Students can study on the CNR campus and abroad, where language learning takes an affective dimension that can urge students to reflect on their values and to become more receptive to difference.

Fluency in French provides support for advanced study in international relations, law, journalism, education, business, social science, politics and science. It opens doors to such careers as international banking and commerce, teaching English as a second language, translation, publishing, and Foreign Service.

• The study of French is first about communication. It is to be able to reach across cultures to share feelings and opinions with people who do not speak your native language.
• Learning the structure of French, one can better understand the workings of one’s own language.
• Using the strategies offered by Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory in learning French develops the mind and allows students to improve achievement in any discipline.
• French permits access to the great writers and intellectuals of France and the francophone world: their literature, history, art, film, and philosophy.
• Studying the literature and art of these countries allows one entry into their remarkable cultures: different ways of living, different ways of thinking. Students begin to reshape their view of the world as well as to see their own country through others’ eyes. As one comes to know, understand, and appreciate “the other”, one is better equipped to participate more fully in a diverse world.
• French is among the most frequently studied second languages in the world. It is second to English as the international diplomatic language, a global lingua franca.