- 1
You may count no more than one course toward both a Major and a Sector requirement. For Exceptions, check the Policy Statement.
- 2
French & Francophone
The remaining 3 c.u. of electives can be any combination of:
- Additional courses taught in French at the 1000-level or higher.
- Courses taught in French at approved study abroad programs.
- FREN 3999: Independent Study.
- FIGS 4000 Honor's Thesis
- Major-related courses taught in English, either in FIGS or in other departments.
- Coursework in another foreign language relevant to the student’s interests.
- First-Year Seminars counted retroactively.
- 3
Italian
The remaining 3 c.u. of electives can be any combination of:
- Additional courses taught in Italian at the 1000-level or higher.
- Courses taught in Italian at approved study abroad programs.
- ITAL 3999/4999: Independent Study.
- FIGS 4000 Honor's Thesis
- Major-related courses taught in English, either in FIGS or in other departments.
- Coursework in another foreign language relevant to the student’s interests.
- First-Year Seminars counted retroactively.
In order to count additional courses taught in English or other languages toward the concentration, students must arrange an Italian component with the professor (e.g., extra class sessions, research, written assignments, or a term paper in Italian).
- 4
German
At least 2 c.u. of electives must be courses taught in German in the department at the 2000-level or higher.
The remaining 4 c.u. of electives can be any combination of:
- Additional courses taught in German at the 2000-level or higher.
- Courses taught in German at approved study abroad programs.
- GRMN 4999: Independent Study.
- FIGS 4000 Honor's Thesis
- Major-related courses taught in English, either in FIGS or in other departments.
- Coursework in another foreign language relevant to the student’s interests.
- First-Year Seminars counted retroactively.
Honors
| Code | Title | Course Units |
|---|---|---|
| FIGS 4000 | Honors Thesis | 1 |
| FIGS Majors with a dual concentration may elect to complete an honors research project in either of their two languages. On an exceptional basis, a FIGS Major with a dual concentration may complete an honors research project in multiple languages. | ||
| To be granted honors, students must receive a grade of A- or higher in FIGS 4000. Students who receive a grade lower than A- will receive credit for the course, but will not be granted honors. | ||
The degree and major requirements displayed are intended as a guide for students entering in the Fall of 2024 and later. Students should consult with their academic program regarding final certifications and requirements for graduation.