The Department of French offers a comprehensive programme of studies that provides a wide range of subjects dealing with French and Francophone studies, including literature (from the Middle Ages to contemporary writers), linguistics, language and language learning, poetics and aesthetics, film and visual arts.
A degree in French can lead to teaching, interpretation and translation related jobs, diplomatic and government service (at EU and world level), trade and business, consultancy, journalism, tourism or cultural management. Our department offers a solid formation of general culture that is essential to any liberal profession. Being a major language of diplomacy and international organisations, spoken in five continents, French is an official language of the EU, the UN, UNESCO and NATO.
French has also been an important language in Maltese History, as can be seen in architecture, in the name of towns, streets and buildings, and in the Maltese language itself.
Many famous people studied French at University: arguably the most famous American philosopher (Fredric Jameson), the most popular English writer (J.K. Rowling), Nobel Prize-winners of Literature (Derek Walcott, Samuel Beckett, Gao Xingjian), politicians, ambassadors and diplomats (Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Sheila Copps, Bill Richardson, Janice L. Jacobs etc.).
The members of the Department of French are looking forward to meeting you.
