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Every Project Should Answer a Question, or How Can Studying French Get You a Job Outside Teaching?
- The French Review
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 86, Number 6, May 2013
- pp. 1183-1196
- 10.1353/tfr.2013.0111
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract:
The author responds to the crisis in French by suggesting unique solutions from his experience directing and teaching in the Professional French Masters Program (PFMP), at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Based on the idea that all research is an attempt to answer a question, this article encourages readers to reconsider, in their own teaching environments, the respective roles of humanities research, individualized student projects, internships and alumni work experience—as integral parts of our mission as French teachers working with unique cohorts of students who hope to use French in their careers after graduation.