Doctor of Philosophy

Program Format

Delivery Format: In-person
Enrollment Options: Full-time
Standard Duration: 5 years or longer
Degree Length: 4 to 6 years

Fee Information

Fee Format: Program fee, payable each term
International Tuition Fee: Exempt

Program Overview

The Department's research interests involve not only individual areas of study, but they also reflect a modern emphasis on complementarity and interchange between French and Francophone literature and linguistics, as well as semiotics, cultural studies, and the study of French as a second language.

In the field of French literature, the study of contemporary and twentieth century writing has an important role and includes the study of modern and contemporary Quebec and Francophone literatures. The literatures of the Middle Ages, 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries are well represented.

In the field of French language and linguistics, major areas of concentration include: contrastive studies, lexicology, second language learning and teaching, semantics, sociolinguistics, terminology and translation.

Research in culture and civilization has an important place and is often linked to literary, linguistic, pedagogical or semiotic explorations.