The French Department offers a wide range of courses in French and francophone language and literature, contemporary France, cinema, etc. It sponsors concerts, plays, films, and lectures, open to the campus and the wider community. Students also have many other opportunities to use French outside class. French tables bring together faculty and students for lunch in Cook dining hall every weekday. The Maison Française houses 11 students and a French assistant, and with the Cercle Français, it organizes a variety of activities, including parties, the weekly café français, a cinéclub, and trips to Montréal.
Le Château houses French Department classrooms
and faculty offices.
Middlebury College has its own program in Paris, with second sites in Poitiers and Bordeaux. A large number of students—by no means limited to French or International Studies majors—study in France or another francophone country every year. It is possible to begin French at Middlebury and study abroad in the junior year. We also encourage students to pursue internships abroad during winter term and to take advantage of the intensive program at the Ecole Française in the summer.