Certificate of Proficiency in French Program

The program leading to the award of the Certificate of Proficiency in French is designed to provide university students who are not specializing in French with an opportunity to follow a co-ordinated program of French as a second language. All courses for the certificate are degree courses. Thus, students in a degree program which may include French courses can credit these courses both towards their degree and towards the Certificate of Proficiency in French. However, students are not required to enrol for a degree in order to follow the certificate program. To be accepted in the program, candidates must meet university entrance requirements.

Each student entering the certificate program must declare in writing their intention to pursue the certificate to the Department of Modern Languages.

 The certificate will be awarded upon completion of a comprehensive examination of the candidate in the skills of oral comprehension, oral expression, reading and writing.
A grade inferior to C- on any one of those skills will mean that the certificate will not be awarded.
In order to sit for the comprehensive examination, each candidate must have completed:

• 3.0 units of FREN, 2.0 units of which must be at the 2000 level or above
• obtain an average GPA of 2.7 for those FREN courses in order to be eligible to sit for the comprehensive examination
• a maximum of 1.0 unit may be transferred from another institution for credits towards the Certificate of Proficiency in French. Such a transfer is granted by the Registrar’s Office upon the recommendation of the Department of Modern Languages.