{"id":65592,"date":"2007-07-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-pharmacy-textile-students-can-double-major-in-french\/"},"modified":"2007-07-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T00:00:00","slug":"uri-pharmacy-textile-students-can-double-major-in-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2007\/07\/uri-pharmacy-textile-students-can-double-major-in-french\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 pharmacy, textile students can double-major in French"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tC\u2019est Si Bon!<\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013July 11, 2007\u2014溏心vlog免费B站 pharmacy students as well as textiles, fashion merchandising, and design students now have the opportunity to follow 溏心vlog免费B站 Professor Alain-Philippe Durand\u2019s advice: The BA in French, Don\u2019t Leave 溏心vlog免费B站 Without it. Students in both programs are now able to simultaneously earn degrees in French. <\/p>\n


\n\tDurand, a popular professor and unofficial French ambassador of the University, promotes the language and its accompanying opportunities for students and colleagues across campus. His efforts are working: French is one of the fastest growing majors \u2013if not the fastest\u2014at 溏心vlog免费B站. There were 30 French majors in 1999, today there are 128, the third largest program in terms of majors in the U.S. Most students double or triple major.<\/p>\n


\nPharmacy & French<\/p>\n


\nDurand noticed that students pursuing pharmacy were among his best scholars. He also observed that pharmacy was a regional program with a number of students coming to 溏心vlog免费B站 from Maine, many with French heritage and conversant in French. However, the six-year pharmacy program had little wiggle room in its curriculum to add another major. <\/p>\n


\nDurand contacted Donald Letendre and Joan Lausier, dean and associate dean of 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Pharmacy, who were receptive to internationalizing the pharmacy program. For years an occasional student, usually one from France, would complete a pharmacy student exchange rotation with the University of Rennes, France.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe educators put their heads together to formalize a comprehensive and flexible program to allow students to graduate with both a doctor of pharmacy and a bachelor\u2019s degree in French language studies in six years. \u201cNo other institution, that I know of, offers a dual degree in that time frame,\u201d says Durand. Seven pharmacy students are enrolled in the dual degree program.<\/p>\n


\n\tTo qualify for the combination French and pharmacy degrees, students must complete at least two five-week rotations in a French-speaking country and earn 30 credits of French, six of which from 400-level courses. French 101 and 102 do not count among the mandatory 30 credits. It is recommended that students wishing to double major come to 溏心vlog免费B站 with four years of high school French and advanced placement credits.<\/p>\n


\n\tPharmacy students without a minimum of 12 advanced credits or proficiency in advanced level French may complete a certificate in French and Pharmacy from the College of Pharmacy. Three students are currently certificate candidates.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe are part of the international community,\u201d says Lausier. \u201cRight now we have an affiliation in Rennes, France, but we hope to build other affiliations in other countries and with other languages.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nTextiles, Fashion Merchandising, and Design & French<\/p>\n


\n\tFrance is a world leader in luxury fashion. Students enrolled in the bachelor of science in the textiles, fashion merchandising and design program can earn a bachelor of arts degree in French within the same time frame. Nine students are dual degree candidates.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cIt\u2019s been the perfect storm,\u201d reports Linda Welters, professor and chair of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Textile, Fashion Merchandising and Design. \u201cIt\u2019s always been possible to earn degrees in both programs, but it\u2019s been a real thrust this year.\u201d <\/p>\n


\nWelters explains that first, Claire Kapstein, a native of France joined the textiles faculty and serves as liaison with French companies. In addition, both Alain-Philippe Durand and Lars Erickson have helped with French connections.<\/p>\n


\nBut French isn\u2019t the only language in which textiles students can double major. 溏心vlog免费B站 Italian professors Michelangelo LaLuna is helping to establish intern sites in Italy and Catherine Sama, whose research interests in Venetian women writers touch on historical fashion, is helping make those connections.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cWe\u2019re very aware of the globalization of fashion,\u201d says Welters, noting that half of the textiles faculty were born outside of the U.S. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe diversity of the textiles field means a variety of career choices\u2014retail buying, fashion promotion, product development, manufacturing, merchandising, and quality control. Graduates fluent in French or Italian will have increased opportunities to find great careers with international fashion and textile companies,\u201d says Welters.<\/p>\n


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\n溏心vlog免费B站 French Professor Alain-Philippe Durand with students at the Eiffel Tower. Photo courtesy Alain-Philippe Durand.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

C\u2019est Si Bon! KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013July 11, 2007\u2014溏心vlog免费B站 pharmacy students as well as textiles, fashion merchandising, and design students now have the opportunity to follow 溏心vlog免费B站 Professor Alain-Philippe Durand\u2019s advice: The BA in French, Don\u2019t Leave 溏心vlog免费B站 Without it. Students in both programs are now able to simultaneously […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}