FR at Pennsylvania State University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate FR coursework.

• FR 201Oral Communication and Reading Comprehensionopens 25 courses (12.5 directly)
• FR 332French and Francophone Culture IIopens 9 courses (3 directly)
• FR 352French and Francophone Literature IIopens 9 courses (3 directly)
• FR 351French and Francophone Literature Iopens 8 courses (3 directly)
• FR 331French and Francophone Culture Iopens 8 courses (2.5 directly)
• FR 316French Linguisticsopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate FR work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 31 FR and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 21 more FR courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on FR, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in FR. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at FR 410

  1. FR 112Intermediate French
  2. FR 201Oral Communication and Reading Comprehension
  3. FR 331French and Francophone Culture I
  4. FR 410French Press

• 4 courses deep, ending at FR 419

  1. FR 112Intermediate French
  2. FR 201Oral Communication and Reading Comprehension
  3. FR 316French Linguistics

• 4 courses deep, ending at FR 436

  1. FR 112Intermediate French
  2. FR 201Oral Communication and Reading Comprehension
  3. FR 351French and Francophone Literature I

• 4 courses deep, ending at FR 475

  1. FR 112Intermediate French
  2. FR 201Oral Communication and Reading Comprehension
  3. FR 332French and Francophone Culture II

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for FR yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under FR yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

FR does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Penn State campus feed.