Graduate School Response to COVID-19
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Please note (PhD applicants only): given the current pandemic and ensuing economic crisis, CU French & Italian will be unable to provide funding for PhD applicants in AY 2021-22. Students interested in pursuing a PhD in French are welcome to apply only if they can fund their own course of studies. Please contact the department with further questions.
The graduate program in French at the University of Colorado Boulder offers students the opportunity to pursue their interest in literature and culture, working with faculty members who produce distinguished scholarship in a broad variety of fields. At the MA level, students are encouraged to take courses in many of those fields, and to become acquainted with a diversity of critical and theoretical approaches. At the PhD level, students are able to focus closely upon questions that fuel their intellectual curiosity, and to make their first major statements as young scholars. Entering students will discover in this program a community where the life of the mind is taken seriously, where hard work is valued, and where vigorous, critical inquiry is applauded.