Welcome to the French Studies Program
at Cornell University
The French Studies Program promotes teaching and research on the French and Francophone worlds at Cornell. It also serves as a resource center for teachers of French in upstate New York.
The program offers a concentration in French Studies to Cornell students from all undergraduate colleges. It is designed to encourage study in the broadly interdisciplinary framework that has been developed by the Einaudi Institute for European Studies.
In addition to the Concentration, the French Studies Program organizes throughout the academic year lectures, colloquia, and other events dealing with various aspects of France and the Francophone countries (art, culture, thought, society).
In Cornell, French Studies actively contributes to creative and collective research from all the disciplines. In inviting innovative and distinguished
speakers from different countries, the Program favors an atmosphere of intellectual exchange between undergrads, graduate students and scholars on campus.
The outreach initiative seeks to support through a variety of means (awards, events, educational materials, etc.) the efforts of teachers of French in the elementary and secondary school systems in and around Ithaca.
The French Studies Program, with the support of the College of Arts and Sciences, has been established thanks to a grant from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy designating Cornell University as a "Centre Interdisciplinaire."