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Degree Plans

📢 Important Update for 2024–2025: MODULAR DEGREES

The Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS) is changing to modular degrees as part of an initiative to give students more flexibility and control over their academic journey. This new structure allows students to mix and match majors, minors, and specializations from different areas of study to build a degree that fits their interests and goals.

🗂️ NEW Modular French Plans (Spring 2025):

  1. Minor (Arts)
  2. Major (Arts) – Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
Note: The degree plans shown below only apply to students who selected a FREN plan in 2023-2024 or earlier. 
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Major

This Plan, alone, or in combination with a Minor in another subject, and with sufficient electives to total 120.00 units (114.0 units for students admitted prior to September 2017), will lead to a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree.

See Academic Calendar: French Studies – Major (Arts)
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Joint Honours

This Plan, in combination with a Joint Honours Plan in another subject, and with sufficient electives to total 120.00 units (114.00 units for students admitted prior to September 2017), will lead to a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree.

See Academic Calendar: French Studies – Joint Honours (Arts)
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Minor

This Plan, in combination with a Major Plan in another subject, and with sufficient electives, will lead to an Honours Bachelors Degree.

See Academic Calendar: French Studies – Minor (Arts)

The course requirements for the Minor plan, along with sufficient electives to total 90.00 units, will lead to a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. See French Studies – General (Arts)

đź“š French Studies Course Pathway & Requirements

Planning to study French? Start here!

UPDATE: FREN 152/3.0 is the new gateway course for all French degree plans.
(FREN 150/6.0 used to be the starting point for French Studies.)

  • To take FREN 152, you must first complete FREN 151/3.0.
  • If your proficiency in French is too advanced for either course, please consult the Special Circumstances section below.

For more details on these courses, visit our Getting Started page.

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You’ll be automatically accepted into a French Plan if you meet both of these requirements:

  • A minimum grade of C in FREN 152, and
  • A cumulative GPA of 1.9 or higher.

If you don’t meet these, you’ll be placed on a pending list for departmental review during the Plan Selection or Change Period.

🔄 Plan Selection & Change of Plan

  • First-year students (2024–2025) must choose a modular degree as part of the new degree framework.
  • Upper-year students may choose to switch to a modular degree plan.

➡️ For more details, visit the Plan Selection and Change of Plan pages.

🧭 Special Circumstances

  • Not quite ready for FREN 151?
    Based on your placement test, you may be placed in FREN 118/3.0. While it doesn’t count toward your degree, completing it allows you to take FREN 151 next.

  • Too advanced for FREN 151? 
    You’ll be placed directly into FREN 152. After completing that, you are eligible to take FREN 230 or FREN 231.

  • Too advanced for FREN 152? You’ll take FREN 230 or FREN 231 instead.

  • Francophone or native French speakers are not permitted to take FREN 219 or FREN 320.

đźÇŔ NOTE: If you bypass any 100-level French course, you must complete the equivalent number of units of FREN courses at the 300-level or above to substitute for the missing credits and fulfill your degree requirements.