The Degree in French Studies has as its basic objective to prepare the student for professional activities of a professional nature that require a general education in the field of language, literature and culture of the French-speaking countries, based on the versatility of the competences, interdisciplinarity, multilingualism and interculturality. This requires providing them with the knowledge and professional skills that allow them to analyze in depth and interpret the diversity of intellectual practices related to the culture of the French-speaking countries, literature, the written and audiovisual press, cinema, theater; weather, expand their competences in terms of argumentation, written expression and oral presentation, critical spirit and sensitivity to the socio-historical dimension of cultural manifestations.

The objectives and the teaching program presented for the Degree in French Studies of the UCA respond to the professional profiles included in the White Paper of the Degree in Studies in the field of Language, Literature, Culture and Civilization, published by the National Agency for the Evaluation of Quality and Accreditation (Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación ANECA) (p. 246), while offering specialized training for the integration of graduates in the labor market and in the most immediate socio-geographical environment. The competences and knowledge developed in this teaching plan thus respond to two fundamental objectives: 1, to train highly competent individuals in French and prepared to work in multiple situations of linguistic and cultural diversity and, therefore, endowed with great versatility to communicate, plan, manage and be involved in a continuous process of learning, adaptation and cultural mediation in the national and international institutional and business context; and 2, establish the foundations of a later more specific training of future graduates who, in this way, can choose between some of the postgraduate degrees currently offered by the UCA or that will be offered soon.

The academic itineraries offered aim to offer future graduates not only a more specific preparation and the appropriate instruments to prepare, after postgraduate training, the entrance exams for secondary school teachers or teachers of Official Language Schools, for those who wish to opt for the teaching career, but also allow professional opportunities not directly linked to teaching and which would be more focused on cultural management, the publishing world, media, documentation and library, human resources management, tourism management. In an increasingly internationalized and heterogeneous society, in which borders are diluted by the exchange of people and information, it is necessary to acquire a bilingual and multicultural mediating competence to be able to develop oral and written activities of interlinguistic and intercultural mediation (French / Spanish ), focused on the integration of different foreign groups as well as favoring a certain efficiency and organization in the work environment in general (public administrations, publishing and communication sectors, services sector, NGOs …) and in the business sector related to national and international development, as also proposed in the White Paper.

More precisely, the basic objective of the Degree in French Studies can be broken down into the following specific objectives:

1- To acquire an optimal level of communicative competence in French through the development of the four fundamental skills: listening comprehension, reading comprehension, oral expression and written expression.

2- To have a satisfactory knowledge of the linguistic disciplines (more especially those related to the French language), and become familiar with the various analysis methods of their study.

3- To possess a satisfactory knowledge of the literatures in French language and its different genres, as well as develop the ability to comment through the application of different perspectives of literary criticism.

4- In-depth knowledge of the history and cultural news of French-speaking countries, as well as developing a special sensitivity to the importance of the concept of interculturality.

5- To master the translation process from French to Spanish and from Spanish to French in all its fields and registers, and more specifically in the sectoral languages ​​of the different professional fields.

6- To know and assess the main methodological schools that make up the teaching and learning process of French as a foreign language.

7- To perfect the knowledge acquired and the linguistic competence by studying some academic year in foreign universities with which the University of Cádiz collaborates through bilateral programs of exchange of students.

8- To sufficiently master the learning and research resources linked to the New Information and Communication Technologies (NICT).

9- To actively engage in learning within a climate of participation, cooperation and interpersonal communication, taking responsibility for the construction of their own knowledge within the Degree and assuming the importance of subsequent permanent training.

10- To develop a reflexive attitude, a critical spirit and creativity in the field of research derived from French studies and their applications in the professional field.

11- To acquire the ability to work effectively as a team, to organize work, and to solve problems.

12- To promote the concepts of equality and diversity.

The achievement of these objectives is based on a solid and varied training offer that, far from being limited to a strictly philological vision, aims to provide future graduates in French Studies with a wide range of disciplinary knowledge and professional skills that allow them to access without difficulty to a widest possible number of professional profiles, among which are those consigned by the National Agency for the Evaluation of Quality and Accreditation in the White Paper of the Degree in Studies in the field of Language, Literature, Culture and Civilization (p. 410).