Master of Arts in French

About this programme

Planned outage: Beginning Nov. 1, you will not be able to access the USask admission application and event registration system for up to six days. Learn more . Where language carries history, theory sharpens reading, and research becomes dialogue. The Master of Arts in French at the University of Saskatchewan offers graduate‑level study in French and Francophone literature, language, translation, and cultural analysis, preparing students for sustained research, critical interpretation, and independent scholarly work. Pursue research, develop critical interpretations, and contribute to scholarly work across French and Francophone language, literature, and culture. The Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultural Studies provides graduate training towards a master’s degree (project or thesis-based) in French literature, translation or language studies. Areas of strength include theory and criticism, French (seventeenth to twentieth centuries), Québécois and Francophone literatures, women’s writing and gender studies, the cinema of France, Québec and North Africa, as well as translation and language studies. Our courses cover a variety of topics of interest to Canadian, U.S. and international students and focus on research areas that French professors at the University of Saskatchewan are pursuing. It is not necessary to find a potential supervisor before you begin an application. The list below though may be helpful to learn about the research interests of our faculty. Supervisors are not decided until a student's first year in the program.