The Department of French offers graduate programs leading to the degrees of Master of Arts (MA) in French literature (with dissertation or thesis) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in French literature.
The Department also participates in several multidisciplinary programs: women’s studies (at the master’s level), medieval and Renaissance studies (at the master’s level), and Canadian studies (at the doctoral level), which allows students to acquire a specialization in one of these areas.
The multidisciplinary master’s degree in Medieval and Renaissance Studies (MDR) has two objectives:
- Offer multidisciplinary training in Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the graduate level;
- Teach students theoretical approaches and research methods specific to the study of the period.
Since the 16th century, studying the Middle Ages has consisted of studying a “middle” period, that is to say intermediate, between what is perceived as two great civilizations, the classical Roman world and the modern Western world. This definition had a profound impact on academia, crystallizing a periodization that is now traditional in most human sciences disciplines.
NOTE: The University of Ottawa offers a partial tuition fee waiver scholarship to French-speaking international students. This significant contribution to financing their study project allows for a considerable reduction in tuition fees.
To benefit from the partial exemption scholarship, international students must:
- accept an offer of admission to a program of study offered only in French;
OR
- have completed secondary or post-secondary studies in French for at least two years and have obtained their diploma; And
- register for compulsory courses in French if these courses are given in both official languages (French and English ).
