Opportunities in French

MAP | Morris Academic Partnership is a selective program that allows you to work closely with a French professor on a particular project. You might be asked to work on a manuscript in progress or compile an index, or develop multi-media materials for a French course. The MAP Program involves 8-10 hours of specialized work per week and provides a maximum stipend of $2,000 per academic year.

MMP | Morris’ Minority Mentorship Program (MMP) is an opportunity for second-year students of color to work with UMM faculty and/or staff on a year-long project and/or research endeavor, earning a stipend of $1,000 for the year. In 2008-09, Ketsa Dejong, a French major and enthusiastic vocal performer, studied popular music in Vichy France with Prof Berberi. Talk to a French professor if you are interested in pursuing an MMP. MMP web site

UROP | The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, administered through UMTC, is a highly competitive program that enables a student to develop a research project in partnership with a French faculty member. In 2004-05, Anna Harrington ('05) was awarded a UROP to study the effects of Rap and Hip Hop music on French national identity:“Piaf to Rap: French Music and Lyrics as Instruments of Cultural Critique.” Consult the UROP web site and start early!

In 2008-09, Ashley Deering (‘09) was awarded a UROP to study the roles of two key medieval Dominican friars (St. Dominic de Guzmán and Bernard Gui) as “doctors” of those souls afflicted by the spiritual “disease” of Catharism, a prominent heresy in the Middle Ages. She will present portions of this work at the Morris Undergraduate Research Symposium, the Undergraduate Conference in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Moravian College, the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, and at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, UK.

Phi Delta Phi | Morris has long sponsored a chapter of the French National Honor Society, Pi Delta Phi. Each year, we induct at least one new member to the society and pay lifetime membership dues for that student. Nominees to the Morris chapter have demonstrated an exemplary commitment to mastering the intricacies of the French language. Pi Delta Phi national chapter

Work-Study | The French Discipline typically employs two motivated advanced students to grade workbooks for the first-year course or to complete other, related tasks in the French Discipline.

French & Francophone Cinema | The Hasselmo Language Teaching Center continues to add great films to an impressive collection of over 150 classic and contemporary films from France and the francophone world. Many courses in the French curriculum offer the opportunity to study these films; you can watch them with friends on a large screen in the Media Room of the LTC.

Work in the Hasselmo Language Teaching Center | Each year, the Director of the Hasselmo Language Teaching Center hires 6-7 students to work in the LTC. Employees should have an interest in technologies relating to foreign language study. Students must be eligible for Federal Work Study to apply, and may work up to ten hours per week. LTC web site.

French Pilot Program | The French Pilot Program is a partnership between Morris Area Elementary School and the French Program at UMM that allows you to try teaching, and elementary school students the chance to learn some French. Ali Kondrick ('05) helped these students create a family tree in French. Without the Morris Pilot Program, these kids would have to wait until high school to study French!